Topic: Cookie Monster - 4th Installment - 3+ Car Crash Ditties vs. The Old West

[Otto Puzzell]

One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others (and why)
By the time this puzzle is gone?

      
Fixit 1                                                                                                                                                          Fixit 2


      
Fixit 3                                                                                                                                                          Fixit 4

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To explain:

A different slant on the usual Cookie Monster theme. In this case, the common thread is musical, versus specific automobiles. Which of these music albums doesn't belong in this group, and specifically, why?  And, specifically, how are the other three alike?

[Otto Puzzell]

Experts?

[Otto Puzzell]

Pros

[GrahamClayton]

Here's my part-answer.

One of the Steve Goodman songs is Lincoln Park Pirates, which has a reference to cars.
One of the tracks off the Ramone's album is Touring, which mentions a fuel-injected tour bus
Marty Robbins was a part-time NASCAR driver.
Does the Ghost of Tom Joad off the Kosovar aldum have a car reference?

[Otto Puzzell]

An interesting answer, but not correct.

An interesting answer, but not correct.
 
Lincoln Park Pirates has nothing to do with the solution.

The original version of Pleasant Dreams (which I purchased on vinyl when it was new) didn't include Touring. That song is not relevant to this puzzle.

Mr. Robbins' NASCAR exploits are not part of the solution.

Ghost of Tom Joad is not part of the solution.

Reminder: the object of this puzzle is to identify which of these things differs from the other three, not to show how all four might be connected.

[barrett]

Is there a motoring connection here at all? I'm not familiar with any of these albums so I'm having trouble even coming up with a guess

[Otto Puzzell]

Is there a motoring connection here at all? I'm not familiar with any of these albums so I'm having trouble even coming up with a guess

Indeed there is!

[Otto Puzzell]

Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

Side 1:
"Big Iron" (Marty Robbins) – 3:56
"Cool Water" (Bob Nolan) – 3:09
"Billy The Kid" (Traditional) – 5:14
"A Hundred And Sixty Acres" (David Kapp) – 1:40
"They're Hanging Me Tonight" (James N. Low - Art Wolpert) – 3:05
"The Strawberry Roan" (Traditional) – 3:25

Side 2:
"El Paso" (Marty Robbins) – 4:19
"In The Valley" (Marty Robbins) – 1:48
"The Master's Call" (Marty Robbins) – 3:05
"Running Gun" (Tompall Glaser - Jim Glaser) – 2:10
"The Little Green Valley" (Carson Robison) – 2:26
"Utah Carol" (Traditional) – 3:13



No Boundaries: A Benefit for the Kosovar Refugees

Track listing

"Last Kiss" – Pearl Jam (B-side to 1998 Fan Club Christmas Single)
"Baba" – Alanis Morissette (live)
"Ghost of Tom Joad" – Rage Against the Machine (CD single from "Rage Against the Machine" home video)
"War of Man" – Neil Young (live)
"Freak on a Leash" – KOЯN (Butch Vig Mix)
"Psycho Man" – Black Sabbath (Danny Saber remix)
"Comedown" – Bush (acoustic version)
"Leather Jacket" – Ben Folds Five (unreleased studio track)
"Take Me Away" – Oasis (B-side of British "Supersonic" single)
"Mary" – Sarah McLachlan (live)
"Go" – Indigo Girls (live)
"Used to Be Lucky" – The Wallflowers (From the Japanese version of Bringing Down the Horse)
"Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" – Jamiroquai (B-side to British "Canned Heat" single)
"Merman" – Tori Amos (unreleased studio track)
"Fourteen Black Paintings" – Peter Gabriel (from his album "Us")
"Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)" – Pearl Jam (1998 Fan Club Christmas Single)


Pleasant Dreams

Track listing

"We Want the Airwaves" (Joey Ramone) – 3:22
"All's Quiet on the Eastern Front" (Dee Dee Ramone) – 2:14
"The KKK Took My Baby Away" (Joey Ramone) – 2:32
"Don't Go" (Joey Ramone) – 2:48
"You Sound Like You're Sick" (Dee Dee Ramone) – 2:42
"It's Not My Place (In the 9 to 5 World)" (Joey Ramone) – 3:24
"She's a Sensation" (Joey Ramone) – 3:29
"7-11" (Joey Ramone) – 3:38
"You Didn't Mean Anything to Me" (Dee Dee Ramone) – 3:00
"Come On Now" (Dee Dee Ramone) – 2:33
"This Business Is Killing Me" (Joey Ramone) – 2:41
"Sitting in My Room" (Dee Dee Ramone) – 2:30



No Big Surprise - The Steve Goodman Anthology

Disc One   
  1. Between the Lines    3:20
  2. Take Me Out to the Ballgame    2:31
  3. Go Cubs Go    2:51
  4. City of New Orleans    3:52
  5. Would You Like to Learn to Dance?    4:47
  6. Souvenirs    3:31
  7. Red Ball Jets    1:03
  8. The One That Got Away    3:33
  9. Talk Backwards    2:31
10. If She Were You    2:16
11. Danger    2:19
12. You Better Get It While You Can (The Ballad of Carl Martin)    4:24
13. Yellow Coat    3:56
14. Banana Republics    3:44
15. California Promises    2:43
16. Bobby Don't Stop    3:43
17. My Old Man    4:07
18. This Hotel Room    3:36
19. Where's the Party    2:29
20. I Just Keep Falling In Love    2:45
21. Watchin' Joey Glow    2:39
22. The Dutchman    5:21
23. In Real Life   


Disc Two   
  1. Chicken Cordon Bleus (Live)    2:59
  2. The I Don't Know Where I'm Goin', but I'm Goin' Nowere In a Hurry Blues    3:58
  3. Is It True What They Say About Dixie    3:26
  4. Turnpike Tom    4:35
  5. Elvis Imitators    2:51
  6. Lincoln Park Pirates    3:53
  7. Wonderful World of Sex    3:12
  8. Vegematic    2:55
  9. A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request    5:58
10. Men Who Love Women Who Love Men    4:06
11. The Auctioneer    2:59
12. The Broken String Song    1:36
13. Just Lucky I Guess    3:29
14. I'll Fly Away    4:27
15. It's a Sin to Tell a Lie    2:04
16. Medly: Born to Be Wild/Teen Angel/Tell Laura I Love Her/Strange Things Happen   10:03
17. You Never Even Call Me By My Name    3:51
18. Don't Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes    2:53
19. As Time Goes By   3:35

[Ray B.]

I think that we're good for a long research of complete lyrics for those, guys.

[barrett]

I think that we're good for a long research of complete lyrics for those, guys.

I started going through these a few days ago, and came to the exact same conclusion!

[Otto Puzzell]

Answer now, or this guy gets it!

[Otto Puzzell]

 

[Otto Puzzell]

I think that we're good for a long research of complete lyrics for those, guys.

Remember, this Autopuzzles

[Otto Puzzell]

 



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[Tom_I]

This one has been bugging me for ages. Well, today my OCD tendencies got the better of me, and I've trawled through the lyrics of all the tracks on the albums looking for something car-connected.

And after all this I think the odd one out is Fixit 1, Gun Fighter Ballads and Trail Songs by Marty Robbins.

The other three all contain at least one song which features a fatal car crash.

Fixit 2, No Boundaries, has Last Kiss by Pearl Jam, a cover of a Wayne Cochran song from 1961:

We were out on a date in my daddy's car
We hadn't driven very far
There in the road, up straight ahead
A car was stalled, the engine was dead
I couldn't stop, so I swerved to the right
I'll never forget the sound that night
The screamin' tires, the bustin' glass
The painful scream that I heard last.

Fixit 3, Pleasant Dreams by the Ramones has the song 7-11:

I kissed her and hugged her
And I said good-bye
Last thing I knew
She wouldn't make it alive
Oncoming car went out of control
It crushed my baby
And it crushed my soul.

And the Steve Goodman anthology No Big Surprise has a medley including Teen Angel

That fateful night the car was stalled
Upon the railroad track
I pulled you out and we were safe
But you went running back.

and Tell Laura I Love Her:

He drove his car to the racing ground
He was the youngest driver there
The crowd roared as they started the race
From the track they drove at a deadly pace

No one knows what happened that day,
How his car over turned in flames,
But as they pulled him from the twisted wreck,
With his dying breath, they heard him say...

Tell Laura I lover her.

But as far as I can make out, there are no car-associated deaths in Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs.






And after all that, I bet it's wrong!

[Ray B.]

  This guy is amazing.
I might have gone through reading all those lyrics, if I had the records with everyone on the inner sheet. Kind of funny.
But, although I know a good deal of websites where to find lyrics, an possibly those for a few of these songs, I would NEVER have had the patience to try and find them all!

[Otto Puzzell]

And after all this I think the odd one out is Fixit 1, Gun Fighter Ballads and Trail Songs by Marty Robbins.

The other three all contain at least one song which features a fatal car crash.


And after all that, I bet it's wrong!

After all that, you have two more well-earned points!

[Otto Puzzell]

Here are the three car songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_sEtNrYlC4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6_dRQ4uqPE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBGUmQ_Q9Ic