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[misplaced_ice]

I'm loving Robots in Disguise at the moment.
My two favourite songs are Turn it Up and Girl

Here are the lyrics to Turn it Up

An e-cookie to anyone who can name the artists/bands of the songs listed in the song.I have italicised the names of the songs

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[anarchangel23]

Rammstein - Ashe zu Ashe
The Cure - Boys
Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line
Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant

[anarchangel23]

Probably mostly wrong actually.

I'm disappointed that Robots in Disguise aren't a Nerdcore band.

[misplaced_ice]

You got the last two right.
Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line
Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
(although there is another Cure song listed...)

The nerdcore thing - is that solely because of the name? RiD is perfect for an electro band I'll have you know.

[anarchangel23]

Yes, solely because of the name.

[suzycat]

Clouds = Joni Mitchell
Some Velvet Morning = Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood, unless they're trying to be HEPSTOR and referencing the Lydia Lunch/Blixa Bargeld version (or indeed the one on Snakeskin by those local peeps whose name escapes me)
Hatful of Hollow = the Smiths
Ghosts = either Japan or David Sylvian on his own, can't remember
Strange Fruit = Billie Holiday
Ashes to Ashes in this case is probably Bowie, right?

[misplaced_ice]

Nope
Yep (Nancy)
Yep
Yep (Japan)
Yep
Yep

[misplaced_ice]

[suzycat]

WAHAY! My former musical hipness brings all the invizabl goodies to the yard!

[aleph_naught]

Represent. And the video for Girl is fracking radtacular, huh?

Anyway, Ashes to Ashes is Bowie, Pretty Vacant is Sex Pistols, Teaches of Peaches is Peaches, Sunshine Superman is Donovan, I Want You is presumably the Beatles though I'm sure there've been many songs with that name, I Walk The Line is Johnny Cash, A Night Like This is The Cure, Hatful of Hollow is the Smiths, Boys and Voodoo are both Robots in Disguise songs.

I think I deserve a real cookie for that.

[misplaced_ice]

Well done!
We've established that I'm not sure which I Want You they intended so ...

[misplaced_ice]

I like the music video for Tears too. It has nothing to do with Noel Fielding ... honest ;)

[leidan]

Birdland is a jazz song, though I admit I had to look it up to get that the artist was Chalie Parker.

[misplaced_ice]

Sadly, not the Birdland that RiD are referencing.
(I admit that I'm being a bit mean because I'm looking for the songs they mean)

[suzycat]

There was a band called Birdland that NME used to take the piss of IRCC. I have the strangest feeling that they had a song called Birdland as well.

[misplaced_ice]

Nope.

[ruby_vibrations]

i love 'turn it up' with every fiber of my being. i played it on repeat for like a fucking fortnight...