The Oddball Game

[Zabadak]

They all contributed songs to something except one...

[Zabadak]

Blimey, really?

OK - The Band's contribution was replaced.

There.

[Brad_M]

I still can't figure it out.

Maybe we need a little more of a teensy weensy hint.

[Zabadak]

What can I say to get your motor running? :sing1:

[Brad_M]

Nice hint, Zab!

The Band is the oddball.

The others all had songs appear in the 1969 film and soundtrack, Easy Rider

The band had a song used in the film but it was a cover version of the song that was used on the soundtrack.

[Zabadak]

Thank God for that! Yes, The Band's contri was replaced by a cover by a band called Smith. Next... :partytime2:

[Brad_M]

Alice Cooper

Motley Crue

Scorpions

Styx

[Rayzor]

There's a few differences here...

I'll try Scorpions (not American)

[Brad_M]

That would be too obvious an answer.

Dig deeper.

[Rayzor]

Scorpions didn't have #1 hit in USA

[Brad_M]

Actually, they did.

"No One Like You" was a #1 hit for them on the U.S. Billboard Top Tracks chart (Mainstream Rock) in 1982.

Of those four groups, Alice Cooper and Motley Crue are the ones that have never had a #1 song in the U.S.

Try looking at album covers of these groups.

[Rayzor]

That was a MASSIVE hint...

Styx because they don't show the band on their albums

[Brad_M]

Awww, but they do.

The first two albums by Styx showed the band on the album covers.

[Zabadak]

[Brad_M]

I don't know what else to hint without giving it away.

Look at all album covers by each group and take notice of what you see for three of them and what you don't see for one of them.

[Zabadak]

Alice Cooper doesn't have a logo as such?

[Brad_M]

Biggest hint so far:

Three of these groups have the same type of animal on at least one of their album covers while one of the group's covers do not.

[Zabadak]

Scorpions albums have scorpions, not snakes? :badcomp:

[Brad_M]

Yes!

Zabba-Dabba-Doo :happybanana:

No snakes on any of Scorpions album covers.

All the others had at least one album cover with a snake on it.

[Zabadak]

OK, it's late here so here's an easy one (say what you hear!)... :partytime2:

Fire Brigade - The Move

Block Buster! - The Sweet

White Riot - The Clash

Indiana Wants Me - R. Dean Taylor

Bombers - Tubeway Army

[miamisammy29]

Do they all have sirens somewhere in the song...except one? I'll go with "White Riot".

[Zabadak]

Almost - they all begin with sirens except one... :sing1:

[Zabadak]

Bored. The answer was Indiana Wants Me :badcomp:

Miami Sammy was closest...

[miamisammy29]

Are you sure it wan't "Fire Brigade"? "Indiana Wants Me" does have sirens in it.

[miamisammy29]

Okay, this should be an easy one.

Which one of these songs is the Oddball?

Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John

Hotel California - Eagles

Houses Of The Holy - Led Zeppelin

Running On Empty - Jackson Browne

Some Girls - Rolling Stones