4. I was born pretty much slap bang in the middle...
According to the interweb, to be part of Generation X, you must have been born between 1965 and 1980. 1972 is pretty much slap bang in the middle of that.
Alyson, Lynchie, George and C teamed up for this one. Jeez, it wasn't that difficult, was it?
3. Reserve Michael, Clive and Wilfred to go all around the world.
CC quickly worked out that if you reserved Michael, Clive and Wilfred, you would be going to book Owens. (Or maybe he just recognised the photo.) I thought the rest of the clue was easy... but maybe the song was too obscure?
I should have settled for The Streets of Bakersfield... or Big In Vegas... or The Kansas City Song... or even Truck Drivin' Man?
2. A priest plays for Clint at the Mesopotamian party.
Clint Eastwood was a DJ stalked by a crazy fan who wanted him to "Play Misty For Me". Lynchie cracked that, the song proved tougher... but Chris helped out again.
The King = Elvis + the king monk = Abbott. Abbott & Costello. Etc. Etc.
Martin got this one, which I think (just) makes him this week's winner. Or maybe he was tied with Alyson. It's late and my maths head isn't working. Too many half marks this week.
Thanks for playing, as always.
Next week I promise to make them much easier. No April Fool's!
Thus begins an occasional series of Top Tens dedicated to songs about specific geographic locations...
According to those in the know, Memphis could well be the most-mentioned city in the whole of popular music. More songs have been written about - or refer directly to - Memphis than just about any other city in the world. The Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum keeps an ever expanding list of over 1000 Memphis-based tunes on its website.
For the purposes of this Top Ten, I stuck purely to songs that mention Memphis in the title... with one far-too-obvious exception.
Yeah it's a mighty long way down rock 'n' roll From the Liverpool docks to the Hollywood Bowl And you climb up the mountains And you fall down the holes All the way from Memphis
One of my favourite Hold Steady songs - testament to how many great Memphis songs there are that it only makes #4 in this list.
Craig Finn gets subpoenaed in Texas and sequestered in Memphis... and he's getting pretty sick of having to tell his story over and over again in the police interview room...
We didn't go back to her place We went to some place where she cat-sits
There is a girl in New York City Who calls herself the human trampoline And sometimes when I'm falling flying Or tumbling in turmoil I say Whoa so this is what she means She means we're bouncing into Graceland, And I see losing love Is like a window in your heart Everybody sees you're blown apart Everybody feels the wind blow
Listening to this track makes me wish I'd been alive in 1959 when rock 'n' roll was really kicking off.
1. The Colorblind* James Experience - I'm Considering A Move To Memphis
OK, it's definitely not the best song about Memphis - but I can't help that it's my favourite.
(*Spelled the way the band themselves would spell it, or the way the residents of Memphis would. Not the way a pedant like me would spell it, obviously.)
I'll get myself a motel room that's not too small to see I'll get one with a private bath and a black and white TV Memphis isn't all that big, at least that's how I found it Why, it took only an hour and a half to walk completely around it Memphis isn't all that big, it isn't all that wide Still, it is the kind of place where a country boy can hide
Over 1000 Memphis songs to choose from - which is your favourite?
