Category Archives: Lyrics

Today’s lyrics quiz features everyone’s favorite genre: Classic Rock. Many of the bands referenced in today’s quiz will be seen touring the country this summer, as soon as Rib Festival Season kicks into full gear. Hint: the lyrics below are … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Tahishia, who nearly achieved a perfect score on last week’s mini-quiz. Check in tomorrow for a brand new theme! Answers after the link.

Despite the obvious unpopularity of the most recent lyrics quiz, I’m forging ahead, Dick-Cheney-style, along my predetermined, if ultimately futile, path. Thankfully, we’ve reached the end of this particular theme, because they’ve run out of Now! albums. Today we present … Continue reading →

We continue our monthly theme with lyrics from volumes 11 through 20 of the Now That’s What I Call Music! series. Each subsequent song is more and more “modern,” meaning that they are confusing and frightening to me. Hint: Lyric … Continue reading →

Sorry it’s taken so long to post the answers to last week’s quiz. Things have been busy here at TomMusial.com world headquarters. This week’s winner is Tahishia, our first under-30 winner. For her demographically-correct prize, I will send her a … Continue reading →

I’ve been getting feedback from the younger TomMusial.com readers (where ‘younger’ equals ‘under 30’) that my lyrics quizzes have too much old crap in them. They’ve threatened to sends zombies to my Facebook page if I don’t put some more … Continue reading →

Thanks to Cristina, Rick, Shannon, and Steve for nearly doubling the commentary on this blog with their answers to last week’s lyrics quiz. Apparently a lot of people listened to Lite FM back in the day. Follow the link for … Continue reading →

This week’s quiz features the unique brand of bittersweet folk rock popularized by 1970s singer-songwriters. Dust off your old LPs, or tune into Lite FM about 15 years ago, and test your knowledge of these sensitive, sentimental songsmiths. Hint: two … Continue reading →

Congratulations to our two-time lyrics champ: “Silbert.” Can anyone knock him from his lofty throne? I also want to thank Silbert for injecting personalized smack talk into his reply, directed at people that I’m not sure even read this blog. … Continue reading →

The theme this week is “obsolete business models.” In February of 1994, two months after getting married, I celebrated the purchase of my first CD player by joining the Columbia Record and Tape club. For only one penny, I got … Continue reading →

Thanks to all the folks who participated in the inaugural lyrics quiz, but did not bother to add an entry to the comments. Your participation was valued nonetheless. Congratulations to my old college pal “Silbert,” who take first place with … Continue reading →

Welcome to a NEW feature at TomMusial.com: The Friday Lyrics Quiz! Listed below are ten sets of lyrics. Without using the Internet, enter the song name and artist name for each lyric into the comments. Winners will be feted by … Continue reading →