First lines, from blackcoat

[unixronin]

blackcoat posted this meme.  I am spoon-depleted, and don't warrant that it's original to him or even the first place I've seen it.  It works like this:

Step 1: Put your iPod or whatever on random.

Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 [non-instrumental] songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.

Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.

Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.

Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING.

I'm going to make one minor addition:  as I strike out lines, I'll tag them with who ... well, tagged them.  (EDIT:  And, per otherbill, I'll add the correct identification up top.)

(I run DigitalDJ on random-generation all the time anyway.  It occasionally surprises me how many double-shots it comes up with in a playlist, with almost 4,400 songs from over 200 artists in its database to choose from.)

1. All you women who want a man of the street    (AC/DC, Shoot to Thrill, blackcoat)
2. Complacent, you're growing complacent
3. You can dance, you can jive    (Abba, Dancing Queen, zeekar)
4. Flying on a free flight    (AC/DC, Let me put my love into you, gdmusumeci, partial credit to zeekar)
5. Jesse James we understand    (The Pogues, Jesse James, cymrullewes)
6. The sparks of the tempest raged a hundred years on    (Kansas, Sparks of the Tempest,otherbill)
7. Now chased by the shapes of your vows
8. Walking slowly helps your day
9. Love is blindness    (U2, Love is Blindness, blackcoat)
10. I spend half of each day just eyeing the clock
11. Wait until the war is over    (The Doors, The Unknown Soldier, mazianni)
12. I am a rovin’ journeyman, I roam from town to town    (Tempest (trad.), The Journeyman, mazianni)
13. Ayreon!  Don't you know who I am?    (Ayreon, Merlin's Will, cymrullewes)
14. You can't run away forever    (Meat Loaf, Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through, cymrullewes)
15. You know it's true we're both the same.
16. Enveloped in a sentiment    (VNV Nation, Legion,blackcoat)
17. Machines of madness    (Front Line Assembly, Transparent Species, gdmusumeci)
18. What we learned here is love tastes bitter    (Matchbox 20, Shame, cymrullewes)
19. I've been a wild rover for many a year    (Tempest (trad.), The Wild Rover, blackcoat)
20. Wherever the wind blows    (Midnight Oil, Surf's Up Tonight, gdmusumeci)

Yeah, I know, some of these are dead give-aways.  (Update:  To my surprise, it so far appears only about half of those I consider the dead give-aways have been immediately guessed.)  Eight instrumental songs were skipped during the making of this list.  ............ Well, OK, seven.  One of them has lyrics, but not in any actual human language.  There is a note to be found on one of the "lyric" pages for this song that the lyrics are spoken using Arabic phonemes with an Egyptian accent (the speaker grew up in Egypt), but most of the words are gibberish, sometimes almost resembling real words, but "altered and arranged differently so they sound meaningless".  Here, for extra credit:

21. Ibal lahl arou-sah om-yah-lee, yah al-bil kou-rou-dil menyaah

Good luck on that one.  (Oops ... accidentaly "premature disclosure" corrected.  Copy-and-paste error from my key cribsheet.)

Comments

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

18. Matchbox 20 - Shame

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I'd expected you to get that one sooner. :)

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

It isn't one of my favourites and I'm distracted. If you had picked Kody I would have gotten it sooner. That one's going through my head, a LOT.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I didn't pick them. :)

Ah-ha!

[zeekar.livejournal.com]

I stand by my original impressions here. "The #14 artist had a high-profile release during that time period" - what do you mean "high-profile"? Matchbox 20 certainly had some very popular releases from the album containing "Shame" - "Real World", for instance. Or a little obscure song called "Push"...

Hmph.

:)

Re: Ah-ha!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

You said "late 90s." During which time period Meat Loaf released Bat out of Hell II, his long-awaited reunion album with Jim Steinman. It got a pretty good-size splash and a couple of heavily-played singles...

Re: Ah-ha!

[zeekar.livejournal.com]

Indeed. And Matchbox 20 debuted - with "Yourself or Something Like You", the album containing "Shame" - in 1996, and were popular throughout the late 90's...

Re: Ah-ha!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I'll take your word for it. :) i don't know enougn about matchbox 20 to have given a hint about #18, but I could give a small hint about #14. :)