Song lyric quote thread - would people play it?

[dplax]

Since the old thread has disappeared I just started wondering whether it would be worth playing this game.

Note this is not a thread for quotes just for discussion on whether the game would have interest.

[Jaradu]

What happened to the old one? Did it just die?

[dplax]

Yes it did.

[Ilander]

I would like to play it, but honestly simply almost never knew the lyrics in the last few, which I figure is why people "googled" in the first place...which in turn, provoked a counter reaction among the quoters...

I'm in. Hell, I am always in. I didn't respond to the last thread because I didn't know any answers, so why bother to post useless sh*t.

[Grojlach]

It doesn't work.
It would only work if we had a more extensive line-up of participating music buffs, but as it is now, it's too specialised (some people are most likely capable of discerning every single lyric of Linkin Park, Taproot, Staind, AFI or whatever these mediocre bands are called; but when it comes to the most well known Joy Division song, of a band whose musical legacy will outlive those of any of the aforementioned bands blindfolded, it's suddenly too difficult (?) for them. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
But seriously, taste around here differs too much to have a "healthy" competition - lyrics posted by me for example are usually guessed by Melusine, Barry, Hierophant or dplax, while lyrics posted by Shadowhound or Bozos attract a wholly different audience. Not taking the odd cheater into account, there's little interaction between such subgroups in this topic (apart from "I don't know, give us a clue") - so when the few posters with a similar taste don't know the answer (or are offline for a few days), no one else will figure it out, either.
So sure, we can give it another shot, I may even participate. I'm afraid it will only take a few days before we have yet another status quo, though.

[ 08-30-2004, 06:40 AM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]

[dplax]

@Grojlach: To counteract the problem we could have several quotes running at the same time for the different groups. Would it work?

[Xen]

Well I promise that I won`t Google every lyrics wich is posted. I will use Google only if I really don`t know the lyrics. [img]graemlins/littleangel.gif[/img]

[Gnarf]

... and AlltheWeb for the rest of'em, or..? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Melusine]

I think no one should use Google or anything else to look up lyrics, period. But Xen has proven time and again that he is incapable of that. So in that respect I doubt a new thread would be much fun. Grojlach has a good point too, although I am not as forbiddingly elitist when it comes to types of music. Nevertheless it is true that there may not be enough people of every musical taste participating to make it possible for all quotes to be guessed within reasonable time. And I don't think it would be fun to have seperate threads or strands within a thread for guessing metal/rap/indie/pop/etc quotes.

Still, if there is a new thread I would participate, but it would probably boil down to the same small group of people answering, and the threads going slow. That doesn't have to be a problem if all participants bookmarked it and exercised some patience with regard to posting of new quotes... and we could also make a rule that when a quote proves too difficult, the one who posted it should provide a new quote after say two days have elapsed. And we could all try to choose a bit more mainstream lyrics, although of course that is a bit of a subjective grey area as well.

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