Friday lyrics quiz

[purplerabbits]

For your delectation. Taken from the top 50 from iTunes party shuffle. Comments are screened, so no cheating!

Update: The results are in, but there's loads still to guess, anyone want a go?

1. Needs you like she needs her pills to tell her that the world's OK - Sisters of Mercy, Alice
   
2. You can keep your Marxist ways for it's only just a phase - Monty Python - The Money Song
   
3. Every time I look in your eyes I see St. Peter wave - They Might Be Giants, Dig My Grave
   
4. There's nothing to do so pack up your bags and join the back of the queue this time
   
5. I'm as honest as the day is long, the longer the daylight, the less I do wrong - Madness, Shut Up
   
6. An emotional charge like an electrical spark, but the fuses are two, you can't tell them apart
   
7. The question is big, the question is wide, I can't see around it I see only one side
   
8. Days in silence try my temper, nights spent drinking to remember
   
9. There were fireworks over London. You weren't among them anymore
   
10. The truth unwinding, scraping away at my mind, please stop asking me to describe
    
11. And though I once preferred a human being’s company, they pale before the monolith that towers over me - They Might Be Giants, The Statue Got Me High
    
12. Telephone box Red on grey Six three two three double 'O' three - OMD, Red Frame White Light
    
13. I'm a bull not a bear, a millionaire - James, (Just Like) Fred Astaire
    
14. I'm on warm milk and laxatives cherry-flavored antacids - Nirvana, Pennyroyal Tea
    
15. hey did any of you freaks here ever remember lenny? i can't remember his last name, he's turned to dust now, one of the chosen few
    
16. I'd shed blood for you/ The north star in the firmament/ You shine the most bright
    I've seen you draped in an electric veil/ Shrouded in celestial light
    
17. At school they taught me how to be so pure in thought and word and deed. They didn't quite succeed - Pet Shop Boys, It's a Sin
    
18. We needed something to move and fill up the space. We needed something that always is just the case
    
19. Abandon faith and then belief
    
20. She sleeps with the covers down, Hopin' that somebody gets in. Doesn't matter what she does, She knows that she can't win. - Kinks, Suzannah's Still Alive
    
21. Some have teeth and some have hair. Some have soft sweet petals, some look like Cher
    
22. That weren't no D.J. that was hazy cosmic jive - David Bowie, Starman
    
23. The moon... beautiful The sun... even more beautiful
    
24. I thought she was the girl for me. I was so taken by her personality
    
25. Am I a slut? Wow this is even better than a movie
    
26. You're just a oil slick on the drag strip. You're just a skid mark on the speedway
    
27. These are my salad days, slowly being eaten away,just another play for today - Spandau BAllet, Gold
    
28. Things cross your mind, you can't help it. What you said, what I said, what you did, what I did.
    
29. Back in the days when the battles raged and we thought it was nothing
    
30. In the fattest largest cloud up there. He's whiter than white and cleaner then clean. - Sugarcubes, Deus
    
31. He said the record wouldn't have to be hot and no-one ever seemed to care if it's not
    
32. See the young man in his new gown talking up to his bouffant drag - Bauhaus, Small Talk Stinks
    
33. Well close your breath and hold your eyes, turn the corner of surprise
    
34. But to send you to Antarctica to face your certain death was a very, very heartless thing to do
    
35. I'm throwing off the shadow of a better man now what you see is what you never had - Sisters of Mercy, When you don't see me
    
36. She said you'll get me when I'm old and wizened and not a day before that - Morphine, Honey White
    
37. When he's had enough of that, maybe you'll take him to bed
    To teach him he's alive before he wishes he was dead
    
38. Gimme something strong and I'll sing this song - Young Gods, Skinflowers
    
39. Girl with a curl with a sweet sweet ribbon in her hair she's calling out a window cos her daddy just don't care
    
40. If you need a second opinion as you seem to do these days you can look in my eyes and you can count the ways - I want you, Elvis Costello & the Attractions
    
41. Dredged in flour and deep fat fried and cooled on paper towels and then devoured - Morphine, Sharks
    
42. purple pie pete your lips are like lightning girls melt in the heat - T Rex, Telegram Sam
    
43. You float like a feather in a beautiful world - Radiohead, Creep
    
44. I got a reason for the devil inside you know Get a ticket, get a gun and we'll run the show - PWEI, Ruff Justice, Ruff Law
    
45. 'Cos I got the real love, the kind that you need , you'll come running back to me
    
46. She said, it's hard, it's just hard, it's kinda hard to say
    
47. My wife's getting lazy going gadget crazy wants a pallette shaped coffee table and a matching settee
    
48. he wears a sticky white shirt and tie in those viscose clothes his watch-hand glows - John Foxx, He's a Liquid
    
49. I shouldn't be up at this time but I can't sleep with you there by my side - The Boo Radleys, Wake Up Boo
    
50. If you're looking for trouble that's what you will find. Mom and pop, they will fuck you, for sure.
    

Comments will be unscreened and results announced when I get home tonight - Just an hour and a half to go folks!

Comments

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

#14 - Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea
#22 - David Bowie - Starman *sigh*

Others have got me gnashing teeth!

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

Yes, four out of a hundred to you.

[djm4]

5) I've never actually known the name of this song - Madness.
17) It's a Sin - Pet Shop Boys
22) Starman - David Bowie
49) The Boo Radleys - Wake Up Boo

35 looks familiar, too.

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

Yes, seven out of a hundred to you. You don't actually get any points for 'looks familiar' :-)

[djm4]

Oh yes, I did know 35 in theory. I'd probably never have got it in practice, though - I could sort of hear the tune but couldn't place it in context.

I never actually listen to the words in Creep, just sort of let the song wash over me. I should try it some time.

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

#49 Boo Radleys - Wake Up Boo!

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

OK, make that 6/100

[zotz]

1. Alice. Sisters.
14. Pennyroyal Tea. Nirvana.
17. It's a sin. Pet Shop Boys.
30. Deus. Sugarcubes.
35. When you don't see me. Sisters.
36. Honey White. Morphine.
38. Skinflowers. Young Gods.
40. I want you. Elvis Costello & the Attractions.
43. Creep. Radiohead.

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

18/100, that a bit better...

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

#17 - It's a Sin - Pet Shop Boys

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

8/100

[djm4]

5) Is it 'Shut Up' or is that another song? The next line's 'The longer the daylight, the less I do wrong' - although I'm sure the lyric occurs in other songs besides that one by Madness, mind you.

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

It is, that takes you up to 8/100

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

#2 Monty Python - The Accountancy Shanty?

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

Right artist, wrong song - 9/100

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Wow I'm impressed I pulled them out of the air! It must be the Money Song then :O)

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

# Every time I look in your eyes I see St. Peter wave

They Might Be Giants - Dig My Grave

# I'm as honest as the day is long

Madness -

# And though I once preferred a human being’s company, they pale before the monolith that towers over me

They Might Be Giants - The Statue Got Me High

# We needed something to move and fill up the space. We needed something that always is just the case

Pixies - Distance Equals Rate Times Time

# She sleeps with the covers down, Hopin' that somebody gets in. Doesn't matter what she does, She knows that she can't win.

Kinks

# That weren't no D.J. that was hazy cosmic jive

David Bowie - Starman

# In the fattest largest cloud up there. He's whiter than white and cleaner then clean.

Sugarcubes - Deus

# See the young man in his new gown talking up to his bouffant drag

Bauhaus - Small Talk Stinks

# She said you'll get me when I'm old and wizened and not a day before that

Morphine - Honey White

# Dredged in flour and deep fat fried and cooled on paper towels and then devoured

Morphine - Sharks

# You float like a feather in a beautiful world

Radiohead - Creep

# I got a reason for the devil inside you know Get a ticket, get a gun and we'll run the show

Pop Will Eat Itself - Bulletproof?

# She said, it's hard, it's just hard, it's kinda hard to say

Laurie Anderson - Let X=X?

In every case where I can't remember the name, I can play the song in my head just fine...

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

21/100. You got the wrong song title for The Poppies, Laurie Anderson and The Pixies, but you still win. Have an invisible biscuit.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Bictic! Incredible, I never win lyrics quizzes even a bit, but this time I'm miles ahead!

Should have been able to play the Poppies further forward in my head to get the song title. Or written "Rough Justice" which is part of the title apparently!

And 25 is Bongwater.

Now to look up the songs for the others I didn't know. Ah, I've just worked out the Kinks one is "Suzanna's still alive"...

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

42 is Marc Bolan and T Rex - Telegram Sam

[ajva.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I only know two:

17) It's a sin - Pet Shop Boys
43) Creep - Radiohead

Boy am I crap! :o)

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

Yup - 4/10

[duranorak.livejournal.com]

Pitiful. Absolutely pitiful of me. Oh well :

12. 'Red Frame/White Light', OMD.

13. '(Just Like) Fred Astaire', James.

17. 'It's A Sin', Pet Shop Boys.

22. 'Starman', David Bowie.

27. 'Gold', Spandau Ballet. You secret 80s cheese-merchant, you.

48. 'He's A Liquid', John Foxx.

Pathetic. But I look forward to hearing what the others are, some of those are gorgeous.

E.
x

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

Yes, 12/100

You may be the only person who didn't get Creep, but you are Excused on Account of Guitars

[fleurione.livejournal.com]

17 - It's a Sin - Pet Shop Boys
22 - Starman - David Bowie

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

Yes, 4/100.

Er, who are you?

[fleurione.livejournal.com]

Just some random =)
I was reading a friend's friends page I think.. =)

[zbyszek.livejournal.com]

I got 1 and 2 ("Alice" - Sisters of Mercy, "Your woman" - White Town) and thought, "This is alright", but then nothing until 30 ("Deus" - The Sugarcubes) and 43 ("Creep" - Radiohead). 46 is Laurie Anderson but I'm not sure of the title - "Big Science"?
Five out of bloody fifty - I'm shite and I know I am!
I might try again later, though.

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

7.5 out of 100 (I gave you half for getting the LAurie Anderson Album right). I had to look the White Town up, never having heard of it, but the lyric in that is actually "So much for all your highbrow Marxist ways
Just use me up and then you walk away", so there. Ner.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Hey, I got the right album (but wrong song) on three of mine but no half points for me!

Oh, wait, I won, I should probably not complain...

[sublevel3.livejournal.com]

I only know the first one, although a couple of the others seem vaguely familiar.

1. The Sisters of Mercy - Alice

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

2/100. Tut!