New Year Mega Song Lyric Quiz

For answers scroll down to the bottom!

Here at punkgirldiaries.com, we love a quiz! During 2020, we’ve already sent many free zines and T-shirts to competition winners. For the start of 2021, we’ve decided to do a huge 50-question punk/pop music missing word lyric quiz. You can do it for fun, or put in an entry as a comment below, or via email punkgirldiaries@gmail.com to try and win a full set of our 4 blogzines.

We’ve tried to make it accessible and easy by choosing some of the best known songs from 50 female-fronted bands or solo artists. We’ve also tried to get it right by double-checking, but we’re not going to get into debates about whether ‘cabbage’ is right because that’s what they sang at a 1983 gig in Frankfurt, or on the 12″ remix etc. Just go for the obvious answer; there’s no extra points for smartarsery this time! Okay – grab a notepad, ask the family… let’s go!

Q No	Artist	Lyric
1.	Sandie Shaw	Love is just like a _____________, with all the fun of the fair
2	Blondie	I know a girl from a __________ street, cold as ice cream, but still as sweet
3	Ms Dynamite	Yo, I’m the same little girl that grew up next door to you Went through all the things a ___________ girl goes through
4	B52s	We were at the beach; everybody had matching ___________
5	Big Joanie	If I ever fall asleep now, would you wake me from the dream that’s kept me crying now for ___________
6	Transvision Vamp	Well you can dress me in your __________ give me kisses forever and a day yeah
7	The Body snatchers	People get ready, gotta do rock _____________
8	Everything But The Girl	And I miss you, like the ____________ miss the rain
9	Joan Jett	I don’t give a damn ’bout my _____________; you’re living in the past, it’s a new generation
10	Kate Bush	I’d make a deal with God, and I’d get him to ____________ our places,
11	Penetration	Penetrating __________ going through my head, I haven’t listened to a thing they said
12	The Selector	I bought my baby a red _________, he played it all day a-go-go a-go-go
13	Sleeper	She’s shopping for kicks, got the weekend to get through, keeping the rain off her Saturday _____________
14	Althea and Donna	Gimme little ___________ make m’whine up m’waist
15	Siouxsie and the Banshees	From the cradle bars comes a beckoning voice, It sends you _____________
16	Thompson Twins	Doctor! Doctor! Can’t you see I’m ____________
17	Kim Wilde	Looking out a ___________ old window, down below the cars in the city go rushing by
18	The Pretenders	I’m special, so special, I gotta have some of your ___________; give it to me
19	Plasmatics	You sold your __________ in the discount store; you watch TV, you don’t want any more
20	Chumba wumba	I get knocked down, But I get up again (we’ll be singing, ___________ the night away)
21	Little Eva	So come on, come on, do the locomotion with me You gotta _________ your hips now, come on baby
22	X	You don’t have to call me back, your ___________ off the hook, but you’re not
23	Au Pairs	Nowadays you wash sheets, in the bath, scrub my _________ for me
24	The Slits	Typical girls can’t control themselves, typical girls are so __________
25	Suzi Quatro	Let her come let her go, she can ____________ down in Devil Gate Drive
26	Salt n Pepa	Salt and Pepa’s here, and we’re in effect, want you to ________ it, babe
27	Shampoo	Uh oh we’re in trouble We’ll catch a _____________ on the next space shuttle
28	Laura Marling	Do you remember what I said? The ________ I left by your bed The words that some survivor read
29	Garbage	You pretend you’re high, pretend you’re __________, pretend you’re anything
30	Sophie Ellis Bextor	Hey, it’s murder on the dancefloor, but you better not __________ the groove
31	Florence & the Machine	The dog days are over, the dog days are done The ________ are coming so you better run
32	Toyah	It’s a mystery, oh, it’s a mystery, I’m still searching for a _________
33	Lush	Oh God, the boy had such an ___________ he liked to talk about himself all day and all night
34	The Cramps	Whoa…there’s some things baby I just can’t swallow. Mama told me that girls are ______________.
35	Dolly Parton	Your beauty is beyond compare, with flaming locks of ____________ hair
36	Juliana Hatfield Three	He’s a movie star, only drives ______________ cars. Met him in a bar, said “I know who you are.”
37	Donna Summer	Gotta have some hot ____________, gotta have some love tonight
38	X-Ray Spex	Do you see yourself On the TV screen Do you see yourself in the _______________
39	Nenah Cherry	Who’s that gigolo on the street with his hands in his pockets and his _____________ feet?
40	Hazel O’Connor	I’ve made a better world for _____________; nobody laugh, nobody cry; world without end
41	The Primitives	Here you go, way too __________ don’t slow down, you’re gonna crash
42	Strawberry Switchblade	Just close your eyes and then remember the thoughts you’ve _______________ away
43	Carly Simon	You walked into the party like you were walking onto a ______________
44	Nadine Shah	Ladies for babies and __________ for love
45	All About Eve	I sit by the _____________________ the sea calls to me
46	Joan Armatrading	I am not in love but I’m open to ______________________
47	Kirsty MacColl	There’s a guy works down the _________________ shop swears he’s Elvis
48	Patti Smith	Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not __________________
49	Sister Sledge	No, we don’t get depressed; here’s what we call our ______________ rule: have faith in you and the things you do
50	Altered Images	I would like to climb high in a __________________; I could be happy

If you want to enter the competition to win zines 1-4, please email punkgirldiaries@gmail.com, or write your answers as a comment below by 12 noon GMT on Saturday 9th January 2020. If there is a tie between entrants, the zine-winning entry will be drawn at random, but we might also give away some of our 2021 calendars too! The answers and winner will be added to this post on Sunday 10th January, and announced on Twitter @punkgirldiaries. Good luck and Happy New Year 2021!

ANSWERS – the competition was won by Herman. Well done!

1	Merry-go-round
2	lonely
3	Teenage
4	towels
5	weeks
6	mirror
7	steady
8	deserts
9	reputation
10	swap
11	voices
12	radio
13	hairdo
14	bass
15	spinning
16	burning
17	dirty
18	attention
19	life
20	Pissing
21	swing
22	Phone’s
23	back
24	confusing
25	jive
26	push
27	ticket
28	book
29	bored
30	kill
31	horses
32	clue
33	ego
34	hollow
35	auburn
36	rented
37	stuff
38	magazine
39	crocodile
40	everyone
41	fast
42	locked
43	yacht
44	goayts
45	harbour
46	persuasion
47	chip
48	mine
49	golden
50	tree