# Guess the Song **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 7, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536 "2000-12-07T20:45:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RocknRoll_Killing_Machine)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536/61 "2000-12-12T16:00:55Z")
> [@](#): > > mom and dad don’t look so hot these days, they’re getting over the hill That is “Brat” by Green Day. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536/62 "2000-12-12T16:18:22Z")
BobSchroek’s #11 - Year of the Cat by Al Stewart ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536/63 "2000-12-12T16:26:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by featherlou \* > \*\*BobSchroek’s #11 - Year of the Cat by Al Stewart \*\* Yes! That’s the song I couldn’t remember! Whatever happened to Al Stewart, anyway? jr8 ---
**Author:** ![broccoli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@broccoli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/broccoli)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536/64 "2000-12-12T16:31:10Z")
I don’t like posting the guesses because if I know the song I know it, and if I don’t I don’t - but If I do know it I don’t wanna mess it up for anyone else who’s racking their brain about it. 😃 more brain candy: 4. he’s a legend in the bar with every scar - fights a thousand bigger men. though he fights and loses - got all the bruises, won’t somone please step in 1. there was this girl, but i don’t know her name either. she gave me love and i said i’d never leave her 2. my girlfriend went carpet-munching and now she doesn’t need a man. i’m so stupid - i’m so crude, she’s got some slut who understands punk snot dead, broccoli! ---
**Author:** ![BobSchroeck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@BobSchroeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobSchroeck)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536/65 "2000-12-12T17:56:50Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by longjohn_ > \*\* OK, BobShroeck, you’re going to make me embarrass myself here. > #14 is “holding out for a hero” > > # 6 is “bad for good” by Jim Steinman\*\* Right on both counts. I’m impressed. “Bad For Good” is just a _little_ obscure… And there’s no shame in liking Steinman, none at all… > [@](#): > > \*\*# 4 is “Call me Al” by Paul Simon \*\* Also right! > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by jr8_ > **#1 is “Stuck in the Middle With You” by Stealers Wheel > #2 is “Boy in the Bubble”, also by Paul Simon > #12 is “Don’t Fear the Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult (man, that takes me back…)** \ Got’em in one. > [@](#): > > **#7 sounds like a KMFDM lyric, but I can’t place it (Juke Joint Jezebel, maybe?)** Nope. Try again… > [@](#): > > \*\*8. T. Rex- Bang a Gong > 15. I don’t Like Mondays- Sir Bob Geldolf and the Boomtown Rats \*\* You’re racking up the points, jr8… > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by featherlou_ > **BobSchroek’s #11 - Year of the Cat by Al Stewart** Bingo. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by jr8_ > **Whatever happened to Al Stewart, anyway?** Good question… one of us ought to do a web search and see if there’s a “whatever happened to” page for him somewhere. Okay, that leaves 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, and 13 unidentified yet… – Bob ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536/66 "2000-12-12T17:58:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by broccoli! \* > \*\* > > 1. there was this girl, but i don’t know her name either. she gave me love and i said i’d never leave her > > punk snot dead, > broccoli! \*\* AUGH!!! I KNOW THIS ONE!!! HURTING MY BRAIN!!! Hint? Is it rancid? My quotes were; 1. decendents - clean sheets 2. Firehose - brave Captain 3. bad religon- 21st century digital boy 4. All - She’s my ex 5. Dag Nasty - Under your influence ---
**Author:** ![scratch1300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@scratch1300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch1300)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536/67 "2000-12-12T18:01:50Z")
No…No. 5 is _Someday I Suppose_ by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Brain feel better now, **pez**? ---
**Author:** ![scratch1300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@scratch1300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch1300)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536/68 "2000-12-12T18:09:45Z")
Oh, and here’s a song quotation of my own: Got a tattoo in Berlin And a case of the crabs A rose and a dagger On the palm of my hand And I’ll search the world over For my angel in black… ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536/69 "2000-12-12T18:18:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*\*8. T. Rex- Bang a Gong > > 15. I don’t Like Mondays- Sir Bob Geldolf and the Boomtown Rats \*\* > > You’re racking up the points, jr8… > \*\* Hey! I don’t remember ever being jr8. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536/70 "2000-12-12T18:28:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by betenoir \* > Hey! I don’t remember ever being jr8. \*\* I would think I’d remember something like that too. One of us must have been channeling the other… 😛 jr8 ---
**Author:** ![broccoli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@broccoli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/broccoli)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536/71 "2000-12-12T18:40:49Z")
heh heh heh… my plan is working… Soon **pezpunk** will be under my hypnos-o-ray… here’s some more: 6. I hope your cellmate think’s he’s god, but CNN refers to him as bowling-ball-bag bob 1. wel i’m-a headin down the highway sign has three inverted nines, if the lord don’t get me the devil will -but- not without a fight ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536/72 "2000-12-12T20:11:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scratch1300 \* > \*\*No…No. 5 is _Someday I Suppose_ by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. > > Brain feel better now, **pez**? \*\* ahhhh yes Bosstones… now I feel better but now I have the damn song stuck in my head… ---
**Author:** ![GRJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d07c76/32.png) [@GRJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GRJ)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536/73 "2000-12-12T20:13:47Z")
I think these are fairly easy, but have a go anyway. 1. “The newspapers say ‘she’s gone to his head: They look just like two gurus in drag!’” 2. “Because my love for you could break my world in two, If you should fall into my arms and tremble like a flower.” 3. “Girls will be boys and boys will be girls, It’s a mixed up, jumbled up, shook up world” ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536/74 "2000-12-12T20:39:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GRJ \* > 3. “Girls will be boys and boys will be girls, > It’s a mixed up, jumbled up, shook up world” “Lola”, The Kinks ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536/75 "2000-12-12T20:44:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BobSchroeck \* > \*\*Okay, that leaves 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, and 13 unidentified yet… > > – Bob > \*\* #7 - Pat Benatar - Invincible? #10 - Shocking Blue - Venus (unless you’re looking for Bananarama) ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536/76 "2000-12-12T20:48:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GRJ \* > \*\* > 2. "Because my love for you could break my world in two, > If you should fall into my arms and tremble like a > \*\* Bowie - Let’s Dance ---
**Author:** ![BobSchroeck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@BobSchroeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobSchroeck)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536/77 "2000-12-12T21:23:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by betenoir \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*\* > > You’re racking up the points, jr8… > > \*\* > > Hey! I don’t remember ever being jr8. \*\* Oops. My apologies. I must have dropped an attribution while quoting… Sorry, Betenoire… – Bob ---
**Author:** ![BobSchroeck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@BobSchroeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobSchroeck)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536/78 "2000-12-12T21:25:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Motorgirl \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by BobSchroeck \* > > \*\*Okay, that leaves 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, and 13 unidentified yet… > > \*\* > > #7 - Pat Benatar - Invincible? > #10 - Shocking Blue - Venus (unless you’re looking for Bananarama) \*\* Bingo. On all three. \ – Bob ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536/79 "2000-12-12T21:48:50Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. “The newspapers say ‘she’s gone to his head: > They look just like two gurus in drag!’” > > \*\* The Ballad of John and Yoko! By John and Yoko. Bob- then you add insult to injury by spelling my name wrong. Well, ok, technically spelling it right. I spell it wrong. All is forgiven. But I expect to see those points in the mail! Actually I’m just pissed because nobodies tried my earlier ones- they’re right there at the bottom of page one! Well just for that: “You say you’ve got a six inch guarentee Of unilateral security…” usually considered more industrial than punk. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536/80 "2000-12-12T22:19:15Z")
Still no one dares take a stab at any of mine? (ok one of them got answered but there’s 5!) Go check page one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-song/44536.md?page=5)