Lyrics Quiz
Ok, first of all, some ground rules...
This is just for fun. See how many of the lyrics you can identify. There are fifty. You get one point for the song and another for the original artist. There are actually very few covers in there, as far as I'm aware.
Post your answers here. All comments are screened so you can't crib anyone else's answers. I will unscreen them in a few days, (possibly on xmas day) with your score out of 100, and post the answers at the same time.
Now, I realise that I can't stop people from using the internet to look up the lyrics, but strictly that's cheating. However, if there's no prize involved, the only person you are cheating is yourself. It's a bit like cheating at solitaire!
What I would ask is, if you do use a search engine to look up the answer, put a little (s) is brackets after your answer. If you do that I will give you two scores, your searched score and your unsearched score. Obviously, the idea is to do as much as you can from your own knowledge of music.
Some questions are much harder than others, in my opinion, but of course, the ones I think are hard, you might think are easy and vice versa. The lyrics are not always the first line of the song!
One small clue: Each artist appears only once (I think... I need to check that).
1) Even at my favourite table, he can beat my best. His disciples lead him in and he just does the rest.
2) Mama, Oooh-ooh, I don’t wanna die. I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all.
3) Mirrors on the ceiling and pink champagne on ice, and she said “We are all just prisoners here, of our own device”.
4) There was a check point Charlie, he didn’t crack a smile. But it’s no laughing party, when you’ve been on the murder mile.
5) Now that I’ve come back down again, it’s worse than it was before. If I hadn’t seen such riches I could live with being poor!
6) I gotta know right now, do you love me, will you love me for ever, do you need me, will you never leave me? Will you make me so happy for the rest of my life? Will you take me away and will you make me your wife?
7) So why don’t you use it, buy time don’t loose it?
8) Her face is a map of the world, is a map of the world. You can see she’s a beautiful girl, she’s a beautiful girl
9) Then on a distant slope, he observed one without hope flee back up the mountainside. He thought he recognised him by his walk, and by the way he fell, and by the way he stood up and vanished into air.
10) We’ve got to install microwave ovens, custom kitchen deliveries. We’ve got to move these refrigerators, We’ve got to move these colour TVs.
11) Riding through the hot night without my headlight, 20-20 hindsight.
12) Got in a little hometown jam, so they put a rifle in my hand. Sent me off to a foreign land, to go and kill the yellow man.
13) Now we end up taking the long way home, looking overdressed wearing buckets of stale cologne
14) Vodka and a packet of cigarettes that’s all it used to be, but now you’re sniffing on snow when you’re feeling low, suffocating dreams that could have been.
15) And as I watched him on the stage my hands were clenched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell could break that Satan’s spell
16) Clean shirt, new shoes, and I don’t know where I am going to. Silk suit, black tie, and I don’t know the reason why.
17) As I was going over the Cork and Kerry mountains, I saw a captive pharaoh and his money he was counting.
18) Takes more than combat gear to make a man, takes more than a licence for a gun. Confront your enemies avoid them when you can. A gentleman will walk but never run.
19) Uh-huh make me tonight, tonight make it right. Oh uh-huh make it magnificent, tonight, right.
20) Mississippi in the middle of a dry spell, Jimmy Rogers on the victrola up high. Mama's dancing with baby on her shoulder, the Sun is setting like molasses in the sky.
21) This city desert makes you feel so cold, it’s got so many people but it’s got no soul and it’s taken you so long to find out you were wrong, when you thought it held everything.
22) There’s a sign on the wall, but she wants to be sure, ‘cos you know sometimes words have two meanings.
23) She says it’s cold outside and she hands me my raincoat. She’s always worried about things like that.
24) A man walks down the street; he says, “Why am I soft in the middle now? Why am I soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?”
25) Lonley river flows to the sea, to the sea. To the open arms of the sea.
26) I suppose I could collect my books and go on back to school, or steal my daddy’s cue and make a living out of playing pool.
27) I am just a poor boy though my story’s seldom told, I have squandered my resistance for a pocket full of mumbles such are promises. All lies and jest! Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
28) Seven hours since you went away. Eleven coffees, Riki Lake on play. But late at night when I’m feeling blue, I’d sell my ass before I’d think of you.
29) Walked in the cold air, freezing breath on the window pane lying and waiting. The man in the dock in the picture frame so mystic and soulful.
30) When the women tug their hair like they’re trying to prove it won’t fall out. And all the men are gargoyles dipped long in Irish stout. The whole place is pickled, the people are pickles for sure, and no one knows if they’ve done more here than they ever would do in a jar.
31) I knew you’d be here tonight, so I put my best dress on. Boy I was so right. Our eyes connected, now nothing’s how it used to be don’t second guess it.
32) I met her in a club down in Notting Hill, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola, C - O - L - A cola.
33) The road is long, with many a winding turn, that leads us to who knows where, who knows where?
34) Working all day for a mean little man with a clip on tie and a rub on tan, he’s got me running ‘round the office like a dog around a track, but when I get back home, you’re always there to rub my back.
35) No one understood what I felt for Mary, no one cared until the night she went walking all alone, and never came home.
36) It’s quiet now, and what it brings is everything. Cos coming back, a brilliant night is still away. I looked ahead I’m sure I saw you there. You don’t need me to tell you now, that nothing can compare.
37) Some people call me the space cowboy; some call me the gangster of love.
38) There’s a killer on the road. His brain is squirming like a toad. Take a long holiday. Let your children play. If you give this man a ride sweet Emily will die, killer on the road.
39) Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods? Where’s the streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds?
40) I never know what the future brings, but I know you’re here with me now. We’ll make it through, and I hope you are the one I share my life with.
41) Ground Control to Major Tom, Ground Control to Major Tom, take your protein pill and put your helmet on.
42) They burned down the gambling house; it died with an awful sound. A funky cop was running in and out, pulling kids off the ground.
43) Remember when you were young? You shone like the sun!
44) Tonight’s the night we’re gonna make it happen, tonight we’ll put all other things aside. Get in this time and show me some affection. We’re going for those pleasures in the night.
45) Rising up, back on the street, did my time, took my chances. Went the distance now I’m back on my feet, just a man and his will to survive.
46) Well he came from college just the other day, so like a man that I had to say, “Son I’m proud of you, can you sit for a while?” He shook his head and he said with a smile, “What I’d really like dad is to borrow the car keys, see ya later can I have them please?”
47) I close my eyes, only for a moment and the moment’s gone. All my dreams pass before my eyes and curiosity.
48) What’ll you do when you get lonley, and nobody’s waiting by your side?
49) I call you, I need you, my hearts on fire. You come to me, come to me, wild and wire.
50) Pleased to meet you, hope you’ve guessed my name, but what’s puzzling you is the nature of my game?
Feel free to copy this idea and make your own quiz. You can, of course use the same songs, but it would be a good idea to use a different lyric if you do. Oh, and make sure you don't use a lyric that has the song title in... ;)
[Edit]
I thought I'd put in a quick update: jadedmyrrhmaid is in the lead so far with 46%. hooloovoo is second with 39%, kestral_ is third with 35%.
I'm being quite strict with marking these. There is only one that's perhaps a little unfair because although the song was first a hit for the band I'm thinking of, back in 1973, it was in fact a folk song that they set to a rock arrangement. So, if anyone can come up with an earlier hit than that I will allow it - but they do have to be sure!
Oh, and if you accidentally type in the wrong number (I'm looking your way hooloovoo), that is your own fault and the answer is wrong!
[Edit 2]
Oooh dear... I just realised something. I've had to deduct one mark each from Jaded and Kes... You need to be ACCURATE with the name of the artist!
This is just for fun. See how many of the lyrics you can identify. There are fifty. You get one point for the song and another for the original artist. There are actually very few covers in there, as far as I'm aware.
Post your answers here. All comments are screened so you can't crib anyone else's answers. I will unscreen them in a few days, (possibly on xmas day) with your score out of 100, and post the answers at the same time.
Now, I realise that I can't stop people from using the internet to look up the lyrics, but strictly that's cheating. However, if there's no prize involved, the only person you are cheating is yourself. It's a bit like cheating at solitaire!
What I would ask is, if you do use a search engine to look up the answer, put a little (s) is brackets after your answer. If you do that I will give you two scores, your searched score and your unsearched score. Obviously, the idea is to do as much as you can from your own knowledge of music.
Some questions are much harder than others, in my opinion, but of course, the ones I think are hard, you might think are easy and vice versa. The lyrics are not always the first line of the song!
One small clue: Each artist appears only once (I think... I need to check that).
1) Even at my favourite table, he can beat my best. His disciples lead him in and he just does the rest.
2) Mama, Oooh-ooh, I don’t wanna die. I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all.
3) Mirrors on the ceiling and pink champagne on ice, and she said “We are all just prisoners here, of our own device”.
4) There was a check point Charlie, he didn’t crack a smile. But it’s no laughing party, when you’ve been on the murder mile.
5) Now that I’ve come back down again, it’s worse than it was before. If I hadn’t seen such riches I could live with being poor!
6) I gotta know right now, do you love me, will you love me for ever, do you need me, will you never leave me? Will you make me so happy for the rest of my life? Will you take me away and will you make me your wife?
7) So why don’t you use it, buy time don’t loose it?
8) Her face is a map of the world, is a map of the world. You can see she’s a beautiful girl, she’s a beautiful girl
9) Then on a distant slope, he observed one without hope flee back up the mountainside. He thought he recognised him by his walk, and by the way he fell, and by the way he stood up and vanished into air.
10) We’ve got to install microwave ovens, custom kitchen deliveries. We’ve got to move these refrigerators, We’ve got to move these colour TVs.
11) Riding through the hot night without my headlight, 20-20 hindsight.
12) Got in a little hometown jam, so they put a rifle in my hand. Sent me off to a foreign land, to go and kill the yellow man.
13) Now we end up taking the long way home, looking overdressed wearing buckets of stale cologne
14) Vodka and a packet of cigarettes that’s all it used to be, but now you’re sniffing on snow when you’re feeling low, suffocating dreams that could have been.
15) And as I watched him on the stage my hands were clenched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell could break that Satan’s spell
16) Clean shirt, new shoes, and I don’t know where I am going to. Silk suit, black tie, and I don’t know the reason why.
17) As I was going over the Cork and Kerry mountains, I saw a captive pharaoh and his money he was counting.
18) Takes more than combat gear to make a man, takes more than a licence for a gun. Confront your enemies avoid them when you can. A gentleman will walk but never run.
19) Uh-huh make me tonight, tonight make it right. Oh uh-huh make it magnificent, tonight, right.
20) Mississippi in the middle of a dry spell, Jimmy Rogers on the victrola up high. Mama's dancing with baby on her shoulder, the Sun is setting like molasses in the sky.
21) This city desert makes you feel so cold, it’s got so many people but it’s got no soul and it’s taken you so long to find out you were wrong, when you thought it held everything.
22) There’s a sign on the wall, but she wants to be sure, ‘cos you know sometimes words have two meanings.
23) She says it’s cold outside and she hands me my raincoat. She’s always worried about things like that.
24) A man walks down the street; he says, “Why am I soft in the middle now? Why am I soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?”
25) Lonley river flows to the sea, to the sea. To the open arms of the sea.
26) I suppose I could collect my books and go on back to school, or steal my daddy’s cue and make a living out of playing pool.
27) I am just a poor boy though my story’s seldom told, I have squandered my resistance for a pocket full of mumbles such are promises. All lies and jest! Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
28) Seven hours since you went away. Eleven coffees, Riki Lake on play. But late at night when I’m feeling blue, I’d sell my ass before I’d think of you.
29) Walked in the cold air, freezing breath on the window pane lying and waiting. The man in the dock in the picture frame so mystic and soulful.
30) When the women tug their hair like they’re trying to prove it won’t fall out. And all the men are gargoyles dipped long in Irish stout. The whole place is pickled, the people are pickles for sure, and no one knows if they’ve done more here than they ever would do in a jar.
31) I knew you’d be here tonight, so I put my best dress on. Boy I was so right. Our eyes connected, now nothing’s how it used to be don’t second guess it.
32) I met her in a club down in Notting Hill, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola, C - O - L - A cola.
33) The road is long, with many a winding turn, that leads us to who knows where, who knows where?
34) Working all day for a mean little man with a clip on tie and a rub on tan, he’s got me running ‘round the office like a dog around a track, but when I get back home, you’re always there to rub my back.
35) No one understood what I felt for Mary, no one cared until the night she went walking all alone, and never came home.
36) It’s quiet now, and what it brings is everything. Cos coming back, a brilliant night is still away. I looked ahead I’m sure I saw you there. You don’t need me to tell you now, that nothing can compare.
37) Some people call me the space cowboy; some call me the gangster of love.
38) There’s a killer on the road. His brain is squirming like a toad. Take a long holiday. Let your children play. If you give this man a ride sweet Emily will die, killer on the road.
39) Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods? Where’s the streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds?
40) I never know what the future brings, but I know you’re here with me now. We’ll make it through, and I hope you are the one I share my life with.
41) Ground Control to Major Tom, Ground Control to Major Tom, take your protein pill and put your helmet on.
42) They burned down the gambling house; it died with an awful sound. A funky cop was running in and out, pulling kids off the ground.
43) Remember when you were young? You shone like the sun!
44) Tonight’s the night we’re gonna make it happen, tonight we’ll put all other things aside. Get in this time and show me some affection. We’re going for those pleasures in the night.
45) Rising up, back on the street, did my time, took my chances. Went the distance now I’m back on my feet, just a man and his will to survive.
46) Well he came from college just the other day, so like a man that I had to say, “Son I’m proud of you, can you sit for a while?” He shook his head and he said with a smile, “What I’d really like dad is to borrow the car keys, see ya later can I have them please?”
47) I close my eyes, only for a moment and the moment’s gone. All my dreams pass before my eyes and curiosity.
48) What’ll you do when you get lonley, and nobody’s waiting by your side?
49) I call you, I need you, my hearts on fire. You come to me, come to me, wild and wire.
50) Pleased to meet you, hope you’ve guessed my name, but what’s puzzling you is the nature of my game?
Feel free to copy this idea and make your own quiz. You can, of course use the same songs, but it would be a good idea to use a different lyric if you do. Oh, and make sure you don't use a lyric that has the song title in... ;)
[Edit]
I thought I'd put in a quick update: jadedmyrrhmaid is in the lead so far with 46%. hooloovoo is second with 39%, kestral_ is third with 35%.
I'm being quite strict with marking these. There is only one that's perhaps a little unfair because although the song was first a hit for the band I'm thinking of, back in 1973, it was in fact a folk song that they set to a rock arrangement. So, if anyone can come up with an earlier hit than that I will allow it - but they do have to be sure!
Oh, and if you accidentally type in the wrong number (I'm looking your way hooloovoo), that is your own fault and the answer is wrong!
[Edit 2]
Oooh dear... I just realised something. I've had to deduct one mark each from Jaded and Kes... You need to be ACCURATE with the name of the artist!