20 random lyrics meme

[zdashamber]

As follybard points out:

On your current playlist, hit shuffle and pick the first twenty songs on the list (no matter how cheesy or embarrassing), and write down your favourite line of the song. Try to avoid putting the song title in the line. Then, have your friends comment and see if they know the songs.

Except I didn't remember the "favorite" bit when taking notes, so what you get is lyrics that should be midway in hardness to deciper and vaguely interesting en masse, since those were my selection criteria...

1. Bad language or abuse I never, never use
   
2. Hey, hobo man, hey, dapper dan; you've both got your style
   
3. We lay down and wept, and wept, for thee
   
4. You hurt me to my soul
   
5. Man comes on and tells me how white my shirts could be
   
6. If you remain careless and obdurate I-- (What's obdurate?) (I don't know)
   
7. Namely, can the frog tapdance?
   (Edit: that wasn't fair, since it's not a part of the lyrics of the song, only the patter as done by the singer. A line of the lyrics of the song would be "Earful of music sweet.")
   
8. No-one heard the music—we didn't look the same
   
9. What have I done to deserve such a fate?
   
10. Been searchin' for something taken outta my soul
    
11. They dedicate their lives to running all of his
    
12. She only reveals what she wants you to see
    
13. I think I might be sinking
    
14. Will my heart be broken when the night meets the morning sun?
    
15. He's lookin' for that home and I hope he finds it
    
16. Incriminating Claus-marks on her back
    
17. His lip should curl
    
18. No one you can save that can't be saved
    
19. You just can't hide your eyes are edged with tears
    
20. Gave me just a copy of your love

Were I the sort to be embarassed by my taste, I might be a bit sad that Winamp decided to concentrate itself in the embarassing sections of my playlist... If I hadn't thrown out all the purely insturmental stuff and the indeciperable foreign-language stuff, it would look a lot less geeky, I assure you. Well, actually, it probably wouldn't.

Edit2: Thanks to rikibeth and shadowflyer and follybard, nearly all of these (the struckthrough ones) have been nailed... For anyone who wants to mop up, the clues I've given below are that there remain a Stones song, a Billy Joel song, and a Zeppelin song. Riki has rightly pegged 7 for the other Muppet-performed song, but it's not yet been named; and as for the last, it also appeared in the first song meme ("First 30 Songs") I did...

Comments

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

1) And I'm hardly ever sick at sea! Captain of the Pinafore, Gilbert & Sullivan.

3) By the Waters of Babylon -- um. A reggae group. Appears on the soundtrack for "The Harder They Come," among other places. Can't remember the actual group.

5) - Mark got this already, I saw

6) Did anyone call this yet? It sounds like it HAS to be G&S again, possibly "Poor Wand'ring One" or "Titwillow."

8) I should know this

12) She's Only A Woman, Billy Joel

14) Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, the Shirelles

15) I saw Mark got this too. I will point out that while everyone (rightly) knows the Janis Joplin performance, it was written by Kris Kristofferson.

16) Is that Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer? *shudder*

18) All You Need Is Love, the Beatles -- already called, right?

That's what I know.

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

3 -- um. Reggae? Right song, but I have the (original, I think) Don McLean version, from the "American Pie" album. Gorgeous round. I have his live version, too, twice as long, like bathing in a waterfall of good music....

6 -- Yep, "Titwillow." Except it's the version done by Rowlf the Dog and Sam Eagle. Winamp kinda, um, got stuck in the "Muppets" section of my playlist. (I had to throw out the Swedish Chef song because I couldn't deciper a single line of the lyrics.) This was the conjunction of the Gilbert and Sullivan section (of which there is one representative yet to be uncovered) and the Muppets section (of which there is also one representative yet to be uncovered).

15 -- Huh. Didn't know that.
when I had just graduated high school, I took a sorta school-arranged trip to Italy and Greece... At Asissi, we listened to a monk there talk about how it was to be a Catholic monk of St. Francis. To explain his vow of poverty, he called on Janis Joplin... "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." Always the association I have with that song. I think he didn't quite have the song's meaning right, but even so.

16 -- Yep. Don't give me that shudder... Every one of you recognized it! (hee hee hee hee...) (My parents once when I was little prevented me from calling that song from a jukebox. I just wanted to know what it was... It had such a neat title... And then when I finally found the MP3 in college, I kinda liked it...)

Hm. There's another Billy Joel thing on the list, but I'm kinda embarrased about it, and I think it shows your taste that y'all haven't noticed it.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

3 is actually a psalm, if you want to go back to origins.

7 is the other Muppet choice, although damned if I know what it is.

And the other G&S is "His lip should curl." Don't quite know which song it comes from, but I can say it's that one.

Now back to look to see if anyone's pulled 8.

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

3: True, true. Don McLean made it into a lovely round, though... (I really recommend it...)

You're right about 17. Think "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

"A British tar is a roaring soul..." Right. Another from Pinafore. It's been YEARS since I saw that performed, but I can hear John Rhys-Davies singing it now. "His energetic fists..."

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

Yep! I sing that in a booming Sallah voice when I'm alone in the house. The people downstairs probably wonder at me. Once, I tried to rewrite it... "A Rebman tar is a soaring soul, as free as the fish of the sea..."

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

Oh, and as for 8, I don't know if you'd know it or not. It's a song that most people (including myself) only really know for the chorus, which is well-known.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I am going to go out on a limb and say #8 is "Garden Party" by Ricky Nelson. And I can't believe I'm admitting to knowing it.

I have not yet spotted the other Billy Joel or other Rolling Stones and I am annoyed at not having done so.

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

8 -- Bingo. What's the trouble with knowing that? Fine song! Though I dunno if I'm qualified to say, since I didn't hear the chorus well the first few times, and still often sing it as "I've learned my lesson well; you know you can't please everyone, so I'll see you next in hell."