As promised, the return of the Lyrics Quiz of Shame

[brixtonbrood]

Lots of stuff to post about, but it turns out what I really want to do is another Lyrics Quiz Of Shame! The previous one is here if you missed it, and the answers are here.

Mostly culled from the playlist of FunRadio , or our stock of kids' compilations, and some of them are pretty fiendish so there's a list of artists at the bottom to enable you to at least try and match lyric to artist even if you've never heard the song (points gained that way theoretically carry no shame, but there'll still be a whiff of doubt that you knew the songs really and were just trying to look intelligent and cool by pretending to guess). Several are not by the artists that more established radio stations might go with.

We'll start with an easy one....

1. I feel so lucky/I am the girl with golden hair

2. And these children that you spit on, as they try to change their world/Are immune to your consultation, they're quite aware what they're going through

3. Darling it's better, down where it's wetter

4. Salagadoola means mechicka booleroo

5. I am a polar bear/I am a polar bear/I can be anything I want to be/When nobody else is there

6. Cause if I can't sing my boy to sleep,/Well it makes your famous daddy look so dumb

7. Some folks might be a little bit smarter than I am,/Bigger and stronger too

8. Three little birds sat on my window, and they tell me I don't need to worry

9. He stopped eating cakes, but only because he'd run out of cakes

10. The zookeeper's sleeping/He hasn't heard a thing/He can't hear the monkeys/Escaping

11. Uruguay, Vietnam, West Xylophone, Yemen, Zimbabwe

12. I remember clearly how it all began/I was in the precinct shopping with my nan.

13. You can feel the beat come bubbling under/Then you hear the tom toms loud as thunder

14. Courage! said he, there's always hope/I want a thinnish piece of rope,/Or if there isn't anything/A thickish piece of string

15. Invite Tigger for tea/And Owl for supper

16. It's a cool place and they say it gets colder/You're bundled up now but wait 'til you get older/But the meteor men beg to differ/Judging by the hole in the satellite picture

17. Can’t think of anything to do yeah/My left brain knows that/All love is fleeting/She’s just looking for something new yeah/And I said it once before/But it bears repeating now

18. Me and Wilson, my teddy bear/We're going to do a lot of wiggling/Before we go upstairs/Watch out you lions you tigers you bears/I've got my pajamas on

19. What's that coming over the hill/Is it a......

20. Don't give up Joseph fight till you drop/We've read the book and you come out on top

Artists in alphabetical order (of first name, why the hell not)
Abba
The Automatic
Belle and Sebastian
Bobby McFerrin
Butterfly Boucher featuring **********(name deleted for obviousness)
Carly Simon
Corinne Bailey Rae
The Divine Comedy
Franz Ferdinand
Haley Joel Osment
Half Man Half Biscuit
Jason Donovan and cast
Livingston Taylor (James Taylor's (even) less famous brother)
Lyle Lovett & Randy Newman
Paul Simon
Shaggy
Smash Mouth
Snow Patrol
They Might be Giants
The White Stripes

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[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

1) Abba, Thank You For The Music
2) David Bowie, Changes
19) The Automatic, Monster

... um, yeah.

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

1) was a gimme, 2 points
2) is hampered by the absence of Mr Bowie on the list of artistes - 1 point
19) indeed (can you tell I was running out of ideas at this one) It is not in any way a children's song, but they played it on Blue Peter over a thing about Doctor Who and Small was singing it loudly and determinedly for weeks.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

1 = Abba, Thank You for the Music
2 = Changes, but goodness knows who's cover it is
8 = Three Little Birds, em Bobby McFerrin covered that didn't he?
11 = They Might Be Giants, Alphabet of Nations
20 = from the Joseph soundtrack, maybe Jason Donovan et al?

That's me I'm afraid, not much better than last time!

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

1) Yes, two points
2) Yes, 1 point
8) Very very wrong
11) Well done but only 2 points rather than bopeepsheep's 4 for extra effort
20) 1 and a half, well reasoned

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

West Xylophone! Yay! :D

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

Double points for use of appropriate icon.
I am horribly conflicted about Here Come the ABCs, because I bought it without hearing it, and although the kids adore it (as do I), Tiny is just starting to learn his letters prior to elementary reading, and it is of course Not Phonically Correct (I am very very hardcore about my phonics).

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

We bought CD and DVD, unheard and unseen, on a trip to California in April 2005 when smallclanger (21 months) had pretty much no recognisable vocabulary at all, and the adult occupants of the car sang along with it almost non-stop for three days, driving down the coast and back. Within the week he was speaking, he was singing along a month later, by July 2005 he knew his alphabet to read as well as say thanks to the DVD - he startled the HV at his two-year-check by reading her t-shirt - and was definitively reading well before his third birthday a year later. I'm a HUGE fan of TMBG anyway but this was an unexpectedly great bonus! We did initially have to correct 'zee' into 'zed' of course, but he soon got the hang of it - and we've since found that the Wiggles website does the opposite thing: "ex, why, zed - or if you live in America, zee", which tickles us greatly. :D

All of which is to say - I don't think the lack of phonics should be held against it. :D

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

There's some kind of made up statistic common amongst teachers that x% of kids will learn to read no matter how badly taught and regardless of method, y% will learn if competently taught using any method, z% are actually dyslexic and will struggle no matter how you teach them and the remainder (still quite a chunky number) are the ones for whom the great Phonics vs Synthetic Phonics vs Real Books vs Look & Say debate is relevant.
I suspect that Small and smallclanger, (and indeed Him, who was taught to read by his five year old brother repeating lessons to him after school) all fall into the first group, and hence my belief in the magic power of solid phonics teaching is totally irrelevant to Small's reading abilities.

[asajeffrey.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, the only one I know is All Star, Smash Mouth, #16, thank you Mr. Shrek.

deux points pour le competitor des Etats Unis

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

In which case you may be able to work out number 2 as well....

Re: deux points pour le competitor des Etats Unis

[asajeffrey.livejournal.com]

Ah, that would be "Butterfly Boucher featuring **********", where "**********" is "David Bowie", then. I had to cheat and look up the Shrek 2 soundtrack listing, so nil points pour moi for that one.

Re: deux points pour le competitor des Etats Unis

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

ding! but terrible cheating