A musical meme making the rounds...
Courtesy of kosaginolegion :
Put your mp3 player on random.*
Post the opening lines of the first 10 songs--no matter how they might reflect upon your taste**--that come up.
Challenge your readers to identify those songs by the opening lines alone (and no fair using search engines.***) In the case of those that have been extensively covered, I'm not expecting an ID of the performer or album.
When a song is correctly identified, cross it out and post a YouTube link to the song.
1. I fight the world back with your photograph... "Love Space Time" by The American Static; click on track #5 on the upper right menu. (A live performance is available on YouTube, but marred by talking over; it occurs as part of an interview clip.)
2. Dead I am the one/Exterminating son... "Dragula" by Rob Zombie.
3. Subarashi chin-chin mono/Kintama no kame aru... (I have a wonderful penis thing /and hairy balls...) "Let's Fighting Love", aka the South Park Ninja Song, by DVDA.
4. In the jungle of the senses/Tinkerbell and Jack the Ripper... "Nemesis" by Shriekback; although I've never watched Lost, this fanvid's rapid pacing and air of extravagant mystery does the song more justice than the band's somewhat corny Roman-orgy scenario.
5. I have marched for years on end... "Hush" by Abney Park.
6. An old cowpoke went riding out one dark and windy day... "Ghost Riders in the Sky". I love the song and have bookmarked several versions; this AMV is set to Spiderbait's cover as featured in the Ghost Rider movie. (The worthwhile parts of that waste of celluloid add up to just about the length of a music video to the title song--an opportunity seized upon by numerous fanvidders.)
7. I--I could be King... "Heroes" by David Bowie--which kosaginolegion correctly identified despite the fact that I got the opening lines wrong; it should have been: I--I wish I could swim/Like the dolphins--like dolphins can swim...
8. Vajura om, Vajura om, Vajura om--you got the thunder! "Vajura On", the theme from Demon Prince Zenki, by Kageyama Hironobu.
9. Some velvet morning when I'm straight... "Some Velvet Morning" by Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra. This is an intensely polarizing song; my experience is that listeners find it either hauntingly unforgettable, creepily dissonant, or ten pounds of pretentiousness in a five-pound bag.
10. Have you ever been close to tragedy or been close to folks who have? "The Impression That I Get" by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
*In the interest of fairness, Steps 1 and 2 are the part where Full Metal Ox, rifling through various cassette tapes and YouTube bookmarks in the pretense of owning an mp3 player, tries to arrive at a suitably eclectic mix of the comparatively popular and the esoteric-as-hell.
** Kosagi, I'll admit that there's at least one entry here that you hate.
***If you want to be really fiendish (and somewhat unsporting) about it, it helps to know that many songs best known as instrumentals have comparatively little-known lyrics.
Put your mp3 player on random.*
Post the opening lines of the first 10 songs--no matter how they might reflect upon your taste**--that come up.
Challenge your readers to identify those songs by the opening lines alone (and no fair using search engines.***) In the case of those that have been extensively covered, I'm not expecting an ID of the performer or album.
When a song is correctly identified, cross it out and post a YouTube link to the song.
1. I fight the world back with your photograph... "Love Space Time" by The American Static; click on track #5 on the upper right menu. (A live performance is available on YouTube, but marred by talking over; it occurs as part of an interview clip.)
2. Dead I am the one/Exterminating son... "Dragula" by Rob Zombie.
3. Subarashi chin-chin mono/Kintama no kame aru... (I have a wonderful penis thing /and hairy balls...) "Let's Fighting Love", aka the South Park Ninja Song, by DVDA.
4. In the jungle of the senses/Tinkerbell and Jack the Ripper... "Nemesis" by Shriekback; although I've never watched Lost, this fanvid's rapid pacing and air of extravagant mystery does the song more justice than the band's somewhat corny Roman-orgy scenario.
5. I have marched for years on end... "Hush" by Abney Park.
6. An old cowpoke went riding out one dark and windy day... "Ghost Riders in the Sky". I love the song and have bookmarked several versions; this AMV is set to Spiderbait's cover as featured in the Ghost Rider movie. (The worthwhile parts of that waste of celluloid add up to just about the length of a music video to the title song--an opportunity seized upon by numerous fanvidders.)
7. I--I could be King... "Heroes" by David Bowie--which kosaginolegion correctly identified despite the fact that I got the opening lines wrong; it should have been: I--I wish I could swim/Like the dolphins--like dolphins can swim...
8. Vajura om, Vajura om, Vajura om--you got the thunder! "Vajura On", the theme from Demon Prince Zenki, by Kageyama Hironobu.
9. Some velvet morning when I'm straight... "Some Velvet Morning" by Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra. This is an intensely polarizing song; my experience is that listeners find it either hauntingly unforgettable, creepily dissonant, or ten pounds of pretentiousness in a five-pound bag.
10. Have you ever been close to tragedy or been close to folks who have? "The Impression That I Get" by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
*In the interest of fairness, Steps 1 and 2 are the part where Full Metal Ox, rifling through various cassette tapes and YouTube bookmarks in the pretense of owning an mp3 player, tries to arrive at a suitably eclectic mix of the comparatively popular and the esoteric-as-hell.
** Kosagi, I'll admit that there's at least one entry here that you hate.
***If you want to be really fiendish (and somewhat unsporting) about it, it helps to know that many songs best known as instrumentals have comparatively little-known lyrics.