Well, either nobody’s reading these anymore, or last week’s lyrics were just really, really tough. Maybe you’ll have better luck guessing this week:
- “The Sweetest Thing” by Camera Obscura
My love, you’re in a magazine - “Jet Airliner” by Steve Miller Band, guessed by Clayton
Funky kicks goin’ down in the city - “To Ramona” by Bob Dylan
Though I cannot explain that in lines - “Nebraska” by Chrissie Hynde and Adam Seymour (orig. Bruce Springsteen)
I guess there’s just a meanness in this world - “Lost My Driving Wheel” by Cowboy Junkies
They took my money on the night train north - “Sparkly Vampires” by the Rifftones
I can tell by the way that you don’t kill me - “Stay” by Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs, guessed by Clayton
Now your daddy don’t mind - “Pony” by Sara Watkins
Now I am full of hollow on Maxwell Street - “American Idiot” by Green Day, guessed by Kim
And can you hear the sound of hysteria? - “Mystery Science Theater 3000 Theme Song,” guessed by Kim
Just a regular Joe they didn’t like
Good luck!
2 – Jet Airliner (the “radio friendly” version) – Steve Miller Band
7 – Stay – I’m going with Jackson Browne, his is not the original version but it’s the one I know
Yes, it’s the cleaned-up version, which is what I had on my Greatest Hits CD. I’m pretty sure I have Paul Pena’s original version of the song on my iPod as well.
And Jackson Browne did a live, lyrically modified version of “Stay,” which almost always gets played along with “The Load Out,” and in which he sings lines like “And the roadies don’t mind…” I was amused to note that, in the credits to the song in liner notes (at least on the CD version), they say, “The Zodiacs don’t mind.”
Wow, I had no idea that wasn’t Steve Miller’s original song. I just listened to the Paul Pena version on YouTube — I’m going to have to track down that CD now.
9. Green Day, American Idiot
10. Theme to MST3K (Mike Version)