Songish meme

[heidi]

Someone, in the last 36 hours, did a meme where the theme was to take the first 20 or so (well, that's how many I'm using) songs on a randomized playlist and give a line from each song, so people can guess what the songs are from that.

Since I have a huge number of incredibly obscure 80s songs on my iPod, I've randomized 100 songs, but I'm only going to include one song from each artist, instead of trying to make y'all guess 10 different songs from Everything But the Girl.

So...

1.And that's good! Isn't it grand, isn't it great, isn't it swell, isn't it fun, isn't it? But nothing stays.

2. Curtains close with a kiss, God knows you can tell the end is near.

3. So don't brag how you have changed and everything's been rearranged. I thought all that was over and done, but I still get the same from each & every one.

4. I've got an aching in my heart and arson on my mind.

5. He's drinking all my beers, he's wearing all my clothes, and if he winks at me again I think I'll take him home!

6. I've been feeling so much older. Chain me, and hang me on the wall.

7. Hush my darling, don't you cry. Silent angel, forget their lies.

8. Children put away your toys, all your little children's games. Let the jazz band make some noise - step up ladies and watch out, boys.

9.Some people might get some pleasure out of hate. Me, I've enough already on my plate. People might need some tension to relax. Me, I'm too busy dodging between the facts.

10. Make it last forever - friendship never ends.

11. It's so funny to be seeing you after so long, girl. From the way you look I understand that you were not impressed.

12. I saw the decade in, waiting for the world to change in the blink of an eye.

13. Your magic doesn't need the failing spells of those that never understand, and manners, they will find no place with those that have no saving grace. With you I see the irony of anyone who has no faith. (hint: this song was the title of a chapter of Draco Sinister)

14. I quit. I give up. Nothing's good enough for anybody else, it seems.

15. ...And the way she says, 'You missed a spot over there.'

16. Do you recall about seven years ago you said that you were so tough, and I loved it, loved you for putting me down in a totally new way, down with the bad old, sad old days.

17. How is the neighbour downstairs? How is her temper this year? I turned up your TV and stomped on the floor just for fun!

18. Don't want to tango with you. I'd rather tangle with him. I think I'm gonna bash his head in and this shouldn't concern you, except that don't expect to get your bloody...

19. I belong in the service of the queen. I belong anywhere but in between.

20. Get the kids and bring a sweater. Dry is good and wind is better. Count the years, you always knew it, strike a match, go on and do it...


BONUS:
A. Tiny steps from ruthless legs; when you’ve been walking so long, don’t you rest from disharmony, from disunity, from anything that isn’t you and me?

B. Slow. Slow. Quick, quick, slow.

C. Unicorns and cannonballs, palaces and piers, trumpets, towers, and tenemets, wide oceans full of tears, flag, rags, ferry boats, scimitars and scarves - every precious dream and vision Underneath the stars.

Answers will be posted on Friday. The first person who gets all 23 gets two months paid LJ time, and the first five to get 20 will each get (GASP!) a drabble - PG-rated or less - featuring the HP ship or character of their choice - or, if you're a non-HP person, I will read any chapter of The Eight for you via phone-post. :D

ETA: sbbo and aegeus tie for the win! And if both of them can explain how they've heard of Labour of Love (and I'll note that I should've used Vera Drives instead, wah) they get my perpetual admiration.

For the rest of y ou - feel free to still take the quiz - we're still waiting on a few prizewinners for the "getting 20" count. Even if you can't answer everything, answer what you can! I'm curious as to who knows what...

And I think I'll do this again in a week or so, and see if anyone can identify "I wore my fringe like Roger McGuin's. I wore it hoping to impress..."

Comments

[casira.livejournal.com]

- or, if you're a non-HP person, I will read any chapter of The Eight for you via phone-post. :D

The Eight? Katherine Neville's? Cool!

(Love that book. :)

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Back in 1996, laughingirl and I typed in chapters of that book for a mailing list we were on called The Friends Zone. I think I spent an hour a day, every other day, typing.

[zhonnika.livejournal.com]

Dang. I only know three of them. But one of them is a bonus one :P

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

List 'em anyway!

[sisterpandora.livejournal.com]

Wow, I wish I had time to do this since I know several of the answers (Bonus B is a favorite) but alas I have to go give a speech. Even though I'm an HP person, I would so throw drabbles over for the Eight, an excellent book. Did you hear that she's working on the sequel for it now?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

"B" is one of the bestest songs ever, and from such an underrated film, too!

And yes! I've heard about the sequel! Am looking forward to it!

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

1.

2. Yes.

[titanic-days.livejournal.com]

How, then, is that obscure and Eighties?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

The 80s stuff intersperses the rest of it. I mean, Song #1 is from the 70s!

[sbbo.livejournal.com]

This was quite fun. I've got a huge music selection myself, so I loved seeing things that I had too.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Mer! You got all the songs, at least sort of (on "A" you gave the paranthetical, not the entire title) but you got some of the artists wrong but I didn't ask for artists, so all in all I think you & Aegeus are going to tie for the win here. You both pull first prize! Wheee!

[sbbo.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Very cool. I've never really won a contest that required something other than random luck.

Actually, with the artists, I was kind of afraid to put them down, because people do covers, and remakes, and remixes, and I was sure that I'd have a different one than you. So, yeah.

I'm all kinds of giggly.

[barquentine.livejournal.com]

Ahrgh!I only got 18...
I thought I had a wider music knowledge than that.Im going to go to bed now but il be awake all night thinking of what 16 is.
If I submit other ones after this do they still count?Just in case I remember=)
Sunny

on my way to a fundraiser! but quickly!

[ari-o.livejournal.com]

1. ?
2. ?
3. Everything but the Girl
4. Proclaimers
5. Voice of the Beehive
6. Crowded House (of course)
8. Squirell Nut Zippers
9. Jam ♥ Paul Weller!

I'll come back later!

[aegeus.livejournal.com]

1 - Nowadays, Chicago
2 - Where Do We Go From Here?, Once More with Feeling, the Buffy Musical
3 - Each and Everyone, Everything But The Girl
4 - (I'm Gonna) Burn Your Playhouse Down, The Proclaimers
5 - Barbarian, Voice of the Beehive
6 - Something So Strong, Crowded House
7 - Our Lips Are Sealed, The Go-Go's or Poe (Poe covered it, changing "Our" to "My")
8 - Got My Own Thing Now, Squirrel Nut Zippers
9 - Going Underground, The Jam
10 - Wannabe, Spice Girls
11 - Alison, Elvis Costello
12 - Right Here, Right Now, Jesus Jones
13 - Mattress of Wire, Aztec Camera
14 - Circle, Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
15 - Stacy's Mom, Fountains of Wayne
16 - Labour of Love, Hue and Cry
17 - The Apartment, Barenaked Ladies
18 - Little Black Backpack, Stroke 9
19 - Rain King, Counting Crows
20 - Sunny Came Home, Shawn Colvin

Bonus A - When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring) - Deacon Blue & Ricky Ross
Bonus B - Floorshow, Sisters of Mercy
Bonus C - Whole of the Moon, The Waterboys (covered by Mandy Moore)

[aegeus.livejournal.com]

Edit:

17 - The Old Apartment, Barenaked Ladies

[barquentine.livejournal.com]

ok Aegus wins hands down MY GOD thats good!

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

sbbo had already posted the same song-titles just a few minutes before, so they tied. Wheeeeee!

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

I'll allow your edit, but I don't know the Sisters of Mercy. My bit is from Dancing In Heaven from Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!

[aegeus.livejournal.com]

It's a tango step that's used in so many songs, it's impossible to know which one you wanted.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Wait, you didn't know from F_W that I expect people to have psychic powers?

;)

[aegeus.livejournal.com]

Do I get points for telling you now that the lyrics for Something so Strong are "Frame me" not "Chain me," and the lyric for Our Lips Are Sealed is just "angel" with no "silent"?

Of course, I may be wrong about those, but I'm fairly sure ...

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

I was listening to one of the live versions. Neil went a little more risque in some of the concerts...

[aegeus.livejournal.com]

Ah.

[wordplay.livejournal.com]

See, I would have sworn that it was "quiet, angel". Or something that wasn't "silent", anyway.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

MANDY MOORE covered The Whole of the Moon?

: dies and goes to hell

(I think I need to hear this.)

But I bet she doesn't even know who Roddy Frame is!

[sundancekid.livejournal.com]

I like her version - but I've never heard the original.

She did a CD called Coverage, which is all songs from the 70s and 80s - and, IIRC, she chose her favorite songs, so she probably does know who really sings it. It's not a bad CD, really.

[heinous_bitca.livejournal.com]

7 - Our Lips Are Sealed, The Go-Go's or Poe (Poe covered it, changing "Our" to "My")

Also sung by Fun Boy Three. :D

[aegeus.livejournal.com]

And I think I'll do this again in a week or so, and see if anyone can identify "I wore my fringe like Roger McGuin's. I wore it hoping to impress..."

Consolation Prize, Orange Juice, covered by Aztec Camera.

[tinman.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I know only a very few:

7. Our Lips Are Sealed - Go-Gos (or Fun Boy Three)
12. Right Here, Right Now - Jesus Jones
B. Dancing In Heaven (Orbital Be-Bop) - Q-Feel (I was listening to this one just this morning.

[ari-o.livejournal.com]

oky back and drunk. :D

I misse seven before - so cotinuing

7. Can't you hear them? Talking bout us telling lies, well thats no surprise!
Our lips are sealed by Fun Boy Three or the Go Gos

10. no idea
11. Alison by Elvis Costello
12. hmmm sounds familiar. can't place it!
13. er...
14. Circle - Edie Brickell
15. Stacy's Mom - Fountains of Wayne
16. wibble
17. Thats a Barenaked Ladies song right?
18. nope
19. Counting Crows
20, erm...

a.
b. Dancing in Haven by Q-Feel (I never thought I'd get this far or that far - or whatever it is)
c. The Whole of The Moon - the Waterboys (I love this song!)

wow - I suck.

[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

1. "Nowadays" - Roxie Hart, Chicago

2. "Where Do We Go From Here" - BtVS cast, from Once More with Feeling

6. "Something So Strong" - Crowded House *feels the CH lurve*

8. Squirrel Nut Zippers

11. "Alison" - Elvis Costello

12. "Right Here Right Now" - Jesus Jones

14. I can sing this line but I can't for the life of me think of title or artist. Probably because I didn't like it much. :(

And B. reminds me of Renaissance dancing.

[sbbo.livejournal.com]

I heard about Labour of Love on a political debate site. It was listed as one of the worst songs dealing with politics, but so were a few other songs that I liked. So, yeah, I looked it up.

Not too funny of a story, really.