Welcome to a very special edition of the Friday iPod Quiz.
Normally, a Critical Condition reader or I will put our iPod on shuffle and list lines from the first thirty songs that are played. (The answers to the most recent quiz are all here in the comments section.)
This week, however, I’m using the quiz to introduce a very exciting Critical Condition Event.
This week, the quiz features 20 lines from 20 songs that appear on my countdown of the 101 Best Songs of the Aughts.
That’s right! Starting next Tuesday, I’ll be listing my favorite hits of the decade, and I’ll be including a mini-review for every track. I am so psyched about it, and I can’t wait to hear your reactions to the list.
As a teaser, see if you can guess which decade-defining tunes these lines come from.The standard rules apply: Don’t look up lyrics on the internet, and in the interest of letting more people play, don’t provide more than three answers per day.
And if you want to guess where the song will be ranked on next week’s countdown… feel free!
Have a great Labor Day!
Friday iPod Quiz: “Best of the Aughts” Preview Edition
1. My texture is the best fur, chinchilla
2. Cure for cancer, cure for AIDS
3. My friends from high school married their high school boyfriends
4. Baby girl in those baby pants, come on over here and take a second chance
5. He’d say, “You can’t beat the way an old wood boat rides”
6. The freckles in our eyes are mirror images
7. Late Big nights back east with Rhoda
8. I hope that our few remaining friends give up on trying to save us
9. It’s a good thing tears never show in the pouring rain
10. The way that Kathie Lee needed Regis
11. Do you wanna be, wanna be my dying day? My darkest hour?
12. She’s touching his chest now
13. Hey mister D.J., put a record on
14. A melting snowman I was told
15. I just want you close, where you can stay forever
16. License plate says, “Stunner, Number One, Superstar”
17. I seen those English dramas too-oo
18. There is a town in north Ontario
19. I said follow me-follow-follow me, down-down-down-down
20. It was cool, but it was all pretend







15 responses so far ↓
1 Seth Christenfeld // Sep 4, 2009 at 12:07 am
12. “Mr. Brightside” by The Killers
20. “Since You (U?) Been Gone” by Kelly Clarkson
2 InfoMofo // Sep 4, 2009 at 12:08 am
1. Crazy in Love
2. B.O.B.
6. Such Great Heights
3 Stef // Sep 4, 2009 at 12:48 am
8. “No Children” – The Mountain Goats
13. “Music” – Madonna
17. “Oxford Comma” – Vampire Weekend
4 mlp // Sep 4, 2009 at 1:00 am
13. Music by Madonna
16. Get the party started (?) by Pink
18. Helpless, I’m guessing the kd lang cover?
5 Anonymous // Sep 4, 2009 at 1:09 am
This is not an answer, just a comment:
“Chinchilla!” is my favorite random rhythmic beat in a song ever. And as you know, I still purport that Crazy In Love has enough in it to make 3 good songs out of one: the beat, the horns and the rap. All of which makes life-endangering car-dancing on the way to the Cracker Barrel totally worth it!!
6 Gonzalo // Sep 4, 2009 at 2:36 am
#3- Taking the Long Way, by Dixie Chicks
#7- California, by Rufus Wainright (isn’t the line “big nights back east” instead of “late nights back east”?)
PS. I love love love this song, and I dance around to it in my room at least once a month.
#9 sounded really familiar, but it’s 3.30am and it was eating at me, so I finally couldn’t resist and had to look it up
7 Nicole // Sep 4, 2009 at 4:30 am
15. No One – Alicia Keys
19. Turn Off the Light – Nelly Furtado
8 Rube Goldberg // Sep 4, 2009 at 10:33 am
10. “Jesus Walks” ~ Kanye West
I’m looking forward to what is on the horizon with this project.
9 Mark Blankenship // Sep 4, 2009 at 10:44 am
Whoops! Yes, Gonzalo. You are right. Slip o’ the fingers.
10 Mark Blankenship // Sep 4, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Hey everyone — So mlp is correct that #16 is “Get the Party Started” by Pink, but in a moment of late-night reckoning, I have decided to take that song off next week’s “Best of the Aughts” countdown and replace it with another Pink song.
Truly, this is a day for hard choices.
11 K. // Sep 4, 2009 at 4:34 pm
4. Junior Senior, “Can I Get Get Get”
12 Trey // Sep 5, 2009 at 9:46 am
9. Be Mine (!) by Robyn
13 cayenne // Sep 5, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Wow, a week where I know lots of them! Trust me to come in late after everyone else has already rung in. Here’s one of the missing ones:
#11 is Sinead O’Connor “Hold Back the Night”. Love Sinead.
14 Julia // Sep 13, 2009 at 12:46 am
#5 is “Drive,” by Alan Jackson. And I love that you’re ranking Alan.
15 Mark Blankenship // Sep 13, 2009 at 10:27 am
Thanks, Julia! You’ll find him in the first installment of the countdown.
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