So now ask yourself: what is human ? And what is truth ? Ask yourself: whose voice it it ?

Friday ? Time for a silly quiz. This poses as a series of cryptic questions, but is really a thinly disguised lyrics quiz. I don't need artists or songnames, just answer the questions.

( Sure, I'm not going anything useful today anyway. )

I'm not sure how hard this is likely to be. Some of the songs are quite obscure, some aren't. I've tried to include some dead-easy ones, but these things never seem to come out how I expect.

I can't rule out that there might be some ambiguous questions: if the lyrics for your answer are online, and if I - in my my ultimate, arbitrary and easily-bought wisdom - rule that your answer is as good as mine, you can have your points.

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You've got to walk and talk in 4/4 time

On Fridays this year, we ask...

( What's in the Box? )

In The Box this week we have:

The Jam - Snap!

I bought this tape relatively recently, leaping on it with glad cries despite owning the album on CD. There are two reasons for this: firstly, it's ideal singing-along-in-the-car fodder. Secondly, the CD is a bit wrong[*]. The tape is a looooong tape. It has more songs on it than will fit on a CD. The CD (more correctly called Compact Snap!) is therefore abridged.

In my car there is a little well between the front seats which holds four tapes. When driving, I can extract a finished tape from the stereo, return it to its box, and put the next in the stereo without taking my eyes off the road. Which means, of course, that I rarely know what tape I've just put on. Hearing the start of opening track In The City always makes me happy: in case you've never noticed, The Jam are bloody brilliant.

Sadly, this tape seems to have had a hard life, and is going the way of all long-playing tapes. It's a little stretched, a little inclined to stick in the player, and the sound quality is heading downhill faster than Ingemar Stenmark on a Sunday teatime.

Despite the decay, here is Thick as Thieves, my favourite not-on-the-compact-version track. I like the imagery of the things they've stolen, and I love the section where two voices are singing verse and chorus at the same time.

The Jam - Thick as Thieves [link expired]

NB There has been a complaint that this mp3 is too loud, so approach with caution. I don't want your little ears getting damaged.

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[*] Actually, Amazon demonstrates that I'm now wrong: these days you can buy a double "special edition" CD which has even more tracks on it that my tape has.