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1. This first song comes from Live's 1994 album "Throwing Copper". Of this third single released in February 1995 (not released in the US as a single), the lead singer Kowalczyk said of the music video: "While the clip is shot in a home environment, I envisioned it taking place in a hospital, where all these simultaneous deaths and births are going on, one family mourning the loss of a woman while a screaming baby emerges from a young mother in another room. What you're seeing is actually a happy ending based on a kind of transference of life."
What song is Kowalczyk describing?
2. This is the debut song of 2pac off his debut solo album "2pacolypse Now (1991)". It only climbed Billboard's US Rap Singles chart to number three, and Billboard's US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart at number ten in 1991.
What song is this?
3. "Waitin' On Sundown (1994)" is the third album by the Country music group Brooks & Dunn. It was number one on the U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums and Canadian RPM Country Albums. My next favorite song has the opening lyrics:
"I was sittin' in a truck stop
Watchin' tumbleweeds roll by
Tryin' to read the menu
When the waitress caught my eye
She pulled a pencil from her hair
Leaned across the bar
An' I did my best not to stare
But man, she made it hard"
What's this next song that's a favorite of mine?
4. These lyrics, "He grew up to be a worker determined to succeed, He made a life for himself, free from worldly wants or needs" comes from an album called "New Beginning", a Folk and Blues album that was released in 1995 by a woman who once sung about fast cars.
What's the name of the song the lyrics are to and the artist who sang it?
5. This song comes from R.E.M.'s 1987 "Document" album. The lyrics are simple, just two verses repeated over and over. It's the music that grabbed me, especially the saxophone play done by Steve Berlin of Los Lobos. He also did the sax work on "King of Birds" off the same album.
What song am I speaking about?
6. This next song is off Deana Carter's debut album "Did I Shave My Legs For This?" from 1996. Here are some lyrics to the song:
"If you get out in the drivin' rain
Stand in the eye of a hurricane
And never think twice
If you turn your back on selfishness
And your thoughts are for someone else
'Cause they've changed your life"
What's the next line which is also the title of the song?
7. This next song originally comes from a 1970s glam/goth group called Lords of the New Church. I originally heard this song as a music video of a 1964 film called "Bande à part". "Bande à part" is a 2006 album by a French cover band.
What's the name of the song and French group?
8. More in the vein of an epic rather than just a long running song, "Daffodil Lament" comes off the 1994 album "No Need to Argue".
What's the name of the group who sang another one of my favorite songs?
9. This song comes from Toad the Wet Sprocket's 1995 album "In Light Syrup", more of a compilation album of B tracks not released on their albums prior to this one. The chorus starts this song, so here's the second verse:
"I often feel
Like the prodigal son
Take all I need
Giving back none
Our beauty shows
In such different ways
You're like the light behind the fog
So bright
But still you burn my eyes away"
What's this favorite song of mine?
10. This is probably my favorite song of all time. I listen to it a lot, at least once a week. It's a Third Eye Blind song off their first album of the same name from 1997. Can you tell me the name of this song by the last few verses?
"Taste the salt and taste the pain
I'm not thinking of you again
Summer dies and swells rise
The sun goes down in my eyes
See this rolling wave
Darkly coming to take me
Home
And I've never been so alone
And I've never been so alive"
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Nammage
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