It’s Friday, and that means it’s time for the Friday music quiz! You know, where a reader shuffles his/her iPod, then lists the first lines from the first 30 songs that come up. It’s up to us to provide the artist and title of each song. Kick ass!
Basic rules: Post your answers in the comments section, don’t use the internet to look up lyrics, and please don’t supply more than three answers per day.
For last week’s quiz, go here.
This week’s quiz comes from Mary M. Thanks, Mary!
1. I’ll steal your heart away in time, it’s only fair ’cause you have mine.
2. Love come down upon us ’til you flow like water.
3. …She did brass rubbings, she learned you never had to press hard.
4. Ice will melt, water will boil, you and I can shake off this mortal coil.
5. In 1916 he took a bullet to the head.
6. …Why the gods above me, who must be in the know, think so little of me they allow you to go.
7. As I was goin’ over the far famed Kerry mountains.
8. And on the cool check in, center stage on the mic.
9. …West wind soft as a sweet dream, my love, warm as the sunshine.
10. A long time ago, our point of view was broadcast by Mr. Bartholomew.
11. There’s a lot of bad wood underneath the veneer.
12. Broken windows and empty hallways.
13. The way you wear your hat.
14. Here come a man from the stars.
15. There’s a problem, feathers iron, bargain buildings, weights and pulleys.
16. Bought a home we bartered right.
17. When I wake up in the morning, love, and the sunlight hurts my eyes.
18. I saw you standing with the wind and the rain in your face.
19. I can almost touch you now, flying above the clouds in a big ol’ plane.
20. Well I just got back from a break in the fight.
21. Without any training it’s pouring, it’s raining.
22. I like to dream yes, yes, right between my sound machine.
23. You and I are victims of a love that lost a lot in the translation.
24. Use every chance you’ve been given she replied after several days.
25. I come fresh from the street, fast on my feet, kinda lean and lazy.
26. Your sorry eyes; they cut through bone.
27. Sometimes, I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear.
28. I was just a boy when I sat down to watch the news on TV.
29. If it seems a little time is needed, decisions to be made.
30. I was born in a box-car, color-blind, pigeon toed, pock-marked.
Answers…
Here come the answers that we’ve received so far…
No going back…
1.
2.
3.
4. “It’s Only Natural,” Crowded House
5.
6. “Everytime We Say Goodbye,” Ella Fitzgerald
7. “Whiskey in the Jar,” The Dubliners
8. “The New Style,” Beastie Boys
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11. “Hell No, I Ain’t Happy,” The Drive-By Truckers
12. “I think It’s Going to Rain Today,” Randy Newman
13. “They Can’t Take That Away from Me,” Billie Holiday
14.
15. “Fall on Me,” REM
16.
17. “Lovely Day,” Bill Withers
18.
19.
20. “The Gauntlet,” Dropkick Murphys
21.
22. “Magic Carpet Ride,” Steppenwolf
23.
24.
25.
26.
27. “Drive,” Incubus
28.
29. “(Keep Feeling) Fascination,” Human League
30.
28 responses so far ↓
1 Louise // Mar 27, 2009 at 1:46 pm
I love this game! And I actually know two of them this time…
7. Whiskey in the Jar – The Dubliners
27. Drive – Incubus
2 Krista // Mar 27, 2009 at 1:52 pm
#29 is (Keep Feeling) Fascination by The Human League
3 Gonzalo // Mar 27, 2009 at 1:55 pm
27- Drive, by Incubus
I’m the first one to post, and I still only got one!
4 Seth Christenfeld // Mar 27, 2009 at 2:03 pm
13–”They Can’t Take that Away From Me” by George and Ira Gershwin, although I have no idea whose recording. I’m going to go out on a limb and say it’s Harry Groener’s, from the OBC of Crazy for You.
5 Rube Goldberg // Mar 27, 2009 at 2:13 pm
29 – (Keep Feeling) Fascination ~ Human League
Why are these first line quizzes so much harder than those 80′s lyric quizzes that circulated all those years ago? I’m not complaining, mind you, just observing.
6 Sarah // Mar 27, 2009 at 2:18 pm
17 -Lovely Day by Bill Withers
7 Kris // Mar 27, 2009 at 2:37 pm
#13 is Randy Newman’s “I Think it’s Going to Rain Today,” but it’s been covered by so many people I can’t begin to guess who this particular performer is.
8 Kris // Mar 27, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Aaaargh! #12 for Randy Newman, not #13.
9 Emily WK // Mar 27, 2009 at 2:44 pm
11. Drive-By Truckers “Hell No, I Ain’t Happy”
10 benvolio // Mar 27, 2009 at 2:52 pm
15: Fall On Me, REM. (or any cover thereof).
11 Maria // Mar 27, 2009 at 2:53 pm
#7 is “Whiskey in the Jar-o,” either Thin Lizzy or Metallica. Awesome.
22 is Steppenwolf’s “Magic Carpet Ride.”
12 Sarah // Mar 27, 2009 at 2:54 pm
#17 is Lovely Day, but it’s by several groups…I have this song by Out of Eden, but I’m certain that isn’t the one listed here.
13 Mary // Mar 27, 2009 at 2:58 pm
All right so far–#13 is the Billie Holiday version
#12 is Randy Newman
#15 is REM
and #17 is Bill Withers
14 Mary // Mar 27, 2009 at 3:23 pm
So far:
#7 “Whiskey In The Jar” – The Dubliners
#11 “Hell No, I Ain’t Happy” – Drive-By Truckers
#12 “I Think it’s Going to Rain Today” – Randy Newman
#13 â€They Can’t Take that Away From Me†– George & Ira Gershwin (Billie Holiday version)
#15 “Fall On Me” – REM
#17 “Lovely Day” – Bill Withers
#22 “Magic Carpet Ride” – Steppenwolf
#27 ” Drive” – Incubus
# 29 “(Keep Feeling) Fascination” – Human League
15 Mark Blankenship // Mar 27, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Nice work so far, guys!
Rube, I think these quizzes are harder because they don’t rely on hit songs the way the 80s quizzes do. When people are randomly shuffling from their iPods, they’re likely to pull up songs by obscure bands or album tracks from popular artists that were never on the radio.
I’ve got a massive quiz about hit nineties songs that I wrote myself a few years ago. What do you think, folks… should I post that there sometime?
16 Lisa // Mar 27, 2009 at 3:53 pm
A massive quiz about hit nineties songs might actually be something I could actually get an answer right on, so I say do it.
17 Mary // Mar 27, 2009 at 4:03 pm
I think the difficulty is contextual too. If someone else put these up, I’m not sure I’d immediately recognize them, even though I own them. Without the music to cue me, I have to work harder to recognize lyrics. That made sense in my head…
18 Katie // Mar 27, 2009 at 4:08 pm
#8 – Beastie Boys – The New Style
19 Ebeth // Mar 27, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Ooh! 90s quiz! But I do feel better than everyone else is as stumped as I am…
20 Jamie // Mar 27, 2009 at 4:18 pm
I finally know one! #4 is “It’s Only Natural” by Crowded House. I listened to that album (Woodface) approximately one frillion times in college.
21 Jamie // Mar 27, 2009 at 4:21 pm
#8 is “The New Style” by the Beastie Boys. Looks like Mary M. and I like the same stuff!
22 Destiny // Mar 27, 2009 at 4:35 pm
6. Every time we say goodbye- well, everybody has sung this one, but I’m guessing Ella Fitzgerald or Annie Lennox.
23 Kris // Mar 27, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Is #9, “Summer Rain, taps at my window…?” I don’t remember who sang it, though.
24 Mary // Mar 27, 2009 at 7:06 pm
All correct so far:
Jamie–I think I listened to nothing but Woodface for a year. “Four Seasons In One Day is one of my favorite songs. And I wore out my “Licensed to Ill” cassette in high school.
#6 is the Ella version.
25 Lucy // Mar 27, 2009 at 10:27 pm
#20: Dropkick Murphys, “The Gauntlet”
26 Maggie // Mar 28, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Yeah, I only knew “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today” but I would LOVE a big 90′s songs quiz!
27 Christine // Mar 30, 2009 at 12:54 pm
#3 is “Sukie in the Graveyard” by Belle & Sebastian.
28 Adam // Apr 20, 2009 at 7:05 am
#30 is Astronautalis-The Story of my Life
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