Here it is again . . .

[omorka]

Ganked from solidfoamsoul:

Step 1 - Set your iTunes to shuffle
Step 2 - Post the first lines from the first 20 songs that play
Step 3 - Let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from
Step 4 - Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly

I'm screening replies so multiple people can score on the same song. Also, I used the first line of the first verse if the song started with the chorus, and I skipped the second song by a previously represented artist twice.

1. It felt like springtime on this February morning
2. I took my baby to the doctor with a fever, but nothing he found
3. Thought that I'd be happy, gonna be so happy
4. Yeah, me and Skid Roper pulled into town bibulb
5. Hey, my friend, it seems your eyes are troubled northwall
6. I found out, long ago (whoa-oh-a-oh)
7. This is where the party ends tenshihitomi, redneckgaijin, morgi, jeff_morris
8. Sometimes in our lives, we all have pain, we all have sorrow tenshihitomi, awbryan sans artist, northwall sans artist, jeff_morris
9. I've had enough of scheming and messing 'round with jerks
10. I've had enough of this parade
11. (You guys ready?) Alone, listless, breakfast table in an otherwise empty room northwall
12. Come on baby, dry your eyes, wipe your tears
13. There's a sale on our gabardine suits today redneckgaijin
14. You don't believe that I love you, and even if that was true
15. I don't need to fall at your feet just 'cause you cut me to the bone
16. Eagle's calling, and he's calling your name jeff_morris
17. Sun's up, mm hmm, looks okay, the world survives into another day jeff_morris
18. Livin' easy, livin' free, season ticket on a one-way ride bibulb
19. 4-aminobiphenyl, hexachlorobenzine, dimethyl sulfate, chloromethyl methylether bibulb
20. I'll tell you a story that happenned to me, one day as I went down to Cork by the sea tenshihitomi, northwall

Also, apparently iTunes's sense of humor is right in its usual vein. *pokes iTunes grimly*

Comments

[tenshihitomi.livejournal.com]

7. "Your Racist Friend" - They Might Be Giants
8. "Lean On Me" - Bill Withers
20. "Johhny Jump-Up" - Gaelic Storm (the song that inspired me to try cider for the first time:)

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

Ouch. It hurts how very few I recognize.

7. Your Racist Friend by They Might Be Giants
13. King of Suede by Weird Al Yankovic

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

If #13 isn't a filk TTTO "King of Pain", I'll eat my hat.

Beyond that, I got nothin'.

[morgi.livejournal.com]

#7: Your Racist Friend, TMBG

[awbryan.livejournal.com]

dang, all I can do is #8, which is, of course, "Lean on Me".

[northwall.livejournal.com]

5. Dave Matthews--Best of What's Around
8. Lean on Me. unsure of artist
11. Pearl Jam--Daughter
20. Johnny Jump Up--Gaelic Storm (i should get credit for that because so many people have done it, even if it's not Gaelic Storm)

[jeff-morris.livejournal.com]

This is where the party ends
Your Racist Friend by They Might Be Giants

8. Sometimes in our lives, we all have pain, we all have sorrow
Lean on Me by Bill Withers

16. Eagle's calling, and he's calling your name
Promise of a New Day by Paula Abdul (and here I thought I was the only one who had Paula on the iPhone)

17. Sun's up, mm hmm, looks okay, the world survives into another day
Wonderin' Where The Lions Are by Bruce Cockburn (one of my personal favorites)

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Three points! The last is actually Ceili's Muse's version, but it's the same song.

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Two points, of course. Glad someone got the Weird Al!

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Depends on whether you think Weird Al counts as filk - it's one of his parodies. But you got which song he was parodying dead on. :-)

[omorka.livejournal.com]

A point to you!

[omorka.livejournal.com]

No guess for the artist? Okay, I know this one's been covered ad nauseum.

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Three and a half points to you! Sure, I'll take Gaelic Storm as a valid artist on that one - I was playing the Ceili's Muse version.

[omorka.livejournal.com]

In the lead with four points, and can I just say, hurrah for someone else knowing a Bruce Cockburn song other than bassfingers or bibulb! (And the Paula Abdul can be our secret shame together. That song got me through the three weeks immediately after our house fire.)

[bibulb.livejournal.com]

Pitching cleanup :

4. "Where the Hell's My Money", by Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper, kicking ass and taking names

18. "Highway to Hell", by AC/DC
(Nobody else got this one? REALLY?)

19. "Run Straight Down", by Warren Zevon

I'd have also gotten 17, 13 and 7 - the rest, not so much...

(As it turns out, I knew 3, but was unsure enough that I had to Google it to be sure - which kinda breaks the rules...)

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Three points - (a) yeah, I was surprised about #18 as well, (b) I figured #4 was a giveaway for the artist, and (c) I'm a little surprised you didn't get #6.

[bibulb.livejournal.com]

Doh. "Holiday Road", by either Lindsay Buckingham or Matt Pond PA?

[jeff-morris.livejournal.com]

I actually have three Cockburn songs on the iPhone (which of course is back at the apartment while I'm at work, dammit): "Wonderin'", "The Coldest Night of the Year", and "Lord of the Starfields".