Got this from
idahoswede Go to your iPod or whatever
Put it on shuffle
Post the first line of the first twenty songs that come up (don't cheat to look cool)
Strike through them as people identify them
I had to cheat a little, since a surprising lot of what came up was either instrumental or in French or Arabic. Strange. I did leave in the ones where the title is the first line, but then you have to get the artist.
1. "everybody gets it sometime, sorry. Forest fire, lear jet, gyroscope, lorry"
2. "I started as an altar boy, working at the church, learning all my holy moves, doing some research"
3. "Finally I get to teach a whole lesson all by myself, and I'm going to teach something modern, something relelvant. The internet!"
4. "Now you're gone, it's hotels and whiskey and sad luck days"
5. "It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline, but on the Che Guevara highway, Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying"
6. "The wind is in from Africa, and last night I couldn't sleep"
7. "I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul"
8. "Here I stand head in hand, turn my face to the wall"
9. "I used to live in New York City. Everything there was dark and dirty"
10. "Now the flames they followed Joan of Arc, as she came riding through the dark"
11. "As I walked down to Chatham Street, A fair maid I did meet. She asked me to see her home, she lived in Bleeker Street"
12. "Oh the towers of ivory are crumbling, and the swallows have sharpened their beaks"
13. "I got my hesitating feet in my hesitating shoes"
14. "She makes me so unsure of myself, standing there but never ever talking sense"
15. "I'll have a shower and then phone my brother up, within the hour, I'll smash another cup"
16. "Pretty things, so what if i like pretty things"
17. "A drop of nelson's blood wouldn't do us any harm"
18. "My phone's on vibrate for you"
19. "I've seen the bright lights of Memphis and the Commodore Hotel"
20. "And what is it that put america in the forefront of the nuclear nations, and what is it that will spend twenty billion dollars of your money to put some clown on the moon?"
Off to bed now, so I'll check on this tomorrow.