It's on!
And this time, the theme is: Pink Floyd.
You know how it goes: there are twenty song clips below, from twenty different Pink Floyd songs. Name the song.
Rules
- You get 1 point if you name the song. No points for naming the band this time, obviously.
- Leave your answers in comments.
- Your answers will be hidden from everyone but me.
- The contest ends on Friday, March 25th, 12:00pm EST. I'll reveal the comments, and the answers, and total up the points, then.
- I'll provide hints for any that haven't been named, as of Thursday noon. Update : since all songs have been named, no hints will be provided.
- The person with the most points will win a wonderful prize !
Clip | Hints? |
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Song #2 | -- |
Song #3 | -- |
Song #4 | -- |
Song #5 | -- |
Song #6 | -- |
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Song #10 | -- |
Song #11 | -- |
Song #12 | -- |
Song #13 | -- |
Song #14 | -- |
Song #15 | -- |
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Song #18 | -- |
Song #19 | -- |
Song #20 | -- |
General Hints
- This includes songs from 1967 to 1987.
Pretty sure I’ve got 18 of them right off the bat, but I’m going to wait til I can confirm a couple of them before posting. (The two I’m missing are 2 and 5.)
Yeah okay.
1 – Breathe in the Air
2 –
3 – Money
4 – Pigs on the Wing
5 –
6 – St. Tropez
7 – Have A Cigar
8 – See Emily Play
9 – Vera
10 – Young Lust
11 – Pigs (Three Different Ones)
12 – On The Run
13 – Arnold Layne
14 – One of These Days
15 – Goodbye Blue Sky
16 – Lucifer Sam
17 – The Narrow Way: Part 1
18 – Free Four
19 – Bike
20 – Welcome to the Machine
damn!
Damn? So it’s over already?
Plato’s: no.
1. Breathe
3. Money
4. Pigs on the Wing
5. Momentary Lapse of Reason
7. Have a Cigar
9. Vera
10. Young Lust / One Of My Turns
11. Pigs (Three Different Ones)
12. On the Run
14. One of These Days
15. Goodbye Blue Sky
got me stumped on the rest
1. Breathe
2. I think it’s something from one of the sound tracks. Zambriskie Point? More? La Valee?
3. Money
4. Pigs on the Wing 2
5. Non-Waters Pink Floyd material. Probably Learning To Fly.UNLISTENABLE!
6.?
7.Have a Cigar
8.See Emily Play
9.Vera Lynn
10.Young Lust
11.Pigs (3 different ones)
12.On the Run
13.Arnold Lane
14.One of These Days…
15. Good-bye Blue Skies
16.Lucifer Sam
17.From Gilmour’s side of Ummagumma (not very good)
18.Free Four
19 Jugband Blues
20. Welcome to the Machine
17. Yes, The Narrow Way part one.
5 – Signs of Life. Momentary Lapse has some fine songs on it, but I’ve still hardly listened to it.
Is #2 from More? I don’t have More. Don’t answer that.
1. Breathe
2. Corporal Clegg?
3. Money
4. Pigs on the Wing (Part 1)
5. On the Turning Away?
6. ?
7. Have a Cigar
8. Vegetable Man?
9. Vera
10. Young Lust
11. Pigs (Three Different Ones)
12. On the Run
13. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun?
14. One of These Days
15. Goodbye Blue Sky
16. Lucifer Sam
17. ?
18. ?
19. Bike
20. Welcome to the Machine
#7 = Have a cigar
#9 = Vera?
Eh. Most of the rest of them I feel like I should know. But.
1 breathe
2 point me at the sky
3 money
4 pigs on the wing
5 signs of life
6 san tropez
7 have a cigar
8 see emily play
9 vera
10 young lust
11 dogs
12 on the run
13 arnold layne
14 one of these days
15 goodbye blue sky
16 lucifer sam
17 narrow way
18 free four
19 bike
20 welcome to the machine
just a note: each song has now been correctly identified by at least one person.
I’m screwed. I’m not super well versed on the older stuff. It’s a bit of an embarrassing hole in my musical lexicon. First run through without pulling the discs out yet:
3. Money
4. Pigs on the Wing 1
9. Vera
11. Pigs (Three Different Ones)
14. One of These Days
15. Goodbye Blue Sky
I’m pretty sure I can get a half dozen more…
12. On the Run
Duh, 1. is Breathe
5. Signs of Life
10. Young Lust
20. Welcome to the Machine
19. Bike
Results so far:
Cris: 17
pat: 17
Parallel 5ths: 15
Ben : 13
platosearwax: 12
Joel : 10
Modesto: 2
a note: most of you will get more points if you correctly identify the “part” of the multi-part songs.
or, phrased differently: you must name the part number to get credit, if it’s a multi-part song.
2 – Point Me At The Sky
Crap, 17 out of 19. I know I need to clarify this one:
But I don’t know what my other miss is. Can’t wait ’til tomorrow.
Cris: 19
pat: 17
Parallel 5ths: 15
Ben : 13
platosearwax: 12
Joel : 10
Modesto: 2
Cris: 20 !
pat: 17
Parallel 5ths: 15
Ben : 13
platosearwax: 12
Joel : 10
Modesto: 2
1) Breathe
2) Corporal Clegg
3) Money
4) Pigs On The Wing Pt. 1
5) Signs of Life
6) San Tropez
7) Have a Cigar
8) See Emily Play
9) Vera
10) Young Lust
11) Pigs
12) On The Run
13) Arnold Layne
14) One Of These Days
15) Goodbye Blue Sky
16)
17)
18) Free Four
19) Bike
20) Welcome To The Machine
Cris: 20
pat: 17
Dr Squid: 17
Parallel 5ths: 15
Ben : 13
platosearwax: 12
Joel :
109Modesto: 2
11) Pigs (Three Different Ones)
Dr Squid: still @ 17