Music memeage

[snorkackcatcher]

I can rarely resist Guess The Song From The Lyric memes ... So here's some songs to guess, taken from the lyric questions I've asked at the pub quiz over the last few years (some of which the contestants found easy, some of which they didn't).

ETA: A few clues added for those not spotted ...



1. There's room at the top, they're telling you still / But first you must learn how to smile as you kill / If you want to be like the folks on the hill -- Working Class Hero by John Lennon, spotted by lazy_neutrino

2. You said it belonged to me, made me stop and think / Then I noticed yours was red, mine was baby pink [1950s, female singer] -- Lipstick On Your Collar by Connie Francis, spotted by cassieverte

3. He was a boy, she was a girl / Can I make it any more obvious? / He was a punk, she did ballet / What more can I say? -- Sk8er Boi by Avril Lavigne, spotted by theregoesyamum and maple_clef

4. There is freedom within, there is freedom without / Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup -- Don't Dream It's Over by Crowded House, spotted by theregoesyamum and maple_clef

5. I can think of a lot worse places to be, like down on the streets / Or down in the sewer, Or even on the end of a skewer -- Peaches by the Stranglers, spotted by junediamanti

6. And all the friends lay down the flowers / Sit on the banks and drink for hours / Talk of the way they saw him last [1990s, Welsh band]

7. I've had some bad times / Lived through some sad times / But this time your hurtin' won't heal -- Lucille by Kenny Rogers, spotted by lucie_p, junediamanti, and maple_clef

8. Your mother who neglected you owes a million dollars tax / And your father's still perfecting ways of making sealing wax [1960s, v.famous band] -- Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown by the Rolling Stones, spotted by dolabellae

9. Never made it as a wise man / I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing / Tired of living like a blind man / I'm sick of sight without a sense of feeling -- How You Remind Me by Nickelback, spotted by theregoesyamum and maple_clef

10. There's no other girl I would wait for / But this one I'd break any date for / I don't want to ask what she's late for / She wouldn't leave me flat, she's not a girl like that -- Leaning on a Lamppost by George Formby, spotted by junediamanti

11. But this machine can only swallow money / You can't lay a patch by computer design / It's just a lot of stupid, stupid signs -- The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite by REM, spotted by lazy_neutrino

12. So smile for a while and let's be jolly / Love shouldn't be so melancholy / Come along and share the good times while we can -- Rose Garden by Lynn Anderson, spotted by lucie_p and junediamanti

13. Read some Byron, Shelley and Keats / Recited it over a hip-hop beat -- These Words by Natasha Bedingfield, spotted by maple_clef

14. She wanted to test her husband / She knew exactly what to do / A pseudonym to fool him / She couldn't have made a worse move -- Babooshka by Kate Bush, spotted by lazy_neutrino

15. That's not a stab at Michael / That's just a metaphor, I'm just psycho / I go a little bit crazy sometimes / I get a little bit out of control with my rhymes -- Just Lose It by Eminem, spotted by parthenia14

16. My happiness was paid for when they laid their money down / For summers in a summer camp and winters in the town / My future in the system was talked about and planned / But I gave it up for music -- Free Electric Band by Albert Hammond, spotted by lucie_p

17. I can't believe you kiss your car good night / C'mon baby tell me - you must be jokin', right! --That Don't Impress Me Much by Shania Twain, spotted by theregoesyamum and maple_clef

18. I'd like to someday be the owner of the first house on the moon / There would be no neighbours, and no population boom [1970s Philly soul] -- I'm Stone In Love With You by the Stylistics, spotted by swythyv

19. And Charlie ain't no Nazi / She likes to wear her leather boots / 'Cos it's exciting for the veterans / And it's a tonic for the troops -- She's So Modern by Boomtown Rats, spotted by lazy_neutrino

20. He said 'Now baby don't be stupid / Get this into your sweet head / There ain't nothing in the woodshed (except maybe some wood)' -- Something for the Weekend by Divine Comedy, spotted by maple_clef

21. I had a dream last night / About the coming fight / Somebody yelled 'Attack' / And there I stood with an arrow in me back [1960ish comedy record] -- Mr Custer by Charlie Drake, spotted by green_kiwigirl

22. Seems that I was busy doing something close 2 nothing / But different than the day before / That's when I saw her, Ooh, I saw her / She walked in through the out door [1980s US superstar] -- Raspberry Beret by Prince, spotted by green_kiwigirl

23. Winter's passed, spring, and fall / You never wrote me, you never called [Early 1970s Motown]

24. A Hollywood director came into town / And said to her 'How'd you like to be a star? / "You're a girl that could go far specially dressed the way you are' [1960s friends of the Beatles, obscure!]

25. He was the top man at his craft / But then his number came up and he was gone with the draft [1950s 'girl group'] -- Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy by the Andrews Sisters, spotted by miss__sophia

Comments

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

#3 OMG YOU HAVE SK8ER BOI.
#4 Don't Dream It's Over, by the Crowdies
#9 This is How You Remind me, Nickelback
#17 That Don't Impress Me Much, Shania Twain.

I think I need to do this one myself.

[lucie-p.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I should have been able to guess #17 as well, but I refuse to acknowledge that song; the title alone makes my head hurt. ;)

[snorkackcatcher]

All correct! (The pub recognised Avril as well. :D)

[lucie-p.livejournal.com]

#7: You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille by Kenny Rogers *hides for knowing this*

#9: Rose Garden by Lynn Anderson

#16: Free Electric Band by Albert Hammond

[snorkackcatcher]

Spot on. Nothin' wrong with a little country from time to time. :)

[zoepaleologa.livejournal.com]

5. Peaches, by Clash

7. "You Picked a Fine time to Leave Me Lucille" by Kenny Rodgers and umpteen other country singers. Our family version goes:

"You picked a fine time to go to the loo
You've had all morning, you must have had warning
But this time it really won't do
You picked a fine time to go to the loo!"

10. Leaning on a Lamppost by George Formby

12. Rosegarden, by Tammy Wynette and umpteen other country singers.

[snorkackcatcher]

Correct -- excellent, someone got the real oldie. :D

[maple-clef.livejournal.com]

3 Avril Lavigne, Sk8er Boi
4 Crowded House, Don't Dream It/s Over
7 Kenny Rogers, Lucille
9 Nickleback, How You Remind Me
13 Natasha Bedingfield, These Words
17 Shania Twain, That Don't Impress Me Much
20 Divine Comedy, Something for the Weekend (haven't heard that in a while!)

Others seem familiar, but no names of the top of my head :)

[snorkackcatcher]

All correct of course!

[lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com]

1: Working Class Hero - John Lennon
11: The Sidewinder sleeps Tonite (?sp) - REM. I love this song but no-one else seems to!
14: Dammit, I know this. It is going to annoy me all day!
19: Tonic for the Troops - Boomtown Rats

*wanders off, frowning at number 14*

[snorkackcatcher]

Oh good, you got three of my favourites out of that lot. :) (#14: early 80s, female solo singer.)

[lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com]

Too late! Google is my friend, I'm afraid... I could hear the wretched thing and I knew I'd have no peace! So I used my 20/20 hindsight. (It's my secret superpower.)

[lls-mutant.livejournal.com]

Everyone guessed the ones I know, but you put Kenny Rogers on :) Damn, I love that!

[snorkackcatcher]

Oh well, that's OK. :)

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

Is no. 15 Eminem, by any chance?

[snorkackcatcher]

It was indeed ...

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

I think I'm embarrassed. :D

[dolabellae.livejournal.com]

I like lyric rounds! But am a bit late, so most of the ones I know have gone. Still, there's one for me - 8) is the Stones, 19th Nervous Breakdown.

Good selection!

[snorkackcatcher]

Thanks! And yes, of course you're right. :)

[miss-sophia.livejournal.com]

#25 is "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," and I believe it was the Andrews Sisters who performed it.

[snorkackcatcher]

It is indeed, and it was them (at least, that's the version I have).

[green-kiwigirl.livejournal.com]

Is #21 "Please Mr. Custer?" My teacher played that song in my Social Studies course in 8th grade...

And #22 is PRINCE– Raspberry Beret!

[snorkackcatcher]

Right on both counts. Blimey -- I'd never thought that song would be used in schools! I have it on one of my Dad's old vinyl 45's. :)

[green-kiwigirl.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, Ms. R's class consisted mainly of us listening to songs about history or society and not much else :D I don't think I ever cracked open a textbook that year... Parents weren't too happy about it but we all loved it.

[cassieverte.livejournal.com]

#2 is "Lipstick on Your Collar," but I don't know if this counts because I couldn't tell you who sings it. Also, I never met anyone who actually wears baby pink lipstick, though everyone I know who wears red (with any frequency) would like leave such tacky evidence. May I also say, you have quite the eclectic taste in music. I like. You gave me a couple ideas for my MP3 player.

PS: Was going to weigh in on your interrupted dialogue conversation, but thought you seemed to have enough opinions. Any way, I'm fairly sure I have pretty bad grammar.

[snorkackcatcher]

It is indeed -- Connie Francis did the version I know, but then this was the 1950s when there seem to have been about half-a-dozen cover versions of all the big hits. I suppose it had to be 'baby pink' for the rhyme. :)

And yeah, I'm afraid I do have rather eclectic tastes. (I don't have all those 25 tracks, but the ones I don't I'd liek to get sometime.)

[swythyv.livejournal.com]

#18 ...I guess it's true/'Cause I'm Stone in Love With You ... and I'm guessing Sly and the Family Stone did it. ;D

Amazing - I'd never heard of any of these, except Lucille, Mr. Custer and the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - two of which were considerably older than their last popular releases.

This is fun. I should crack out my Dr. Demento collection and do one of these. :D

[snorkackcatcher]

Yep, that's the one -- although that's an odd four to remember. :) (By the Stylistics actually -- you know, the blokes with the really high voices?)

[swythyv.livejournal.com]

Oh! Too right, and I could hear them so clearly in memory. :D
(Normalcy is overrated.)