A record is named. The next respondent then names a record which is somehow connected to that record, explains the connection and makes whatever other comment is needed. The next respondent then takes that respondent's album and does the same thing, and so on. A kind of rolling six degrees of separation thing. Make the connections as amusing as you like.
IF there are two dangling thread-ends then you have, somehow, to make the connection between them. And apologies to Maura, whose message I deleted. Go visit her site instead.
To kick off: Phil Collins, No Jacket Required. Plainly the record at the centre of all recorded sound.
― Tom, Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Dr. C, Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Omar, Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
There's a moment in "Abba: The Movie" where Agnetha and Frida read an Aussie newspaper report of one of their shows, and require a translation of the word 'kinky'.
This film was directed by Lasse Hallstrom.
Hence: "This Side of Heaven" by The Courage Of Lassie.
― Patrick, Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Shit - we're going round in circles!
― Ally C, Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Tim, Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― fred solinger, Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Mark Richardson, Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Michael Daddino, Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ally, Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
The psychedelic furs weren't very psychedelic, which makes them fake fur. John Otway did a song called "Venus In Fake Furs"
― Josh, Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― fred, Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
I know you know this.
― Kevin Enas, Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Otis Wheeler, Wednesday, 21 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Tom, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ally, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― jel, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― carsmilesteve, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― the pinefox, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Josh, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Patrick, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Michael Daddino, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― youn, Saturday, 24 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― carsmilesteve, Saturday, 24 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Josh, Saturday, 24 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― simon, Saturday, 24 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Tim, Saturday, 24 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Michael Daddino, Saturday, 24 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― fred solinger, Saturday, 24 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
(Well, Fred, the fact that a Brazilian singer wrote a song with the same name as a blues singer is coincidental, but the fact that the blues singer sang a song with the same name as the Brazilian singer is not. "Jorge Ben" is essentially a cover of "Taj Mahal". It has the same chorus, indeed, it sounds more like "D'ya Think I'm Sexy?" than Jorge's song does -- "D'ya Think I'm Sexy" being the song Jorge Ben claimed was a plagiarization of "Taj Mahal".)
― Michael Daddino, Sunday, 25 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Tim, Tuesday, 27 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 27 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Tom, Tuesday, 27 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Slowdive: "Souvlaki" (1993)
Sorry, Nick. It had to come out eventually.
― mark sinker, Tuesday, 27 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― youn, Tuesday, 27 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Jesus was a carpenter by trade, or at least that's what I'm told. So he probably had to drill a few holes himself. Were drills invented in the early 1st century? I don't know, but seed drills were. And the lyric I just quoted comes from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "The Mercy Seat"
Miles Davis: "Lift to the Scaffold/Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud".
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 27 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 27 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Patrick, Tuesday, 27 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― JM, Wednesday, 28 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
"Foxbase Alpha"
(* - unconfirmed at time of going to press)
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 28 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Hence: Coco and the Bean's "Killing Time".
[I'm only keeping this thread alive so I can chase Dastoor up the stats board].
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 29 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Nick, Thursday, 29 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
"Simple Headphone Mind".
[Curse you, Dastoor].
Anyway, he got bored of all this sportiness and decided to become a weed instead. The song 'Break Up The Family' details this era in his life, probably.
Hence: David Bowie's "1917".
Mornington Crescent
Nick Dastoor, your prize is a pint of any draught alcoholic substance, at a date and time of mutual agreement. And the right to start the next Only Connect thread (and think up the winning conditions).
I thought someone would get it eventually.
― Tom, Thursday, 29 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Bit unfair to our overseas correspondents, Tom?
― b.c., Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link