Friday Lyrics Quiz
Jan. 6th, 2006 11:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiHad a nice run of sixteen songs in iTunes with nothing I felt like skipping, and no repeat artists, game/anime soundtrack stuff, instrumentals or spoken word stuff. So I figured that was a good opportunity for a lyrics quiz. :-)
Usual rules apply. You need to name song and artist. Guess at one song, and only one. If you use Google, A9, or another search engine for this one, you suck like a giant sucking thing. I'll update and credit as people get answers right. The only things the songs have in common is that they're all good and they're all in my iTunes library. At least three of them have been top-ten singles, others are deep album tracks, and others are by folks only a few of you have heard of. Exactly two of these are from musicals (and the musicals are, in a way, related), although two other songs originate on movie soundtracks. Overall, I'd rate this one easy to medium-hard in terms of difficulty (which is why I'm limiting folks to guessing just one). For those who are wondering, #17 was the Tori cover of "Wrapped Around your Finger," which is good, but would create too much confusion in a lyrics quiz.
1. "Go back to urban ’nam."
2. "Just take a point called Z in the complex plane."
3. "Metal under tension, beggin' you to touch and go."
4. "You know you laughed; I heard you laugh. You laughed; you laughed and laughed." They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-ha, by Napoleon XIV, guessed by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ckd
5. "I'm not a part of a redneck agenda." American Idiot, by Green Day, guessed bylunaris_
6. "I'm getting well. Don't try to save me; I'm saving myself. You go to hell."
7. "Oh, I don't mind when my crotchless panties creep right up on me." Truck-driving Song, by Weird Al, guessed bykittyjammies
8. "Dissent's not treason, but they talk like it's the same."
9. "Now I'm broke, and it's no joke, it's hard as hell to fight it."
10. "I want to live on the Upper East Side and never go down the street."
11. "We're not all Pentecostal, but everybody's got an asshole."
12. "Doing donuts on the neighbors lawn"
13. "Well baby I surrender to the strawberry ice cream."
14. "When she hugged me and kissed me, made me ting-a-ling-a-ling."
15. "She didn't believe in transcendence." Sunny Came Home, by Shawn Colvin, guessed byoshiny
16. "And when greed and felony sail the sea, you can bet your boots there'll be treachery."
Usual rules apply. You need to name song and artist. Guess at one song, and only one. If you use Google, A9, or another search engine for this one, you suck like a giant sucking thing. I'll update and credit as people get answers right. The only things the songs have in common is that they're all good and they're all in my iTunes library. At least three of them have been top-ten singles, others are deep album tracks, and others are by folks only a few of you have heard of. Exactly two of these are from musicals (and the musicals are, in a way, related), although two other songs originate on movie soundtracks. Overall, I'd rate this one easy to medium-hard in terms of difficulty (which is why I'm limiting folks to guessing just one). For those who are wondering, #17 was the Tori cover of "Wrapped Around your Finger," which is good, but would create too much confusion in a lyrics quiz.
1. "Go back to urban ’nam."
2. "Just take a point called Z in the complex plane."
3. "Metal under tension, beggin' you to touch and go."
4. "You know you laughed; I heard you laugh. You laughed; you laughed and laughed." They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-ha, by Napoleon XIV, guessed by
ckd5. "I'm not a part of a redneck agenda." American Idiot, by Green Day, guessed by
lunaris_6. "I'm getting well. Don't try to save me; I'm saving myself. You go to hell."
7. "Oh, I don't mind when my crotchless panties creep right up on me." Truck-driving Song, by Weird Al, guessed by
kittyjammies8. "Dissent's not treason, but they talk like it's the same."
9. "Now I'm broke, and it's no joke, it's hard as hell to fight it."
10. "I want to live on the Upper East Side and never go down the street."
11. "We're not all Pentecostal, but everybody's got an asshole."
12. "Doing donuts on the neighbors lawn"
13. "Well baby I surrender to the strawberry ice cream."
14. "When she hugged me and kissed me, made me ting-a-ling-a-ling."
15. "She didn't believe in transcendence." Sunny Came Home, by Shawn Colvin, guessed by
oshiny16. "And when greed and felony sail the sea, you can bet your boots there'll be treachery."
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Date: 2006-01-06 04:31 pm (UTC)4. "You know you laughed; I heard you laugh. You laughed; you laughed and laughed."
and then you left and now you know I'm utterly MAD.
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They're coming to take me away ha-ha
They're coming to take me away ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-ha
To the funny Farm, with trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're coming to take me awaaaaaay!
but I don't remember who did it. It got played on Dr. Demento a lot. It will come to me in the middle of the night.
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Date: 2006-01-06 04:41 pm (UTC)I miss Dr. Demento...
fish heads fish heads roly poly fish heads
fish heads fish heads eat them up, YUM!
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Date: 2006-01-06 04:37 pm (UTC)I think.
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Date: 2006-01-06 04:37 pm (UTC)Yeah, I know other ones, but that one amused me.
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Date: 2006-01-06 04:39 pm (UTC)all my brain can produce right now.
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Date: 2006-01-06 04:48 pm (UTC)My Evil Twin, They Might Be Giants.
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Date: 2006-01-06 05:39 pm (UTC)13. is Counting Crows' "Accidentally in Love".
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Date: 2006-01-06 05:41 pm (UTC)So, you know, never mind.
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Date: 2006-01-06 05:51 pm (UTC)"White Lines (Don't Do It)", by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Although there isn't much Furious Five in there. Also, it might actually be after Flash left, so it could be Melle Mel and the Furious Five.
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