Music-Guessing Survey

[tabular_rasa]

Step 1. Put your playlist/library on random.
Step 2. Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing. (You can skip songs that are instrumental).
Step 3. Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
No Googling! That's what they call cheating.

Skipping instrumental songs, songs not in English, and songs that start out with the title, and considering the "first line" the first line that is an actual phrase rather than scat singing, rap-grunting, or just syllables of voice, here we go . . .

1) From underneath the trees we watch the sky, confusing stars for satellites. ihrketayhl
2) There is a road that meets the road that goes to my house. ko_mo_re_bi
3) I don't want to say I'm sorry, because I know there's nothing wrong.
4) Cut my life into pieces.ko_mo_re_bi
5) This is where I'll be, so heavenly, so come and dance with me, Michael. halcyon
6) If I had to, I would put myself right beside you.
7) Without you, the ground thaws, the rain falls, the grass grows. silverfyre
8) If we still have time, we might still get by; every time I think about it, I want to cry.
9) Turn it inside-out so I can see the part of you that's drifting over me. silverfyre
10) Now I will tell you what I've done for you: 50,000 tears I've cried. ihrketayhl
11) Who can tell me if we have heaven?
12) He said I'm worth it, his one desire.
13) How can I just let you walk away, just let you leave without a trace? silverfyre
14) Here upon this pillow made of reed and willow: you're a fickle little twister; are you sweet on your sister?
15) F is for friends who do stuff together. silverfyre
16) If you're blue and you don't know where to go to, why don't you go where fashion sits? silverfyre
17) I left a good job in the city, working for the man every night and day. eternitat
18) Buddy, you're a boy, make a big noise, playing in the street, gonna be a big man some day. eternitat
19) I was blown away, what could I say?
20) Love of mine, someday you will die. silverfyre
21) I hope the ring you gave to her turns her finger green.
22) Momma told me when I was young, "Come sit beside me, my only son." eternitat
23) Every time I think of you, I always catch my breath.
24) Many a time I ran with you down the rainy roads of our old town. ihrketayhl
25) Closed off from love, I didn't need the pain.

Comments

[eternitat.livejournal.com]

17) "Proud Mary" by Creedence Clearwater Revival/Tina Turner
22) "Simple kind of man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd

18 sounds similar to "We will rock you" by Queen, but those are NOT the exact lyrics.

[tabular-rasa.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, and you're right on 18, too (I fixed it just now)-- that's what I get for listening to the song all the way through while typing the lyrics out of my head. (You know how you're listening to one thing and trying to type another, and what you're listening to bleeds through? Yeah, definitely not the song to attempt to do that to!).

[silverfyre.livejournal.com]

4) AGH I can't think of the name, but it follows with "This is my last resort! Suffocation! No breathing!" And I forget who it's by too. ;_;

7) Without You, from RENT! :D

9) Everywhere to Me- Michelle Branch

13) Take a Look at Me Now- (can't think of the artist)

15) The FUN song- Spongebob Squarepants! XD

16) Puttin' On The Ritz- (dunno the artist)

20) I Will Follow You Into The Dark- Death Cab for Cutie (omg heartbreaking song! also, if you look up the song on youtube, there's a music video with hand-drawn pictures of bunnies! and it is so cute.)

[tabular-rasa.livejournal.com]

I can't count #4 if you can't name either of them! But I can tell you know it!

Right on the rest, just "Take A Look At Me Now" is actually "Against All Odds." It's by Phil Collins.

[silverfyre.livejournal.com]

Lol, yeah I didn't think you'd count it, but I did want you to know how close I was! :P Good songs. Did you see the bunny video?

[silverfyre.livejournal.com]

Here, it is so sweet, I LINKED it to you!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BgOv7-RVPY

[tabular-rasa.livejournal.com]

So the very first book I ever wrote (and I was so little I couldn't even write yet; I just drew the pictures and then dictated the words to my mom who wrote them down for me) was about the adventures of a white bunny and a brown bunny; White Bunny (that was her name) got separated from her parents while playing with Brown Bunny, and then she lost him, too . . . and then he finds her again and helps her finds her parents, and it all ended happily.

So I just kept thinking about that while watching this (there being a white bunny and a brown bunny and all), and I definitely lost it and started crying when the white bunny was dead and the brown bunny finds her and is just lying on top of her. (At least that's what I assumed happened. Maybe the ending of the two of them sitting together is meant to suggest she was just asleep? I dunno). Whoosh. Definitely not prepared for thinking about that as an alternative outcome to a story I wrote when I was four. Wow.

(But then again, this song makes me cry 9/10 times I listen to it, anyway. Basically anytime I actually think about the lyrics).

I'd only ever seen this video for the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbIvC66lPBI&feature=related. It's interesting, though not quite as sad-- just thought-provoking, maybe.

Thanks for that though. (And I'm not being sarcastic, I promise). It's a cute video. Just . . . wow, I read way too much into that, lol.

[silverfyre.livejournal.com]

Hehe. You're welcome. And, though I already told you when I commented the entry about this (wow, I send you a video and it inspires a whole entry? *blush*), I'm sorry it made you cry! Heh. Aww.

And I do think the bunny is dead in that picture, but the video does end bittersweetly, I think, because I thought that the two of them sitting together represented them together in the afterlife, or maybe the way Brown Bunny remembered them, together in his memories.

And it is a sad and beautiful song. I'm kinda glad I'm not the only one who gets really emotional when listening to certain songs. I've managed to not cry (atleast not unless there was another reason to also), but sometimes just barely. Falling Slowly and Send in the Clowns are also very moving, but not as tear-inducing as this one, heh. And if you get the chance to see (a recording of) the play "Trestle at Pope Lick Creek", that too is of the "sad and beautiful" variety.

Oddly enough, I first heard this song when it was used to bookend a short play I did that involved death, but was definitely a comedy, though a somewhat dark one.

[halcyon.livejournal.com]

5. Franz Ferdinand - Michael

Yeah, that's the only one I know...

[tabular-rasa.livejournal.com]

Yup!

[ko-mo-re-bi.livejournal.com]

2 - July, July by the Decemberists
4 - Last Resort by Papa Roach

[tabular-rasa.livejournal.com]

Yup yup!

[vareth-is.livejournal.com]

1. Nickelback - If Everyone Cared
10. Evanescence - Going Under
24. Keane - Bedshaped - and can I just say, this song is one of my favorites.

[tabular-rasa.livejournal.com]

Yup, yup, yup!

I love that song, too. I find it's strangely flexible in interpretation, too; I've managed to apply it to so many situations.

[mona-lisa-73.livejournal.com]

19) "It's not Over" by Daughtry

:-P

[geni91782.livejournal.com]

Number 25 is totally Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis!