Lyrics meme
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snorkackcatcherLatest(?) lyric meme variant:
1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few lines of the first thirty songs that come up that do not give away the name of the song. Skip instrumentals, but don't skip the embarrassing ones.
3. Make hapless LJ denizens guess the song names and artists. Google is cheating. For musical songs, the name of the musical is acceptable in place of the artist.
4. Least hapless LJ denizen wins admiration. That's right, just like a lobbyist in budget season, the points don't matter.
Since I don't actually have an iPod or similar, this is what you get from a random selection from all the ripped tracks on my laptop (so very little from the last couple of years or so). Since that includes a lot of stuff acquired mainly for pub quiz setting purposes back when I set pub quizzes, I omitted songs I couldn't remember a damn thing about and/or ones that I wouldn't have put on an iPod if I had one. Date range: 1940s up to relatively recent. Actually, Windows Media Player hit on a surprisingly high proportion of well-known songs including a number of absolute gimmes, so have at it. :)
1. All that I possess is my existence, vagrant more or less
2. You ain't been blue, no, no, no, you ain't been blue
3. I stand in the distance I view from afar
4. She's got a smile that it seems to me
5. I was born in a cross-fire hurricane
6. For a while we must part, but remember me sweetheart
7. Whenever I need you, you give me such a run around
8. If I could make a wish I think I'd pass
9. First I was afraid I was petrified
10. Well the kids are all hopped up and ready to go
11. We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout [recentish version]
12. Um, I've noticed you around. I find you very attractive
13. There's something wrong with the world today, I don't know what it is
14. The way she walks, the way she talks
15. Doesn't take much to make me happy and make me smile
16. You got a nasty reputation, we're in a sticky situation
17. Over and over, I try to prove my love to you
18. Wait until the clock hits midnight, minute past I'm out the door
19. I wasn't jealous before we met, now every woman I see is a potential threat
20. I want you to know that I'm happy for you
21. Cut my life into pieces
22. Where it began, I can't begin to know when
23. Downtown, we'll drown, we're in our never splender
24. Help comes when you need it most, I'm cured by laughter
25. Close my mind shut out the world, walk into my private Harlem
26. I was alone I took a ride I didn't know what I would find there [not the original]
27. Boul ma sene, boul ma guiss madi re nga fokni mane
28. Here's the thing, we started out friends, it was cool but it was all pretend
29. You're sailing softly through the sun, in a broken stone age dawn
30. Outside another yellow moon punched a hole in the nighttime
1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few lines of the first thirty songs that come up that do not give away the name of the song. Skip instrumentals, but don't skip the embarrassing ones.
3. Make hapless LJ denizens guess the song names and artists. Google is cheating. For musical songs, the name of the musical is acceptable in place of the artist.
4. Least hapless LJ denizen wins admiration. That's right, just like a lobbyist in budget season, the points don't matter.
Since I don't actually have an iPod or similar, this is what you get from a random selection from all the ripped tracks on my laptop (so very little from the last couple of years or so). Since that includes a lot of stuff acquired mainly for pub quiz setting purposes back when I set pub quizzes, I omitted songs I couldn't remember a damn thing about and/or ones that I wouldn't have put on an iPod if I had one. Date range: 1940s up to relatively recent. Actually, Windows Media Player hit on a surprisingly high proportion of well-known songs including a number of absolute gimmes, so have at it. :)
1. All that I possess is my existence, vagrant more or less
2. You ain't been blue, no, no, no, you ain't been blue
3. I stand in the distance I view from afar
4. She's got a smile that it seems to me
5. I was born in a cross-fire hurricane
6. For a while we must part, but remember me sweetheart
7. Whenever I need you, you give me such a run around
8. If I could make a wish I think I'd pass
9. First I was afraid I was petrified
10. Well the kids are all hopped up and ready to go
11. We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout [recentish version]
12. Um, I've noticed you around. I find you very attractive
13. There's something wrong with the world today, I don't know what it is
14. The way she walks, the way she talks
15. Doesn't take much to make me happy and make me smile
16. You got a nasty reputation, we're in a sticky situation
17. Over and over, I try to prove my love to you
18. Wait until the clock hits midnight, minute past I'm out the door
19. I wasn't jealous before we met, now every woman I see is a potential threat
20. I want you to know that I'm happy for you
21. Cut my life into pieces
22. Where it began, I can't begin to know when
23. Downtown, we'll drown, we're in our never splender
24. Help comes when you need it most, I'm cured by laughter
25. Close my mind shut out the world, walk into my private Harlem
26. I was alone I took a ride I didn't know what I would find there [not the original]
27. Boul ma sene, boul ma guiss madi re nga fokni mane
28. Here's the thing, we started out friends, it was cool but it was all pretend
29. You're sailing softly through the sun, in a broken stone age dawn
30. Outside another yellow moon punched a hole in the nighttime
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Date: 2011-11-11 10:53 pm (UTC)9. I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor (or Cake?)
11. Jackson (the Joaquin Phoenix/Reese Witherspoon version?)
13. Livin' on the Edge by Aerosmith
21. Last Resort by Papa Roach
22. Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond
30. Downtown Train (I certainly hope the Tom Waits version *g*)
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Date: 2011-11-11 11:09 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-11-11 11:35 pm (UTC)26 is "Got to Get You Into My Life," but I have no idea who covered it.
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Date: 2011-11-11 11:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-12 12:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-12 12:13 am (UTC)9) I will survice, Gloria Gaynor
13) Living on the edge, Aerosmith
19) Lay all your love on me, ABBA
21) Last Resort, Papa Roach
22) Sweet Caroline, Neil Diamond
28) Since you've been gone, Kelly Clarkson
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Date: 2011-11-12 12:15 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-11-12 12:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-12 10:21 am (UTC)8. The Air that I Breathe - The Hollies
9. I will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
10. Jackson - ??? (not Johnny Cash, apparently)
19. Lay All Your Love On Me - ABBA
I do feel old now.
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Date: 2011-11-12 12:05 pm (UTC)