thumbnail

Title NOT in the Lyrics Quiz

These song titles don't appear anywhere in the lyrics. Guess the songs - and the artists who recorded them.
Quiz by Quizmaster
Rate:
Last updated: September 22, 2015
You have not attempted this quiz yet.
First submittedNovember 6, 2011
Times taken56,824
Average score41.7%
Rating4.37
6:00
Enter song or artist here:
0
 / 24 guessed
The quiz is paused. You have remaining.
Scoring
You scored / = %
This beats or equals % of test takers also scored 100%
The average score is
Your high score is
Your fastest time is
Keep scrolling down for answers and more stats ...
Lyric
Musical Act
Song
Thunderbolt and lightning / Very, very frightening / (Galileo) Galileo
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
With the lights out, it's less dangerous / Here we are now, entertain us
Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
For some reason I can't explain / I know Saint Peter won't call my name
Coldplay
Viva la Vida
Pleased to meet you hope you guess my name / But what's
puzzling you is the nature of my game
The Rolling Stones
Sympathy for the Devil
This is ground control to Major Tom
David Bowie
Space Oddity
I get knocked down / But I get up again / You're never
going to keep me down
Chumbawamba
Tubthumping
I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad / I got sunshine
in a bag / I'm useless, but not for long / The future is coming on
Gorillaz
Clint Eastwood
It's only teenage wasteland
The Who
Baba O'Riley
Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move, gonna make you sweat,
gonna make you groove
Led Zeppelin
Black Dog
Woke up, fell out of bed / Dragged a comb across my head /
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
The Beatles
A Day in the Life
One pill makes you larger / And one pill makes you small
Jefferson Airplane
White Rabbit
Woo-hoo / When I feel heavy-metal /
And I'm pins and I'm needles
Blur
Song 2
+7
Level 25
Mar 1, 2012
Kicking myself I didn't get Gorillaz, I knew I recognised it! And I kept trying Space "Odyssey" oh dear...
+1
Level 37
Apr 10, 2012
I think the words 'Viva la vida' actually do appear in the song, maybe in one of the last choruses?
+9
Level 67
Jan 8, 2013
nope
+1
Level 17
Nov 11, 2014
oh man i should have known all of these!
+6
Level 66
Apr 15, 2015
Only 18% know A Day In The Life. I'm now sad.
+1
Level 46
Nov 4, 2015
I couldn't remember the name of the song but I do know the song...
+1
Level 67
Sep 15, 2015
Quiz will not accept Smells Like Teen Spirit now.
+1
Level 84
Sep 16, 2015
It's not accepting "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - which is probably why the percentage is low low.
+2
Level 75
Feb 17, 2022
how low?

(hello, hello, hello...)

+1
Level 90
Sep 16, 2015
Wow, I had no idea this was out there. I created one of these about a year ago giving the artist but asking for 20 song titles. For the record, I like mine better. :)
+2
Level 92
Sep 23, 2015
Gah, I forgot MCR only covered the song.
+4
Level 56
Nov 4, 2015
I love a good lyrics quiz!! And look at that - two of the songs listed are by the brilliant Damon Albarn!
+1
Level 66
Nov 4, 2015
Reflecting my geezership, I got everything released before 1985 and nothing after.
+5
Level 41
Nov 4, 2015
Expected to see System of a down "Chop suey"
+1
Level 74
Jun 11, 2020
This I could've gotten.
+2
Level 54
Nov 4, 2015
+1 for Gorrilaz and Blur :)
+3
Level 74
Nov 4, 2015
Nice quiz. You could have included "Pompeii" by Bastille too.
+3
Level 11
Nov 4, 2015
I am disappointed that so few people got A Day In The Life. The greatest song ever!
+1
Level 58
Nov 5, 2015
Agree there. I guess it is just too old.
+1
Level 85
Nov 9, 2015
This one was fun....i got all of them except couldn't remember the title of the Gorillaz song until i saw the answers
+2
Level 40
Nov 13, 2015
so few people got baba o'reilly............what a sad place we live in today. i got coldplay but couldn't remember the song name b/c well..........they are dreadful.
+1
Level 63
May 31, 2016
I think everyone just knows it as Teenage Wasteland.
+2
Level 44
Mar 7, 2018
which is just one line in the song. Its not the title and yet Ive seen so many people claim that is what its called, Ive had the album that it was on forever and knew what it was called lol
+1
Level 60
Jun 29, 2020
Well, "just one line." That's till one more than Baba O'Riley, so not that hard to understand than sentiment.
+1
Level 66
Sep 28, 2018
Agree about both Baba O'Riley (one of my favorite songs of all time) and Coldplay (can't stand any of their terrible music).
+1
Level 79
Jul 11, 2023
You realize everyone in the world has heard that song a million times right? It's not some rare old obscure rock song, it's literally one of the most overplayed songs ever. You're not special for knowing it or appreciating it. lol

Just because someone doesn't remember the name of a song doesn't mean they don't know the song.

+3
Level 73
Jul 2, 2017
Two Damon Albarn things =)
+1
Level 44
Mar 7, 2018
I only missed the coldplay one I wasn't going to cheat I had no idea and now I know why haha
+1
Level 20
May 1, 2018
ok, I suck 9/24.
+2
Level 66
Sep 28, 2018
How about Bullet with Butterfly Wings by the Smashing Pumpkins, Longview by Green Day, Enter Sandman by Metallica... I guess what I'm saying is this quiz could easily have a part 2.
+1
Level 20
Apr 12, 2019
Haha got bohemian rhapsody with queen, viva la vida with coldplay, space oddity with david bowie, clint eastwood with gorrilaz, and baba o'reily with the who just from memory and I just turned 13 XD It's those old time parents ya know
+3
Level 65
Nov 17, 2019
That is a weird image to me: my parents are so old, theylistened to Gorillaz..

when did it change that "old people" don't listen to old peoples music anymore. Or was it always/never like that.

like soon everyones grandad will have tattoos. (I know, not everyone. But it is about the answers concept that soon things that were hip and only for young people, those people will be old. And less reversible (in the case of tattoos) than the types of clothes you wear. Because regardless what people wore in their youth, which will inevitably get outdated, people start dressing differently when they are senior citizens)

+1
Level 87
Aug 11, 2019
The rabbit IS mentioned in "White Rabbit", it's just not specifically mentioned as white.
+7
Level 83
Jan 20, 2020
Then you could also argue that Sympathy for the devil doesn't count because the lyrics contain the word "the"
+1
Level 33
Sep 16, 2022
Actually, they say "if you go chasing rabbits" not "if you go chasing rabbit". Plural, not singular - as it is in the title.
+1
Level 67
Sep 27, 2019
Yay I got Day in the Life. I was just like "Could it be?" and it was :>
+2
Level 74
Jun 11, 2020
Surprised nothing from Panic at the Disco - I Write Sins would have been a nice addition, among others.
+1
Level 83
Aug 13, 2020
cool list of songs apart from the extremely boring coldplay and that awful chav anthem tubthumping , has to be one of the worst songs ever .
+1
Level 33
Sep 16, 2022
So sad that kids these days know viva la vida by sneeze play (lol) but not white rabbit by the great jefferson starship - I MEAN AIRPLANE! God I'm getting old...
+4
Level 48
Oct 11, 2022
what
+2
Level 79
Jan 3, 2023
NO POMPEII
+1
Level 67
Jun 2, 2023
Facts
+1
Level 67
Jun 2, 2023
14/24, for some of these I just guessed bands that came to mind and then when I got one of them I just guessed songs by them that came to mind. Like I don't know the lyrics for Smells Like Teen Spirit, Sympathy for the Devil or Baba O'Riley but I got them getting the bands first
+1
Level 67
Jun 2, 2023
One pill makes you larger
+1
Level 58
Oct 5, 2023
Jefferson Airplane shockingly low in terms of guesses!