The Music Quiz

[Humble_Minion]

Nice. Only two to go.

[Humble_Minion]

Added some extra lyrics for the two unsolved ones. Come on, someone…

[Humble_Minion]

Fine, i’ll just give you the answers then. Slackers.

1 - Gyroscope - Snakeskin
5 - Morcheeba - The Sea

Next batch.

1. My future’s determined by thieves, thugs and vermin, it’s quite an excursion but it’s okay
2. Time made man a timebomb, could die any day Arkana - Future’s Overrated @simmo41
3. There’s an old voice in my head that’s holding me back Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks @simmo41
4. I don’t want to classify you like an animal in a zoo Paul Shelley - Homosapien @wimmera1
5. Golden earring, golden skin, blowwave in their hair Joe Jackson - Real Men @wimmera1
6. The way she walks is quite contagious. Eager eyes follow her thighs and go 'oooh"
7. But now and then, we fail and we admit defeat Veruca Salt - Volcano Girls @swooper
8. Now I’m going back to Townsville, it’s the city of my birth. Some go back to Ballarat and some go back to Perth
9. So that’s why I make no protest when you say you will do the rest Pet Shop Boys - Go West @simmo41
10. Have I been wrong, have I been wise to shut my eyes and play along? Hypnotized, paralyzed, by what my eyes have found
11. My love is like a dark cloud full of rain, always right there up above you mountain goats - See America Right @Jaymin
12. I’m not alone, I’m not afraid, I’m not unhappy. These are the words I say to myself everyday
13. She’s the girl that you never liked anyway Grinspoon - Secrets @BAAKKEERRRR
14. All she saw was a silhouette of a gun Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow @BAAKKEERRRR
15. It’s been a day of tiny triumphs, it’s been a week spent in despair. Shihad - Home Again @swooper
16. Explain all these controls. Can’t sing but I’ve got soul U2 - Elevation @simmo41
17. We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith Pat Benatar - All Fired Up @BAAKKEERRRR
18. So will you, please, say hello to the folks that I know? Tell them I won’t be long Vera Lynn - We’ll meet again @GeoffBlethynsGlasses
19. Come taste the wine, come hear the band, come blow your horn Liza Minnelli- Cabaret @Shelton10
20. I thought I had a dream to hold. Maybe that has gone. Your hands reach out and touch me still

[wimmera1]

4. Homosapien - Pete Shelley
5. Real Men - Joe Jackson

[BAAKKEERRRR]

13: Grinspoon - Secrets
14: Mike Oldfield (with Maggie Reilly) - Moonlight Shadow
17: Pat Benatar - All Fired Up

[Brewer_s_Droop]

It’s a great poem, @Humble_Minion

[simmo41]

3 of monsters and men - little talks
9 pet shop boys - go west
16 u2 - elevation

[StealthBomber]

Of course the only one I recognise is answered in the first post.

[GeoffBlethynsGlasses]

18- We’ll meet again - Vera Lynne?

[Captain_Jack]

Once again… too late. (Me, l mean.)

[Jaymin]

11 The Mountain Goats - See America Right

[swooper]

15. Shihad - Home Again

[swooper]

7. Veruca Salt - Volcano Girls

[Humble_Minion]

I have to admit I’m disappointed that @Koala hasn’t snagged #19 yet.

But if there’s some you know and you’ve been holding back to give others a chance, I hereby declare it free for all. I’ll stick some clues up in a few days if you’re all still stuck…

[Shelton10]

19 is Life is a Cabaret I think, presumably as sung by Liza Minelli.

[simmo41]

2 arkana - future’s overrated

[Humble_Minion]

Added some more lyrics. Cos y’all are slow.

[wimmera1]

Complete guess but is 6. Too Shy - Kajagoogoo?

[Humble_Minion]

Nope, good try tho

[Humble_Minion]

1 - The Offspring - Americana
6 - Smoke City - Mr Gorgeous and Miss Curvaceous
8 - Fred Smith - The Dust of Uruzgan
10 - Natalie Merchant - Carnival
12 - VNV Nation - Fearless
20 - Texas - Summer Son

Let’s try again

1. But you and I are brothers of the soul and you and I will come in from the cold Chemical Brothers - Out of Control @simmo41
2. Conversation is interrogation, get out of here, we just don’t have the time Mel & Kim - Respectable @Koala
3. He’s livin’ the grey flannel life but when he turns off to sleep, memories creep Labelle - Lady Marmalade @BAAKKEERRRR
4. She didn’t believe in transcendence Shawn Colvin - Sunny Came Home @StealthBomber
5. I’ve got some boyz and some men to dance in sync, you can just join up with them
6. “Just paint your face,” the shadows smile, slipping me away from you. Oh it doesn’t matter how you hide, find you if we’re wanting to The Cure - Burn @Jaymin
7. You knew what you were looking for, I lied until I fit the bill Lemonheads/Smudge - The Outdoor Type @swooper
8. If there was a booze bus on the runway I’d blow point one two. I’m gonna head out to the stars with something to prove
9. Yellow diamonds in the light Rhianna - We found love @simmo41
10. I wanna love some more, it’ll never be the same. A broken heel like a heart, I’ll never walk again
11. The biggest problem with the way that we’ve been doing things is The more we let you have, the less that I’ll be keeping for me
12. I left my body lying somewhere in the sands of time Three Doors Down - Kryptonite @swoodley
13. Sucking on cigarettes, soaked in cheap red wine. These things aren’t that hard to find, it’s just that I’ve wasted so much time
14. Mother lookin’ at me, tell me what do you see? Yes, I’ve lost my mind T.A.T.U - All the thing she said @Jaymin
15. You touched my hand, I played it cool and you reached out your hand to me. But if our paths never cross, well, no I’m not sorry but…
16. There were two girls outside, they were both pretty wild Jebediah - Teflon @simmo41
17. Siberia, the place to be Scooter - Logical Song @simmo41
18. Between salt water and the sea strands, a soldier cleans and polishes a gun Simon and Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair @Shelton10
19. There’s a guy in the place who’s got a bittersweet face The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode @BAAKKEERRRR
20. No earthly ships will ever bring him home again Dido - My Lover’s Gone @Stressed_out