h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi there!

Thanks for the invite!

(could I just have a choice between some fairly famous ones? Rock isn't my strong point...

Caper Plip

Hi thanks for coming!

I know most of these are old fogey songs for you but hopefully it'll still be fun!

Harvey chooses "Moondance" by Van Morrison vs. "Walk this way" by Aerosmith for you!

Thanks again!

Ooh... I'm going for Moon Dance my Van Morrison. Walk this Way is okay, but a little over the top for my taste...

Yeah I could go for an entire tournament of Van Morrison songs!

Thanks for participating! Please let me know if you could do another.

Yep, give me another pair!

How about the first #1 seed to be played?

"Jailhouse Rock" - Elvis vs. "Arms Wide Open" - Creed

Thanks again!

Has to be Elvis... (not really my taste... but he is the King after all...)

Ready for another!

Many thanks!

The next one up is Elton John - "Don't let the sun go down on me" vs. Talking Heads - "Once in a lifetime"

I hope your parents have those in their record collection, have fun!

Speaking of Elvis.....

The other person in myt department at work is retiring
two days before Valentine's Day. She's always been a
BIG Elvis fan, so we're planning to play Elvis songs
during her party.

I'm rather partial to the film "Blue Hawaii," in which
Elvis sang "Can't Help Falling in Love With You"
(a gorgeous song! ) for the first time. There are a couple
of new books out about Elvis, and they're supposed
to be excellent. Wish I had time to read them .

My mother-in-law is an Elvis addict she has every song, movie, book...

It makes it easy at Christmastime if I'm stuck for a present for her because there is always some new Elvis thing out!

Ah, found the thread again!

Talking Heads, definitely. Elton John just annoys me.

At least we weren't permanently lost!

Wow big surprise I thought Elton was a god in England!

Well the quirky Americans move on to the next round!

Thanks for helping!

Hiya CPlip!

Here we go with round 2: George Harrison's "While my guitar gently weeps" vs. Joni Mitchell's "Help Me"

Thank you!

George Harrison. Without a doubt.

I feel better after giving Ottox a good telling-off!

You'll notice that I had no problems choosing George in the first round!
And I'm glad to see that you've got *some* taste...

This is becoming quite a trash-talking tournament - does my American heart proud!

Speaking of Talking Heads.....

I saw a concert video they did called
"Stop making Sense."
(or maybe it was "talking" sense)

I enjoyed it a lot, but I don't remember any of the songs.

My problem is that I enjoy a lot of rock videos, but never
remember the songs because I wouldn't have the patience
to buy audios of the music and listen to them enough to
get familiar with the music. I remember one or two songs
from "Flashdance," "Footloose," and "The Rose," mainly
because I keeping hearing the hits from those films
in the supermarkets.....

Songs on the soundtrack to Stop Making Sense:

Psycho Killer
Swamp
Slippery People
Burning Down the House
Girlfriend Is Better
Once in a Lifetime
What a Day That Was
Life During Wartime
Take Me to the River

AWESOME SONGS!!!

I'm gonna go put on "Speaking in tongues" now!