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 everā€¦

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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 Donā€™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, canā€™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 ā€¦ um ā€¦ today. Oh well, close enough, you win. Grumble grumble cover versions making things complicated grumbleā€¦

Really though, theyā€™re basically the same song done 20 years apartā€¦

sigh number 7

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I really should have included a Meatloaf song in this round along with Letā€™s Get Loud and Movin on Up, and gone for the full ā€˜the worst musically cringeworthy moments in footyā€™ themeā€¦

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Never mind. Two out of three ainā€™t bad.

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Need to include Bound For Glory, Dance Monkey and Holy Grailā€¦

Oh god, my brain had repressed all recollection of Bound for Gloryā€¦

added more clues for the ones that hadnā€™t been guessed yet

16 dropkick murphys - workerā€™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 - Feelinā€™ Kinda Sporty
19 - Weeping Tile - Westray (yeah, that one was probably a step too far into obscurityā€¦)

New batch. Have at itā€¦

  1. His game was surviving as in heaven as in hell The Clash - Guns of Brixton @xhavok
  2. Donā€™t try to tell me what I already know. Donā€™t criticise me cause Iā€™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 donā€™t come back
  4. If itā€™s not worth pretending then I donā€™t want to know Bis - Eurodisco @Jaymin
  5. Itā€™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, whereā€™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 - Devilā€™s Dance Floor @percebushby
  10. The power of children can amaze. Iā€™ll try not to complain, I know thatā€™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 ainā€™t a job, itā€™s a damn good time Beastie Boys - No Sleep Til Brooklyn @simmo41
  14. My phoneā€™s been ringing, but my heart it just wonā€™t answer Sheena Easton - What comes naturally @Koala
  15. Strewn with timeā€™s dead flowers, bereft in deathly bloom Bauhaus - Bela Lugosiā€™s dead @BAAKKEERRRR
  16. How can you sing when you canā€™t even talk? Fur - Jimmy Rogers @swooper
  17. Hereā€™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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