lyrics thingy
contracted from hedgerose
Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first lines from the first 15 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.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is not part of the game, if you do, don't post the answer.
[quote]I'm only counting songs with words that I can reliably reproduce (most of the songs are in English, one is in Scots)[/quote] Also applies in this case.
Oh, a lot of these lyrics have been sung by more than one person, in which case titles will be considered acceptable answers (but you can still guess the artist).
1. The Careful text books measure/ (let all who build beware!)/ The load, the shock, the pressure/ material can bear "Hymn to the Breaking Strain" guessed by banjomensch (in this case not actually performed by Leslie Fish, but by a close musical relative)
2. And it's weigh-hey, where the Red Queen reigns/ from her throne upon the sea/ with the hot rum running in our veins
3. It makes you blind, it does you in/ It makes you think you're pretty tough/ It makes you prone to crime and sin/ it makes you say things off the cuff "love is like a bottle of gin (or whatever the title is)", Magnetic Fields guessed by architeuthisdux
4. "Oh, where are you going," said Milder to Mulder/ "Oh, we may not tell you," said Fessel to Foe/ "We're going into the woods," said John the Red Nose "The Cutty Wren" guessed by ceolrince (no performer guessed yet, and I don't expect anyone to guess the performer since its a pretty traditional one)
5. Winter winds, they do blow cold/ the time of year, it is chosen/ now the frost and fire/ and now the sea is frozen
6. Mirk and rainy is the nicht/ There's no a star in au the carry/ Lightnings gleam athwart the list/ And the winds drive on wi' winter's fury "Are Ye Sleepin', Maggie?" guessed by ceolrince, Dougie Maclean, artist guessed by quxx
7. I am Cowboy Kim/ Cowboy Kim I am/ I am a lucky cowboy/ Let me tell you why/ I'm a man with a mission/ A boy with a gun "Big Mess", Devo guessed by architeuthisdux
8. Sometimes I can't move my feet it seems/ As if I'm stuck in the ground somehow like a tree/ As if I can't even breathe
9. One by one I cast my stones to the ocean/ every one a chart of memory/ I have borne my trials with honor and duty
10. As we travel through this world/ lots of changes come our way/ but I know you'll always be my girl/ and I'll be yours forever and a day
11. I'm a human head and my best friend is also a head/ I don't really need my best friend/ Now my friend is gone and I'm only a head by myself "I'm a Human Head", They Might be Giants guessed by quxx
12. Well I'd like to visit the moon/ On a rocket ship high in the air/ Yes, I'd like to visit the Moon/ but I don't think I'd like to live there "I'd like to visit the moon" guessed by banjomensch by Ernie, performer corrected by animate_mush
13. I met Ferdinand de Saussure/ on a night like this/ On love he said, "I'm not so sure/ I even know what it is" "The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure", Magnetic Fields gussed by quxx
14. Look straight in the window, Try not to look below/ Pretend I'm not up here, I try counting sheep/ The sheep seem to shower off this office tower by Barenaked Ladies, performer guessed by quxx
15. Oh, I was born in the shadow of a fairfield crane/ and the blast from a freighter's horn/ was the very first sound that I e'er did hear "The Shipyard Apprentice", Ed Miller guessed by quxx
Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first lines from the first 15 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.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is not part of the game, if you do, don't post the answer.
[quote]I'm only counting songs with words that I can reliably reproduce (most of the songs are in English, one is in Scots)[/quote] Also applies in this case.
Oh, a lot of these lyrics have been sung by more than one person, in which case titles will be considered acceptable answers (but you can still guess the artist).
1. The Careful text books measure/ (let all who build beware!)/ The load, the shock, the pressure/ material can bear "Hymn to the Breaking Strain" guessed by banjomensch (in this case not actually performed by Leslie Fish, but by a close musical relative)
2. And it's weigh-hey, where the Red Queen reigns/ from her throne upon the sea/ with the hot rum running in our veins
3. It makes you blind, it does you in/ It makes you think you're pretty tough/ It makes you prone to crime and sin/ it makes you say things off the cuff "love is like a bottle of gin (or whatever the title is)", Magnetic Fields guessed by architeuthisdux
4. "Oh, where are you going," said Milder to Mulder/ "Oh, we may not tell you," said Fessel to Foe/ "We're going into the woods," said John the Red Nose "The Cutty Wren" guessed by ceolrince (no performer guessed yet, and I don't expect anyone to guess the performer since its a pretty traditional one)
5. Winter winds, they do blow cold/ the time of year, it is chosen/ now the frost and fire/ and now the sea is frozen
6. Mirk and rainy is the nicht/ There's no a star in au the carry/ Lightnings gleam athwart the list/ And the winds drive on wi' winter's fury "Are Ye Sleepin', Maggie?" guessed by ceolrince, Dougie Maclean, artist guessed by quxx
7. I am Cowboy Kim/ Cowboy Kim I am/ I am a lucky cowboy/ Let me tell you why/ I'm a man with a mission/ A boy with a gun "Big Mess", Devo guessed by architeuthisdux
8. Sometimes I can't move my feet it seems/ As if I'm stuck in the ground somehow like a tree/ As if I can't even breathe
9. One by one I cast my stones to the ocean/ every one a chart of memory/ I have borne my trials with honor and duty
10. As we travel through this world/ lots of changes come our way/ but I know you'll always be my girl/ and I'll be yours forever and a day
11. I'm a human head and my best friend is also a head/ I don't really need my best friend/ Now my friend is gone and I'm only a head by myself "I'm a Human Head", They Might be Giants guessed by quxx
12. Well I'd like to visit the moon/ On a rocket ship high in the air/ Yes, I'd like to visit the Moon/ but I don't think I'd like to live there "I'd like to visit the moon" guessed by banjomensch by Ernie, performer corrected by animate_mush
13. I met Ferdinand de Saussure/ on a night like this/ On love he said, "I'm not so sure/ I even know what it is" "The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure", Magnetic Fields gussed by quxx
14. Look straight in the window, Try not to look below/ Pretend I'm not up here, I try counting sheep/ The sheep seem to shower off this office tower by Barenaked Ladies, performer guessed by quxx
15. Oh, I was born in the shadow of a fairfield crane/ and the blast from a freighter's horn/ was the very first sound that I e'er did hear "The Shipyard Apprentice", Ed Miller guessed by quxx