Music Quiz: Picture This Classic Rock Songs

Congratulations to kingclover, who scored 34/35 in last week’s Song Title quiz. And congratulations to Jim, who guessed that Christie Brinkley painted the cover of Billy Joel’s River of Dreams album.

This week you need to guess the classic rock song given some skeletal opening lines and some picture clues. It looks more complicated than it actually is – the quiz gives you 15 minutes, but I was finished in less than five.

https://www.sporcle.com/games/NYYanks/lyrics-you-can-almost-touch

I scored 13/15 – perhaps deservedly, I missed a song written by the artist whose lyrics I pilloried in this blog’s previous post.

Enjoy your Easter holiday! Coincidentally, the artist discography I’m reviewing at the moment is neo-prog band Marillion – I’ve just finished writing about 1989’s Seasons End, their first album with replacement lead vocalist Steve Hogarth. Here’s a 2017 live version of ‘Easter’ from that record, written about the Irish troubles. Steve Rothery’s guitar solo, starting from 2:30, is one of my favourite Marillion moments.

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  1. Well, you must be a genius because A) I ran out of time and 2) I got 8/15. I found this impossibly hard. It took me a minute or two to make the connection to the pictures and even when I did I wasn’t always sure what the picture was portraying. I know all the songs to a greater or lesser degree; the couple that I don’t like I would never have gotten. Among other things, my brain is baked from playing Wordle I’m afraid.

  2. That was quite a challenge but I fared pretty well with 12/15, and after seeing the ones I missed I should have gotten 14. I hope you’ll post more of these in the future. Good call on Marillion and great song choice. I’ve been a fan since the mid-’80s and love both incarnations of the band.

    • You’re winning so far. I would have picked you as the Marillion fan out of the regular quiz contestants.

    • Actually, I commented on your Marillion post a few years ago so maybe I subconsciously remembered that.

  3. I got 12/15. The ones that I didn’t get I wouldnt have guessed in a gazillion years. If I ever did know the words to the Def Lepard and U2 songs I’ve certainly forgotten them by now.

      • Same here. Now I remember that the third one I got wrong with Thriller, which doesn’t surprise me because I never liked it. But you’d think I would have at least recognized it considering how many times I heard it on the radio. I guess I just forgot the words to it.

        • I found Thriller not too hard – it has a vocabulary around beasts and midnight that’s not present in many pop hits.

          • Sometimes those picture clues weren’t much of a help . There was one that was supposed to be a beast or a monster I guess, but I thought it was a bear. So I kept trying to think of songs that mentioned bears. ha ha

  4. That was brilliant though I only hit 13 and would never have got the two (DefLep and Springfield) even with another hour and bucket of coffee.

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