ZAPPA TITLES IN PICTURES

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BBP - 16-4-2008 at 08:30

Would've been a good guess... but I was more for the "proposal" part.

polydigm - 16-4-2008 at 09:56

Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?

scallopino - 16-4-2008 at 10:54

That cartoon is really funny.

BBP - 17-4-2008 at 11:53

Sorry Poly...
Scallop: YES!

punknaynowned - 18-4-2008 at 06:54

Why Don'cha Do Me Right?

BBP - 18-4-2008 at 07:39

No, sorry. Getting closer!

polydigm - 18-4-2008 at 09:02

Love Of My Life?

Badchild - 18-4-2008 at 11:40

Cyborg ??

BBP - 18-4-2008 at 11:50

No, no.

Cyborg?!? How did you get that?

scallopino - 18-4-2008 at 12:19

Bamboozled By Love?

Badchild - 18-4-2008 at 13:37

Quote:

Originally posted by BBP
No, no.

Cyborg?!? How did you get that?

i dunno! Joe becomes a blubbering idiot and makes obscene proposals.....

polydigm - 18-4-2008 at 14:35

Why Don't You Like Me?

BBP - 19-4-2008 at 08:29

Close, Poly!! Scallop: No.

polydigm - 19-4-2008 at 09:10

Tell Me You Love Me?

punknaynowned - 19-4-2008 at 09:11

Wistful Wit A Fist-Full
or
The White Boy Troubles
or
Will You Go All The Way For The USA?
:P

BBP - 19-4-2008 at 18:58

Poly's right! It's "Tell me you love me"!

I love that song.

polydigm - 19-4-2008 at 23:53

The reason I picked "Why Don't You Like Me" is because you said "Why Don'cha Do Me Right" was close. Then you said "Why Don't You Like Me" was close but there were no other "Why Don't You" songs left and then it twigged that "Why Don't You Like Me" is really "Tell Me You Love Me". So, even though it led me to the answer, how is "Why Don'cha Do Me Right" close?

polydigm - 20-4-2008 at 04:57

scallopino - 20-4-2008 at 07:20

Run Home Slow. It must be, or else it's an amazing coincidence!

polydigm - 20-4-2008 at 10:02

Quote:

Originally posted by scallopino
Run Home Slow. It must be, or else it's an amazing coincidence!

Fuck!! All that work just for it to fall down at the first guess.

polydigm - 20-4-2008 at 10:20

[Edited on 20/4/2008 by polydigm]

BBP - 20-4-2008 at 11:04

Looks like a Spider of Destiny and Disco Boy combo... :grin:

polydigm - 21-4-2008 at 03:27

Quote:

Originally posted by BBP
Looks like a Spider of Destiny and Disco Boy combo... :grin:

It's neither of those. I'm not giving any clues. It already looks too easy to me and I want to make it last if I can.
:devil:

scallopino - 21-4-2008 at 10:28

I think I know what it is but i'll wait a while for your sake poly! I didn't think it was easy, but it was clever. (Then again, i maybe very wrong).

polydigm - 21-4-2008 at 15:00

Quote:

Originally posted by scallopino
I think I know what it is but i'll wait a while for your sake poly! I didn't think it was easy, but it was clever. (Then again, i maybe very wrong).

You go right ahead and come out with it. I don't want it to last just because you're avoiding answering.

Badchild - 22-4-2008 at 08:11

I give up ! I was getting sea sick looking at the middle picture....

scallopino - 22-4-2008 at 10:06

I thought it was Janet's Big Dance-number...Am I right or embarrassed, that is the question right now.

polydigm - 22-4-2008 at 10:23

Quote:

Originally posted by scallopino
I thought it was Janet's Big Dance-number...Am I right or embarrassed, that is the question right now.

Definitely not. How the hell did you get that one?

scallopino - 22-4-2008 at 13:06

:bouncy: Janet Guthrie was a famous female race car driver; the wave was BIG and then there was the dancing!

polydigm - 22-4-2008 at 14:58

Quote:

Originally posted by scallopino
:bouncy: Janet Guthrie was a famous female race car driver; the wave was BIG and then there was the dancing!

Well, I'll be!!

Anyway, come on, more guesses. :devil:

punknaynowned - 23-4-2008 at 06:40

Systems of Edges
?

polydigm - 23-4-2008 at 08:22

No.

Badchild - 23-4-2008 at 10:47

The Ocean is the Ultimate Solution ??

scallopino - 23-4-2008 at 14:40

I have no fucking idea at all. I've racked my brain and i'm all out.

scallopino - 23-4-2008 at 14:52

You Are What You Is? That's a long shot I know...

polydigm - 23-4-2008 at 15:23

Each picture is one word of a three word song title. :devil:

BBP - 23-4-2008 at 20:51

Run Home Slow?

polydigm - 23-4-2008 at 23:09

Quote:

Originally posted by BBP
Run Home Slow?

That was the last one. A running tap, a house and a turtle. I was worried that this one might be too obvious as well. Keep trying. :devil:

scallopino - 24-4-2008 at 11:12

Speed Freak Boogie. Come on Poly. You know you want to.

polydigm - 24-4-2008 at 13:16

Quote:

Originally posted by scallopino
Speed Freak Boogie. Come on Poly. You know you want to.

:drums:

So much for having no idea.

Very Fast Car: Speed
Freak Wave: Freak
Dancing Man: Boogie

BBP - 24-4-2008 at 19:04

...I'd never have thought of a "large wave" as "freak"...

punknaynowned - 24-4-2008 at 19:23

I was trying to go there but the closest I got was Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy, thinking maybe the car was a brand maybe called 'Carolina', as a guess. and that wave was maybe a typhoon or hurricane but really hardcore.

<and now for something completely random
no video but a different performance than I've ever heard, nearly 20 minutes in length it takes two frames, beautiful rendition!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl2jRNpt11Y&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpB-JHP0RIg&feature=relat...

polydigm - 25-4-2008 at 00:10

Quote:

Originally posted by BBP: ...I'd never have thought of a "large wave" as "freak"...

The term "Freak Wave" is in common usage. That is what it was called in the news article that I got the picture from.

scallopino - 25-4-2008 at 01:33

Okay. Here is a merciful one.

BBP - 25-4-2008 at 10:03

Dong Work For Yuda!

scallopino - 26-4-2008 at 03:39

It sure is.

BBP - 26-4-2008 at 08:58

polydigm - 27-4-2008 at 03:02

Little Beige Sambo?

BBP - 27-4-2008 at 14:48

No!

Hint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet

punknaynowned - 28-4-2008 at 05:46

I'm gonna say zoot allures
but I think I cheated without trying to
and if I've ruined it, I'm sorry, but I'm pleading stupid here
:drool:

BBP - 28-4-2008 at 07:59

:biggrin: You fell for it! It's not Zoot Allures, it's my little used-before trick to change location names into a different Z-song title.

Take another look at that hint!

scallopino - 28-4-2008 at 09:54

Chunga's Revenge?

BBP - 28-4-2008 at 11:57

YES!! :bouncing:

polydigm - 28-4-2008 at 12:14

Now that is really stretching it. :shocked:

BBP - 28-4-2008 at 14:59

The album is called chunga-changa. The upside-down h stands for ch (Chaikovsky), the Y for oo, the H for n, and the hook thing for g.

polydigm - 30-4-2008 at 00:41

Quote:

Originally posted by BBP: The album is called chunga-changa. The upside-down h stands for ch (Chaikovsky), the Y for oo, the H for n, and the hook thing for g.

Yes, I did actually figure out the chunga-changa thing, but I thought that was just a coincidence, or I had it wrong or something because the cover as a whole didn't seem to have anything to do with Chunga's Revenge.

Oh well, who's going next?

punknaynowned - 30-4-2008 at 05:16

why not do it backwards?
Put up a song title and we all post pictures to match it?

scallopino - 30-4-2008 at 10:18

That's a great idea. Can there be a winner though?

polydigm - 30-4-2008 at 14:57

Quote:

Originally posted by punknaynowned: why not do it backwards? Put up a song title and we all post pictures to match it?

It's an interesting idea, but personally I put a fair bit of work into finding pictures appropriate for puzzles. I just wouldn't have the same motivation with everyone knowing the title before hand, because the need to find something that will challenge people is gone. I also like the challenge of trying to guess what someone else's concoction might mean.

This is my favourite thread and I find it quite refreshing after spending time at the zappa.com forum which has just gone really bad lately. I find myself hoping that Zombie would just walk under a bus and get it over with.

BBP - 30-4-2008 at 15:03

We could start a Z-Title In Pictures there of course!

...I made one on a private forum, run by a Zapp-forumer. Unfortunately it's like when you triple the amount of participants, you also triple the amount of questions asked at the same time. Chaos erupts! And when that happens, it never takes long for a thread to die.

BBP - 1-5-2008 at 16:48

This one was unleashed at the Unmoderated forum by Porksword. I love it so much I'll share it with you.

punknaynowned - 1-5-2008 at 18:19

Put a Motor IN U2's Shelf!
:P

Seriously, I sure don't want to take anyone's fun away.

It just seemed to me that it was much more obvious to the poster that their chosen pictures matched the title in their head
and much less obvious to everyone else, except for a couple 'easy' exceptions.
Doing it backwards WOULD take away the competition and winner aspect,
BUT as I'm realising that everyone's visual aesthetic seems different and therefore the subjective attachments to the ideas that the title conjures for the poster will be different, have been different.

So doing it backwards, title first, and each of us come up with our own set of pictures (same amount of looking, I would figure) would , instead highlight our interesting subjective aesthetic differences, rather than 'How did you come up with that, from THAT' etc.

Just an idea.

polydigm - 2-5-2008 at 04:07

Quote:

Originally posted by punknaynowned: So doing it backwards, title first, and each of us come up with our own set of pictures (same amount of looking, I would figure) would , instead highlight our interesting subjective aesthetic differences, rather than 'How did you come up with that, from THAT' etc.

These ideas do not need to be mutually exclusive, all you have to do is start another thread with an appropriate title and we can do both.

punknaynowned - 2-5-2008 at 05:43

I got it!
Literally:
Lemmy Teak U2 Canyon Beech!

ingenious!

of course, poly

BBP - 2-5-2008 at 08:38

Punky's won!

scallopino - 2-5-2008 at 09:15

Good one Bonny.

punknaynowned - 2-5-2008 at 17:56

whoever wants to put a picture up first should do that.
I can't do it today :freak:
have at it!
(:

BBP - 3-5-2008 at 08:46

No location searching, please...

scallopino - 4-5-2008 at 14:09

The first picture represents every wide-eyed young music group in history and the second represents their record companies.

BBP - 4-5-2008 at 14:27

Heh!

Could find a better pic for the last one... it's a 3-word-title, the middle one is in this phrase.

polydigm - 7-5-2008 at 22:45

Quote:

Originally posted by BBP: Could find a better pic for the last one...

There are some particularly obvious ones, so it makes sense you tried to find one that isn't.

[Edited on 7/5/2008 by polydigm]

polydigm - 7-5-2008 at 22:45

This thread seems to be languishing for some reason or other. As I've already admitted to Bonny privately I always check the image names as a matter of course and in this case they do directly give the answer, so if you haven't looked already and you want a challenge then try not to look.

So, is everyone finding this too difficult, or are you all just too busy? This forum seems a bit quiet at the moment. Anyway, keep working on Bonny's latest challenge, but here's an easy one to try at the same time.

[Edited on 7/5/2008 by polydigm]

scallopino - 8-5-2008 at 14:49

Yeah, I accidentally looked at the names of the pictures as well before I saw the suggestion to not look. That's why I didn't guess. If I didn't look I'd have no idea.

I haven't been coming here everyday because I've been sort of snowed under with uni lately.

BBP - 8-5-2008 at 20:20

Oh dear... that's very important stuff! Do your best!
(I'm really feeling the strain of taking too long with my studies at the moment, so...)

polydigm - 8-5-2008 at 21:49

Oh well, I guess I'll just have to be patient.

punknaynowned - 9-5-2008 at 04:22

I cheated too Bonny. I'm sorry.
Polyd!
is it The Secret Carlos Santana Chord Progression?

BBP - 9-5-2008 at 08:46

"Today Jimi Hendrix will be playing the part of Carlos Santana..."

OK, now all contestants have cheated, let's close my entry then... it was indeed Beat The Reaper.

BBP - 9-5-2008 at 09:07

New puzzle to replace Reaper:

...Darn! Sorry 'bout broken link... it worked in the preview!

[Edited on 9-5-08 by BBP]

polydigm - 9-5-2008 at 11:09

Quote:

Originally posted by punknaynowned ... is it The Secret Carlos Santana Chord Progression?

No.

punknaynowned - 9-5-2008 at 17:41

Polyd: Stinkfoot or Sinister Footwear?
Bonny: Tinseltown Rebellion (as that is Green Day -- the best example of that I could think of)

BBP - 9-5-2008 at 20:02

GREEN DAY??!! Wash your mouth! No, these people performed in Eindhoven on April 10.

punknaynowned - 10-5-2008 at 06:05

ok, but I don't know of a zappa songtitle that goes with The President's Of the United States of America, besides "Millions of Peaches, Peaches For Free"
-- that's not Green Day?

polydigm - 10-5-2008 at 08:51

Quote:

Originally posted by punknaynowned: Stinkfoot or Sinister Footwear?

No.

You changed the picture, Bonny, so now I'm trying to think of what they had in common.

BBP - 10-5-2008 at 09:43

I changed the picture because the first one wouldn't show up anymore, it is still Presidents of the USA.
She's lump!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sj_U6vObUA

[Edited on 11-5-08 by BBP]

punknaynowned - 10-5-2008 at 19:54

I am so lost

polydigm - 10-5-2008 at 21:51

Bonny, Plastic People?

Punky, it's a Wah Wah pedal and a Jimi Hendrix model in particular. What kind of noise did he used to make with it?

punknaynowned - 11-5-2008 at 05:13

Fire, Purple Haze, the screaming sounds of airplane motors in the sky, machine gun
and Franki? he could do that too but did a lot of other things too it seems with a whawah pedal
I've read the stories that Frank introduced the wahwah to Hendrix,
does it sound like the noise of the words t'mershi duween to you?

I'm not trying to be thick:drool:

polydigm - 11-5-2008 at 09:42

I thought I had already given it away, but here's some more. This comes from an interview with Frank where he describes how he used a Wah Wah pedal as a frequency filter to make slight adjustments to the tone in contrast to others like Hendrix who just rhythmically went up and down with it. That should have given it away.

BBP - 11-5-2008 at 10:02

You can feed back the fuzz tone from your wah wah... Is it We're Turning Again?

polydigm - 11-5-2008 at 14:06

Quote:

Originally posted by BBP: You can feed back the fuzz tone from your wah wah... Is it We're Turning Again?

No.

punknaynowned - 12-5-2008 at 05:30

things as far afield as
Our Bizarre Relationship
Here Comes the Gear, Lads
Stick It Out
and The Jimmy Carl Black Philosphy Lesson
have all come to mind and been discarded polydigm.
This is my final guess:
Excentrifugal Forz

Geoge Harrison even has a song I Don't Need Your WahWah that has been going thru my head all week thanks to this :offtopic: ;-)

and Bonny, TPOTUSA played here in the last week and one of the dudes from the band came into the store with his gf. I wasn't there but a buddy said he almost got goofy (: but managaed to maintain himself.

[Edited on 12-5-08 by punknaynowned]

polydigm - 12-5-2008 at 12:51

Bonny, you haven't answered my question. Is it Plastic People? [Ladies and Gentlemen, the president of the United States]

Everyone, it's the way in which Zappa referred to the sound that Jimmy Hendrix made with a Wah Wah pedal.

BBP - 13-5-2008 at 11:07

You didn't ask... No it's not Plastic People. Nice guess though.

[Edited on 13-5-08 by BBP]

polydigm - 14-5-2008 at 00:33

Hey Bonny, step back up 8 posts above this one.

This place is really quiet at the moment. What's happening people??

BBP - 14-5-2008 at 07:32

You're right!

Scallop is busy with college, as he said.

punknaynowned - 14-5-2008 at 07:47

I'm here
just ain't talkin :freak:

Badchild - 14-5-2008 at 17:41

I'm here but not much...may is a fucked up month in france with 3 holidays and the school holidays in between....And i'm really really busy most of the time so i can't come in here and partake of the joyful atmosphere.....

punknaynowned - 15-5-2008 at 00:23

Quote:

Originally posted by polydigm

Everyone, it's the way in which Zappa referred to the sound that Jimmy Hendrix made with a Wah Wah pedal.

I want it to be
"Reent-Toont-Teent-Toont---Tee-Noo-Nee-Noo-Neeeeeee"

polydigm - 15-5-2008 at 01:20

No. The sound, in words, is the title of the song.

punknaynowned - 16-5-2008 at 09:07

it just occurred to me that Waka Jawaka might work

I wonder if that's something I learned 20 years ago and forgot. If it isn't than I probably didn't.:duh:

[Edited on 16-5-08 by punknaynowned]

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