Once More, The First Line Meme!
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solidfoamsoul:
Step 1. Put your iTunes on random.
Step 2. Post the first line or two from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3. Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly. NO GOOGLING.
A couple of modications to fit my music collection and make this more fun:
A) I'm skipping any tunes with no lyrics.
B) I'm also skipping songs that have a play count of 0, since it's unlikely that I know the lyrics yet.
C) If a song starts with the chorus, I'm posting the first line of the actual first verse.
D) I have a *lot* of covers. If the same song comes up more than once, I'm skipping it, and I'll take *any* artist who legit did the song as a correct answer no matter which cover was actually played.
E) I'm screening replies, so multiple people can guess the same song and it's not a speed trial; we'll score by total points. I'll post results after about 24 hours.
In case anyone wanted to know the seed, I'm starting with Holst's "Mars" and hitting shuffle.
1. A soldier came knocking upon the queen's door / He said "I am not fighting for you any more"
2. Sometimes you're better off dead / There's a gun in your hand; it's pointing at your head
3. When the night falls down / I wait for you, and you come around
4. People wore dumb hats and they fell in love / Cities were good things, someone was president
5. Seven o'clock in the evening watching something stupid on TV
6. Nobody ever loved me like she does / Oooh, she does / Yes, she does
7. Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
8. Excuse me, Mr. Hoots, I hate to bug a busy bird / But I want to learn the sax, and I need a helpful word
9. Until tomorrow / Until tomorrow / The only voice was far away
10. There's something happening here / What it is ain't exactly clear
11. [Title] if we were older? / Then we wouldn't have to wait so long
12. [Title], we got fun and games / We got everything you want, honey, we know the names
13. (Here we go, [title]) So those are my dreams and these are my eyes / Stand tall like a man, headstrong like a horse
14. Don't chop off his head to make yourself look tall / Don't tear a strip off to make yourself feel wonderful
15. We both lie silently still in the dead of the night / Although we lie close together we feel miles apart inside
16. So you were born in an electrical storm / Took a bite out of the sun
17. She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean / She was the best damn woman that I'd ever seen
18. One man used his mighty voice to call / All for one, and baby, one for all
19. The last that ever she saw him (Carried away by a [title]) / He passed on worried and warning (Carried away by a [title])
20. Lying in my bed, I hear the clock tick and think of you
Whoa, some of these are hard. 8-( Y SO OBSCURE, iTunes?
Edit: Closed at 4:30 am - answers in another post, scores below!
solidfoamsoul:Step 1. Put your iTunes on random.
Step 2. Post the first line or two from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3. Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly. NO GOOGLING.
A couple of modications to fit my music collection and make this more fun:
A) I'm skipping any tunes with no lyrics.
B) I'm also skipping songs that have a play count of 0, since it's unlikely that I know the lyrics yet.
C) If a song starts with the chorus, I'm posting the first line of the actual first verse.
D) I have a *lot* of covers. If the same song comes up more than once, I'm skipping it, and I'll take *any* artist who legit did the song as a correct answer no matter which cover was actually played.
E) I'm screening replies, so multiple people can guess the same song and it's not a speed trial; we'll score by total points. I'll post results after about 24 hours.
In case anyone wanted to know the seed, I'm starting with Holst's "Mars" and hitting shuffle.
1. A soldier came knocking upon the queen's door / He said "I am not fighting for you any more"
2. Sometimes you're better off dead / There's a gun in your hand; it's pointing at your head
3. When the night falls down / I wait for you, and you come around
4. People wore dumb hats and they fell in love / Cities were good things, someone was president
5. Seven o'clock in the evening watching something stupid on TV
6. Nobody ever loved me like she does / Oooh, she does / Yes, she does
7. Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
8. Excuse me, Mr. Hoots, I hate to bug a busy bird / But I want to learn the sax, and I need a helpful word
9. Until tomorrow / Until tomorrow / The only voice was far away
10. There's something happening here / What it is ain't exactly clear
11. [Title] if we were older? / Then we wouldn't have to wait so long
12. [Title], we got fun and games / We got everything you want, honey, we know the names
13. (Here we go, [title]) So those are my dreams and these are my eyes / Stand tall like a man, headstrong like a horse
14. Don't chop off his head to make yourself look tall / Don't tear a strip off to make yourself feel wonderful
15. We both lie silently still in the dead of the night / Although we lie close together we feel miles apart inside
16. So you were born in an electrical storm / Took a bite out of the sun
17. She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean / She was the best damn woman that I'd ever seen
18. One man used his mighty voice to call / All for one, and baby, one for all
19. The last that ever she saw him (Carried away by a [title]) / He passed on worried and warning (Carried away by a [title])
20. Lying in my bed, I hear the clock tick and think of you
Whoa, some of these are hard. 8-( Y SO OBSCURE, iTunes?
Edit: Closed at 4:30 am - answers in another post, scores below!
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Date: 2011-07-19 03:28 pm (UTC)6. "Don't Let Me Down" - The Beatles
7. "Seasons of Love" - Rent company
11. "Wouldn't it Be Nice?" - The Beach Boys (one of my favorite BB songs:)
12. "Welcome to the Jungle" - Guns n Roses
17. "Shook Me All Night Long" - AC/DC
20. "Time After Time" - Cyndi Lauper
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Date: 2011-07-20 09:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-19 06:58 pm (UTC)#11 is "Wouldn't It Be Nice" by the Beach Boys.
#17 is "You Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC.
A couple of the others are pinging a vague familiarity, but I can't pin them down.
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Date: 2011-07-20 09:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-19 07:18 pm (UTC)#10 is "For What It's Worth", Buffalo Springfield
#11 is "Wouldn't It Be Nice" by the Beach Boys
#17 is "You Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC
#20 is "Time After Time", Cyndi Lauper
And here's what ***I'm*** listening to:
"Now they're making movies in old black and white/Happy endings where nobody fights"
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Date: 2011-07-20 09:38 am (UTC)Not familiar with enough Buffett to get that without Googling.
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Date: 2011-07-19 07:28 pm (UTC)20. Cyndi Lauper, "Time after Time"
And that's all I've got. :P
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Date: 2011-07-20 09:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-20 02:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-20 09:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-20 04:51 am (UTC)4. …"1963", by Too Much Joy?
9. I'm separating this one out because I had to cheat on it and it's REALLY GODDAMNED EMBARRASSING BEYOND BELIEF. It sounded so familiar, but I couldn't tell what it was, so I finally Googled it (which totally invalidates this one, I know) and HOLY CRAP I NEED MY FAN CLUB MEMBERSHIP REVOKED IMMEDIATELY ON ACCOUNT OF I SUCK.
"Section 11 (A Long Day Continues / We Sound Amazed)", by The Polyphonic Spree, which is one of my favorite tracks of theirs and it's awesome and wonderful and I botched it.
SON, I AM DISAPPOINT.
(And by "SON", I mean "ME".)
10. "For What It's Worth", by CSN&Y
11. "Wouldn't It Be Nice", by the Beach Boys
12. "Welcome to the Jungle", by Guns and Roses
17. "You Shook Me All Night Long", by AC/DC
20. "Time After Time", by Cyndi Lauper
I KNOW 4 is off, but it's sticking in my head so I'm gonna go with it. And I'm still really, REALLY embarrassed by 9. Geeze.
(I cheated on a couple of others as well, but I was mostly more immediately curious instead of having that nasty surprise on the others.)
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Date: 2011-07-20 09:41 am (UTC)6 points!
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Date: 2011-07-20 05:15 am (UTC)5. Trapper In The Drive-Thru, Weird Al
12. Welcome To the Jungle, Guns n Roses
15. Every Rose Has Its Thorn, Poison
17. You Shook Me All Night Long, ACDC
20. Time After Time, Cyndi Lauper
This quiz made me wonder how many brain cells I have devoted to remembering MTV videos from the 80s.
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Date: 2011-07-20 09:44 am (UTC)And for anyone in our generation, the answer is "too many".