Copied from sirreality -- a good way to kill some time on a Thursday evening.
Rules 1. Put your playlist on shuffle. 2. Post the first lines to the first 25 songs to come up (along with these instructions). 3. Have people guess the songs and artists in comments to the post. 4. Post the answers to the ones people guessed correctly. A couple of days later, post the first two lines of the ones no one got and get people to guess again. 5. Repeat, adding the next line to the unguessed songs each time, until they're all guessed/you've posted the whole song/you've gotten bored/no-one's going to get the damn thing if you don't tell them.
For sanity's sake, I'm deleting anything with the title in the first line, as well as anything in a language I can't easily type at this keyboard. So there's a bit of artist clustering.
1. 737 comin' out of the sky 2. Ich bin so allein 3. There was a place, and the name of the place escapes me. 4. Your cruel device 5. I come, old friend, from hell tonight, across the rotting sea 6. I am Francisco Vasquez Garcia 7. You don't know how you got here 8. Have you ever been close to tragedy, or been close to folks who have? 9. I call a girlee girlee.... way-ee-o... 10. Well, I'm the king of the swingers, boy, a jungle VIP 11. Just got home from Illinois 12. Let's take a Greyhound bus to California 13. Alligators snap at your ankles 14. Lift MacCahir Og your face 15. Left a good job in the city 16. Have you seen the ghosts of trees where the riverbank was, there 17. I'll tell you something; I am a wolf, but... 18. In the afterlife 19. When I was a lad, I was a little bit shy 20. Alright, it's time to blow this scene. 21. Last night, Jesus called me on the phone 22. One more time and you'll be dead 23. We'll be singing when we're winning 24. What would you do if I sang out of tune? 25. There's a problem, feathers iron
13. Scorchie Chornie / The Red Elvises 18. Hell / Squirrel Nut Zippers 20. Tank! - Yoko Kanno / The Seatbelts 21. Oogie boogie on the beach / The Red Elvises 24. With A Little Help From My Friends / The Beatles
You know, if Google had a "Lyrics search", then this would be a snap.
1. Travellin' Band - CCR 5. Turkish Song of the Damned - The Pogues 6. Fiesta - The Pogues 10. I Wanna Be Like You - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (or Louis Prima, on the Jungle Book) 13. Blue Heaven - The Pogues 14. Follow Me Up To Carlow - Every Irish Band, ever (probably the Pogues in this case) 11. Lookin' Out My Backyard - CCR 15. Proud Mary - Leonard Nimoy (okay, I'm betting CCR)
The clustering helped... and knowing some of your musical taste too.
It's on Golden Throats, the same compilation album that has Shatner singing "Lucy In The Sky (With Diamonds)" and Jim Nabors doing *shudder* "You Are The Sunshine of My Life".
2. 'nur getraumt', by nena. and if i am correct, i am fully justified in blaming you for getting '99 luftballons' stuck in my head. 3. 'someday i suppose', by the mighty mighty bosstones 19. 'got my own thing now', by the squirrel nut zippers 25. 'fall on me' by REM
and 23 is so, so familiar. there's something about 40 days, or 40 nights...argh! i don't know!
go me! and you totally win for listening to her! it's the first thing that came to mind, though that's actually also the first line of a couple of indutrial songs out there...somehow, they seemed less likely.
You do know me (last name Stockton). I've tried emailing you several times over the past few years but haven't had any luck. I've commented in your journal several times in the past.
sirreality -- a good way to kill some time on a Thursday evening.
July 1 2005, 02:03:09 UTC 10 years ago
18. Hell / Squirrel Nut Zippers
20. Tank! - Yoko Kanno / The Seatbelts
21. Oogie boogie on the beach / The Red Elvises
24. With A Little Help From My Friends / The Beatles
You know, if Google had a "Lyrics search", then this would be a snap.
July 1 2005, 02:07:41 UTC 10 years ago
(I assume you meant 12 instead of 13...)
July 1 2005, 10:53:22 UTC 10 years ago
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Others sound familiar, but I can't remember what from.
July 1 2005, 02:20:28 UTC 10 years ago
July 1 2005, 03:17:15 UTC 10 years ago
5. Turkish Song of the Damned - The Pogues
6. Fiesta - The Pogues
10. I Wanna Be Like You - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (or Louis Prima, on the Jungle Book)
13. Blue Heaven - The Pogues
14. Follow Me Up To Carlow - Every Irish Band, ever (probably the Pogues in this case)
11. Lookin' Out My Backyard - CCR
15. Proud Mary - Leonard Nimoy (okay, I'm betting CCR)
The clustering helped... and knowing some of your musical taste too.
July 1 2005, 03:18:36 UTC 10 years ago
July 1 2005, 03:20:15 UTC 10 years ago
July 1 2005, 03:31:33 UTC 10 years ago
Fear.
That.
And wonder if iTunes has it...
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7 - Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me/U2
July 1 2005, 04:11:31 UTC 10 years ago
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July 1 2005, 06:54:57 UTC 10 years ago
3. 'someday i suppose', by the mighty mighty bosstones
19. 'got my own thing now', by the squirrel nut zippers
25. 'fall on me' by REM
and 23 is so, so familiar. there's something about 40 days, or 40 nights...argh! i don't know!
July 1 2005, 06:59:00 UTC 10 years ago
July 1 2005, 07:20:24 UTC 10 years ago
it's the first thing that came to mind, though that's actually also the first line of a couple of indutrial songs out there...somehow, they seemed less likely.
July 1 2005, 06:59:21 UTC 10 years ago
July 1 2005, 07:18:25 UTC 10 years ago
#22
Anonymous
July 5 2005, 21:00:07 UTC 10 years ago
#16 - Black Eye, Yellow Eye by Leigh Ann Hussey
Dave
Re: #22
July 5 2005, 22:34:02 UTC 10 years ago
Speaking of which, do I know you? ("Dave" is not a unique name among my friends)
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Anonymous
July 9 2005, 06:37:32 UTC 10 years ago
Dave
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