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2 unusual facts about The Verses


The Verses

The Verses is an Australian band that features the brother and sister combination of Ella and Jesse Hooper, the founding members of popular Australian rock band, Killing Heidi.

In August 1999, they rose to fame with previous band Killing Heidi, which spawned three top 10 albums, and eight singles.



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Alfred Stephens

He prepared for publication in 1897 a collected edition of the verses of Barcroft Boake, with a sympathetic and able account of his life, and during the next 20 years he saw through the press, volumes of verse by Arthur Henry Adams, W. H. Ogilvie, Roderic Quinn, James Hebblethwaite, Hubert Newman Wigmore Church, Bernard O'Dowd, C. H. Souter, Robert Crawford, Shaw Neilson and others.

Augustin Hirschvogel

He contributed 23 etchings to Sigismund von Herberstein's 1549 edition of Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii (Notes on Muscovite Affairs), and more than 100 Old and New Testament illustrations for the verses of Hungarian reformer Péter Perényi (1502–48).

Before the Poison

Another version of the song, with different lyrics on the verses, was later released as "Green Fields" on his unnamed band's 2007 album, The Good, the Bad and the Queen.

Chillin' It

Dukes also wrote that "the verses are pleasantly effective in telling a vivid (if overtold) story of a guy, a girl and the open road" and described it a "decaf version" of Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise".

Conservative Judaism and sexual orientation

:In contrast, our colleagues Rabbis David Fine, Robert Fine and Myron Geller have argued that the verses in Leviticus should be understood to prohibit only those sexual relationships that offer no possibility of marriage.

Dip It Low

A remix of the song, featuring German rapper Samy Deluxe, also had a music video; the video is basically the same, only with separate footage of Samy Deluxe and the verses he contributes to the song.

Down by the Bay

The Barney and the Backyard Gang video "Rock with Barney" featured the verses, "Did you ever see a bee with a sunburnt knee?", "Did you ever see a goose kissing a moose?", "Did you ever see a whale with a polka-dot tail?", "Did you ever see a bear try to curl somebody's hair?", "Did you ever see a guy playing tennis with a fly?", "Did you ever see a green dog jumping on a yellow log?", "Did you ever see a rhino kissing a dino?", and "Did you ever see some friends having fun that never ends?".

Dream Brother

Written by Buckley, bassist Mick Grøndahl and drummer Matt Johnson, it was written as an urge for a friend of his, Chris Dowd of Fishbone fame, not walking out on his pregnant girlfriend in a similar way to Buckley's own father, Tim Buckley, as evidenced in the verses, "Don't be like the one who made me so old/Don't be like the one who left behind his name/'Cause they're waiting for you like I waited for mine/And nobody ever came".

Festival Songs of Isis and Nephthys

“The subject of the verses throughout is the destruction of Osiris by Set, and the reconstruction of his body by Isis and Nephthys.

Get Married 3

Bramantyo makes a cameo, and is described by the characters as an extra from Ayat-Ayat Cinta (The Verses of Love; 2007) which he had directed.

Hideo Yoshino

While recuperating, he became familiar with the verses of Masaoka Shiki and Itō Sachio, two poets in the Araragi tanka group, and he began to compose verses himself.

I.O.I.O.

The title "I.O.I.O." is derived from the calls on the chorus sung by Maurice accompanied by Colin's drumming, and Barry sings the verses and plays guitar.

Idris Davies

He is now best known for the verses Bells of Rhymney from his 1938 Gwalia Deserta (meaning literally "Wasteland of Wales"), which were later adapted into a popular folk song.

Khatmiyya

His writings included an explanation of the verses of the Quran in his book Taj Al-Tafaseer, a concise and immaculate description of the story of the birth of the prophet Muhammad Al-Asrar Al-Rabaniya and over 112 literary poems on the description of the attributes and praise of the prophet Muhammad.

Linda McIntosh

In one memorable moment during this controversy, the entire opposition NDP caucus stood and with great gusto sang all the verses of God Save the Queen in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.

My Savior My God

Although usually credited as author and composer, Shust used the verses from Dora Greenwell's 1873 poem "I Am Not Skilled to Understand" and added a new bridge.

Outside My Window

She thought that the verses were well-written, and compared Buxton's sound to the likes of SHeDAISY, Deana Carter, and Julianne Hough.

Private Investigations

After the verses, the song opens up into a slow, bass-driven beat, with strident electric guitar chords at the end, before the gradual diminuendo featuring extended interplay between Mark Knopfler's acoustic guitar and marimba played by Mike Mainieri.

Rigoberto Fontao Meza

His high composer attributes where useful to being the first author of the verses of the first guaranias composed by the creator of that revolutionary Paraguayan style, José Asunción Flores, whom he maintained a long and strong friendship, ruined later by a disagreement between them related to the guarania "India".

Run Like Hell

It was sometimes introduced by Waters as "Run Like Fuck" and Waters and Gilmour sang alternating lines in the verses, while the vocal quartet of Stan Farber, Jim Haas, Joe Chemay, and John Joyce sang the choruses.

Shit on You

The song features references to John Candy, JonBenét Ramsey, where one of the verses said "Got JonBenet Ramsey in my '98 Camry", Richard Pryor, and Steve Stout, while Eminem's line referring to the band as "five more zany-actin' maniacs in action" harks back to his original underground album Infinite.

Shouka

Taking the verses of Sahrawi poet Lamine Allal, Hassan developed a nine paragraph critical response to the 1976 speech of then Spanish opposition leader and later president of Spain Felipe González at the Sahrawi refugee camps (he compromised Spanish Socialist Workers' Party support to the Sahrawi people until "the final victory"), by using all scales and rhythms of the Haul.

The King of Rock 'n' Roll

Producer Thomas Dolby added a synth bass in the verses to mimic the sound of a bullfrog, tying them into the chorus.

Throwing the Game

"Do You Miss Me" is a cover of Jocelyn Enriquez's hit single, though with altered lyrics in the verses.

Tiruvalithayam

It is one of the Paadal Petra Sthalams, 275 temples that are revered by the verses of Saiva Nayanars in the 6th-9th century CE and are amongst the greatest Shiva temples of the continent.

Yazdânism

One of the common characteristic of these three distinct group of people is that they frequently call themselves as "Kurdish Alawites" and distance themselves from Twelver-Shia-Muslim-Tariqat of the Anatolian Turkish-Qizilbash-Alevi-Bektashis in such a way that the prophecy of Muhammad as it was revealed by the verses of the Quran does not constitute a part of their fundamental religious faith.