Classic Rock Lyrics?

[lliam]

This is my Bros quiz, so maybe I can learn from you Guys because my Bro won't tell if I'm right or wrong with the answers.


Classic Rock Lyrics?
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1. In what railroad-related hit does the singer say he's ''got the Illinois Central and the Southern Central freight''?

Train In Vain
Train, Train
Outbound Train
Peace Train
Long Train Runnin'

2. What 1970's hit opens ''Well I tried to make it Sunday, but I got so damned depressed''?


At Seventeen
Sister Golden Hair
Me and Bobby McGee
Dust in the Wind
Poor Poor Pitiful Me

3. What 1970's song contained the line ''Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you will cry''?


Teach Your Children
Eleanor Rigby
Hello, Dolly
Psychotic Reaction
Something Better To Do

4. What 1980's hit declares ''There's a little black spot on the sun today''?


White Wedding
Ballroom Blitz
Don't Pull Your Love Out
King of Pain
Fame

5. In what 1980's song does the singer lament ''She's watching him with those eyes, and she's loving him with that body, I just know it''?


Jessie's Girl
You Are The Woman
Lady
Beth
Amie

6. In what song did the singer find he ''woke last night to the sound of thunder / How far off I sat and wondered''?


Summer of '69
All or Nothing At All
Night Moves
Africa
The Boxer

7. What 1970's hit contains the line ''No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks''?


Smokin' In The Boy's Room
School's Out
Hot For Teacher
Centerfold
Teacher, Teacher

8. What 1980's hit discloses that ''Oh yeah, life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone''?


Jack and Diane
Won't Get Fooled Again
Piano Man
Positively Fourth Street
Turning Japanese

[Marye]

1-2- No ideas.... I would have to cheat
3-Teach your Children (CSN - was Young there then?)
4-King of Pain (Police)
5-Jessie's girl (god i hate that I know this one Rick Springfield)
6-Night Moves (Bob Seger)
7-Schools Out (Alice Cooper)
8-Jack & Diane (Cougar... or was he back to Mellencamp by then)

[barfle]

1. Long Train Runnin - One of the Doobie Bros. best.
2. Sister Golden Hair - America
3. Teach Your Children - I think Young was in the group then.

And then you get into the realm of "I gave up on the top 40." I'll guess Marye got them right, but some of those I've never heard of.

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

3) Yes, Young was in the group then. It's off the Deja Vu album (brown cover, gold lettering, really cool photo) and Neil Young was less erratic then.

Who else knows ALL the words?

[OperaTenor]

Gee Jim, maybe it's generational. :p

[barfle]

Ahh, 'tis indeed generational. I don't know how my parents put up with the Beach Boys, Beatles, Yardbirds, etc., except that Frank, Nat, and Perry were still making records those days. I never had to grow up and have to deal with "what passes for music these days."

I don't know if it's universal or not, but at least in my family, we all seem to have gained an appreciation for the previous generations' music, even though we didn't like the next generations' music. I like a fair amount of big band as a style, although my grandmother didn't. My parents, my grandmother (101 years old next August), and I all like European Classical music, though.

[Marye]

but some of those I've never heard of

Oh I am sure you have.. the air play on these gems (And I don't mean to suggest that Jessie's girl is a gem) were significant at one time. I know all the words to ABBA tunes and haven't a single recording of them...to my immense pleasure.

[BenODen]

I'll vouch for the correctness of Marye's answers! That's the music of my youth.

And, about all the generational music tastes, what's funny is that as I've gotten older (not old yet!) I've appreciated 70s music more, and some of the 80s music of my generation less. I have this theory that is has to do with the busyness of the music. 50s rock was pretty simple, 60s had more parts to it etc. Now you have... I dunno, Nirvana or some of the "heavy" that is just so busy it sounds noisy to me? Any takers?

-Benito

[barfle]

Marye, they may have had significant airplay at one time, but not on KFAC, which was the classical station in Los Angeles, or KRTH, which still is the oldies station there.

Yes, I've heard Jessie's Girl as well as Jack and Diane and Night Moves, but I'm totally clueless as to any of the songs mentioned in #4 (except Don't Pull Your Love Out, which was popular in the 70s by Hamilton, Joe Frank, and Reynolds and Fame, which is from a movie of the same name).

#7 I could probably have guessed, since the jingle was popular when I was in the first grade, but Hot for Teacher and Teacher, Teacher are foreign to my memory cells.

I know all the songs in #8, but Fooled, Piano Man, and Fourth Street are all from earlier decades. Not even MTV could make the rest of the songs interesting to me.

[Marye]

Oh dear Barfle I believe I was in high school with Alice Cooper....maybe the operative word is classic... not all in Lliam's list are.

And Benito... I loved Nirvana.... Hard to sing along with the lyrics since screaming does not make them clearer to understand, to my hearing that is

[barfle]

It's been revealed here several times that I'm an old coot. I remember the Beatles were on the Ed Sullivan Show when I was in high school. Heck, I even remember seeing Elvis Presley on Ed Sullivan.

Like OT said, it's a generational thing.

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Barfle, you're not that old. Maybe you're a middle-aged coot.

Coots are kind of cute. They bob around pretending to be ducks, except that their beaks and feet aren't quite right, and hoping for a handout. The worst thing I know about them is that coots are hard on the grass.

I might be just a tad influenced by my own age, it's very close to yours. I'm sure we think lots of the same stuff is absolutely normal, to the confusion of Ben o'Den's lot. (thinking 70's stuff is "old" is just wrong. Wrong, I tell you.)

[Marye]

[QUOTE] ( (thinking 70's stuff is "old" is just wrong. Wrong, I tell you.)

She's right

[OperaTenor]

I dunno. I think I was too young to remember the '70's, so maybe it is old.

[Marye]

OT... I see you worked out the bold and italics issue.

[dkm32]

He's working on the old ('nuff smilies????)

Personally, I think late '50's through mid '70's were Rock's "Classic" period. Oh, not like what we call Classical Music. Don't mean that. But, for Rock, it is classical. Let me say it this way, we're still talking about this music. Will they talk about rap (etc) 20, 30, 40 years from now? Well, maybe as a bad period of music, but not like late '50's through mid '70's.

Just my (extremely) humble opinion

[Marye]

Well, maybe as a bad period of music, but not like late '50's through mid '70's.

:D

I think the 70's had some truly hideous music though, disco being one of them, so I am not sure how to define classic when it comes to rock now. Takers?

[OperaTenor]

Oh Mary, stop it! (it's nice to be noticed)

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[barfle]

Donna, you and I certainly have that period of popular music as a common love (except for that Richie Valens song). Some of the mid-50s rockabilly is quite enjoyable, but Gerry Rafferty and Gary Wright are just about the end of my popular music purchasing habit. The Beach Boys, Beatles, just about any of the Phil Spector produced "girl groups," and Motown were the sounds of my youth. To me, they are truly classics.

Marye, there was some good disco and a lot of really bad disco, IMNSHO. "Hooked on Classics" is truly awful disco, and it's a record I played once and decided I didn't even want as a chip bowl. But "Saturday Night Fever" is a lot of fun to play in my basement bijou.

Selma, although I have a longevity gene in my family (my grandmother turns 101 in a couple of months), I would think it pretty extraordinary if I was able to make it to 112. It's worth a shot, though. Don't coots have the oddest feet you've ever seen on a water bird? When I worked in Anaheim, my wife and I would occasionally go to a park that had a lake that was mostly inhabited by mallards and coots. I haven't seen them here in Northern Virginia, but we do have plenty of mallards (and Canada geese up the...).

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

I have an operating definition for "classic rock". It's the stuff I enjoyed when I was between the ages of 12 and 20. All you other-aged folk are way confused and terminally bewildered. So there.