Lyrics Quiz

It's been a few months since the last one, so...

Each of the following is a first line from a certified Classic rock song (though not all are Classic Rockâ„¢). Without looking them up, how many can you identify ?

Updates
1. Bumped this to the top.
2. As people get them, I'll mark them off.
3. Marking unclaimed items in red.

  1. Every time that I look in the mirror, Aerosmith- "Dream On"(BobbyL)
  2. Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins - Beatles, She's Leaving Home (CharleyCarp)
  3. Some folks are born made to wave the flag - Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fortunate Son (CharleyCarp)
  4. Please please tell me now - "Is There Something I Should Know" by Duran Duran (RobC)
  5. There's talk on the street; it sounds so familiar - Eagles, New Kid in Town (CharleyCarp)
  6. Wait a minute baby, stay with me awhile
  7. We had broken up for good just an hour before
  8. Saturday night I was downtown - Hollies, Long Cool Woman (CharleyCarp)
  9. I'm standing here on the ground
  10. You love her, but she loves him - J. Geils Band, Love Stinks (DaveC)
  11. Girl I want to be with you all of the time - "All Day and All of the Night" by The Kinks (RobC)
  12. Hey lady, you got the love I need - Led Zeppelin, Over the Hills and Far Away (CharleyCarp)
  13. They told him don't you ever come around here
  14. I wanna live, I wanna give - Neil Young, Heart of Gold (CharleyCarp)
  15. Crazy, but that's how it goes - Ozzy Osborne, "Crazy Train" (BobbyL)
  16. I am just a new boy, a stranger in this town
  17. She keeps Moet and Chandon in her pretty cabinet - Queen- "Killer Queen" (BobbyL)
  18. Hey ho, let's go - Ramones- "Blitzkrieg Bop" (BobbyL)
  19. Way back when in 67 - Hey Nineteen, Steely Dan (Jigsaw)
  20. Heard of a van that is loaded with weapons - "Life During Wartime" by Talking Heads (RobC)
  21. See the stone set in your eyes - "With or Without You" by U2 (RobC)
  22. Standing on the corner, suitcase in my hand - Velvet Underground - "Sweet Jane" (BobbyL)
  23. What's with these homies, dissing my girl? - Weezer, 'Buddy Holly' (ChrisR)
  24. Dear God, sorry to disturb you - Dear God, XTC (Jigsaw)
  25. A man conceived a moment's answers to the dream
  26. You didn't have to love me like you did - ZZ Top- "And I Thank You" (BobbyL)

Hints

  • There are 26 songs.
  • They are arranged in alphabetic order by band name, or artist's first name.
  • The latest song is from the mid-90's. The earliest is from '67.

You can click here for the answers. But give it a good try, first!

9 thoughts on “Lyrics Quiz”

  1. Rob Caldecott

    Crikey.

    4. ‘Is There Something I Should Know’ by Duran Duran.
    11. ‘All Day and All of the Night’ by The Kinks.
    16. ? by Simon & Garfunkel
    18. ‘Sno, Hey ho’ by RHCP.
    20. ‘Life During Wartime’ by Talking Heads (too easy!)
    21. ‘With or Without You’ by U2.

    I will pass this on – a friend of mine is bloody good at this sort of thing.

  3. CharleyCarp

    3. Creedence, Fortunate Son
    5. Eagles, New Kid in Town
    6. Fleetwood Mac, dammit, I know the song
    8. Hollies, Long Cool Woman
    12. Zep, Over the Hills and Far Away
    14. Neil, Heart of Gold
    22. Rolling Stones, but the next line is out of my head

  6. Jigsaw

    16 – NOT (as it turns out) The Boxer, Simon & Garfunkel
    19 – Hey Nineteen, Steely Dan (nice that it’s the 19th song)
    24 – Dear God, XTC

    If I’d gotten here earlier, I coulda helped with 2, 20, & 21, but looking at the answers, I can see why I didn’t know any of the others…

  8. Bobby Lightfoot

    1.- Aerosmith- “Dream On”
    15- Ozzy, “Crazy Train”
    16- Paul Simon, “the boxer”
    17- Queen- “Killer Queen”?
    18- Ramones- “Blitzkrieg Bop”
    22- Velvets- “Sweet Jane”
    25- Yes- “…Disgrace”?
    26- ZZ Topp- “And I Thank You” (originally an old Muscle Shoals/Stax nugget by So-and-so-and-so-and-so)

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