guess the song game

[owlmoose]

Baton passed by luvmoose (feel free to invite your flist to play, too!).

Updated with Answers -- sorry this took so long...

Another Playlist Shuffle Meme! See if you can guess the song title from the lyrics!

1. Put your playlist on shuffle.
2. Post the first lines to the first 25 (I only did 15) songs to come up (along with these instructions).
3. Have people guess the songs and artists in comments to the post.
4. Post the answers to the ones people guessed correctly. A couple of days later, post the first two lines of the ones no one got and get people to guess again.
5. Repeat, adding the next line to the unguessed songs each time, until they're all guessed/you've posted the whole song/you've gotten bored/no-one's going to get the damn thing if you don't tell them.

Notes: no duplicate artists (maybe with one expection, depending on your point of view). A few are obvious, others may be hard.

1. Growing in numbers / Growing in speed / Can't fight the future - "We Are All Made of Stars", Moby
2. You told me you loved me / So I don't understand - "Lies", The Thompson Twins, luvmoose
3. Look at you, you're young / Having so much fun / Gonna be a star - "David", Nellie McKay
4. What am I to wake up suddenly and then - "Never is Enough", Barenaked Ladies, luvmoose
5. Well I'm accustomed to a smooth ride - "The Obvious Child", Paul Simon, golfballgirl
6. Joan was quizzical, studied metaphysical - "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", The Beatles, anonamys
7. Just a castaway - "Message in a Bottle", The Police, luvmoose
8. The man in 119 takes his tea alone - "Verdi Cries", 10,000 Maniacs, letters_to_ed
9. Words like violence - "Enjoy the Silence", Depeche Mode, luvmoose
10. Lay my head on the surgeon's table - "Nothin' 'Bout Me", Sting, waterowl
11. I blame you for the moonlit sky - "Sleeping Satellite", Tasmin Archer, letters_to_ed
12. We come from a blue planet light-years away - "Humans From Earth", T-Bone Burnett, grue23
13. Once a year, my friend puts on a red suit - "Santa's Beard", They Might Be Giants, waterowl
14. You like snow but only if its warm - "Wake Up", Alanis Morrissette, luvmoose
15. So you'll be an Austrian nobleman / [title of song] / Which defies all earthly descriptions / [title of song] / With money you squeeze from the peasants - "Commissioning a Symphony in C", Cake

Comments

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

#4: I know it, it's eating me. Grr
#7: The Police, "Message in a Bottle"
#9: Depeche Mode, "Enjoy the Silence"
#14: Alanis Morrissette, "Wake Up"

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

The only BNL one on the whole list and it stumps me. What kind of fangirl am I? Sheesh.

#4: BNL, "Never Is Enough" (grrr, song titles)

[golfballgirl.livejournal.com]

5. The Obvious Child - Paul Simon

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Well, it didn't stump you, it just took a minute longer than the others.

[letters-to-ed.livejournal.com]

8. 10,000 Maniacs - "Verdi Cries"
11. Tasmin Archer "Sleeping Satellite"

[anonamys.livejournal.com]

#6 Maxwell's Silver Hammer, The Beatles

Hey! I know one! I'm so excited! I'm also stunned that wasn't the first one answered, but that speaks to the music I was raised on. Heh.

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

Should I know #2?

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Cool, I wasn't sure anyone would get these!

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Happy to oblige. :)

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Probably. It's not super obvious, though.

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

Anne Marie is a font of music knowledge.

[letters-to-ed.livejournal.com]

Ha!

I've always liked "Sleeping Satellite" but I don't have an mp3 of it. I have to buy that one. And I need to listen to 10,000 Maniacs again. It's been too long.

[grue23.livejournal.com]

#12: T-Bone Burnett - Humans from Earth (thank you, Until the End of the World sountrack)

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

You got it.

I'm sorry that there are no Erasure songs for you to guess.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

I actually bought that Tasmin Archer album way back when it came out. I used to have it on casette single, and the b-side was this really awesome acoustic version that I've never been able to find anywhere else.

[grue23.livejournal.com]

That's quite all right. There are, surprisingly enough, things I'm better at guessing over Erasure. I just stuck you on my flist so you can see my old memes. I think there's even one that hasn't been all answered yet, but what's left on it is a little evil.

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

Okay, Heather. You've answered enough of these. It's time for you to make one.

[golfballgirl.livejournal.com]

Aaaaah!
OK, I'll stop answering. ;)

[waterowl.livejournal.com]

10. Nothing 'Bout Me - Sting
13. Santa's Beard - They Might Be Giants

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Yep!

I must admit, I'm a little surprised the TMBG one took so long...

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Yeesh. Yes, definitely evil. Not ringing any bells at all.

[grue23.livejournal.com]

The one I posted today isn't all evil, yet. The older one with three left is evil. In fact, I think I'll go fill in the answers...

[letters-to-ed.livejournal.com]

Cool! I just downloaded (legally) "Sleeping Satellite" so I can add it to my mp3 player :)

[waterowl.livejournal.com]

Me too! It was the first one I got.

I had fun doing this, so I caught the meme! (http://waterowl.blogspot.com/2005/07/playlist-shuffle-meme.html)

[golfballgirl.livejournal.com]

!
How did I not get #10?!
I'm hanging my head in shame.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Sting fan? :)

Don't feel too bad, it's not the most obvious of his songs. I might not have gotten it off the bat either...

[plantgirl.livejournal.com]

Clearly we do not listen to the same music. ;p

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Guess not, at least not based on this random sampling.

Try Thida's -- maybe you'll have a higher hit rate there. :)

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

#2: Lies, The Thompson Twins

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo! I got one!

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Yup. I thought you'd probably know it.

I'm thinking that the others are probably a loss, but I'll put up one more line for each tomorrow.