I have an old-school way of listening to music in the car. I have a thumb drive of 200 MP3 files, many ripped from CDs (or from less scrupulous sources) from 25 years ago.
MP3 files have metadata that includes the album cover art. I’ve looked at that same art on my car’s console for decades now, and frankly I got bored with it. So I “hacked” the files to include different images. I started with family photos so I’d get a heartwarming slideshow as my music played.
That also got boring so I started photoshopping my kids’ heads on famous musicians. I put my young son’s head on all four members of Queen on their famous Queen II album cover. For Kenny Loggins’ Danger Zone song, I put my son’s head on Tom Cruise’s body as he gives a thumbs up in his fighter jet.
But I’ve entered a new period in my artistic career. Now I’m making images that have puns, puzzles or jokes, with the main goal of giving my wife WTF moments when she drives the car. Her pain is our gain as I can share them below as a musical guessing game.
Guess the artist or band name from these images. Answers are below each image.
Starting with an easy one, this image is on the 1978 song “September.”
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Earth, Wind and Fire
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The next image is found on 1993’s “All I Wanna Do” song and the artist is... not Cher.
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Sheryl Crow
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If you could read my mind, you’d know the singer of 1970’s “If You Could Read My Mind.” And if you can’t, you might still get his last name from the image.
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Gordon Lightfoot
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Let’s guess song titles from the images, starting with this U2 hit from 1987:
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Where the Streets Have No Name
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In 2005, Coldplay released a song that asked, “Are you lost or incomplete? Do you feel like a puzzle, you can't find your missing piece?” So puzzle over this image.
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Talk (I assume in France it was called Talc)
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In 1980, Blondie released a famous version of this song.
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The Tide Is High
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This 1984 song by John Parr was for a movie by the same name.
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St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion)
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Everyone has sung along to a radio hit and used the wrong words, possibly in front of someone to their embarrassment. I thought the Bee Gees were singing “Bald-headed woman to me” instead of “More than a woman to me.” My son thought Daft Punk sang “I’m up all Mexican lucky” instead of “I’m up all night to get lucky.” (You are now infected. You won’t be able to unhear those words in those songs.)
These images illustrate some misheard lyrics. Guess the song.
I thought Peter Gabriel was singing about his favorite TV dinner in 1977. If you eat too much, your heart goes “Boom-boom-boom.”
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Solsbury Hill
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I innocently thought A Flock of Seagulls was giving me a geography lesson in 1982. They were telling me the relative distance to a particular country.
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I Ran (So Far Away)
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This 1989 song by Michael Penn is not so famous but I still find it catchy. I liked the line (that I now know) says, “What if I were Romeo in black jeans.”
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No Myth
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John Denver might have been singing this 1971 song with marbles in his mouth.
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Take Me Home, Country Roads (not Robes)
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Remember that I’m listening to these songs in the car. So it’s natural to mistake them for GPS instructions.
This 1991 Jesus Jones song doesn’t want me to miss my turn.
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Right Here, Right Now
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This 1980 song from Canadian band, Martha and the Muffins, had these very relatable lyrics, “From 9 to 5, I have to spend my time at work. My job is very boring, I'm an office clerk.”
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Echo Beach
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Supertramp’s song from 1974 really really doesn’t want me to make the wrong turn.
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Bloody Well Right
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We will conclude with one last image that is effective for many songs. Name any song that applies such as ones by Billy Joel (1977), Reel 2 Real (1994), Bob Seger (1976), and Young MC (1989).
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Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) - Billy Joel
I Like To Move It - Reel 2 Real
Night Moves - Bob Seger
Bust a Move - Young MC
And I also accept any song by Haul and Oats.
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