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Lost in translation I

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Lost in translation I game quiz
"Hi there. Just for the hell of it I'm going to translate some English lyrics into Portuguese, by using a web based translation tool. Then I'm going to translate those lyrics back to English and present them to you. Yup, start sweating."

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1. We'll start off with an easy one: "Here comes flattop old he comes grooving for top slowly. Received eyeball of joo-joo. He a sacred cylinder. Received hair for bass to his knee. He it received to be a joker that he finishes doing what please." What song was this once upon a time?
    "All Along The Watchtower" - Bob Dylan
    "Come Together" - the Beatles
    "Bus Stop" - The Hollies
    "Take Me Home, Country Roads" - John Denver


2. And what song is this: "The persons try of put us d below (Conversing 'my fight generation). Fair because we avoid (Conversing 'my fight generation). The things they look c horroroso-c-frio (Conversing 'my fight generation). I expect hill before of I ages (Conversing 'my fight generation)."
    "Your Generation" - Generation X
    "Blank Generation" - Richard Hell & the Voidoids
    "The Beat(en) Generation" - The The
    "My Generation" - The Who


3. What song has been put through the mangler here: "Oh, a storm is Mine a lot life today. Itself I do not receive some shelter. Oh yes, I am gonna droopy distant. The war, infants, is only some distant shots is only a distant shot. War, infants, is only some distant shots is only a distant shot."
    "Gimme Shelter" - Rolling Stones
    "Fire on the Bayou" - The Meters
    "Dixie Chicken" Little Feat
    "Talkin' All That Jazz" - Stetsasonic


4. What then, was this formerly known as: "The ticket walk of, white highway of line. Count everybody their friends, they can go my environment of. Pay their toll, sells their Pound of soul for costs of pound more than gold. The most long one remains, the more payment. My white lines go an any long environment a for top the their nose or by the their vein. With nothin earn except their slaughter brain."
    "It's Tricky" - Run-D.M.C.
    "White Lines (Don't Do It)" - Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
    "Guns Don't Kill People, Rappers Do" - Goldie Lookin' Chain
    "Let's Push Things Forward" - The Streets


5. What's been thoroughly shaken here: "There is to dance. Behind scenes of film. Behind the scenes of film. Sadi Rani. It is to that they maintain the alive dream. Of the morning, past the night, to the end of the light."
    "Visions of You" - Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart
    "Girls on my Mind" - David Byrne
    "Brimful of Asha" - Cornershop
    "Baby's On Fire" - Brian Eno


6. Whose mother won't even recognise them this way: "The lover, I am in the street. The Gonna goes where the bright lights. And the big city finds. With a red double bass. fire ..on. I desire."
    "I Wanna Be Sedated" - Ramones
    "Is This Desire?" - PJ Harvey
    "Tom Traubert's Blues" - Tom Waits
    "Desire" - U2


7. Now I don't believe you're gonna guess what this one used to be: "I never cried 'I cause to be completely alone. For me, for me and for I is all I never knew. I never felt myself the need have a hand hold. In everything that I do I take complete control. That is where do I come from. My lucky person number a."
    "Lucky Number" - Lene Lovich
    "One Night of Sin" - Elvis Presley
    "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass" - Nick Lowe
    "Spanish Stroll" - Mink DeVille


8. Never guessing you are these: "The position in a corner. The valise in my hand. The monkey nseu corset, Jane is in his waistcoat. And myself I am in a stone 'n' streak of roll. Huh. Walk of a Cat of Bear of Stutz, Jim. The Ya knows, those were different times. All of the poets studied rules of verse. And those you they rolled her eyes."
    "Kinky Afro" - Happy Mondays
    "Sweet Jane" - Velvet Underground
    "Cigarettes and Alcohol" - Oasis
    "Down By the River" - Neil Young & Crazy Horse


9. And this? What's this then? Or used to be? "I raised myself feeling me so for bass. I came down I will have that sell outside. Mantive the film roll. But the history ages now. I finish looking in the mirror. The things do not look so good. Eye Califórnia. And Minnesota of feeling. So now it knows, that stayed mystified."
    "Dancing Barefoot" - Patti Smith Group
    "Go with the Flow" - Queens of the Stone Age
    "Outshined" - Soundgarden
    "TV Eye" - the Stooges


10. This one didn't make much sense in the first place, but what is it? "There is a problem, penalty pass to iron. It negotiates buildings, pesos and pulleys. The penalty hit the ground before of the weight can leave the air. It buys the heaven and sale the heaven and contains the heaven and contains the heaven."
    "Are You Gonna Be There? (At the Love-In)" - The Chocolate Watch Band
    "I Can't Control Myself" - The Troggs
    "Fall On Me" - R.E.M.
    "Nine Months Later" - the Fuzztones


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