Okay...the rules:

Write a verse or two and the next person is to name the song and the band.

for example: Is there anybody out there?

answer would be...Is There Anybody Out There- by Pink Floyd

Obviously that was REALLY easy but you get the point.

Now Cesar Inca...let's try not to make them too vague.

I'll start it with an easy one to get the ball rolling.

Hounds freeze in silence bewitched by the reptile spell
Sulphurous essence pervades round the grassy dell
Heorot awaits him like lamb to the butcher's knife
Stellular heavens ignore even children's cries

now you name the song and the band....it's that easy..I hope you like or you'll make me

Oh...and after that you leave your verse for the next person.

Cheers!

Grendel - Marillion

"Mr America walk on by

Your supermarket dream

Mr America walk on by

Your Liquor store supreme"

Hungry Freaks, Daddy- Mr. Frank Zappa 1966

Each man has a memory

and much more than the eye can see

Yet, still others linger deep inside you

Haunting thoughts of pain and joy divide you

'Apercu' by KANSAS.

"We walked along, sometimes hand in hand,
between the thin lines marking sea and sand;
smiling very peacefully,
we began to notice that we could be free,
and we moved together to the West."

Refugees-Van der Graaf Generator

Pointing to the cosmic glider
Pull this plastic glider higher
Light the fuse and stand right back
He cried This is my last good-bye.

Point me at the sky - Pink Floyd (single)

So, why my heavy heart you say
When tears would stain the sights so gay
My brother's dreams once here did soar
Unitl he died at the hand of needless war

Uriah Heep - Salisbury

It's a constant fight
A constant fight
You're pushing the needle to the red
Black and white
Who knows who's right

Great idea, btw Greg

Bread Lover wrote:   It's a constant fight A constant fight You're pushing the needle to the red Black and white Who knows who's right Great idea, btw Greg

Yes -- "It Can Happen"

From the much-maligned (but good overall, methinks) 90210.

Try this:

"Just keep me nose clean -- eggs, chips and beans

I'm always full of steam."

Yes, great thread, Gdub!

Steve Hackett-Ballad of The Decomposing Man

A mother to the living
A mother to the dead
Silent as the moonlight
I come to lay my head
And I won't know you
Anymore

MARILLION - Cathedral Wall

"A father's benediction as his hopeful son departs
to brave the sea of rage and conquer at all costs
lingers in his memory"

Dream Theater-Only A Matter Of Time

Foot upon the stair
Shoulder to the wheel
You can't tell yourself not to care
You can't tell yourself how to feel

RUSH  -  How It Is

"See how they run in silence up the belfry steps,
Each unaffected by the sight of the blistered skin"

Awake & Nervous-Tales From The Lush Attic-IQ

we're lost in the labyrinths of
what seems to be and what is real.
your old words of wisdom
though indistinct, still they are true.

ELOY - Mysterious Monolith

"See a rippling stream that smiles and then goes by
run to feel its comfort but the water's dry."

VISIONS OF ANGELS- GENESIS

"Theres Winston Churchill Dressed in Drag! He used to be a british flag! PLASTIC BAG!! WOT A DRAG!!"          ;           ;           ;           ;           ;           ;         

Can any Brits remember the correct words to the HeBeGebes piss take on Squeeze's Up The Junction, called Up The er rum.... which rhymed in quick succession: 

belly, Pirelli, jelly, Lisa Minelli, telly, smelly, vermecelli?

It was a song about the amazing fertility of young man, alas with all the women he had relations with,  and also contains the line: "I precautions, I gave her a false name" - Phil Pope could write 'em. (It was broadcast on Radio 4 comedy show Radio Active).

GENESIS - Supper's Ready [the Willow Farm section]

"Crop handle carved in bone;
sat high upon a throne of finest English leather."

Hunting Girl-Jethro Tull

I close my eyes I go far away
Away from this battlefield
In my dreams well here I will enjoy it
Where innocence plays with all the laughing children
The kind who are crying right now

Damn...I didn't realize this game was going to be so hard. Who made this crummy game up anyway!

Oh..and please someone answer Reeds question because I can't.

KANSAS - Closet Chronicles

  (it took me a few seconds, but I recognized t and could even physically hear it!!)

"Mist is swelling, creatures crawling
Hear the roar get louder in your ears
You know the folly was your own
But the force behind can't conquer all your fears"

The Narrow Way-Ummagumma-Pink Floyd

Closet Chronicles is my favourite Kansas track Cesar!

In the night see the red sky burning
There's fire on the mountain
Oil slicks on the sea

EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER - Black Moon

"Though the towers of the city are denied to we men of clay
still we know we shall scale the heights some day."

MARILLION  -  Script for a Jester's Tear

Got me there Markwin old son!

ENGLAND  -  Midnight Madness 

"There is a heart, where all are one,
a place away from time.
Direct our thoughts from there
freeing with the laughter, a doorway to the light"

It looks like I put a hard-to-find thing... thought the England and the Eloy atuff weren't really that easy either. One clue: it's from a Happy the Man song...

Cesar Inca wrote:   It looks like I put a hard-to-find thing... thought the England and the Eloy atuff weren't really that easy either. One clue: it's from a Happy the Man song...

yeah... looks like were stumped!

OK, those were the last lines of 'On Time as a helix of Precious laguhs', from HAPPY THE MAN's debut album. I suppose this one won't be that hard...

"Swimming forth came on land
Beast to ape grasping hands
Thinking kill never ran
Lived in caves enter man"

Cesar Inca wrote:   OK, those were the last lines of 'On Time as a helix of Precious Laughs', from HAPPY THE MAN's debut album. I suppose this one won't be that hard... "Swimming forth came on land Beast to ape grasping hands Thinking kill never ran Lived in caves enter man"

C'mon guys!! This one's not so hard!! It's from a very successful prog recording in Europe and the USA back in '73. 

Cesar Inca wrote: Cesar Inca wrote:   OK, those were the last lines of 'On Time as a helix of Precious Laughs', from HAPPY THE MAN's debut album. I suppose this one won't be that hard... "Swimming forth came on land Beast to ape grasping hands Thinking kill never ran Lived in caves enter man"   C'mon guys!! This one's not so hard!! It's from a very successful prog recording in Europe and the USA back in '73.

Nektar of course, from the essential REMEMBER THE FUTURE.

How about "Just don't ask how -- but curfew starts now. Get off the streets and bolt the door...."

Hint: The artist is question is a recent addition to the Archives, at my long-standing request.

Dick Heath has displayed some knowledge of the artist and/or album.

Review to follow....

gdub411 wrote: Damn...I didn't realize this game was going to be so hard. Who made this crummy game up anyway! Oh..and please someone answer Reeds question because I can't.

GDUb you forgot to think Hick Prog.

PETER!! No one knows!!  Post the answer and the next few lines, please... 

Hail, Cesar!

   You should all be ashamed of yourselves!

Duhhhh.... Phil Manzanera/801 -- LISTEN NOW: "Law and Order."

Great  prog album, many great musicians, from the late 70s!

Peasants....

Oh, Roxy Music? Wasn't that a niteclub?

Come in, Rangoon!

Hello Dick? Dick Heath? Has anyone seen Mr. Heath?

There you are: For shame, you walking rock encyclopedia, you....

OK then LOSERS, TRY THIS!!!!

"Don't delay -- dock the dick!" 

You call yourselves prog fans? Why, I oughta....

(Since I don't care about 801, despite the greatness of its individual members, I don't know their lyrics at heart... but I know some of Genesis'...)

GENESIS  -  The Colony of Slippermen

Now.......

"Touched by the wings, fears angel brings
Sad winter storm, grey autumn dawn"

Like I said...

GENESIS  -  The Colony of Slippermen

Now:

"Touched by the wings, fears angel brings
Sad winter storm, grey autumn dawn"

EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER - "Hymn (The Only Way)"

Trying to trace a reason
from the spinning words
but all I've heard
seem at odds with their meanings

PETER HAMMILL: Faint-Heart and the Sermon

Faith is cold as ice
Why are little ones born only to suffer
For the want of immunity
Or a bowl of rice?

U.K. - The Only Thing She Needs

"We turned away the sun
Cold, empty, alone
Embrace the violence
The saints are silent
God won't perform here anymore"

ECHOLYN - "Mei" 

"There's a place I like to hide
A doorway that I run through in the night"

Queensryche - Silent Lucidity

"You let the babies starve

Yet bristle at my words

You piss in your bathtub

And see yourself as clean"

Day-glo, that was "So Human" by Salem Hill. Killer, heavier tune -- hard-hitting lyrics!

Try this: "The people hurry by, all looking for a corner, and if they meet a friend who asks them to repay some old favour...."

"Just look away" by PFM from the wonderful "The world become the world". Good choice Pete.

"It was over in a moment of right, it was gone in the flash of a light, it was lost in the heart of the night, but it seemed to last forever."

ARENA  -  'The Visitor'

"One last brief whisper in our loved ones' ears
to reassure them and to pierce the fear
standing at controls then still unknown
we told the world we were about to go"

VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR  -  Pioneers Over c.

"The more you know
The more you know
You don't know what you know
Stone's throw left to go
Bad weather hell for leather
Now and zen you goof again"

GONG - 'You Never Blow Your Trip Forever'

"Words cause our banner, victorious our day.
Will silence be promised as violence display?
The curse increased we fight the power
And live by it by day."

Yes - Gates of delerium from relayer

probably too easy but I love this next song

New shadows tugging at the corner of his eye

Jostling for attention as the sunlight flares

Through a curtains tear, shuffling it's beams

as if in nervous anticipation of another day

MARILLION  -  'Hotel Hobbies'

"One more nail in your coffin dear
Endless torture for at least two thousand years"

STEVE HACKETT  -  Every Day

"Features distorted in the flickering light,
The faces are twisted and grotesque."

Fairport Convention:The Wounded Whale

"I can see the lemmings coming,
but I know I'm just a man"

VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR  -  A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers ('The Clot Thickens' section)

"So you cower in the towns forgotten places
And make your bed with unfamiliar faces"

Marillion - Brave: Runaway

I don't live for love, you sticky bitch
All I care about is if you're rich

JETHRO TULL  -  My God

"Thought disorder
Dream control
Now they read my mind on the radio"

Jethro Tull-Aqualung: My God

"All those feelings went away
I may not be what you think I am
Think we ought to find ourselves"

5. Loose Heart

Raise me up
Don't let me fall
Cause I don't get myself
I feel like I felt before
But can't find my way

All those feelings went away
I may not be what you think I am
Think we ought to find ourselves
Think we ought to find ourselves
Again...

Raise me up
Don't let me fall
Cause it's getting so hard
I feel like I felt before
Maybe I only try?

All those feelings went away
I may not be what you think I am
Think we ought to find ourselves
Think we ought to find ourselves again
All those questions never asked
All those days are coming back to me now
Dreams that can't be realised
All those nights are coming back to me now
And I know there're coming back to you

Raise me up
Raise me up, don't let me fall

Loose Heart - Riverside (Out Of Myself)

The pulse is beating louder now
The cramps in my hands grow more intense with each
Tik, tik, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap on the keys
My social life is at an end so it seems to be    The Pressman-Primus
Why don't I trample on your lawn today?

-------------

PRIMUS  -  The Pressman

"Thought disorder
Dream control
Now they read my mind on the radio"

It is Bonzo for sure but the track........Ali Baba's Camel?

Crikee, that takes me back,way back when..

Swallow but believe us,
You won’t die of boredom,
Should you have to leave us,

Since no one else is, I'm posting this lyrical passage:

"Dead on your feet you walk like no one's home
Out on the street you make your way alone
Soldier of fortune camouflaged in blue"

Cesar Inca wrote:   Since no one else is, I'm posting this lyrical passage: "Dead on your feet you walk like no one's home Out on the street you make your way alone Soldier of fortune camouflaged in blue"

Yes but what is the answer to mine?

Clue Peter is a big fan and has said so very recently!

Btw yours is Transatlantic :All of the Above (an album I can no longer listen to for some reason)

Swallow but believe us,
You won’t die of boredom,
Should you have to leave us,

I'm sorry, I took that Ali Baba's Camel thing the wrong way

Cesar Inca wrote:   I'm sorry, I took that Ali Baba's Camel thing the wrong way

I forgive you Cesar!

Clue for mine. Three letters no vowels!

XTC, don't know it's title, been looking for more than a day yet. can't find the songs title.

Google, is that aloud (for I just found the title that way)

tuxon wrote: XTC, don't know it's title, been looking for more than a day yet. can't find the songs title. Google, is that aloud (for I just found the title that way)

If it moves us along it is.......

Garden of Earthly delights - XTC.

I have past the final mark

no returns and no refunds

Crumbling walls of ancient times

Slow decay

Fare thee well o travellers

of this Earth and of this land

All I have I leave behind

Fare thee well

Yes it is difficult I think.

Overhead is the bands name.

Album is Zumanthum

Song is Beginning to End.

Great album. Think You'll like it Reed. You can download the complete album from their original website (link on the archives)

I'll find a new lyric

And even though the stars are listening
And the ocean’s deep, I just go to sleep
And then I create a silent movie
You become the star, is that what you are, dear?
Your whisper tells a secret
Your laughter brings me joy
And a wonder of feeling I’m nature’s own little boy

SUPERTRAMP - 'Even in the Quietest Moments'

"I've got to live my own life,
I just can't spare the time,
But you've got strange things on your mind"

Just A Normal Day

Supertramp. Crisis? what crisis?

I'm on the outside looking inside
What do I see
Much confusion, disillusion
All around me.

NEKTAR  -  Sao Paulo Sunrise

"It's time to leave, if we can heave ourselves away from here
While the sun is still burning"

OK, that was 'Feathered Friends', of GREENSLADE (the opening cut from their debut album).

Now:

"What I see sometimes just scares me
And what I hear I try to ignore"

Cesar Inca wrote:   OK, that was 'Feathered Friends', of GREENSLADE (the opening cut from their debut album). Now: "What I see sometimes just scares me And what I hear I try to ignore"

Hmmm....sounds like something said in A Louse is Not A Home  but I am not sure so I'll have to check.

OK, that was 'Memoirs from Between', by Echolyn. Now:

"When the whole world is another world away
You live your life waiting for words from yesterday"

OK, that was 'Brittany' from ECHOLYN, as well. Now:

"We will fly from this city of the dead
Even if our ship flies a pirate sail"

OK, that was 'Rise Again' by STEVE HACKETT. Now:

"Give me life give me life I'll make a vow
I'll resist temptation I promise here and now"

I Can Fly - Kansas

"When I look at the edge
Oh it scares me.
Though I know I'll go,
always go back."

I think we've got stuck - answer and next lyrical passage, please...

Well, dear friend Vaize, it's time you solved it yourself and state the next lyrical passage.

That would be "Easy Money" by KC.  Great track!

Hmmm, let's see:

"So just shut your face and take a seat, cos after all you're just talking meat, and music is just entertainment, folks."

Dear friend Vaize

I don't think it's forbidde nto google, but it's omehting I personally would not rather do, in order to keep the challenging nature of the game working on (that's just a personal option, of course). The Mutantes stuff looks quite interesting: I am very much for difusing more about Latin American prog, indeed.

Regards.