For my New Wave aficionados, take the following Quiz matching the Lyric snippets listed alphabetically below to the song title and artist. HINT - the lyrics correspond to my listing of 100 Essential New Wave songs (1977-1984) in the previous post. To make it simple, indicate the Top 100 Song # against each lyric (ie 'God Save the Queen' is song #1, 'How Soon is Now' is song #99 etc.) Good Luck and Have Fun!
P.S. The answers will be revealed in a new post on Sunday, March 18th, 2012.
Song Lyric sample
1 21 years in captivity, shoes too small to fit his feet
2 a tear of petrol is in your eye
3 always get it up from the touch of the younger kind
4 better think of the future, or else you’ll wind up in jail
5 Bobby OD’d on Drano on the night that he was wed
6 boy meets girl, and love, love is on its way
7 but all I get is bitter and a nasty little rash
8 but I want nothing this society’s got
9 but shoot it in the right direction, making it your intention
10 chance is buried just below the blinding snow
11 don’t make a sound, just move out
12 dreams stay with you, like a lover’s voice across the mountainside
13 feel the rain like an English summer
14 flying through hyper-space in a computer interface
15 Gloria, the last taboo was shattered by her tongue one night
16 he has his future in a British steel
17 here we are stranded, somehow it seems the same
18 hielten sich far Captain Kirk, das gabein grosses Feuerwerk
19 I believe in truth though I lie a lot
20 I can’t control my fingers, I can’t control my brain
21 I don’t know why sometimes I get frightened
22 I feel safest of all, I can lock all my doors
23 I know I’m only fifteen, I like to kick, I like to scream
24 I might like you better if we slept together
25 I need excitement, oh I need it bad
26 I want a doctor to take your picture, so I can look at you from inside as well
27 I wish I was in Tijuana
28 I won’t share you with another boy
29 I’d drive a million miles, I wanna test them with you
30 I’d like to take her home that’s understood
31 I’m damned pretty angry young man, and it’s no good to shout
32 I’m floating in a beam of light with you
33 I’ve asked myself, how much do you commit yourself?
34 ich lieb’ dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht
35 if a girl walks in and carves her name in my heart, I’ll turn and run away
36 It makes me cream my jeans when she comes my way
37 it’s so hard to get old without a cause, I don’t want to perish like a fading horse
38 it’s tearing apart my blue, blue heart
39 just a thousand reflections of my own sweet self, self, self
40 look now, look all around, there’s no sign of life
41 me I go from one extreme to another
42 me, myself and I is all I’ve ever know
43 move out of my way, it’s time to make it happen
44 my job is very boring, I’m an office clerk
45 Na Na Na Na, NaNaNaNa
46 O, why can’t I live a life for me?
47 oh maybe, maybe, I’m gonna have a baby
48 once I ran to you, now I run from you
49 one day maybe next week, I’m gonna meet you
50 phone whispering in my ear, tell me all the things that I wanna hear
51 phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust
52 pushed around and kicked around, always a lonely boy
53 questions questions, give me no answer
54 right now I can’t afford the gas, a brand new convertible is out of my class
55 rolling and falling, I’m choking and calling, name after name after name
56 see I’ve already waited too long, and all my hope is gone
57 see my tailor, he’s called Simon, I know it’s going to fit
58 she drove a Plymouth Satellite, faster than the speed of light
59 she is the one in front of me, the siren and the ecstasy
60 she moves among men, they would seek to have her as a prize
61 she’s been a bad girl, she’s like a chemical
62 she’s got me going up and down
63 slip and slide in your wet delight, feel the blood flow
64 so sweet you make my mouth water
65 so the FBI they rewarded him, because they like a guy who will stab a friend
66 some boys take a beautiful girl, and hide her away from the rest of the world
67 some of them want to abuse you, some of them want to be abused
68 step on a crack, break your momma’s back
69 straight off the boat, where to go?
70 take away my right to speak, take away my dignity
71 tell me how does it feel, when your heart grows cold
72 tell me what they’re wearing this year
73 the dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had
74 the grass is always greener over there
75 the more you live, the faster you will die
76 the one who insists he was first in line, is the last to remember her name
77 the record shows, I fucked a bloke
78 the silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload
79 there’s a world outside your window, and it’s a world of dread and fear
80 they think I’m crazy, so I tell them “oh ya”
81 they took the credit for your second symphony
82 this ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco
83 this is the heavy heavy monster sound, the nuttiest sound around
84 this kiss you give, it’s never ever going to fade away
85 we bite and scratch and scream all night
86 we can act like we come from out of this world, leave the real one far behind
87 we slip and slide as we fall in love
88 we’re the flowers in the dustbin
89 well Cleopatra died for Egypt
90 well I wait so long for my love vibration
91 when routine bites hard, and ambitions are low
92 why can’t I get just one screw, baby I know what to do
93 why don’t they do what they say, say what they mean
94 words are so cheap, but they can turn expensive
95 you in that dress, my thoughts I confess, verge on dirty
96 you only seen me for the clothes that I wear
97 you pull back the curtains, and the sun burns into your eyes
98 you’ve got your nuclear boots and your drip drop glove
99 your eyes make a circle, I see you when I go in there
100 your love gives me such a thrill, but your love won’t pay my bills
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