Obscure post-punk lyrics quiz.
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thepaintedone on a mailing list. The aim is to get artist and title for as many of the lyrics below as possible without using Google. (That's how I looked them up myself.) All are from the time period 1979 to 1984 and would have been reasonably known to hipsters in the UK and Australia. And I love 'em.
If you want to do this one, post your answers before reading the comments so as to avoid spoilers!
- "Charm's in limited supply/And refusing to stretch/That indefinable nothing/Somehow keeps pushing you"
- "It's all ours/It's a love bond/It's a power bond/I just want to see your face"
- "I'm dead and dank and rotten/My arms are wrapped in cotton/My corpse loves you, let's marry"
- "Capitalism is the most barbaric of all religions/Department stores are our new cathedrals/Our cars are martyrs to the cause"
- "Kiss of neverness/Life of timelessness/We'll break the speed of chance/We'll tame eternity"
- "Sit down with empty papers/Wipe the smoke through the hallways/Someone whispers in the darkness/Might be there way too long/Scatter the dusty papers/Come back to blue heaven"
- "It's so hopeless to define/When you jump to close the blinds"
- "I'd sing solitaire for the B.E.F./But who wants to be with them, anyway?/Snow on Easter Sunday/Jesus Christ in reverse"
- "Now there's action on the basement stairs/A monster, half man half beast, climbs/Hear the hatchet, grind, grind"
- "You make me feel ashamed/At acting attitudes/Remember ridicule/It should be clear by now"
If you get more than three of these, I love you and will have your babies. (Childbearing offer not redeemable by hirez without signed dispensation from girfan.)
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Date: 2003-01-06 09:38 am (UTC)I am filled with shame; I only know the first. Entirely coincidentally, I'm listening to it right now.
So, no babies. Alas.
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Date: 2003-01-06 09:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-06 09:55 am (UTC)Meh. 'm sorry. I suck.
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Date: 2003-01-06 10:01 am (UTC)(
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Date: 2003-01-06 10:08 am (UTC)So I should know. ~kicks self~
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Date: 2003-01-06 10:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-06 10:15 am (UTC)Hey, that sounds kind of familiar, except that I was actually alive for most of it, just living in a total cultural backwater.
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Date: 2003-01-06 10:16 am (UTC):-)
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Date: 2003-01-06 10:18 am (UTC)~hugs~ I miss you.
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Date: 2003-01-06 10:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-06 10:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-06 10:52 am (UTC)E.
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Date: 2003-01-06 11:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-06 11:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-06 11:51 am (UTC)Pah! Martin Gore! Same bloody thing... Still got 4 though. :-)
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Date: 2003-01-06 11:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-06 11:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-06 11:59 am (UTC)I give up...this quiz out-obscures me. It's me age, you know...? I probably would have got them all back in 1985, but unfortunately, I was totally muntered at the time... ;-)
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Date: 2003-01-06 11:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-06 12:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-06 01:07 pm (UTC)I might do my own quiz if tomorrow is as quiet at work as today was.
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Date: 2003-01-06 02:50 pm (UTC)(Which means I'm going to have to come up with ten meself, just to see if I'm thick or was listening to another music in a different kitchen.)
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Date: 2003-01-06 02:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-06 03:09 pm (UTC)(I never played that side of the LP, curiously enough.)
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Date: 2003-01-06 03:15 pm (UTC)You have to do one of these next.
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Date: 2003-01-06 03:18 pm (UTC)It's in hand. As I write, even. (It'll be bloody easy, mind)
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Date: 2003-01-06 03:38 pm (UTC)I'm sure there's a CMAFA song in there too that got stolen by somebody else.
However I don't want nothin' to do with no babies so you're off thehook on that one.
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Date: 2003-01-06 04:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-06 05:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-06 08:30 pm (UTC)I thought we were just a bunch of old net.goths who can't be arsed with use-net any more.
Or maybe that's just me.
Either way, I'm glad all those years of listening to obscure indie bands has produced something of value :-)
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Date: 2003-01-07 12:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-07 12:40 am (UTC)E.
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Date: 2003-01-12 12:20 am (UTC)God damn, I'm letting the team down :)
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Date: 2003-01-12 11:28 am (UTC)