Quizheads - Who's using famous names in their lyrics???

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1. "Hanging with the local talent, drinking like you're SHANE MACGOWAN".
2. "Faces of STRUMMER that fell from your wall"
3. "And my new grandma BEA ARTHUR come on over"
4 "HOLLAND and HOLLAND and LAMONT DOZIER too are here to make it all ok with you."
5. "KEN BOOTHE for uk pop reggae with backing bands sound system"
6. " Mr Phillips found old JOHNNY CASH and he was high"
7. "NEIL ARMSTRONG astronaut he had balls bigger than King Kong"
8. " I'm timeless like a broken watch and make money like FRED ASTAIRE"
9. "It's ALI vs CLAY both pummeling away"
10. "Squinting faces at the sky a HAROLD ROBBINS paperback"

― peter d (peter dee), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

10. Squeeze

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

6. DBT

― Jockey, Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

Oh and 7. is Black Grape

― Jockey, Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

1. Jesse Malin

― jonviachicago, Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

oh, and 8. Interpol

― jonviachicago, Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

2. Aztec Camera "Walk Out to Winter"

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

That Interpol lyric is really bad.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

That Interpol lyric is really bad.

ALL Interpol lyrics are really bad.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Also no-one got 5 yet? The Clash "White Man in Hammersmith Palais".

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

4 is Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' Tears

― Bill E (bill_e), Friday, 10 June 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

Damn - I'm usually good at this stuff, but I didn't know a single one of these. *sigh*

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 10 June 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

3. California - Rufus Wainwright

― wtin, Friday, 10 June 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

9 is one of them sadcore or slowcore acts - Low or Will Oldham or Lambchop or Spain or something.

― StanM, Friday, 10 June 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

A few more...

11. But this is for HOLLAND DOZIER HOLLAND...

12. I could walk like BRANDO, ride into the sun....

13. And maybe MARLON BRANDO will be there by the fire...

14. I asked BOBBY DYLAN, I asked THE BEATLES...

15. A candy bar, a falling star or a reading from DR. SEUSS...

16. I remember you back in '72 with your DAVID BOWIE hair and your platform shoes....

17. This chick she looked just like Elizabeth Shue...

18. He fucked FAYE DUNAWAY and he fucked ALI MACGRAW...

19. JACOB JAVITS I'd like to thank you for everything...

20. Been raking leaves with LIZA, me and LIZ clean out the yard...

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

9 is smog... feather by feather

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

i guess we've moved on to classic rock now...

12 springsteen
13 neil y
14 the who
20 zevon

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

17. The Hold Steady "The Swish"

― C-Real (neither nor easter), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

14 is REM, not The Who

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

11. Magnetic Fields, Ferdinand De Sasure
15. REM, It's the end of the world as we know it

Cheers.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

14 is REM, not The Who

it's from "the seeker" by the who. if rem sang anything like it, they were quoting the who.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

19: Pavement

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

15 is REM, but not "End of the World." It's from The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite.

― The Mad Puffin, Friday, 10 June 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

it's from "the seeker" by the who. if rem sang anything like it, they were quoting the who.

yeah, mixed up 14 and 15, sorry

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 10 June 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

6. Already answered, but I was obsessed with "Carl Perkins' Cadillac" for several days in October 2004.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 11 June 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)

16. Tom Petty

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 11 June 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

18 driveby truckers

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 11 June 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

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