The Music Quiz

8 Icona Pop - I Love It

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5 Maneater - Hall & Oates
18 Chinese Burn - Curve

Possibly the two most diverse answers in the history of a music quiz ever…

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13 rollins band illumination
15 pennywise bro hymn

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2 Kool Thing - Sonic Youth

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14 Moving on up - M People
20 Heard it through the grapevine - Marvin Gaye

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Was going to answer 20 with a different song.
Also would have gone,
8. I Don’t Care - KFC

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4 Lionel Ritchie.

6 Tricky - Black Steel

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A Lou Reed song, perchance?

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4


Oh dear, can’t even pretend I got it for a picture cover. :laughing:

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I was actually looking for the Public Enemy original of Black Steel, and the Blue Lagoon cover of Break My Stride, which i only learned was a cover … um … today. Oh well, close enough, you win. Grumble grumble cover versions making things complicated grumble…

Really though, they’re basically the same song done 20 years apart…

sigh number 7

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I really should have included a Meatloaf song in this round along with Let’s Get Loud and Movin on Up, and gone for the full ā€˜the worst musically cringeworthy moments in footy’ theme…

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Never mind. Two out of three ain’t bad.

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Need to include Bound For Glory, Dance Monkey and Holy Grail…

Oh god, my brain had repressed all recollection of Bound for Glory…

added more clues for the ones that hadn’t been guessed yet

16 dropkick murphys - worker’s song

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Answers.

1 - Breeders - Divine Hammer
10 - Jill Sobule - Bitter
11 - In-Grid - You promised me
17 - Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes - Feelin’ Kinda Sporty
19 - Weeping Tile - Westray (yeah, that one was probably a step too far into obscurity…)

New batch. Have at it…

  1. His game was surviving as in heaven as in hell The Clash - Guns of Brixton @xhavok
  2. Don’t try to tell me what I already know. Don’t criticise me cause I’m running the show
  3. The rock that ships run up against no matter how they tack. The murderers and the murdered ones and the ones who don’t come back
  4. If it’s not worth pretending then I don’t want to know Bis - Eurodisco @Jaymin
  5. It’s what men in stained raincoats pay for Pulp - This is Hardcore @percebushby
  6. They tried to catch a falling star thinking that she had gone too far. She did, but kept it hidden well until she cracked, and then she fell
  7. Soft machine, where’ve you been? Reading your stars in magazines. Plastic bags, bubble wrap on thirty-day trial, now send it back
  8. Watch out for signs that say ā€œhidden drivewaysā€ B52s - My Own Private Idaho @BAAKKEERRRR
  9. Her legs went all the way up to heaven and past Avalon Flogging Molly - Devil’s Dance Floor @percebushby
  10. The power of children can amaze. I’ll try not to complain, I know that’s a ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– , baby
  11. She says, i know a lot about the things that you do. Lie in the light, see how it goes
  12. They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound, but i am still around
  13. My job ain’t a job, it’s a damn good time Beastie Boys - No Sleep Til Brooklyn @simmo41
  14. My phone’s been ringing, but my heart it just won’t answer Sheena Easton - What comes naturally @Koala
  15. Strewn with time’s dead flowers, bereft in deathly bloom Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi’s dead @BAAKKEERRRR
  16. How can you sing when you can’t even talk? Fur - Jimmy Rogers @swooper
  17. Here’s one more chance now that you just missed Big Audio Dynamite - The Globe @simmo41
  18. The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth Billie Holliday - Strange Fruit @OBITV
  19. Drinks like Richard Burton, dance like John Travolta James - Getting away with it @Captain_Jack
  20. I spend an hour getting ready every day and still I end up looking more or less the same, but i could show you a thing or two
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  1. James - Getting Away With It.
    Finally got one, but not confident l will get any more.
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