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

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

2. The car we bought together just started to rust

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. I know the meaning of contentment

• The Moonglows
• John Waite
• The Orioles
• Chicago

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

• Buffalo Springfield
• Donovan
• Edwin Starr
• Barry McGuire

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

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

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

• Debbie Gibson
• The Motels
• Heart
• Rick Astley

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

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

13. A born-again poor man's son

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

14. Burning the bridges, cleaning up your hands

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Meredith Brooks
• Modern English
• Madonna
• The Smiths

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

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

19. Say you love me and I will be sure

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

20. He must be happy in his work

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