Lyrics Quiz - Best Songs of 1996

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As I mentioned during my Best Songs of 2005, I have been compiling end of the year lists since 1996. That is pretty much because that was the year a buddy of mine got a CD burner to make a Best of… CD for that year. 1996 was also a special year as I have regarded it as the best year for music in my lifetime. So to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the year I’m dedicating to the top 25 songs from that year. Keep in mind I am compiling the songs from the list I made at the end of 1996 so please don’t mock some of the songs that really haven’t stood the test of time but I sure everyone loved them as much as I did back then. As always leave your guesses in the comment section, both song title and artist. If you are correct, I will un-bold the lyric and give you credit. The person with the most correct lyrics will be added to the Winner’s list on my sidebar. Now on to the lyrics:

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11. This former member of Leaders of the New School is so animated, this, his solo debut, includes an exclamation point in the title. He may be hard to reconize this days as he cut off his iconic dreads.
18. This song was off the last album the band ever recorded as the lead singer overdosed a couple years later. I'm also on the record as calling their song Would? the best song of the Grunge era.
19. Today, this artist is better know for writing operas and being mocked by Dave Chappelle for certain home made videos.
22. This was the hardest lyric to come up with because I can't tell a word that this group is saying most of the time. And it's not because of thier dialect because this rap group grew up about 20 miles north of me.


1. Getting paid is her forte, each and everyday. (No Diggity - Blackstreet; guessed by Jetting Through Life)
2. I don’t believe that anyone feels the way I do about you now. (Wonderwall - Oasis; guessed by Black Eyed Gurl)
3. We’ll mix up hip hop and reggae if we say it’s so. (All Mixed Up - 311; guessed by Russ)
4. Swim out past the breaker, watch the world die. (Santa Monica - Everclear; guessed by Jetting Through Life)
5. But it’s you I fell into. (Big Me - Foo Fighters; guessed by Black Eyed Gurl)
6. All at once you look across the room and see the way that light attaches to a girl. (A Long December - Counting Crows; guessed by Black Eyed Gurl)
7. Strumming my pain with his fingers (One time). (Killing Me Softly with His Song - The Fugees; guessed by Guppyman)
8. I got chills, they’re multiplying. (Grease Megamix - John Travolta and Olivia Newton John; guessed by Black Eyed Gurl)
9. I asked you to go to the Green Day concert. You say you never heard of them. How cool is that? (El Scorcho - Weezer; guessed by Black Eyed Gurl)
10. The cops want someone to bust down on Orleans Ave. (Who Will Save Your Soul - Jewel; guessed by Black Eyed Gurl)
11. Do the bogle dance, I'll do the pepperseed.
12. Your alias says you’re Captain Jean Luc Picard of the United Federation of Planets cause he won’t speak English anyways. (Banditos - The Refreshments; guessed by Black Eyed Gurl)
13. Hold me hold me cause I wanna get higher and higher. (I Go Blind - Hootie and the Blowfish; guessed by Angie)
14. I never put white towels on the floor anymore. (You Were Meant for Me - Jewel; guessed by Angie)
15. I’ve been downhearted baby, ever since the day we met. (Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand - Primitive Radio Gods; guessed by Howard who also correctly named the sample that the lyric is based on, BB King's How Blue Can You Get? although the group's singer also sings the line at the very end of the long titled song)
16. Pasadena, where you at? (California Love - 2Pac & Dr. Dre; guessed by Russ)
17. “I know,” she said,” Before you met me you were free.” (Sad Caper - Hootie and the Blowfish; guessed by Black Eyed Gurl)
18. Why, why you slap me in my face? I didn’t say it was okay.
19. Something like my bank account, I wanna spend it.
20. I met God this afternoon riding on an uptown train. (Everything Falls Apart - Dog's Eye View; guessed by Black Eyed Gurl)
21. That five-sided fist-a-gon. (Bulls on Parade - Rage Against the Machine; guessed by Black Eyed Gurl)
22. Exactly how many days you got last, you laughing? We passing, passing away.
23. Hike up you’re skirt a little more and show your world to me. (Crash Into Me - Dave Matthews Band; guessed by Angie)
24. Sorry I never told you all I wanted to say. (One Sweet Day - Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey; guessed by Jetting Through Life)
25. I play my enemies like a game of chess. (Ready or Not - The Fugees; guessed by Black Eyed Gurl)