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10 Question Music Quiz: Levellers Lyrics | Music

How well do you know the words from the Levellers albums "Green Blade Rising", "Truth and Lies" and "Letters From the Underground"?

A multiple-choice quiz by Rowena8482. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
Rowena8482

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
346,373

Updated
Aug 19 24

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
5 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. Which song from the "Letters From the Underground" album has the chorus
"Can you help me?
Can you help me?
'cause I need to understand,
The truth behind our plan
Can you help me?" Hint

Before the End

Fight or Flight

Accidental Anarchist

Eyes Wide

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Question 2 of 10

2. True or False; The lyrics to the song "Last Man Alive" mention a "life belt"?

True

False

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which of these options completes this Levellers lyric?
"I dreamt I felt a steel knife ___________
A moment's hesitation before you kill the hope" Hint

Slide smooth across a throat

Slipped between his ribs

As she carved away my heart

I dreamt we had a home

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Question 4 of 10

4. In "Cholera Well", what are the "The militia men are throwing dice" for? Hint

A handful of beans and rice

While children starve amonst the ice

Chess piece lives for you and I

To see who dies by morning

5. Which word completes this Levellers lyric?
"You hear the common word of mouth
That backstreet talk just a hollow sound
Cos the hero _____ could not be found
And there's a lot of faking going down" Hint

Graham

Mate

Blake

Che

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Question 6 of 10

6. What completes these lines from the song "Accidental Anarchist"?
"The _____________
Get bigger every day
Falling down in to them
Wasting away" Hint

Cracks in the walls

Holes in your pocket

Losses in your lives

Gaps between the paving stones

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Question 7 of 10

7. In which Levellers song would you hear these lines?
"I smoked the world,
Drunk dry the sea" Hint

Pretty Target

Said and Done

Wild as Angels

Knot Around the World

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which of these locations is NOT mentioned in the lyrics to the Levellers song "Pale Rider"?
Hint

Guantanamo

Edgware Road

King's Cross

Times Square

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Question 9 of 10

9. In the lyrics to the Levellers song "Pour", what is the singer's "love" told to pour into their eyes? Hint

Blue

Love

Light

Beauty

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Question 10 of 10

10. "We have no off-shore accounts
No mountain of gold in a vault
We get by on _______
Living under assault"
Which of these options completes this Levellers lyric? Hint

The lam

Wits and charm

Final demands

Anything we can

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which song from the "Letters From the Underground" album has the chorus "Can you help me? Can you help me? 'cause I need to understand, The truth behind our plan Can you help me?"

Answer: Fight or Flight

"Letters From the Underground" was the Levellers' eighth studio album, and was released in 2008.

2. True or False; The lyrics to the song "Last Man Alive" mention a "life belt"?

Answer: True

The lyric is
"As the ice around you starts to melt,
Don't panic, 'cause I'm holding your life belt
Or I'll just stand and watch"
"Last Man Alive" is from the 2005 "Truth and Lies" album, which was the band's seventh studio release.

3. Which of these options completes this Levellers lyric? "I dreamt I felt a steel knife ___________ A moment's hesitation before you kill the hope"

Answer: Slide smooth across a throat

This somewhat icky lyric is from the song "Steel Knife" which appeared on the "Truth and Lies" cd, first released in 2005.
Rather than the Levellers' usual On The Fiddle label, "Truth and Lies" was released by Eagle Records, run by Lindsay Brown in the UK.

4. In "Cholera Well", what are the "The militia men are throwing dice" for?

Answer: A handful of beans and rice

"Cholera Well" has a somewhat strange juxtaposition of some very bitter and hardhitting lyrics, with a rollicking "square dance" type tune.
It was released as a single, for electronic download only, in 2008, as part of a "double" with "Life Less Ordinary".

5. Which word completes this Levellers lyric? "You hear the common word of mouth That backstreet talk just a hollow sound Cos the hero _____ could not be found And there's a lot of faking going down"

Answer: Blake

These lines are from the song "Aspects of Spirit". It was first released on the 2002 CD "Green Blade Rising", which was the Levellers' sixth studio album.

6. What completes these lines from the song "Accidental Anarchist"? "The _____________ Get bigger every day Falling down in to them Wasting away"

Answer: Holes in your pocket

In 2011, as well as running and headlining their own award winning Beautiful Days festival in Devon, The Levellers also appeared at the Galtres Festival near York. They are one of the few bands to have been successful over a prolonged period of time in the UK without having many records actually enter the music charts.

They rely instead on a huge network of devoted "travelling fans" and almost continuous touring of both the UK and Europe.

7. In which Levellers song would you hear these lines? "I smoked the world, Drunk dry the sea"

Answer: Pretty Target

The lines are from "Pretty Target", featured on the 2002 album "Green Blade Rising".
Founder member and lead singer of The Levellers, Mark Chadwick, also released a solo album in 2010, called "All the Pieces".

8. Which of these locations is NOT mentioned in the lyrics to the Levellers song "Pale Rider"?

Answer: Times Square

Times Square is the 'odd one out' and is not mentioned in the song. As well as the places in question, the song mentions London, Death Row, Eastern passes, and the New World.
It was first released on the 2008 album "Letters From the Underground", by the Levellers' own On The Fiddle record label.

9. In the lyrics to the Levellers song "Pour", what is the singer's "love" told to pour into their eyes?

Answer: Blue

The song says
"Pour some blue into your eyes my dear", and "Go on, pour that blue into your eyes my love".
"Pour" appears on the 2002 "Green Blade Rising" album.
In 2011, The Levellers won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards "Roots Award" for their music.

10. "We have no off-shore accounts No mountain of gold in a vault We get by on _______ Living under assault" Which of these options completes this Levellers lyric?

Answer: Final demands

These lines are from the song "Duty", featured on the 2008 "Letters From the Underground" album.
The Levellers are one of the few artists to regularly feature a digeridoo in their work, and it is usually played by Stephen Boakes.

Source: Author Rowena8482

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