The Music Quiz

  1. To be in England in the summertime (hey!) with my love. Close (to the Edit) - Art of Noise

  2. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Days Like This - Van Morrison

  3. Wishing she could call him heartache. But it’s not a boy’s name. Appetite - Prefab Sprout

  4. Ain’t no smilin’ faces, lyin’ to the races. I’ll Take You There - The Staple Singers

Let 'er rip, CJ.

16 is semi charmed kinda? life cant remember the band
The artist is Third Eye Blind and now that you've given me such a heads up, the song is Semi-Charmed Life
@bonzo deserves most of the credit for this one

7 is van Morrison, days like this.

The grumpy old man has been ridiculously consistent even if he’s never bettered astral weeks. Some of those Them songs go alright too.

Time for another.

  1. You played a house that can’t be beat
    Now look your head’s bowed in defeat
    You walked too far along the street
    Where only rats can run.

  2. We’ve got to get together sooner or later
    Because the revolution’s here.
    2, Something in the air - Thunderclap - BDS / Newman - McGoved.

  3. You are a look in your eye
    A dream passing by in the sky I don’t understand
    All I need is treat me like a man.
    3 tin soldier - small faces - davethedon

  4. The morning sun, when it’s in your face really shows your age
    But that don’t worry me none in my eyes, you’re everything.

  5. Maggie May - Rod Stewart - McGoved

  6. Last night I held Aladdin’s lamp
    So I wished that I could stay
    Before the thing could answer me
    Well, someone came and took the lamp away.

  7. All you did was wreck my bed,
    And in the morning kick me in the head.

  8. is also Maggie May - Rod Stewart - Soulnet

  9. Whistling tunes,
    We hide in the dunes,
    By the seaside.

  10. Games Without Frontiers/Peter Gabriel/swooper

  11. Out here in the fields,
    I fight for meals,
    I get my back into my living.

  12. Baba O’Rielly/The Who/swooper

  13. You cry out in your sleep,
    All my failings exposed.
    And there’s a taste in my mouth,
    As desperation takes hold.

  14. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart - mrjez

  15. Suddenly we hear the sirens
    Everybody started to run
    Jumping under doors and tables
    Well, I heard somebody shooting a gun

  16. l slink down the alleyway looking for a
    fight
    Howling to the moonlight on a hot summer night.

  17. Stray Cat strut / Stray Catz / BSD

  18. Well I got nothin’ against the press
    They wouldn’t print it if it wasn’t true…12. Sunday Papers - Joe Jackson - onlybomberinthevillage

  19. Oh sometimes I see her undressing for
    me,
    She’s the soft naked lady love meant her to be
    And she’s moving her body so brave and so free.
    If I’ve got to remember that’s a fine memory.

  20. Left alone with just a memory
    Life seems dead and so unreal
    All that’s left is loneliness
    There’s nothing left to feel

  21. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, Dusty Springfield - Shelton 10

  22. While I’m far away from you my baby
    Whisper a little prayer for me my baby
    Because it’s hard for me my baby
    And the darkest hour is just before dawn.

  23. Dedicated to the One I Love - Mama’s and Papas - Miss Ellie

  24. They gave you life
    And in return you gave them hell
    As cold as ice
    I hope we live to tell the tale.

  25. Shout - Tears for Fears - wimmera1

  26. Let me tell you how it will be,
    It’s one for you, nineteen for me.
    Taxman - The Beatles - McGoved

  27. Now I don’t mind choppin’ wood,
    and I don’t care if the money’s no good.
    Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest,
    But they should never have taken the very best.

  28. The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down, The Band - Shelton 10

  29. I met my first love at 13,
    She was brown,
    And l was pretty green.

  30. When I Was Young, The Animals - Shelton 10

  31. Before when things go wrong, as they sometimes will
    And the road that you travel, it stays all up hill.

Back much later to update.

  1. Maggie May - Rod Stewart
  1. Taxman - The Beatles

2, Something in the air - Thundercap … something?

  1. is also Maggie May - Rod Stewart.
  1. Stray Cat strut / Stray Catz / BSD
2, Something in the air - Thundercap .. something?

Newman

6. is also Maggie May - Rod Stewart.

Noticed that. Thought I must have the wrong somg

6. is also Maggie May - Rod Stewart.

Noticed that. Thought I must have the wrong somg

Stuffed me up too, I knew it was another Stewart one, and thought it was the opening lines of I dont wanna talk about it, … and McGov had put a wrong number on it, … did it change, or did my brain trick me?

Hmmm, … post has been edited.

  1. Something in the Air, Thunderclap Newman

Edit. Sorry. Done already

Q18. The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down, The Band

3 tin soldier - small faces
Tim Rodgers did not a bad version on rockwiz, but nothing on the original

  1. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, Dusty Springfield
  1. When I Was Young, The Animals
  1. Dedicated to the One I Love - Mama’s and Papas - Miss Ellie
  1. Games Without Frontiers/Peter Gabriel/swooper
  2. Baba O’Rielly/The Who/swooper
  1. Sunday Papers - Joe Jackson