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[camwyn]

Hm. This looks like interesting to me:

Step #1: Put your iTunes (or other player) on the "Shuffle" setting.

Step #2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.

Step #3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from. Please don't use Google or any other way to CHEAT, for this spoils the fun for others who actually KNOW the answer.

Step #4: Check off the songs when someone guesses correctly.

Right. *cracks knuckles, fires up Pnakotus*

1. Falling, falling, gonna drop like a stone - Sax and Violins, from the Until The End Of The World soundtrack, by the Talking Heads, guessed by lone_gunfreak.
2. Travelling in a fried-out combie - Land Down Under, Men at Work. First guessed by neenie.
3. I get such a thrill when you look in my eyes - Best Years Of Our Lives, from the Shrek soundtrack, by the Baha Men. Guessed by copinggoggles.
4. You and I in a little toy shop buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got - 99 Red Balloons, Nena, English language version. Guessed by charliesmum.
5. Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand - Sir Duke, Stevie Wonder, guessed by fuchsoid.
6. Somewhere there's speaking- it's already coming in, oh, and it's rising at the back of your mind - Everything You Want, Vertical Horizon. Guessed by mephron.
7. With the sting of the whip on my shoulder, with the salt of my sweat on my brow - Deliver Us, Prince of Egypt soundtrack, guessed by copinggoggles.
8. You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack - Once in a Lifetime, Talking Heads. Guessed by colubra.
9. Run and tell all of the angels this could take all night - Learn to Fly, Foo Fighters. Guessed by colubra
10. Oh, the night that Paddy Murphy died is a night I'll never forget - The Night Pat Murphy Died, Great Big Sea, guessed by mephron.
11. Have an eerie dreary solstice, 'cause the stars are right this year - An Eerie Dreary Solstice, HP Lovecraft Historical Society, guessed by colubra.
12. Here comes Yog-Sothoth, here comes Yog-Sothoth, quick, let's try to hide - Here Comes Yog-Sothoth, HP Lovecraft Historical Society, guessed by tamnonlinear.
13. You say you want diamonds in a ring of gold - All I Want Is You, U2. Guessed by colubra.
14. In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong - And So It Goes, Billy Joel, guessed by mephron.
15. If you said goodbye to me tonight, there would still be music left to write - For The Longest Time, Billy Joel, guessed by mephron.
16. Down the line, coming down the line, a V6 Merc in blue - Darlington Darling, by Moxy Fruvous, guessed by lasa.

17. The world in terror and madness lies, its ultimate doom is at hand

18. You don't know how you met me, you don't know why - Follow Me, Uncle Kracker, guessed by copinggoggles.
19. When you were young and your heart was an open book - Live and Let Die, from the movie of the same name, first guessed by incandescens and colubra.
20. Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while - Forever Young, Alphaville, guessed by charliesmum.


And three extra, because I don't think that songs whose titles are their first lines should count for this. I mean, c'mon.

11a. I met you before the fall of Rome - It's All Been Done, Bare Naked Ladies, guessed by mephron.
12a. pass the word - it's a call to arms - midnight men at the door - A Call to Arms, Mike and the Mechanics, guessed by eric_williamson and mephron.
17a. The news had come out in the first World War that the bloody Red Baron was flying once more - Snoopy's Christmas Carol, Snoopy and the Royal Guardsmen, guessed by charliesmum.

Comments

[muji]

2. Men at Work - Land Down Under
6. Vertical Horizon - Everything I Am? You Are? I don't remember.
11a. BNL - ...Something.

[incandescens]

19 - Live And Let Die, from the movie of the same name. Not sure who sang it, though.

[colubra.livejournal.com]

I always do these as 'A line from the song' rather than 'The First line from the song. More challenging (and I don't have to think to write the post).

2. Travelling in a fried-out combie On a hippie trailhead, full of zombies perhaps? Men at Work: Down Under

8. You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack Once In A Lifetime: Talking Heads

9. Run and tell all of the angels this could take all night I'm not gonna guess it because I can't remember the-- OH. Foo Fighters, Learn to Fly

11. Have an eerie dreary solstice, 'cause the stars are right this year Scary Christmas, I do believe? HPL society thingy.

13. You say you want diamonds in a ring of gold U2: All I Want Is You

19. When you were young and your heart was an open book I want to know WHY this Wings song keeps cropping up for me this year. Literally once a week I hear Live And Let Die.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Oh, fun.

Many of these lines intrigue me, and I can't wait to find out what they are.

Okay...

The one's I know...

2. Travelling in a fried-out combie - Land Down Under by Men At Work

4. You and I in a little toy shop buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got - 99 Luftballons Nena

8. You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack - Er, Same as it Ever Was? (can't remember title) Talking Heads

20. Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while - Forever Young, Alphaville

How pathetic is it the only ones I know are from the 80's?

17a is Snoopy Christmas with the Red Baron or something, isn't it?

[colubra.livejournal.com]

Paul McCartney, natch!

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! Is 17a available anywhere on mp3? I own it, but on 45 vinyl.

(I do recognize a few of the others.)

[camwyn]

6. Right group, wrong verb in the title.
11a. Again, right group.

[mephron]

6. "Everything You Want", Vertical Horizon

10. "The Night Pat Murphy Died", Great Big Sea

14. "And So It Goes", Billy Joel

11a. "It's All Been Done", Bare Naked Ladies

[camwyn]

Snoopy's CHristmas Carol, yeah.

What gets me is that I've got about two albums' worth of normal Christmas music on this thing and I still hit all the novelty pieces first.

[camwyn]

I don't know if I bought my copy or ripped it from somewhere. I'll check when I get home.

[camwyn]

11. Close, close- the album is A Very Scary Solstice.

[sophistry]

OHMYGOD #3 IS THAT BAHA MEN TRACK FROM THE SHREK SOUNDTRACK. My shame. I can't tell you the name of it, but I can sing you the whole first verse? Does that count?

#7 is from Prince of Egypt - the song they're singing at the beginning that segues into Yocheved's lullabye. WHY DON'T I OWN THIS MOVIE ON DVD.

#10 is - well, it's either a trad version of 'The Night That Paddy Murphy Died', or, more likely, the Great Big Sea version, 'The Night Pat Murphy Died'.

#18 is Uncle Kracker, 'Follow Me'.

[mephron]

and DOH, I was just reading again and suddenly one more hit me:

15. "The Longest Time", Billy Joel.

[camwyn]

3. So far that's the closest anyone's gotten! Yeah, you've pegged the song.

7. I don't own the movie either, but I do own the soundtrack. I should probably buy the movie.

10. GBS version. Every so often I wanna app Pat Murphy to Milliways to have him die and the Bar break out in RANDOM ACTS OF CELEBATORY DRUNKENNESS from TOTALLY RANDOM IRISH GUYS.

18. Ayup!

[muji]

6. *goes for 'Want', then gives up*
11a. Ha! Should've known it.

[colubra.livejournal.com]

I couldn't remember! Oh well. ;)

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

The four I had that I am now scouring the Internets for are

Snoopy vs the Red Baron
The Return of the Red Baron
Snoopy's Christmas
Smallest Astronaut

One album, Anthology, seems to have all four in mono. But the album's not in print. And the songs aren't at iTunes.

[camwyn]

In that case I probably got them years ago, which means they're mp3s, because I avoid wma format. I should be able to help you out on that front later today.

Edit: and by them I mean Snoopy v. Red Baron and Snoopy's Christmas Carol.

[mephron]

If you do that, he needs to die like Hyatt in Excel Saga: dies and then spontaneously resurrects.

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

12 is from a Scary Solstice, by the H P Lovecraft Historical Society, title "Here Comes Yog-Sothoth"

[camwyn]

We should add the Death of Pat Murphy to the calendar of Inexplicable Milliways Holidays. Once a year, Pat Murphy comes in and dies.

[fuchsoid.livejournal.com]

Number 5 is Stevie Wonder's Sir Duke, and are 12 and 17 from A Shoggoth on the Roof?

[camwyn]

Same people, different album. A Shoggoth On The Roof doesn't have holiday music- the HPLHS did two albums called A Very Scary Solstice and An Even Scarier Solstice.

[lone-gunfreak.livejournal.com]

the first one is "Sax and Violins" by the Talking Heads

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

I think gnomi has those two on some sort of mp3 format. Let me check with her first before you go to any trouble.

[mephron]

I like it.

He walks in. He dies. The bar serves nothing but Whiskey meads, and Irish food.

12a

[eric-williamson.livejournal.com]

Mike and the Mechanics - A Call to Arms - from the same album as the "can you hear me?" song (Silent Running) and "All I Need is a Miracle" - I love Mike and the Mechanics and loved their MVs on MTV back in the day... they told such great stories.

here I go again

[mephron]

is #12 'A Call To Arms' by Mike + The Mechanics?

[lasa.livejournal.com]

16 is Moxy Fruvous - Darlington Darling from Bargainville

Re: 12a

[camwyn]

Never saw their MVs, alas, but I was a big fan of their albums back then. Well, two of their albums. I was in high school at the time.

[camwyn]

I was beginning to wonder if anyone would get that!

Re: here I go again

[camwyn]

Bingo!

Re: 12a

[eric-williamson.livejournal.com]

I was in HS, too - and only ever saw a couple - the one for "Taken In" was brilliant. I should look online for them.. and buy some CDs soon since I haven't listened to my tapes in forever...

Thanks for the trip down memory lane - and the interesting LJ.

Re: 12a

[camwyn]

I do my best. Glad you like it!

[whobunkyboo.livejournal.com]

And So It Goes...if you have never heard the (A capella) version done by the 2004 International Championship Quartet BRAVA!, tell me and I will figure out how to send it to you. It's breathtaking.