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More Trivial Pursuit: New Wave Edition

Posted:
Mon Mar 08, 2004 11:04 am
by Dave
Which one of these is not like the others?
Which one of these doesn't belong?
Human League - The Lebanon
Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed
Heaven 17 - Temptation
New Order - Temptation
Three of them have something in common. Which is the odd song out and why?

Posted:
Tue Mar 09, 2004 2:07 am
by jubilee_jt
New Order. The other's have female vocals.

Posted:
Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:37 am
by rewind
New Order. The other titles are actually sung as part of the lyrics. New Order never says "temptation" in "Temptation" (as is the case with most, but not all, of their songs.)

Posted:
Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:40 am
by rewind
Er, Fun Boy Three. It's the only cover (technically. Even though Terry Hall co-wrote it, this version was recorded after the Go-Go's version.)

Posted:
Tue Mar 09, 2004 9:37 am
by Dave
Good guesses, but not the answer. I'll give two clues.
1) The answers to the previous two trivia questions where based on songs that appeared on Urgh! A Music War and songs that appeared on The Young Ones TV show.
2) Let's add one more song. It mi

Posted:
Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:22 pm
by Jason²
This is probably from the "only things Jason would think about" category, but Human League, Fun Boy Three, Heaven 17 and Blondie's catalogs are all controlled by EMI (Human League is Virgin UK, Fun Boy Three & Blondie are Chrysalis and Heaven 17 is BEF -

Posted:
Wed Mar 10, 2004 9:54 am
by Dave
No, nothing to do with the label (I'm becoming increasingly convinced you guys could find an interesting answer to any handful of songs/bands picked out of a hat!)
Someone usually gets it sooner or later. One last clue:
All but one of the songs wer

Posted:
Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:05 am
by ElectricBlue
Human League - The Lebanon is not like the others
It wasn't in the Scot/Eng film Trainspotting,
our lips our sealed was never actually heard in the movie but appears on the soundtrack (s)

Posted:
Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:26 am
by Dave
Congrats Marque... you are correct. I wanted to keep it interesting by including Fun Boy Three. Also, I was surprised to see the song Atomic credited to a band called Sleeper, whoever that is. Sounds just like the original.
Pretty cool that a movie