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[marcmagus]

Step 1: Get your playlist together, put it on random, and play
Step 2: Pick your favorite lines from the first 25 songs that play
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song the lines come from
Step 4: Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly.

Well, after about a day of working on it, I've listened to 25 songs and am ready to post. The last few days I've been listening to the mp3s from a backup CD I found a couple weeks ago. I'll be highly interested to see who recognizes what.


1. I see them through a crystal haze, and hear their sweet sounds bouncing 'round a neverending coral maze. Phish — "Bouncing Around the Room" (penguinkraft)
2. Say unto me, Is it better to be safe or sorry? A-Ha! — "Take On Me" (soulchanger and selftoken together)
3. I'll take your part, oh, when darkness comes, and pain is all around. Simon and Garfunkel — "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (soulchanger)
4. You say, 'I only hear what I want to.' Lisa Loeb — "Stay" (penguinkraft)
5. I was last in my class, barely passed at the institute; now I'm tryin' to avoid, yeah I'm tryin' to avoid a malpractice suit. "Weird" Al Yankovich — "Like a Surgeon" (selftoken)
6. Oh, I've had it up to here! No Doubt — "Just a Girl" (soulchanger)
7. The angel opens her eyes, the confusion sets in. Live — "Lightning Crashes" (penguinkraft)
8. I was feeling part of the scenery, I walked right out of the machinery, my heart going boom, boom, boom. Peter Gabriel — "Solsbury Hill" (andrianna)
9. People always told me, 'Be careful what you do, don't go around breakin' young girls' hearts.' Michael Jackson — "Billie Jean" (soulchanger)
10. I stopped an old man along the way, hoping to find some long-forgotten words or ancient melodies. He turned to me as if to say, 'Hurry boy, it's waiting there for you.' Toto — "Africa" (selftoken)
11. ...and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, 'cause there's bugger all damned here on earth. Monty Python — "The Galaxy Song" (deyaniera)
12. Like anyone would be, I am flattered by your fascination with me. Alanis Morissette — "Uninvited" (soulchanger)
13. And what it all boils down to, is that there's somethin' that I haven't figured out just yet: Is that a pickle in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
14. ...so I can, so I can keep track of visions in my eyes. Cory Hart — "Sunglasses At Night" (selftoken)
15. He let the contents of the bottle do the thinking. Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding. They Might Be Giants — Your Racist Friend (andrianna)
16. You can't run away forever, but there's nothing wrong with getting a good head-start. Meatloaf — "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" (penguinkraft)
17. You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run. Kenny Rogers — "The Gambler" (soulchanger)
18. I close my eyes and fly out of my mind into the fire. Shawn Colvin — "Sunny Came Home" (soulchanger and penguinkraft together)
19. Over on the corner, there's a happy noise. People come from all around to watch the magic boy. Credence Clearwater Revival — "Down On the Corner" (penguinkraft)
20. ...and she dances on the sand, just like that river twisting through the dusty land. Duran Duran — "Rio" (soulchanger and penguinkraft together)
21. ...and I spent oh so many nights just feeling sorry for myself. Gloria Gaynor — "I Will Survive" (soulchanger)
22. You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere. Aqua — "Barbie Girl" (soulchanger)
23. We sit outside and argue all night long about a god we've never seen but never fails to side with me. Primitive Radio Gods — "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand" (deyaniera)
24. And all her boyfriends used to come and call, "Why not come dancing? It's only natural." The Kinks — "Come Dancing" (selftoken)
25. It's poetry in motion, and when she turned her eyes to me, as deep as any ocean, as sweet as any harmony. Thomas Dolby — "She Blinded Me with Science" (selftoken)

Special bonus song, because it came on right after the last one, and I couldn't resist including it:

26. Jungle life, you're far away from nothing. It's all right, you won't miss home. Baltimora — "Tarzan Boy" (Jaye)

Comments

[penguinkraft.livejournal.com]

4. Lisa Loeb "Say"
7. Live "Lightning crashes"
16. something by MeatLoaf
19. CCR "Down by the corner"

[soulchanger.livejournal.com]

3. Bridge Over Troubled Water, by Simon and Garfunkel.
4. Stay, by Lisa Loeb
6. Just a Girl, by No Doubt
7. Lightning Crashes, by Live.
9. Billy Jean, by Michael Jackson
12. Uninvited, by Alanis Morissette
17. The Gambler, by Kenny Rodgers
21. I Will Survive, by Cake
22. Barbie Girl, by Aqua.

My highest score by far on one of these. I also know that 2 is Take On Me, but not by who. 8, I'm sure is Paul Simon - I can complete the lyrics but can't place the song title. 18 is Sunny Came Home, but I forget the singer. 20 is called Rio - I forgot this singer too.

[penguinkraft.livejournal.com]

18. Sunny Came Home is by Shawn Colvin
20. Rio is Duran Duran

[marcmagus]

Nice. You're wrong about #8, though.

[marcmagus]

It is Meatloaf, I'll leave it until someone posts the title.

[marcmagus]

Oh, and I'll leave "Take On Me" until somebody has a revelation about who sang it.

Science!

[selftoken.livejournal.com]

5. "Weird" Al Yankovic - "Like A Surgeon"
10. Toto - "Africa"
13. Alanis Morissette - ?
14. Corey Hart - "Sunglasses At Night"
24. The Kinks - "Come Dancing"
25. Thomas Dolby - "She Blinded Me with Science"

mopping up a little

[selftoken.livejournal.com]

2. A-Ha - "Take on Me"
8. Peter Gabriel not Paul Simon...title forgotten

[penguinkraft.livejournal.com]

Aha.

I always thought it was "Say after me..."

Re: Science!

[marcmagus]

And selftoken gets a couple of the songs I thought we might have to wait a while for. Although #13 is not by Alanis, there's a good reason you thought that.

As it happens, I was listening to a cover of "Come Dancing" by Good Riddance. They sped it up a lot.

[marcmagus]

I keep forgetting things I plan to mention. The real version of "I Will Survive" was the one which came up, although Cake's version is also in this playlist.

[penguinkraft.livejournal.com]

1. Bouncing round the room -- Phish
16. Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through -- MeatLoaf

[soulchanger.livejournal.com]

Is it Phil Collins? That was my second guess.

[marcmagus]

No, selftoken was correct about the artist.

[andrianna.livejournal.com]

8. Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel (One of my all-time faves!)
15. Racist Friend by TMBG


I'm a bit amazed that even with there be so little on your list left to guess, that I was able to still pull out some song titles.

[miintikwa.livejournal.com]

#11- Monty Python "The Galaxy Song."
#23- Primitive Radio Gods "Standing outside a broken phone booth..."

[ladymedb.livejournal.com]

Loooooove Solsbury Hill

Re: Science!

[selftoken.livejournal.com]

I don't know Good Riddance, are they punk? That's my best guess.
Let us say that my origins lie further in the past than soulchanger and penguinkraft, and that's why I think I got the ones you thought would take more time.

Re: Science!

[marcmagus]

I don't either, just came across that one version of that song back when I was searching for it. I'd say they sound kind of punky. My favorite version of the song is actually the arrangement by the Brown Derbies (all-male acapella).

[marcmagus]

"...with money in my hand." Title's so ridiculously long it doesn't fit in an mp3 ID 1.x title field. I'd say this was one of the harder ones, I suspect most people, like me before I did this, never actually caught all that many of the lyrics to the song.

[miintikwa.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I used to sing along with that one. *grin* I loved Primitive Radio Gods, and I'm still sad they haven't put anything out since then.

[marcmagus]

Two to go. I don't even know the artist for #13, so I'd definitely welcome that information. And I'm getting more and more curious by the day to see who actually comes up with #26. I know there are at least two Allegories fans who read me. I wonder if we'll have to wait for one of them to check LJ, or if they already have, or if someone else will place it.

[jhadania.livejournal.com]

OK, I know #26, but that tape is at my mom's house, so I don't know the artist, so I won't spoil anything. But now I have a great image in my head... heehee Dude, if I'm swinging from vines in my head and suck on this final, I'm totally blaming you. ;)
*hugs*

Well, fine...

[(Anonymous)]

If no one is going to jump on #26, then it's Jungle Boy by Baltimora (or is it Baltimore?). Anyway, yeah. That song comes up quite often at Rocky's trivia.

And thank you for #13. I am now going to have "Hand in my Pocket" stuck in my head for days.

-- Jaye

Re: Well, fine...

[(Anonymous)]

Did I say Jungle Boy? Ooops. I meant Tarzan Boy, obviously. Sorry, long day. I'll go sleep now...

J