The Dread Pirate Roberts
Or, rather, the dreaded song meme. Yes, I tend to steer clear of the memes, but I really like music, so this one seemed fun. While I'm not a big lyrics person (great with melodies, terrible with lyircs), I'm still jumping on the boat. Here's how it works:
1. Put your playlist on shuffle.
2. Post the first lines to the first 30 songs to come up (along with these instructions).
3. Have people guess the songs and artists in comments to the post.
4. Post the answers to the ones people guessed correctly. A couple of days later, post the first two lines of the ones no one got and get people to guess again.
5. Repeat, adding the next line to the unguessed songs each time, until they're all guessed/you've posted the whole song/you've gotten bored/no-one's going to get the damn thing if you don't tell them.
I'm interpretting "the first line" broadly, cause otherwise some of these would be well nigh impossible. : )
So, then:
Here are the lyrics
1. My heart is beating from me, I am standing all alone
2. (One two three four) If you close the door, the night could last forever
3. Wake up, don't fear, I want to love you
4. You won't admit you love me and so how am I ever to know
5. I found him by the railroad track this morning
6. Are you in a bad mood?
7. Sally hit the pavement, wineglass in her hand
8. A green plastic watering can for a fake chinese rubber plant
9. Never too soon to be through being cool too much too soon
10. I am the girl you know can't look you in the eye
11. Karma police arrest this man
12. The boys from the village were festering sore
13. I'm a steam roller for you baby
14. There was a place, and the name of the place escapes me
15. People, they don't mean a thing to you
16. What would you think if I sang out of tune
17. Come on y'all let's take a ride don't you say shit just get inside
18. Breaking rocks in the hot sun
19. Trying to make a woman match your move
20. If you see a faded sign at the side of the road
21. In my mind I've gone to Carolina
22. Down, down, down you go
23. We both lie silently still in the dead of the night
24. Killing in the name of
25. The heart is a bloom, shoots up through the stony ground
26. I attack with love, pure bug beauty
27. Save some face, you know you've only got one
28. I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me
29. You make me... you make me...
30. The island it is silent now but the ghosts still haunt the waves
Well, at least some of those ought to be _really_ easy, seeing as their titles are in the first line. In the interest of full disclosure, I dropped a few songs: one was a Jimi Hendrix instrumental ("Moon, Turn the Tides.... gently gently away"), one the original version of the song that had already popped up as a cover, and anothers song whose first line contained the title (you can only have so many gimmes). And it's shame I had to stop at 30, because songs 31 and 32 were pretty tasty. : )
Let the games begin.
1. Put your playlist on shuffle.
2. Post the first lines to the first 30 songs to come up (along with these instructions).
3. Have people guess the songs and artists in comments to the post.
4. Post the answers to the ones people guessed correctly. A couple of days later, post the first two lines of the ones no one got and get people to guess again.
5. Repeat, adding the next line to the unguessed songs each time, until they're all guessed/you've posted the whole song/you've gotten bored/no-one's going to get the damn thing if you don't tell them.
I'm interpretting "the first line" broadly, cause otherwise some of these would be well nigh impossible. : )
So, then:
Here are the lyrics
1. My heart is beating from me, I am standing all alone
2. (One two three four) If you close the door, the night could last forever
3. Wake up, don't fear, I want to love you
4. You won't admit you love me and so how am I ever to know
5. I found him by the railroad track this morning
6. Are you in a bad mood?
7. Sally hit the pavement, wineglass in her hand
8. A green plastic watering can for a fake chinese rubber plant
9. Never too soon to be through being cool too much too soon
10. I am the girl you know can't look you in the eye
11. Karma police arrest this man
12. The boys from the village were festering sore
13. I'm a steam roller for you baby
14. There was a place, and the name of the place escapes me
15. People, they don't mean a thing to you
16. What would you think if I sang out of tune
17. Come on y'all let's take a ride don't you say shit just get inside
18. Breaking rocks in the hot sun
19. Trying to make a woman match your move
20. If you see a faded sign at the side of the road
21. In my mind I've gone to Carolina
22. Down, down, down you go
23. We both lie silently still in the dead of the night
24. Killing in the name of
25. The heart is a bloom, shoots up through the stony ground
26. I attack with love, pure bug beauty
27. Save some face, you know you've only got one
28. I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me
29. You make me... you make me...
30. The island it is silent now but the ghosts still haunt the waves
Well, at least some of those ought to be _really_ easy, seeing as their titles are in the first line. In the interest of full disclosure, I dropped a few songs: one was a Jimi Hendrix instrumental ("Moon, Turn the Tides.... gently gently away"), one the original version of the song that had already popped up as a cover, and anothers song whose first line contained the title (you can only have so many gimmes). And it's shame I had to stop at 30, because songs 31 and 32 were pretty tasty. : )
Let the games begin.