"guess the song by the lyrics" meme

[eliyes]

Step 1: Put your iTunes player* on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 32 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Bold the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!

*I used a different program, since I can't be arsed to move all my recently-acquired music to iTunes at the moment.


1. Warning! (echoes 5x)
2. He's so hardcore
3. The last time that I saw her was the night she said goodbye
4. Hey, ya bum! Yeah, you! Move over!
5. She's got the magic touch!
6. Na na na na-na niya na nahhh!
7. He called me up on the phone today
8. I'm quite contented to take my chances
9. (ah!) (ah-ah-ah-ohh!) (mmm) They lived in peace
10. I've changed by staying the same
11. Limpin' as you do and I'm watchin' you
12. Fuck the MP-double-A, comin' straight outta th'underground
13. Chloe don't know better
14. Goldenrod and the 4-H stone
15. "Take good care of what you've got," my father said to me
16. Lahhh lovely to see you!
17. Since you're gone, there is an empty space
18. You're your own worst enemy / Your Own Worst Enemy -- Alice Cooper (guessed by scribe_protra)
19. and to love: a god / Selling the Drama -- Live (guessed by serenity_ca4)
20. (oooh) When marimba rhythms start to play / Sway -- Dean Martin (guessed by hybridhelen)
21. Wanna show you something like a joy inside my heart
22. This is 1968, dearies, not 1948!
23. Rock me!
24. The California air
25. Have you ever been close to tragedy
26. It's easier not to be wise
27. Christmas is calling me
28. Yummy, yummy, yummy, I got love in my tummy / Yummy Yummy Yummy -- Ohio Express (guessed by hybridhelen)
29. The sky is falling and the wheels of life
30. Mama please! Let me go to the show!
31. When you bury my heart
32. Douse me in passion!


It's a little embarrassing how many of these songs have the title in the first line. *sigh*

You know what's really annoying? Songs that are officially instrumental which clearly contain singing -- just singing that's mixed under the instruments and extraordinarily difficult to make out. "Tidal" by David Usher is one such song. Very frustrating.

Comments

[serenity-ca4.livejournal.com]

I know 19, but I'm struggling with the title. It's a Live song.. argh.. and I know the title of the song doesn't appear in the lyrics. This is going to drive me nuts.

And to love a god, and to fear the flames, and to *something* a love that... yadda yadda.

Got it.. Selling the Drama.

(and I didn't look up the lyrics, but I did look up the Live's discography to get the song title... though I knew it as soon as I saw it.)

I do hope there's no David Usher on that list, cause I will be immensely embarrassed if I can't recognize one of his songs.. unless it's from the first album, in which case, I concede that I might not recognize the first line.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Selling the Drama it is.

Nope, there's no David Usher *shakes fist at Tidal, which would have been #25 if I could have figured out what he's singing* -- but there is more Live.

[serenity-ca4.livejournal.com]

I did the meme too, though I didn't post my results. Tidal came up too, and I had the same problem. It was funny though, after it was done, I went back and reread the list, and even knowing what songs went on their, I couldn't recognize some of the songs.

It's quite a challenge.

And while there are one or two others I vaguely recognize on your list, I have no idea what the titles are or who sings them.. and I definitely can't pick out another live song.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Some of the songs I felt a little bad about only putting up what I did (I stretched it here and there).

If it helps (have a giant hint) 10 of the songs listed have the title in the lyrics listed.

[scribe-protra.livejournal.com]

6. The old Batman theeme
18. own Worst Enemy

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

6. Nope!
18. Very close! I will except it if you can tell me the artist. :D

[scribe-protra.livejournal.com]

18. Sadly I can't remember the artist. -_-

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

;_;

Hint: he has a girl's name and wears make-up.

[scribe-protra.livejournal.com]

Oh! Alice Cooper.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

ding ding ding ding ding! :D

[hybridhelen.livejournal.com]

28. Yummy yummy yummy, Ohio Express
20. Mambo Italiano Rosemary Clooney


...yeah, the fact that these are the only two I know without resorting to google says something about me. I don't know what, but I feel old, even though I wasn't even a twinkle in my Daddy's eye when either originally released. Ugh.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

28. Yes!
20. No! Think more "Rat Pack".

Many of these songs are older than me, or where popular when I was a kid, or are by artists who were famous before I was born/when I was a kid. ^^;

[hybridhelen.livejournal.com]

20. Oooh, Dean Martin!

I think may have to gack this meme...even though all the songs will be before my time, from musicals, or extra cheesy.^^;

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

20. Correct! But what's the song?

Go for it, it's kinda fun.

[hybridhelen.livejournal.com]

I R SMRT. 20's Sway. On refelction, I have no idea where I got Mambo Italiano from! Clearly, I was on the *special* tea that night. Ugh.

I think I will...

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

You know, just because Ginsberg drank ganja tea doesn't mean you should. *pats* Also, you are correct. :3

[hybridhelen.livejournal.com]

Tee hee, it was some really ancient (and tasting it, too) cranberry tea I found in my cupboard...time to go buy more, one thinks. (Prefer 'proper tea', but can't have caffiene after dinner)

Yay for correctness!

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I recently bought loose chamomile. :3 I also have a caffeine issue.

[hybridhelen.livejournal.com]

mmmMMMmmm, chamomille.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

It's so delicious. ;o;