Good morning friends!
My apologies, I wasn’t feeling well at the end of last week and so didn’t get the answers ready on time. Or…mark your emails at all, as you may have noticed from the time stamps of yesterday afternoon.
Most recognised song last week was Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water”; Creedance Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son” caused the most confusion.
1960s: “Fortunate Son”, Creedance Clearwater Revival
1970s (A): “Bridge Over Troubled Water”, Simon & Garfunkel
1970s (B): “Cat’s in the Cradle”, Harry Chapin
1980s: “Silver Girl”, Survivor
2010s (A): “(F*ck A) Silver Lining”, Panic! at the Disco
2010s (B): “The Phoenix”, Fall Out Boy
Your leaderboard this week:
🥇 on 12/12: Team LSP, Megan and The Chamberlains, BSA Team, and Lore in Order
🥈 on 11.5/12: Kimberley and Ilona, Flying Lizards, The Bögan Crüe, and WDPTBTI
🥉 on 11/12: All The World's A Song, and Team Impoverished
Hope you enjoyed the first week of Burger Wellington!
Kirsti.
1960s: “Fortunate Son”, Creedance Clearwater Revival
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one, no
Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves, no
But when the taxman come to the door
Lord, the house lookin' like a rummage sale, yeah
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no millionaire's son, no, no
Hint: Soon after it was released this song from a band (often refered to by their initials) became a Vietnam anti-war movement anthem and an expressive symbol of the counterculture's opposition to U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War and solidarity with the soldiers fighting it. The song has been featured extensively in pop culture depictions of the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement. You may know this band from one of their songs about rain - in one song they want someone to stop the rain, and in another song they ask if anyone has ever seen the rain, both songs suggesting that they are not meteorological geniuses. Song title not really in lyrics quoted.
1970s (A): “Bridge Over Troubled Water”, Simon & Garfunkel
Sail on, silver girl
Sail on by
Your time has come to shine
All your dreams are on their way
See how they shine
Oh, if you need a friend
I'm sailing right behind
Hint: The title of this song was inspired by Claude Jeter's line "I'll be your bridge over deep water if you trust in my name," which Jeter sang with his group, the Swan Silvertones, in the 1959 song "Mary Don't You Weep." This part in particular refers to the songwriter’s then-wife, who’d just started noticing her first grey hairs - apparently it’s not a drug abuser's hypodermic needle, but it was the 60s so honestly it could go either way. Other songs from this duo you might know include a song about silence and one about the older woman who seduced Dustin Hoffman in a movie, but then he falls for her daughter. Song title not in lyrics quoted.
1970s (B): “Cat’s in the Cradle”, Harry Chapin
And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
"When you comin' home, Dad?"
"I don't know when, but we'll get together then
You know we'll have a good time then"
Hint: You probably know this song from the Ugly Kid Joe cover, but as usual, I’m looking for the original artist. The original artist shares a first name with a ginger prince and a British singer from last week’s quiz; his family name is very close to that of a famed English comic actor known for his screen persona of the Tramp - just drop the L. Song title in lyrics quoted.
1980s: “Silver Girl”, Survivor
Silver girl, stay until tomorrow
Take my heart away with just a single kiss
Silver girl, the world outside our window
Somehow fades away at moments like this
While tonight in the city street the people rush by
You and I are taking our time, precious time
Hint: Another deep cut, this time from the band you most probably know from their song about the eye of a tiger. Song title in lyrics quoted.
2010s (A): “(F*ck A) Silver Lining”, Panic! at the Disco
It's just cherries, cherries
It's coming up cherries on top
Sunset shadows through the trophies
I guess it just ain't big enough
Say it one more, one more, one more
F*ck a silver lining
F*ck a silver lining
'Cause only gold is hot enough, hot enough
Hint: They wrote sins not tragedies, and are the reason I can’t be trusted when someone says the phrase “a beautiful wedding” around me. Song title in lyrics quoted.
2010s (B): “The Phoenix”, Fall Out Boy
(Put on your war paint)
Cross walks and crossed hearts and hope to dies
Silver clouds with grey linings
So we can take the world back from the heart-attacked
One maniac at a time, we will take it back
You know time crawls on when you're waiting for the song to start
So dance alone to the beat of your heart
Hint: An utter banger that opens the 2013 album marking the return of my favourite band from their hiatus (and was the second single from the album after “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)”). So far this year I’ve included their songs “Golden”, “We Didn't Start the Fire”, “Hum Hallelujah” and “Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea” in the quiz, and honestly I’m starting to run out of clues to write about them. Song title taken from a mythical creature that rises from ashes.
