Music Challenge...
(Stolen from Ariane)
I set my iTunes to random and type the first lines of the songs that come up.
YOU have to guess the songs. Check out your mad song-ID skills.
I keep track of the score. I'm including both responses on Facebook and on Livejournal.
Go!
1) Lonely boys and you lonely girls, here again in the lonely world. You're finding out if there's someone to cry about... point to Alicia for "Get a Grip" by Semisonic
2) I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical... point to Alex G. for "I Should Be Allowed to Think" by They Might Be Giants
3) I need love, love, to ease my mind - I need to find, find someone to call mine, but Mama said... point to Laura M for "Can't Hurry Love" by the Supremes
4) Je fais la pluie souvent, le beautemps parfois... point to Alex G. (trust a Nantes friend) for "Le Magicien" by Tete
5) Is there anybody going to listen to my story all about the girl who came to stay? - point to Yuenmei for "Girl" by the Beatles
6) (shouted: 1-2-3-4!) So you wanted to take a break, slow it down some and have some space... fuck you too! point to RaistlinBrown for "Song for the Dumped" by Ben Folds
7) Fred sits alone at his desk in the dark; there's an awkward young shadow that waits in the hall... point to RaistlinBrown for "Fred Jones Pt. 2" by Ben Folds
8) She called me up today - "meet me down at the old cafe." I jumped into the shower: I was getting my marching orders. point to Shana for "Step Into My Office Baby" by Belle&Sebastian
9) We come on the (title), my grandfather and me... point to Raistlinbrown; he missed the artist (Beach Boys) but knew the title, and there are several covers, so I'll hand it to him.
10) I'm not feeling all right today; I'm not feeling that great. I'm not catching on fire today - love has started to fade. point to RaistlinBrown for "Sheep Go to Heaven" by Cake
11) Let me tell you a little story about a man named (title). He was a hard-drinkin' son of a preacher...
12) The fading sounds of summertime, (something?) trees and firs, the glistening of rainsoaked moss...
13) Let's get together and talk about the modern age... point to Alicia for "The Good that Won't Come Out" by Rilo Kiley
14) Independent...Independent... (long instrumentation) let me put it this way: rich gets richer, poor gets poorer...
15) Beyond the ridge to the left you asked me what I want, between the trees and cicadas singing 'round the pond...
16) Watch the dark clouds bruisin', Benny's flushed with water... they swell up of your hands...
17) (title) (title) Poor old Johnny Ray sounded sad upon the radio; he moved a million hearts in mono... point to Yuenmei for Come on Eileen by Dexy Midnight Runners
18) We sailed away on a winter's day, with fate as malleable as clay...
19) Sometimes I get the feeling that I won't be on this planet for very long... point to RaistlinBrown for "Don't Change Your Plans" by Ben Folds
20) Standing here, the old man said to me, "long before these crowded streets, here stood my (title)" point to RaistlinBrown for "Dreaming Tree" by Dave Matthews Band
21) Once upon a time is how it always goes, but I'll make it brief... Josef K got Aimee Mann, but the title's wrong. Any takers?
22) (title), drink it down. This time I know I'm bound to spit it back up. I didn't want this...
23) My cheeks are red and numb and swollen from the kisses of strangers dancing next to me...
24) (title), Who's gonna play with me? Six in the morning, baby: I got a long, long day ahead of me!
25) Bless my soul! Herc was on a roll! Person of the week in every Greek opinion poll... point to Yuenmei for "Zero to Hero" from Hercules
26) Slow and I can't wait as the day turns inside out, and night falls on you, darlin' darlin'...
27) We speak in the store, I'm a sunsetted bore, you seem markedly more...
28) I can't remember the last time that we kissed goodbye... all our 'I love you's were just not enough to survive...
29) I wanna (title) with you; I wanna (title) with you. The ocean is big and blue. I just wanna (title) with you...
30) Germany was having trouble; what a sad, sad story... needed a new leader... point to Josef K for "Springtime for Hitler" from the musical The Producers
31) There's the moon asking to stay / long enough for the clouds to fly me away...
32) You a lot of nerve to say you are my friend / When I was down, you just stood there grinning... point to Josef K for "Positively Fourth Street" by Bob Dylan
33) I can't do it; I can't concieve - you're everything you try to make me believe.. point to Josef K for "How Am I Different" by Aimee Mann
34) I don't need a whole lotta money; I don't need a big, fine car. I got everything that a girl could want... point to RaistlinBrown for "Some Kind of Wonderful" by Joss Stone
35) She grew up with the children of the stars / In the Hollywood hills in the boulevard... point to Yuenmei for "Lullabye" (she said Rockabye, but close enough) by Shawn Mullens
36) I know that you're in there; I can see you. You're sayin' you're ok: I don't believe you.
37) The dawn is breaking / a light shinin' through / you're barely waking / and I'm tangled up in you... point to Yuenmei for "Collide" by Howie Day
38) Maybe it would be fun / to get a new opinion / get a little work done/ and forget... point to Shana T for "Testing 123" by BNL
39) The rug is marked / turn dark - it burns / My hands make fists / they taunt, they click...
40) You're dead, but the world keeps spinning. Take a spin through the world you left...
41) I fell on the playing field, the work of an errant heel, the din of the crowd...
42) Is it worth it? A new winter coat and shoes for the wife...
43) We skipped a light fandango / Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor...
44) Maybe I'm right / maybe i'm stupid and wrong / and your brand new boyfriend's gonna twist my head open like a jar...
45) Oh (title), oh (title). Oh, (title), baby I love you, (title). Like a way you walk; I like the way you talk... point to RaistlinBrown for "Suzie Q" by CCR
46) You're beautiful, that's for sure. You'll never, ever fade. You're lovely, but it's not for sure.. point to Yuenmei for "I'm Like a Bird" by Nellie Furtado
47) Love is but a song we sing; fear's the way we die. You can make the mountains ring...
48) Won't you look up at the skyline / at the mortar block and glass/ and check out the reflections in my eyes...point to RaistlinBrown for "Philosophy" by Ben Folds Five
49) When I call you up / Your line's engaged / I have had enough / So act your age!
50) To be alive is the one thing I can claim - I get by; do you even want to know?
51) (title)? Can you feel me near you? Tommy, can you see me? Can I help to cheer you? Point to Josef K for "Tommy Can You Hear Me" by The Who (well, their version)
52) (title) - I have got you deep in the heart of me: so deep in my heart, that you're really a part of me...
53) (title): It's that little flame that lights a fire under your ass. (title): it keeps you going strong, like a car with a full tank... point to Joe V. for "Purpose" from Avenue Q
54) Look around you: there are many things to see / that some would say could never be / these things I know...
55) You could hear the music on the (title)... VCR and DVD; there was none of that crap back in 1970.
56) It's a godawful small affair / to the girl with the mousy hair / but her mommy is yelling no... point to Josef K for "Life on Mars" by David Bowie (I knew he'd get this one)
57) I am empty and I'm tired, and I'm homesick. And inspired. I can't know everything that you know... point to Alicia for "Down" by Ben Kweller
58) You who were on the road must have a code that you can live by... half credit to Yuenmei for "Teach Your Children" and to Shana for CSNY
59) (title) wider than a mile; I'm crossin' you in style someday. Old dream maker, you heart breaker... point to Josef K for "MoonRiver" - though he guessed Henry Mancini and I had the Audrey Hepburn one playing
60) Let me tell you all what it's like / bein' male, middle class and white. It's a bitch if you don't believe... point to RaistlinBrown for "Rockin' the Suburbs" by Ben Folds
61) Back to being who I was before / Opened all the doors you tried to close / And how did that make me feel?
62) I heard there was a secret chord / That David played, and it pleased the Lord, / But you don't really care for music, do you? point to Yuenmei for "Hallelujah" - originally by Leonard Cohen, but I gave it to her as being by Rufus. =)
63) When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all... point to Shana for "Kodachrome" by Paul Simon
64) Spanish songs in Andalucia / The shooting sites in the days of '39... point to Yuenmei for "Spanish Bombs" by the Clash
65) (title) playing in the park downtown / someone stands watching from the...
66) In a wooden boat, in the shipping lanes / with the freighters tow'ring over me...
67) I (oh) must go on standing / you can't break that which isn't yours / I (oh) must go on standing...
68) You come out of night / That's when the energy comes / when the dark side's light/ when the vampires roam... point to Yuenmei for "Building A Mystery" by Sarah Mclaughlan
69) Hands touch, eyes meet. Sudden silence, sudden heat. Hearts leap in a giddy whirl... point to Joe V. for getting "I'm Not that Girl" from Wicked
70) When I said I didn't love you, maybe that was a bit of an exagerration. Still it wouldn't be the first or last time... point to Shana for "Theme and Variation" by Adam T. / The Sauce
71) I don't need your one-eyed love anymore / Turn my heartstrings one more time, oh no...
72) Comin' out of my cage, and I been doin' just fine, gotta gotta be down... point to Joe V. for "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers
73) Oh a tv went off like three-day-old milk / and brought this town down better than most...
74) Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band... point to Yuenmei for Tiny Dancer by Elton John
75) (title), Don't you know you're (title); you just messed with the wrong team; better not try an' fall 'sleep now...
76) Look at this stuff - isn't it neat? Wouldn't you think my collection's complete? point to Yuenmei for "Part of Your World" in The Little Mermaid
77) When I was a movie star an asteroid had hit the earth and prematurely ended my career... point to Alicia for "Sha Sha" by Ben Kweller
78) Oh you gonna take me home tonight. oh down beside that... point to Alicia for "Fat Bottomed Girls" by Queen
79) (title) Pushing down on me, pushing down on you... point to RaistlinBrown for "Pressure" by Bowie/Queen
80) Come in... come in... Come in to my world; I've got to show-show-show you... come in to my bed, I've got to know-
81) Oh all the churning random hearts / under the sun / eventually fading into night...
82) (title) singing in the dead of night / take these broken wings and learn to fly / all your life... point to Yuenmei for "Blackbird" by the Beatles
83) There'll be girls across the nation that will eat this up / babe, I know that it's your soul, but could you (title)?
84) (Title); c'est le remixe... Un plan, l'amour leger dans l'ame / on a tellement du chance...
85) When you were languishing in rooms I couldn't find you in...
86) ("probably won't miss you" repeats) There was a perfume on the breeze...the moon, the trees...
87) Every single day, I walk down the street, I hear people say, "baby - so sweet" point to
Yuenmei for "Take Me or Leave Me" from Rent
88) I may not always love you, but long as there are stars above you, you never need to doubt it... point to
RESULTS SO FAR:
raistlinbrown has 12 points
yuenmei has 17 and a half points
Joe V. (on facebook) has 3 points
Josef K (on facebook) has 7 1/2 points
Laura M. (on facebook) has 3 points
Shana T. (on facebook) has 6 points
Alicia (on facebook) has 7 1/2 points
Alex G. (on facebook) has 2 points
I set my iTunes to random and type the first lines of the songs that come up.
YOU have to guess the songs. Check out your mad song-ID skills.
I keep track of the score. I'm including both responses on Facebook and on Livejournal.
Go!
1) Lonely boys and you lonely girls, here again in the lonely world. You're finding out if there's someone to cry about... point to Alicia for "Get a Grip" by Semisonic
2) I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical... point to Alex G. for "I Should Be Allowed to Think" by They Might Be Giants
3) I need love, love, to ease my mind - I need to find, find someone to call mine, but Mama said... point to Laura M for "Can't Hurry Love" by the Supremes
4) Je fais la pluie souvent, le beautemps parfois... point to Alex G. (trust a Nantes friend) for "Le Magicien" by Tete
5) Is there anybody going to listen to my story all about the girl who came to stay? - point to Yuenmei for "Girl" by the Beatles
6) (shouted: 1-2-3-4!) So you wanted to take a break, slow it down some and have some space... fuck you too! point to RaistlinBrown for "Song for the Dumped" by Ben Folds
7) Fred sits alone at his desk in the dark; there's an awkward young shadow that waits in the hall... point to RaistlinBrown for "Fred Jones Pt. 2" by Ben Folds
8) She called me up today - "meet me down at the old cafe." I jumped into the shower: I was getting my marching orders. point to Shana for "Step Into My Office Baby" by Belle&Sebastian
9) We come on the (title), my grandfather and me... point to Raistlinbrown; he missed the artist (Beach Boys) but knew the title, and there are several covers, so I'll hand it to him.
10) I'm not feeling all right today; I'm not feeling that great. I'm not catching on fire today - love has started to fade. point to RaistlinBrown for "Sheep Go to Heaven" by Cake
11) Let me tell you a little story about a man named (title). He was a hard-drinkin' son of a preacher...
12) The fading sounds of summertime, (something?) trees and firs, the glistening of rainsoaked moss...
13) Let's get together and talk about the modern age... point to Alicia for "The Good that Won't Come Out" by Rilo Kiley
14) Independent...Independent... (long instrumentation) let me put it this way: rich gets richer, poor gets poorer...
15) Beyond the ridge to the left you asked me what I want, between the trees and cicadas singing 'round the pond...
16) Watch the dark clouds bruisin', Benny's flushed with water... they swell up of your hands...
17) (title) (title) Poor old Johnny Ray sounded sad upon the radio; he moved a million hearts in mono... point to Yuenmei for Come on Eileen by Dexy Midnight Runners
18) We sailed away on a winter's day, with fate as malleable as clay...
19) Sometimes I get the feeling that I won't be on this planet for very long... point to RaistlinBrown for "Don't Change Your Plans" by Ben Folds
20) Standing here, the old man said to me, "long before these crowded streets, here stood my (title)" point to RaistlinBrown for "Dreaming Tree" by Dave Matthews Band
21) Once upon a time is how it always goes, but I'll make it brief... Josef K got Aimee Mann, but the title's wrong. Any takers?
22) (title), drink it down. This time I know I'm bound to spit it back up. I didn't want this...
23) My cheeks are red and numb and swollen from the kisses of strangers dancing next to me...
24) (title), Who's gonna play with me? Six in the morning, baby: I got a long, long day ahead of me!
25) Bless my soul! Herc was on a roll! Person of the week in every Greek opinion poll... point to Yuenmei for "Zero to Hero" from Hercules
26) Slow and I can't wait as the day turns inside out, and night falls on you, darlin' darlin'...
27) We speak in the store, I'm a sunsetted bore, you seem markedly more...
28) I can't remember the last time that we kissed goodbye... all our 'I love you's were just not enough to survive...
29) I wanna (title) with you; I wanna (title) with you. The ocean is big and blue. I just wanna (title) with you...
30) Germany was having trouble; what a sad, sad story... needed a new leader... point to Josef K for "Springtime for Hitler" from the musical The Producers
31) There's the moon asking to stay / long enough for the clouds to fly me away...
32) You a lot of nerve to say you are my friend / When I was down, you just stood there grinning... point to Josef K for "Positively Fourth Street" by Bob Dylan
33) I can't do it; I can't concieve - you're everything you try to make me believe.. point to Josef K for "How Am I Different" by Aimee Mann
34) I don't need a whole lotta money; I don't need a big, fine car. I got everything that a girl could want... point to RaistlinBrown for "Some Kind of Wonderful" by Joss Stone
35) She grew up with the children of the stars / In the Hollywood hills in the boulevard... point to Yuenmei for "Lullabye" (she said Rockabye, but close enough) by Shawn Mullens
36) I know that you're in there; I can see you. You're sayin' you're ok: I don't believe you.
37) The dawn is breaking / a light shinin' through / you're barely waking / and I'm tangled up in you... point to Yuenmei for "Collide" by Howie Day
38) Maybe it would be fun / to get a new opinion / get a little work done/ and forget... point to Shana T for "Testing 123" by BNL
39) The rug is marked / turn dark - it burns / My hands make fists / they taunt, they click...
40) You're dead, but the world keeps spinning. Take a spin through the world you left...
41) I fell on the playing field, the work of an errant heel, the din of the crowd...
42) Is it worth it? A new winter coat and shoes for the wife...
43) We skipped a light fandango / Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor...
44) Maybe I'm right / maybe i'm stupid and wrong / and your brand new boyfriend's gonna twist my head open like a jar...
45) Oh (title), oh (title). Oh, (title), baby I love you, (title). Like a way you walk; I like the way you talk... point to RaistlinBrown for "Suzie Q" by CCR
46) You're beautiful, that's for sure. You'll never, ever fade. You're lovely, but it's not for sure.. point to Yuenmei for "I'm Like a Bird" by Nellie Furtado
47) Love is but a song we sing; fear's the way we die. You can make the mountains ring...
48) Won't you look up at the skyline / at the mortar block and glass/ and check out the reflections in my eyes...point to RaistlinBrown for "Philosophy" by Ben Folds Five
49) When I call you up / Your line's engaged / I have had enough / So act your age!
50) To be alive is the one thing I can claim - I get by; do you even want to know?
51) (title)? Can you feel me near you? Tommy, can you see me? Can I help to cheer you? Point to Josef K for "Tommy Can You Hear Me" by The Who (well, their version)
52) (title) - I have got you deep in the heart of me: so deep in my heart, that you're really a part of me...
53) (title): It's that little flame that lights a fire under your ass. (title): it keeps you going strong, like a car with a full tank... point to Joe V. for "Purpose" from Avenue Q
54) Look around you: there are many things to see / that some would say could never be / these things I know...
55) You could hear the music on the (title)... VCR and DVD; there was none of that crap back in 1970.
56) It's a godawful small affair / to the girl with the mousy hair / but her mommy is yelling no... point to Josef K for "Life on Mars" by David Bowie (I knew he'd get this one)
57) I am empty and I'm tired, and I'm homesick. And inspired. I can't know everything that you know... point to Alicia for "Down" by Ben Kweller
58) You who were on the road must have a code that you can live by... half credit to Yuenmei for "Teach Your Children" and to Shana for CSNY
59) (title) wider than a mile; I'm crossin' you in style someday. Old dream maker, you heart breaker... point to Josef K for "MoonRiver" - though he guessed Henry Mancini and I had the Audrey Hepburn one playing
60) Let me tell you all what it's like / bein' male, middle class and white. It's a bitch if you don't believe... point to RaistlinBrown for "Rockin' the Suburbs" by Ben Folds
61) Back to being who I was before / Opened all the doors you tried to close / And how did that make me feel?
62) I heard there was a secret chord / That David played, and it pleased the Lord, / But you don't really care for music, do you? point to Yuenmei for "Hallelujah" - originally by Leonard Cohen, but I gave it to her as being by Rufus. =)
63) When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all... point to Shana for "Kodachrome" by Paul Simon
64) Spanish songs in Andalucia / The shooting sites in the days of '39... point to Yuenmei for "Spanish Bombs" by the Clash
65) (title) playing in the park downtown / someone stands watching from the...
66) In a wooden boat, in the shipping lanes / with the freighters tow'ring over me...
67) I (oh) must go on standing / you can't break that which isn't yours / I (oh) must go on standing...
68) You come out of night / That's when the energy comes / when the dark side's light/ when the vampires roam... point to Yuenmei for "Building A Mystery" by Sarah Mclaughlan
69) Hands touch, eyes meet. Sudden silence, sudden heat. Hearts leap in a giddy whirl... point to Joe V. for getting "I'm Not that Girl" from Wicked
70) When I said I didn't love you, maybe that was a bit of an exagerration. Still it wouldn't be the first or last time... point to Shana for "Theme and Variation" by Adam T. / The Sauce
71) I don't need your one-eyed love anymore / Turn my heartstrings one more time, oh no...
72) Comin' out of my cage, and I been doin' just fine, gotta gotta be down... point to Joe V. for "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers
73) Oh a tv went off like three-day-old milk / and brought this town down better than most...
74) Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band... point to Yuenmei for Tiny Dancer by Elton John
75) (title), Don't you know you're (title); you just messed with the wrong team; better not try an' fall 'sleep now...
76) Look at this stuff - isn't it neat? Wouldn't you think my collection's complete? point to Yuenmei for "Part of Your World" in The Little Mermaid
77) When I was a movie star an asteroid had hit the earth and prematurely ended my career... point to Alicia for "Sha Sha" by Ben Kweller
78) Oh you gonna take me home tonight. oh down beside that... point to Alicia for "Fat Bottomed Girls" by Queen
79) (title) Pushing down on me, pushing down on you... point to RaistlinBrown for "Pressure" by Bowie/Queen
80) Come in... come in... Come in to my world; I've got to show-show-show you... come in to my bed, I've got to know-
81) Oh all the churning random hearts / under the sun / eventually fading into night...
82) (title) singing in the dead of night / take these broken wings and learn to fly / all your life... point to Yuenmei for "Blackbird" by the Beatles
83) There'll be girls across the nation that will eat this up / babe, I know that it's your soul, but could you (title)?
84) (Title); c'est le remixe... Un plan, l'amour leger dans l'ame / on a tellement du chance...
85) When you were languishing in rooms I couldn't find you in...
86) ("probably won't miss you" repeats) There was a perfume on the breeze...the moon, the trees...
87) Every single day, I walk down the street, I hear people say, "baby - so sweet" point to
Yuenmei for "Take Me or Leave Me" from Rent
88) I may not always love you, but long as there are stars above you, you never need to doubt it... point to
RESULTS SO FAR:
raistlinbrown has 12 points
yuenmei has 17 and a half points
Joe V. (on facebook) has 3 points
Josef K (on facebook) has 7 1/2 points
Laura M. (on facebook) has 3 points
Shana T. (on facebook) has 6 points
Alicia (on facebook) has 7 1/2 points
Alex G. (on facebook) has 2 points