Post a lyric or two from a song by an obscure rock band & see if anyone knows the song and/or the band

[red dog 1]

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"OBSCURE"
From Cambridge Dictionary
"obscure" - adjective (Not Known)
"not known to many people."

You decide whether the group is obscure or not.
Also, you might want to post a "hint" to help folks guess the band and/or song.

They must have released at least one album.



(my submission)
"He's in a band that just makes noise."
(Hint: it's a Christmas song)




GUESSES ARE ALWAYS WELCOME!

[Soul_of_Wit]

4. Captain Beyond

Kind of a '70s supergroup, if you can consider a mix of less famous members of well-known bands to be a supergroup.

[DEbluedude]

2. She had red shoes...

[Soul_of_Wit]

3. Sadly, still relevant today

"But he made too many enemies
Of the people who would keep us on our knees"

[Morbius]

5. The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead

XTC. A pretty good album.

[Wiz Imp]

6. I don't want to argue. I ain't gonna budge. Won't you take this number down before you call up the judge?

[Tikki]

13. I actually own this vinyl record...

hint hint
I will let someone else give the answer..I already answered one below.

Tikki

[Tikki]

37. "Starry Eyes". The Records. (1979)

Tikki

[Wiz Imp]

7. You only call me if you're feelin' blue You tell me I don't pay attention to you

[Harker]

9. Last night your shadow fell upon my lonely room.

I touched your golden hair and tasted your perfume.

[Tikki]

12. "I had too much to dream last night"...

don't remember the band's name..some kind of psychedelic I believe.

Tikki

[GReedDiamond]

15. The band is The Electric Prunes...

...Ioved that song when it came out.

[Harker]

16. Yes! The Electric Prunes.

[VGNonly]

10. Somebody tell my father I died

Somebody tell my mother I cried

[Harker]

17. I know it's Spirit.

Is the title "Mechanical World"?

[VGNonly]

19. Yes, it is Mechanical World.

A sad tale on Spirit, Randy California the guitarist, drowned after saving his son during a rip tide in Hawaii.

[Harker]

21. Very sad.

[Tikki]

11. "Out there it's Summertime..Milk and honey days"...

Tikki

[Harker]

18. I think it's "San Francisco Nights", but I'm not getting the artist.

A guy's personal name, I believe.

Subsequent to looking it up... oop. I got that one tangled up pretty badly!

[Tikki]

22. Song titled "San Francisco Girls"

by a band named Fever Tree.

You're correct about the San Francisco part...

Tikki

[GReedDiamond]

14. Punk rock changed our lives...nt

[VGNonly]

20. So is it any wonder

we hate to see the sun come down.

[justaprogressive]

23. Obscure band stellar member

2 albums

Falling sounds explode
Across myriad conscience
Of tomorrow's mind

You feel yourself
Rising slowly
And yet falling down
Upon shattered dreams

[Dulcinea]

24. Deals dope out of Denny's, Keeps a table in the back...

I love these threads!

[Xipe Totec]

25. Birds fall from the window ledge above mine

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[rzemanfl]

26. "Mary Jane, take me away from all this." n/t

[OnionPatch]

27. Death is a cold lasagne

[Akakoji]

29. Suspended in Deep Freeze

[Akakoji]

28. Try this:

I got the password
I got persuasion
A proposition for invasion of your privacy
Give yourself away and find the fake in me

[tmars505]

30. several lines

this whole room smells like piss
but in the dark my dog's a star
your name is at the top of my list
and I know where you are

[Jilly_in_VA]

31. This is as obscure as I can get

"Oh dear, Miss Morse,
I want you.

This may strike you oddily
But I want you...bodily...

[WestMichRad]

32. "What a surprise!...

“She looked in the cupboard
And found the eyes
In a suitcase.”

[applegrove]

33. "And where's your kids and where's your car" "I don't have either but I have a guitar"

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[red dog 1]

35. This one's good too.

[OutNow]

34. And if another woman driver Gets machine-gunned from her seat

[OutNow]

42. no guesses? - Frank Zappa

Trouble Every Day is/was one of my favorite Zappa songs - the lyric went through my head when I saw the Good video last week.

[Harker]

36. Sugar and spice is just a bluff...

You can tell me, baby, what is that stuff?

[rzemanfl]

38. How long are we supposed to wait? n/t

[Tikki]

39. "Hey, wanna buy some stuff, man, huh?" "Did you ever rap that thing, Jack?...

...So rap it to the beat.“

Tikki

[greatauntoftriplets]

40. Here goes:

I used to be a Pharisee
Cynical and wise, telling rich ungodly lies of humanity

[Mad_Dem_X]

41. "...She's been to Paris, France, and she can really dance."

[red dog 1]

43. "I just want to sit here, singing my song"

(Hint: '60s San Francisco psychedelic band who had one of the 1st hit songs to come out of SF)

[Intractable]

44. "You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray ... without surrender."

from a band known for its lyrics, but not known for its harmonies.

[red dog 1]

45. "I hate to say it but I told you so - Don't mind my preachin' to you - I said, don't trust 'em, baby, now you know

You don't learn everything there is to know in school."'

(Hint: San Francisco '60s band that S.F. disc jockeys "Big Daddy" Tom Donohue & Bobby Mitchell discovered & recorded on their Autumn Records label)

[Coventina]

46. And we danced / Like a wave on the ocean romanced

We were liars in love
And we danced
Swept away for a moment by chance