serene | Music

I think I may have a cold. I don't *want* a cold, but it reinforces my plan to spend the whole weekend resting and puttering around my house.

Used to be I couldn't do the randomize-your-music-player memes, because I had a stack of CDs that weren't on a music player, but now I have my own personal jukebox, so I stole this from

micheinnz:

Put your music player on random.
Post the first line from the first 32 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!

(I'm also leaving out the ones that have the song title as the first line -- too easy.)

1. A woman came up to me and said "I'd like to poison your mind"
2. They only show you their gums when they smile
3. Night, lift up the shades
4. All your bitterness and lies sting like tears in my eyes
~~5. God has smiled upon you this day~~
6. Won't have you see me as your sad sack
7. Words fail, buildings tumble, the ground opens wide
8. I could never sleep my way to the top
9. Mary, have you seen better days?
10. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness
~~11. I left my anger in a river running highway five~~
12. Once I said I knew, but I don't know no more
~~13. I lit out from Reno, I was trailed by twenty hounds~~
~~14. Don't know if it was real or in a dream~~
15. Leaves were falling just like embers
16. Crickets are chirpin', the water is high
17. I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail
18. Laughing in a crowd of jewels
~~19. Now the reason we're here as man and woman is to love each other~~
20. Frail hinges pivot on a case`s door
21. Beggin' down these sunbeaten streets, I can't make me no connection
22. Fell in the door and you fell on the floor
23. Once upon a midnight dearie, I woke with something in my head
24. Now we can say that nothing's lost
25. Love, thing of might and dread
26. Ev'rything comes and goes
27. Feels like nothin' happens fast enough
28. Are you gonna take me home tonight
29. Wanna wake up and know where I'm going
30. When I met you in the restaurant, you could tell I was no debutante
31. Early in the evenin', just about suppertime
32. She was beautiful as Southern skies the night he met her

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Numbah One! Whistling in the Dark, TMBG

:-)

19. Pretenders, but the title eludes me
23. Blues Traveler, Runaround, and I hear it as "midnight dreary"
31. CCR, Down on the Corner

"Midnight dreary" is from the line it's spoofing.

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intenselaura.livejournal.com - 2008-09-27 14:54 (UTC) - Expand

10 is obviously Ginsburg's "Howl"--has someone set it to music?
30. Blondie, "Dreaming (is Free)"

10) Yes, sort of. It's the first line in a song

30) Yep!

13 is "Friend of the Devil," and I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that it's the Lyle Lovett version, rather than Garcia/the Dead.

Nope, it's the Dead. I ripped

someotherguy's CDs while I was at it. :-)

kshandra - 2008-09-27 15:49 (UTC) - Expand

serenejournal.livejournal.com - 2008-09-27 16:00 (UTC) - Expand

leback.livejournal.com - 2008-09-27 20:57 (UTC) - Expand

17, El Condor Pasa, Simon and Garfunkel

:-) I was surprised no one got that one sooner.

treacle-well.livejournal.com - 2008-09-27 16:10 (UTC) - Expand

mamagotcha.livejournal.com - 2008-09-27 16:54 (UTC) - Expand

7. (She's) actual size, TMBG

*smooch*

By the by, that's not the only one left that's from your collection (that is, albums I never would have owned were it not for you). :-)

someotherguy.livejournal.com - 2008-09-27 16:42 (UTC) - Expand

serenejournal.livejournal.com - 2008-09-27 16:49 (UTC) - Expand

vito-excalibur.livejournal.com - 2008-09-27 17:52 (UTC) - Expand

5. Is La Resistance / Blame Canada from The South Park Movie. Matt stone or Trey Parker sings this line, credited as "Gregory" somebody.

You're good. :-)

sogwife.livejournal.com - 2008-09-27 17:19 (UTC) - Expand

8. Hey Mister D.J.(?) TMBG

I'll give you that one. "Hey Mister DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal"

10 is TMBG too. I can hear the song, but I can't remember the title, which probably means it's off of John Henry. I Should be allowed to think?

*ding ding ding*

19 AAAAAARRGGGGH!! Too many songs with almost the same lyrics!!! I keep hearing David Byrne singing it, but Annie Lennox butts in before he can get to the next line, and while they're fighting Wayne Fontana and the Mind Benders start singing "Game of Love" and I know that's wrong.

Probably some damn Lyle Lovett song that I've never heard.

serenejournal.livejournal.com - 2008-09-27 17:17 (UTC) - Expand

serenejournal.livejournal.com - 2008-09-27 17:12 (UTC) - Expand

2. Is it "toothless people" by Wierd Al?

Yep!

9. Only in Your Heart, by America

28. Fat Bottom Girls, by Queen?

treacle-well.livejournal.com - 2008-09-27 17:48 (UTC) - Expand

11. "Jonas and Ezekiel", Indigo Girls. Love that song.
22. "Nightgown of the Sullen Moon", TMBG. Also a favorite.
29. "I'm Ready", Tracy Chapman. Man, you have good taste!

oh, and

14. "Language or the Kiss", Indigo Girls. Such good songs!

Edited 2008-09-27 17:53 (UTC)

Thanks!

19. "Message of Love," Pretenders

I also knew 13. And I rightly suspected I knew 30 and 31, but I had to google them to make sure.

32. Train the Distance, Paul Simon

Close enough. :-)

surrealestate.livejournal.com - 2008-09-28 17:01 (UTC) - Expand

serenejournal.livejournal.com - 2008-09-28 17:04 (UTC) - Expand

16: Man in a long black coat. Written by Bob Dylan, most likely you are referring to the recording by Joan Osborne.

We are doing a dance to this song in the fall show choreographed by moi. :)

All the other ones I knew have already been answered.

Ooh, I didn't know it was Dylan. Thanks!

3. Is a Sarah McLachlan song, but I'm useless for most song titles. 4. Is a Richard Thompson, I think. 27. is a Bonnie Raitt.