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primroseburrowsI'm not sure how to do this meme. 20 entries? 25? I dunno. The premise, I think, is to take songs off of my playlist, quote random lyrics from them, and let people guess. So I'll do it, with 25, since I have such a large, um. Playlist. *waggles voluminous MP3 collection* I could do more. And. I encourage ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
songdog and patchfires to do this meme. Also starflowers and nmalfoy. If you get it right, I'll credit you. *g* First one in gets the rubber chicken.
Oh, and I'm only crediting people who guess the title AND artist (original or a cover).
Here goes, randomly, from my playlist, which is almost every song on this computer.
1. Rose, he knows he's such a credit to the game, but the Yankees grab the headlines every time Billy Joel, "Zanzibar".nmalfoy
2. Although we had no money, I was rich as I could be Coat of Many Colours, I think I was listening to the Emmylou Harris cover of the Dolly Parton Song..nmalfoy
3. Mountains crumble to the sea...there would still be you and me Thank You Tori Amos' amazing cover of Led Zeppelin.nmalfoy
4. We drank all his glory, and we borrowed all his time
5. 99 Duesenjaeger, Jeder war ein grosser Krieger Hielten sich fuer Captain Kirk,
Das gab ein grosses Feuerwerk Nena, "99 Luftballons"misscora
6. The windshield is covered with rain; I'm crying.
7. She walks across the marble floor where a voice from the gambling room is callin' her to come on in. She smiles, walks the other way Bob Dylan - "Black Diamond Bay"falconcat
8. It’s a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken...perhaps they’re better left unsung. The Grateful Dead - "Ripple"nmalfoy
9. ...how could I not let anybody know how sweet it is to call your name
10. Let's haul ass before the baby gets burned Bonnie Raitt - "Papa Come Quick (Jody and Chico) "misscora
11. That's an age-old story; everybody knows that's a warn-out song
12. See the children of the earth who wake to find the table bare. See the gentry in the country riding off to take the air. Gordon Lightfoot - "Don Quixote"nmalfoy
13. Clearing webs from the hovel; a blistered hand on a handle of a shovel Indigo Girls - "Hammer and a Nail"heinous_bitca, with credit to falconcat for an almostalmost.
14. Cast alone between the furrows of a field no longer sown by anyone Elton John - "Curtains"nmalfoy
15. We shall survive, let us take ourselves along where we fight our parents out in the streets to find who's right and who's wrong Elton John - "Bennie and the Jets"misscora
16. It's your world, now, I can't refuse, I never had so much to lose Garth Brooks' cover of Billy Joel's "Shameless".nmalfoy
17. I gotta fly to Saint Somewhere, I'm close to bodily harm
16.2 You're a stranger to me, then you give me your life; I toss it to one side Elton John - "Sugar on the Floor"nmalfoy
17.2 It was worth it, feeling abandoned...makes one hardened, but what has happened to love? Rufus Wainwright - "Go or Go Ahead"falconcat
18. And here we stand in a box of sand Glen Campbell - "Where's the Playground, Susie?"nmalfoy I'm *completely* impressed, my dear
19. I'm not ashamed to tell the world that you really messed up my mind. The Osmonds - One Bad Applenmalfoy
20. These people round here wear beaten down eyes sunk in smoke dried faces, they're so resigned to what their fate is Dexy's Midnight Runners - "Come On Eileen"nmalfoy
21. Am I none the worse for trying, neither useless nor improved
22. I want to hold the hand inside you..I want to take a breath that's true Mazzy Star - "Fade Into You"merryperseis
23. How can a person go to work in the morning, come home in the evening and have nothing to say? Bonnie Raitt/John Prine - "Angel From Montgomery"neonnurse
24: Oh, I love your Roman nose...the way you curl your toes, baby.. Elton John - Mellow"falconcat.
25: It takes a whole lot of medicine, darlin', to make me forget I'm somebody else Bonnie Raitt - "Guilty". I've never heard the Nazareth Version.nmalfoy
songdog and patchfires to do this meme. Also starflowers and nmalfoy. If you get it right, I'll credit you. *g* First one in gets the rubber chicken.Oh, and I'm only crediting people who guess the title AND artist (original or a cover).
Here goes, randomly, from my playlist, which is almost every song on this computer.
1. Rose, he knows he's such a credit to the game, but the Yankees grab the headlines every time Billy Joel, "Zanzibar".
nmalfoy2. Although we had no money, I was rich as I could be Coat of Many Colours, I think I was listening to the Emmylou Harris cover of the Dolly Parton Song..
nmalfoy 3. Mountains crumble to the sea...there would still be you and me Thank You Tori Amos' amazing cover of Led Zeppelin.
nmalfoy 4. We drank all his glory, and we borrowed all his time
5. 99 Duesenjaeger, Jeder war ein grosser Krieger Hielten sich fuer Captain Kirk,
Das gab ein grosses Feuerwerk Nena, "99 Luftballons"
misscora6. The windshield is covered with rain; I'm crying.
7. She walks across the marble floor where a voice from the gambling room is callin' her to come on in. She smiles, walks the other way Bob Dylan - "Black Diamond Bay"
falconcat8. It’s a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken...perhaps they’re better left unsung. The Grateful Dead - "Ripple"
nmalfoy9. ...how could I not let anybody know how sweet it is to call your name
10. Let's haul ass before the baby gets burned Bonnie Raitt - "Papa Come Quick (Jody and Chico) "
misscora11. That's an age-old story; everybody knows that's a warn-out song
12. See the children of the earth who wake to find the table bare. See the gentry in the country riding off to take the air. Gordon Lightfoot - "Don Quixote"
nmalfoy 13. Clearing webs from the hovel; a blistered hand on a handle of a shovel Indigo Girls - "Hammer and a Nail"
heinous_bitca, with credit to falconcat for an almostalmost.14. Cast alone between the furrows of a field no longer sown by anyone Elton John - "Curtains"
nmalfoy15. We shall survive, let us take ourselves along where we fight our parents out in the streets to find who's right and who's wrong Elton John - "Bennie and the Jets"
misscora16. It's your world, now, I can't refuse, I never had so much to lose Garth Brooks' cover of Billy Joel's "Shameless".
nmalfoy 17. I gotta fly to Saint Somewhere, I'm close to bodily harm
16.2 You're a stranger to me, then you give me your life; I toss it to one side Elton John - "Sugar on the Floor"
nmalfoy17.2 It was worth it, feeling abandoned...makes one hardened, but what has happened to love? Rufus Wainwright - "Go or Go Ahead"
falconcat18. And here we stand in a box of sand Glen Campbell - "Where's the Playground, Susie?"
nmalfoy I'm *completely* impressed, my dear19. I'm not ashamed to tell the world that you really messed up my mind. The Osmonds - One Bad Apple
nmalfoy 20. These people round here wear beaten down eyes sunk in smoke dried faces, they're so resigned to what their fate is Dexy's Midnight Runners - "Come On Eileen"
nmalfoy21. Am I none the worse for trying, neither useless nor improved
22. I want to hold the hand inside you..I want to take a breath that's true Mazzy Star - "Fade Into You"
merryperseis23. How can a person go to work in the morning, come home in the evening and have nothing to say? Bonnie Raitt/John Prine - "Angel From Montgomery"
neonnurse 24: Oh, I love your Roman nose...the way you curl your toes, baby.. Elton John - Mellow"
falconcat.25: It takes a whole lot of medicine, darlin', to make me forget I'm somebody else Bonnie Raitt - "Guilty". I've never heard the Nazareth Version.
nmalfoy
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Date: 2004-05-03 09:48 pm (UTC)10) Bonnie Rait - Papa Come Quick (Jody and Chico)
15) Elton John - Bennie and the Jets
Do you know you have two 16 and 17s?
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Date: 2004-05-03 11:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-04 06:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-03 10:04 pm (UTC)Okay, on first glance we have:
1. Billy Joel, "Zanzibar"
2. Oh, oh, oh! Mr. Kotter! *waves frantically* Dolly Parton... Coat of Many Colors?
3. Get the Led out! Led Zeppelin, "Thank you"
4. Gahhh... Janis Ian, right?
5, Nena, "99 Luftballons"
6. Okay, okay... 99 Miles from L.A but the artist? Escapes me because I suck.
7. *meeble* Dunno.
8. Grateful Dead! Are you a Deadhead? Anyway, the song is, I believe, "Ripple"
9. Um.... no clue
10.It's Bonnie Raitt, I know...
11. Helllllp... clue train, please?
12. Gordon Lightfoot, "Don Quixote" (my you have good taste)
13. Nope. Nothing forthcoming. Did I mention I suck?
14. Elton John, "Curtains" (god what a good song, too)
15. Elton again! B-b-b-Bennie and the Jets
16. OOoh! Love this song. "Shameless", by either Billy Joel or Garth Brooks
17. Um... no idea.
16.2 Elton John, "Sugar on the Floor"
17.2 Don't know. *shakes head*
18. Guh... I love Glen Campbell. "Where's the Playground, Susie?"
19. *facepalm* I shouldn't know this... the Osmonds or the Jackson 5? "One Bad Apple"
20.Dexy's Midnight Runners, "Come On Eileen"
21.Don't know this one.
22.Don't know this one.
23. I SUCK
24. The song's called "Mellow" but am blank on artist.
25. Nazareth! Oh god I haven't heard this in years! "Guilty"
You're the one who's supposed to know her way around...
Date: 2004-05-03 11:34 pm (UTC)I adore Glen Campbell, the poor man. So incredibly talented.
ANd..."Mellow" is also Elton.
Re: You're the one who's supposed to know her way around...
Date: 2004-05-03 11:42 pm (UTC)People have done well on mine but no one's gotten the 50's stuff. I see I'm going to have to educate all of you.
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Date: 2004-05-04 09:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-04 09:58 am (UTC)Art Garfunkel.
19. *facepalm* I shouldn't know this... the Osmonds or the Jackson 5? "One Bad Apple". Osmonds. You get credit anyway 'cause you did guess the artist. *G*
I'll give it a shot
Date: 2004-05-03 10:12 pm (UTC)2. Sixty to Zero - Neil Young
3. Thank you song - Led Zep
4. sounds familiar but I can't think of it
5. 99 Luftballons
6. dunno
7. Black Diamond Day - Bob Dylan
8. Grateful Dead
9. dunno
10 dunno
11. Barbra Streisand - don't know the name
12. Don Quiote - Gordon Lightfoot
13 Hanner and Nails - Indigo Girls
14 dunno
15 Bennie and the Jets - Elton
16. Shameless - Billy Joel
17 Jimmy Buffet
16. dunno
17. Go or Go Ahead - Rufus Wainswright
18. The Who?
19. Well...it sounds like a song by Aaron Carter.
20. Come on Eileen
21. dunno
22. dunno
23 dunno
24 Mellow - Elton John
I think I screwed the numbers up....oh well.
Re: I'll give it a shot
Date: 2004-05-03 10:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-03 10:25 pm (UTC)23. Angel from Montgomery
12. is Gordon Lightfoot but damned if I remember the title.
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Date: 2004-05-04 06:06 am (UTC)13) Indigo Girls...what song, what song...Damn, why do I not have more of the CDs we have at home ripped here at work? Hammer and a Nail!
Damn. Some of the others are vaguely familiar, but not enough to get them. *pouts*