Lyrics Quiz

[ckd]

1. Everything is temporary anyway "Circle", Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, lizzielizzie
2. When I'm surrounded I just can't stop "Brian Wilson", Barenaked Ladies, victorthecook
3. It's too late tonight to drag the past out into the light "One", U2, bikergeek
4. I have stood here before inside the pouring rain "King Of Pain", The Police, bikergeek
5. That long black cloud is comin' down "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", Bob Dylan, bikergeek
6. Sat on a fence but it don't work "Under Pressure", Queen w/David Bowie, lizzielizzie
7. Some are altogether mighty frightening "Don't Speak", No Doubt, lizzielizzie
8. Aspirations in the clouds but your hopes go down the drain "No One Is To Blame", Howard Jones, bikergeek
9. I am too dumb I am too smart
10. If I shiver, please give me a blanket "Behind Blue Eyes", The Who, happyfunpaul
11. Conversation has run dry "Torn", Natalie Imbruglia[1], happyfunpaul
12. They tell me your blue skies fade to gray
13. These are the words I never said "Why", Annie Lennox, lizzielizzie
14. What a cold and a rainy day "Like The Weather", 10,000 Maniacs, bikergeek
15. Sometimes everything is wrong "Everybody Hurts", R.E.M., happyfunpaul

[1] Technically, this is a cover of Ednaswap, but their version's rather obscure. OTOH, see this interpretive dance version.

Comments

[happyfunpaul.livejournal.com]

10. If I shiver, please give me a blanket
"Behind Blue Eyes", The Who

11. Conversation has run dry
"Torn", Natalie Imbruglia

15. Sometimes everything is wrong
"Everybody Hurts", REM

I'll keep pondering, but these three came right away. I'm usually terrible at these lyrics quizzes, too, so I am happy I actually got in early, for once. :-)

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

3. U2, "One"
4. Police, "King of Pain"
8. Howard Jones, "No One Is to Blame"
10. The Who, "Behind Blue Eyes"
14. 10,000 Maniacs, "Like the Weather"

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

Well, the one from "Behind Blue Eyes" was gotten already.

9. I am too dumb I am too smart

That's from some "gunge" band I think; it's not Nirvana I don't think. But that's as close as I can get. Wait, wait.....no, that's not it.

Dang it, I should know this one. Oh well....

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

5. Bob Dylan, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

Ghaa! I hate quizzes like this. I never remember lyrics. I think I know the Up in the Air, Junior Birdmen but prolly not. That is about a modern song lyric as I go.

[lizzielizzie.livejournal.com]

1. "Circle of Friends", Edie Brickell
3. "One", U2
4. "King of Pain", The Police
6. "Pressure", Queen with David Bowie
7. "Don't Speak", No Doubt
8. "No One is to Blame", Howard Jones
10. Ergh. That song whose name I don't know. Heh. :)
11. "Torn", Natalie Imbruglia
13. "Why", Annie Lennox
14. "Like the Weather", 10,000 Maniacs

[victorthecook.livejournal.com]

2. Brian Wilson, by Barenaked Ladies.

[dpolicar]

I don't really respond to these sorts of things, but it pleases me that I recognize most of them. Usually I don't.

[yarram.livejournal.com]

If this list is representative of your musical tastes, I really must seek out the ones I've not heard yet and turn them into future earworms...

[ckd]

All of those songs are on my iTunes 5-star playlist and therefore representative of a particular subset of my musical tastes; this particular selection was, shall we say, not totally random.

[gtrout.livejournal.com]

#12 is somewhere in my iPod, I'm certain of it, and the not-knowing-what-it-is is making me crazy; and Googling it would be cheating. Aaargh.

[(Anonymous)]

number 12 is daniel powter bad day x