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lenora_roseA revisit of an old meme.
Rules:
A) Put your mp3 player on complete random
B) Type the opening lyrics (And ONLY the opening lyrics) of the first twenty songs that come up.
c) Leave your friends list to post their guesses - including, ideally, actually mentioning the song name and artist, this means you, Brannie! in the comments.
D) Tweak this meme to avoid sheer stupidity (Fr'instance, I skipped three instrumentals, and have removed the titles of songs when they show up in the very beginning. And moved the foreign languages to the bonus tracks. Except for the Polish one. I just flat don't have lyrics for it.)
Random Commentary: No Heather Dale this time. Wow. Also, last time I did this, the bit about first lines wasn't there, so I picked lyrics I thought were particularly memorable in a couple of cases. I guess there's some logic either way - while opening lyrics tend not to be as memorable as the follow-up (In folk songs, people seem to start by walking around until they meet someone else), it's easier to recall the melody if you're handed the very beginning.
1) I went out late one evening, moon was shining bright/Somewhere off into the distance burned a neon light.
2) Where the road is dark, /and the seed is sowed / where the gun is cocked /and the bullet's cold
3) We fell down, we went blind/ we built a jail inside our minds/I have no song at all to break a prison wall
4) On either side the river lie/long fields of barley and of rye/that clothe the wall to meet the sky
(This is a gimme for at least one person)
5) Well met, well met said an old true love/well met, well met said he/I've just returned from the salt salt sea/and it's all for the love of thee.
(Okay. I have versions with four different bands performing it. The one that came up is probably the *most* obscure, so I'll take any of the four, even the one that renders it as unlistenable godawfulness.)
6) As I was a walking one morning in May/I saw a pretty fair maid and unto her did say/Oh my darling I'm inclined/I'll tell to you me mind, me inclination lies in (Title of song)
(Hint for specific artist; this song won a BBC folk award for the year it was released. I've also described it aloud as the cleanest dirty song ever.)
7) He took four hundred thousand men/likewise some kings to swell his throng/he was so well provided/enough to sweep the world along
8) They bind his eyes with a silken scarf/in his ear, a friend explains/"The one you catch is the one you kiss."/How we all love party games!
9) Hey little (Title of song) tell me where you're going/the twilight hours are long over and the winter winds are blowing/do you have a secret that keeps you set apart/or are you just a victim of someone's hardened heart?
10) Last night when I saw him last night last week / when I saw my lover with a flush in his cheek...
11) Monday finds you like a bomb / that's been left ticking there too long/ you're bleeding
12) All hands on deck/ please don't panic/It's probably a drill,/ there's really nothing wrong/Steady as she goes/On the Titanic
13) Take everything / that you gave when things were nice / Fake everything / if it makes you feel all right
14) On rides a captain and three hundred soldier lads/out of the morning mist and through the silent snow
15) A little blood and vomit on the car seat / and a tooth is sitting in my lap
16) I think of your room / I think of you there/I think of you dragging /your body upstairs
17) Princess of lust/ Dignity put to dust/a virginal sight/ Their apple to bite
(Honesty compels me to admit I'd have never got this one. I had to look it up.)
18) I came to the place where the (title redacted) lay / and pensively stood by his tomb/ When in a low whisper/ I heard something say/how sweetly I sleep here alone.
19) I come in on the night train/ With an arm full of box cars / The wings of a magpie / 'cross the hooligan night
20) So/So you think you can tell/Heaven from Hell/ Blue skies from pain
Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd. Per Mom, with a probable nod to Vilashna on band name.
Bonus tracks (If you can't get the song or artist, you'll still get a credit if you name the languages...)
1) Kuljin kujia katselin taloja talon tapoja /Kuljin kujia katselin taloja talon tapoja / astuin tupahan täytehen talohonn vierahassen/ astuin tupahan täytehen talohonn vierahassen (Finnish, per mom. With me that narrows it down to five actual groups - and One Maddy Prior song, of all things, though it's a freebie that this ain't her. Oh heck, also free; it isn't Nightwish.)
2) Inte krusar jag för du är nätt och grann / får jag inte dig så tar väl jag en ann' Swedish (Which narrows it down to two bands, I think, since I have no In Extremo on the MP3 player.)
3) Il faut (Title redacted, yes, even in other languages) / changer de paysage / le pied sur un herberge / vierge. French
4) (Actual first line is song title, so redacted)/venientes perrexerunt/velut cum gaudio celestis paradisi/suscepte sunt Latin
5) yondeiru muneno dokoka okude / itsumo kokoro odoru yume wo mitai Japanese (Colin might have a faint hope of getting this one.)
Rules:
A) Put your mp3 player on complete random
B) Type the opening lyrics (And ONLY the opening lyrics) of the first twenty songs that come up.
c) Leave your friends list to post their guesses - including, ideally, actually mentioning the song name and artist, this means you, Brannie! in the comments.
D) Tweak this meme to avoid sheer stupidity (Fr'instance, I skipped three instrumentals, and have removed the titles of songs when they show up in the very beginning. And moved the foreign languages to the bonus tracks. Except for the Polish one. I just flat don't have lyrics for it.)
Random Commentary: No Heather Dale this time. Wow. Also, last time I did this, the bit about first lines wasn't there, so I picked lyrics I thought were particularly memorable in a couple of cases. I guess there's some logic either way - while opening lyrics tend not to be as memorable as the follow-up (In folk songs, people seem to start by walking around until they meet someone else), it's easier to recall the melody if you're handed the very beginning.
1) I went out late one evening, moon was shining bright/Somewhere off into the distance burned a neon light.
2) Where the road is dark, /and the seed is sowed / where the gun is cocked /and the bullet's cold
3) We fell down, we went blind/ we built a jail inside our minds/I have no song at all to break a prison wall
4) On either side the river lie/long fields of barley and of rye/that clothe the wall to meet the sky
(This is a gimme for at least one person)
5) Well met, well met said an old true love/well met, well met said he/I've just returned from the salt salt sea/and it's all for the love of thee.
(Okay. I have versions with four different bands performing it. The one that came up is probably the *most* obscure, so I'll take any of the four, even the one that renders it as unlistenable godawfulness.)
6) As I was a walking one morning in May/I saw a pretty fair maid and unto her did say/Oh my darling I'm inclined/I'll tell to you me mind, me inclination lies in (Title of song)
(Hint for specific artist; this song won a BBC folk award for the year it was released. I've also described it aloud as the cleanest dirty song ever.)
7) He took four hundred thousand men/likewise some kings to swell his throng/he was so well provided/enough to sweep the world along
8) They bind his eyes with a silken scarf/in his ear, a friend explains/"The one you catch is the one you kiss."/How we all love party games!
9) Hey little (Title of song) tell me where you're going/the twilight hours are long over and the winter winds are blowing/do you have a secret that keeps you set apart/or are you just a victim of someone's hardened heart?
10) Last night when I saw him last night last week / when I saw my lover with a flush in his cheek...
11) Monday finds you like a bomb / that's been left ticking there too long/ you're bleeding
12) All hands on deck/ please don't panic/It's probably a drill,/ there's really nothing wrong/Steady as she goes/On the Titanic
13) Take everything / that you gave when things were nice / Fake everything / if it makes you feel all right
14) On rides a captain and three hundred soldier lads/out of the morning mist and through the silent snow
15) A little blood and vomit on the car seat / and a tooth is sitting in my lap
16) I think of your room / I think of you there/I think of you dragging /your body upstairs
17) Princess of lust/ Dignity put to dust/a virginal sight/ Their apple to bite
(Honesty compels me to admit I'd have never got this one. I had to look it up.)
18) I came to the place where the (title redacted) lay / and pensively stood by his tomb/ When in a low whisper/ I heard something say/how sweetly I sleep here alone.
19) I come in on the night train/ With an arm full of box cars / The wings of a magpie / 'cross the hooligan night
20) So/So you think you can tell/Heaven from Hell/ Blue skies from pain
Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd. Per Mom, with a probable nod to Vilashna on band name.
Bonus tracks (If you can't get the song or artist, you'll still get a credit if you name the languages...)
1) Kuljin kujia katselin taloja talon tapoja /Kuljin kujia katselin taloja talon tapoja / astuin tupahan täytehen talohonn vierahassen/ astuin tupahan täytehen talohonn vierahassen (Finnish, per mom. With me that narrows it down to five actual groups - and One Maddy Prior song, of all things, though it's a freebie that this ain't her. Oh heck, also free; it isn't Nightwish.)
2) Inte krusar jag för du är nätt och grann / får jag inte dig så tar väl jag en ann' Swedish (Which narrows it down to two bands, I think, since I have no In Extremo on the MP3 player.)
3) Il faut (Title redacted, yes, even in other languages) / changer de paysage / le pied sur un herberge / vierge. French
4) (Actual first line is song title, so redacted)/venientes perrexerunt/velut cum gaudio celestis paradisi/suscepte sunt Latin
5) yondeiru muneno dokoka okude / itsumo kokoro odoru yume wo mitai Japanese (Colin might have a faint hope of getting this one.)
