Song Lyrics Quiz meme
As seen on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&&suggest¬e_id=452182200529#!/note.php?note_id=452182200529)
I'm bored, so I may as well do this: Set your music player of choice to random, post the 1st line (or so) of N songs (that have lyrics), see who can guess them. As is to be expected, using Google or some other search engine is cheating.
1) "I seen a girl on a one-way corridor, stealing down a wrong-way street" - Skateaway - Dire Straits
2) "When you hear the sound a-comin, hear the drummers drummin'" Come Together - The Who
3) "I had not taken acid for 12 years"
4) "Red high heels is the way I feel" - Red High Heels - Jane Siberry
5) "Romeo was restless, he was ready to kill" - Mystery Dance - Elvis Costello
6) "Happy birthday Elvis, you're not really dead"
7) "It's astounding" - The Time Warp - Rocky Horror Picture Show
8) "I've tried to mend the love that ended long ago, although we still pretend"
9) "Will you take me across the channel"
10) "Ooh, you're making me live" You're My Best Friend - Queen
11) "When your heart's in someone else's hands" - Cowboys and Angels - George Michael
12) "Please allow me to introduce myself" - Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones
13) "Take all your overgrown infants away, somewhere" - The Fletcher Memorial Home - Pink Floyd
14) "I see you in the morning, you're my color of the rising sky"
15) "Jenny came over and told me 'bout Freddy" - I Kissed a Girl - Jill Sobule
16) "Oh Black Betty bam-a-lam" - Black Betty - Ram Jam
17) "Thanks for the times that you've given me" - Three Times a Lady - The Commodores
18) "Well I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday" - Paradise by the Dashboard Light - Meatloaf
19) "I believe right now if I could I would swallow you whole" - Undertow, Suzanne Vega
20) "Says Red Molly to James" - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson
21) "I have heard, among this clan, you are called the forgotten man" - Well Did You Evah? - covered by Lee Press-On and the Nails
22) "Rock on gold dust woman" - Gold Dust Woman - Fleetwood Mac
23) "I've got a word or two to say about the things you do"
24) "It's four in the morning, the end of December" - Famous Blue Raincoat - covered by Jonathan Coulton
25) "It happened one summer" - Suddenly Last Summer - The Motels
Some of these are easier than others...
(I've also folded in the responses from folks on Facebook.)
#3 - The Acid Song - Loudon Wainwright III
#6 - Happy Birthday Elvis - Loudon Wainwright III (Same album, even. Randomness at work.)
#8 - Trilogy - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
#9 - Strange Weather - Tom Waits
#14 - Sara's Song - G. Love and Special Sauce (I never would have gotten this one)
#23 - Think For Yourself - covered by the Yonder Mountain String Band, but the original is by The Beatles
I'm not especially surprised that 8 and 14 are among the unguessed ones. 9 is a tiny bit surprising, and there are folks I expected to easily get #3 at least. Ah well.
Thanks all for playing.
I'm bored, so I may as well do this: Set your music player of choice to random, post the 1st line (or so) of N songs (that have lyrics), see who can guess them. As is to be expected, using Google or some other search engine is cheating.
1) "I seen a girl on a one-way corridor, stealing down a wrong-way street" - Skateaway - Dire Straits
2) "When you hear the sound a-comin, hear the drummers drummin'" Come Together - The Who
3) "I had not taken acid for 12 years"
4) "Red high heels is the way I feel" - Red High Heels - Jane Siberry
5) "Romeo was restless, he was ready to kill" - Mystery Dance - Elvis Costello
6) "Happy birthday Elvis, you're not really dead"
7) "It's astounding" - The Time Warp - Rocky Horror Picture Show
8) "I've tried to mend the love that ended long ago, although we still pretend"
9) "Will you take me across the channel"
10) "Ooh, you're making me live" You're My Best Friend - Queen
11) "When your heart's in someone else's hands" - Cowboys and Angels - George Michael
12) "Please allow me to introduce myself" - Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones
13) "Take all your overgrown infants away, somewhere" - The Fletcher Memorial Home - Pink Floyd
14) "I see you in the morning, you're my color of the rising sky"
15) "Jenny came over and told me 'bout Freddy" - I Kissed a Girl - Jill Sobule
16) "Oh Black Betty bam-a-lam" - Black Betty - Ram Jam
17) "Thanks for the times that you've given me" - Three Times a Lady - The Commodores
18) "Well I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday" - Paradise by the Dashboard Light - Meatloaf
19) "I believe right now if I could I would swallow you whole" - Undertow, Suzanne Vega
20) "Says Red Molly to James" - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson
21) "I have heard, among this clan, you are called the forgotten man" - Well Did You Evah? - covered by Lee Press-On and the Nails
22) "Rock on gold dust woman" - Gold Dust Woman - Fleetwood Mac
23) "I've got a word or two to say about the things you do"
24) "It's four in the morning, the end of December" - Famous Blue Raincoat - covered by Jonathan Coulton
25) "It happened one summer" - Suddenly Last Summer - The Motels
Some of these are easier than others...
(I've also folded in the responses from folks on Facebook.)
#3 - The Acid Song - Loudon Wainwright III
#6 - Happy Birthday Elvis - Loudon Wainwright III (Same album, even. Randomness at work.)
#8 - Trilogy - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
#9 - Strange Weather - Tom Waits
#14 - Sara's Song - G. Love and Special Sauce (I never would have gotten this one)
#23 - Think For Yourself - covered by the Yonder Mountain String Band, but the original is by The Beatles
I'm not especially surprised that 8 and 14 are among the unguessed ones. 9 is a tiny bit surprising, and there are folks I expected to easily get #3 at least. Ah well.
Thanks all for playing.