Super Trouper - Abba
Legs ~ ZZ Top

I just felt like letting the band names jump from A to Z! Contrived I know but it will get this game going again.

Legs - ZZ Top
Very Tired Armies - Poo Stripes

sorry, it's the best I can do

Very Tired Armies - Poo Stripes (?!?lol)

seven nation army - white stripes

armies and stripes innit. Plus, get this game going again I want one of my threads to make it to (part 2) lol it will be the pinnacle of my life achievements

seven nation army - white stripes
The Sound Of The Crowd - Human League

Both bands feature a husband and his ex-wife

Jack & Meg White - White Stripes
Phil Oakey & Joanne Catherall - Human League

The Sound of the Crowd ~ The Human League
Stars on 45 ~ Starsound

Obviously the sound connection but also they were both hits in May 1981.

Stars on 45 ~ Starsound
45 - Shinedown

45, simple as that

45 - Shinedown
Jessica - Allman Brothers Band

both Jacksonville, FL bands

Jessica - Allman Brothers Band
Tears Are Not Enough ~ ABC

From ABB to ABC!

Tears Are Not Enough - ABC
Relax - FGTH

Both Trevor Horn produced

Relax - FGTH
He's The Greatest Dancer - Sister Sledge

The Sledges had a hit with "Frankie"

He's The Greatest Dancer - Sister Sledge
Sergeant Rock (Is Going To Help Me) - XTC

John Sergeant won Strictly I think the other year

Sergeant Rock (Is Going To Help Me) - XTC
The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunymen

The Bunnymen featured Will Sergeant

The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunymen
Can't Fight the Moonlight ~ LeAnn Rimes

Lunar connection

Can't Fight the Moonlight ~ LeAnn Rimes
0=0 - Awake (Heartbreak)

Heavily samples sleeping sattelite, teh moon is a satelite, innit.

0=0 ~ Awake

Take That:- Up All Night

Thought I'd have a go at resurrecting this thread....very similar to my "Musical Connections" if anyone remembers that! Good to put your thinking caps on tho it doesn't have to be difficult as you see from my offering!



Up All Night - Take That
Take It To The Limits - The Eagles

Both groups have broken up only to reform

Indeed I do remember your original carnation jeanie

Take It To The Limit - Eagles
Homeward Bound - Simon & Garfunkel

Both songs appear on a Willie Nelson covers album

Homeward Bound - Simon & Garfunkel
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton

91287 is an asteroid named after folk music duo Simon & Garfunkel.

Eric Clapton also has an asteroid named after him, Minor Planet 4305 is is an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter.

Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy) - Scritti Politti

Nothing cryptic about this one... Clapton wrote his song for George Harrison's wife Pattie Boyd who he fancied at the time.

Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy) - Scritti Politti
House of Fun - Madness

"The Sweetest Girl" released by Scritti Politti as a single in 1981 was covered by Madness on their 1985 album, Mad Not Mad.

House Of Fun - Madness
Nineteen - Paul Hardcastle

House Of Fun (a song about turning sixteen) was number one on my sixteenth birthday in June 1982.

N-N-Nineteen (a song about dying at nineteen) was number one on my nineteenth birthday in June 1985.

Wow!

Nineteen - Paul Hardcastle
Olivers Army - Elvis Costello

Not a tenuous political link, but both the narrator in '19' and Elvis Costello drummer share the same name, Peter Thomas

Can't believe it took me twenty-six years to use that link...

Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello
Stan - Eminem

... and around two and a half hours to come up with this Laurel & Hardy one

Stan - Eminem
The Jean Genie - David Bowie

Both have had a cameo in films....Eminem in "The Wash"
David Bowie in "Zoolander

The Jean Genie - David Bowie
Yardbirds - I'm A Man

Near identical guitar riffs.