He plays Billy Bragg and a bit of Green Day, and I'm so bored of the USA

[venta]

It's Thursday! That's, like, practically Friday and thus sounds like a good time for a lyrics quiz.

Simple scoring system: one point for every correct song-title. You can go for extra credit and add the artist if you want, but it will only gain you honour and glory. Please note: correct title. There is a link between all the songs in the quiz, I'm sure you'll work it out.

Responses from my stringent beta-testing and product-development team (or ChrisC, as he's also known) suggest the quiz has come out rather more difficult than intended, but we'll give it a whirl...

[Poll #1834706]

Comments

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

...music isn't my strong point :)

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Ah, I've spotted the link, but I'm better with bandnames than song titles! (Especially song titles that fit the link, for obvious reasons!)

[kauket.livejournal.com]

Sadly proud of 24.

[lnr]

Hmm, 3 points I'm fairly sure of is rubbish. I may come back to this later as many are faintly familiar.

[sammason.livejournal.com]

Er... Dr Mason here claiming 2/25. Please may I win a prize anyway? Chocolate will do just fine, thank you.

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I got the link (suggesting a fun variation on Russell's Paradox? Is that saying too much?) but feel like I should have known more of them - a couple in particular sound familiar but I can't place them...

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhhhh, I get the link. Took me a lot longer than it probably should have!

[metame.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I started the poll but realised that while I love the feeling of matching the out-of-context lyric up to the song, I really dislike the matching of song to songname (though the theme here is obviously quite cute for that). I just don't think of songtitles much I guess but remember them by album and position and stuff. I have a similar issue with the titles of novels - I tend to skim read them once at the beginning of reading the book and then forget them.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is a theme that ANNOYS me as I have a very good memory for lyrics but not other things.

[triskellian]

Gah! Now I've read the comments and figured out what the theme is, I at least know why I'm finding it so difficult to work out the song names. I know quite a few of these really very well indeed, but I to am rubbish at song names.

[beckyl.livejournal.com]

As usual, awful at song lyric quizzes.

I don't think I have enough data points to get an idea of the linking theme.

I will now go and read everyone elses answers, and possibly become slightly more informed/educated.

[beckyl.livejournal.com]

And my conclusion is, I need to expand my regular ability to listen to music while paying attention and buy some more albums. There's a lot of people up there that I can't place a single song of theirs that I have heard and can reliably identify.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Oops, didn't fill in Feelgood Hit of the Summer. Not that that would make my score much less feeble! Tough quiz…

[satyrica.livejournal.com]

can't believe i didn't get 23 *hangs head in shame*