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Right, I'm bored and pissed up on a boat in Chichester Harbour - so I feel the urge to do a lyric quiz.  I'll give the first line of a song and you tell me the song title and artist....I did do these off the top of my head so don't fucking cheat and google them.  Also no comments on my MoR taste thanks :evil:

1)  "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but I always will be true"
2) "There's a man I meet walks up our street, he's a worker for the council has been 20 years"
3) "I come from down in the valley, where mister when you're young"
4) "Well the bus is pulling out and I think I better go, before I make a grave mistake and let my feelings show"
5) "Early one morning, the sun was shining, I ws layin in bed"
6) "I'm on a roll, I'm on a roll this time, I feel my luck could change"
7) "Load up on guns, bring your friends, it's fun to lose and pretend"
8) "I'm enlisting oversea's aid,  need assisting help with a maid"
9) "I was on the outside whe you said yousaid you needed me"
10) "Is it worth it, a new winter coat and shoes for the wife"

7) is that nirvana song which I can't remember at the moment.

I nearly did a quiz earlier but couldn't be arsed.

six is from OK computer.

yep you're both getting there - Nirvana - Smells like Teen Spirit and Radiohead - Lucky

ain't got a clue about the rest which will probably turn out to be very embarrassing.

yeah, I was just thinking the same thing axs.

The fact that you support Swindon and can't get number 8 is either a disgrace or testament to the fact hat you are light years younger than me.  This song was produced by the only musical act from Swindon (excluding Billie Piper) - I bet Reg will get the rest - glad someone is still up this late as the fucking anchor has just slipped :shock:

xtc? not many swindon bands out there.

didn't they sing a song about the magic roundabout?

Yep "Sgt Rock is going to help me" XTC - Barry Andrews used to drink in the Queens Tap and is an all round good guy.

Andy Partridge is always joking with me about my hair. I ribbed him about having a second order of his favourite special on Monday. He lived across the road from me when I was a kiddie.

Do I win a prize? 8)

Pint from me on Saturday - would be good to have a couple of you buggers about as the bloody oat's just ru aground....never mind an hour until high water

2) Dignity-Deacon Blue

Spot on fogster

10 is robert wyatt - shipbuilding

no, no, no. it's robert wyatt.

Yep - Wyatt recorded it first, Costello wrote the lyrics then recorded it himself about 6 months after Wyatt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_Beat_Manifesto

Fair do's - never heard of them mind.  I know Rick Davies from Supertramp was born in Swindon.

Yeah, too right! Those Oxford lot harp on about Radiohead, but we've got Rick Davies. In your face Oxford fan!

What about the Swindon band British Beef? I have never actually heard them but there was a thread about them on thisis which lasted about 5 years due to being bumped every few weeks.

Even more impressively, Swindon's got Gilbert O'Sullivan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_O%27Sullivan


Of course, Oxfordshire can also claim the world's most famous paedophile, Gary Glitter.

...and Justin Hayward of the Bluedy Moos

I guess all these people in bands don't exist then?  :soapy tit wank:  :wink:

They got signed by Sony then their deal got cancelled because they didn't sell enough. Haven't heard anything from them since. Also when they did get signed only one of them was from Swindon and even he (i think) was not part of the original line up.