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20 More First Lines

Rob has done another one, so have I. Same rules as before, if you recognise any, put the answers in the comments. These songs are from the sixties to the noughties, and there should be a couple of really easy ones this time round. I'll post the answers in a couple of weeks time.

1. "As I draw my breath, and silver fills my eyes"
-- My Dying Bride, For My Dying Angel (Paul Erbehr)
2. "Brezhnev took Afganistan, Begin took Beirut, Galtieri took the Union Jack"
-- Pink Floyd, Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert (The Final Cut) (Steve Jones)
3. "Contained in everything I do there's a love I feel for you"
-- Yes, Onward (from Tormato) (Steve Jones)
4. "Follow through, make your dreams come true"
5. "He goes to work in a brand new dawn"
-- Journey, Faith in the Heartland (Paul Erbehr)
6. "Hey now baby, get into my big black car"
-- Cream, Politician (Fred Webb)
7. "In the shuffling madness"
-- Jethro Tull, Locomotive Breath (Steve Jones)
8. "No I won't interfere, I'm the only sound you'll ever need to hear
9. "On top of the sky is a place where you go if you've done nothing wrong"
10. "Paint me a picture and hang it on the wall"
-- Rainbow, Self Portrait (also performed by Blackmores Night) (Steve Jones)
11. "Six of one and half a dozen, black guitars and plastic blues"
-- Porcupine Tree, Four Chords That Sold A Million (from Lightbulb Sun) (Steve Jones)
12. "Sprawling on the fringes of the city in geometric order"
-- Rush, Subdivisions (Hugh)
13. "Standing on a golf course, dressed in PVC"
-- Caravan, Golf Girl (Steve Jones)
14. "The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin', that's what I said"
-- Spinal Tap, Big Bottom (also covered by Hayseed Dixie) (Rob)
15. "The character actor plays romantic leads and the kitten curls in wet anticipation"
-- Fish, 3D (from "Fellini Days") (Steve Jones)
16. "This place has a history, the Spaniards settled here"
-- Blue Öyster Cult, Harvest Moon (from Heaven Forbid) Hugh)
17. "We come from the land of the ice and snow"
-- Immigrant Song (The Led Zeppelin song, although the version I'd been listening to was a live version by Gotthard) (Fred Webb, Steve Jones)
18. "We'll drink together, and when we drink together, we drink together"
19. "Well I'm here looking through an old picture frame"
-- Roxy Music, Editions of You (Steve Jones)
20. "You had it right in the palm of your hand, right before your eyes"

Posted by TimHall at August 02, 2006 09:30 PM
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Is number 14 and English band with a selective audience or the soundtrack to the Dukes of Hazard? ;-)

Posted by: Chris on August 4, 2006 08:16 PM

Just the title of the song will do :)

Posted by: Tim Hall on August 4, 2006 08:30 PM

#14 "Big Bottoms" - Spinal Tap

And I really should know #17 but damned if it will come right now.

Posted by: Rob on August 5, 2006 12:34 PM

Big Bottom it is. 'twas actually the cover by Hayseed Dixie, but the lyrics are identical.

BTW, two others (including #17) are covers, in both cases the originals are by far the best-known versions.

Posted by: Tim Hall on August 5, 2006 12:43 PM

You've been wading through my record collection, again :-)

2. Pink Floyd - Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert (Brilliant title for a track)
3. Yes - Onward
7. Tull - Locomotive Breath
10. Rainbow - Self Portrait (Also repeated on one of the Blackmore's Night CD)
11. PT - Four Chords That Made A Million
13. Caravan - Golf Girl (Love that track!)
15. Fish - 3D (From the 'More Songs About Bread' album)
17. Zepp - Immigrant Song
19. Roxy - Editions of You

Posted by: Steve Jones on August 5, 2006 02:26 PM

12 - Subdivisions/Rush
16 - Harvest Moon BOC

Posted by: Hugh on August 7, 2006 10:49 AM

I thought you'd guess #16 :) I'm surprised Steve Jones didn't get #12, though.

Posted by: Tim Hall on August 7, 2006 11:24 AM

Just one of those things. I knew the lyric as Rush but couldn't for the life of me remember which track it was. Old age ;-)

Posted by: Steve Jones on August 7, 2006 08:57 PM

1 - My Dying Bride / For my fallen angel
5 - Journey / Faith in the Heartland

Posted by: Paul Erbehr on August 10, 2006 12:16 AM
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