Answers to the lyrics quiz...

[mrph]

...the winner, by a fair margin, was purplerabbits, who got 9 out of 10. That's seriously dodgy taste in music, that is... ;)

"We saw the Buddha in a bar down south
Talking politics and nuclear fission"
-Shriekback, Gunning For The Buddha

"Everybody got a job to lose"
-The Sisters of Mercy, Doctor Jeep
(token goth moment)

"Give me your troubles
I'll keep them with mine"
-P J Harvey, O My Lover

"When God is on the bodhran, the atoms want to dance"
-Oysterband, In Your Eyes

"There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking
They've been sentenced to death by the blues"
-Leonard Cohen, Take This Waltz

"He's devoted to the devil fascinated by crime"
-Propaganda, Dr Mabuse

"This is our mission: to be the daleks of god"
-Shriekback (again), Hammerheads

"We dream of deserts and fast motorbikes"
-Scarlet Fantastic, No Memory
(I wasn't really expecting anyone, except maybe duranorak or cat_and_loki to get this one...)

"Just as Revlon killed the rabbits in laboratory tests
Surely we shall die of sony walkman video cassettes"
-Blyth Power, Some Of Shelley's Hang Ups

"I don't remember the last time I cried
I don't remember much except lies"
-Marillion, Alone Again In The Lap of Luxury