Song Title from One Word of the Lyric

I've no idea what your song might be, Jack.
My word is...

gracious

Great Balls of Fire.

firework

This sort of thing has probably been done to death.....but my word is....

equidistant.



That David Brent song, is it just called "Slough"?

If Johnny can have a phrase, so can I.

...two but very small

Indeed, kenny, I listened to it a couple of times last week and that song has been stuck in my head all weekend.

What a great line, 'equidistant between London and Reading...' ha

Probably should add another rule - that the word can't be in the title.

buck-toothed

ASK

OK having identified 'Ask' by The Smiths correctly, I will ask you all which song includes the word 'louvered'  ?

My Wandering Days Are Over - B&S

"gracious" is also in Goodness Gracious Me by Peter sellers and Sophia Loren, unless thats now disqualified for being in the title - or for being racist.

I forgot to say mine - "pliers"

louvred has me stumped/
As has pliers unless it is something by Nine Inch Nails.

"Subbuteo"

Jack (and anyone else who attempted it) :

The word 'louvered' appears in that well-known beautiful (and a bit cruel) song "Otis and Marlena" by Joni Mitchell, from her 1977 double album "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter".

An online lyrics website also tells me the word 'louvered' also figures in the song "Big Red Rocket of Love" by The Reverend Horton Heat, a song and artiste I am not familiar with.

I note there was a hopelessly misguided attempt to place the word 'louvered' into the Belle and Sebastian song "My Wandering Days Are Over". I have been to the official Belle and Sebastian website to see the lyrics to this song for myself, and am satisfied the word they use is "LOUVRE", in the line

"The space between your bed and wardrobe with the louvre doors"

See the link

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https://belleandsebastian.com/music/songs/tiger-milk/my-wandering-days-are-over/

'Subbuteo' is mentioned in The Undertones 'My Perfect Cousin'

And Nick Lowe mentions 'pliers' in "All Men Are Liars" but I don't know if his was the original version.

yeah well done.  I think my example was an easy one for men of our age.

a much harder one but from around the same time "vegemite"

"Down Under" Men at  Work

WP :)

I'm off out now so that will at least give somebody else a chance.

"hopelessly misguided"


One of my fave B&S songs. Must have listened to it hundreds of times. And I'd still say he sings louvered.

About 50 seconds in here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPFT4-PNYLE


hopelessly misguided. wac.

Well done to Alun on pliers but hat wasn't the one i was thinking of. Clearly it's gonna be hard to know someting is unique.

Mine was Bob Dylan in "It's Allright Ma"
"While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he's in."

Steerforth,

Cheers for that. An excellent selection. I’d completely forgotten Dylan’s much earlier use of the word ‘pliers’.

I have a copy of that album and will give the track and the rest of the songs another long-overdue listen. Possibly while simultaneously admiring our beautiful Louvre Doors.

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https://www.diy.com/departments/doors-windows/internal-doors/louvre-doors/DIY1064939.cat

With the debate about pliers and louvre/d, on top of the use of proper nouns with Subbuteo and Vegemite...we are a bit thin ...

'bookies'

apologies, should be  'bookie '

Squeeze - Up The Junction

I think 'bookie' or 'bookies' also gets a mention in Thin Lizzy's 'Waiting for an Alibi'

mudguard

cistern

Subbuteo also mentioned in Half Man Half Biscuit's 'All I Want For Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit.'

Mudguard - Funky Moped

Pompitous?

Indeed.

As soon as me moped's front mudguard if fixed......

Pickles

pompitous - The Joker, Steve Miller



dobber

dobber - Dolly Parton The Greatest Days of All

petrochemical?

O Superman - hold me in your petrochemical arms

Amputations?

Can't get any of those but I will give you a clue with 'cistern'.

How is Worcestershire? Is it still the same between us?
Do you still use television to send you fast asleep?
Can you last another week? Does the cistern still leak?

Jack - there's a website you can use to get these, I just used it for cistern.  But I won't spoil it. The fun's in knowing.

Gracious is also in Kid - by Pretenders?

Cistern is Clifford T Ward (RIP)

One of the great songs.

Home Thoughts From Abroad

my word is unscrewed

steerforth - I gathered there was from an earlier comment.

But I plough on like the keen crossword enthusiast ignoring the appeal of the online Crossword Solver.

Unscrewed might be from Labelled with Love, although I thought it was unscrews?

Twig

Twig is from 'Drive-In Saturday' by Bowie

As in "Twig the Wonderkid"  (Twiggy).

you are right on both counts Moon - unscrews it is...

next one - synagogues

You'll never get this one!
Scaramoosh

And I got the synagogues one straight off. Are they about to tour soon, but not with the singer who sung that?

Yes - UK tour from July 2018. Not sure of line up, but first date Newcastle.

Scaramoosh - Queen too obvious?

A whole bushel of twigs!!!
I was thinking of Honey - by Bobby Goldsboro
(See the tree how big it's grown..... When I planted it was just a twig)

To be honest I haven't known any of these.

My word is "iddle".

Teddington

ernie the milkman