Thank you all for your efforts and to paraphrase young Mr Grace – “You’ve all done awfully well”. Note to self to make the next one a tad easier.
The winner is Lando Cakes with an awesome 9 correct answers ( I will be in touch). Anyway here are the answers
1. He tilts their tired faces
Gently to the spoon
Joni Mitchell – Edith and the Kingpin
2. Lonesome Sue, she’s in love with ol’ Sam
Takes him from the fire into the frying pan
Stephen Bishop – On and On
3. Statues made of matchsticks
Crumble into one another
Bob Dylan – Love Minus Zero / No Limit
4. I was raised on the good book Jesus
Till I read between the lines
Laura Nyro – Stoney End
5. Turn your heartache right into joy
She’s a girl and you’re a boy
Steve Stills – Love The One You’re With
6. Maybe we’ll make something
Me myself I got nothing to prove
Tracey Chapman – Fast Car
7. So I turned myself to face me
But I’ve never caught a glimpse
David Bowie – Changes
8. I saw cotton and I saw black
Tall white mansions and little shacks
Neil Young – Southern Man
9. Even more they boys with their summer jobs
Oh my God
Sufjan Steven – John Wayne Gacy Jr
10. When you’re old enough to know better
When you find strange hands in your sweater
Elvis Costello – Everyday I Write The Book
11. And you’ll wonder how you ever fathomed that you’d be content
To stay within the city limits of a small Midwestern town
Tom Waits – Foreign Affair
12. Red hair and black leather
My favourite colour scheme
Richard Thompson – 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
13. She’s a haunted house
And her windows are broken
Scott Walker – Big Louise
14. Hey, it’s me, I’m dynamite
And I don’t know why
Van Morrison – Sweet Thing
15. Though I put you on a pedestal,
They put you on the pill
Billy Bragg – New England
16. I should have known better than to cheat a friend
And waste a chance that I’ve been given
George Michael or Wham – Careless Whisper
17. And then our arrows of desire rewrite the speech, mmh, yes,
And then he whispered would I, mmh, yes,
Kate Bush – Sensual World
18. Why don’t you have any brushes any more?
I used to like your style
Sandy Denny – No End
19. You asked me to a meeting
In a cottage in the snow
Jack Bruce – Rope Ladder To The Moon
20. And all night shows
In summertime
Nick Drake – River Man
Now kicking myself now that i didn’t recognise more.
Make the next one a tad easier, but not too much. Good to keep us on our toes.
Great work FF!
Yes, there’s a few in that list I can’t believe I didn’t know, the amount of times I’ve heard the songs…
However, even now when I know the right answers I still only have your word for it – I still don’t recognise those lyrics.
I often wonder what my memory actually does for a living.
I know half of those songs really well and recognised precisely four of them. Idiot.
Great fun – we should have more ‘honesty box’ quizzes.