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Funky First Lines

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Introduction:
"Here is a quiz based on the songs on my Ipod. I give you a song's first lines: you give me the artist. The songs are largely indie/alternative, with some from the 1980's but most from the 1990's up to 2006/7."


1. I'll start with an oldie-but-goodie. Which songstress sings:
"I still dream of Orgonon
I wake up crying
You're making rain and you're just in reach
When you and sleep escape me"?
    Kate Bush
    Bonnie Tyler
    Pat Benatar
    Sheena Easton


2. Which of these female rockers tells us:
"I never meant to be the needle that broke your back
You were here
you were here
you were here, don't look back"?
    Cat Power
    Tori Amos
    PJ Harvey
    Regina Spektor


3. Which band begins a song with:
"Rosemary, Heaven restores you in life
Coming with me
through the aging the fearing the strife"?
    Coldplay
    The Killers
    Interpol
    Nine Inch Nails


4. Which group sings:
"Plastic brain scar
I want laser
I'm your chauffeur with high
Gloss High
Take you where you want"?
    Goldfrapp
    Massive Attack
    Moloko
    Ladytron


5. Which band tells us:
"I was alone, falling free
Trying my best not to forget
What happened to us, what happened to me
What happened as I let it slip"?
    Greenskeepers
    Radiohead
    Placebo
    Coldplay


6. Which of these bands begins a song with:
"Nobody ever had a dream round here
But I don't really mind and it's starting to get to me
Nobody ever pulls the seams round here
But I don't really mind and it's starting to get to me"?
    The Killers
    Nine Inch Nails
    Interpol
    Placebo


7. Which singer starts her song with the lines:
"One day I know
We'll find a place of hope
Just hold onto me
Just hold onto me"?
    Cat Power
    Sarah McLachlan
    Regina Spektor
    PJ Harvey


8. Who begins a song with:
"So I ran faster but it caught me here
Yes my loyalties turned
Like my ankle in the seventh grade
Running after Billy running after the rain"?
    Tori Amos
    Sarah McLachlan
    Kate Bush
    Bjork


9. Which rock band has a song that starts:
"She says, 'I'm dying every day, would you save me
Will you pick me up and out of this pain'
She says 'Darling I can't recall
Why my heart insists to beat at all"?
    Starky
    Epicure
    Frenzal Rhomb
    Evermore


10. Finally, which lead singer turned solo artist warns us:
"Don't walk the plank like I did
You will be dispensed with
When you've become inconvenient"?
    Thom Yorke
    Rob Thomas
    Richard Ashcroft
    Damon Albarn


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