Lyrics game for a Friday

[owlmoose]

You all know the drill. Guess the songs from the first lines. iTunes et. al. yes, Google no. No duplicate artists. Includes my first attempt at a theme section! Answers for last week.

1. Switch off the mind and let the heart decide
   who you were meant to be
   Flick to remote and let the body glide
   There is no enemy - "Windpower", Thomas Dolby, unguessed


2. This is a story of seven brothers - "Love is Stronger Than Justice", Sting, madlori
   
3. I recommend getting your heart trampled on to anyone - "You Learn", Alanis Morissette, madlori


4. We were at a party
   His ear lobe fell in the deep
   Someone reached in and grabbed it - "Rock Lobster", B-52s, grue23


5. I know you deceived me
   Couldn't sleep last night
   Now my tearstains on the wall reflect an ugly sight
   I can see your secrets -- They Might Be Giants, grue23, "The World's Address", peachespig


6. And I was lost for words in your arms
   Attempting to make sense of my aching heart - "Not Enough Time", INXS, angeltaisha


7. You see me in a foreign face
   In ships that sink without trace - "The Advesary", Crime and the City Solution, grue23


8. Lights go out and I can’t be saved - "Clocks", Coldplay, madlori


9. And you know it's time to go - "A Sort of Homecoming", U2, grue23


10. The streets are lined with camera crews - "Family Snapshot", Peter Gabriel, grue23

These songs have something in common. Guess the songs, guess the theme

1. I can hear the soft breathing of the girl that l love
   As she lies here beside me, asleep with the night
   And her hair in a fine mist floats on my pillow
   Reflecting the glow of the winter moonlight - "Wednesday Morning 3AM", Simon & Garfunkel, unguessed


2. Hello, I saw you, I know you, I knew you - "Pop Song '89", REM, freudian_slip


3. baby, your da-da loves you - "'97 Bonnie & Clyde", Tori Amos/Eminem, madlori


4. I used to live in New York City
   Everything there was dark and dirty - "Twelve-Thirty (Young Girls are Coming to the Canyon)", The Mammas and the Pappas, angeltaisha


5. It was January, [song title] - "1963", New Order, grue23

Theme: songs referencing a date or time, grue23

Comments

[madlori.livejournal.com]

Ha Ha! I am ze first guesser!

2 is "Love is Stronger than Justice" by Sting
3 is "You Live, You Learn" by Alannis Morrisette (I may have the title slightly wrong)
8 is Clocks. Duh.

c of your theme is '97 Bonnie and Clyde by Eminem, or Tori Amos if you prefer.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

I will give you 3 since you gave more than the full title. Clocks is by what band? ;)

I have the Tori Amos version of the song. Also I am in love with your icon.

[madlori.livejournal.com]

The Tori version is infinitely creepy, although Eminem's original is pretty brilliant, too.

Heh. Clocks. Uh...that's Keane, right? Heh.

Try this icon on for size. All us Mawrter chicks ought to have it.

[madlori.livejournal.com]

Okay, okay. Clocks is by COLDPLAY. Satisfied? :-D

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Yes.

I have seen that icon before and love it; may I steal?

This is my latest mew icon and I am quite fond of it.

[madlori.livejournal.com]

Of course. Steal away. Check my userpics page for the crediting, I don't recall it offhand.

[grue23.livejournal.com]

9) U2 - A Sort of Homecoming

[freudian-slip.livejournal.com]

b is REM pop song '89

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Indeed it is.

So does Amy send you over here when she doesn't know any of the songs? :)

[freudian-slip.livejournal.com]

she always tells me about this stuff, heh.

[grue23.livejournal.com]

10) Peter Gabriel - "Family Snapshot"

[grue23.livejournal.com]

e) "1963", New Order

Damn, that's tricky.

[grue23.livejournal.com]

theme: songs with years in the title

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Close but not quite. Someone will have to get one of the other two songs I think.

[grue23.livejournal.com]

Songs with time in the title?

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Close enough for government work. ;) I'll give it to you.

[grue23.livejournal.com]

where's the party like it's 1999!!!?

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

A. Too obvious.
B. I don't have it.

[grue23.livejournal.com]

Aww. Do you have "1985" by SR-71?

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Don't think so.

[grue23.livejournal.com]

Debbie just hit the wall
she never had it all
one Prozac a day
husband's a CPA
her dreams went out the door
when she turned 24
only been with one man
what happend to her plan
she was gonna be an actress
she was gonna be a star
she was gonna shake that ass
on the hood of Whitesnake's car
now her yellow SUV has now become the enemy
looks at her average life and nothing has been all right

since Springstien Madonna
way before Nirvana
there was U2 and Blondie
and music still on MTV
her two kids in high school
they tell her that she's uncool
'cause she's still preocupied
with 19, 19, 1985

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Oh, that song! I've heard it on the radio but I don't have it. That's a fun song.

[madlori.livejournal.com]

It sounds fun, but it actually kind of depresses me. It's all about some woman stuck back in her high-school glory days of 1985 who can't live in the now and yearns for the Good Old Days.

I hate that mentality. It's just a way to displace and avoid living one's life as it is.

/sanctimonious rant

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

I see where you're coming from, definitely. There's a fine line between nostalgia and living in the past.

You are just pulling out all the awesome userpics today.

[helianthemum.livejournal.com]

#1 is familiar but it's just not coming to me... oh well. Maybe I'll get it with the second line. :)

[grue23.livejournal.com]

7) Crime and the City Solution - "The Advesary"

[angeltaisha.livejournal.com]

Hi! I hope you don't mind my posting here. I wanted to guess one or two. This is a nifty game!

Number 6 is from 'Not Enough Time' by INXS
and letter 'd' is from 'Twelve Thirty (Young girls are coming to the canyon)' by the Mama's and the Papa's. I was staring at that one for like, ten minutes before it hit me, Heh heh.

May I friend your journal if it's no trouble?

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Not at all -- anyone can play! Friends of friends often drop by. Many other people on my flist do these if you want to browse for more.

May I friend your journal if it's no trouble?

Of course you may. :)

[angeltaisha.livejournal.com]

Of course you may. :)

Thanks a lot! You can also friend mine if you like, although I am not sure what kind of riveting things you may read on my journal, LOL! OH! I had a question about this game; How many songs can one answer? just for future reference.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

No limit -- as many as you can get. peachespig has been known to practically run the table (although I note that he hasn't gotten any yet this week).

I had been thinking about friending you anyway, so cool. :)

[angeltaisha.livejournal.com]

Cool! I'm such a sucker for these music games. I look forward to next weeks one.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

If you don't want to wait, I know both peachespig and helianthemum both have unanswered lines right now. Everyone who does these without locking them always invites anyone to play so feel free to check them out. Have fun!!

[grue23.livejournal.com]

4) B52's - Rock Lobster.

Now I bet you'll tell me that the one I'm certain to know is still unsolved. ;)

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Now I bet you'll tell me that the one I'm certain to know is still unsolved. ;)

Yup. The torture continues.

[grue23.livejournal.com]

5) Is They Might Be Giants, and I might have the song when I'm more coherent.

[peachespig.livejournal.com]

It's "The World's Address".

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

grue23 is gonna strangle me. Or possibly you. Or maybe both of us. ;)

That icon cracks me up completely.

[peachespig.livejournal.com]

What? He posted the artist, I'm helping him out. He knew the risks, dammit! ;)

Thanks on the icon. I made it my little self, disturbingly enough. Where incriminating baseball photos and snarky fanfic acronyms collide, the result can only be hilarious.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

It's just that I've been tormenting him for days with the knowledge that he should know this one. So to have someone else pull it out at the last second... :)

Kevin Millar is often comedy gold all by himself. Is that Varitek with him?

[peachespig.livejournal.com]

So to have someone else pull it out at the last second... :)

Someone gotta learn the boy that life ain't fair. ;)

Kevin Millar is often comedy gold all by himself. Is that Varitek with him?

Oh yes. The man Carson Kressley called "Quadzilla". The captain's "C" on his jersey is a giveaway!

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

for the record, I could have gotten the Dolby if I hadn't been walking! :)