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| Foam-O-Graph© - The Tin In A Can™! |
Remember last week's fun-filled FoamQuiz™? Probably not. Sure, you can remember what was on the back of the cereal box when you were eight, but a few days back is too much of a stretch. Hey! "Not back like in a box back, not back like in a race, not back so you can keep it, but back in time and space!"
We changed the rules a bit, on account which sleeve design recognition was a walk in the park with a slice of cake for youse college-educated weisenheimers, and went cryptic on your elderly asses. Which made the whole deal much more fun, leastways for me, watchin' youse bums squirm in your seats, chewing the end of your pencil and staring out the window like you really didn't care anyhoo. Hoo hah! Winning the FoamQuiz™ is one of the most important accomplishments you can, uh .. accomplish ... the Noble Prize, the Putziter, the Mrs. Joyful Prize For Rafia Work - these are tawdry gimcrack mantelpiece ornaments in comparison!
Earn undying respect of confreres in drunk tank by correctly identifying album, act! Do not directly name either! Leave clew in comments to indicate you're on the ball, right track, a roll, and fire!
Let's do this, people! Nose/grindstone, shoulder/wheel contiguosity!
EDIT: A superlative performance by A Fine Old English Nobleman garners him a coveted place on the Winner's Podium! This hastily-prepared graphic shows him being presented with a carriage clock (may differ from actual award) by th' IoF©'s resident Body Positive Icon Mrs. Myra Nussbaum!
*smirk*
ReplyDeleteI've got the book title and author...buggered if I've got anything else so far.
ReplyDeleteThat's a key clue! Go you!
DeleteAre we looking for an album title here? I got nothing yet.
ReplyDeleteI'm still not sure about half the clews for the Affinity album (last week) ie. was wondering what 'the mathematician/astronomer; the cover of a Penguin Classics work by a German poetry dude', had to do with the Affinity album? Please can you enlighten me, or were they more red herrings?
Goethe (who else?) wrote Elective Affinities, the cover illustration of which was a "wall clue". The mathematician astronomer is Fred Hoyle (linda Hoyle is the singer)
DeleteThis week, you're looking for the artist and the album title, which are different. There are three clues to the artist, two or three to the title, and one to the album cover. Plus some red herrings.
Oh yes, of course... now I get it? Wow had this place got interlecchewel on our asses all of a sudden. Thanks for explaining for me.
DeleteSo, we're playing this game, "According to Hoyle"?
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ReplyDeleteIf I get it, can I celebrate with a bottle of Varsity birch beer?
ReplyDeleteMrs. Kinski had a lovely daughter?
ReplyDeleteAnd despite how terrible a man he may (allegedly) have been, those Werner Herzog films KK made are wonderful, a must see.
DeleteFarq - OFF TOPIC - I know you like a bit of Dick, Dick Heckstall-Smith that is. There's a 1990 concert at that adult blog called Voodoowagon, just to let you know.
ReplyDeleteCan we get to the Soul of the matter?
ReplyDeleteTrevor Peacock unavailable for comment...
ReplyDeleteOh man, it's so easy.
ReplyDeleteIt's the album Hourglass by Mean Mr. Mustard.
c'mon Farq, give us a challenge for once!
I've given some thought to the Hints & Allusions (where given) and am confident - smug, even - that nobody's even close. Hint #2: go for act name first. Re-hint: there are three clues for this (and they're fairly direct). Hint #3: ignore setting, Kinski, familiar FoamIcons™.
ReplyDeleteWot no pictures of Gracie Fields or Robert Palmer, hows dya expect anyone to get it
ReplyDeleteClar, I'm really rooting for you in this Kwiz. Too long you've hung back, avoiding the glare of the spotlight that falls upon the winner's podium. Your modesty does you great credit. I am confident that application of your remaining wits will bring the answer to mind, but offer you (and you alone) this *secret hint*. I'll write it in Finnish, as I know you're familiar with that fine nation, abutting as it does the borders of Canadia:
ReplyDeleteryhmän nimessä on kolme osaa
My hovercraft is not full of eels.
ReplyDeleteGroup name has 3 parts?
ReplyDelete*facepalm*
ReplyDeleteOK as a new guy trying to bring the numbers up to six or seven I think my previous answer may have been too obscure dwelling as it did on side one track seven of an album that I confess I have never heard. So I therefore announce myself as the winner of this Kwizz for Atoms with Heavy Metal Rabblerousers and their sixth album America Is The Only Tararantula. Hows that then?
ReplyDelete*glances at wristwatch*
Delete(Oh - a Four Or Five Guy© is anyone who shows up here. It's a generic term.)
Her Majesty' Ramparts : Avarice in the Over Thirties?
DeleteThis is so much closer than any of the other lazy-assed bums have got I'm tempted to award you the prize (a handsome Champagne-finish Lucite© Digital Carriage Clock) - but as it's still hopelessly, tragically wrong in oh so many ways you get zip.
Delete(When and if somebody gets the answer it's going to look REALLY OBVIOUS and you'll feel REALLY STUPID. Much easier than the last Kryptik Kwiz.)
Close, wot,wot,wot, initially I thought I was right on the ball, indeed I thought the pope and I had hit it right out of the (English) park, in an epimistic, deontic or dynamically sort of way. I will, however bow to your knowledge of albums that are undoubtedly legends in their own lunchtime. If this was a fiendish plan to trouser the carriage clock yourelf then so be it. I will just have to leave the isle of foam's population at 4 or 5, dream of what might have been, and pop down to Nottingham to see if aspiring beat combo,Six By Seven, have any vacancies.
DeleteOkay...hand. open. bottle. beer cola. halo, verbs implying mainly future intent or action, knife machete. blade. light saber. two eggs (over easy) Cheez-Whiz. Time, hour glass, Columbo Peter Falk, Allegation...what? What the heck is that? Allegation Cologne? A lighter? Don't recognize Mr. Google Eyes...
ReplyDeleteIf only I had a clock I would have been able to catch the train to Nottanum Town by now, but seeing as I'm still here, I will stop sulking and offer the following in an attempt to stop his nibs pocketing the prize.
Delete1.halo,
2. verbs implying mainly future intent or action,
3. knife machete. blade. light saber.
1&2 very good
3. Look again but not in an American way
Ah yes, I've got it by golly! All those changes made the difference for me. You could say it will soon be the season though some prefer whiskey to beer.
DeleteThere's also some tangential connections to Neil Young (klewize), shrubbery, and wickets if I'm not mistaken.
DeleteYES!!! (You being mistaken, that is).
DeleteAllegation is a book.
ReplyDeleteAh yes, so it is ... I ain't even close then.
DeleteThe title is a clue to the title of the album. Another is close to the book.
DeleteSpuds Mackenzie - Angels in the Outfield?
ReplyDeleteIf I don't get it, this is going to ruin my planned weekend of coke, group sex and pizza.
ReplyDeleteI’d ask if I can come but that would be silly; may I attend?
DeleteA Fine Old English Nobleman is almost there:
ReplyDelete"1.halo,
2. verbs implying mainly future intent or action,
3. knife machete. blade. light saber.
1&2 very good
3. Look again but not in an American way"
Those are the three clues which together give the three parts of the name. His #3 is not a light sabre, but "not in an American way" seems to me to indicate he's on the right track.
It's cryptic, so the word "halo" is not itself part of the name. Ditto for other clues, such as the book title, exactly.
I should say that #3 is not a knife, machete, blade, or light sabre.
DeleteEven though I'm still smarting from the loss of the carriage clock (champagne with digits as well, thats just too much) you will find all the clues you need in my various posts above for the artist and album, and then there's the album cover clue that I haven't mentioned but which is quite prominent, to say nothing of the record label doubled up clue.
DeleteRighto, time to slink off and listen to some Oasis, the one where the birds are minging, and some chuck berry, all together now "They say the joint was rocking....."
I've been in a huddle with Kreemé (my co-judge) and we've decided to award you the carriage clock! With its genuine silver-effect escutcheon, handsomely engraved with your name (if your name happens to be"SAMPLE ONLY - NOT FOR RESALE") this will be an heirloom piece you'll be proud to display in den or lounge area of your lovely home!
DeleteAnyone else as smart as AFOEG?
ReplyDeleteI doubt it. But don't give up! There's a luxury PEN AND PENCIL SET for the runner-up!
Wupes - AFOEN.
DeleteI concede defeat but I'm still holding out hope that Mr Shark will get it so he will invite us (me) to the swell soiree he's throwing this weekend. Steve: methinks it's a cricket bat if that helps
DeleteIt's not cricket!
DeleteDoes the name of the artist come from the lyrics of another artist?
ReplyDeleteAccording to a group member, the name came about because "we were stoned on pot".
DeleteGee thanks Mr Throckmorton, I'm made up, and do I get to huddle up with the co-judge too, to award the runners up pen and pencil set?
ReplyDeleteAs to your faux pas with AFOEG, should I expect anything less from a mon like thee .
Anyway for those still on the wild goose chase, the bat is too round for cricket. Now can we all be put out of our misery by the administration of one of your efficacious stealthlinks. Nurse, please, the curtains.
No more clues!
DeleteWasn't Myra Nussbaum dead last time I checked?
ReplyDeleteWhat is this, zombie Myra. Then again, with her looks, who can tell the difference...
She does yell "Brains!" more often than before, though.
Yes, Mrs. Nussbaum was clubbed to death with an Engelbert Humperdinck album by Sting during a daring Whack-A-Mole heist. Jessica Fletcher and Lt. Columbo eventually solved the case.
Deletehttps://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2020/03/this-just-in-dept.html
All recent appearances of Mrs. Myra take place before this tragic crime, by way of a prequel.
Wow so I was presented with the carriage clock before I had even entered the qwizz, but as I had the clock I would have been able to know that already, given that it has, of course, a digital date and time and year and so forth. Still no stealthlink though
DeleteWAIT -- I've got it by George!!! At first I thought it must be "Unpack your Adjectives" by The Righteous Innocent Ballers but now I see shades of Miles and a more spherical aspect to the band's name and some mid-70s gumbo flavors mixed in with their regular down home deep-fried fare. Did I win the Pen and Pencil set?!?!
ReplyDeleteNo.
DeleteI DEMAND A RECOUNT!!! I had guessed the correct artist AND album!!!
DeleteAnother adjective meaning Righteous / Innocent = First word
Shades of Miles = Second word
More Spherical = Third word
Mid 70s = 1975
Gumbo flavors = "Voodoo Queen," "Chittlin' Cookin' Time In Cheatham County," etc.
Down home deep-fried = Country/Folk Psych
I demand justice!!
Tsk. Don't let a simple typo affect you so! I meant to type "yes", of course - I immediately intuited your allusions - but a keyboard fumble, I now see, ended up as "no" - which of course is diametrically opposite to my intended comment! My apologies - please accept this luxury pen and pencil set (I am sorry they don't match, and the pencil is something of a stub - the ballpoint may need a refill, too) by way of compensation!
DeleteI accept your apology and take my rightful place on the Silver Medal podium next to AFOEN clutching my luxury pen and pencil set (such as it is) high above my head in triumph!
DeleteD'oh. Wrong album cover with the same type of objects. I'll have to celebrate with a bottle of Gordon Highland Scotch Ale.
ReplyDeleteMaybe next time!
DeleteLinklater, when I wake up.
ReplyDeleteRichard, when you sleep.
DeleteHere it is! If you still don't gots clue one:
ReplyDeleteGroup name:
1: If one has a halo, one is said to be ...
2: The *category* of verbs in the speech balloons ...
3: The sport indicated by the equipment ...
The name of the album:
1: Hinted at (strongly) in book title ...
2: Hinted at by hourglass ...
The cover design: alluded to in bottle being opened.
Easy, wasn't it?
Thank you for the link sir, you're a scholar and a gentleman, and there aint too many of us left- only about 3 or 4 at the last count I reckon.
DeleteDamn, I never was any good at rithmetic, my apologies to the 5th scholar, no offence intended.
DeleteThe scholars and gentlemen of the world - I use "gentlemen" in its non-gendered sense, ie including classy dames, hot tomatoes, and party broads) - may find refuge in the cloistered calm of th' Isle O' Foam©.
Delete(How about capitalising that "o"? It's driving me nutsoid. Yeesh.)
My apologies, the Old eyesight aint too good these days, I can't tell my O's from my elbow.
Delete"What th--'?"
ReplyDeletethese reviews mine included tell a story of their own when S&W a few years EARlier became immortal
with the help of Mohawk & the assistance of SS whom i met in the dog park walking his airedale Marie
couple years before his paSSing
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the-holy-modal-rounders/the-moray-eels-eat-the-holy-modal-rounders/
RYM reviewers usually blow my mind how swell they are
I liked this:
Delete"Most of it's just a mess to be honest.
I was really disappointed with the songwriting on this album. The melodies were scattershot and fruitless, the vocal progressions on the lead were jumpy to the point of wrecking momentum, and the structure of these songs is just too scatter-brained to pull much substance from. The background vocals are annoying as hell too, and often mixed too loudly without accounting for how eargrabbing yet grating the girl's voice is, which really brings down even some of the better tracks here. I did still manage to enjoy "Dame Fortune", which had some solid lyrics and an intriguing guitar performance. And the chorus on "Half A Mind" that chants "I've got half a mind to have a mind" was pretty hilarious and backed nicely by the instrumentation. Mostly though this is some pretty dogshit freak folk that just exemplifies the genre's potential to confuse the nonsensical with canon evasion."
Hard to argue with this.
Hard to argue, except there are no girls' vocals [grating or otherwise] on the album. Someone slip Drano in y'all's duji?
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ReplyDeleteI've now snorted all the coke, cancelled the pizza order and told the Men's Rugby Sex Formation Team that their "services" will no longer be required.
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