# Pop Music Asks the Eternal Questions **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 14, 2002, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665 "2002-12-14T01:35:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/1 "2002-12-14T01:35:40Z")
How many pop/rock songs contain questions? I can think of: who put the bomp… why do fools fall in love? Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers why does it hurt when I pee? Frank Zappa Name some other songs with questions in them. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/2 "2002-12-14T01:38:10Z")
Who Are You? - The Who Who Loves You? - The Four Seasons Why? - Fleetwood Mac Do You Know the Way to San Jose? - Dionne Warwick …etc ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/3 "2002-12-14T01:39:22Z")
What kind of fool…? Who’s Johnny? Who’s That Girl? Where have all the flowers gone? Who wrote the book of love? Where did our love go? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/4 "2002-12-14T01:50:10Z")
Is you Is or is you ain’t my baby? Does anybody really know what time it is? Are you lonesome tonight? Wouldn’t it be nice? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/5 "2002-12-14T02:38:36Z")
Who do you love? Which way you going, Billy? Are you experienced? Who stopped the rain? ---
**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/6 "2002-12-14T03:45:05Z")
Where the Hell is Bill? ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/7 "2002-12-14T10:28:35Z")
How am I supposed to live without you? How Do I Live (huh?)? Why bother? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/8 "2002-12-14T10:50:03Z")
Who Can it be Now? ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/9 "2002-12-14T12:59:13Z")
Couple from George Harrison: Isn’t it a Pity? What is Life? ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/10 "2002-12-14T15:39:04Z")
“Won’t someone please tell me what’s wrong?” _Fool in Love, Ike and Tina Turner_ “What’s love got to do with it?” _Tina Turner_ “But what more can a poor boy do than to play in a rock and roll band?” _Rolling Stones_ “Why can’t I get just one kiss?” _Violent Femmes_ And by far, the most important musical question of all time: “Does anybody really know what time it is?” _Chicago_ ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/11 "2002-12-14T16:09:32Z")
Heh, heh. “What time is love?” (The KLF) ---
**Author:** ![JDeMobray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@JDeMobray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JDeMobray)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/12 "2002-12-14T16:32:17Z")
“Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true, or is it something worse” _The River_. “Hey there mister can you tell me what happened to the seeds I’ve sown. Can you give me a reason, sir, as to why they’ve never grown.” _This Hard Land_ ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/13 "2002-12-14T18:50:15Z")
The universal question: “Why must I be a teenager in love?” ---
**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/14 "2002-12-14T20:30:38Z")
Hrm, where’d my post go? 😕 Anyway: Isn’t it ironic, don’tcha think? Do you have the time to listen to me whine? Why don’t we get drunk and screw? ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/15 "2002-12-14T20:40:36Z")
Why don’t we do it in the road? ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/16 "2002-12-14T21:34:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sam Stone \* > … > Who stopped the rain? \*\* Isn’t the CCR song “Who’ll stop the rain?” They also have “Have you ever seen the rain?” The Sammy Hagar version of Van Halen had “Why can’t this be love?” ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/17 "2002-12-14T22:21:51Z")
Do you believe in Magic? John Sebastian (Lovin’ Spoonful) ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/18 "2002-12-14T22:23:02Z")
“Where oh where can my baby be?” ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/19 "2002-12-14T22:36:05Z")
Is There Something I Should Know? -Duran Duran What Is Love? -Howard Jones ---
**Author:** ![bytheway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@bytheway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bytheway)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/20 "2002-12-14T22:36:51Z")
**Will you still love me tomorrow** , originally by some girl group from the 50s, but I like the covers by Dave Mason & Bryan Ferry better. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665.md?page=2)