Son of Twenty-Five (the second music quiz)
[Updated on Sept. 16] I've added the rest of the first stanza to the as yet unguessed songs.
Because it was so much fun last time, and to bridge the gap until I can get back online, here is a re-run of the famous 25 first lines quiz. It's slightly different in content than last time, I chose favourite songs from my collection rather than letting my iPod make a random selection. There is a significant omission (in terms of the balance of my tastes): the blues is missing. The vast majority of blues songs have no real title, they're known by the first line of the lyrics which of course ruins them for this quiz.
Your challenge, dear readers, is to identify the title and artist. Post your answers (or guesses) in the comments, and I'll mark the lines as people correctly identify them. I'll give you one hint to start off with: there is a significant amount of overlap between this set and the previous quiz, because much of my collection is wordless or in languages other than English (a goodly amount is in languages that I don't even speak: Latin, Wolof, Mandinka, Sonrhaï).
The rules are simple: Googling the lyrics when you haven't a clue is cheating, that should be obvious. Googling the title of a song when you can't remember the name of the band, or the name of the album when you can't remember the title of the song, is OK; however if by doing so you find out that you were wrong, then honour would require that you not submit it.
Off you go:
(sung) You take a stranger by the hand
A man who doesn't understand
His wildest dreams
U2, "Never let me go" - Noorster
2. Come, come and dry your eyes
before the morning sun arrives
Kiss, everybody is a star
no matter who or what they are
Jesus and Mary Chain, "Till it shines"
3. (spoken) Do you know the warm progress under the stars?
Do you know we exist?
Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom?
Have you been born yet & are you alive?
Jim Morrison, "An American prayer"
4. Every time I start loving you
oh you make me so satisfied
and every time I call your name
oh I feel it so deep inside
James 'Blood' Ulmer, "I can tell"
5. I hold this letter in my hand
a plea, a petition, a kind of prayer
I hope it goes as I have planned
losing her again is more than I can stand
Nick Cave, "Love letter"
6. If they dropped the bomb, would you love me then?
If I was wrong, would it be okay?
Well I can see the holes in everyone
Matthew Good Band, "Change of season"
(written by) Burt Bacharach, "Walk on by" - CarpeDM
8. It brings a tear into my eyes
when I begin to realize
oh I cry so hard, lord, since you've been gone
look like I'm gonna (title)
Johnny Winter, "Drown in my own tears"
Don Henley, "In the garden of Allah" - Kirsten
(written by) Prince, "Nothing compares 2 U" - CarpeDM
Bob Dylan, "Knockin' on heaven's door" - Dale
REM, "Sweetness follows" - Anxious
Neil Young, "Truth to tell" - Kirsten
Hollies, "too young to be married" - Antonia
Crystal Waters, "Gypsy woman" aka "Homeless"
15. Sun's up, mm-hm, looks okay
the world survives into another day
and I'm thinking about eternity
some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
Bruce Cockburn, "Wondering where the lions are"
16. Sweet as Mary out of sheer love
runs the water
clean and beautiful
leaves it standing on a Sunday
here's the ritual
Golden Palominos, "Pure"
17. There is lambswool under my naked feet
the wool is soft and warm, gives off some kind of heat.
A salamander scurries into flame to be destroyed,
imaginary creatures are trapped at birth on celluloid.
Genesis, "Carpet crawlers"
18. Union Station, tombstone high
No more tears, this fountain dry
Nameless faces, just headlines
We don't ride that train no more
Daniel Lanois, "Death of a train"
19. Well I wanna know, man is Elvis alive?
yeah I gotta know, man, is Elvis alive?
I gotta cut through all this tabloid jive
Mojo Nixon, "(619) 239 K-I-N-G"
20. Well, it's time to begin as the summer sets in
It's the scene that you set for new lovers
You play your part painting it a new heart
But each gate will open another
Feist, "Gatekeeper"
The Stranglers, "No more heroes" - Alan
Rolling Stones, "Ventilator blues" - Alan
23. Yeah, I take my baby down to the street
and I buy him a soda-pop
He's so sweet
Sonic Youth, "Washing machine"
The speaker was an angel
he coughed and shook his crumpled wings
closed his eyes and moved his lips.
"It's time we should be going."
David Bowie, "Look back in anger" - Ill man
25. You look so good to me
here in this old saloon
way back in west Berlin
a bottle of white wine
Iggy Pop, "Fall in love with me"
posted by Udge @ 18:20
21 Comments:
"12. Readying to bury your father and your mother"
Sweetness follows - REM
7. If you see me walking down the street with tears in my eyes, walk on by. Walk on by. Make believe that you don't see me something or another.
Walk on by - Dionne Warwick. Great. I'm going to have this stuck in my all day.
10. It's been seven hours and fifteen days
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor (I hate that spelling but it's how the song is so what do you do?)
I blame you, Udge, for when I break into song in front of shareholders.
11. is a Cream song, I can hear Eric Clapton singing it, do not know the name of the song. That is the only one I have any clue on. But you did inspire a post from me.
11. Mama, take this badge off of me
Dylan, Knocking on Heaven's Door
This is maddening -- I know I know half of these, but I can't quite get to them :-)
21 - Stranglers - No More Heroes
oh, and 22 is from Exile on Main Street by the Stones but I can't remember the song title ...
Well, we're off to a fine start.
Anxious: yes indeed.
CarpeDM: both correct. Tell the customers that it's live entertainment and charge them extra :-)
Zhoen: dozens of artists have recorded it so I would have been fairly generous in awarding points, but Dale crossed the line first.
Dale: well done.
Alan: both are basically correct, but you need the name of #22 to get full marks :-)
ventilator blues :)
Alan ties DM for the lead with two points!
Hey Udge - hope all's well. :)
9 - Don Henley, "In the garden of allah"
13 - Neil Young "Truth to be known"
25 - Can't be Billy Joel, "You look so good to me" can it? That would be too easy.
14. hollies - too young to be married
#1 is definitely from the Million Dollar Hotel soundtrack, but I can't for the life of me recall the song that line precedes....
Kirsten, you got two out of three. The quoted lyrics may not contain the title, so 25 is wrong. The others are right, so first place is now a three-way tie.
Antonia, you've suggested a song I'd never heard of. I googled the lyrics and you're right so that makes you a winner :-) I'll post the songtitle I was thinking of too.
Noorster, you're absolutely right - but which one? ;-)
"you've suggested a song I'd never heard of"
haha udge, I can only conclude from that that you never have been married too young and instead were hanging out with gypsywomen which sounds like the much nicer alternative....;)
Thanks for adding a clue! I still had to listen to the album though ... and it's Never Let Me Go by U2.
Antonia: no, I shall be marrying too old ;-)
Noorster: correct!
I have a feeling #25 may be david bowie, but really i'm stumped on the rest. hope you don't mind me borrowing your idea for this moment ...
25 is Look Back In Anger by Bowie. It's Alan's though, he's only pretending he doesn't know...........=D
19- Mojo Nixon, but I can't remember the name of the song (it's not Elvis is Everywhere)
Ill man: welcome aboard! You were right.
rb: I think you've been here before, if not a hearty "welcome" to you too. You're right, it is Mojo; and you're right again that it isn't "Elvis is everywhere". You might phone me the answer (hint).
Well, I feel a bit better. I picked out the only song I knew at all.
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