March 2012 Topix

tchoiniere · **Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 11:18 pm

liljol wrote:

From NTN Buzztime, Inc.'s FB page, my most recent post there:

"Please accept your #@%$! badge for your godawful, horrible, grievous bungling of the Kenny G question in today's "Soothing Sounds" Topix."

For those who decided not to bang away at this game, the question went something like "Which of these is *not* true of Kenny G?" The correct answer was "Starred in 'A Chorus Line'", which was answer 2. However, when the smoke cleared, they showed the correct answer as 1, "Real name is Kenneth Gorelick".

Nearly threw my box after that one. Nothing soothing about that game.

liljol · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:41 pm **Posts:** 2497

tchoiniere wrote:

Nearly threw my box after that one. Nothing soothing about that game.

NTN being NTN, I was waiting with more than a lil baited breath for a question on The Sharper Image Sound Soother. :roll:

liljol · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:41 pm **Posts:** 2497

liljol wrote:

FrankC wrote:

I am interested in "going green". I assume that will be about Ireland and Saint Patrick.

Ah, something tells me that Cee-Lo Green will crap up somewhere. :roll:

And, maybe even "Green, Green", "Green-Eyed Lady", "Green Light", "Green Onions", "Green River", and/or "Green Tambourine".

spotes · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:27 pm **Posts:** 1558

liljol wrote:

FrankC wrote:

I am interested in "going green". I assume that will be about Ireland and Saint Patrick.

Ah, something tells me that Cee-Lo Green will crap up somewhere. :roll:

And, maybe even "Green, Green", "Green-Eyed Lady", "Green Light", "Green Onions", "Green River", and/or "Green Tambourine".

Don't forget "Little Green Bag" by the George Baker Selection.
The kids are still jammin' to that one, aren't they?

liljol · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:41 pm **Posts:** 2497

spotes wrote:

Don't forget "Little Green Bag" by the George Baker Selection.
The kids are still jammin' to that one, aren't they?

Well, while I doubt NTN Buzztime will include them, it would be nice to see a question on either of the Green brothers from El Cerrito, CA (Cornell, who played for The Cowboys in their early days, and Elijah "Pumpsie", who has the somewhat dubious distinction of finally integrating the major league lineup of those eternally damnable FBOSOX, making them the last to do so). :roll:

pengwn · **Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2012 2:01 am

The "green" in my music collection

Songs
Green Grow the Rushes -- Altan
Girl in Green -- Blue Rodeo**
Bitter Green -- Gordon Lightfoot***
Green Acres theme
Greenspond -- Great Big Sea*
Greensleeved -- Jethro Tull
Green Fields -- The Northern Pikes*
Green Is the Colour -- Pink Floyd (from More)
Fantasia on Greensleeves -- Ralph Vaughn Williams
The [New] Red Green Show theme*
Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick-Desolving Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green and Purple Pills -- Ray Stevens
Billy Green -- Stan Rogers*
Fiddler's Green -- The Tragically Hip**

Artists
Green Day
Green Jellÿ (Three Little Pigs is a staple of the Dr. Demento Show)

Albums
Blue Green Orange -- I Mother Earth, 1999**
Evergreen Nights -- Lisa Lougheed, 1988*
Green -- R.E.M., 1998
Fields of Green -- Rick Wakeman, 1996
The Green Album -- Royal Canadian Air Farce, 1990* (includes Grocer Dave's Green Products)
Weezer -- Weezer, 2001 (more than one eponymous album by these guys, usually distinguished by background colour)

People (largely courtesy Wikipedia)
"The Reverend" Al Green (1946- ), gospel and soul singer
Bud Green (1897-1981), songwriter
Bunky Green (1935- ), jazz alto saxophonist
Dallas Green (1980- )*, formerly of Alexisonfire
Derrick Leon Green (1971- ), Sepultura
Freddie Green (1911-1987), guitarist associated with Count Basie
Gary Green (1950- ), former guitarist in prog rock band Gentle Giant
Grant Green (1935-1979), "one of the great unsung heroes of jazz guitar"
Jeremiah Green (1977- ), former drummer of Modest Mouse
Johnny Green (1908-1989), songwriter and conductor on the Jack Benny show
Lillian "Lil" Green (1919-1954), blues singer
Malcolm Green (1953- ), former drummer of Split Enz
Rick Green (1953- )* -- member of comedy/novelty quartet The Frantics
Urbie Green (1926-), jazz trombonist

* Canadiana Alert!

tiefly · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:54 am **Posts:** 1665

Also, "Green on Red"...had members of Dream Syndicate in it.

Rhino · **Joined:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 6:40 pm **Posts:** 633

you really think I would know better than to play a Friday topics by now. While my overall score was fine, they completely mishandled the game. We had 14 questions that anybody who skimmed the book for 10 min. three years ago and who is even vaguely aware of current pop culture even to my level should have nailed for 1000 with no trouble, then we had one question which basically asked who was the dad of a bit player who, if the movie is anything whatsoever like the book, is probably onscreen for 90 seconds, has two lines, is not even named, and appears in only one scene as anything other than background.

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