Yet Another Mutation of the Music Memage

[omorka]

1. Find the 20 most-played songs in your music collection (iTunes, Winamp, etc.)
2. Post the first line of each song. Skip any that don't have lyrics.
3. Screen the responses. See who can guess the songs. (No Googling!)
4. After 48 hours, post the song and artist.
5. Everyone who gets it right gets a point.

This has changed enough since the last time I saw it to perhaps be worth doing again.



1) Don't the hours grow shorter as the days go by?

2a) Two dozen other dirty lovers - must be a sucker for it

2b) Look what you're doing to me - I'm totally at your whim

4) It felt like springtime on this February morning

5) The message is perfectly simple; the meaning is clear

6) Checked your bags with the hotel clerk

7) Hit the message, I can hear you calling

8) I believe the sun should never set upon an argument

9a) Buildings and bridges are made to bend in the wind

9b) Everybody wants to live like they wanna live

9c) I am listening, I'm listening for you

12a) Love's like a road that you're travelling on

12b) Wing tein a lotika enviu ri silota

14) If it weren't for your maturity, none of this would have happened

15a) You've got your ball, you've got your chain

15b) Hear the sound of music drifting in the aisles

17a) Don't the hours grow shorter as the days go by? (Okay, I'll try this again. Consider getting the respective artists correct for this and #1 a bonus point.)

17b) This old life seemed much too long

17c) Yeah . . . A used pink bathrobe, a rare mint snowglobe

19a) On a sheet lies the poem; poet hides his message within the words

19b) Out of touch, out of reach, yeah

19c) Zephyr in the sky, at night I wonder


Okay, yeah, I know that's 21, but I couldn't break the three-way tie for #19. There are a couple of covers on here, and I'll take the original artist as a correct answer for scoring purposes.

So far:

moontyger: 3
follybard: 3
briareos: 3
greeneyedpagan: 1
bassfingers: 5
cifarelli: 3
quantumduck: 2.5 (no artist given on one title)

Comments

[moontyger.livejournal.com]

#9 is "Come Down" - Velvet Hammer/Dreamtrybe
the third #17 is "Ebay" by Weird Al Yankovic
the second #19 is "Hysteria" by Def Leppard

[follybard.livejournal.com]

5 - "Be Near Me", ABC (and it took me way too long to come up with the title. I think all ABC songs must have the same chord progression, because they all collide with each other when I try to play them back in my head....)

15-1 - "Crash", Dave Matthews Band

19-3 - "Ray of Light", Madonna

(...unless some of those are covers....)

[briareos.livejournal.com]

7 - Voices of Babylon by The Outfield (one summer I taped this off the radio and played it over and over - loved this song.)

15b - The Sound of Muzak by Porcupine Tree

17c - Ebay by Wierd Al Yankovic

[greeneyedpagan.livejournal.com]

#9 - Come Down, DreamTrybe. I stopped there, so now I'm off to read the rest. The drums are playing in my head!

[bassfingers.livejournal.com]

1 & dupe "Lovers in a Dangerous Time" Bruce Cockburn & BNL respectively.
9B "Closer to Free" Bodeans
15A "Crash" DMB
15B "Sound of Muzak" Porcupine Tree

[cifarelli]

4) As I Lay me Down - Sophie B. Hawkins
15a) Crash - Dave Matthews Band
19c) Ray of Light - Madonna

Hrmmm...that seems to be it for me.

[quantumduck.livejournal.com]

Meh. Only three or four hit me as something I knew.

1. BnL, or possibly Bruce - Lovers in a Dangerous Time
2a. English Beat - Save it for Later
5. Be Near Me
17a. Bruce, or possibly BnL - Lovers in a Dangerous Time