Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Lyrics Quiz: As Seen on TV


After over two years writing this blog I get a sense that my readers fall into one of two catergories, those that come to read about the latest music and those that want to see my thought on television (for those that fall in the latter catergory, be sure to check out my Win a Copy of Neptune Noir Contest). Well here is a post for the both of you: a lyrics quiz dedicated to songs features on television shows during the 2006-2007 season. As usual, place your guesses in the comment, both artist and song title, and if you are correct I will un-bold the lyric. You can also get a bonus point is you correctly guess which show(s) the song was featured on and double bonus points if you correctly guess the character how sang the song on the show if it was not performed by the original artist (you can steal the bonus point if and only if someone correctly guesses the lyrics). Now since I don’t watch every show on television and there are plenty of unoriginal shows out there that copy other show’s musical taste, I will only accept quality television shows, and I am the one who decides whether a show is quality. But as a hint, if dudes sang a karaoke version of the song or the song was featured in a montage at the end of a teen or medical drama because the writers were to lazy to write a couple more pages of dialogue, there is a good chance I won’t accept it. Now onto the lyrics (as a not so helpful hint, the songs are arranged by with the best song placements first, that is not to be confused with the best songs though):

Hints: (Some of these songs were Song of the Week on my weekly 57 Channels and Only This Is On posts)
3. This song was sung by one of the castmembers in a different launguage.
7. Will accept more bonus.
8. Who knew the dude from Clueless could sing?

1. And I want you, and I feel you crawling underneath my skin, like a hunger. (What's Left of Me - Nick Lashey; guessed by Slaygal1981; Bonus - Veronica Mars; guessed by Jules)
2. All my friends were vampires. I didn’t know they were vampires. (Devil Town - Daniel Johnston; guessed by Slaygal1981; Bonus - Friday Night Lights; guessed by Jules)
3. My son turned ten just the other day. He said, “Thanks for the ball, dad, come on let’s play.” (Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin; guessed by Monique; Bonus - Knights of Prosperity; guesed by Slaygal1981)
4. Though this feeling I can't change. Please don't take it badly, the Lord knows I'm to blame. (Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynrd; Bonus - My Name Is Earl; both guessed by Slaygal1981)
5. And when the money, comes in for the work I do I’ll pass almost every penny on to you. (I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers; Bonus - How I Met Your Mother; both guessed by Slaygal1981)
6. Gonna close my eyes, girl, and watch you go. Running through this life darling like a field of snow. (The One I Love - David Gray; Bonus - Rescue Me; both guessed by Slaygal1981)
7. I can’t care ‘bout anything but you. (Lovefool - The Cardigans; Bonus - The Office; both guessed by Slaygal1981)
8. I’m the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral. Can’t understand what I mean? Well, you soon will. (One Week - Barenaked Ladies; Bonus - Veronica Mars; both guessed by Slaygal1981)
9. Can't we give ourselves one more chance? Why can't we give love, ‘cos love's such an old fashioned word? (Under Pressure - Queen and David Bowie; Bonus - Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip; both guessed by Slaygal1981)
10. Cracks a code on the Rosetta Stone. Said the word for alone is alone. (My Before and After - Cotton Mather; Bonus Veronica Mars as sung by Desmond Fellows; Both guessed by Slaygal1981)
11. All the lights that lead us there are blinding. (Wonderwall - Oasis; guessed by Jo; Bonus: Lost as sung by Charlie; guessed by Slaygal1981)
12. I’ve got a cow that went dry and a hen that won’t lay. A big stack of bills that get bigger each day. (Busted - Johnny Cash; Bonus - Veronica Mars; both guessed by Slaygal1981)
13. Just the good ol’ boys, never meaning no harm. (Theme from Dukes of Hazzard Theme - Waylon Jennings; Bonus - My Name Is Earl; both guessed by Slaygal1981)
14. Check baby check baby 1, 2, 3, 4. (Rump Shaker - Wreckx-N-Effect; guessed by Doug; Bonus - Lost and Veronica Mars; guessed by Slaygal1981)
15. I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom. (The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground; guessed by Slaygal1981; Bonus - My Name Is Earl; guessed by Slaygal1981)
16. Strike up the band and make the fireflies dance, silver moon’s sparkling. (Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer; guessed by Slaygal1981; Bonus - Knights of Prosperity; guesed by Slaygal1981)
17. One pair of candy lips and your bubblegum tongue. (Your Body Is a Wonderland - John Mayer; Bonus - The Office; both guessed by Slaygal1981)
18. It’s time to bring this ship into the shore, and throw away the oars, forever. (Can't Fight This Feeling - REO Speedwagon; guessed by Monique; Bonus - Supernatural; guessed by Jules)
19. They’re watching you watching you watching you watching you. (Private Eyes - Hall and Oates; guessed by Monique; Bonus - Knights of Prosperity; guessed by Slaygal1981)
20. Smack it up, flip it, rub it down. (Do Me! - Bell Bive DeVoe; guessed by Slaygal1981; Bonus - My Name Is Earl; guessed by Slaygal1981)
21. The stars are blazing like rebel diamonds cut out of the sun. (Read My Mind - The Killers; guessed by Slaygal1981; Bonus - Friday Night Lights; guessed by Slaygal1981)
22. And by protecting my heart truly I got lost in the sounds. (Fidelity - Regina Spektor; guessed by Monique; Bonus - Veronica Mars; guessed by Slaygal1981)
23. See the west wind move like a lover so upon the fields of barley. (Fields of Gold - Sting; Bonus guessed by Slaygal1981)
24. Hands, touching hands. Reaching out, touching me, touching you. (Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond; guessed by Jo; Bonus - Veronica Mars; guessed by Doug)
25. It’s not a silly little moment, it’s not the calm before the storm. (Slow Dancing in a Buring Room - John Mayer; Bonus - CSI; both guessed by Slaygal1981)

Bonus: A list of the best song placements on television would be incomplete without this song but it is hard to use the song in a lyrics quiz because the only words to the song are the ones in the title. So as a bonus (double points for each), name the song, the artist, and the show that I am speaking of. (Right Here, Right Now - Fatboy Slim; Bonus - Veronica Mars; both guessed by Slaygal1981)

Honorable Mention to Bad Day - Daniel Powder as sung by Veronica Mars which happened after I made this list.

26 comments:

  1. 1. Nick Lachey - What's Left Of Me
    2. Bright Eyes - Devil Town
    4. Lynyrd Skynrd - Freebird from My Name is Earl
    5. The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) from How I met Your Mother, poor Fiero

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  2. Oh I'll never get the shows right. I hate those two minute music montages of everyone looking sad and lonely. 2 points for tivo.

    11. Oasis- Wonderwall
    24. Neil Diamond-Sweet Caroline

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  3. 6. David Gray - The One I Love
    8. Barenaked Ladies - One Week on Veronica Mars, Canada eh?
    9. Queen feat. David Bowie - Under Pressure
    11. Oasis - Wonderwall I remember this in a show, but it may not have been Oasis' version
    14. Jay-Z - Show Me What You Got
    15. Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance

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  4. 17. John Mayer - Your Body Is A Wonderland
    20. Bel Biv DeVoe - Do Me!
    21. The Killers - Read My Mind

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  5. Who was the winner from the punctuation quiz? Not that I care.... :)

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  6. SG1981 - Thanks for reminding me about the last Lyrics Quiz, I was busy during the middle of last month then completely forgot about. Tony just edged you out 11-10 thanks to him getting the bonus question.

    As for Wonderwall, iit actually wasn't sung by a charachter from the show not Oasis so you could get double bonus if you correctly guess them.

    And about Devil's Town, I would accept the orginal artist or the artist that performed the version that was featured in the show, neither of which was Bright Eyes.

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  7. 3. Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin.

    18. Can't fight this feeling anymore by REO Speedwagon.

    19. Private Eyes by Hall and Oates

    22. Fidelity by Regina Spektor

    23. Fields of Gold by Sting

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  8. 2. Daniel Johnston - Devil Town
    11. Sung by Charlie in Lost
    17. The Office
    22. Grey's Anatomy, Brothers and Sisters and Veronica Mars
    24. Prison Break

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  9. 6. Rescue Me
    9. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

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  10. 14. Rump Shaker- Wrecxx-N-Effect
    22. Veronica Mars
    24. Veronica Mars

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  11. 3. Til Death
    16. Kiss Me - Sixpence None The Richer
    25. Slow Dancing in a Burning Room - John Mayer on CSI

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  12. I'm taking a wild stab at the bonus and I'm probably totally wrong. It's hard to think of songs that only have the title as their lyrics I thought of two.

    Oh Yeah - Yello in South Park

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  13. 16. How I Met Your Mother? Marshall's man-date?
    23. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

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  14. 13. Good Ol' Boys - Waylon Jennings on Smallville

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  15. I'm not saying those songs didn't appear on those songs but I am applying the quality rule to Brothers and Sisters, Prison Break, Till Death and I'm completely insulted that anyone would think I watch Greys Anatomy (the hint "if the song was featured in a montage at the end of a medical drama because the writers were to lazy to write a couple more pages of dialogue, there is a good chance I won’t accept it" was a not so thinly veiled reference to the show).

    As for 16, Homosex is a big hint, if it doesn't ring a bell then (sadly) you most likely didn't watch this show.

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  16. No offense was meant, trust me. I don't watch most of those shows either. (Except Prison Break, forgive me for that one. It's my guilty pleasure.) In my digging to find the answers those are what I came up with. Must read hints more closely!

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  17. 1. Veronica Mars (I loved that scene)
    2. Friday Night Lights
    18. Supernatural

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  18. 12. Busted - Johnny Cash on Veronica Mars

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  19. 3 & 16. Knights of Prosperity
    15 & 20. My Name is Earl
    21. Friday Night Lights

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  20. 10. My Before and After by Cotton Mather as sung by Desmond Fellowes on Veronica Maes

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  21. 7. Lovefool - The Cardigans on The Office
    19. Knights of Prosperity

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  22. Bonus: Right Here, Right Now by Fatboy Slim on Veronica Mars

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