Please Fix My Songs Trivia Quiz

Answer: Like a guitar hummin'

"Cracklin' Rosie" was recorded by Neil Diamond for his 1970 album "Tap Root Manuscript". The song was Diamond's first number one on the US Billboard chart and went to number three on the UK singles chart. There are different versions as to the meaning of the song. One school of thought is that he wrote it for Rosalie Trombley, the music director of CKLW radio in Ontario, but in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine Diamond states that the song is about a bottle of wine called 'Cracklin' Rosie':

"On Saturday nights when they go out, the guys all get their girl; the guys without girls get a bottle of Cracklin' Rosie, that's their girl for the weekend."

Answer: Ace to play

ABBA recorded "The Winner Takes It All" in 1980 for their album "Super Trouper". The song is about the experience of divorce, but band member Björn Ulvaeus denies that it is about his divorce from fellow band member Agnetha Fältskog. The song was a big hit for the band, reaching top position on the UK, Belgium, South African, Irish and Dutch charts. It also reached eighth place on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, but topped the U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.

"I don't want to talk
About the things we've gone through
Though it's hurting me
Now it's history
I've played all my cards
And that's what you've done too
Nothing more to say
No more ace to play"

Answer: You'll understand

"Michelle" is from The Beatles album "Rubber Soul" recorded in 1965. The song won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1967 and is the only song by The Beatles containing French lyrics. It charted in the top ten in seven countries, with four of them being first position.

"Michelle, ma belle
These are words that go together well
My Michelle

Michelle, ma belle
Sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble
Très bien ensemble

I love you, I love you, I love you
That's all I want to say
Until I find a way
I will say the only words I know that
You'll understand"

Answer: Silver girl

"Bridge Over Troubled Water" was the fifth album recorded by Simon & Garfunkel. The song and album won multiple Grammy Wards for the duo in 1971, including 'Record of the Year', 'Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)', 'Best Contemporary Song'and 'Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical'. The song is ranked on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" at position forty-eight.

"Sail on Silver Girl,
Sail on by
Your time has come to shine
All your dreams are on their way"

Answer: Seems so silent

Cat Stevens released "Lady D'Arbanville" in 1970 and it featured on his album "Mona Bone Jakon". The song reached eighth place on the UK pop chart and the most interesting cover version of this song, was done by Elton John himself.

"My Lady d'Arbanville, why do you sleep so still?
I'll wake you tomorrow
and you will be my fill, yes, you will be my fill.

My Lady d'Arbanville why does it grieve me so?
But your heart seems so silent.
Why do you breathe so low, why do you breathe so low"

Answer: You break down

Fleetwood Mac recorded "Gold Dust Woman" for their hit album "Rumours" in 1977. Various critics regard this song as Stevie Nicks' signature song. The album was the band's eleventh studio album and their most successful release to that date. It won a Grammy award in 1978 for "Album of the Year". It reached number one on eight different charts, including the "UK Album" charts, "US Billboard 200" and "US Billboard Catalogue Albums" charts.

"Did she make you cry
Make you break down
Shatter your illusions of love
And is it over now do you know how
Pick up the pieces and go home."

Answer: The squirmin' dog

"Under My Thumb" has the dubious honour of having been the song that was being played by the band when one of their concert goers was stabbed to death by a Hell's Angel biker at the 1969 Altamont Free Concert despite many people believing that it was their song "Sympathy For the Devil". The song has been covered by many different artists, including Tina Turner, The Who and Del Shannon. The Stones incurred the ire of feminists for the seemingly disparaging lyrics, comparing a woman to a 'squirmin' dog', "Siamese cat" and a "pet".

"Under my thumb
The squirmin' dog who's just had her day
Under my thumb
A girl who has just changed her ways"

Answer: As you're shakin' off the cold

Recorded for the 1973 Seger album "Back in '72", according to the band's drummer David Teegarden, the song was very personal to them as they were often mocked by truckers and the like because of their long hair. Comments like "is that a woman or a man" were very common. As mentioned in the question, this song was covered by Metallica and reached top position on the US Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and remained there for eleven consecutive weeks.

"Well you walk into a restaurant,
Strung out from the road
And you feel the eyes upon you
As you're shakin' off the cold
You pretend it doesn't bother you
But you just want to explode"

Answer: I fight for my meals

"Baba O'Riley" is from The Who's 1971 album "Who's Next". The name of the song is taken from two mentors of guitarist Pete Townshend, Indian mystic Meher Baba and composer/musician Terry Riley. According to Townshend, the song refers to teenagers at the Woodstock music festival where "audience members were strung out on acid and 20 people had brain damaged". The song has been synonymous with the television series "CSI:NY" where it was used as the theme song for nine seasons.

"Out here in the fields
I fight for my meals
I get my back into my living
I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven"

Answer: Only eats guitars, get up!

"Rapture" was recorded by Blondie in 1980 for their album "Autoamerican". The song achieved a first place on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play charts as well as a top ten chart position on nine different charts across the globe. The lyrics are very unusual and the "man from Mars" features very strongly, mentioned a total of five times.

"Well now you see what you wanna be
Just have your party on TV
'Cause the man from Mars won't eat up bars when the TV's on
And now he's gone back up to space
Where he won't have a hassle with the human race
And you hip-hop, and you don't stop
Just blast off, sure shot
'Cause the man from Mars stopped eatin' cars and eatin' bars
And now he only eats guitars, get up!"