1. Robert Plant is gonna leave you, he said baby, you know he’s gonna leave you, he’ll leave you when the summer comes a-rollin’, leave you when the summer comes along. (Led Zeppelin – “Baby I’m Gonna Leave You”)
2. Someone named Jamie is crying. (Van Halen – “Jamie’s Cryin’”)
3. Yesterday don’t matter if it’s gone. (The Rolling Stones – “Ruby Tuesday”)
4. Roger Daltrey, whose heart is like a broken cup, really wants to know who you are. (The Who – “Who Are You”)
5. A kazoo solo makes for an amusing song. (Pink Floyd – “Corporal Clegg”)
6. Hot love will burn your heart. (Cheap Trick – “Hot Love”)
7. Current score:
Bobby Fuller Four – 0
The Clash – 0
Dead Kennedys – 1
The Law – 2
(Bobby Fuller Four – “I Fought The Law”, The Clash – “I Fought The Law”, Dead Kennedys – “I Fought The Law and I Won”, in chronological order)
Note: Green Day also recorded a cover of the song but no one wants to hear it. (Green Day’s score, for those who may be wondering, is -37.)
8. “…we came in?” / “Isn’t this where…” was probably the most intricate, subtle, and profound lyrical commentary until Dream Theater came to be. (Pink Floyd – “In the Flesh?”, “In the Flesh”; Dream Theater – “Octavarium”, et al.)
9. Black Sabbath can get away with rhyming “masses” with “masses” in two consecutive lines. (Black Sabbath – “War Pigs”)
10. “In and around the lake, mountains come out of the sky, and they stand there.” (Yes – “Roundabout”)
11. “The movie never ends, it goes on and on and on and on.” (Journey – “Don’t Stop Believing”)
Note: Many believe this was an inadvertent anachronistic reference to the “Terminator” series.
12. Robert Smith has been looking so long at these pictures of you that he almost believes that they’re real. (The Cure – “Pictures Of You”)
13. The Stooges seemed to like using the most-often-repeated line or phrase in any given song as the title for that song. They also seemed to like writing bland, meaningless, repetitive, and often awkwardly-worded lyrics. (The Stooges – “I Wanna Be Your Dog”, “Raw Power”, “Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell”, “T.V. Eye”, etc.)
14. AC/DC did roughly the same thing as The Stooges, but somehow made it sound a little better. (AC/DC – “Rock And Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution”, “Givin’ The Dog A Bone”, “What Do You Do For Money Honey”, etc.)
15. The world is a vampire; Billy Corgan is still just a rat in a cage, despite all his rage. (The Smashing Pumpkins – “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”)
