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October 20, 2004

Lyric Fragment Quiz (Corrected)

A friend told me the last quiz was just too long. This one's shorter. The lyrics here are pretty fragmentary, too, and the more famous the song, the shorter I've tried to make them.

It's a mix of 80's one-hit (or couple of hit MTV) wonders, a few lyrics from classic rock (not many, actually), and then some 90's radio rock. Some are easy, but a lot are sorta tough.

Note: I botched the lyric slightly to one song, and more than slightly to another. Corrections included, along with error.

1. "monkey can't stand"

2. "don't keep it in ya"

3. "western shore"

4. "stay alive"

5. "such a dirty mind"

6. "du liebst mir nicht"

7. "and she wouldn't give it to me"

8. "fight you to the end"

9. "the thing just isn't movin' "

10. "I'd like to... watch"

11. "cool on craze"

12. "invitation to the world"

13. "food of love"

14. "hurt you too"

15. "nest of salt"

16. "sex is overrated too"

17. "suns that were freezing" (PROBABLY NOT "freezing their eyes" as I originally wrote)

18. "noises above"

19. "feelin' lonely people"

20. "tellin' you a secret"

21. "shook and lurched"

22. "But you've gone out to town"

23. "Disney abbatoir"

24. "sold the Renoir" (NOT "stole the Renoir" as I originally wrote)

25. "there, where?"

26. "blow it all away"

27. "dream for insomniacs"

28. "sticky everywhere"

29. "I got a notion"

30. "kinda sad and uninspired"

posted by Ace at 04:21 PM

Comments

6. Trio -- "da da da da"
11. Wang Chung -- "Dance Hall Daze"
13. Motorhead -- "Eat the Rich"
18. James -- "Laid"
25. Joe Jackson -- "Is she really going out with him?"

Posted by: WarrenM on October 20, 2004 04:50 PM

Tough one, Ace.
4) "In A Big Country" -Big Country
5) "My Sharona" -The Knack
11) "Dance Hall Days" -Wang Chung

Damn, I got nothing...

Posted by: Jack Grey on October 20, 2004 04:54 PM

16. "Everything About You" Ugly Kid Joe
24. "The Reflex" Duran Duran

Posted by: Joe R. the Unabrewer on October 20, 2004 05:02 PM

6. Trio -- "da da da da" -- yes
11. Wang Chung -- "Dance Hall Daze" -- yes
13. Motorhead -- "Eat the Rich" -- No, or at least not what I was thinking of
18. James -- "Laid" -- yes
25. Joe Jackson -- "Is she really going out with him?" -- nope

4) "In A Big Country" -Big Country -- yeahp
5) "My Sharona" -The Knack -- yeahp
11) "Dance Hall Days" -Wang Chung -- yeahp

16. "Everything About You" Ugly Kid Joe -- yeahp... surprised anyone remembered that one
24. "The Reflex" Duran Duran -- yeahp

Posted by: ace on October 20, 2004 05:06 PM

I skewed this quiz a little more female, btw.

Well, okay, that wasn't so much deliberate as these were the ones I thought up. I tried to get a friend to give me a couple of more male-skewing ones, but he came up empty.

Maybe the next one.

Posted by: ace on October 20, 2004 05:13 PM

Okay, correction. Obviously, the lyric, "There, where?" is in Is She Really Going Out With Him, so that's right.

Not the one I was thinking of, but correct.

Posted by: ace on October 20, 2004 05:21 PM

7) "All I wanted was a Pepsi", by some godforsaken one-hit-wonder. Prolly the same dorks that did "Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage"

Posted by: Bud Tugley on October 20, 2004 05:39 PM

Well, that's not the name of the song, and I don't know if they can even be called a one-hit wonder.

Posted by: ace on October 20, 2004 05:41 PM

But yeah, the lyric before that is "All I wanted was a Pepsi." And she wouldn't give it to me. Just a Pepsi.

Posted by: ace on October 20, 2004 05:42 PM

I'll work on the other ones later, but I'll never let Ace slip an Elvis Costello reference by me. And besides, I'm probably the only other serious fan of his who even bothers to comment here.

23.) "Disney abbatoir" is from "Tokyo Storm Warning" by Elvis Costello (1986).

Posted by: Jeff B. on October 20, 2004 06:02 PM

7 - Suicidal Tendencies!

I have a picture of me from the 80s with a hand drawn ST shirt on. Do I get instant street cred for that?

Posted by: Ken J on October 20, 2004 06:05 PM

I'm also pretty sure that the "all I wanted was a Pepsi" bit is from a song whose name I can't remember (actually, I just assumed that was the title) by Suicidal Tendencies.

Posted by: Jeff B. on October 20, 2004 06:05 PM

Yeahp to tokyo storm warning. By the way, the rest of these are not obscurities like TSW and the Suicidal Tendencies song.

Whose title no one knows yet. It's not "suicidal tendencies," although it's probably off of that album.

Most of these -- just about all -- are pretty legitimate hits. There are some not-so-big hits scattered throughout, because otherwise Michele from A Small Victory would get too bored.

Posted by: ace on October 20, 2004 06:08 PM

1. Sophie Hawkins, Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover
8. Jane Child, Don't Wanna Fall in Love
13. Musical Youth, Pass the Dutchie (on the Left Hand Side)
15. Nirvana, All Apologies
17. BLUE OYSTER CULT!!!, Burning for You (rockin')
21. Crash Test Dummies, Mmm mmm mmm mmm
27. Soul Asylum, Somebody to Shove
28. The Breeders, Saints

Posted by: on October 20, 2004 06:11 PM

Posted by: George on October 20, 2004 06:11 PM

7 - Institutionalized!

Posted by: Ken J on October 20, 2004 06:12 PM

sorry for the double post

Posted by: George on October 20, 2004 06:12 PM

all right except for 13. Not pass the dutchie, at least not where I got it.

Posted by: ace on October 20, 2004 06:28 PM

surprised you got Damn, I wish... thought I did a good job of deceptively editing the lyric.

Posted by: ace on October 20, 2004 06:28 PM

KenJ,

Yeahp!

Posted by: ace on October 20, 2004 06:29 PM

26. Faith No More, Faster Disco (I thought We Care a Lot was the big hit, though, but that could have just been popular with the protest-y crowd I hung out with)

Posted by: George on October 20, 2004 06:29 PM

nope. think early eighties, syntesizers, and girlie.

Posted by: ace on October 20, 2004 06:35 PM

3. Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

5. My Sharona - The Knack

7. Institutionalized - Suicidal Tendencies

11. Dance Hall Days - Wang Chung

12. World Party?

13. Pass the Dutchie - Musical Youth

15. All Apologies - Nirvana (dumbest lyrics ever)

16. I Hate Everything About You - Ugly Kid Joe (useless trivia - the lead singer of UKJ went on to briefly become the lead singer of one of my favorite bands, Life of Agony. Didn't last too long)

17. Burning for You - Blue Oyster Cult

18. Laid - James (great song!)

21. Crash Test Dummies - Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmwhatever

27. Somebody to Shove - Soul Asylum

30. I think Thompson Twins, not sure which song.

Posted by: michele on October 20, 2004 07:38 PM

"7) "All I wanted was a Pepsi", by some godforsaken one-hit-wonder. Prolly the same dorks that did "Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage"
Posted by: Bud Tugley"

That was Killer Pussy. I thought it was a great song. And Suicidal Tendencies were not godforsaken, nor dorks. They ruled.

Posted by: michele on October 20, 2004 07:51 PM

#10 is Alphabet Street by Prince. Kinda hard to tell which other ones haven't been guessed yet without a lot of work I'm too lazy to do right now.

Posted by: Kevin on October 20, 2004 08:26 PM

14. Can't remember the song name, but I think it's Stone Temple Pilots ... "I am, I am, I am, I said I wanna get next to you"

Posted by: Uncle Mikey on October 20, 2004 09:29 PM

3. Led Zepplin – “immigrant song”
12. Jimmy Briscoe and the Beavers - "Invitation to the World"
16. J. Geils Band – “Love Stinks"
29. Amy Grant – “Baby, baby”
30. Feels like Rickie Lee Jones, but I can’t place it.

Posted by: Lastango on October 21, 2004 08:08 PM

I don't think I'll do very well at this, but here goes:

5. My Cherona, The Kinks
7. Institutionalized, Suicidal Tendencies
16. I Hate Everything About You, Ugly Kid Joe
29. Second that Emotion(?)

Wow, even worse than I thought. I suck.

Posted by: Sobek on October 21, 2004 08:54 PM

After reading other answers, at least I got the Suicidal Tendencies one right. I feel good about that. And I'm surprised Ace thought Hate Everything About You would be tough.

Posted by: Sobek on October 21, 2004 09:01 PM

Oops, I see these are "lyric fragments", not crossword-style clues. I'll know better next time.

Posted by: Lastango on October 21, 2004 10:01 PM

Well, I completely forgot about it, until I stumbled across the band's name.

Posted by: ace on October 22, 2004 12:51 AM

2. inxs - 'new senstation'
13. inxs - 'love is (what i say)'

Posted by: clues on October 22, 2004 10:58 AM

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