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Mellow Yellow Mystery Cache

Hidden : 3/4/2022
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


At the posted co-ordinates, if you visit during cafe hours, you will see a neat yellow bicycle.

Information in the cache description comes from Wikipedia, where data for GZ co-ordinates can also be found.

Clicking on the yellow song names will take you to the YouTube video, if you'd like to hear/re-hear some awesome music.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is the seventh studio album by English singer-songwriter Elton John.

Under the working titles of Vodka and Tonics, Bernie Taupin wrote the title track lyrics in two and a half weeks, with John composing most of the music in three days while staying at the Pink Flamingo Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica

A = the third digit of the year this album was released.

Mellow Yellow - Donovan

Mellow Yellow, was written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. In the US, it reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The song was rumoured to be about smoking dried banana skin, which was believed to be a hallucinogenic drug in the 1960s, though this aspect of bananas has since been debunked.

B = the number at which the song peaked in the UK in early 1967.

The Girl In The Yellow Dress - David Gilmour

Rattle That Lock is the title of the fourth solo studio album by former Pink Floyd singer and guitarist David Gilmour and contains this unbelievably cool bluesy, smoky, jazz piece. The unforgettable animated youtube video for The Girl in the Yellow Dress was created by Los Angeles-based filmmaker Danny Madden.

The album was Gilmour's first in C years.

Little Yellow Spider - Devendra Banhart

Little yellow spider, laughing at the snow
Ah, maybe that spider knows something that I don't know
'Cause I'm Goddamn cold

D = the first digit of the year when Little Yellow Spider, listed under Devendra Banhart's Singles and EPs, was released.

Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell.

Written on Joni Mitchell's first trip to Hawaii, Big Yellow Taxi is a lament for environmental and personal loss.

The song was written, composed, and originally recorded by her in the year 19F0.

Yellow - Cold Play

This feel-good song was apparently inspired by stars and phone-book yellow pages.

G = the number the song reached on the UK Singles Chart minus its chart position in Iceland.

You will find this geocache at:
S33 50.ABC E151 12.DFG

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Cbyr. Uvtu.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)