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[graculus]

Ah, the lyrics game meme has come round again... this time gakked from bethbethbeth:

Set iPod your generic music player of choice to shuffle. list lyrics from the first twenty songs it plays. Post lyrics for the flist to guess. Cross out as they are guessed correctly.

1. The fire trucks are coming up around the bend. You Learn - Alanis Morissette, guessed by atdelphi

2. Ain’t thinking ‘bout love today / Lost in the sunlight / Walking down memory lane

3. I could be just like the calm before the storm boy / Waiting for all hell yeah to break loose.

4. Well the bottom fell out / On our summer / But we knew / What we got ourselves into

5. Staring at a maple leaf / Leaning on the mother tree / I said to myself we all lost touch

6. Say it ain't so, I will not go, turn the lights off, carry me home All the Small Things - Blink 182, guessed by atdelphi

7. Once again as predicted left my broken heart open and you ripped it out Every Morning - Sugar Ray, guessed by sgflutegirl

8. Love and hate, get it wrong / She cut me right back down to size Comedown - Bush, guessed by atdelphi

9. He's got all the things you need and some that you will never / But you make him sound like frozen food, his love will last forever I Hope You're Happy Now - Elvis Costello, guessed by praderwilli

10. Feelin' better / Since I surrendered / You can't climb / 'Till you're ready to fall

11. And it's true we named our children after towns that we've never been to.

12. I wish you'd stop ignoring me, because it's sending me to despair / Without a sound, yeah, you're calling me, and I don't think it's very fair

13. Navigate, with style and aplomb / Cause wherever you're at that's the trip you on! Original Prankster - Offspring, guessed by atdelphi

14. The iron hand did not understand the plight of the common man. Four to the Floor - Starsailor, guessed by _trickster_

15. We were drawn from the weeds / We were brave like soldiers / Falling down under the pale moonlight Ever the Same - Rob Thomas, guessed by sgflutegirl

16. But they couldn't escape from you / Couldn't be free of you / And now they know there's no way out Wisemen - James Blunt, guessed by the4ts

17. I am here watching your form slowly pacing in the dawn, as all the stars die

18. Please keep your hands down / And stop raising your voice / It's hardly what I'd be doing if you gave me a choice How to be Dead - Snow Patrol, guessed by temaris

19. The sky caves in / The devil cuts loose It's Oh So Quiet - Bjork, guessed by temaris

20. Breaking my back just to know your name / Seventeen tracks and I've had it with this game Somebody Told Me - The Killers, guessed by lovellama

I shall be decidedly impressed if anyone gets some of these. ;)

Comments

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

13. Original Prankster - Offspring
8. Comedown - Bush (or, Bush X, as they were known in Canada)
6. All the Small Things - blink-182
1. You Learn - Alanis Morissette

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Indeed! :)

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

*grins* I snapped up the easy ones.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

A bunch of them have definitely come from the more obscure parts of my playlist, that's for sure... ;)

[sgflutegirl.livejournal.com]

7. Every Morning - Sugar Ray
15. Ever the Same - Rob Thomas

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Well, that's pretty much the easy ones done. ;)

[temaris.livejournal.com]

18. Please keep your hands down / And stop raising your voice / It's hardly what I'd be doing if you gave me a choice

How to be dead, Snow Patrol

[temaris.livejournal.com]

Oh, oh, 19 is Bjork -- it's oh so quiet.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Yes and yes. ;)

[lovellama.livejournal.com]

20. Killers - Somebody told me

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Apparently lj is eating my notifications again... grrrr. And yes! ;)

[graculus.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid you were beaten to it. And please take your scary SG:A icon away! :P

[praderwilli.livejournal.com]

"9. He's got all the things you need and some that you will never / But you make him sound like frozen food, his love will last forever"

I could recognize an Elvis Costello lyric at a hundred yards away. That's "I Hope You're Happy Now" off Blood and Chocolate.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

He is kind of distinctive, isn't he? ;)

[praderwilli.livejournal.com]

Indeed. He's also one of my all time favorite artists. :-)

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately my EC stuff is mostly on vinyl and my amplifier recently crapped out so I'm stuck with what I have on cd at the moment... *sigh*

[praderwilli.livejournal.com]

I empathize. It's so costly to convert all your vinyl to CD- unless you just download everything illegally and make your own copies. But then that requires a lot of effort. I still have all of EC's early stuff only on vinyl and I don't own a turntable anymore. So, at this point they are just pretty decorations.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

I got hold of a really good turntable when someone I used to work with did just that, but there's nothing quite like vinyl. The amplifier I had was nearly as old as I am, though, so I guess I shouldn't complain too much.

[the4ts.livejournal.com]

How sad is it that the only one left that I recognise is by an artist I don't even really like that much! These quiz things could become addictive :)

No. 16 - James Blunt - Wisemen

[http://users.livejournal.com/_trickster_/]

#14: Starsailor - Four To The Floor

Yeeeeeah!

[graculus.livejournal.com]

That was the first track of his I heard, back before he was vastly overplayed, and I still think it's the best one of the entire album. Probably mostly because it's not as maudlin as some of his other stuff! ;)

[graculus.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed anyone got that! :)