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Answer: The Card Cheat

By The Clash, this song was originally called 'King of Hell' and was recorded late in the sessions for the band's 'London Calling' album. Bill Price and Mick Jones attempted to create a Phil Spector-style Wall of Sound for the song. To help achieve this effect, Headon's drum patterns were based on The Ronettes' 'Be My Baby'.

Answer: Piazza New York Catcher

The song is 'Piazza New York Catcher' by Belle and Sebastian and can be found on their album 'Dear Catastrophie Waitress'. Interestingly, the band are named after a book by the French author Cecile Aubbry; 'Belle et Sebastian' tells the adventures of a boy (Sebastian) and Belle, his pet snow white Pyrennean Mountain Dog.

Answer: Gloomy Sunday

The answer is 'Gloomy Sunday', made famous by Billie Holiday. The song was originally written by Rezsoe Seres, a Hungarian musician. In the song the death of a lover is mourned and suicide is contemplated; it is rumoured that the song has been banned from being played on certain radio stations due to its connection with a number of suicides.

Although most of these rumours are untrue, it is true that Seress himself committed suicide, as did as did Billie Mackenzie of the band The Associates, who recorded a cover of Billie Holiday's version of the song in 1982.

Answer: Hall Of Mirrors

By The Distillers, who are fronted by Brody Dalle, a talented vocalist, guitarist and lyricist. When the band originally formed in 1998, Brody's surname was Armstrong, but she changed it to Dalle after her divorce from Rancid's Tim Armstrong.

Answer: Brilliant Mistake

It's Elvis Costello's 'Brilliant Mistake'. Elvis Costello was born Declan Patrick MacManus. He provided the backing vocals for the song which his father wrote and sang in the 'I'm a Secret Lemonade Drinker' 1970s television adverts for R. Whites Lemonade; this was Costello's first ever broadcast recording.

Answer: Snakedriver

The song is by Jesus and Mary Chain, a band who become notorious for their live performances. Their gigs were played with their backs to the audience and with constant feedback and distortion. The band would smash their instruments at the end of a performance, which often encouraged the audience to riot. One such riot is known as the 'Jesus and Mary Chain Riot', after £8000 worth of damage was done and four people were taken to hospital.

Answer: Both Sides Now

The lyrics are from 'Both Sides Now' by Joni Mitchell, one of the most important and influential female recording artists of all time. Mitchell first became interested in singing at the age of nine, she was in hospital after catching polio in a Canadian epidemic.

She was told she wouldn't be able to go home for Christmas, but didn't believe this and so began loudly singing Christmas carols.

Answer: Death On The Stairs

It's "Death On The Stairs" by The Libertines, a band who named themselves after a book by Marquis De Sade, 'Lust Of The Libertines'. The founding members of the band Pete Doherty and Carl Barat met when Barat was at university studying drama, and sharing a flat with Pete's older sister Amy-Jo Doherty.

They both quit their respective university courses, sharing a flat together in North London and forming a band. The Libertines broke up in December 2004 due to tensions in Barat's and Doherty's relationship and Pete's addictions to crack cocaine and heroin.

Answer: Suspect Device

The answer is 'Suspect Device' by Stiff Little Fingers. The song is based on the band's experiences of the troubles in Northern Ireland; on this theme, the single's cover depicted a cassette bomb. This allegedly caused panic at one record company, they had to ring the band to ask for a new copy after throwing the first one in a bucket of water, believing it to be a real bomb.

Answer: Paper Planes

The song is 'Paper Planes' by MIA (born Mathangi Arulpragasam). Although she was born in London, she moved with her parents to their native Sri Lanka when she was just six months old. MIA's father is a Tamil militant, this and the civil war meant that it became unsafe in Sri Lanka, and she moved back to London with her mother and siblings when she was eleven. MIA is known for using her music as a platform for her political ideologies, and has expressed her dissatisfaction over the 'War on Terror'- "You can't separate the world into two parts like that, good and evil.

But America has successfully tied all these pockets of independence struggles, revolutions, and extremists into one big notion of terrorism."