1. Riding the subways, running with people / Up in Harlem, down on Broadway

• Stealers Wheel
• Boz Scaggs
• Odyssey
• De La Soul

2. The car we bought together just started to rust

• Huey Lewis & The News
• The Tubes
• The Smithereens
• The Del Fuegos

3. You never give me my money / You only give me your sympathy

• The Beatles
• Bad Company
• The Rolling Stones
• Little Feat

4. Here's to the strangers on the streets tonight

• Jack Johnson
• The Call
• The Moody Blues
• The BoDeans

5. If there's no good reception for me/then tune me out

• Loggins & Messina
• Charlie Dore
• Joni Mitchell
• Rickie Lee Jones

6. I can't unravel riddles, problems and puns

• XTC
• INXS
• Hootie & the Blowfish
• Steely Dan

7. Let your head be free/Turn the wisdom key

• Santana
• Jefferson Airplane
• Blood, Sweat & Tears
• Cat Stevens

8. I know the meaning of contentment

• John Waite
• The Moonglows
• Chicago
• The Orioles

9. You don't believe in war/What's that gun you're totin'

• Donovan
• Buffalo Springfield
• Barry McGuire
• Edwin Starr

10. Just like a paperback novel/The kind that drugstores sell

• The Beatles
• Gordon Lightfoot
• Norman Greenbaum
• The Rolling Stones

11. There is a new place/where dreams just can't come true

• Rick Astley
• Debbie Gibson
• The Motels
• Heart

12. Together we climbed hills and trees, learned of love and ABCs

• Terry Stafford
• Bobby Sherman
• Terry Jacks
• The Jackson Five

13. A born-again poor man's son

• Frankie Goes To Hollywood
• Queen
• The Escape Club
• Tears For Fears

14. Burning the bridges, cleaning up your hands

• Mary Chapin Carpenter
• Shawn Colvin
• Alanis Morissette
• Simply Red

15. Voices, another sound/Can you hear me now

• David Bowie
• Mike + the Mechanics
• A-Ha
• Duran Duran

16. Blades of steel have helped a man to conquer all

• Jethro Tull
• The Doobie Brothers
• Procol Harum
• War

17. If I could melt your heart, we’d never be apart

• The Smiths
• Modern English
• Madonna
• Meredith Brooks

18. I'm not tryin' to be your highness

• Bobby Hebb
• Billy Preston
• B.J. Thomas
• The Spencer Davis Group

19. Say you love me and I will be sure

• The Rascals
• Freddie & The Dreamers
• Fleetwood Mac
• Dionne Farris

20. He must be happy in his work

• XTC
• Talking Heads
• Men At Work
• R.E.M.