Lyrics Game
Mar. 3rd, 2013 06:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_lucy21Since I'm mostly good for sitting still at the moment, I figured I'd put this together today.
Rules:
1) These are 25 first lines of songs pulled from random from my collection
2) I put iTunes on shuffle and hit next once I got the line I needed. I skipped anything not in English, anything instrumental (obviously) and some of my more esoteric/indie/religious music because that's not entirely fair. When the first line of the song included the title, I moved to the next song in the library by the same artist until I found one that didn't (this was surprisingly hard in some cases)
3) You get the first line tonight. Anything that doesn't get a correct answer by Tuesday morning will get the second line added. If it still doesn't have a correct answer by Thursday night, I'll give the answers (I reserve the right to move up the timeline, but given the schedule I'm working with, that's probably not going to change).
4)There are one or two songs that I suspect may be covers, so if you get the title on one of those, but not the artist I have, I'll still give you credit. I skipped things that I knew for a fact were covers, but there's at least one where I wasn't sure.
5)To make my life easier, I'm turning off comments on LJ just this once. Sorry, LJ folks! I have more frequent commenters on DW and I'm low on the spoons to keep track of this in two places. You can comment at DW with Open ID, or I'll make sure anonymous commenting is enabled and you can comment that way and stick your name in the comment.
6) Oh, and NO GOOGLING!! That's cheating! :o)
Some hints:
1) There are no repeat artists.
2) most prevalent musical influences of me: 90's alternative, 21st century indie and 70s rock/folk
1)"No, you didn't just leave"
2)"Dust falls on the empty halls of my old school"
3)"Well I see you in the morning, putting on your pretty clothes"
4)"I have set aside everything I love"
5)"You can't afford no ring, you can't afford no ring"
6)"From the shadow she calls" (user name=hagar_972)
7)"Now we can say that nothing's lost and only change brings round the prophecy" "Our Deliverance", Indigo Girls (hagar_972)
8)"Memory comes back to me to strangle me with its sweet taste"
9)"Out in the garden, there's half of heaven"
10)"I just want to feel safe in my own skin"
11)"You slept in your overalls after the wrecking ball"
12)"Love is a burning thing"
13)"Some say you're crazy, say you're no good"
14)"Holding you close, undisturbed before a fire"
15)"Well, I remember every little thing as it happened only yesterday"
16)"I love the time and in between the calm inside of me"
17)"Mommy had a little baby, there he is fast asleep"
18)"Please, please tell me now"
19)"I can't believe what I've seen"
20)"Tomorrow's coming round the hairpin curve of the road, she's got a run in her stockings and she's missing the heel of her shoe"
21)"I heard the truth about you and it doesn't really read at all with the whipping stick you raised me with"
22)"As the sun comes up, as the moon goes down"
23)"I was flying into Chicago at night"
24)"We are swimming with the snakes at the bottom of the well"
25)"All day, staring at the ceiling, making friends with shadows in my wall": "Unwell", Matchbox Twenty (sailorsol)
Rules:
1) These are 25 first lines of songs pulled from random from my collection
2) I put iTunes on shuffle and hit next once I got the line I needed. I skipped anything not in English, anything instrumental (obviously) and some of my more esoteric/indie/religious music because that's not entirely fair. When the first line of the song included the title, I moved to the next song in the library by the same artist until I found one that didn't (this was surprisingly hard in some cases)
3) You get the first line tonight. Anything that doesn't get a correct answer by Tuesday morning will get the second line added. If it still doesn't have a correct answer by Thursday night, I'll give the answers (I reserve the right to move up the timeline, but given the schedule I'm working with, that's probably not going to change).
4)There are one or two songs that I suspect may be covers, so if you get the title on one of those, but not the artist I have, I'll still give you credit. I skipped things that I knew for a fact were covers, but there's at least one where I wasn't sure.
5)To make my life easier, I'm turning off comments on LJ just this once. Sorry, LJ folks! I have more frequent commenters on DW and I'm low on the spoons to keep track of this in two places. You can comment at DW with Open ID, or I'll make sure anonymous commenting is enabled and you can comment that way and stick your name in the comment.
6) Oh, and NO GOOGLING!! That's cheating! :o)
Some hints:
1) There are no repeat artists.
2) most prevalent musical influences of me: 90's alternative, 21st century indie and 70s rock/folk
1)"No, you didn't just leave"
2)"Dust falls on the empty halls of my old school"
3)"Well I see you in the morning, putting on your pretty clothes"
4)"I have set aside everything I love"
5)"You can't afford no ring, you can't afford no ring"
6)
7)
hagar_972)8)"Memory comes back to me to strangle me with its sweet taste"
9)"Out in the garden, there's half of heaven"
10)"I just want to feel safe in my own skin"
11)"You slept in your overalls after the wrecking ball"
12)"Love is a burning thing"
13)"Some say you're crazy, say you're no good"
14)"Holding you close, undisturbed before a fire"
15)"Well, I remember every little thing as it happened only yesterday"
16)"I love the time and in between the calm inside of me"
17)"Mommy had a little baby, there he is fast asleep"
18)"Please, please tell me now"
19)"I can't believe what I've seen"
20)"Tomorrow's coming round the hairpin curve of the road, she's got a run in her stockings and she's missing the heel of her shoe"
21)"I heard the truth about you and it doesn't really read at all with the whipping stick you raised me with"
22)"As the sun comes up, as the moon goes down"
23)"I was flying into Chicago at night"
24)"We are swimming with the snakes at the bottom of the well"
25)
sailorsol)
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Date: 2013-03-03 11:35 pm (UTC)And I recognize 10 but I can't place it.
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Date: 2013-03-03 11:40 pm (UTC)10 is not the most common song one would know by that particular artist. But I don't think it's the most unusual one from that one, either.
ETA: It is possible that I've used that line in a fic. Well, no, it's likely. If that helps.
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Date: 2013-03-04 07:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-04 10:28 am (UTC)No others? I estimated that you'd know at least 4-5 of these.
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Date: 2013-03-04 10:37 am (UTC)'Sides, day I'm having, only reason I am not murderous right now is because Galgalatz are 2/3 of the way to Memorial Programming...
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Date: 2013-03-04 10:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-04 01:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-04 11:54 pm (UTC)(Do you know how many Tori Amos songs I had to go through to find one where the song title wasn't in the first line? It was like, seven)