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Tonight's topic is |
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One particular song from
the album that is now known as Novum
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The answer is |
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Soldier
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Choose the question below that is most applicable to the
answer above. Make a note of the Question Number
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Q02a
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Before Procol hit on the idea of using the
X Commandments as a theme
for Novum, they were planning a rather longer concept album
based on the chemical elements. At that early stage one of
the now-familiar melodies had the following words sung in
its elegant chorus:
‘I’m alkaline, metallic
And I’m speedy to react
If you’re a Dalek
You should fear me, that’s a fact
If you cook me in a curry
You’ll have turmoil in your tum
First you’ll vomit, then you’ll chunder
Sodium.’
Which song was it?
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words fit the chorus of 'Soldier' but they're
stupid; nobody would cook with Sodium, and the
penultimate line ('first ... then') would make sense
only if 'vomit' and 'chunder' had different
meanings); and how many tracks would an 'album based
on the chemical elements' need to have? They'd have
to be pretty short to fit into one CD. Maybe several
elements could be shoehorned into one song? |
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Q02b |
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Since Pete Brown wrote the words to this song, not Keith
Reid, the band gave it a title which (spelt backwards) is
the German word for ‘Reid-less’
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'Reidlos' backwards, but the words of 'Soldier' were not written
by Pete Brown |
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Q02c |
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Specify a Novum song that no paying audience has yet
heard Procol play in concert
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'Honour', it could be 'Soldier', it could be 'Somewhen'
... a glance through the BtP setlists makes this
clear. So this question does indeed fit the
specified answer |
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Q02d |
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This song is incorrectly titled, because in proper English
we write ‘more solid’, not ‘solider’
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'solider' but that is entirely irrelevant (except
insofar as we'll be dealing with anagrams of the
track names before too long) |
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