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red dog 1

(32,860 posts) Thu Jan 15, 2026, 05:33 PM Jan 15

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Post a lyric or two from a song by an obscure rock band & see if anyone knows the song or band w/o using Google

Last edited Sat Feb 7, 2026, 03:52 PM - Edit history (7)

"OBSCURE"
From Cambridge Dictionary
"obscure" - adjective (Not Known)
"not known to many people."

You decide whether the group is obscure or not.

Because of the difficulty in answering a question about an obscure band, you may wish to post a hint.

(Band must have released at least one album)

(my submission)
"He's in a band that just makes noise."
(Hint: it's a Christmas song)

GUESSES ARE ALWAYS WELCOME!

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Post a lyric or two from a song by an obscure rock band & see if anyone knows the song or band w/o using Google (Original Post) red dog 1 Jan 15 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Ohiya Jan 15 #1

Captain Beyond Soul_of_Wit Jan 15 #4

She had red shoes... DEbluedude Jan 15 #2

Sadly, still relevant today Soul_of_Wit Jan 15 #3

The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead Morbius Jan 15 #5

I don't want to argue. I ain't gonna budge. Won't you take this number down before you call up the judge? Wiz Imp Jan 15 #6

I actually own this vinyl record... Tikki Jan 16 #13

"Starry Eyes". The Records. (1979) Tikki Jan 17 #37

You only call me if you're feelin' blue You tell me I don't pay attention to you Wiz Imp Jan 15 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author Ohiya Jan 15 #8

Last night your shadow fell upon my lonely room. Harker Jan 15 #9

"I had too much to dream last night"... Tikki Jan 16 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author GReedDiamond Jan 16 #15

Yes! The Electric Prunes. Harker Jan 16 #16

Somebody tell my father I died VGNonly Jan 15 #10

I know it's Spirit. Harker Jan 16 #17

Yes, it is Mechanical World. VGNonly Jan 16 #19

Very sad. Harker Jan 16 #21

"Out there it's Summertime..Milk and honey days"... Tikki Jan 16 #11

I think it's "San Francisco Nights", but I'm not getting the artist. Harker Jan 16 #18

Song titled "San Francisco Girls" Tikki Jan 16 #22

This message was self-deleted by its author GReedDiamond Jan 16 #14

So is it any wonder VGNonly Jan 16 #20

Obscure band stellar member justaprogressive Jan 16 #23

Deals dope out of Denny's, Keeps a table in the back... Dulcinea Jan 16 #24

Birds fall from the window ledge above mine Xipe Totec Jan 16 #25

"Mary Jane, take me away from all this." n/t rzemanfl Jan 16 #26

Death is a cold lasagne OnionPatch Jan 16 #27

Suspended in Deep Freeze Akakoji Jan 16 #29

Try this: Akakoji Jan 16 #28

several lines tmars505 Jan 16 #30

This is as obscure as I can get Jilly_in_VA Jan 16 #31

"What a surprise!... WestMichRad Jan 16 #32

"And where's your kids and where's your car" "I don't have either but I have a guitar" applegrove Jan 16 #33

This one's good too. red dog 1 Jan 16 #35

And if another woman driver Gets machine-gunned from her seat OutNow Jan 16 #34

no guesses? - Frank Zappa OutNow Jan 19 #42

Sugar and spice is just a bluff... Harker Jan 16 #36

How long are we supposed to wait? n/t rzemanfl Jan 17 #38

"Hey, wanna buy some stuff, man, huh?" "Did you ever rap that thing, Jack?... Tikki Jan 17 #39

Here goes: greatauntoftriplets Jan 17 #40

"...She's been to Paris, France, and she can really dance." Mad_Dem_X Jan 17 #41

"I just want to sit here, singing my song" red dog 1 Jan 23 #43

"You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray ... without surrender." Intractable Jan 23 #44

"I hate to say it but I told you so - Don't mind my preachin' to you - I said, don't trust 'em, baby, now you know red dog 1 Jan 29 #45

And we danced / Like a wave on the ocean romanced Coventina Jan 29 #46

"If my world falls apart, could you keep it together. If i can't have you I don't want no one at all" red dog 1 Feb 7 #47

"Gonna get my grave digger...Find you a place...Take out my shovel...And throw some dirt on your face" red dog 1 Feb 8 #48

Response to red dog 1 (Original post)

Ohiya This message was self-deleted by its author.

Soul_of_Wit

(74 posts)

4. Captain Beyond

Reply to Ohiya (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 15, 2026, 06:07 PM

Jan 15

Kind of a '70s supergroup, if you can consider a mix of less famous members of well-known bands to be a supergroup.

DEbluedude

(852 posts)

2. She had red shoes...

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2026, 05:47 PM

Jan 15

Soul_of_Wit

(74 posts)

3. Sadly, still relevant today

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2026, 05:54 PM

Jan 15

"But he made too many enemies
Of the people who would keep us on our knees"

Morbius

(963 posts)

5. The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead

Reply to Soul_of_Wit (Reply #3)

Thu Jan 15, 2026, 07:17 PM

Jan 15

XTC. A pretty good album.

Wiz Imp

(9,731 posts)

6. I don't want to argue. I ain't gonna budge. Won't you take this number down before you call up the judge?

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2026, 07:39 PM

Jan 15

Tikki

(15,095 posts)

13. I actually own this vinyl record...

Reply to Wiz Imp (Reply #6)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 12:57 AM

Jan 16

hint hint
I will let someone else give the answer..I already answered one below.

Tikki

Tikki

(15,095 posts)

37. "Starry Eyes". The Records. (1979)

Reply to Tikki (Reply #13)

Sat Jan 17, 2026, 02:06 AM

Jan 17

Tikki

Wiz Imp

(9,731 posts)

7. You only call me if you're feelin' blue You tell me I don't pay attention to you

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2026, 07:39 PM

Jan 15

Response to red dog 1 (Original post)

Ohiya This message was self-deleted by its author.

Harker

(17,691 posts)

9. Last night your shadow fell upon my lonely room.

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2026, 08:54 PM

Jan 15

I touched your golden hair and tasted your perfume.

Tikki

(15,095 posts)

12. "I had too much to dream last night"...

Reply to Harker (Reply #9)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 12:52 AM

Jan 16

don't remember the band's name..some kind of psychedelic I believe.

Tikki

Response to Tikki (Reply #12)

GReedDiamond This message was self-deleted by its author.

Harker

(17,691 posts)

16. Yes! The Electric Prunes.

Reply to Tikki (Reply #12)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 05:49 AM

Jan 16

VGNonly

(8,468 posts)

10. Somebody tell my father I died

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2026, 11:35 PM

Jan 15

Somebody tell my mother I cried

Harker

(17,691 posts)

17. I know it's Spirit.

Reply to VGNonly (Reply #10)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 05:53 AM

Jan 16

Is the title "Mechanical World"?

VGNonly

(8,468 posts)

19. Yes, it is Mechanical World.

Reply to Harker (Reply #17)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 09:25 AM

Jan 16

A sad tale on Spirit, Randy California the guitarist, drowned after saving his son during a rip tide in Hawaii.

Harker

(17,691 posts)

21. Very sad.

Reply to VGNonly (Reply #19)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 09:34 AM

Jan 16

Tikki

(15,095 posts)

11. "Out there it's Summertime..Milk and honey days"...

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 12:48 AM

Jan 16

Tikki

Harker

(17,691 posts)

18. I think it's "San Francisco Nights", but I'm not getting the artist.

Reply to Tikki (Reply #11)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 06:01 AM

Jan 16

A guy's personal name, I believe.

Subsequent to looking it up... oop. I got that one tangled up pretty badly!

Tikki

(15,095 posts)

22. Song titled "San Francisco Girls"

Reply to Harker (Reply #18)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 11:10 AM

Jan 16

by a band named Fever Tree.

You're correct about the San Francisco part...

Tikki

Response to red dog 1 (Original post)

GReedDiamond This message was self-deleted by its author.

VGNonly

(8,468 posts)

20. So is it any wonder

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 09:32 AM

Jan 16

we hate to see the sun come down.

justaprogressive

(6,815 posts)

23. Obscure band stellar member

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 03:11 PM

Jan 16

2 albums

Falling sounds explode
Across myriad conscience
Of tomorrow's mind

You feel yourself
Rising slowly
And yet falling down
Upon shattered dreams

Dulcinea

(9,975 posts)

24. Deals dope out of Denny's, Keeps a table in the back...

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 05:42 PM

Jan 16

I love these threads!

Xipe Totec

(44,540 posts)

25. Birds fall from the window ledge above mine

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 06:41 PM

Jan 16

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rzemanfl

(31,311 posts)

26. "Mary Jane, take me away from all this." n/t

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 06:43 PM

Jan 16

OnionPatch

(6,324 posts)

27. Death is a cold lasagne

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 06:52 PM

Jan 16

Akakoji

(503 posts)

29. Suspended in Deep Freeze

Reply to OnionPatch (Reply #27)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 06:57 PM

Jan 16

Akakoji

(503 posts)

28. Try this:

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 06:55 PM

Jan 16

I got the password
I got persuasion
A proposition for invasion of your privacy
Give yourself away and find the fake in me

tmars505

(32 posts)

30. several lines

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 06:59 PM

Jan 16

this whole room smells like piss
but in the dark my dog's a star
your name is at the top of my list
and I know where you are

Jilly_in_VA

(14,257 posts)

31. This is as obscure as I can get

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 07:17 PM

Jan 16

"Oh dear, Miss Morse,
I want you.

This may strike you oddily
But I want you...bodily...

WestMichRad

(3,178 posts)

32. "What a surprise!...

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 07:52 PM

Jan 16

“She looked in the cupboard
And found the eyes
In a suitcase.”

applegrove

(131,641 posts)

33. "And where's your kids and where's your car" "I don't have either but I have a guitar"

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 07:57 PM

Jan 16

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red dog 1

(32,860 posts)

35. This one's good too.

Reply to applegrove (Reply #33)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 08:40 PM

Jan 16

OutNow

(914 posts)

34. And if another woman driver Gets machine-gunned from her seat

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 08:33 PM

Jan 16

OutNow

(914 posts)

42. no guesses? - Frank Zappa

Reply to OutNow (Reply #34)

Mon Jan 19, 2026, 03:58 AM

Jan 19

Trouble Every Day is/was one of my favorite Zappa songs - the lyric went through my head when I saw the Good video last week.

Harker

(17,691 posts)

36. Sugar and spice is just a bluff...

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 09:11 PM

Jan 16

You can tell me, baby, what is that stuff?

rzemanfl

(31,311 posts)

38. How long are we supposed to wait? n/t

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Sat Jan 17, 2026, 12:53 PM

Jan 17

Tikki

(15,095 posts)

39. "Hey, wanna buy some stuff, man, huh?" "Did you ever rap that thing, Jack?...

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Sat Jan 17, 2026, 02:13 PM

Jan 17

...So rap it to the beat.“

Tikki

greatauntoftriplets

(178,858 posts)

40. Here goes:

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Sat Jan 17, 2026, 02:41 PM

Jan 17

I used to be a Pharisee
Cynical and wise, telling rich ungodly lies of humanity

Mad_Dem_X

(10,171 posts)

41. "...She's been to Paris, France, and she can really dance."

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Sat Jan 17, 2026, 03:56 PM

Jan 17

red dog 1

(32,860 posts)

43. "I just want to sit here, singing my song"

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Fri Jan 23, 2026, 08:06 PM

Jan 23

(Hint: '60s San Francisco psychedelic band who had one of the 1st hit songs to come out of SF)

Intractable

(1,933 posts)

44. "You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray ... without surrender."

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Fri Jan 23, 2026, 10:42 PM

Jan 23

from a band known for its lyrics, but not known for its harmonies.

red dog 1

(32,860 posts)

45. "I hate to say it but I told you so - Don't mind my preachin' to you - I said, don't trust 'em, baby, now you know

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Thu Jan 29, 2026, 05:00 PM

Jan 29

You don't learn everything there is to know in school."'

(Hint: San Francisco '60s band that S.F. disc jockeys "Big Daddy" Tom Donohue & Bobby Mitchell discovered & recorded on their Autumn Records label)

Coventina

(29,598 posts)

46. And we danced / Like a wave on the ocean romanced

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Thu Jan 29, 2026, 07:15 PM

Jan 29

We were liars in love
And we danced
Swept away for a moment by chance

red dog 1

(32,860 posts)

47. "If my world falls apart, could you keep it together. If i can't have you I don't want no one at all"

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Sat Feb 7, 2026, 03:45 PM

Feb 7

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Musician/Actor (Sopranos)

red dog 1

(32,860 posts)

48. "Gonna get my grave digger...Find you a place...Take out my shovel...And throw some dirt on your face"

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Sun Feb 8, 2026, 04:58 PM

Feb 8

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(Song about a car by '60s San Francisco band)

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