Music Meme, to take my mind off.

[jlh]

Music Lyrics Meme (because this one always goes over well):
1. Put your music player (ipod, mp3player, winamp, etc) on shuffle.
2. Write down the first song lyric of each song that comes up (skip over songs where the title is in the first line)
3. Post the lyrics so that your friends (who are also probably procrastinating) can guess the song titles.

1. Strain this chaos turn it into light // I've got to see you one last night
   
2. Love, I get so lost sometimes In Your Eyes | Peter Gabriel piperki
   
3. If I close my eyes // I'm afraid I won't wake up Holding on to the Earth | Sam Phillips ziggy1278
   
4. Born a poor young country boy Mother Nature's Son | Beatles amyamy
   
5. She wanted to test her husband // She knew exactly what to do Babooshka | Kate Bush lillijulianne
   
6. Every finger in the room is pointing at me Crucify | Tori Amos boogabooga_xx
   
7. She take my money // well i'm in need Golddigger | Kanye West redwhitedresses
   
8. Your love is like a tidal wave spinning over my head Heartbreaker | Pat Benetar dreamerren
   
9. One man come in the name of love Pride (In the Name of Love) | U2 boogabooga_xx
   
10. I try to discover a little something to make me sweeter A Little Respect | Erasure boogabooga_xx
    
11. Worry the bottle mamma, it's grapefruit wine FM | Steely Dan piperki
    
12. Desert loving in your eyes all the way Karma Chameleon | Culture Club lillijulianne
    
13. Slow down, you move too fast 59th Street Bridge Song | Simon & Garfunkel piperki
    
14. I thought we had it all planned but I guess I was wrong All Alone | Chris Richardson dreamerren
    
15. A man walks down the street You Can Call Me Al | Paul Simon piperki
    
16. Nobody on the road, nobody on the beach Boys of Summer | Don Henley boogabooga_xx
    
17. I've been long, a long way from here If It Makes You Happy | Sheryl Crow honestys_easy
    
18. I, I always thought that I knew Is It Any Wonder | Keane ziggy1278
    
19. Every time I see your face I get all wet between my legs Flower | Liz Phair lillijulianne
    
20. I'm undecided about you again O'Sailor | Fiona Apple lillijulianne
    
21. I was fourteen, she was twelve
    
22. I'm broke but I'm happy Hand in My Pocket | Alanis Morissette honestys_easy
    
23. Ever since I was a young boy I've played the silver ball Pinball Wizard | The Who (Elton in the movie) redwhitedresses
    
24. I'm alone // sitting with my empty glass The Metro | Berlin piperki
    
25. You had something to hide // should have hidden it, shouldn't you Policy of Truth | Depeche Mode ziggy1278
    
26. Three months in here // can't catch the tears
    
27. I could feel it from the start // couldn't stand to be apart Ain't No Other Man | Christina Aguilera redwhitedresses
    
28. Oh, thinkin' about all our younger years Heaven | Bryan Adams dreamerren
    
29. Express yourself, don't repress yourself Madonna | Human Nature boogabooga_xx
    
30. I've called you so many times today Can't Stand Losing You | The Police lillijulianne
    

Comments

[dreamerren.livejournal.com]

8. "Heartbreaker" - Pat Benetar
14. "All Alone" - Chris Rich!
28. "Heaven" - Bryan Adams (or one of the many incantations done by many Idol contestants...heehee.)

[jlh.livejournal.com]

For song #30 here's my hello came up but alas, it has the title as the first line!

[dreamerren.livejournal.com]

Haha...I have that happen to me a few times today. (And because I'm crazy and have a few copies of "All Alone" I got that one like three times.)

[boogabooga-xx.livejournal.com]

6) cruify -- tori amos
9) In the Name of Love--U2
10) a little respect --weatus (at least my version)
29) Vogue- Madonna
16) Boys of Summer--Don Henly

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Awesome job.

29--right artist, wrong song …

[boogabooga-xx.livejournal.com]

human nature?

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Got it!

[mbenvy.livejournal.com]

16 is "Boys of Summer" by Don Henley. These are hard!

[redwhitedresses.livejournal.com]

7. Gold Digger -- Kanye West
23. Pinball Wizard -- Elton John(?)
27. Ain't No Other Man -- Christina Aguilera

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Well done!

[(Anonymous)]

12. karma chameleon by Culture Club.
23. Pinball Wizard, but I can't remember who sings it.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

anonymouse, i cannot credit you if I don't know who you are!

and Pinball Wizard is The Who, but is sung by Elton in the movie

[piperki.livejournal.com]

2: In Your Eyes, Peter Gabriel
11: FM, Steely Dan
13: 59th St. Bridge Song, Simon & Garfunkel
15: (You can?) Call Me Al, Paul Simon
23: Pinball Wizard, the Who
24: On the Metro, Berlin


This is so funny, you can tell almost exactly how old I am based on my guesses. I didn't guess what appeared in comments already, though...

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Totally right!

[piperki.livejournal.com]

Stop by mine, you have a good chance of being the Grand Champion b/c I think most of my friends list is AFK tonight or something!

[honestys-easy.livejournal.com]

2. In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel (or the popular Ben Harper cover)
9. In The Name Of Love - U2
10. Give A Little Respect - Erasure
13. 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Simon and Garfunkel
16. Boys of Summer - Don Henley (or the Ataris cover)
17. If It Makes You Happy - Sheryl Crow
22. Hand In My Pocket - Alanis Morissette
23. Pinball Wizard - Who

And DAMMIT I know 27 but it's not coming to me!

[jlh.livejournal.com]

rock on!

[lillijulianne.livejournal.com]

1. ooh this is snow patrol but i don't know the title
2. peter gabriel, in your eyes
5. kate bush, babushka
6. tori amos, crucify
7. kanye, golddigger
9. u2, pride
10. erasure, a little respect (i was just THINKING about this because of the religion line)
11. steely dan, fm
12. culture club, karma chameleon
13. simon & garfunkel, feelin' groovy
15. paul simon, you can call me al
16. don henley, boys of summer
19. liz phair, flower
20. fiona apple, o sailor
22. alanis, you learn
23. who, pinball wizard
30. police, can't stand losing you

don't be anxious! we love you!

[lillijulianne.livejournal.com]

xposted, obviously. and i got 22 wrong!

[jlh.livejournal.com]

hint on #1: I have used it in a mix.

[sisterpandora.livejournal.com]

this is me saying nevermind ;)

[jlh.livejournal.com]

aww! HUGS

[sisterpandora.livejournal.com]

:D No worries, the others were just faster than me. *HUGS*

[amyamy.livejournal.com]

Four is McCartney's Mother Nature's Son.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I have no idea why that took people so long!

[amyamy.livejournal.com]

They clearly weren't thinking very hard. :D

[ziggy1278.livejournal.com]

3. Holding on to the Earth - Sam Phillips - Indescribable Wow
18. Is it any wonder - Keane - Erm... New Album
25. Policy of truth - Depeche Mode - Violator (Nobody got this??)

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I find the first lines of Depeche Mode songs to be oddly generic; I wouldn't have recognized it. And thank goodness for you for #3!

[ziggy1278.livejournal.com]

Seriously I'm probably the only person throughout all of LiveJournal who has every single Sam Phillips song memorized. Especially amazing considering that is her lamest album... Flaaaaaame, why do I come so cloooose to you...

Oh that reminds me:

http://samphillipsmusic.com/

Maybe I will come to NYC for whatever show she does there?

[jlh.livejournal.com]

The Turning is lamer. Besides, "Holding on to the Earth" was the big single, the song a non-fan might recognize from alternative radio at the time—I was surprised it was the one that came up on the shuffle.

Dude, that would be PERFECT. Perfectly AWESOME!

[ziggy1278.livejournal.com]

Um no way jose. The turning has: River of love, Libera Me (!!!), Carry You, AND God is watching you - all of which still hold up I think.

Also, when you look at it from the perspective that she owed her Christian label one more album and she gave them THAT - that beautiful ball of uncertainty and questioning and grey spirituality that freaks the shit out of heartland Christians - "down, comes my religion like leaves on winter trees, down down, you come to me with your love on hands and knees" - put that in your christian pop machine and try to sell it assholes!!

Yeah. You touched a sensitive spot. It was a very brave album, so it holds a special place in my heart.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

<3

I didn't realize that was the last album for the Christian label because I'd only heard that it was the first one after the name change. It's the one I listen to the least, but I'll circle back to it.

You know, Christian "rock" continues to disappoint me. If they wrote about the difficulties of actually living a Christian life in the secular modern world they'd get good music that more people could relate to (see, wow, tons of great mainstream rock) but no, it's all about some sort of uncomplicated, bland acceptance that has nothing to do at least with my own spiritual experiences. I mean, traditional gospel, whether country-tinged or out of the black churches, is all about life being hard. Heck, that's the selling point of Christianity in the first place!

It baffles. Using Neil, who writes plenty of songs about being a Catholic.

[ziggy1278.livejournal.com]

It's interesting actually. The Turning was released as the last Leslie Phillips album. She loved it (he first project with T-Bone Burnett I think) but the record company hated it, and it was ill promoted and sold poorly.

Indescribable Wow was the first under the name Sam, but then after the limited success of Cruel Intentions and Martinis and Bikinis she was able to go back and buy the rights to The Turning and re-released it as a Sam album, kindof retro-actively making it the first.

And I couldn't agree with you more about that industry. It's a bizarre mindset, and it actually permeates all these big mainstream super-churches we have here on the west coast as well. Like thousands of people who will never ask a real question and don't want to be challenged by anything they see or hear either. Like Jesus isn't going to be able to handle it?

Sorry this strayed a little off topic :D

[ziggy1278.livejournal.com]

PS: This was kindof a kickass group of songs for a random shuffle. Are you sure you weren't shuffling your "kickass" playlist?

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I went through 150 songs to get these 30, but only to get rid of all the album tracks that no one would know and stick to singles. I've done this meme before and it's no fun when it's full of obscure Blondie b-sides and Duran Duran album tracks. Oh, and I also took out repeat artists so it wouldn't be like, half Beatles.

But I didn't edit for "awesome." If a Toto single had come up I would have used it—note the Chris Richardson song. In fact, there would have been a Blake Lewis song too, but he says the title of the song at the beginning, and the rule says to skip the song. And even so, I probably should have skipped #1 and #26 because I don't think they're singles (the first I put on a mix I posted, and the second I've heard on compilations so I thought people might know it).