The Chinese Horoscope in Songs Quiz

Answer: Survivor

'Eye of the Tiger' is from the album of the same name by the rock band Survivor. It was released as a single in 1982, which was not a year of the Tiger, but of the Dog. Sylvester Stallone who played the main part in the movie 'Rocky III' requested the song because he was unable to get 'Another One Bites the Dust' from the British rock band Queen. 'Eye of the Tiger' is listed as number 21 on Billboard's All Time Top 100.

Answer: Al Stewart

In 1976, Al Stewart came out a year late with 'Year of the Cat' which was 1975. Nevertheless, his song was a huge success. The song itself was the fourth track on side 2 of the seventh album by Al Stewart. Alan Parsons played the sax solo on the theme track and produced the album.

Answer: Peter, Paul and Mary

A year ahead of the Year of the Dragon (1964), recorded and released in 1963, 'Puff, the Magic Dragon' was written by Leonard Lipton and Peter Yarrow, and was made famous by Peter, Paul and Mary in a 1963 single from their album 'Moving'. The song has later been released by a great number of recording artists.

Answer: Alan Parsons Project

'Snake Eyes' was on the album 'The Turn Of A Friendly Card' by Alan Parsons Project, which came out in 1980, the year of the Monkey. Chris Rainbow sang the lead vocals. It's the prayer of a gambler to the dice:

"Snake eyes
Seven eleven
Don't let me down boys
Gimme
Snake eyes
Seven eleven
Don't let me down tonight
No don't let me down tonight"

Answer: The Rolling Stones

'Wild Horses' by The Rolling Stones was from their 1971 album 'Sticky Fingers' and released as a single, with the B side being 'Sway'. It was way off for the Year of the Horse, because 1971 was the Year of the Pig. The song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. With The Stones' permission, The Burrito Brothers' version was the first to be released.

It appeared on their Burrito Deluxe album in April 1970, one year before the Stones' 'Sticky Fingers'. It has since been covered by many artists, particularly by Susan Boyle on her very first recording.

Answer: Pink Floyd

'Sheep' is a song by Pink Floyd, from the album 'Animals', It was recorded in April-May, July 1976, and released in 1977. It was originally titled 'Raving and Drooling'. Again the song was off-mark for the Horoscope because it came out in a year of the Snake.

"Harmlessly passing your time in the grassland away;
Only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air.
You'd better watch out!
There may be dogs about
I looked over Jordan, and I've seen
Things are not what they seem."

Answer: Peter Gabriel

'Shock the Monkey', released in September 1982 (year of the Dog) by Peter Gabriel, was his first Top 40 hit in the US. It was a single with the song 'Soft Dog' on side B, which was right on the the Horoscope.

"Cover me, when I sleep
Cover me, when I breathe
You throw your pearls before the swine
Make the monkey blind
Cover me, darling please
Monkey, monkey, monkey
Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey."

Answer: Alice in Chains

Right on time, Alice in Chains released 'Rooster' as a single in 1993, year of the Rooster. The song is featured on Alice in Chains' second studio album, 'Dirt', which came out in 1992. The song was written by the band's guitarist Jerry Cantrell in honor of his father who had the nickname "Rooster" during his service in the Vietnam War. The song reached No. 7 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

"Here they come to snuff the rooster, aww yeah
Yeah here come the rooster, yeah
You know he ain't gonna die.
No, no, no ya know he ain't gonna die"

Answer: Led Zeppelin

'Black Dog', by Led Zeppelin, the lead-off track of their fourth album, released in 1971 (year of the Pig), was also released as a single. 'Misty Mountain Hop' was on the B-side. The song's title refers to a black Labrador retriever that was around the Headley Grange studios during recording, and had nothing to do with the song lyrics:

"Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move,
Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove.
Ah, ah, child, way you shake that thing,
Gonna make you burn, gonna make you sting.
Hey, hey, baby, when you walk that way,
Watch your honey drip, can't keep away."

Answer: Pink Floyd

'Pigs on the Wing' is a two-part song by Pink Floyd from their 1977 Year of the Snake) album 'Animals'. The first part of the song starts side one and the ending ends part two. The song was written by Roger Waters in honor of his then wife, Carolyn.

Part One:
"If you didn't care what happened to me,
And I didn't care for you,
We would zig zag our way through the boredom and pain
Occasionally glancing up through the rain.
Wondering which of the buggers to blame
And watching for pigs on the wing."