Music Meme
I saw this at Sciencewoman's blog. I don't have lots of commenters, but what the hell, I'll give it a go, especially since I'll be on an airplane (or in an airport) for most of the day...
Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play*, no matter how embarrassing the song. **
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike through when someone gets them right. I'll put it in italics if the title has been gotten, but not the artist.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING.
* I had to skip some that were instrumentals...
** May 1 - I'm adding the second line to the ones not yet guessed. I'll post the answers Sunday...
Some of these will be easy enough to get the title (what's with people who name their songs after the first words???), others might not be. #18 I wasn't sure what to count as the first line so I gave you both options.
1 When all our tears have reached the sea / Part of you will live in me
2 Down in Carlyle there lived a lady / Being most beautiful and gay
3 Stay just a little bit longer (Stay - Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons)
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7 I remember holding on to you / All them long, lonely night I put you through
8 Straight on to the beaten path / Face down into its aftermath
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10 Though you don't believe your eyes / As your mind's taken by surprise
11 Brainwashed in our childhood / Brainwashed by our schools
12 As I rode out one May morning down by a shady lane /I met with Captain Woodstock, the keeper of the game
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14 At my door the leaves are falling / the cold wild wind will come
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16 You've got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues (It Don't Come Easy)
17 High wind in these northern skies will carry you away /You know you have to leave here, you wish that you could stay
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19 The rope that's wrapped around me is cutting through my skin / The doubts that have surrounded me are finding their way in
20 Spring was never waiting for us, girl / it ran one step ahead while we followed in the dance
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22 As your body floats down Third Street / with the burn-smell factory closing up
23 I've been traveling on a boat, in a plane / In a car, on a bike, with a bus and train
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21 Comments:
Here's a quick pass.
3 Stay -- many artists, so let's say Jackson Browne
4 Country Road -- James Taylor
6 Monday, Monday -- The Mamas and the Papas
9 Reason to Believe -- Tim Hardin (but yours is probably Rod Stewart)
13 While My Guitar Gently Weeps -- The Beatles
15 Moonglow -- don't know artist
16 It Don't Come Easy -- Ringo Starr
Got all the songs right. But the artists on 3 and 16 are wrong. 13 you got, but it could have been the Eric Clapton cover from Concert for George since they're both on my player.
Either you and I have markedly different musical tastes, or I'm really, really bad at this game. I recognised "Monday Monday", if that counts?
Fun, though. I'll try to get my own version up later today...
Most likely the former.
Try singing No. 21 to the tune of "That's Amore."
Meanwhile, I'm still having trouble coming to grips with Rod Stewart singing "Moonglow."
#5 can't be a shortened intro to "in my life" minus 'there are places' ... can it? A remake perhaps?
and how about james taylor 'you can close your eyes' for #24. But I'm used to hearing it with 'well'. 'Well' is such a JT word.
Is #21 Why Does the Sun Shine - TMBG?
Wishydig - nope on #5. #24 is right - the cover is from One Man Band and I'm pretty sure he sings "Oh" not "Well"...
Ordinary Girl - Yes! TMBG! And considering how much of them is on the player it's odd how little showed up...
Is No. 16 ELO? I hear that ringing in my head with Jeff Lynne singing it, but well just be that the delusions are back again.
I know what you mean about having so many tracks from a given artist, yet *none* came up when you try this trick. I have practically everything recorded by Billy Bragg in my library, and a horde of tracks by the Kingston Trio (to pick two at random) and neither came up on my list - now up for your amusement, with that less-than-helpful hint...
"...it could well just be that..."
Apparently, the delusions are accompanied by a decreased typing ability.
Jeff Lynne has done it, but that's not the cover I have.
I think 21 is They Might Be Giants: Why Does the Sun Shine?
#18 The Man Comes Around? Johnny Cash? With some missing lines?
Wishydig, yes. I wasn't sure what to treat as the "first line" - the Biblical quote he opens with, or the first sung line.
25 - Over at the Frankenstein Place
goofy - Yes!
Aiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
5. "Mandy", Barry Manilow
I don't know which is more frightening: that it's on your MP3 player, or that I know it.
It had better not turn into an earwig now!
Yes, well, there's my "embarrassing" one, I guess.
I'm afraid to do this meme because of what it would reveal.
Should I add that that is not the only Manilow on my mp3 player? Though it is the only one that turned up on this list. No Proclaimers made it, no Orbison, no Hvorostovsky, no Neil Young, no Bana... but Manilow did. And Mandy, of all songs.
Yes, I think I could Copa better with the cabana, or even "Bandstand".
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