RETURN of the 20 random lyrics meme!

[zdashamber]

Best meme of 2004 goes to:

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.

I loved that one. And pretty soon, at long last, my word will be redeemed; there's a box of copies of every Muppet CD I own should be arriving on rikibeth's doorstep any day now. She totally 0wnz0red my song list last time.

This time: winner picks a CD. And all those who put up a good show can have a copy of Ozomatli's "Street Signs", because that's an awesome album and I want all of you to know and love Ozomatli as I have come to know and love them. :)

Well, not quite 20. This time I've listed the instrumentals and "other" (I've got a score or so sound files...) as they came up, so it's more a taste of my total WinAmp experience. If anyone wants to whistle to me the instrumentals, I'll be rather impressed.

1. In between what I find is pleasing and I'm feeling fine / Love is so confusing
2. Protected by the arm of the law ... The sins of the rich and the trials of the poor
 *2. "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
3. I could not foresee this thing happening to you
4. We'll visit a palace / And dine with a king / We're gonna start living, you wait and see
5. You had your breakfast in bed before, but you won't have it there anymore
6. God I think they’re gonna kick the door in again
7. And if a girlie sees my car there's no chance I'll ever bang her
 *7. Chopin - Etude in E, Op. 10, No. 3 (Tristesse)
 **7. Scott Joplin - Solace (The Sting piano version)
8. I sit and watch the children play / Doin' things I used to do, they think are new
9. I go walking in my sleep, through the jungle of doubt
10. Staring at the fire for hours and hours while I listen to you
11. Directory don't have it, central done forgot it
 *11. Spencer Doidge - Solace by Scott Joplin [this is an acoustic guitar version]
12. He met a girl out there with a tattoo too
13. And an aching in my heart, and my pockets full of sand / I'm a long way from home and I miss my loved ones so
 *13. UC Berkeley - Cal Fight Song
14. And there were wonderful roses, they tell me
15. His aunties play Majong, while he downloads from Hong Kong / Where today it's already tomorrow
 *15. Scott Joplin - Palm Leaf Rag
 **15. "Your excellency, haven't we seen each other somewhere before?"
"I don't think so. I'm not sure I'm seeing you now. It must be something I ate."
16. And there may be many others but they haven't been discovered
 *16. Trans Siberian Orchestra - Boughs of Holly [basically "Deck the Halls"]
17. Where am I to go, now that I've gone too far
 *17. Chopin - Nocturne in E flat
18. It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe... A light I never knowed
19. May! Maybe if I ask your dad and mom / June! they'll let me take you to the junior prom
 *19. Bach - Air on a G-String
20. Say after me: it's so better to be safe than sorry

I'm pleased that one of the songs no one got last time has reappeared...

Edited to add: more info about the unguessed songs! I reckon if you know them, you'll know them now. Dunno, though.

Comments

[follybard.livejournal.com]

These two I'm sure of:

12 - "Into The Great Wide Open" - Tom Petty
20 - "Take On Me" - a-ha (or perhaps the cover by Reel Big Fish....)

I suspect 16 might be Tom Lehrer's Gilbert-and-Sullivanesque song about the periodic table of the elements (which might even be called "The Elements"....)

And I feel sure I know 6, but it hasn't come to me yet....

[olofd.livejournal.com]

I think you must be correct on number 16, Karen. Sadly I find that few lines stick in my brain. (If they were in Swedish, I believe I would be better off.)

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

Alas, I don't think I own a single song in Swedish. I have some songs by Ace of Base, though... They came from Sweden, right?

[olofd.livejournal.com]

Yes, they are. I think they are still active, actually.

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

Right on everything! I love the "with a tattoo too" assonance. And I have the A-ha version of Take On Me, though perhaps I'll check out the Reel Big Fish version, since I like that song a lot.

[shadowflyer.livejournal.com]

3. "Paint it Black," Rolling Stones
6. "Truckin'," Grateful Dead
9. "River of Dreams," Billy Joel
11. "Operator," Grateful Dead
12. "Into the Great Wide Open," Tom Petty (you go, Karen)
14. "Til There Was You," The Music Man soundtrack
17. "Twilight Zone," Golden Earring

You have a pretty darn cool playlist.

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

Thanks! "River of Dreams" was the one that no one got last time. I picked a better line from it this time...

Ah, well...

[aiyume.livejournal.com]

I got four looking at the list without seeing anyone else's posts:

7. "Ode to My Car" by Adam Sandler
9. "River of Dreams" by Billy Joel
16. "The Elements" by Tom Lehrer
17. "Twilight Zone" by Golden Earring

I probably *should* have recognized 12 and 14, and there are others that sound tantilizingly familiar. There are also some that I'm sure I've never heard, but sound really cool. I'll have to drop by again sometime. :)

Re: Ah, well...

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

I bet you probably know more. I think I'll let it run a bit and then drop some hints... I like how you got mostly odd stuff. :)