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1. There are many covers of this song, Eddie Floyd's old hit, but this female's disco version is probably one of the most heard of:
"'Cause your love is better
than any love I know.
It's like thunder and lightning,
the way you love me is frightening.
You better knock, knock on wood, baby."
2. This is a great song from 2002, but I've left one word out. What is the word?
"And I know it serves me well
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain
Because I'm ______ when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away"
3. The colourful artist Pink has a lot of good songs in her baggage, including this one from 2006:
"If someone said three years from now
You'd be long gone
I'd stand up and punch them out
Coz they're all wrong
I know better
Coz you said forever
And ever"
But I seem to have forgotten the name of it, can you help me?
4. Okay, I must confess: I haven't seen this musical. But I have heard the following song from it. Can you guess what the musical, that I haven't seen, is?
"Never take a stranger's advice
Never let a friend fool you twice
Nobody's on nobody's side
Never be the first to believe
Never be the last to deceive
Nobody's on nobody's side"
5. Do you know which song from 2005 these lyrics come from?
"When music really mattered and when radio was king
When accountants didn't have control
And the media couldn't buy your soul
When computers were still scary and we didn't know everything"
6. In the year of 2006 a woman made a comeback with this song:
"And when she walks she walks with passion
when she talks, she talks like she can handle it
when she asks for something boy she means it
even if you never ever seen it"
What is the song?
7. How about this "oldie" from 1971, have you heard of it?
"You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one"
8. This may have been this guy's first single to not make the top ten on the Billboard list, but it's got a constant spot on my mp3-player (whatever comfort that is):
"But all that swinging in that bikini just make 'em dizzy.
Slow all the traffic down to a complete stop,
'cause you speaking that slang that I talk.
That sassy tempo with that walk"
What song from 2006 is it that I'm talking about?
9. Again, a song which many people have done covers of. But to give you a tip, I've always preferred Bette Midler's version.
"It's the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking
that never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken
who cannot seem to give"
Can you name this song?
10. What song, released back in '98, is this?
"So don't deflate, play it straight
You know he really doesn't get it anyway
Gonna play the field, keep it real
For you know a way, for you know a way
So if you don't break, just over compensate
At least you know you can always go on Ricky Lake"
11. A dance troupe that became a singing group released this song in 2006:
"Take a chance to recognize that this could be yours
I can see, just like most guys that your game don't please
Baby, can't you see? (see)
How these clothes are fitting on me (me)
And the heat coming from this beat (beat)"
For those of you who don't just stare at the members of this group, but have actually heard the songs as well, what is the name of this song?
12. This single was released just a couple days before Christmas 2005 and it still became the Christmas number one that year. What is the name of the song?
"You know where I come from
You know my story
You know why I'm standing here
Tonight
Please don't go
Don't be in a hurry"
13. And now we're moving back to the year of '78, when the album with this song came out for purchase:
"Take me now baby here as I am
Pull me close, try and understand
Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe
Love is a banquet on which we feed"
But who was the singer of this song?
14. If you've heard the soundtrack to the movie "City of Angels", you've heard the following song:
"And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything seems like the movies
Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive"
This was a hit in '98, what is the name of the song?
15. Going back to the world of musicals, this song is from a movie musical released in 1982. Which musical?
"If it takes forever,
Then I'll wait forever.
No ordinary boy,
No ordinary boy is gonna do.
I want a rider that's cool"
16. This song's original was released 1967 by Cat Stevens. But in later years (2003) a female singer have sung a version of it on her "best of" album. Who is this female songbird?
"The first cut is the deepest, baby I know
The first cut is the deepest
'cause when it comes to being lucky she's cursed
when it comes to lovin' me she's worst"
17. The title of this '89 song, is repeated three times in the chorus. But what do you know, I've "accidentally" misplaced the words. Try and find them, in your brain!
"_____ ______ and that little boy's smile
_____ ______ with that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring ya to your knees
_____ ______ if you please"
18. Another 2006 song is coming now. This was the second single ever of a certain English songbird:
"Three little birds, sat on my window.
And they told me I don't need to worry.
Summer came like cinnamon
So sweet,
Little girls double-dutch on the concrete"
What is the song?
19. The king of pop (you know who I'm talking about) is practically a machine when it comes to making hits. And this song from '87, is just another one in the line of hits:
"I feel your fever
From miles around
I'll pick you up in my car
And we'll paint the town
Just kiss me baby
And tell me twice
That you're the one for me"
20. This '88 song was probably this female singer's biggest hit:
"You got a ____ ___
And we go cruising to entertain ourselves
You still ain't got a job
And I work in a market as a checkout girl
I know things will get better
You'll find work and I'll get promoted
We'll move out of the shelter
Buy a big house and live in the suburbs"
What is it that "you got", that also is the title of the song?
21. Who hasn't wondered about God and all that concerns her or, and it's against my feministic heart that I say this, him?
This song from '95 is about just that:
"If God had a name, what would it be
And would you call it to his face
If you were faced with him in all his glory
What would you ask if you had just one question"
Who is the original singer of this song?
22. The next musical, "Rent", came out in movie form in 2005. Again, I haven't seen it, but my sister has and she insisted on that we should buy the soundtrack. Which is this song, that, because of my sister, has been honoured with a space on my mp3?
"What's the time?
Well it's gotta be close to midnight
My body's talking to me
It say, 'Time for danger'"
23. The song, which came out as a single in the beginning of 2006, was sung by a male songbird from Hawaii. What is the name of this man?
"There's no combination of words
I could put on the back of a postcard
No song that I could sing
But I can try for your heart"
24. Here we have another successful female group. But what is the name of the group, that had a hit with the following song at the end of 2005/beginning of 2006?
"And I did things that made me ashamed
Cos I didn't know my body would change
I grew taller than them in more ways
But there will always be the one who will say
Something bad to make them feel great"
25. Another amazing, eternal band, is Queen. This is one of their hits, from the album "The Game", from 1980:
"Are you ready, Are you ready for this
Are you hanging on the edge of your seat
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat"
What is the song I'm thinking about?
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