lyrics quiz...

[sonicyouth]

simple really, put all your mp3s on shuffle and pick out lyrics from a few tunes and see if anyone can guess them.

i've done 10, none of which are terribly obscure. between you all i think you'll manage to get them without any difficulty.

winner gets a pint. no google!

1. Made the fatal mistake / Like I did once before / A tendency just to take / Til the purpose turned sour

2. And does your heart begin to fail / When the moment gets closer? / You always turn the other way / But it doesn't really matter at all / It doesn't really matter at all, oh no

3. Purify the colours, purify my mind / Purify the colours, purify my mind / And spread the ashes of the colors / Over this heart of mine!

4. Here comes the boat / Only half-afloat / Oarsman grins a toothless smile

5. Cause she drank and swore and spoke / Out of turn, she was the village joke

6. I was born, lucky me / In a land that I love / Though I am poor, I am free / When I grow I shall fight / For this land I shall die

7. If you can play on the fiddle / How’s about a british jig and reel? / Speaking king’s english in quotation / As railhead towns feel the steel mills rust water froze

8. I can’t see the end of me / My whole expanse I cannot see / I formulate infinity / And store it deep inside of me

9. The girl was never there / It’s always the same / I’m running towards nothing / Again and again and again and again

10. Oh, you’ve got green eyes / Oh, you’ve got blue eyes / Oh, you’ve got grey eyes

[Ben Wah Balls]

1. joy division
7. Clash - er something
8. nirvana

10. new order - temptation

[STFC Village]

8. I can’t see the end of me / My whole expanse I cannot see / I formulate infinity / And store it deep inside of me

Oh Me-Nirvana

One of the best songs off of the live album.

[Ben Wah Balls]

Here's mine.

1. You don't care for me, I don't care about that. You got a new fool, Hah, I like
him like that

2. So who's in charge in here barking out loud so clear 'cos I'd really like to meet him

3. The lunatics have taken over the asylum.

4. I do this operation to improve penetration, I make vadges so tight that they need lubrication

5. Now there's a hole in the sky and if the grounds not cold everything is gonna burn

6. take out your manifestos and then put them away
I implore you to ignore every word I say

7. Like a liar at a witch trial
You look good for your age

8. Grooow my hair Grow my hair I am Jim Morrison.

9. The compliment showed she had a mind in her
And when I smiled (ping!) I almost blinded her
She said, great scott! are you a thief?
Seems like you have a mouth full of gold teeth

10. So deaf, Van Goth was thinking of me when he chopped his ear off

[sonicyouth]

all right so far the clash tune is 'straight to hell', joy division 'the only mistake' and the nirvana tune is actually by meat puppets but i'll let you have it.  

[Bedford Red]

No 10 I think is "temptation" by New Order for Sonic's,

and BWB, is your no 3 Fun Boy 3 "Lunatics have taken over the asylum" ?

[Bedford Red]

Sorry, I just noticed BWB already had got the New order one, sorry.

I have one more of Sonic's i think - no 5 , Belle and Sebastian, and "It could have been a brilliant career".

[oxford_fan]

4. I do this operation to improve penetration, I make vadges so tight that they need lubrication

glc  

there's a headstone for jim morrison outside the indian embassy in london, can someone tell me why?

[Nomoreheroes]

Sonic 4. Madness - Night Boat To Cairo

NMH

[sonicyouth]

bedford and nmh both right with madness and b&s respectively.

just 1, 2, 6 and 9 to go.

[STFC_Chris]

Is 9 The Cure? Can't remember the song name  :roll:

[Nomoreheroes]

1. Joy Division: The Only Mistake
2. Wedding Present - Tommy
6. The Kinks - Victoria
9. The Cure - A Forest

NMH

[sonicyouth]

well done chris and nmh

i'm impressed!

[Ben Wah Balls]

4 is glc but 3 isn't lunatics have taken over the asylum, difficult one that.

[sonicyouth]

5. Now there's a hole in the sky and if the grounds not cold everything is gonna burn

pixies - monkey gone to heaven