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1. The year was 1978. Punk was still going strong, but some bands were looking forward. Slap on some make-up and guess what song these lyrics are from: "My limbs are like palm trees. Swaying in no breeze. My body's an oasis. To drink from as you please. I'm not seeing what I'm meant to believe in. Your non excuse for human being."
2. "The greatest band in the world." "The greatest album ever made." "We are Shakespeare and the Simple Minds are crap." Don't take my word for it, it's this bands' singer talking. He also said the following lines, in song: "Conquering myself until I see another hurdle approaching. Say we can, say we will. Not just another drop in the ocean." What song?
3. The craziest man in Liverpool once sang these lyrics and suddenly saw himself and his band turned into pop idols overnight: "Bless my cotton socks I'm in the news. The king sits on his face buttons all askew. All wrapped up the same. All wrapped up the same. They can't have it. You can't have it. I can't have it too." Which song?
4. An entire movie was based on this 1981 song, but only on the title. It had nothing whatsoever to do with the lyrics which went as follows: "Caroline laughs and it's raining all day, she loves to be one of the girls. She lives in the place in the side of our lives where nothing is ever put straight. She turns her self round and she smiles and she says: "This is it. That's the end of the joke" and loses herself in her dreaming and sleep and her lovers walk through in their coats." Which song was this?
5. This next quote comes from a single by a band that was not so much abrasively modernistic, but quirky and poppy. They were, in fact, direct forerunners of indie rock. Their best loved 1979 single began thus: "When the rich die last. Like the rabbits. Running from a lucky past. Full of shadow cunning. And the world lights up. For the final day. We will all be poor. Having had our say." What is it?
6. "Ridicule is nothing to be scared of. Don't you ever, don't you ever. Stop being dandy, showing me you're handsome." Very eloquently put, by this flamboyant band. Who said it and in what song?
7. "If they were me. If they were me. And I was you. And I was you. If they were me and I was you - would you have liked a present too?" Which squeaky popsters sang this?
8. "What about the time? You were rollin' over. Fall on your face. You must be having fun. Walk lightly! Think of a time. You'd best believe. This think is real." Which bunch of funky intellectuals sang this?
9. "My little girl was born on a ray of sound. My little girl was born on a ray of sound. Sleeps on water walks on ice. Sleeps on water walks on ice. Got no father, immortal wife. I'd exchange my soul for her. There's no antidote for her. I'd exchange my soul for her. There's no antidote for her." A quote from a band with a slightly misleading name. What song? What band?
10. One of the biggest bands of the 80s, and that doesn't just refer to the singer's hair. What song do these lyrics come from: "I called you after midnight. Then ran until my heart burst. I passed the howling woman. And stood outside your door. We walked around the lake. And woke up in the rain. And everyone turned over. Troubled in their dreams again."
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