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March 13, 2008

Nevermind The Buzzcocks – Series 2 – Episode 4

Mark Lamarr (Host)
Phill Jupitus (Captain), Graham Norton, Midge Ure
Sean Hughes (Captain), Shelly Poole, Math Priest

Opening Joke: The pop quiz that says “Don’t know much about history” but I am just a history teacher in a Hackney comprehensive!

Games Played:

Indecipherable Lyrics (guess the lyrics of the song played) If you thought Kenny Rogers sang “You picked a fine time to leave me Lucile. With four hundred children and a crap in the field”, this ones for you.

Phill’s Team: – Human League “The Sound Of The Crowd”
Sean’s Team: – The Charlatans “How High”

Intros Round (A guest and a captin must create the intro of songs without using words)

Sean’s Team: -
Madness “I like driving in my car”
Fine Young Cannibals “She drives me crazy”
The Lightning Seeds “You showed me”

Phill’s Team: -
Europe “Final Countdown”
Irene Cara “Fame”
Ray Parker Jr “Ghostbusters”

Connected (what connects the two artists)

Phill’s Team: -
Chris Isaak & Terence Trent D’Arby – both were boxers

Sean’s Team: -
Sid Vicious & Ray Davies (The Kinks) – Chrissy Hind nearly married both of them

Identity Parade (spot the artist in question in a line up)

Phill’s Team: -
Karol & Matthew Fialka (Hey Matthew)

Sean’s Team: -
Gary Long & Richard Coppen (Tenpole Tudor)

Next Lines (teams have to say the next line of the song)

Final Scores:

Phill: 13
Sean: 19

Best Line: Graham Norton after not recognizing the theme to Fame “I’m going to have my gay card taken away”

January 24, 2008

Nevermind The Buzzcocks – Series 1 – Episode 1

Mark Lamarr (Host)
Phill Jupitus (Captain), Donna McPhail , Bruce Dickinson
Sean Hughes (Captain), Richard Fairbrass, Math Priest

First episode of a show that is currently on its 21st series.

Opening Joke: Welcome to the show that says, “Hey Mister Tambourine Man. What first attracted you to the salvation army?”

Games Played:

(video shown then stopped and the team has to guess what happens next)
Sean’s Team:

Prefab Sprout’s “King of Rock and Roll”

The Answer: – Dancing hot dogs

Phill’s Team:

Rolling Stone’s “She Was Hot”

The Answer: – The model farts fire


Intros Round

Phill’s Team:

Abba “Dancing Queen”
Status Quo “Down Down”
The Four Tops “Reach Out”
Happy Mondays “Step On”

Sean’s Team:

Gerry Rafferty “Baker Street”
Blur “Park Life”
Gary Glitter “I love you love me love you”
The Smiths “How soon is now”

Indecipherable Lyrics

Phill’s Team:

Elvis Costello “Pump it up”

I’ve been on tenterhooks
ending in dirty looks,
list’ning to the Muzak,
thinking ’bout this ‘n’ that.
She said that’s that.
I don’t wanna chitter-chat.
Turn it down a little bit
or turn it down flat.

Sean’s Team:

Earth,Wind and Fire “Boogie Wonderland”

Dance boogie wonderland
Midnight creeps so slowly into hearts,
Of men who need more than they get
Daylight deals a bad hand,
To a woman that has laid to many bets

Identity Parade

Phill’s Team:

Jerry Shepherd & Peter Phipps – Members of the Glitter Band

Sean’s Team:

Paul Hardcastle

Dance Hell

Sean’s Team:

Bee Gee’s “Tragedy”

Phill’s Team:

The Clash “Bank Robber”

Next Lines

Sean’s Team:

“Giant steps are what you take” – “Walking on the moon” – Police “Walking on the moon”

“The history book on the shelf” – “Is always repeating itself” – ABBA “Waterloo”

“Why don’t you all” – “Fade away” – The Who “My Generation”

“That’s neat, that’s neat, that’s neat, that’s neat” – “I really love your tiger feet” – Mud “Tiger feet”

“Don’t know much about a science book” – “Don’t know much about the french I took” – Sam Cooke “Wonderful World”

“We don’t have to take our clothes off” -”To have a good time” – Jermaine Stewart “We don’t have to take our clothes off”

“Planet Earth is blue” – “And there is nothing we can do” – David Bowie – “Space Oddity”

“Grandma we love you” – “Grandma we do” – St. Winifrids School Choir

“Bring your daughter” – “To the slaughter” – Iron Maiden “Bring your daughter to the slaughter”

“Knock three times on the ceiling if you want me” – “Twice on the pipe if the answer is no” – Tony Orlando & Dawn “Knock Three Times”

“Slowly walking down the hall” – “Faster than a cannonball” – Oasis “Champagne Supernova”

“Just too good to be true” – “Can’t take my eyes off of you” – Frankie Valli “Can’t take your eyes off you”

“You look like heaven to touch” -”I want to hold you too much” – Frankie Valli “Can’t take your eyes off you”

“You see me in my pants and ting” – “See me in my alter back” – Althea & Donna “Uptown Top Ranking”

“Everytime you go away” -”You take a bit of me with you” – Paul Young “Everytime you go away”

Phill’s Team:

“Thunderbolt and lightning” – “very very frightening” – Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody”

“They call me Mr fantastic” – “Mr Boombastic” – Shaggy “Mr Boombastic”

“Thats the way, a ha, a ha” – “I like it a ha” – KC and the Sunshine Band “Thats the way (I like it)”

“If you want to be my lover” – “You gotta get with my friends” – Spice Girls “Wannabe”

“From Soho down to Brighton”  – “I must have played them all” – The Who “Pinball Wizard”

“You can tell by the way I use my walk” – “Im a womans man, no time to talk” – Bee Gees “Staying Alive”

“Where are we all coming from” – “From Smurfland where we belong” – Father Abraham & The Smurfs “The Smurf Song”

“War” – “HUH” – Edwin Starr “War”

“Hey fatty boom boom” – “Sweet Sugar Dumplings” – Carl Malcolm “Hey Fatty boom boom”

“Sign your name across my heart” – “I want you to be my baby” – Terence Trent DArby “Sign your name”

“Come on baby lets start anew” – “Because breaking up is hard to do” – The Partridge Family “Breaking up is hard to do”

“Love in an elevator” – “Living it up as we`re going down” – Aerosmith “Love in an elevator”

“Deeply Dippy, I`m your superman” – “You`re my Lois Lane” – Right Said Fred “Deeply Dippy”

“They say that cat Shaft is a bad mother” – “Shut your mouth” – Isaac Hayes “Shaft”

“She`s a long legged woman dressed in black” – “Dressed in black, dressed in black, dressed in black, black, black” – Mungo Jerry “Long legged woman dressed in black”

“He lives in a house” – “A very nice house in the country” – Blur “Country House”

“Thats me in the corner” – “Thats me in the spotlight” – R.E.M. “Losing my religion”

Final Scores:

Phill: 23
Sean: 25

Best Line: Phill “What is that Wookie Hole? I never saw that version of Star Wars”

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