A quiz to keep you amused while we’re waiting for the new topic: and no, it’s nothing to do with insurance…that’s just the song. After the title there’s a series of 20 images each one representing a Tom Petty song. Your task is to identify all 20 of them! Some of them are very easy. Some of them are fiendishly hard. It’ll help if you’re a film/theatre/TV/radio buff; and oh yes – the answers are in alphabetical order, so that should help too. And googling is allowed.
While you’re puzzling over the images you will, of course, be able to enjoy the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers version of Jimmy Reed’s Take Out Some Insurance. Well, I hope you enjoy it anyway – this is the only version I’ve got of them doing the song and I think it’s just plain marvellous.
(I’ve had an earlier version of this video – I made it easier, folks! – up on YouTube overnight and it’s still there, so I’m hoping this one is safe and won’t get taken down. Famous last words? Possibly.)
No sound at work to listen in my lunch break – but I spotted an orange Breakdown van early on ! I’ll try and come back later, but I really need some early nights at the moment….
Well done, DP! Don’t be too long, though, in case YouTube takes it down.
Darn you, tfd, I haven’t got time for a quiz this afternoon…
Assuming Marilyn’s there to represent the American Girl, I could give you Freefallin’ (#5), Learning to Fly (#7), Listen to her Heart (#8), Mystery Man (#9), I’m not sure if #15 is meant to represent Into the Great Wide Open, I think #17 may be Gunslingers? Two Gunslingers?, then there’s Wildflower (#18), and I wish I’d paid more attention to ALL of your posts last year!
And you’re right, it’s a rather nice choon. OK, off to fight the Christmas decorations…
Very good, debbym! The ones that you’re sure of are right, and so is your assumption; but your guesses (15 and 17) aren’t, I’m afraid. Good luck with the decorations – I hope you win. So that’s
1 American Girl
2
3 Breakdown
4
5 Free Fallin’
6
7 Learning To Fly
8 Listen To Her Heart
9 Mystery Man
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18 Wildflowers
19
20…
…anybody else?
Would’ve helped if I’d noticed the ‘alphabetical’ clue, wouldn’t it!
Well, yes – but you were brilliant anyway!
…and are in fact jointly in the lead…
Cabin Down Below
Honey Bee
Square One
oh and
Room at the Top
Oh, well done that Maki! Now we have
1 American Girl
2
3 Breakdown
4 Cabin Down Below
5 Free Fallin’
6 Honey Bee
7 Learning To Fly
8 Listen To Her Heart
9 Mystery Man
10
11
12 Room At The Top
13
14 Square One
15
16
17
18 Wildflowers
19
20
As well as Room At The Top, there are two more film titles on the list that are also TP songs. (No, I don’t know whether he does it on purpose.) But there’s another film still where I’m NOT looking for the title – but a description of the character depicted.
How about
10) Rebels
11) Refugee
13) Shadow of a Doubt
15) Trailer
17) Wake Up Time
20) You Wreck Me
Oh oh oh! How, indeed:
1 American Girl
2
3 Breakdown
4 Cabin Down Below
5 Free Fallin’
6 Honey Bee
7 Learning To Fly
8 Listen To Her Heart
9 Mystery Man
10 Rebels
11 Refugee
12 Room At The Top
13 Shadow Of A Doubt
14 Square One
15 Trailer
16
17 Wake Up Time
18 Wildflowers
19
20 You Wreck Me
Did you know those were TP songs, fred, or did you google them?
Three left!
TFD,
I googled them I’m afraid. The only TP record I own is the 1st LP !!! btw I thought 4) would be House in the Woods.
Oh, it’s fine – googling was allowed. I was just wondering. (And the first album is very good!)
It could have been House In The Woods, except that wouldn’t have been alphabetical.
has he ever done a song called answer phone?
Not that I know of, shane.
Some subtle clues there. I enjoyed the song. I still love the Jimmy Reed the most, to the extent that it’s a pretty good result that I’m even happy with the cover ! No more intelligence from me I’m afraid, very impressed by fellow-’Spillers answers.
Oh no, don’t give up, DP – I’m thinking I might have to give some extra hints.
Such as: one of the images left is of a stage production and we’re looking for part of the name of the play.
And one is from a film poster and we want the name of the film.
And one is related to an episode from a TV series..and I could say more about that one.
So, 16 could be The Waiting (which I had to Google), and 19 would (after quite a bit of Googling) be You Got Lucky. 2 still escapes me but, if my thinking on the others is right, would relate to your film poster clue.
Told you, DP!
1 American Girl
2
3 Breakdown
4 Cabin Down Below
5 Free Fallin’
6 Honey Bee
7 Learning To Fly
8 Listen To Her Heart
9 Mystery Man
10 Rebels
11 Refugee
12 Room At The Top
13 Shadow Of A Doubt
14 Square One
15 Trailer
16 The Waiting
17 Wake Up Time
18 Wildflowers
19 You Got Lucky
20 You Wreck Me
The play is Waiting for Godot, and the episode of King Of The Hill is called Luanne Gets Lucky – Lucky being the name of the character TP plays, so the episode is actually called after the song.
OK, seeing as I’m being *ahem* brilliant, I’ll say the play is Waiting for Godot. Has TP got a song called Waiting?
Brilliant maybe, but slower than DaddyPig (shouldn’t DP be off celebrating a birthday somewhere instead of beating people to answers?)
That’s true, he should…
Ah – DaddyPig beat you by a whisker there, debbym – but you can still be the overall winner if you get the last one…
The Best of Everything!
YES!!!
*tfd makes ecstatic noises*
Very very well done, debbym, and I trust you’ll make the most of your FIVE (count ‘em) ‘Spill points as overall winner!
OMG, I knew I knew I knew that actress in the foreground – Joan Crawford! Then imdb was a great help. This was fun!
Congratulations Debby !
I think there might be summat going off at Cleck tomorrow for Gordon, but he and DsD haven’t quite kept me up-to-date, probably showing mercy on my lightweight soul.
I’ve just listened to those two tunes which I deduced as you said TFD. Great stuff, especially You Got Lucky would be worthy of RR Not-Very-Modest Songs or RR Songs with Guitars With Tremolo Arms.
Not-Very-Modest songs for def, DP…and as for The Waiting, can it be that you have not listened to this best version ever, which I have posted many a time and, indeed, oft? It’s done wonderfully, starting out acoustic and solo, with the band joining in gradually and subtly until suddenly, at the end of the middle eight….
oh sorry – not acoustic. But solo.
What an RR-part-timer I am, I confess I hadn’t heard that before. It’s darned good though, isn’t it ?
Yes – the whole concert is really good. (I have a DVD rip from the tape.) The way he tells the story about breaking his hand and links it to the song is just wonderful I think.
That’s good too, it says what I feel about a few people I’ve lost touch with. Not many, but a few…
I could’ve done without the horns, but it’s from the Southern Accents album which was co-produced by Dave Stewart and he pretty much messed up the arrangements.
Thanks for the quiz TFD, great fun as Debby says. I’ll save those last two to listen soon…
Thanks for joining in, DP – and I’m so glad you like TP&TH’s Take Out Some Insurance. I imagine by the way that TP’s dedication of the song to his father was somewhat tongue-in-cheek – his father had worked, not very successfully, as a door-to-door insurance salesman till he was able to give up work after his despised elder son became a rock star of the multimillionaire variety.
Those The Best Of Everything lyrics are a bit wrong.
1 American Girl
2 The Best Of Everything
3 Breakdown
4 Cabin Down Below
5 Free Fallin’
6 Honey Bee
7 Learning To Fly
8 Listen To Her Heart
9 Mystery Man
10 Rebels
11 Refugee
12 Room At The Top
13 Shadow Of A Doubt
14 Square One
15 Trailer
16 The Waiting
17 Wake Up Time
18 Wildflowers
19 You Got Lucky
20 You Wreck Me