Artist alphabet time - every song below is performed by an artist beginning with “P.”
03-27-09 – QUIZ #381 [scroll down for last week's answers]
1. “Something about a little box with a mirror and a tongue inside”
2. “Cause I’m losing my sight, losing my mind, wish some body would tell me I’m fine”
3. “Two hearts beating [...]

Happy first day of spring, though us Chicago-ans can’t believe it with our 22-degree wind chill this morning.  Potpourri this week.
03-20-09 – QUIZ #380 [scroll down for the previous quiz's answers]
1. “When you go, go, go, go, I know it never ends, never ends”
2. “Cause you’re my lady, I’m your fool, it makes me crazy [...]

Put on your dancing shoes and take today’s lyric quiz - all titles are on the theme of dancing.
03-06-09 – QUIZ #379  [scroll down for last week's answers]
1.    ”And a carpet ride to a foreign land at the time of Davey Crockett”
2.    ”Holding you I held everything, for a moment, wasn’t I a king”
3.    ”I’ll [...]

02-20-09 – QUIZ #378 [scroll down for last week's answers]
1. “If you find somebody to love in this world you better hang on tooth and nail”
2. “I’m gonna make you stand and deliver, and give me love in the old-fashioned way”
3. “Keep up, falling, these heels they keep me boring, getting glammed up and sitting [...]

I’m on a hunger strike until Slappy returns, folks. It’s my passive-aggressive way of showing I care! But … can’t leave my lyric fans waiting. SO …
Some say “three’s a crowd.” I say, sometime it is all you need – drums, guitar, and bass. Today’s quiz features some pop and [...]

It’s Friday Lyric Quiz time, y’all. Potpourri this week.  Have a Happy Valentine’s Day, and enjoy the long holiday weekend, for the lucky among us.
02-13-09 – QUIZ #377 [scroll down for last week's answers]
1. “Oh, he tells me tears are something to hide, and something to fear”
2. “All the best DJs are saving, the slowest [...]

Musical comebacks are the thing of legends, but they aren’t always successful.  For every Britney there is a Michael Jackson in desperate need of re-invention.  Then there are the artists that come back in another form (Paula Abdul).  Today’s theme is such comebacks, but the songs are just from the artists (i.e., not necessarily their [...]

Potpourri this week.
01-30-09 – QUIZ #375 [scroll down for last week's answers]
1. “I’m on my way to New Orleans this morning, leaving out of Nashville, Tennessee”
2. “No special favors, make it out to cash. We`ll spend it later got to make this romance last”
3. “And our good times start and end without dollar one to [...]

Many apologies for the hiatus, but I’m back with some of the top hits of 2008. Good luck, all of you who followed music last year…
01-09-09 – QUIZ #372 [scroll down for last week's answers]
1. “A strangled smile fell from your face, what kills me that I hurt you this way”
2. “I never felt like [...]

Ho, ho, ho!  All songs this week begin with the letter “H.”  And have nothing to do with Santa or Christmas, so never mind.
12-12-08 – QUIZ #371 [scroll down for last week's answers]
1. “If I should call you up, invest a dime, and you say you belong to me  and ease my mind”
2. “And now [...]

12-05-08 – QUIZ #370 [scroll down for last week's answers]
1. “Take away my trouble, take away my grief, take away my heartache in the night like a thief”
2. “Asking all kinds of questions to myself, but never finding the answers. Crying at the top of my voice, and no one listening”
3. “I have made [...]

So, I wrote all this up yesterday, only to forget to send until, of course, now. All bands in this themed quiz are named after a food of some kind.
Hope everyone in the States had a lovely Thanksgiving!
11-28-08 – QUIZ #369 [scroll down for last week's answers]
1. “The more you change the less [...]

Sorry for last week’s hiatus.  Today is a potpourri.  Happy Thanksgiving, all!
11-21-08 – QUIZ #368 [scroll down for last week's answers]
1. “Sapphire and faded jeans, I hope you get your dreams, just go ahead, let your hair down”
2. “I go around a time or two, just to waste my time with you”
3. “Without a life [...]

Ordinarily, it would be time for a potpourri this week.  But it was a big week in American politics, and the world “change” was prevalent.  It got me thinking we needed a lyric quiz all about “change.”  Well, at least that word appears in every song title.   Minor Hint!  One artist appears twice.
11-07-08 – QUIZ [...]

Crazy make-up.  Fright wigs.  Booze and music.  Sounds like Halloween for many of us, but it was all in a day’s work for hair-metal bands back in the 80s and early 90s.  Happy Halloween folks – the theme is hair metal.  Be careful out there!
10-31-08 – QUIZ #366 [scroll down for last week's answers]
1. “Don’t [...]

Happy Friday.  Good luck finding your Halloween costumes, y’all.
10-24-08 – QUIZ #365 [scroll down for last week's answers]
1. “And as I slowly drift to sleep, for a moment dreams are sacred.  I close my eyes and know there’s peace in a world so filled with hatred”
2. “I can know by the way that you treat [...]

I’m not a rock star or a songwriter.  I barely get through karaoke stints half the time.  But I will say I have a serious pet peeve with lazy lyricists, and boy can I judge.  Namely, those who repeat a lyric senselessly or rhyme one word with the SAME word.  Sometimes, repetition is for effect [...]

Some songs are perfection at under 180 seconds – “Acoustic #3.”  “Yesterday.”  “What’s My Age Again.”  Others are more epic in nature.  Today’s quiz focuses on songs with a lengthy life span – all are six minutes are longer.
10-17-08 – QUIZ #364 [scroll down for last week's answers]
1. “Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue [...]

Potpourri this Friday.  Good luck and go … Devil Rays?
10-10-08 – QUIZ #363 [scroll down for last week's answers]
1. “Knock down the old gray wall, be a part of it all, nothing to say, nothing to see, nothing to do”
2. “I stumble into town, just like a sacred cow, visions of swastikas in my head”
3. [...]

Last weekend, a friend and I were discussing the pros and cons of letting one’s children listen to whatever music they want.  Can they deal with curse words or explicit content if it is properly prepared for?  Should parents keep a lid on the tunes until teenaged years or beyond? 
Meanwhile … Kidz Bop.  It’s one [...]