Baaaaa. First line meme.

[camwyn]

First, put your playlist on shuffle. Second, post the first lines for the first 20 songs to come up (along with these instructions). Third, have people guess the songs and artists in comments to the post. Fourth, in a few days the answers will be posted.


For the sake of my sanity I have removed all the songs that were in Mongolian. Yes, this is an issue with my playlist.


1. Let's get down to business to defeat the Huns
2. Don't ask me what you know is true
3. Here we stand and here we fall
4. Oh, the night that Paddy Murphy died is a night I'll never forget
5. Time, time, time, see what's become of me...
6. Oh, I came into a scolding wife a few short years ago
7. Standing there alone, the ship is waiting
8. We come from a blue planet light-years away
9. I've been to cities that never close down
10. You and I, in a little toy shop
11. I don't need to fall at your feet just 'cause you cut me to the bone
12. Friday night I crashed your party
13. Viktor was born the spring of '44
14. You don't know how you met me, you don't know why
15. Whatever you do, I'll do it too
16. The wind blows hard against this mountainside
17. Come out Virginia, don't let me wait
18. I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
19. One day, one night, one moment
20. Take that look of worry - I'm an ordinary man

Comments

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

God, I SUCK. I can only tell you 7 is Peter Schilling, or whatever his name was, Major Tom/Coming Home.

[camwyn]

Well, you did get that one right, artist name and all. So that's a start.

[crazedcrusader.livejournal.com]

1. 'I'll Make a Man Out of You' from the Mulan soundtrack.

4. 'The Night Pat Murphy Died,' and I'm gonna guess you have the Great Big Sea version (like I do.)

5. 'Hazy Shade of Winter,' Simon and Garfunkle.

6. 'Scolding Wife', Great Big Sea.

12. 'You May Be Crazy,' Billy Joel.

14. Uncle Kracker, 'Follow Me.'

17. 'The Good Die Young,' Billy Joel.

18. 'Take Me Home,' Phil Collins.

[camwyn]

Oh, yeah, you nailed 'em. Well done!

[crazedcrusader.livejournal.com]

*stares at fingers*

*sidles in* *shiftily slips 'Right, I May Be' between 'Be' and 'Crazy' in #12.* *sidles back out*

:D!

[camwyn]

Given that I rather slipped up and failed to mention my cover of Hazy Shade of Winter is the Bangles version, no harm done.

[cupenny.livejournal.com]

#7 Major Tom, by Peter Shilling
#12 You may be right, I may be Crazy, by Billy Joel
#17 Only the Good Die Young, by Billy Joel

[camwyn]

Indeed!

[truebluespark]

Heh, I'm never much good at this meme. Only one I recognize is #12, Billy Joel's "You May Be Right".

[camwyn]

Well, you did recognise it at least, so that's cool.

[rimestock.livejournal.com]

:O.

Can't believe nobody else has posted this one yet.

10: 99 Red Balloons, assuming the English version, by Nena unless you have a cover.

[camwyn]

Nah, it's the Nena version in English. I think I had the German one once, but I don't know where that is.

[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

1. I'll Make A Man Out of You, Mulan
5. Hazy Shade of Winter, Simon and Garfunkel
10. 99 Red Balloons, Nena (English version)
12. You May Be Right, Billy Joel
17. Only The Good Die Young, ditto
18. Werewolves of London? Devon...uh?

[camwyn]

Well, #5 is actually the Bangles version on account of me being an eighties music type, but yeah. And the name you're thinking of for #18 is Warren Zevon.

[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

I knew there was a Z in there somewhere!

As I recall, the full Nena album had both the English and German versions, as well as some other quite good songs. I wonder where MY copy is...?

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

9: Still Call Australia Home, Peter Allen. I'd have to turn in my citizenship if I didn't recognise that!

[camwyn]

*applauds* Mine is from the Boy From Oz soundtrack, so it's Hugh "Wolverine" Jackman singing, but that is indeed the song. Well done.

[taennyn]

1. I'll Make A Man Out Of You, Mulan soundtrack
4. The Night Pat Murphy Died, Great Big Sea
6. Scolding Wife, Great Big Sea
17. Only The Good Die Young, Billy Joel

And I kinda want to hear 18. O.o

[camwyn]

My copy of #18 was recorded live in concert. I like the studio cover better, but I can't get it off iTunes. bleah.

[firestrike.livejournal.com]

For some reason, "Werewolves of London" gets more air time than "Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner" or "Excitable Boy". It's unfair, I tell you.

[firestrike.livejournal.com]

13 - Leningrad - Billy Joel

[camwyn]

Bingo!

[victorthecook.livejournal.com]

#20 is "Take Me Home", the Phil Collins hit.
#18 is "Werewolves of London", from Warren Zevon's Excitable Boy.
#5 is "Hazy Shade of Winter"; by Paul Simon. The Bangles' cover of it is my favorite.
I concur on the Billy Joel, and have no clue on the rest.

[camwyn]

My copy of #5 is the Bangles cover, and my copy of #18 is from "Learning to Flinch", which I think is a concert album of Zevon's. But yeah.

[victorthecook.livejournal.com]

Cool -- I didn't know he'd recorded 'Werewolf' more than once. I'll be on the lookout for that album.

[camwyn]

It's the only version I could get off iTunes, which was kind of annoying. I like the studio version.

[kyrielle]

That baffles me. I got a copy of it off iTunes from the _A Quiet Normal Life_ album.

[drharper.livejournal.com]

The GBS ones were already guessed, so...

11. "King of Wishful Thinking" by Go West.
15. "Strangers Like Me" from the Tarzan Soundtrack by Phil Collins

[camwyn]

#11 is dead correct. #15 is a cover by Everlife, but it's from a Disney cover compilation, so that's okay.

[condotierre.livejournal.com]

1. Mulan ST, 'I'll make a man out of you'
4. Great Big Sea, 'The night that Paddy Murphy died'
16. Mr. Mister, 'Kyrie Eleison'
19. Enya, 'Far and Away'

The rest look familiar but I'm so sleepy I can't think atm.

[camwyn]

Yup yup!

[condotierre.livejournal.com]

By the way you remember that origami yak I showed you?

Bloody. Evil. Hard.

I'm stuck halfway trying to figure out the horns. I mean...YAK! Shouldn't be so bloody hard!

[the-grokster.livejournal.com]

#3, Hammer to Fall, Queen

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

*icon luv*

[kelathefinn.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the education. The only pop music here from the west seems to be karaoke versions of Abba and such things as 'Living Next Door to Alice' - I think I need to get a 'Great Big Sea' album when I'm in the States this May.

[jjloa.livejournal.com]

most of the ones I recognized have ... already been guessed. Well, most of them have already been guessed, so that's not hard *G* So I won't repeat ones already done ... but I believe I see one not already guessed I know ... #2. Never Tear Us Apart. INXS.

[kyrielle]

4. The Night Pat Murphy Died, Great Big Sea

6. Scolding Wife, Great Big Sea

11. (I should know this and I don't, darn it!)

12. You May Be Right, Billy Joel

13. Leningrad?, Billy Joel

16. Kyrie Eleison (sp?), Mr. Mister.

17. Only the Good Die Young, Billy Joel

18. Werewolves of London, Warren Zevon

[prodigal.livejournal.com]

5. Time, time, time, see what's become of me...

Hazy Shade of Winter. And I'm going to bet on your having the Bangles' version of it.

17. Come out Virginia, don't let me wait

Only the Good Die Young. Billy Joel.

18. I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand

Werewolves Of London. Warren Zevon.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

The only one I know that hasn't already been guessed is #8, and all I can tell you without looking it up is, it's from the soundtrack to the movie Bis ans Ende der Welt (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101458/) ("Until the End of the World").

(does go and look it up) Humans from Earth, by T-Bone Burnett.

I also knew #3, #6, #10, #12, #17, #18.

[lpetrazickis.livejournal.com]

8 is obviously Sixty Space Horses in my Space Herd by Huun-Huur-Tu. Everyone knows that.^-^

[lasa.livejournal.com]

No Mongolian?! Where's the challenge? ;)

The ones I knew have all be guessed.