Time for the answers to the 20 first lines. Unguessed ones are in italics.
1. “As I draw my breath, and silver fills my eyes”
– My Dying Bride, For My Dying Angel (Paul Erbehr)
2. “Brezhnev took Afganistan, Begin took Beirut, Galtieri took the Union Jack”
– Pink Floyd, Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert (Steve Jones)
3. “Contained in everything I do there’s a love I feel for you”
– Yes, Onward (from Tormato) (Steve Jones)
4. “Follow through, make your dreams come true”
– Muse, Invincible
5. “He goes to work in a brand new dawn”
– Journey, Faith in the Heartland (Paul Erbehr)
6. “Hey now baby, get into my big black car”
– Cream, Politician (Fred Webb)
7. “In the shuffling madness”
– Jethro Tull, Locomotive Breath (Steve Jones)
8. “No I won’t interfere, I’m the only sound you’ll ever need to hear
– Moloko, Over And Over
9. “On top of the sky is a place where you go if you’ve done nothing wrong”
– The Who, Heaven and Hell
10. “Paint me a picture and hang it on the wall”
– Rainbow (or Blackmores Night), Self Portrait (Steve Jones)
11. “Six of one and half a dozen, black guitars and plastic blues”
– Porcupine Tree, Four Chords That Sold A Million (from Lightbulb Sun) (Steve Jones)
12. “Sprawling on the fringes of the city in geometric order”
– Rush, Subdivisions (Hugh)
13. “Standing on a golf course, dressed in PVC”
– Caravan, Golf Girl (Steve Jones)
14. “The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin’, that’s what I said”
– Spinal Tap (or Hayseed Dixie), Big Bottom (Rob)
15. “The character actor plays romantic leads and the kitten curls in wet anticipation”
– Fish, 3D (Steve Jones)
16. “This place has a history, the Spaniards settled here”
– Blue Öyster Cult, Harvest Moon (from Heaven Forbid) Hugh)
17. “We come from the land of the ice and snow”
– Led Zeppelin (or Gotthard) Immigrant Song (Fred Webb, Steve Jones)
18. “We’ll drink together, and when we drink together, we drink together”
– Blackmore’s Night, All For One
19. “Well I’m here looking through an old picture frame”
– Roxy Music, Editions of You (Steve Jones)
20. “You had it right in the palm of your hand, right before your eyes”
– Tesla, Ez Come Ez Go
Just five that people didn’t guess. I suppose Blackmore’s Night count as ‘obscure’ since all but hardcore fans gave up on them after the first couple of albums. Everyone has forgotten Tesla (boy do they sound dated now!). I’m surprised nobody got either the Muse or Who songs, though.
