meme time -- answers update post
So I was trawling through friends-of-friends-of-friends' lists, looking for something decent to read (is it just me, or has there been a dearth of goodfic lately?) and I came across an old familiar favorite: the first line music meme. I haven't done one of these in, like, forever. Mostly because its been at least that long since I've had any playlists close to hand. But I've been on a slightly dodgy music acquisition kick lately, and it really wasn't much effort at all to dump them all into a master playlist, hit shuffle, and see what got spit back out.
THE RULES
Poster: go to your music library (pc, mp3 player, stack of CDs sitting in the corner so long as you've also got a d20 close to hand...), roll said die or select a playlist (easiest if its your longest or most generic list), hit random/shuffle, and write down the first line, excluding any introductory non-song bits, of the first twenty songs to play by 20 different artists. Also exclude instrumentals, songs not in [the dominant language of your Flist], and songs where the first line reveals the title.
Flist: comment with your guesses for the artist/song. Note that some songs are going to be covers, or have been covered by any and all number of artists. So any title/relevant artist combo will do for those. Also, sometimes the first lines are so short as to be nearly useless, so some liberties have been taken with regards to length. Comments will be screened until just about everything is guessed (because there's always at least one song no one else seems to know but you). Google is cheating.
THE 20
1. Half underwater/ I'm half my mother's daughter -- "Half Jack", The Dresden Dolls
2. Well I guess you left me with some feathers in my hand -- "Angels of the Silences", Counting Crows
3. I stand around at American weddings -- "Headful of Ghosts", Bush
4. Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood -- "Shelter From the Storm", Bob Dylan
5. Life is bigger/ It's bigger than you -- "Losing My Religion", R.E.M.
6. There's a shadow just behind me shrouding every step I take -- "Sober", Tool
7. You can run on for a long time/ run on for a long time -- "God's Gonna Cut You Down", Johnny Cash
8. There were three brothers in merry Scotland/ in merry Scotland there were three -- "The Ballad of Henry Martin", Figgy Duff
9. O Mount Kailas/ uncover me/ come my restoration/ wash my body clean -- "The House of Stone and Light", Peter Gabriel (cover)
10. I woke up thinking about Turkish drummers -- "Get Up Jonah", Bruce Cockburn
11. So, so you think you can tell/ Heaven from Hell -- "Wish You Were Here", Pink Floyd
12. I hear the drizzle of the rain/ like a memory it falls -- "Kathy's Song", Simon & Garfunkel
13. As I sit here and slowly close my eyes -- "Serenity", Godsmack
14. Give me release/ witness me, I am outside -- "Silence", Delerium featuring Sarah McLachlan
15. I've got another confession to make -- "Best of You", Foo Fighters
16. I watch how the moon sits in the sky -- "A Place For My Head", Linkin Park
17. O the year was 1778/ how I wish I was in Sherbrooke now -- "Barrett's Privateers", Stan Rogers
18. Welcome to where time stands still -- "Sanitarium", Metallica
19. A dragon has come to our village today -- "Do Virgins Taste Better?", The Brobdingnagian Bards
20. The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling way down in the valley tonight -- "Bat Out Of Hell", Meatloaf
THE RULES
Poster: go to your music library (pc, mp3 player, stack of CDs sitting in the corner so long as you've also got a d20 close to hand...), roll said die or select a playlist (easiest if its your longest or most generic list), hit random/shuffle, and write down the first line, excluding any introductory non-song bits, of the first twenty songs to play by 20 different artists. Also exclude instrumentals, songs not in [the dominant language of your Flist], and songs where the first line reveals the title.
Flist: comment with your guesses for the artist/song. Note that some songs are going to be covers, or have been covered by any and all number of artists. So any title/relevant artist combo will do for those. Also, sometimes the first lines are so short as to be nearly useless, so some liberties have been taken with regards to length. Comments will be screened until just about everything is guessed (because there's always at least one song no one else seems to know but you). Google is cheating.
THE 20
1. Half underwater/ I'm half my mother's daughter -- "Half Jack", The Dresden Dolls
2. Well I guess you left me with some feathers in my hand -- "Angels of the Silences", Counting Crows
3. I stand around at American weddings -- "Headful of Ghosts", Bush
4. Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood -- "Shelter From the Storm", Bob Dylan
5. Life is bigger/ It's bigger than you -- "Losing My Religion", R.E.M.
6. There's a shadow just behind me shrouding every step I take -- "Sober", Tool
7. You can run on for a long time/ run on for a long time -- "God's Gonna Cut You Down", Johnny Cash
8. There were three brothers in merry Scotland/ in merry Scotland there were three -- "The Ballad of Henry Martin", Figgy Duff
9. O Mount Kailas/ uncover me/ come my restoration/ wash my body clean -- "The House of Stone and Light", Peter Gabriel (cover)
10. I woke up thinking about Turkish drummers -- "Get Up Jonah", Bruce Cockburn
11. So, so you think you can tell/ Heaven from Hell -- "Wish You Were Here", Pink Floyd
12. I hear the drizzle of the rain/ like a memory it falls -- "Kathy's Song", Simon & Garfunkel
13. As I sit here and slowly close my eyes -- "Serenity", Godsmack
14. Give me release/ witness me, I am outside -- "Silence", Delerium featuring Sarah McLachlan
15. I've got another confession to make -- "Best of You", Foo Fighters
16. I watch how the moon sits in the sky -- "A Place For My Head", Linkin Park
17. O the year was 1778/ how I wish I was in Sherbrooke now -- "Barrett's Privateers", Stan Rogers
18. Welcome to where time stands still -- "Sanitarium", Metallica
19. A dragon has come to our village today -- "Do Virgins Taste Better?", The Brobdingnagian Bards
20. The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling way down in the valley tonight -- "Bat Out Of Hell", Meatloaf