To arms, my loyal peasants!
1. "Take a boat to England baby, maybe to Spain." Simon and Garfunkel - Blues Run The Game (Jamie)
2. "Staggering home, the headlights throw a shadow up and upon." Madness - Lovestruck (Mozz)
3. "Show me show me show me how you do that trick." The Cure - Just Like Heaven (Mozz)
4. "Sail away with me honey, I put my heart in your hands." David Gray - Sail Away (Jamie)
5. "I sit at my table and wage war on myself." R.E.M. - World Leader Pretend (Mozz)
6. "When I think of heaven, deliver me in a black winged bird." Counting Crows - Rain King (Jamie)
7. "Pistols of fire, pistols of fire, pistols of fire, shatter the frame." Kings Of Leon - Pistols Of Fire (wils)
8. "If it weren't for your maturity none of this would've happened." Alanis Morissette - Hands Clean (Mozz)
9. "Waking up at the start of the end of the world." Matchbox 20 - How Far We've Come
10. "Dearest constellation, heaven surroundin' you, stay there soft and blue." Foo Fighters - Virginia Moon (wils)
12. "I woke up on the wrong side of the floor." Green Day - Uptight (Jamie)
13. "Wrap me in always, and drag me in with maybes." Smashing Pumpkins - Thru The Eyes Of Ruby (JJ)
14. "I've got a dying urge to feel the way you do." Alkaline Trio - Continental
15. "It felt cold inside, so we threw the radio onto the fire." Idlewild - The Bronze Medal (Nadia)
16. "I love New York City, I love New York City." Andrew WK - NYC
17. "It covers the roadways, it covered the hillsides." Midlake - It Covers The Hillsides (Jamie)
18. "Bad news if he could choose, would he refuse to be the bearer?" The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Bad News And Bad Breaks
19. "I drive a truck, it carries money, and every day I dream up my fantasies." Stereophonics - Everyday I Think Of Money (Mozz)
20. "I've been a desperate man, I've been sheltered by a lonely dream." Ryan Adams - Hallelujah
21. "Here come Monday mornin', life is open wide." The Presidents of the USA - Shortwave
22. "Drums come out of boredom baby, UN exports it everyday." The Manic Street Preachers - Another Invented Disease
23. "Thought you had all the answers to rest your heart upon." Bird York - In The Deep
24. "Romeo got married on the 5th of July, in Our Lady of Immaculate Dawn." Josh Ritter - Harrisburg
25. "I will find a way to get to you someday." Cracker - Shake Some Action
Seventeen bands (edit: eighteen, sorry) and seven solo artists. 18 quotes are from Americans, 3 from Englishmen, 2 from the Welsh, and one each hail from Canadian and Scottish sources. Two of the lines are sung by women, and four include the name of the track within them (a fifth comes pretty close).
44% remains, as always, the score to beat. Get to work. And sorry about the "peasants" thing.
Update: Up to 52%. Your best score to date. But there's still some easy fruit for plucking.
Update II: And now a mighty 56%!
15 comments:
1. 'Blues Run the Game' - original by Jackson Frank
4. 'Sail Away With Me' - David Gray
6. 'Rain King' - Counting Crows
12. 'Uptight' - Green Day
17. 'It Covers the Hillsides' - Midlake
It was the Simon and Garfunkel version of "Blues", but all correct nonetheless. An excellent start, my pretties!
5 rings a bell but I can't place it. That's all I can bring to the table!
I'm surprised Jamie didn't get that one, actually. It's from an album that went platinum in the UK and double platinum in the US, and most people our age have at least one album by the artist in question, though admittedly one released slightly later than this one.
3. Just Like Heaven - The Cure
5. World Leader Pretend - REM
8. Hands Clean - Alanis Morrisette
19. Everyday I Think of Money - Stereophonics
2. Lovestruck - Madness
Really should've gotthat on the first read!
Good work, Mozz!
We're only two away from the highest score yet, my adoring fans. Keep at it!
13. Thru The Eyes of Ruby - Pumpkins
I felt it calling out to me over the interwebses!
Good work, JJ! I knew I could count on you :)
There's no way I could know which of the many versions of 'Blues Run the Game' it could have been, although I suspected it was probably S&G. Anyway, I felt like giving Mr Frank his due.
'World Leader Pretend' is one of those REM tracks that I find immensely forgettable; and that's even with the caveat that I'm not generally good with REM lyrics anyway, a lot of them just tend to flow over me.
You have an Alanis Morrisette song on your iPod. Who are you, and what have you done with Squid?
Which is why you got the point; I was just explaining why your answer and the one put up would differ. Stop griping. No-one likes a griping peasant.
7 Pistol of Fire - Kings of Leon
10 Virginia Moon - Foo Fighters
Both correct! And with that, we cross the 50% barrier! Best score ever!
Right. So my friend Nadia would like to add her contribution:
15 Idlewild - The Bronze Medal.
I repeat - No credit to me for this :P
Nadia has excellent taste.
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