First-lines meme
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sereneBouncing back and forth between my knitting, teh intarwebz, and cleaning the kitchen. Here, have a music meme. I've done as several on my lists have, and shuffled my music player. Here are the first lines of the first 20 songs that come up (I'll skip anything where the first line is a dead giveaway; I also skipped "Yellow Ledbetter", whose lyrics I find indecipherable, and Wikipedia agrees with me). I don't think my collection is all that esoteric on the whole, but it did randomly pick some pretty obscure stuff, so we'll see. How many can you get without looking them up?
1. I was born in a lighthouse; my mother was the sea TMBG, Absolutely Bill's Mood (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
beth47)
2. If you go far, then I'll go long
3. I met a young soldier; he said his name was Killer Kyle
4. Good love, bad love, good love, yeah
5. I grew up in a house like this; you knew the groan of every stair
6. It's one-thirty in the mornin', but that's all right by me
7. Now when he was a young man, he never thought he'd see people stand in line to see the boy king Steve Martin, King Tut (janetmiles)
8. Sometimes I know that it's never enough
9. My my my TV makes me so bored Weird Al Yankovich, I Can't Watch This (kshandra)
10. Long time, no see; short time for you and me Moody Blues, Gemini Dream (autographedcat)
11. Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together Simon & Garfunkel, America (mac_arthur_park)
12. A thin ice covers my soul
13. Just got home from Illinois CCR, Lookin' Out My Back Door (the_maenad)
14. Before all of this, ever went down, in another place, another town Tom Petty, A Face In The Crowd (the_maenad)
15. Get your party gown; get your pigtails down Shine Down (on a Queen Tribute Album), Tie Your Mother Down (hnybny)
16. New Jersey lady I knew long ago, she was a lady, I say
17. There must be some kind of way out of here Indigo Girls covering Bob Dylan's All Along The Watchtower (autographedcat)
18. I walk right by him and he's freezing his ass off
19. I met someone at the dog show; she was holding my left arm TMBG, She's An Angel (beth47)
20. I took myself down to the Tally-Ho Tavern to buy me a bottle of beer Kris Kristofferson, The Silver Tongued Devil And I (beth47)
beth47)2. If you go far, then I'll go long
3. I met a young soldier; he said his name was Killer Kyle
4. Good love, bad love, good love, yeah
5. I grew up in a house like this; you knew the groan of every stair
6. It's one-thirty in the mornin', but that's all right by me
janetmiles)8. Sometimes I know that it's never enough
kshandra)autographedcat)mac_arthur_park)12. A thin ice covers my soul
the_maenad)the_maenad)hnybny)16. New Jersey lady I knew long ago, she was a lady, I say
autographedcat)18. I walk right by him and he's freezing his ass off
beth47)beth47)
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Date: 2010-05-03 12:22 am (UTC)Moody Blues - Gemini Dream
11. Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together
Paul Simon - America (Or is this S&G? I can't recall now)
17. There must be some kind of way out of here
Bob Dylan - All Along The Watchtower
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Date: 2010-05-03 12:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-07 01:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-07 02:02 pm (UTC)According to The Covers Project, there are over 20 different covers of the song, from a dizzyingly diverse range of artists, including John Mellancap, June Tabor & The Oysterband, XTC, and Michael Hedges. And of, course, as Serene later identified, the Indigo Girls, which was the recording she was listening to.
On quizzes like this, when in doubt, I identify the author. Since I collect odd covers, someone would have no way of knowing in a quiz I authored who on Earth was performing it. *grin*
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Date: 2010-05-07 06:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-07 02:32 pm (UTC)