Meme via trialia cos I'm super bored

[labellementeuse]

I used to do this meme ALL THE TIME. Epic.

Step 1: Set your primary playlist to random and shuffle it.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play (or more, if you like!), no matter how embarrassing the song. If you want to, skip instrumentals, songs that have the title in the first line and songs that aren't in the first language of the majority of your flist (it makes it easier for most).
Step 3: Tag people if you want, but anyone is allowed to guess the answers.
Step 4: Strike through and add the artist and title below the lyric when someone gets one right.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is cheating. Please don't.
Step 6: If after 30 days, there are still gaps, put people out of their misery.


1. Can't stay at home can't stay in school
The Runaways - Cherry Bomb (paxpinnae)

2. What would you think if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and walk out on me?
The Beatles - A Little Help From My Friends (china_shop)

3. Things have come to a pretty pass, our romance is growing flat
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (prudence_dearly)

4. There's blood in my mouth cos I've been biting my tongue all week
Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes (lemony_purple

5. Don't wanna be second best, don't wanna stand in line
KT Tunstall - Miniature Disasters (trialia)

6. Reach out and touch faith
Marilyn Manson - Personal Jesus (paxpinnae)

7. I can hear the soft breathing of the girl that I love
FREE TIP: this isn't the one you're thinking of, it's the other one. (The one it's not: Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning, 3 AM (mermaid))

8. Wanna make a bet, we'll be neck and neck
Metric - Stadium Love (caramarie

9. What good is sitting alone in your room?
Liza Minelli - Cabaret (from the musical Cabaret) (paxpinnae)

10. I believe in self-assertion, Destiny in slight diversion
Self - Stay Home (sennical)

11. "George, I think we should listen." "Oh, very well."

12. I was sitting waiting just thinking contemplating my life when I heard the phone

13. The sun came up with no conclusions, flowers sleeping in their beds

14. "I wanna talk to you." "The last time we talked, Mr. Smith, you reduced me to tears."
Mika - Grace Kelly (morebliss)

15. Once upon a time (I wish) in a far off kingdom (more than anything)
Into the Woods cast - Prologue (From Into the Woods, obvi). (suchroadslead

16. She gets too hungry for dinner at eight
Glee soundtrack (yeah, yeah) - The Lady is A Tramp (china_shop)

17. Whoa, another day I'd take your pain away
Janelle Monae - Tightrope (dazyndara)

18. Just before our love got lost, you said "I am as constant as the Northern Star"
Joni Mitchell - A Case of You (trialia

19. Perhaps I am a miscreation, all I know's the truth: there is no future here.
Dar Williams - Are You Out There (paxpinnae)

20. He's a company man, your right hand
Vienna Teng - Whatever You Want (trialia)


Skipped: a lot of Beatles tunes with the title in the first line, READY STEADY GO by L'Arc en Ciel. Aaaaand I didn't love the balance there so imma do one with what I listen to at home (shuffle all in WMP)



21. When you're weary, feeling small
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water (china_shop)

22. Now that I've lost everything to you, you say you wanna start something new.
Cat Stevens - Wild World (china_shop)

23. You'll be given love, you'll be taken care of
Death Cab for Cutie - All is Full of Love (mermaid)

24. I'm just a ordinary, same old nothing me, I can tell you ordinary same old nothing things
Bic Runga - Ordinary Girl (jo_nzl)

25. You don't have to deal with the dealers, let your boyfriend deal with the dealers

26. Happiness hit her like a train on a track.
Florence + the Machine - Dog Days Are Over (paxpinnae)

27. (Yeah yeah yeah yeah) There's always cracks, crack of sunlight, a crack in the mirror

28. We heard the fireworks, rushed out to watch the sky

29. No matter which way you go, no matter which way you stay
Tegan & Sara - Walking with a Ghost (trialia)

30. Sometimes I find myself sitting back and reminiscing, especially when I have to watch other people kissing.
Lily Allen - Littlest Things (dazyndara)

31. I remember where we used to sit in the government yard in Kingston
Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry (prudence_dearly)

32. It's not time to make a change, just relax, take it easy.
Father & Son - Cat Stevens (china_shop)

33. Lonesome for no one when the room was empty and war as we knew it was obsolete
Metric - Succexy (aworldinside

34. Never win first place, I don't support the team
P!nk - Don't Let Me Get Me (reticent_lass)

35. Seems she's there again, knows where to begin, it helps him carry on
Zed - He's Sad (suchroadslead

36. It's a godawful small affair to the girl with the mousy hair
David Bowie - Life On Mars (china_shop)

37. It's empty in the valley of your heart
Mumford & Sons - The Cave (mermaid)

38. Cyborg, android, d-boy, decoy, water, wisdom, tightrope, vision (all these dreams are forever)
Janelle Monae - Dance or Die (feat. Saul Williams) (dazyndara

39. You in a simple gray coat, in a simple white room

40. Tumble out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen
Dolly Parton - 9 to 5 (morebliss)

Skipped: "La Complainte de Filles de Joie" by Georges Brassens, Verona by Elemeno P, some more Beatles (I'm not even that into the Beatles, IDK why I get SO much of them in shuffle), a bunch of classical, "The Absence of God" by Rilo Kiley, "Orange Sky" by Alexi Murdoch, "And No More Shall We Part" by Bic Runga, "Hello" by Poe, "Dear Diary" by P!nk, "I can hear the bells" from Hairspray, "Skullcrusher Mountain" by Jonathan Coulton, "Lay Down Sally" by Eric Clapton & something from the Marriage of Figaro. Plus I have a principle that if I couldn't guess the song from the lyric I skip - but there are only a few of those, so.

Comments

[paxpinnae]

List 1

1. "Cherry Bomb" by The Runaways.
6. "Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode. Johnny Cash also did a very good cover.
9. "Cabaret" from Cabaret, sung by Liza Minelli
14. "Grace Kelly" by MIKA
19. "Are You Out There" by Dar Williams.
26. "Dog Days Are Over" by Florence + The Machine
40. "9 to 5" from 9 to 5, sung by Dolly Parton

... You have good taste in music. Also, my memory for song lyrics has apparently improved since the last time this meme made the rounds.

[labellementeuse]

How funny that you got exactly the version I have of Cabaret, but named two versions of Personal Jesus I didn't know existed! (My one is Marilyn Manson, not someone of whom I'm generally a fan. I like Johnny Cash a lot, had no idea he'd covered it.)

Also A+ on Dar Williams! It's one of my fave Dar songs.

[trialia]

18 - Case of You - not sure which version, Joni Mitchell or Diana Krall?
20 - Whatever You Want - Vienna Teng
29 - Walking With A Ghost - Tegan & Sara

And... that's me, from the ones not guessed already *g*

[labellementeuse]

Joni. I love her.

There's another T&S song on there, I'm counting on you ;)

[trialia]

Ooooh. 5 is KT Tunstall. Miniature Disasters, I think? I can hear her, now.

As for the T&S, I googled the rest as I didn't recognise any of 'em beyond the one above, and it's not a song of theirs that I actually know, sorry!

[labellementeuse]

Yeah, quite right on KT!

Lol it's OK, I guess I forgive you.

[caramarie]

8 - Stadium Love - Metric.

I do not know much!

Does Bic Runga cover Nick Cave's 'And No More Shall We Part'?? I did not know that!

[labellementeuse]

Well, lots have gone, and also I think my taste is a bit more shite poppy than yours :P

Yeah, she did, and it's totally gorgeous (although I worship her, so.) It's on the Live with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra album, there are a bunch of covers on there - she also did Bob Dylan (One More Cup of Coffee) and Jacques Brel (Ne Me Quitte Pas).

[(Anonymous)]

15 - Into the woods "I wish"
17 - YAY Janelle Monae! "Tightrope"
30 - Lily Allen "Littlest Things"
38 - YAY more Janelle Monae (and I didn't actually know those were the words till now :p) - Dance of Die (feat. Saul Williams)

(This is Liz but I don't have a DW account)

[(Anonymous)]

bah, and of course I can't edit it. Dance OR Die!

[labellementeuse]

♥ go you! All right except #15 which is Prologue, technically. :P