Lyrics meme

[rhiannon_s]

Via cat63 and daibhid_c

1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few lines of the first thirty pieces of music that come up that do not give away the name. Skip instrumentals, but don't skip the embarrassing ones.
3. Make hapless internet denizens guess the song names and artists. Google is cheating. For musical songs, the name of the musical is acceptable in place of the artist.
4. Least hapless internet denizen wins admiration. That's right, just like a computer when you don't have power, the points don't matter.

I made a minor adjustment in that I used last.fm. I don't actually have a music player (well, on my phone but all it has is the one pre-loaded song) and I only have a handful of CDs (which are all out in the car). I don't know what this says about my musical taste really. I'm not a fanatical music lover really. Its always just a bit background to me IYSWIM.

1. Oh the wind whistles down
   The cold dark street tonight
   And the people they were dancing... to the music vibe
   And the boys chase the girls, with curls in their hair
2. I could stay awake just to hear you breathing
   Watch you smile while you are sleeping
   While you're far away and dreaming
   I could spend my life in this sweet surrender
3. Remember that tank top you bought me
   you wrote you're gorgeous on it
   you took me to your rented motorcar
   and filmed me on the bonnet
4. Tongues of fire on Idris flaring,
   news of foe-men near declaring,
   to heroic deeds of daring,
5. This was a triumph.
   I'm making a note here:
   HUGE SUCCESS.
   It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
6. Is it a kind of dream,
   Floating out on the tide,
   Following the river of death downstream?
   Oh, is it a dream?
7. I thought I saw a man brought to life
   He was warm, he came around like he was dignified
   He showed me what it was to cry
   Well you couldn't be that man I adored
8. We're coming to the edge,
   Running on the water,
   Coming through the fog,
   Your sons and daughters.
9. The fortunate ones
   To be fast and free and young
   I want to count myself among
   The fortunate ones
10. I never thought I'd miss you
    Half as much as I do
    And I never thought I'd feel this way
    The way I feel
    About you
11. Nothing is so good it lasts eternally
    Perfect situations must go wrong
    But this has never yet prevented me
    From wanting far too much for far too long
12. When the mist's a-rising
    And the rain is falling
    And the wind is blowing cold across the moor
    I hear the voice of my darling
    The girl I loved and lost a year ago
13. Close your eyes
    Give me your hand
    Darling, do you feel
    My heart beating?
14. There you go
    Flashing fever from your eyes
    Hey baby, come over here
    And shut them tight
15. He said: "Angel put that purple skirt on, y'know it makes me hot"
    He said: "Come on, Come on, get on, get up, look like
    You're enjoying my company",
16. The sky isn't always blue,
    But the sun does not always shine,
    It's all right to fall apart sometimes..
17. A man's got a heart, hasn't he?
    Joking apart -- hasn't he?
    And tho' I'd be the first one to say that I wasn't a saint...
    I'm finding it hard to be really as black as they paint... 
18. This ain't a song for the broken-hearted
    No silent prayer for the faith-departed
    I ain't gonna be just a face in the crowd
19. First, when there's nothing but a slow glowing dream
    That your fear seems to hide deep inside your mind
    All alone I have cried silent tears full of pride
    In a world made of steel, made of stone
20. Prometheus, they say, brought God's fire down to man.
    And we've caught it, tamed it, trained it since our history began.
    Now we're going back to heaven just to look him in the eye,
21. Sometimes the river flows but nothing breathes.
    A train arrives but never leaves.
    It's a shame.
22. You can't manufacture a miracle
    the silence was pitiful, that day
    a love is getting too cynical
23. We're leaving together,
    But still it's farewell
    And maybe we'll come back,
    To earth, who can tell ?
24. Well you must be a girl with shoes like that
    She said you know me well
    I seen you and little Steven and Joanna
    Round the back of my hotel oh yeah
25. No-one on earth could feel like this.
    I'm thrown and overblown with bliss.
26. There's a man I meet walks up our street
    he's a worker for the council
    has been twenty years
27. Winter's cityside
    Crystal bits of snowflakes
    All around my head and in the wind
28. If you want to, I'll change the-e situation
    Right people, right time, just the wrong location
    I've got a good idea, just you keep me near
29. Her face is a map of the world
    Is a map of the world
    You can see she's a beautiful girl
30. I got my first real six-string
    Bought it at the five-and-dime
    Played it 'til my fingers bled

Comments

[lachrybat.livejournal.com]

I recognise 5,13,14,18,25,30

[rhiannon-s.livejournal.com]

I am rather chuffed about someone getting 25, now that was good music!

[lachrybat.livejournal.com]

Oh and I got 19 too

[lachrybat.livejournal.com]

And 23

[cat63.livejournal.com]

1. Amy MacDonald, This is the Life
2. Aerosmith, Don't wanna Miss A thing
3. Babybird, You're Gorgeous
5. GLaDos, the song from th end of Portal, about cake :)
6. Art Garfunkel, Bright Eyes
7. Natalie Imbruglia, Torn
8. Carly Simon, Let The River Run
10. Labi Siffre, If Must Be Love (or possibly the Madness cover)
11. Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson, IKnow HIm So Well (from Chess?)
12. John Leyton, Johnny Remember Me
15. Alisha's Attic, the title has escaped :)
18.Bon Jovi, It's My Life
19.Irene Cara, Flashdance
22. Robbie Williams.
23. Europe, The Final Countdown
24. The Fratellis Chelsea Dagger, But the band name is hiding in the back of the memory cupboard…

26. Deacon Blue, Dignity
28. Dennis Waterman, I Could Be So Good For You
29.K.T. Tunstall.
30. Bryan Adams, Summer of 69


16 and 25. I should know, I'm sure…, I can hear them being sung in my head, but the titles and artists are just out of reach

[cat63.livejournal.com]

Failed to correct the end part of 24 when I remembered the band :)

16 is the song with the dreadful maths skills - One and One is One :)

[rhiannon-s.livejournal.com]

I stand in awe of your skills!
15 is "I am, I feel", but indeed by Alisha's Attic, and 10&11 are the cover versions (Madness and John Barrowman respectively), but there is no way to tell from the lyrics so that is a Win!

[cat63.livejournal.com]

Sign of a misspent yoof, I suspect :) And the rest :)

[rhiannon-s.livejournal.com]

The only thing worse than a misspent youth is a well spent one! Its too precious to waste with good behaviour.
I have to confess great admiration for you getting the Dennis Waterman one, I thought for sure no one would get that. Want to go for a bonus round?
Sometimes I sit, yeah
Feeling alone
No one to talk to
I got no telephone
And at night I wake up

:o)

[cat63.livejournal.com]

Jim Diamond, Hi Ho silver, alias the theme from "Boon" :)

[rhiannon-s.livejournal.com]

You win everything! Have a cake to reward yourself :o)

[cat63.livejournal.com]

The cake is a lie! :)

I have to admit, back then I thought Neil Morrissey was rather cute as Boon's sidekick Rocky. But it's OK, I'm better now :)

[lachrybat.livejournal.com]

it's true: 1+1=1

if "1" refers to 1 lump of putty
and "+" means "smoosh together"

[rhiannon-s.livejournal.com]

Could be a variation on "Will it Blend?". Take two lovers, drop them in a blender....

[deeper-than-red.livejournal.com]

ooh, what's your profile name on Last.FM?

[rhiannon-s.livejournal.com]

crypticmirror

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

Hey, I did better than I normally do on these things. Without looking at previous answers, honest guv:

3. is "You're Gorgeous", but I don't remember who it's by.

5. is "Still Alive" by GLaDOS

10. is "It Must Be Love" by Madness

13. is "Eternal Flame" by ... T'Pau?

17. is "Reviewing The Situation" by Ron Moody as Fagin

23. is "The Final Countdown" by Europe

26. I vaguely recall that "A Ship Called Dignity" by Deacon Blue starts something like that, but I'm not sure that's it.

29. Um, I'm not sure of the title but the chorus goes "Suddenly I see/This is what I want to be" And darnit, I can't remember who that's by either...