The holidays are coming. Time to take a short break from sadness, violence, and crazy politicians. Let’s do some music trivia.

Listen to a song a few times and you usually can make a pretty good guess as to what the title of the song is. It can be the first word of the song (think the Beatles Help.) Often it’s a line from the chorus. Bob Dylan chose that route with Like a Rolling Stone. Sometimes, surprise, it’s the last line of the song–The Cure’s Just like Heaven and Chicago’s Questions 67 and 68 are two great examples of that.

But sometimes…you listen and listen and have no idea what the name of the song is. The singer sings their song, but never sings the name of it. The title just isn’t in the lyrics.

Here are clues to 10 songs that fit the “No Title In The Lyrics” category. Can you name the song from the brief description? The answers are below. Also please answer our brief readership questionnaire that follows

Good Luck and Happy Thanksgiving!

1. You may think the name of the first song on Who’s Next is Teenage Wasteland, but it isn’t. What is it?
2. Jeff Beck was leading the Yardbirds when they had a hit with a psychedelic anti-war/pro-environment song. What was it named?
3. Before the Partridge Family, we had the Cowsills. Their first hit was all about the flower girl. What was it called?
4. Before the Osbourne family were TV stars, Ozzie’s Black Sabbath had a short rocker about going crazy. Can you name it?
5. Any Led Zeppelin fans? What was their song about Valhalla, a big hit from Zep III, titled?
6. Was Chris Martin thinking about Gwenyth in this song about a world crumbling down? The song title is also part of the title of Coldplay’s 4th studio album. Do you know it?
7. Neil Young and Stephen Stills were partners in Buffalo Springfield when they warned us that “paranoia strikes deep.” What was the name of their protest anthem?
8. Was Curt Cobain sniffing deodorant when he entertained us with this rocker, Nirvana’s breakout grunge song?
9. A Righteous Brothers hit decades earlier, the movie Ghost brought this tune back to life. Do you remember the name?
10. Ground Control kept trying to reach Major Tom, but Major Tom wasn’t the name of this early David Bowie interstellar masterpiece. What was the title?

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Here are the answers. How many did you know? Send results to chidoc@post.com

1. Baba O’Riley
2. Shapes of Things
3. The Rain, The Park, and Other Things
4. Paranoid
5. Immigrant Song
6. Viva La Vida
7. For What It’s Worth
8. Smells Like Teen Spirit
9. Unchained Melody
10. Space Oddity