The C3 Hint Thread: July 11th, 2014 Edition
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He named it after his mother, who was in turn named after a novel, which contained eerily prescient passages.
I guess this hint bombed.
OMD – Enola Gay
Yeah, looks like “Enola Gay” is right.
For the Cars song, I’ve been persuaded to change my guess to “Candy-O”.
Is the theme for these songs “Obscure 80s”? If so, kind of let down.
Yeah, looks like “Enola Gay” is right.For the Cars song, I’ve been persuaded to change my guess to “Candy-O”.
Is the theme for these songs “Obscure 80s”? If so, kind of let down.
Oh they’re not ALL obscure. Just a couple.
Is the theme for these songs “Obscure 80s”? If so, kind of let down.
As far as my 4 songs are concerned, really NOT obscure.
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif”>[*]Reminding us of the song’s title at the start of every verse was a good way to get this atop the UK charts — something that should have been done with follow-up songs, apparently.
These are mine and are all songs from artists that I already covered in previous releases, all artists available on Rock Band only through customs.
Only thing I can come up with is Michael Jackson’s One Day In Your Life or Baby Jane by Rod Stewart.
Probably neither but worth a shot.
These clues are so cryptic I doubt myself! I also had the passions in mind – wish I’d guessed that 1 too!
I have to elaborate on this one, because it still gives me nightmares:
He named it after his mother, who was in turn named after a novel, which contained eerily prescient passages.
I guess this hint bombed.
The mother hint is my favorite – but there’s just One More Day to get it right.
Of course, the bouncy synthpop “Enola Gay” by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark is completely at odds with the lyrics (“they’re gonna end it all in tears someday”, etc):
The song is named after the Enola Gay, the USAAF B-29 Superfortress bomber that carried Little Boy, the first atomic bomb to be used in an act of war, dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, killing more than 100,000 of its citizens. The name of the bomber itself was chosen by its commanding pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, who named it after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets, who herself had been named for the heroine of the novel Enola; or, Her fatal mistake.But what really freaks me out are some passages from the novel:
He is the bird of ill omen.How harsh his midnight cry!
It seems to shriek, in mournful sounds,
Death! Death!
The funnel-shaped cloud deals death and destruction to all that come within its whirling, deadly grasp.When seeing the approach of such a cloud, it sends an agonizing thrill of horror into the heart of the beholder…
the vital question at issue now is, how to remedy the great evil that is about to engulf our moral law and prosperous government.… I feel, that something should be speedily done to stem the tide of extravagance, threatening to ruin every civilized country on the face of the globe,” said Mrs. [Enola] Dale.
Did Tibbets simply name the plane after his mother, or did he know the strange content of the novel? He died in 2007, so I guess we’ll never know.
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