name that band

[Cefin gwlad]

Well, I'd never heard of any Lover Dogs bands -- but then I do lead a very sheltered life, and one lives and one learns.

How about Dynion y pot blodau? I must admit theirs is a name I'd forgotten myself, but they did record one song that became, as they say, eiconig.

[Sionned]

Actually, it is The Lovedogs. We have a friend who plays bass for the band in Iowa, and there is apparently another in the UK, and one called The Love Dogs in Massachusetts.


And I'd never heard of The Flower Pot Men, either. From the Wikipedia entry, I'd say they were rather like the Monkees, tho never as famous.

So lets get back to someone a bit more well known: Y Ceir

[Cefin gwlad]

Beth??

Let's Go to San Francisco http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jotsFVJPHIk unknown in San Francisco?

Seldom has my flabber been so gasted ...at least not since the time I read that the song Is This the Way to Amarillo? means nothing to the inhabitants of Amarillo!

It's not good using the term "well known" when it comes to me and miwsig roc, though, Sionned -- I was blissfully unaware that there was ever an outfit known as The Cars, any more than I knew about the Love(r) Dogs (sorry: my typo)!

My challenge, should you wish to accept it, is: CE/CU
(Cliw:)

[Sionned]

It may be (or have been) more well-known in San Francisco, but I don't live anywhere near there.


As for your "challenge" - that has to be AC/DC. I think I might have gotten that one even without the clue!



OK, this should be easy: Penradio

[Cefin gwlad]

It may be (or have been) more well-known in San Francisco, but I don't live anywhere near there.

I know, but aren't the playlists of stations throughout the US dictated by genre rather than location?

Anyway, that's enough of my ignorance; reminds me, though, to say that the latest answer must be Radiohead.

Have we had chwaer gar llusg yet?

[Sionned]

drag car sister???

[Cefin gwlad]

Ie.

But you need to take into account "two countries separated by a common language" differences here! Webster in 1828 was aware of it -- despite his criminal failure to distinguish between Britain and England!

[Sionned]

Really!

But you need to take into account "two countries separated by a common language" differences here!

Yes, I'm well aware of that. The book English from A to Zed is very usful in that respect.

OK, so I guess I need to give you another band name. How about a really easy one this time, that I dont' think we've had (probably because it is so easy).

Y Sawl

[Cefin gwlad]

Just for the record, chwaer gar llusg was intended to stand for Sister Sledge.

I'm stumped by your easy question, though, Sionned -- probably because I know diddly-squat about rock music.

To me, y sawl means "who(so)ever" or "he" in the sort of "Biblical" / poetical style that you find in, say:

Y sawl a dyno nyth y dryw
Ni chaiff weled wyneb Duw.

One free translation goes:
He that shall rob a blackbird's nest
Shall never come to God's sweet rest.

Though it's really:
Whoever robs the wren's nest,
Shall never see the face of God.

[Sionned]

Oh, surely you've at least heard of The Who? Very big in the 70's, there and here.

[Cefin gwlad]

Sorry, Sionned.

Brain addled sbo (= "I suppose", in local Wenglish) as the result of currently attending a Cwrs Pasg at the local uni. Although we are all greatly enjoying it, I think, creeping cereberal paralysis tends to strike us, the participants, at around 40-50 minutes before the end of each day's session (and not a few have complained recently of dreaming furiously in Welsh all night: even though the Cymraeg one speaks in one's dreams is, of course, excellent -- it's bloody tiring, all the same!)

Anyway, to get back to where I was (wasn't I?) ..."The Who" wrth gwrs! Sori: it's just that to me sawl means "several" -- and not being able to recall a band called "The Several", I went off on my, what turned out to be Biblical/poetical, wild-goose-chase into "whoever" territory.

To me, "The Who" (of whom, yes, even I have heard!) would have been Y Pwy, as in the instruction "Rhowch baragraff agoriadol sy’n crynhoi eich stori trwy gynnwys y pwy, beth, pam, pryd a lle" -- but then I've got examination instructions on the brain at the moment...

Anyway: who's turn is it? Yours again, I think, S.