| Meaning | Title |
% Correct |
| Don McLean has resisted all explanations for the cryptic title of his signature song -- I guess future generations will think it's the theme of a 1999 teen sex comedy | American Pie | | 93.2% | | Music scholar Sheila Whiteley thinks this Queen title comes from the individualism of the artists' world and the romantic ideals of art rock. Magnifico! | Bohemian Rhapsody | | 82.2% | | This song by the Chili Peppers gets its title from a place where Anthony Kiedis used to do drugs (he doesn't want to ever feel like he did that day) | Under the Bridge | | 67.6% | | 'I get knocked down' would seemingly have been the more logical title, but instead Chumbawamba went for an obscure word meaning a bandwagonning politician | Tubthumping | | 66.6% | | From a combination of the the song's two main philosophical influences, Meher Baba and Terry Riley, though still known to many as 'Teenage Wasteland' | Baba O'Riley | | 58.8% | | Is this Don Henley song about uncleaned clothes? Nope: it's a scathing indictment of the news media | Dirty Laundry | | 58.8% | | This Deep Purple jam, famous for its signature riff, has nothing to do with drugs: the title/song are about a fire in Montreux, Switzerland | Smoke on the Water | | 58.5% | | This Rolling Stones jam would not help you make cookies: it's about sex, interracial relationships, slavery, heroin, and a whole lot beyond sweeteners | Brown Sugar | | 57.9% | | It's not a call for safe sex or nuclear disarmament: this one-hit wonder by Men without Hats gets its title from the dangers of New Wave dancing | The Safety Dance | | 55.5% | | This intentionally nonsensical Beatles song gets its titular animal from a Lewis Carroll poem | I Am the Walrus | | 55.4% |
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| Meaning | Title |
% Correct |
| Rather than name the song for a desire to stand on a mountain, bathe in the sea, lay like this forever, etc, Savage Garden instead went for lots of adverbs | Truly, Madly, Deeply | | 38.4% | | I read the lyrics of this hugely influential and enduring Beatles song, oh boy, but the Fab Four never mention the title | A Day in the Life | | 37.6% | | Arguably Pearl Jam's most famous track, this song sounds like it's about water but it gets its title from a homeless man struggling to keep a coherent train of thought | Even Flow | | 30.3% | | Led Zeppelin took the title of this reggae-influenced song from a corruption of 'Did you make her?' or 'Jamaica,' a reference to the punchline of an old joke | D'yer Mak'er | | 29.4% | | This song, arguably Enya's most popular, is commonly known as 'Sail Away' but is actually titled for a river in Venezuela | Orinoco Flow | | 29.2% | | Perhaps known better as 'The Hey Song,' Gary Glitter's anthem actually goes by this seemingly serialized title | Rock and Roll Part 2 | | 29.2% | | This popular R. Kelly song is known as a remix despite the fact that it has almost nothing in common with its supposed predecessor | Ignition (Remix) | | 28.8% | | No, Radiohead's not bad at math: they took the title for this album opener from a famous equation in Orwell's 1984 | 2 + 2 = 5 | | 25.5% | | There are no amphibians in this Doors song. Jim Morrison gave no explanation for its title other than the song came from his poetry | Peace Frog | | 10.3% | | Emerson Lake and Palmer's song (or extended recording, perhaps) about a futuristic carnival also takes its name from a corrupted spelling | Karn Evil 9 | | 6.9% |
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