Bad Goal! No biscut!
The point isn't to find the most obscure lyrics out there. Anyone can do that. Try to find songs that most folks here have probably heard on the radio, probably multiple times, and preferably semi-recently. A b-side from a band that had one hit that played only on a few radio stations 10 years ago (the hit, not the b-side) doesn't count. Some local band that you heard while traveling in Italy doesn't count.
If you have to be an avid fan of the band in question in order to have a chance to recognize the lyrics, then you're picking the wrong song. The whole point is for people to try to recognize lyrics without hearing the music that goes with them. Another way to think of it is that the song ideally should be one that if you played the song, most people would recognize it. The ultimate is a set where reading the lyrics folks can't recall the song, but upon being told the band and song, they can (like the Chain Gang song).
If you tell folks the name of the band and the song, and they still can't sing it to themselves (because they still have no idea how the song goes), then the song is too obscure.
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King Nobby wrote:
More words please