Question these answers

[hirez]

01. White Horses - Jacky. (Some Irish bint, in point of fact. I'm still looking for an alleged indiepop-guitar version.)
02. Some Girls - Rachel Stevens. (Not the KLF.)
03. Apache - The Incredible Bongo Band. (A hip-hop staple.)
04. Got the time - Anthrax. (A cover more fun than the original.)
05. Jordan, Minnesota - Big Black. (I thought 'Kerosene' would be far too obvious. What a bastard I am.)
06. The back of love - Echo & the Bunnymen. (Easy.)
07. Hump - Elakelaiset. (Humppa!)
08. Train - Goldfrapp. (Which does indeed sound a lot like 'Ooh la la'. I blame the Glasto performance.)
09. Dickie Davies eyes - Half Man Half Biscuit. (I'm old.)
10. Bring the noise - Anthrax and Public Enemy. (Anthrax again.)
11. Male Stripper - Man2Man Meets Man Parrish. (A work of genius.)
12. Things that dreams are made of - Human League. (Well, the League Unlimited Orchestra. As used by the BBC an awful lot.)
13. Only losers take the bus - The Fatima Mansions. (What Cathal Coughlan did after Microdisney... Oh, never mind.)
14. Upside Down - The Jesus and Mary Chain. (Mind, the early ones did all sound the same.)
15. Up the hill and down the slope - The Loft. (The great lost Creation band. Which is probably why no-one got it. Oops.)
16. There is no love between us anymore - PWEI. (Burned into my subconscious because of //chelty.)
17. Numbers - Kraftwerk. (Also much (ab)used by the BBC.)
18. Charley Says - The Prodigy. (Dodgy rave seems popular. Good.)
19. Grinderswitch - Pickin' the blues. (AKA the John Peel Show theme.)
20. Voodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix. (Pretty much everyone spotted that.)
21. Destination Zululand - King Kurt. (It's just me, isn't it?)
22. Just can't get enough - Nouvelle Vague. (Or indeed not, thankfully.)
23. Soul Limbo - Booker T and the MGs. (Only missing Ritchie Benaud.)
24. Picture on my wall - The Naturalites. (Ok, that was probably a bastard trick.)
25. Ooh, ahh. Just a little bit - Gina G. (Another work of genius.)
26. Night boat to Cairo - Madness. (Half past monsoon, etc.)
27. Nobody's hero - Stiff Little Fingers. (Still an adrenaline rush even now.)

Comments

[gashinryu.livejournal.com]

15. Up the hill and down the slope - The Loft. (The great lost Creation band. Which is probably why no-one got it. Oops.)

OMG! Someone else has heard of this, one of my favourite songs of all time! I'm not alone anymore! Woohoo!

06. The back of love - Echo & the Bunnymen. (Easy.)

The Mission stole the bass line for Wasteland from which song?

[eljaydaly.livejournal.com]

You'll have to bring some CDs in October so you have something good to listen to for ten hours of driving.

That, or you're stuck with ten hours of Cruxshadows, or other pickings from my thin and shallow CD collection. No Kraftwerk -- although I do like Tour de France. I don't know enough to know whether that makes me tolerable or just another stupid American. =D

[hirez.livejournal.com]

As someone who identifies strongly with 'High fidelity' (Well, the record-geek bits anyway) I'll... Avoid Mark Stewart's less-hinged moments.

(I wish I'd not thrown away the US plug that came with the laptop now.)

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Oh arse. I came close to guessing SLF for the last one. And I should have actually known that one anyway, although I think I've only ever heard the live version on Hanx.

I'm surprised no one else got Big Black.

I'd remembered Only Losers Take the Bus as being Microdisney, not Fatima Mansions. Not that I recognised it anyway, other than in a "sounds vaguely familiar" way.

Good quiz.

[cj-23.livejournal.com]

I own Jacky, White Horses on 7" vinyl, which may or may not surprise you. I used to play it at goth/alternative dj gigs. I think it was used in some 70's TV show. I still failed to recognise it, and that was as fare as I got before my pc locked up. Still, amazed to see it in your quiz Hirez!

cj x

[hirez.livejournal.com]

That 70's TV show would have been 'White Horses': Enchanting children's series originally made in 1965 as a collaboration between RTS (Radio Television Serbia) of Belgrade and BR-TV of Munich.

(From here: http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/whitehorses.htm)

I recall rambling drunkenly about it being cheery Communist propaganda about collective farms shown to the under-12s, and then further recalled some indie band playing a cracking version at a Gretton Beer Festival. So I went for a potter on Soulseek and there we are.

[ladycat.livejournal.com]

If I'd known more than one of them to start with I might have had a fighting chance...