Song meme
Step 1: Put your Media player on random.
Step 2: Post the first line(s) / your favourite lines of the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly. Guess as many as you can!
I went with first lines, except where they would give the song away.
1. Blue morning, blue morning / Wrapped in strands of fist and bone - Counting Crows Murder of One
2. I threw away your greatest hits / You left them here the day you split - Guster Amsterdam
3. The television's on / Have you found another man to take my place* The Clarks Penny on the Floor
4. Once I stood alone so proud, held myself above the crowd / And now I'm low on the ground - Suzanne Vega Penitent
5. Saw on the poster my name was printed just a little bit smaller / I can see you need to stand just a little bit taller - Ani DiFranco Egos Like Hairdos
6. Hail, what's the matter with your head, yeah / Hail, what's the matter with your mind* - Red Bone Come and Get Your Love
7. You left without a word / did you get what you came for - Great Big Sea Clearest Indication
8. We've got these chains hanging round our necks / people want to strangle us with them* Fuel Hemorrhage in My Hand
9. Run desire run / sexual being / run him like a blade - A Perfect Circle The Hollow
10. The dawn is breaking, a light shining through / You're barely waking and I'm tangled up in you Howie Day Collide
11. Can you patch my jeans, Peggy Ann? / Just a little stitch to mend the hole Tori Amos Jamaica Inn
12. The night you came into my life / well it took the bones of me, took the bones of me* Carbon Leaf Life Less Ordinary
13. New glass here for this new friend of mine / forgive me I forgot your name / flip a coin what shall we talk about?* The Refreshments Mekong
14. If I could laugh I'd love you / If I could smile at anything you said* - Franz Ferdinand I'm Your Villain
15. A woman came up to me and said / I'd like to poison your mind They Might Be Giants Whistling in the Dark
16. He's agreed to take me / To the ice hotel from the magazine Rasputina The New Zero
17. Memories are just where you laid them / Dragging the waters til the depths give up their dead Fuel Hemorrhage in My Hand
18. He has a really big tongue / it rolls way out / snaking around in the club - Liz Phair Glory
19. Lucky you weren't born that far away / so we can both make fun of distance Shakira Whenever, Wherever
20. LA, who'd have thought / Right smack dab in the middle of--What!? Concrete Blonde Roses Grow
* Not a first line, because that was the song title.
ETA: 11/20 guessed. All filled in.
Step 2: Post the first line(s) / your favourite lines of the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly. Guess as many as you can!
I went with first lines, except where they would give the song away.
1. Blue morning, blue morning / Wrapped in strands of fist and bone - Counting Crows Murder of One
2. I threw away your greatest hits / You left them here the day you split - Guster Amsterdam
3. The television's on / Have you found another man to take my place* The Clarks Penny on the Floor
4. Once I stood alone so proud, held myself above the crowd / And now I'm low on the ground - Suzanne Vega Penitent
5. Saw on the poster my name was printed just a little bit smaller / I can see you need to stand just a little bit taller - Ani DiFranco Egos Like Hairdos
6. Hail, what's the matter with your head, yeah / Hail, what's the matter with your mind* - Red Bone Come and Get Your Love
7. You left without a word / did you get what you came for - Great Big Sea Clearest Indication
8. We've got these chains hanging round our necks / people want to strangle us with them* Fuel Hemorrhage in My Hand
9. Run desire run / sexual being / run him like a blade - A Perfect Circle The Hollow
10. The dawn is breaking, a light shining through / You're barely waking and I'm tangled up in you Howie Day Collide
11. Can you patch my jeans, Peggy Ann? / Just a little stitch to mend the hole Tori Amos Jamaica Inn
12. The night you came into my life / well it took the bones of me, took the bones of me* Carbon Leaf Life Less Ordinary
13. New glass here for this new friend of mine / forgive me I forgot your name / flip a coin what shall we talk about?* The Refreshments Mekong
14. If I could laugh I'd love you / If I could smile at anything you said* - Franz Ferdinand I'm Your Villain
15. A woman came up to me and said / I'd like to poison your mind They Might Be Giants Whistling in the Dark
16. He's agreed to take me / To the ice hotel from the magazine Rasputina The New Zero
17. Memories are just where you laid them / Dragging the waters til the depths give up their dead Fuel Hemorrhage in My Hand
18. He has a really big tongue / it rolls way out / snaking around in the club - Liz Phair Glory
19. Lucky you weren't born that far away / so we can both make fun of distance Shakira Whenever, Wherever
20. LA, who'd have thought / Right smack dab in the middle of--What!? Concrete Blonde Roses Grow
* Not a first line, because that was the song title.
ETA: 11/20 guessed. All filled in.