Lyric quiz.
Jan. 7th, 2003 06:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zotzJust like everyone else seems to be doing.
No googling. Answers to be supplied later if anyone can be bothered.
1:
Hear my words, Ana, they're the ones you would think I would say if
there was a me for you.
2:
I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas
On a great big clipper ship
Going from this land here to that
In a sailor's suit and cap
3:
It's just a rumour that's been spread around town
by the women and the children.
4:
I wish I could swim
like a dolphin.
Like dolphins can swim.
5:
Candy asked me if she died if I could go on
Of course I said I couldn't and of course we knew that's wrong
6:
You've bought a toy that'll reach the places he'll never go.
7:
I want you to be my father
You know what I am
I want you to kill me
I'm weak
Take what's mine
Come into my room
Put your hands on my throat
Now choke me
8:
If every fourth animal in the world is a beetle,
perhaps every fourth person is a
Dumb Fuck?
9:
Ever hear about the guy in New York whose dick fell off in the bath after he
shot it full of coke?
It's okay to run out of butter in Zambia - Just smear squashed caterpillars on
your toast.
Waiter, there's a terrorist in my soup.
Which came first? Max Headroom, or Gerald Ford?
Are you a man or are you a mouse?
If you love your fun, DIE FOR IT!
10:
We are old.
We're clapped out.
We're infirm.
Mope about.
Smell of wee.
Support tights.
Feel like shite.
No googling. Answers to be supplied later if anyone can be bothered.
1:
Hear my words, Ana, they're the ones you would think I would say if
there was a me for you.
2:
I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas
On a great big clipper ship
Going from this land here to that
In a sailor's suit and cap
3:
It's just a rumour that's been spread around town
by the women and the children.
4:
I wish I could swim
like a dolphin.
Like dolphins can swim.
5:
Candy asked me if she died if I could go on
Of course I said I couldn't and of course we knew that's wrong
6:
You've bought a toy that'll reach the places he'll never go.
7:
I want you to be my father
You know what I am
I want you to kill me
I'm weak
Take what's mine
Come into my room
Put your hands on my throat
Now choke me
8:
If every fourth animal in the world is a beetle,
perhaps every fourth person is a
Dumb Fuck?
9:
Ever hear about the guy in New York whose dick fell off in the bath after he
shot it full of coke?
It's okay to run out of butter in Zambia - Just smear squashed caterpillars on
your toast.
Waiter, there's a terrorist in my soup.
Which came first? Max Headroom, or Gerald Ford?
Are you a man or are you a mouse?
If you love your fun, DIE FOR IT!
10:
We are old.
We're clapped out.
We're infirm.
Mope about.
Smell of wee.
Support tights.
Feel like shite.
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Date: 2003-01-07 07:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-07 07:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-07 07:05 am (UTC)4. Heroes by Bowie
9. Power of Lard? It's definitely Lard isn't it?
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Date: 2003-01-07 07:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-07 07:07 am (UTC)4. Yup.
9. Yup.
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Date: 2003-01-07 07:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-07 07:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-07 07:10 am (UTC)I can't believe you didn't get all of mine. How many should you have got?
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Date: 2003-01-07 07:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-07 07:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-07 07:13 am (UTC)3. "Shipbuilding", Elvis Costello and the Attractions or Robert Wyatt (the superior version).
4. "Heroes", David Bowie.
6. "Do You Remember The First Time?", Pulp.
10. "Feel like Shite", Doofergrass.
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Date: 2003-01-07 07:13 am (UTC)3. Robert Wyatt and/or Elvis Costello, "Shipbuilding"
4. Bowie/Eno, "Heroes". (Too easy!)
5. Lou Reed, "Candy Says"? (guess)
10. I'm going to guess it's Half Man Half Biscuit.
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Date: 2003-01-07 07:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-07 07:14 am (UTC)Heroin
Date: 2003-01-07 07:14 am (UTC)*BANG*
*BANG*
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Date: 2003-01-07 07:15 am (UTC)The only one I'd certainly have had no chance with is Cinnamon Girl. Good song, and I like it, but I've only heard it a few times on the radio. I did once come across the lyrics to a song called Cynical Girl, which I thought read like a parody, but it doesn't seem to be.
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Date: 2003-01-07 07:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-07 07:19 am (UTC)Doofergrass being, of course, the Shirehorses.
The Shirehorses being Mark "I'm an award-winning radio DJ, me" Radcliffe and Marc "I'm reduced from playing guitar with the Fall to being this tosser's comedy sidekick" Riley.
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Date: 2003-01-07 07:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-07 07:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-07 07:24 am (UTC)I forgot you don't have The Great Annihilator, and I thought you liked Magazine more than that.
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Date: 2003-01-07 07:28 am (UTC)Blows raspberry
Date: 2003-01-07 07:29 am (UTC)2. Velvet Underground: Heroin
3. Elvis Costello: Shipbuilding
4. David Bowie: Heroes
5. Morphine: Candy
6. Pulp: Do you remember the first time
7. Swans: I Crawled
8. No Means No: Everyday I Start to Ooze
9. Lard: The Power of LARD
10. Doofergrass innit? I've heard it but it's the only one on the list we don't have in the house, I think.
Do I get extra sad points?
no subject
Date: 2003-01-07 07:31 am (UTC)Which Swans album is it that I bought recently that you don't have? I was sure I was going to tape one for you but you said you'd get ruond to buying it eventually.
Or am I thinking of Penthouse?
Re: Blows raspberry
Date: 2003-01-07 07:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-07 07:35 am (UTC)Re: Blows raspberry
Date: 2003-01-07 07:40 am (UTC)Re: Blows raspberry
Date: 2003-01-07 07:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-07 07:50 am (UTC)To the place where I live on a desk top globe
Exit wound in a foreign nation
Showing the place where you live...
5: But Candy darling, Candy, no, you can't do that to me
Because you love me way too much for you to ever leave.
9: (now playing)
Which would you prefer, a computer or a gun?
10: Don't know any other lyrics from this one, but it's that Shirehorses thing wot you played me...
Well I got zero out of ten from
Re: Blows raspberry
Date: 2003-01-07 08:01 am (UTC)http://www.livejournal.com/view/?type=month&user=purplerabbits&y=2003&m=1
http://www.livejournal.com/view/?type=month&user=purplerabbits&y=2002&m=12
...etc...
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Date: 2003-01-07 08:01 am (UTC)3. I think is Eels? I recognise it and can hear it in my head but not place it.
6. is Pulp (Babies?)
9. you played to me recently and it was very very strange but I can't remember who it was
10. is The Shirehorses (Feel Like Shite)
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Date: 2003-01-07 08:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-07 08:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-07 08:15 am (UTC)Without the tunes, the words just don't register.
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Date: 2003-01-07 11:04 am (UTC)4.Bowie - Heroes
7. Death in Vegas - Hands around my throat (?)
10. The Shirehorses - Feel like shite.
9. Sounds like Big Black sleave-notes.
I'll read the rest of the comments now.
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Date: 2003-01-07 05:34 pm (UTC)Hmmmm
Date: 2003-01-08 04:17 am (UTC)I'm boycotting all these, as the alternative is doing a friends cull. I hope they go away *very soon*.