A change of tone...
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jianantonicToo much negativity in my day so far. Time for fun. How 'bout a lyrics meme? Yayfun.
Put your favorite music player on shuffle. List the first lines/couplets of the first 50 songs, no matter how lame. (i am skipping spoken word, though)
Ask friends to identify the songs in comments. Bonus points given for identification of the correct artist on multiple-covers songs. Madcap fun ensues.
Comments are screened so everyone has a fair shot at guessing all the tracks, and NO GOOGLING!
These are admittedly very hard. I have a strange, eclectic collection of music, and some of these are really off the wall. Feel free to send your music-loving friends by this post to take a crack at this list:) It's strange how some artists kept coming up on the shuffle and some didn't come up at all, even when I have hundreds of their songs. Anyway, good luck -- I'll be surprised if anyone can identify more than 5 or 6 different artists represented here.
Answers...eventually.
Peace.
Put your favorite music player on shuffle. List the first lines/couplets of the first 50 songs, no matter how lame. (i am skipping spoken word, though)
Ask friends to identify the songs in comments. Bonus points given for identification of the correct artist on multiple-covers songs. Madcap fun ensues.
Comments are screened so everyone has a fair shot at guessing all the tracks, and NO GOOGLING!
1. It was a ruby that she wore, on a chain around her neck
2. Wouldn't it be great if no one ever got offended? Wouldn't it be great to say what's really on your mind?
3. My whole life savings -- a two dollar bill / As for why I'm here tonight -- I got time to kill
4. There'll be no strings to bind your hands / Not if my love can't bind your heart
5. Her eyes, they shone like the diamonds / You'd think she was queen of the land
6. Pretty soon we were takin' it serious / Me and you underneath a mysterious spell
7. Oh says Red Molly to James, "That's a fine motorbike"
8. You don't know what love is, you think that it's a toy
9. When I tell you that I love you, don't test my love, accept my love, don't test my love, 'cause maybe I don't love ya all that much (more than a couplet, but I love that whole line. One of my favorite song openings ever.)
10. Oh it's been getting so hard, living with the things you do to me
11. Just gimme the gees an we be yow. / Gal a make we please and we be thuggin' yow. (I had to look these up...)
12. As I went walking that ribbon of highway
13. All the girls in the music biz have credit cards they subscribe to Ms., and they only wanna fuck...
14. What then on God's paved earth could you be thinking of? / I'm so benign, and kind, an ambassador of love
15. I know you / I know you've seen her / She's a sad tomato
16. I'm the one / The one with the coded knock
17. Lookin' around the house / hidden behind the window in the door
18. How do I love you? Let me see / I love you like a lyric loves a melody
19. Caroline puts Dylan on / She always sings along
20. I am walking out in the rain and I am listening to the long moan of the dial tone again
21. The summer ends and we wonder where we are
22. Riding on the City of New Orleans (-10 points to anyone who DOESN'T get this one)
23. Feelin' fine in my own world / pullin' words out of my curls
24. It's a simple day outside / The sun is the only thing shining
25. Whatever it was, it wasn't manumission
26. Waiting, watching the clock / it's four o'clock
27. We try to take it slow, but we're still losing control
28. There were 87 Advil in the bottle now there's 30 left
29. Well she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina
30. In the mist of my endless search/ The best in life becomes clear
31. Anna wore a magic gown / its cloth was neither wove nor spun
32. I'm tryin' to tell you something 'bout my life / maybe give me insight between black and white
33. We sat around the table and we drank a bottle of wine
34. Theres a problem, feathers iron / Bargain buildings, weights and pullies
35. Well I guess it would be nice if I could touch your body
36. I've taken so many down / I've helped them all to dismount
37. Well... Are you Johnny Ray?
38. Did you know why our skyline's low? No one should stand taller than her
39. Change could happen any day
40. You've found hope, you've found faith / Found how fast she could take it away
41. This is where the party ends / I can't stand here listening to you
42. After seven days, he was quite tired, so God said "Let there be a day just for picnics with wine and bread"
43. Bangs - Above your eyes your hair hangs
44. If I were you, I'd be taking it easy / Kick back and relax for a little while
45. You think you'll find some mountains in Western Colorado
46. For your sparkling cocky smile, I've walked a million miles, begging you to come wed me in the spring
47. Step out the front door like a ghost into a fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white
48. Hello everyone, this is your action news reporter with all the news it is news across the nation on the scene at the supermarket / There seems to have been some disturbance here
49. We get to be a ripple in the water / We get to be a rock that's thrown
50. If I were a carpenter, and you were a lady / Would you marry me anyway?
2. Wouldn't it be great if no one ever got offended? Wouldn't it be great to say what's really on your mind?
3. My whole life savings -- a two dollar bill / As for why I'm here tonight -- I got time to kill
4. There'll be no strings to bind your hands / Not if my love can't bind your heart
5. Her eyes, they shone like the diamonds / You'd think she was queen of the land
6. Pretty soon we were takin' it serious / Me and you underneath a mysterious spell
7. Oh says Red Molly to James, "That's a fine motorbike"
8. You don't know what love is, you think that it's a toy
9. When I tell you that I love you, don't test my love, accept my love, don't test my love, 'cause maybe I don't love ya all that much (more than a couplet, but I love that whole line. One of my favorite song openings ever.)
10. Oh it's been getting so hard, living with the things you do to me
11. Just gimme the gees an we be yow. / Gal a make we please and we be thuggin' yow. (I had to look these up...)
12. As I went walking that ribbon of highway
13. All the girls in the music biz have credit cards they subscribe to Ms., and they only wanna fuck...
14. What then on God's paved earth could you be thinking of? / I'm so benign, and kind, an ambassador of love
15. I know you / I know you've seen her / She's a sad tomato
16. I'm the one / The one with the coded knock
17. Lookin' around the house / hidden behind the window in the door
18. How do I love you? Let me see / I love you like a lyric loves a melody
19. Caroline puts Dylan on / She always sings along
20. I am walking out in the rain and I am listening to the long moan of the dial tone again
21. The summer ends and we wonder where we are
22. Riding on the City of New Orleans (-10 points to anyone who DOESN'T get this one)
23. Feelin' fine in my own world / pullin' words out of my curls
24. It's a simple day outside / The sun is the only thing shining
25. Whatever it was, it wasn't manumission
26. Waiting, watching the clock / it's four o'clock
27. We try to take it slow, but we're still losing control
28. There were 87 Advil in the bottle now there's 30 left
29. Well she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina
30. In the mist of my endless search/ The best in life becomes clear
31. Anna wore a magic gown / its cloth was neither wove nor spun
32. I'm tryin' to tell you something 'bout my life / maybe give me insight between black and white
33. We sat around the table and we drank a bottle of wine
34. Theres a problem, feathers iron / Bargain buildings, weights and pullies
35. Well I guess it would be nice if I could touch your body
36. I've taken so many down / I've helped them all to dismount
37. Well... Are you Johnny Ray?
38. Did you know why our skyline's low? No one should stand taller than her
39. Change could happen any day
40. You've found hope, you've found faith / Found how fast she could take it away
41. This is where the party ends / I can't stand here listening to you
42. After seven days, he was quite tired, so God said "Let there be a day just for picnics with wine and bread"
43. Bangs - Above your eyes your hair hangs
44. If I were you, I'd be taking it easy / Kick back and relax for a little while
45. You think you'll find some mountains in Western Colorado
46. For your sparkling cocky smile, I've walked a million miles, begging you to come wed me in the spring
47. Step out the front door like a ghost into a fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white
48. Hello everyone, this is your action news reporter with all the news it is news across the nation on the scene at the supermarket / There seems to have been some disturbance here
49. We get to be a ripple in the water / We get to be a rock that's thrown
50. If I were a carpenter, and you were a lady / Would you marry me anyway?
These are admittedly very hard. I have a strange, eclectic collection of music, and some of these are really off the wall. Feel free to send your music-loving friends by this post to take a crack at this list:) It's strange how some artists kept coming up on the shuffle and some didn't come up at all, even when I have hundreds of their songs. Anyway, good luck -- I'll be surprised if anyone can identify more than 5 or 6 different artists represented here.
Answers...eventually.
Peace.
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Date: 2008-06-13 11:43 pm (UTC)7. "'52 Vincent Black Lightning" -- Richard Thompson
12. "This Land is Your Land" -- lots of people, maybe Arlo Guthrie?
35. "Faith" -- George Michael
37. "Are You Jimmy Ray?" -- Jimmy Ray
40. "Even Angels Fall" -- Jessica Riddle
41. "Your Racist Friend" -- They Might Be Giants
I could sing 5 and 50 for you, but I don't actually know the titles.
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Date: 2008-06-14 01:27 am (UTC)2) GBS - Confidence Free
7) Richard Thompson - Vincent Black Lightning
9) Dan Bern - Jerusalem (I love this song opening, too)
12) Woody Guthrie - This Land Is Your Land
15) R.E.M. - Crush with Eyeliner !!! wearing an R.E.M. shirt right now...
17) Better than Ezra - Good
20) Ani DiFranco - Both Hands (which we sang in my a cappella group last year :)
21) Dar Williams - End of the Summer
22) Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans
26) Pearl Jam - Better Man
28) TMBG - Til My Head Falls Off (man, I really want to listen to this playlist now...)
29) OMG Rockapella - Carmen Sandiego Theme :D
33) The Nields - Easy People
34) R.E.M. - Fall on Me (or maybe the Cry Cry Cry version thereof?)
35) George Michael - Faith
41) TMBG - Your Racist Friend
43) TMBG - Bangs (your shuffle really loves Them)
45) EFO - Old Dominion
50) Bobby Darin (or maybe June/Johnny Cash?) - If I Were a Carpenter
...wow, that's a better run than I usually get. Probably because the easy ones get plucked off before I get to these posts. :) yay!
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Date: 2008-06-14 03:46 am (UTC)7. "Vincent Black Lightning 1952" -- Richard Thompson
12. "This Land Was Made for You and Me" -- Woody Guthrie
22. "City of New Orleans" -- Arlo Guthrie
48. "The Streak" Ray Stevens
50. "If I were a Carpenter" -- probably not Four Tops or even Bobby Darrin, maybe its author Tim Hardin?
you're right -- I only got six, and probably not six artists.
-- Kevin
Since family of contest staff is ineligible, I'll just post which ones I know
Date: 2008-06-14 05:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-14 05:52 am (UTC)24. girlyman - say goodbye
45. efo - old dominion
4. angel of the morning. girlyman? chip taylor?
33. nields - easy people
32. indigo girls - closer to fine
22. arlo guthrie - city of new orleans
21. dar - end of the summer
20. ani - both hands
12. woody guthrie - this land is your land
7. 1952 vincent black lightning. richard thompson? the mammals?