If music be the food of love...

[owlmoose]

Guess the song from the first line. More lines will be added as the week progresses. iTunes et. al. yes, Google no. Answers for last time -- two songs unguessed. I think this may be the first time a They Might Be Giants song has slipped by.

Random Section

1. Well I believe there's someone watching over you - "Side", Travis, letters_to_ed


2. [title], oh [title], [title] with a hearing aid - "Skinhead", Barenaked Ladies, luvmoose


3. [song title] [song title] where are you going
   Where are you going?
   I have a hiding place when spring marches in - "Icicle", Tori Amos, helianthemum


4. Reluctantly crouched at the starting line, - "The Distance", Cake, luvmoose and grue23


5. A long long time ago
   In - "The Saga Begins", Weird Al Yankovic, peachespig


6. If it weren't for your maturity none of this would have happened - "Hands Clean", Alanis Morissette, luvmoose


7. I have spent nights with matches and knives - "Blood and Fire", Indigo Girls, peachespig


8. I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", The Beatles, angeltaisha


9. A stone's throw from Jerusalem - "Mad About You", Sting, peachespig


10. She's got her ear to the walls - "(She was a) Hotel Detective", They Might Be Giants, grue23

Theme Section
The songs in this section have something in common. Guess the songs, guess the theme.

1. The general scratches his belly and thinks - "Bombs Away", The Police, luvmoose


2. Spitting in a wishing well - "Cannonball", The Breeders, grue23


3. I know a movie star - "Barrel of a Gun", Guster, letters_to_ed


4. Oh, the shark, babe - "Mack the Knife", Bobby Darin, peachespig


5. Ever stop to wonder - "Tiny Daggers", INXS, peachespig

Theme: weapons of limited destruction, luvmoose & peachespig

Comments

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

2. Skinhead, BNL

[peachespig.livejournal.com]

5 american pie, don mclean

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

No.

Adding another word for clarity.

[peachespig.livejournal.com]

Weird Al, The Saga Begins?

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

There you go.

[peachespig.livejournal.com]

OK, so it wasn't the song, it was the parody of the song. :D I'm sure Al had the whole idea to write "Saga" solely because of American Pie's first line.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought that might be what it was, but in trying to play a song sample at Amazon and failing, I lost out.

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was me. Not sure why it was anonymous.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

That wouldn't surprise me. There was a reason I chose the original as the centerpiece of my Weird Al theme, way back when. ;)

[grue23.livejournal.com]

4) cake - going the distance

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

4. The Distance, Cake

[peachespig.livejournal.com]

7 blood and fire, indigo girls

[grue23.livejournal.com]

b) breeders - cannonball

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

6. Hands Clean, Alanis Morrissette

[grue23.livejournal.com]

10) tmbg - hotel detective

[peachespig.livejournal.com]

9 sting mad about you

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

a. Bombs Away, The Police

theme: weapons of limited destruction?

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

I like that wording. :)

[peachespig.livejournal.com]

d Bobby Darin, Mack the Knife

Theme: weapons?

[madlori.livejournal.com]

9 is Sting's Mad ABout You, and a is the Police, Man in a Suitcase.

[peachespig.livejournal.com]

e tiny dagger, INXS (duh!)

[peachespig.livejournal.com]

that's tiny daggers

[grue23.livejournal.com]

nice looking theme!

[peachespig.livejournal.com]

But where is owlmoose to give us our satisfaction??

Gotta run!

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

I was between home and work -- I posted the meme, then let you all work on it during my 20-minute drive.

You're right on the theme, btw, although I like luvmoose's wording better. ;)

[grue23.livejournal.com]

I actually meant I like owlmoose's new LJ theme! :)

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed too.

[letters-to-ed.livejournal.com]

c. "Barrel of a Gun" Guster

[letters-to-ed.livejournal.com]

1. "Side" Travis

[angeltaisha.livejournal.com]

Number 8 is 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' by The Beatles

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Yep!

It always surprises met, that the Beatles almost never go in the first wave.

[(Anonymous)]

3 - Tori Amos, Icicle.

[helianthemum.livejournal.com]

oops - that was me!

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Very good. :)

And with that, the song meme is closed...