Canada's Gone Dry
Apr. 23rd, 2006 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alfvaenIt's been a while since I've done one of these, but ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rickj was doing it, so...
Pick a line from the next 10 songs on shuffle-play in your MP3 player. (Or, in my case, from the randomly-sorted playlist in Winamp.) In fact, I'll even pick a playlist I'm not listening to right now, because last.fm would make it too easy to cheat. Oh, and you have to identify the songs, of course. Andrickj did twenty, so I will too.
1. You know there's something kinda strange about you baby, but I can't exactly seem to put my finger on it
2. But now those days are gone, I'm not so self-assured
3. I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys
4. I'm descending from the west, you're descending from the east; please let this be our year
5. You'll look for the catches, but there'll be none
6. I can see her lying back in her satin dress, in a room where you do what you don't confess
7. Now the princess washes dishes; she's done more harm than any good
8. You saw it, you claimed it, you touched it, you saved it
9. There's a pain, a famine in your heart
10. I used to have a lover had the Midas touch; I turned to gold, and then I turned to dust
11. The next Armada waiting for the tide; wind and rain are nothing to the storm inside
12. So I run down the fire escape, and leap into the air
13. I've been wondering if all the things I've seen were ever real
14. If you want me to go, just ask me to go, I'll go
15. Hey kids, shake a leg; maybe you're crazy in the head, baby
16. Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of
17. He calls when I'm alone, and he calls when I'm not home, and he calls when I'm stuck out in the rain
18. I looked at her shoes and then her face; she seemed soft and genuine
19. You were paid not to listen now your house is on fire
20. And if the mountains should crumble or disappear into the sea, not a tear, no not I
Oh, yeah, only one person has responded to the anonymous character pairing question I posted a week and a half ago. So I'll nag you all to check that one out and respond.
rickj was doing it, so...Pick a line from the next 10 songs on shuffle-play in your MP3 player. (Or, in my case, from the randomly-sorted playlist in Winamp.) In fact, I'll even pick a playlist I'm not listening to right now, because last.fm would make it too easy to cheat. Oh, and you have to identify the songs, of course. And
rickj did twenty, so I will too.1. You know there's something kinda strange about you baby, but I can't exactly seem to put my finger on it
2. But now those days are gone, I'm not so self-assured
3. I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys
4. I'm descending from the west, you're descending from the east; please let this be our year
5. You'll look for the catches, but there'll be none
6. I can see her lying back in her satin dress, in a room where you do what you don't confess
7. Now the princess washes dishes; she's done more harm than any good
8. You saw it, you claimed it, you touched it, you saved it
9. There's a pain, a famine in your heart
10. I used to have a lover had the Midas touch; I turned to gold, and then I turned to dust
11. The next Armada waiting for the tide; wind and rain are nothing to the storm inside
12. So I run down the fire escape, and leap into the air
13. I've been wondering if all the things I've seen were ever real
14. If you want me to go, just ask me to go, I'll go
15. Hey kids, shake a leg; maybe you're crazy in the head, baby
16. Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of
17. He calls when I'm alone, and he calls when I'm not home, and he calls when I'm stuck out in the rain
18. I looked at her shoes and then her face; she seemed soft and genuine
19. You were paid not to listen now your house is on fire
20. And if the mountains should crumble or disappear into the sea, not a tear, no not I
Oh, yeah, only one person has responded to the anonymous character pairing question I posted a week and a half ago. So I'll nag you all to check that one out and respond.
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Here are the ones I spotted off the top of my head...
Date: 2006-04-24 06:34 am (UTC)3. Precious Things - Tori Amos
19. Mothers Talk - Tears for Fears
Re: Here are the ones I spotted off the top of my head...
Date: 2006-04-24 01:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-24 01:26 pm (UTC)6. Sundown, Gordon Lightfoot
9. sounds like Depeche Mode
16 and 17 are both probably TMBG
20. Unforgettable Fire, U2
I could probably google for the song titles (and thwap my head on ones I've missed because I can't hear them in my head from those single lines), but that's not the point.
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Date: 2006-04-24 01:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-24 03:28 pm (UTC)And here I am, again, looking at those lyrics and not being able to remember what song they're from.
Song Matching
Date: 2006-04-24 07:49 pm (UTC)5- Alan Parsons Project, The Voice
16- They Might Be Giants, Where Your Eyes Don't Go
17- They Might Be Giants...I want to call the song "I'm Insane", because that's the refrain, but the actual title is probably something completely non sequitorial.
DSAG
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Date: 2006-04-25 12:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-25 06:26 pm (UTC)15. Drive, R.E.M.
Nicole's guesses
Date: 2006-04-27 03:18 pm (UTC)#10 is T'Pau "Heart and Soul"
#13 might be Sheryl Crow "Every Day Is a Winding Road"
#17 also looks vaguely familiar