Whew.
I got a whopping 23 out of 50 on this song lyrics quiz by Defective Yeti's Matthew Baldwin. And now my head hurts.
See, the catch is, he lists the lyrics in alphabetical order (eliminating any repeated words, like the chorus), so even though the song might be quite easy to guess if the lyrics were in the order they're sung in, when they're alphabetical...not so much.
Some of them are actually pretty easy if you can pick out the key words - how many rock songs do you know that have the word "Scaramouche" or "mulatto" in them? - but with the order all f-ed up, songs you really should know get harder to guess. The paradoxical thing is that the shorter the list of lyrics, the harder it is to guess, because there's fewer clues to distinguish one song from another.
And the (perhaps not so) shocking thing is how similar the lyrics are from one song to another. "Baby" and its variants show up about 75% of the time, and when you throw in all the "at"s, "the"s, "be"s and "you"s, it gets damn difficult to distinguish Aerosmith from Simon and Garfunkel. Which you would think would be not too tough.
Okay. Gotta go read a book with the words in an order that MAKES SENSE.
Enjoy. Tell me your score if you do it.
Thanks for reading.
1 comment:
I ain't even gonna attempt it. Between my ability to have heard a song for years and have no idea what any of the lyrics are, and my complete inability to recall titles and names ("you know, that guy... who was in that movie...about the thing, with that other guy who was in that other movie... oh goddammit"). I'm impressed you got nearly half!
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