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JToomey · Daedalian Member

Looks like the ol' roommate's not home. There's a note on the door, though:

code:

Dude -- I've got an extra ticket to the Blue Oyster Cult


show tonight!  I would never have thought of offering it


to you, but at that party the other night you kept talking


about how 'into classic rock' you were.  I'm sure a fan of


your calibur will have zero trouble figuring out the record


in my collection in which the ticket is hidden.  Rock on,


dude, and remember -- these guys -- and gals -- are all


better the second time around.

Written on the back of the note paper:

code:

cash vixen cuban for you ebon canine blissfull feeling


indigo smog leap outlaw ignite me formerly northern colombia


western american inn conform to the following gait 100%


contrite tons o' passion reduced price crimes dynamite


rotary yo, you rock my world attend like that far away


goose chase








9/1 11/9 8/7 9/1 9/2 11/11 4/3 8/3 7/3 3/3

Huh.

He's got like ten trillion albums, so you're certainly not going to find the ticket by looking through them one by one. Which album is the ticket hidden in?

<edit>lead = leap in word list</edit>

[This message has been edited by JToomey (edited 04-10-2002 09:15 AM).]

Tahnan · Daedalian Member

Ah, a JToomey puzzle, which means it'll be worth doing. So let's see; I'll be nice and invis this:

cash vixen
cuban for you = "Have a Cigar," Pink Floyd
ebon canine = "Black Dog," Led Zeppelin
blissfull feeling = ("Euphoria," Def Leppard?)
indigo smog = "Purple Haze," Jimi Hendrix
lead outlaw = ("Desperado," Eagles?)
ignite me = "Light My Fire," Doors
formerly northern colombia = ("Panama," Van Halen?)
western american inn = "Hotel California," Eagles
conform to the following gait = "Walk This Way," Aerosmith
100% contrite
tons o' passion = "Whole Lotta Love," Led Zeppelin
reduced price crimes
dynamite rotary
yo, you rock my world
attend like that = "Come As You Are," Nirvana (too recent?)
far away goose chase

That's my contribution so far. I have no idea what any of it means.

Tahnan · Daedalian Member

Although I'll say, thoughtfully: "second time around"? I don't know of any remakes of "Hotel California," but certainly "Walk This Way" has a well-known remake, as does "Light My Fire," not that I'd say that Jose Feliciano's version was better....

makemeok · Daedalian Member

cash = "Money" Pink Floyd
vixen = "Foxy Lady" Jimi Hendrix
yo, you rock my world = "Hello, I Love You" The Doors

ZutAlors! · Daedalian Member

reduced price crimes = Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (AC/DC)
dynamite = TNT (AC/DC)

Werebear · Daedalian Member

Rotary - round and round, by Ratt, Aerosmith, or Pink Floyd? All three have a song called that...

Werebear

Quailman · His Postmajesty

...or Roundabout by Yes

makemeok · Daedalian Member

100% contrite = "All Apologies" Nirvana.
looks like 2 songs for each band.

Werebear · Daedalian Member

ROFL, at least we're pretty sure it's not "You spin me right round" by Dead or Alive... remember THAT song??

Werebear

makemeok · Daedalian Member

hmm.. blissfull feeling = "Sweet Emotion" - Aerosmith?

JToomey · Daedalian Member

<sigh> -- I proofed this and even ran it through a spell check, but I missed one thing:

lead in the word list should be leap. Bah, humbug, etc.

Thanks for the kind words, Tahnan... now you can reconsider them.

In any case, I'm going to edit the puzzle post too.

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Quailman · His Postmajesty

That would be Jump - Van Halen

Oh, and why are we making these all invisible?

[This message has been edited by Quailman (edited 04-10-2002 10:07 AM).]

makemeok · Daedalian Member

so, that would leave, i think, "rotary" and "far away goose chase" both by an artist not yet mentioned. also, the note mentioned gals, and as far as i know, none of the bands so far have any female members, eh?

and i dunno, Quailman. Tahnan started it.

Quailman · His Postmajesty

far away goose chase: Long Distance Runaround by Yes!

Quailman · His Postmajesty

Enough of the invisible already! Here's what appears to be the list:

cash = "Money" Pink Floyd
vixen = "Foxy Lady" Jimi Hendrix
cuban for you = "Have a Cigar," Pink Floyd
ebon canine = "Black Dog," Led Zeppelin
blissfull feeling = "Sweet Emotion" - Aerosmith
indigo smog = "Purple Haze," Jimi Hendrix
leap = "Jump," Van Halen
outlaw = "Desperado," Eagles
ignite me = "Light My Fire," Doors
formerly northern colombia = "Panama," Van Halen
western american inn = "Hotel California," Eagles
conform to the following gait = "Walk This Way," Aerosmith
100% contrite = "All Apologies" Nirvana
tons o' passion = "Whole Lotta Love," Led Zeppelin
reduced price crimes = Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (AC/DC)
dynamite = TNT (AC/DC)
rotary = "Roundabout," Yes
yo, you rock my world = "Hello, I Love You" The Doors
attend like that = "Come As You Are," Nirvana (too recent?)
far away goose chase= Long Distance Runaround by Yes

And here it is sorted to place paired artists together:

cash = "Money" Pink Floyd
cuban for you = "Have a Cigar," Pink Floyd
vixen = "Foxy Lady" Jimi Hendrix
indigo smog = "Purple Haze," Jimi Hendrix
ebon canine = "Black Dog," Led Zeppelin
tons o' passion = "Whole Lotta Love," Led Zeppelin
blissfull feeling = "Sweet Emotion" - Aerosmith
conform to the following gait = "Walk This Way," Aerosmith
leap = "Jump," Van Halen
formerly northern colombia = "Panama," Van Halen
outlaw = "Desperado," Eagles
western american inn = "Hotel California," Eagles
ignite me = "Light My Fire," Doors
yo, you rock my world = "Hello, I Love You" The Doors
100% contrite = "All Apologies" Nirvana
attend like that = "Come As You Are," Nirvana (too recent?)
reduced price crimes = Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (AC/DC)
dynamite = TNT (AC/DC)
rotary = "Roundabout," Yes
far away goose chase= Long Distance Runaround by Yes

Now what?

Cadmium · Heavy Metal

Quailman · His Postmajesty

Good work! I forgot to look back at the original puzzle and read the numbers! I was too busy highlighting everyone's posts so I could read the invisible stuff.

makemeok · Daedalian Member

excellent puzzle. but i only count one gal.

Cadmium · Heavy Metal

Quailman, maybe you should edit your previous post and put "The" in front of Eagles and Doors. At first, I thought that we found two wrong bands.

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Tahnan · Daedalian Member

I don't know. When I see "pretender," I suspect that it's not in a Pretenders album at all, but in something by Indie Rock Pete... *nudge*

JToomey · Daedalian Member

More specifically, it's inside The Pretenders II, cause they're better the second time around.

Also: I don't know if you just matched up numbers to band names, but if you take the ordering of the bands as presented by the second appearance of a song by them, then you get rid of the ambiguity of band names of equal length. Better the second time, and all.

Thanks for playing, y'all -- Pete would be proud. Wait, no he wouldn't. You're talking about crappy music.

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Degenerate · Daedalien Member

Originally posted by the sig of Cadmium:
There are three kinds of people, those who can count and those who cannot.

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