Lyric Quiz - Answers

OK, chaps and chappesses, I know you've all been tearing your hair out with some of these answers, so I am going to put you out of your misery. Here. They. Are.

1) I don't know how much more of this I can take, she's filing her nails while they're dragging the lake

Elvis Costello and The Attractions - Watching The Detectives




2) I don't want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde

Desmond Dekker and The Aces - Israelites




3) I'm celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo

Billy Bragg - Greetings To The New Brunette




4) On the way the paper bag was on my knee, Man, I had a dreadful flight

Beatles - Back In The USSR




5) There's a new sensation / a fabulous creation

Roxy Music - Do The Strand




6) That natty dread drink at the Sheraton hotel, yeah (where'd ya go?)

The Clash - Safe European Home




7) Seen quite a bit in my twenty-three years, I've been manic depressive and I've spat a few tears

Dexys Midnight Runners - Tell Me When My Light Turns Green




8) Mum bought you a fur coat when you were fifteen / You wore it to the disco but everyone was in jeans

The Specials - Hey Little Rich Girl




9) And on the jukebox Johnny sang about a thing called love

The Pogues - A Pair Of Brown Eyes





10) There's a knock on the door and just for a second I thought I remembered you

Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric?




11) Spit jewels like Eastern riches, junkie fixes / Around here we say 'birds', not bitches

The Streets - Let's Push Things Forward





12) Chain-store chain-smoke, I consume you all / Chain-gang chain-mail, I don't think at all

X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours!




 
13) I can't help about the shape I'm in / I can't sing, I ain't pretty and my legs are thin

Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well





14) And she's clinging to the nearest passer-by

Joy Division - She's Lost Control





15) Committed for insanity and crimes against the soul / The worst crime that I ever did was play some rock'n'roll

The Stranglers - (Get A) Grip (On Yourself)





16) Everybody's coming home for lunch these days / Last night there were skinheads on my lawn

Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling





17) I can get a train / I don't need no hamburgers, no take-away

Bow Wow Wow - Go Wild In The Country





18) It took a tattooed boy from Birkenhead to really really open her eyes

The Smiths - What She Said





19) She did some smack with a Chinese chap / An affair began with Charlie Chan / Well that was just before she really lost her head

Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Plaistow Patricia





20) Jane Fonda on the screen today / Convinced the liberals it's okay

Dead Kennedys - Kill The Poor





21) Put another log on the fire for me / I've made some breakfast and coffee

David Bowie - Oh! You Pretty Things





22) It's got style, it's got class / So strong, I can't let it pass / I gotta tell you all about it / I gotta scream and shout it

Devo - Uncontrollable Urge





23) There’s trouble at the fire station, someone’s had the sack / And the lads are going to launch a scheme, get rid of Captain Flack

Half Man Half Biscuit - Trumpton Riots





24) The rude boys are dancing to some heavy. heavy ska

The Ruts - Staring At The Rude Boys





25) I am angry, I am ill and I'm as ugly as sin / My irritability keeps me alive and kicking

Magazine - A Song From Under The Floorboards




How did you guys score?