thehod
12-13-2005, 05:35 AM
I used to run a lyric quiz at work, until I was told to stop because people were spending more time doing the quiz than actually working. Kinda what I'm doing now in fact.
The way it worked was that I'd quote a lyric and you had to guess the track and the original recording artist. No quoting the boy band who did a cover version six months before, I wanted the original artist.
I made it fairly easy as well, I said that I would try to make sure that each of the lyrics I choose was from a single release that charted in the UK charts. That wasn't to say I couldn't be smart. When I quoted "Tainted Love" no-one got any points for putting down Soft Cell, as it was originally recorded by Gloria Jones, even though the Gloria Jones version was much less well known.
So thats what I'm proposing for this quiz. First one to get the original artist and title gets to choose the next lyric.
Again, we'll make it easy by stating that the lyric had to chart in either the US (cos that's where most of the people on this board are from) or the UK (cos that's where I'm from, so there) charts. No choosing an obscure lyric, from some obscure album, by some obscure band to prove how clever you are. Unless, of course, someone else covered it at a later date and it charted.
We'll start off with an easy one.
"I was drowned, I was washed up and left for dead.
I fell down to my feet and I saw they bled."
Off you go.
The way it worked was that I'd quote a lyric and you had to guess the track and the original recording artist. No quoting the boy band who did a cover version six months before, I wanted the original artist.
I made it fairly easy as well, I said that I would try to make sure that each of the lyrics I choose was from a single release that charted in the UK charts. That wasn't to say I couldn't be smart. When I quoted "Tainted Love" no-one got any points for putting down Soft Cell, as it was originally recorded by Gloria Jones, even though the Gloria Jones version was much less well known.
So thats what I'm proposing for this quiz. First one to get the original artist and title gets to choose the next lyric.
Again, we'll make it easy by stating that the lyric had to chart in either the US (cos that's where most of the people on this board are from) or the UK (cos that's where I'm from, so there) charts. No choosing an obscure lyric, from some obscure album, by some obscure band to prove how clever you are. Unless, of course, someone else covered it at a later date and it charted.
We'll start off with an easy one.
"I was drowned, I was washed up and left for dead.
I fell down to my feet and I saw they bled."
Off you go.