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| 0% | ANDREA BOCELLI | Arias Never Die Recent Etudes Arose Bringing On Crowds Exclaiming 'Lord Loves Italians' |
Rico Leffanta |
| 0% | BEACH BOYS | Barbra & Excitations Are Chorally Harmonised By Ocean-loving Young Surfers. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | BEATLES | Brian Epstein's Awesomely Talented Liverpudlians. Epitomised Sixties. |
Eric Bridgstock |
| 0% | BEATLES (2) | Best Ever All Time Lyricists, Entertainers and Singers |
Eric Bridgstock |
| 0% | BEATLES (3) | Began Everything About The Liverpudlian Electronic Sound |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 0% | BEE GEES | Bursting Everyone's Eardrums to Give an Enviable Element to Silence |
Angela Brett. (And I don't really think they're that bad!) |
| 100% | BEYONCE | Bring Every Young One Not Coming Everyday |
Tavia Bryant |
| 0% | BING CROSBY | Bing Is Noted, Great Crooner Relies On Singing. Bababoo? Yes! |
Sean Lamb (Bing Crosby was known for his crooning singing style that included refrains of "ba-ba-ba-boo" skat lyrics) |
| 100% | BLUR | Britpop Leaders, Unrivalled Rockers. |
Eric Bridgstock |
| 0% | BOB GELDOF | Bop On, Boys & Girls! (Expletive) Let's Defeat Obscene Famine |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | BOYZONE | Band Of Youths, Zero (Or Nil) Expertise |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 0% | BUDDY HOLLY | Brilliant, Unfulfilled. Dead. Died Young. Had Outstanding Lyrics. Legendary Youthfulness |
Eric Bridgstock |
| 100% | CHER | Chest, Hips, & Eyebrows Remodelled! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 0% | CHER (2) | Clothes Hardly Ever Replete |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | CHERYL | Chanteuse, Her Eurovision Revealed Youthful Legs. |
TMcCO'G - referring to Cheryl Baker, one fourth of "Bucks Fizz" who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981. As part of the show the two males pulled the long skirts off the two females midway through the song, revealing beautiful legs clad in shorts. |
| 100% | CHOPIN | Cherish How One Plays Immortal Nocturnes! |
Rico Leffanta |
| 0% | CHOPIN (2) | Concerto Heard On Piano Is Nice |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | CRANBERRIES | Chanteuse Regularly Acts Nutty. Being Especially Renowned Results In Eccentric Spells |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, presumably referring to Angela's favourite band. (See http://acronyms.co.nz/angela/cran.html) |
| 100% | CZERNY | Cultural Zenith; Entertainment Really, Not Yodelling |
Sean Lamb (Karl Czerny was an Austiran composer who studied with Beethoven) |
| 86% | DJANGO | Dance and Jump. A Natural Guitarist's Outstanding! |
Sean Lamb (who spent a day enjoying the gypsy swing guitar of Django Reinhardt) |
| 0% | DOLORES O'RIORDAN | 'Doos' Or 'Las' Often Recur... Every Song Offers Recordings In Oral Realm [that] Don't Articulate Nuttin'. |
Angela Brett |
| 0% | ELVIS PRESLEY | Eternally "Las Vegas" In Showmanship, Performed/ Recorded Enduring Songs - Lives Eternally, Yes? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 0% | ELVIS PRESLEY (2) | Entertainer's Lovely Voice Is Stilled, Perhaps Recalling Extra Sexy Legmovements Entertains You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | EMINEM | Emulates Macho Insubordination, Nearly Eradicating Music |
Kenny Roy |
| 0% | HILARY DUFF | Happy Individual Loves Adventures Really Yields Doing Unforgettable Fun Features |
Jan Morgan Names:Famous people:Actors & Actresses |
| 100% | JACKSON | Jamming Adult, Can Keep Success Of Name |
Jan Morgan |
| 0% | JOHNNY CASH | Jail's Often Happy & Nice Now Yankee Convicts All Singing Heartily |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | JULES | Jules Uses Long Entertaining Stories |
David Brydon, referring to singer Jules Riding |
| 0% | JULES (2) | Jules Utilises Lynne's Efficient Sensibility. |
David Brydon |
| 0% | JULES (3) | Jesus Uses Lively Evangelical Singer |
Angela Brett |
| 0% | LED ZEPPELIN | Loudness = Extreme. Drug, Zoloft, Extremely Proficient Problem Eliminator. Laud Is Needed. |
Jeff Anonymous (see LZ) |
| 0% | LINKIN PARK | Lyrical Individuals Negotiate Kismet In Notes, Pleasing Adolescents, Reaching Kids |
Jan Morgan - musical group |
| 100% | LZ | Loudmouths... Zoloft? |
Jeff Anonymous, explaining that LED ZEPPELIN might lead someone to need an antidepressant. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | MADONNA | Musically Adept Dancer. Often Nurtures Naughty Antics. |
Eric Bridgstock |
| 0% | MICHAEL JACKSON | Man Is Careless, Haing An Eccentric Lifestyle. Jamming Adult Can Keep Success Of Name |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | MOZART | Music Often Zesty, Aurally Rich Treats |
Angela Brett |
| 0% | MOZART (2) | Musical Order: Zenith -- Acomplished Renderer of Themes |
PiMaster |
| 100% | OASIS | Outstanding Albums. Sixties Inspired Singles. |
Eric Bridgstock |
| 100% | OSMONDS | Obtained Success Musically Of Novel Demand, Seventies |
Jan Morgan -- unusual musical talent enjoyed by those who loved them in the seventies and beyond |
| 90% | RADIOHEAD | Rock Always Deserved International Oddities Having Established yet Abnormal 'Dos. |
All by myself, Taylor Rundell. I remember my last Apronym... |
| 100% | REM | Resoundingly Evocative Musicians |
Eric Bridgstock Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 0% | ROLLING STONES (2) | Rock's Old-timers. Luscious Lips. Inhaled Narcotics. Great Songwriters. Toured Overseas in Numerous Enormous Stadiums |
Eric Bridgstock |
| 100% | SCHUBERT | Susan's Classical Hero Uniquely Begot Elegant & Remarkable Trios |
TMcCO'G - Professor Susan Tomes has recorded many (if not all) of Schubert's Piano Trios |
| 100% | SCHUMANN | Shall Choral Harmonies Unite Man And Nature? Never! |
Rico Leffanta |
| 0% | SIMON (3) | Songwriter Is Magnificent, Often Nonpareil |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to Paul Simon |
| 100% | TAMMY | Trilled About Marital Mishaps, Yodelling |
TMcCO'G (referring to Tammy Wynette) who thinks almost all 'country' songs seem to be about unhappy marriages |
| 100% | TCHAIKOVSKY | This Composer Has Achieved Intense Kudos, Overtures' (& Variations') Subtleties Kindle Yearnings |
TMcCO'G |
| 100% | TENORS | They Emit Notes Of Rare Sweetness |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 0% | THE CORRS | Those Heavenly Earthlings - Champions Of Rock & Roll Siblings |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 0% | THE CORRS (2) | The Have Excellently Crooned Outside Regular Recording Studios |
Angela Brett, who has a recording of The Corrs singing live and thinks it sounds just as good as their studio recordings. |
| 0% | THE WHO | Trashed Hotels. Eventually Walloped by Heroin Overdose. |
Eric Bridgstock |
| 0% | TINA TURNER | Trusted Ike, Now Alone. Totally Uninhibited, Rather Naughty, Emotional Rocker |
Eric Bridgstock |
| 100% | VERDI | Virgins Embrace Romantic Divine Intervention |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | VIVALDI | Vain Italian Violinists Always Like Dulcet Inventions |
Sean Lamb |
| 0% | WEIRD AL | Wacky, Eclectic, Insane, Ridiculous, Deranged and Amusing Lyrics |
Sean Lamb (who has been a Weird Al fan since "Another One Rides The Bus") |
| 0% | ZZ TOPS | Zippy Zithers Tangle Opus Players Singing |
Rico Leffanta |