I met a boy on Bleecker Street who stole my heart

[venta]

Many moons ago, ChrisC and I cobbled together a quiz based on lyrics which had had names removed. Shortly afterwards, we started on a similar one based on placenames. It's been sitting around in my file storage space for months, and I think it's about time I posted it.

Update: This quiz has now been closed and the answers/results posted here.


For each question, simply fill in the placename which has been removed from the lyric. If you want to be smug, you can name the artist and song title as well, but that's not required.

For example:

Is this the way to ________?

Would be "Amarillo" from the Tony Christie song of that name. Which was, incidentally, ruled to be too obscure at the time of writing this quiz, but has become lamentably well-known in the interim.

Sometimes a single gap denotes more than one word missing:

In ________ there is a barber showing photographs.

Would be "Penny Lane", from the Beatles song of that name.

All placenames used are, I believe, real geographical locations, which you could find in an appropriate atlas or map. One placename may be the answer to more than one question.

If you don't like the poll format (or don't have an LJ account), post your answers as an anonymous comment, which will be screened.

No googling, obviously. No going and listening to check the name if you think you've identified the song :) If you want to change/update/add to your poll answers, go here, select Fill Out Poll and you can. Please feel free to pass this link around if you know anyone who'd be interested.

[Poll #668734]

Note: If you think you've already filled this poll out once, but can't see your answers, it's because I cocked up and had to repost the poll. I still have your original answers. If you want to add/amend, do so on this poll and I'll sort the differences out manually.


For those people who are particularly proud of their obscure lyric knowledge, particularly anal, or particularly bored at work, I also present the quiz of the ones which didn't make it.

Below are more lyrics which were ruled too dull or too little known to be included in the quiz proper above.

Bear in mind, of course, that in many cases ChrisC and I disagreed over what constituted "too little known". So I reserve the right to wave the answers to the below about in cases where I'm proved correct, and suppress them mercilessly where I'm shown to be wrong.

[Poll #668735]

Comments

[zotz]

I was in New York with gingiber some years ago, and due to dehydration she ended up vomiting copiously into the gutter on Bleeker Street. I regarded it as a highly cultural New York Experience.

[pigeonhed.livejournal.com]

Mick Brown's American Heartbeat is a series of travels to various places made famous in song, combining music writing and travel writing in one book. Its out of print sadly.

Oh and I used to work in an Um Bongo factory....

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Which animal were you?

[pigeonhed.livejournal.com]

A Pigeon! Obviously...

The quality control lab assistant on the late shift.... though i have been called a monkey, a snake and a goat in my time.

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Good quiz!

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Four of the 'obscure' ones were trivial (although one of those I blame PUCS for). The rest I've no idea whatsoever, aside from the last one which rang a vague bell. I had a stab at the that one and probably got it wrong .

Jeanette just poo poohed my parenthetical description, saying that in her eyes it's just church music :)

[wimble.livejournal.com]

I'd certainly agree that 3 were trivial. :)

There are two more which I think are trivial, although one of those I'm extrapolating from lyrics I could never make out.

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

I've just identified another one - though it took some poking around to work out how to change my answers..

There's one Jeanette spotted, but I don't know if I would have got it myself, so I'm leaving it blank.

And the second lyric is running on repeat in my brain with the crucial word missing. Grrr...

[venta.livejournal.com]

Hey, I said the outtakes were too obscure or too dull. I never guaranteed that there weren't some trivial ones in there :)

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

*rereads*. Oh. So you did.

Consider me suitably chastened :)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Fun, thanks! Nice way to not start work on a Wednesday ;-)

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

The scary thing is that not only will I probably have the lowest score but it might also be the most questions I've ever got right in a music quiz !

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Most enjoyable, and three cheers in particular for no. 19!

[lnr]

Brilliant!

[j4.livejournal.com]

Er. I filled out both polls, realised I couldn't hit 'submit' on both at once, submitted the first one, went 'back' in my browser, and found that the second poll had been pre-filled with my answers to the first poll... So, does it look as though I've got the right set of answers (even if I've got some of them wrong) in the right poll? If not, could you let me know, otherwise I don't want to risk c0cking it all up again by trying to edit my answers...

(BAH, THE INTERNETS.)

[j4.livejournal.com]

What I mean to say is: "Thank you for putting together such cool quizzes! And sorry for being a spacker with the submit buttons" :)

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

That happened to me, too. I thought the parallel-world songs thus created were rather splendid.

(Going to 'Fill Out Poll' as venta suggests makes it look as though the answers went to the correct poll.)

[j4.livejournal.com]

Phew. I've now gone back to "fill out poll" and checked, and they look fine. I've also added the artist/track names where I know them, for extra smug-points. :^)

We should write a quiz too, you know.

[ranalf-lj.livejournal.com]

humbug, wont let me view the answers..
Good quiz though :-)
Im astonished that I was listening to the album that two of the songs were on while I was filling it in. Thats too weird..