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Doug1978-OLD · Post by **Doug1978-OLD** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:06 pm

Merci!

They're all tracks from The Wedding Present's 'George Best' album.

(And I blame Amazon.co.uk for the dodgy mis-typing of the last track!)

I'll give you guys an easy one (and then I'll stop polluting your cunning thread topic with my dubious nonsense

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Perhaps an ode to the London Eye by John Wesley?

The Fex · Post by **The Fex** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:12 pm

Doug1978 wrote:They're all tracks from The Wedding Present's 'George Best' album.

Actually, they were all bonus tracks from the CD re-release, translated from the original English into French, German, Portuguese and Spanish. The missing one actually is in French.

Doug1978-OLD · Post by **Doug1978-OLD** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:33 pm

PM and apology sent to The Fex.

Perhaps an ode to the London Eye by John Wesley?

The Fex · Post by **The Fex** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:43 pm

Doug1978 wrote:Perhaps an ode to the London Eye by John Wesley?

Could be lots of things....

In Sight Of The Rainbow, from Chasing Monsters, The Rainbow being the theatre in Finsbury Park?

Doug1978-OLD · Post by **Doug1978-OLD** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:51 pm

It's a damn crafty answer! (but sadly it's not right).

It'll perhaps help if I say that this isn't the American guitarist John Wesley Dearth but rather it's John, the brother of Charles!

I can give some more clues...

The Fex · Post by **The Fex** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:53 pm

Damn.... I was just about to guess Long Way Down, from Under the Red & White Sky....

Is it Gottfried.... no, perhaps not....

Doug1978-OLD · Post by **Doug1978-OLD** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 9:06 pm

Nope, that Gottfried fella hasn't got anything to do with this one!

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 9:08 pm

"When gathering clouds around I view..."

Doug1978-OLD · Post by **Doug1978-OLD** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 9:12 pm

Blank_Frank wrote:"When gathering clouds around I view..."

Excellent guess (and a nice song) but not right, sorry!

Shall I give you a further clue?

The Fex · Post by **The Fex** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 9:18 pm

Blank_Frank wrote:"When gathering clouds around I view..."

Terrible guess. "When Gathering Clouds Around I View" is by Robert Grant (words, 1806) and John Dykes (music, 1861).

We're looking for an ode by the founder of the English Methodist movement, who died in 1791, which sounds like it might have been about a Ferris wheel built 208 years later. And presumably has some sort of musical connection. And no butter biscuits.

Is it Andreas Wank?

Doug1978-OLD · Post by **Doug1978-OLD** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 9:25 pm

The Fex wrote:
Blank_Frank wrote:"When gathering clouds around I view..."
Terrible guess. When Gathering Clouds Around I View is by Robert Grant (words, 1806) and John Dykes (music, 1861).

We're looking for an ode by the founder of the English Methodist movement, who died in 1791, which sounds like it might have been about a Ferris wheel built 208 years later. And presumably has some sort of musical connection. And no butter biscuits.

Is it Andreas Wank?

Sorry, it's not Mr Wank (and there's definitely no butter biscuits).

First clue: it hints at the name of a song made by a world-famous act from Bristol.

The Fex · Post by **The Fex** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 9:29 pm

Doug1978 wrote:First clue: it hints at the name of a song made by a world-famous act from Bristol.

Hymn of the Big Wheel

Doug1978-OLD · Post by **Doug1978-OLD** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 9:33 pm

Excellent stuff, well done The Fex!!

One of my favourite songs by Massive Attack (and damn cool lyrics): http://www.metrolyrics.com/hymn-of-the- ... ttack.html

Your go, fella.

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 9:38 pm

The Fex wrote:Terrible guess. "When Gathering Clouds Around I View" is by Robert Grant (words, 1806) and John Dykes (music, 1861).

Is that right? Apparently it's in his book "A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists", with no mention of Grant or Dykes. Do you think it's too late for them to contact their lawyers?

I also noted with some interest that Appendix A is "the text of a series of lectures given by Bernard Manning", which is something I'd like to to have seen.

The Fex · Post by **The Fex** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 9:39 pm

Doug1978 wrote:a world-famous act from Bristol.

You could have just said "Massive Attack". It's always Massive Attack.

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