From Rip Her to Shreds to Rip It Up by Orange Juice to Orange Juice’s lead singer, Edwyn Collins…
3708. Edwyn Collins – The Magic Piper (of Love)
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3707. Blondie – Rip Her to Shreds
A shreds link…
3706. The Chameleons – In Shreds
Jim Morrison was known as the Lizard King, so to a type of lizard, the chameleon…
3705. The Doors – Crystal Ship
OMD did a song called Sailing on the Seven Seas, so to a ship…
3704. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Almost
A Certain Ratio and OMD were both on Factory Records…
3703. A Certain Ratio – Shack Up
A shack link…
3702. The Temptations – Psychedelic Shack
From Norman 3 to Norman Whitfield, the Motown songwriter who wrote this…
3701. Teenage Fanclub – Norman 3
A famous conquest was the Norman conquest…
3700. The White Stripes – Conquest
From the Detroit Emeralds to a band from Detroit…
3699. The Detroit Emeralds – Feel the Need In Me
Prescilla was on the album Fur and Gold, so from a precious metal, gold, to a precious stone, emerald…
3698. Bat for Lashes – Prescilla
The Streets is the nom-de-plume for Mike Skinner, just as Bat For Lashes is the nom-de-plume for Natasha Khan…
3697. The Streets – Fit But You Know It
From street to streets…
3696. Judy Street – What
A Judy link…
3695. Belle and Sebastian – Judy and the Dream of Horses
Double link alert:
- White Horses was a dubbed (in the UK – presumably not in France) French children’s tv series, as was Belle and Sebastian.
- A horses link.
3694. Jackie Lee – White Horses
From Meat is Murder to the 2013 meat adulteration scandal, during which it was discovered that, instead of the expected beef, some people had been eating horse meat…
3693. The Smiths – Meat is Murder
Slaughter describes what you do to the poor ickle lambs and other animals as the first stage of getting meat from them. You say slaughter, Morrissey says murder, let’s call the whole thing off…
3692. Slaughter and the Dogs – Cranked Up Really High
A slaughter link…
3691. Iron Maiden – Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter
An iron link…
3690. Bob Marley – Iron Lion Zion
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For was on the album The Joshua Tree. Joshua Tree is the name of a national park in the US, as is Zion…
3689. U2 – I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
The Killers are from Las Vegas, where the video for this song was shot…
3688. The Killers – Smile Like You Mean It
A smile link…
3687. The The – Uncertain Smile
You can define doubt as being uncertain, so…
3686. The Cure – Doubt
Right Now was produced by Mike Hedges, as was…
Bonus link from Mark: The Creatures was an offshoot of Siouxsie and the Banshees and Robert Smith of The Cure was a Banshee for a time…
3685. The Creatures – Right Now
Budgie of The Slits was also in The Creatures…
3684. The Slits – Typical Girls
From Haircut 100 to Cut, the debut album by The Slits, and this track from it…