It's been ages since we last did one of these. So, let's do one now!
The following are first lines to well-known* songs. Name the song and artist.
If you're having trouble with your high school headAC/DC - "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" [Paige]Company, always on the runBad Company - "Bad Company" [Paige]We-hell I see them every night in tight blue jeansCyndi Lauper – "She Bop" [MikeJ]They tell us that we lost our tailsDevo - "Jocko Homo" [Platosearwax]Oh it's funny to be seeing you after so long, girl- Elvis Costello - "Alison" [MikeJ]Dreamed I was an EskimoFrank Zappa - "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" [Cris]Do you have the time to listen to me whine- Green Day - "Basket Case" [MikeJ]Hear the lonesome whippoorwillHank Williams - "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" [Paige]I'm trying to tell you something about my lifeIndigo Girls - "Closer to Fine" [Cris]Sleep all day, out all nightJames Gang "Funk 49" [xjmueller]They seek him here, they seek him thereKinks - "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion" [RobC]Wanna tell you 'bout the girl I loveLed Zeppelin - "Hey hey what can I do" [ellaesther]Traveling in a fried-out combieMen at Work – "Down Under" [MikeJ]Where it began, I can't begin to knowin- Neil Diamond - "Sweet Caroline" [Cris]How many special people change?Oasis - "Champagne Supernova" [Atlantys]"The problem is all inside your head", she said to mePaul Simon – "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" [MikeJ]I've paid my dues, time after timeQueen - "We Are The Champions" [Atlantys]Her green plastic watering can, for her fake Chinese rubber plantRadiohead - "Fake Plastic Trees" [RobC]Sweetness, sweetness, I was only jokingSmiths – "Bigmouth Strikes Again" [MikeJ]I don't want to workTodd Rundgren – "Bang on the Drum All Day" [MikeJ]Is it getting better, or do you feel the same?U2 - "One" [MikeJ]I get up, and nothing gets me downVan Halen - "Jump". [Modesto Kid]Fall is here, hear the yellWhite Stripes - We're Going To Be Friends [dbati]High climbs the summer sun, high climbs the cornXTC - "Love On A Farmboy's Wages" [Platosearwax]- When I heard the knock on the door, had to catch my breath
Clean shirt, new shoesZZ Top - "Sharp Dressed Man" [MikeJ]
* : or maybe not so well-known.
Hint: there are 26 songs.
Leave your answers in comments. I’ll cross them off as people get them.
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I totally know #3, I think it must be by Billy Joel? Heard it many times on the radio, the chorus starts “You hadda be a big shot dincha had to open up you mouth…” but no idea what the title is. #8 is ?Big River Blues” by Johnny Cash. #22 is “Jump”, I forget the artist’s name. Van Halen? Somebody like that. Nothing else ringing a bell right now, I’ll try again later on.
1. If you’re having trouble with your high school head
3. We-hell I see them every night in tight blue jeans
Cyndi Lauper – She Bop
5. Oh it’s funny to be seeing you after so long, girl
Elvis – Alison
7. Do you have the time to listen to me whine
Green Day Basket Case
13. Traveling in a fried-out combie
Men at Work – Down Under
14. Where it began, I can’t begin to knowin
16. “The problem is all inside your head”, she said to me
Paul Simon – 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
17. I’ve paid my dues, time after time
Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
18. Her green plastic watering can, for her fake Chinese rubber plant
19. Sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking
The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again
20. I don’t want to work
Todd Rundgren – Bang on the Drum All Day
21. Is it getting better, or do you feel the same?
U2 – One
22. I get up, and nothing gets me down
Van Halen – Jump
26. Clean shirt, new shoes
ZZ Top – Sharp Dressed Man
Oops, 14 was Neal Diamond, Red Sox Nation National Anthem.
“Big River Blues” maybe is “Deep River Blues”…
Wow man, how the f*(%*&% did I think a Cyndi Lauper tune was a Billy Joel tune?…
I don’t think that there are any Stephen Sondheim songs here. I flunk the quiz.
Oh my bad, #8 is called “I’m so lonesome I could cry”. And now I’m thinking the artist is probably not Cash, not sure who. “Deep River Blues” begins, “I taught the weeping willow how to cry cry cry”.
17 is Queen – We Are The Champions
15 is Oasis – Champagne Supernova
18 is Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead.
9. Indigo Girls – Closer to Fine
6. Frank Zappa — Don’t eat the Yellow Snow
14. Neil Diamond — Sweet Caroline
11 is the Kinks (?) – Dedicated Follower Of Fashion.
1. Dirty Deeds, AC/DC
2. Bad Company, Bad Company
8. I’m so Lonesome I could Cry, Hank Williams
12. What I Say, Ray Charles
#12 Led Zeppelin – “Hey Hey What Can I Do”
(though I do believe it’s “wanna tell you ’bout THE girl I love.” She’s not just any girl, you know. She wants to ball all day!)
THE girl I love
yeah, you’re probably right. fixed.
10 – funk 49 the james gang
For the love of Pete, how has no one gotten number 4??? Devo’s Jocko Homo, people! It was the first one I got when I started to scan the list.
Also, number 24 is XTC, Love on a Farmboy’s Wages.
I know 23. if we’re still playing.
the White Stripes
you gave away the #24.
Sorry to have missed this fun one, cleek.
do another!