meme day

[owlmoose]

Well, if everyone else is going to do one...



The rules: Guess the song and artist based on the first line(s) of a song. Googling lyrics is cheating. Listening to songs to try to figure out what that one is that is eating you is not.

1. There’s life underground
   I feel it all around, I feel it in my bones
   My life is on the line when I’m away from home
   When I step out the door, the jungle is alive - "Just Another Day", Oingo Boingo, unsolved


2. Here I go, out to sea again
   The sunshine fills my hair
   And dreams hang in the air
   Gulls in the sky and in my blue eyes - "Wonderful Life", Black, unsolved


3. Somewhere there’s speaking - "Everything You Want", Vertical Horizon, madlori & letters_to_ed


4. Is it getting better - "One", U2, luvmoose


5. Don't the hours grow shorter as the days go by? - "Lovers in a Dangerous Time", BNL, luvmoose


6. I’ve been thinking about our fortune
   And I’ve decided that we’re really not to blame
   For the love that’s deep inside us now
   Is still the same - "The Story in Your Eyes", The Moody Blues, unsolved


7. Under the ruins of a walled city - "Fortress Around Your Heart", Sting, luvmoose


8. Take your mind back - I don’t know when
   Sometime when it always seemed
   To be just us and them
   Girls that wore pink, boys that wore blue - "Real Men", Joe Jackson, unsolved


9. I can't remember how it started
   I followed the firemen, I dreamed of the astronauts - "Helmet", The Bobs, peachespig


10. The deception with tact, just what are you trying to say? - "One Thing Leads to Another", The Fixx, letters_to_ed
    
11. Guess we can still be friends - "The Other Me", Joe Jackson, grue23


12. I see me with you, and all the things we do - "We'll Be Together", Sting, luvmoose


13. He was just a social drinker but social every night - "Woman in the Wall", Beautiful South, grue23


14. I took my love, I took it down - "Landslide", Fleetwood Mac (and others), madlori
    
15. I'm so happy 'cause today - "Lithium", Nirvana, grue23

Comments

[grue23.livejournal.com]

13) Beautiful South - Woman in the Wall

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Yes, damn. Didn't think that one would go first!

[grue23.livejournal.com]

I've sometimes been limiting the Beautiful South in my posts because nobody ever gets them.

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

#4 One, U2

[grue23.livejournal.com]

arrrrgh

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

#5 Lovers, BNL

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

#7 Fortress Around Your Heart, Sting

[grue23.livejournal.com]

15) Nirvana - Lithium

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

#12 We'll Be Together, Sting.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Yup yup yup.

There is something of a theme to 8-15. (I didn't pick the songs randomly this time.) You (and a few other people on my FL) probably have enough context now. Any guess what it is?

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

Songs discussed recently in your LJ?

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Nope. Note that I said *you* have the context. That's a clue. :)

[madlori.livejournal.com]

Is it songs that our a cappella groups used to sing? I think all of those fit in that category.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Ding! :)

I searched and searched my iTunes for a song that the Keys used to do, but I couldn't find one. Sorry...

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

That's why Woman in the Wall sounded familiar when grue23 gave it to me!

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Yep. The Looney Tunes did it. I didn't have the original version myself until grue23 gave it to me a few minutes ago...

[madlori.livejournal.com]

I have "Both Hands" by Ani DiFranco on my iTunes, as well as "Me and Julio Down by the School Yard."

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

I have "Me and Julio" too! I forgot about that one. Don't have the Ani -- my selection of her work is sadly limited.

[madlori.livejournal.com]

You MUST MUST get Marrow. It's my favorite.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

*adds to list*

These song guessing games have been very dangerous for my music-buying budget...

[grue23.livejournal.com]

11) Joe Jackson - The Other Me

[madlori.livejournal.com]

3 is Everything You Want by Vertical Horizon
14 is Landslide by Fleetwood Mac


On an unrelated note, I searched and searched for who sang "The Other Me" for years, because I loved it when the S-Chords sang it. Finally I found out that it was Joe Jackson, but that CD is out of print. I had to get it on eBay. Go me!

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

That's a great CD. I always knew that Joe Jackson did "The Other Me" because Joanna R. had the album. You should have asked! :)

[madlori.livejournal.com]

I will never doubt you again!

[letters-to-ed.livejournal.com]

3. "Everything You Want" Vertical Horizon

[letters-to-ed.livejournal.com]

Oops, I should check the comments first!

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

That's okay, I give credit for ties. :)

[letters-to-ed.livejournal.com]

10. "One Thing Leads to Another" The Fixx

[peachespig.livejournal.com]

9 - Helmet, the Bobs!

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Yes indeedy.

I have been wondering this all day. Who is that in your icon?

[peachespig.livejournal.com]

The hero of Canton, The man they call... Jayne! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne_Cobb)

As for the hat - pretty cunning, don't you think?

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Holy cow it is! Now I don't see why I didn't recognize him earlier.

The hat, it is so him.

So, so looking forward to the movie...

[peachespig.livejournal.com]

Woot! We just finished the last three episodes.

[plantgirl.livejournal.com]

yeah, that!