Mrs. P.’s Quote Quiz #1
I enjoyed last week’s music quote quiz, and I am going to enjoy this week’s even more, because I get to participate. Mrs. P. has selected the quotes this week, so I will be doing some guessing along with the rest of you. And I am probably going to leave you all in my dust.
Very important: Mrs. P. is instituting different rules this week. You must give your answers before you read the comments. Just as Googling is cheating, reading the comments first is cheating. Thus, all correct answers from non-cheaters will be counted, and not just the first correct answers.
Scoring is the same as last time: 5 points per correct band, and 1 point per correct song title. 60 points total are possible. Mrs. P. is the final judge.
No whining.
Here are the quotes:
1
Walking down Main Street
Getting to know the concrete
Looking for a purpose from a neon sign.
2
She had legs that never ended
I was halfway paralyzed.
3
I hope you remember me
I was your daddy once.
4
Some have a style
That they work hard to refine
So they walk a crooked line
But she won’t understand
Why anyone would have to try
To walk a line when they could fly.
5
Without trying hard I made it final
And we conceived our children on backseat vinyl
Though we didn’t have a lot
(But) one was quickly bought
Then we built upon this ground something we thought was sound
But in reality was silence.
6
I said to my reflection,
“Let’s get out of this place.”
7
Everything I’ll ever be I’ve been.
8
It’s not that we don’t know
It’s just that we don’t want to care.
9
The people sipped their wine
And what with God there, they asked him questions
Like: do you have to eat
Or get your hair cut in heaven?
10
And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me,
He’d grown up just like me.
My boy was just like me.
#10. Harry Chapin’s “The Cat’s in the Cradle”. I am stumped otherwise.
nk (77d95e) — 3/14/2006 @ 6:25 am6 is “Tempted by the fruit of another”
10 is that one about the cats in the cradle and the silver spoon…
CliveStaples (6ab742) — 3/14/2006 @ 6:26 am#10 is Chapin, #6 is squeeze and #2 is the smithereens behind the wall of sleep.
steve sturm (e37e4c) — 3/14/2006 @ 6:45 am#3 Is Jellyfish…cant remember the name but it’s on Bellybutton
#4 Is the Bangles…If She Knew What She Wants
#6 Squeeze Tempted
#10 Cat’s In The Cradle Harry Chapin
What a fun game! I can’t believe Mrs. P knows Jellyfish! I thought I was the only one….
🙂
Stacy (e5478a) — 3/14/2006 @ 7:19 am(Keep in mind that I gave these answers before reading the above comments. They may or may not be right.)
1
Son Volt
“Tear Stained Eye”
5
Posies
“Trust Yourself”
6
Squeeze
“Tempted”
7
Matthew Sweet
“Pull the Trigger”
9
Crash Test Dummies
“God Shuffled His Feet”
10
Patterico (de0616) — 3/14/2006 @ 7:27 amDon McLean (?)
“Cat’s in the Cradle”
I get one of those, “Cats in the Cradle” by Harry Chapin. I’m curious if you listen to the Harry Chapin version, the GNR version, or the Ugly Kid Joe version. 🙂
The rest I don’t recognize at all.
aphrael (e0cdc9) — 3/14/2006 @ 9:40 am#4 is the Bangles, “If She Knew What She Wants”
#6 Squeeze “Tempted”
#10 Harry Chapin “Cats in the Cradle”
… and that’s all I’ve got… I’m pretty good when I also have the tune (heck, isn’t everyone? LOL), but usually lyrics-only baffle me.
***sigh***
— R’cat
Romeocat (bea21a) — 3/14/2006 @ 10:01 amI think Number 9 is “God Shuffled His Feet” by the Crash Test Dummies.
Number 10 is “Cat’s in the Cradle?”
I’m terrible at this – I couldn’t even guess one last time – but I like it nevertheless.
Psyberian (9eb2a7) — 3/14/2006 @ 5:26 pm#1 Son Volt, “Tear Stained Eye, from “Trace”
#2 Smithereens, “Behind the Wall of Sleep,” from “Blown to Smithereens.” I was in love with Jean Shrimpton when I was a kid.
#4 The Bangles, “If She Knew What She Wants”
#6 Duuuhhhhh……why was this included? Squeeze, “Tempted,” from “East Side Story.”
#7 Love Matthew Sweet. “Someone to pull the Trigger,” from “Altered Beast.”
#10 Again, duh, why was this included? Harry Chapin, “Cat’s in the Cradle,” from “verities and Balderdash.”
CraigC (4525c5) — 3/14/2006 @ 5:35 pmI hasten to add that I was not poking fun at Mrs. P. (ducks)
CraigC (4525c5) — 3/14/2006 @ 5:36 pmI think it’s great that we all knew “Cat’s in the Cradle”. It’s the common thread that brings us here. OK, it’s the unofficial Harry Chapin fan page.
nk (947b03) — 3/14/2006 @ 6:18 pmI don’t know these! How about a quiz with songs from the Great American Songbook?
Jackie (42bed3) — 3/14/2006 @ 6:31 pmMan, I feel dumb and uncultured. All I knew was number 10 — “Cat’s in the Cradle,” by… uhmm… that one guy, you know.
Laudio (06d15b) — 3/15/2006 @ 9:26 am#1 is “Tear Stained Eye” by Son Volt.
#10 is “Cat’s in the Cradle” by Harry Chapin.
I can sing #6 (“play-ee-ace”), but band and title elude me.
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