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The Meme
You go find a song that everybody knows and put the lyrics into the Babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com/). Translate them from English to German, then German to French, and then French to English. Then post here with 3 clues. See who gets the song right first.
In all fairness, I probably didn't do this right: Neither of these songs are as ubiquitous as the meme would want.
The Song:
At once that all there had a manner and a girl with the hair of sweet chestnut and led you the summers bays choosing which rose there; Times ago which it was a woman, OH -, there was times she a child satisfied, and held it to you in the shades, in which the himbeeren rise wildly. And you are ridden the mountains of paddle and you sang on the opinion, and everywhere that seemed to go you of the loves wandered, in collaboration with you. It is hard to recall to him, this fact you your fist of pressing. And then, the veins are outside like roads, all along your wrist. And yes one with this one came from there, come him with this one and was not it to the bottom a long manner, was not to the bottom him a strange manner?
The Hints:
1) The artist was once voted Best Dressed Man in Montreal.
2) His biggest hit was a song about sipping Constant Comment tea while eating Mandarin Oranges with a female friend of his. This song, however, was not his biggest hit.
3) After a lengthy and intense buildup, the song ends in something of a copout that leaves the listener feeling both cheated and relieved.
And, since that first one was really for the hard-core folkies, here's another for the proggers:
The Song
Once in a dream very more these walls of lock outside to the bottom the bay, in which the worked water falls black I was however, while Minnesaenger being the song thus that sang timidly, I became lost my heart
The Hints
1) The Album this was on went Platinum.
2) It was written and sung by the band's keyboardist.
3) On tour, the electricity for the performance of this song would have been supplied by a device called "Solar Jenny One."
And, since I'm feeling extra, extra, extra bastardly today, comments will be screened until about 11:00pm CDT, so you can't peek at others' answers.
[Edited to make the Second hint for the First Song less Misleading]
You go find a song that everybody knows and put the lyrics into the Babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com/). Translate them from English to German, then German to French, and then French to English. Then post here with 3 clues. See who gets the song right first.
In all fairness, I probably didn't do this right: Neither of these songs are as ubiquitous as the meme would want.
The Song:
At once that all there had a manner and a girl with the hair of sweet chestnut and led you the summers bays choosing which rose there; Times ago which it was a woman, OH -, there was times she a child satisfied, and held it to you in the shades, in which the himbeeren rise wildly. And you are ridden the mountains of paddle and you sang on the opinion, and everywhere that seemed to go you of the loves wandered, in collaboration with you. It is hard to recall to him, this fact you your fist of pressing. And then, the veins are outside like roads, all along your wrist. And yes one with this one came from there, come him with this one and was not it to the bottom a long manner, was not to the bottom him a strange manner?
The Hints:
1) The artist was once voted Best Dressed Man in Montreal.
2) His biggest hit was a song about sipping Constant Comment tea while eating Mandarin Oranges with a female friend of his. This song, however, was not his biggest hit.
3) After a lengthy and intense buildup, the song ends in something of a copout that leaves the listener feeling both cheated and relieved.
And, since that first one was really for the hard-core folkies, here's another for the proggers:
The Song
Once in a dream very more these walls of lock outside to the bottom the bay, in which the worked water falls black I was however, while Minnesaenger being the song thus that sang timidly, I became lost my heart
The Hints
1) The Album this was on went Platinum.
2) It was written and sung by the band's keyboardist.
3) On tour, the electricity for the performance of this song would have been supplied by a device called "Solar Jenny One."
And, since I'm feeling extra, extra, extra bastardly today, comments will be screened until about 11:00pm CDT, so you can't peek at others' answers.
[Edited to make the Second hint for the First Song less Misleading]
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As for the second one, come on prog-rockers, at least place the ALBUM?
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2) I'm stumped. I'm really embarrassed, but I am stumped.
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The Grand Illusion tour was completely Solar powered, that was James Young's brainchild. Castle Walls was a Dennis DeYoung tune.
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The Grand Illusion, though, was a REALLY SOLID concept album, well organized around the superficies of fame.
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I haven't a clue about the other one, but I'm an unrepentant folkie and not much else.