Lyrics meme
Nov. 23rd, 2019 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedantherI've just finished a long-overdue reorg of my music collection, and I have a new music player with a better shuffle function than the old one, so this seems like an appropriate moment to have another go at the old Lyrics Shuffle Meme.
1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few lines of the first thirty pieces of music that come up, with the title, if it appears, redacted. Skip instrumentals, but don't skip the embarrassing ones.
3. Make hapless internet denizens guess the song names and artists. Google is cheating. For musical songs, the name of the musical is acceptable in place of the artist. Leeway is also given for traditional ballads, jazz standards, etc.
1.
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
(identified bysqbr, thedarlingone)
2.
That is no country for old men
The young in one another's arms
3.
In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun
You find the fun, and snap! the job's a game
(identified bythedarlingone)
4.
Come on! Oh baby don't you wanna go
Come on! Oh baby don't you wanna go
5.
You always said that I'd be back again
That I'd come running to you in the end
6.
When you're standin' alone with the mountains and the sea
Where the arms of the world open wide
7.
[TITLE] like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken like the first bird
(identified bysqbr, thedarlingone)
8.
[TITLE]
I gotta right to feel low down
9.
This the way
I always dreamed it would be
10.
Again, I was on my to London, through towns and villages that were blackened ruins, totally silent, desolate, deserted.
(identified byigenlode)
11.
I'm like Humpty Dumpty
Up on the garden wall
12.
I never traveled further north than old Van Cortlandt Park
And never further south than the aquarium
13.
[TITLE] [TITLE]
That was the mite with the large appetite
(identified byigenlode)
14.
Imagine life were a [TITLE]
There'd be music all the time
15.
Around the shores of England, that stretch toward the sea
There dwell an ancient people, and they labour mightily
16.
I remember when I was a lad, times were hard and things were bad
But there's a silver lining behind every cloud
(identified bythedarlingone)
17.
Valjean, at last we see each other plain
Monsieur le maire, you'll wear a different chain
(identified bythedarlingone)
18.
They gave him his orders at Monroe, Virginia
Saying Steve, you're way behind time
19.
Come on and hear [TITLE] man cry
Any yam today?
20.
Ladies and gentlemen, I take pride in introducing
The greatest show on earth
Liza Elliott's Gargantuan Three-Ring Circus
21.
When the summer sun is shining on Australia's happy land
Round countless fires in strange attires in many southern bands
(identified byfred_mouse)
22.
[TITLE]
Wearing sandals, lighting candles by the sea
23.
Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner
But he knew it couldn't last
(identified bythisbluespirit)
24.
I saw you today
She's lovely, you're such a heavenly pair
25.
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
(identified bysqbr, thedarlingone)
26.
People say I'm no good, and crazy as a loon
'Cause I get stoned in the morning and get drunk in the afternoon
27.
When I'm with you, I shake inside
My heart's all tangled up, my tongue is tied
28.
He's a born undertaker's mute
I can see him in his black silk suit
(identified byigenlode)
29.
Ain't it a glorious day?
Right as a morning in May
(identified bythedarlingone)
30.
[TITLE]
Could supply my sky of blue?
Skipped: 16 instrumentals, 3 choral works in Latin (where even if I could have made out the words I didn't think anybody would be able to pin them), and 1 audio book chapter
Bonus round!
This was the very first track to come up in the shuffle. If you can identify it, you win the game immediately:
1.
[TITLE]
[TITLE]
[TITLE]
1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few lines of the first thirty pieces of music that come up, with the title, if it appears, redacted. Skip instrumentals, but don't skip the embarrassing ones.
3. Make hapless internet denizens guess the song names and artists. Google is cheating. For musical songs, the name of the musical is acceptable in place of the artist. Leeway is also given for traditional ballads, jazz standards, etc.
1.
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
(identified by
sqbr, thedarlingone)2.
That is no country for old men
The young in one another's arms
3.
You find the fun, and snap! the job's a game
(identified by
thedarlingone)4.
Come on! Oh baby don't you wanna go
Come on! Oh baby don't you wanna go
5.
You always said that I'd be back again
That I'd come running to you in the end
6.
When you're standin' alone with the mountains and the sea
Where the arms of the world open wide
7.
Blackbird has spoken like the first bird
(identified by
sqbr, thedarlingone)8.
[TITLE]
I gotta right to feel low down
9.
This the way
I always dreamed it would be
10.
(identified by
igenlode)11.
I'm like Humpty Dumpty
Up on the garden wall
12.
I never traveled further north than old Van Cortlandt Park
And never further south than the aquarium
13.
That was the mite with the large appetite
(identified by
igenlode)14.
Imagine life were a [TITLE]
There'd be music all the time
15.
Around the shores of England, that stretch toward the sea
There dwell an ancient people, and they labour mightily
16.
But there's a silver lining behind every cloud
(identified by
thedarlingone)17.
Monsieur le maire, you'll wear a different chain
(identified by
thedarlingone)18.
They gave him his orders at Monroe, Virginia
Saying Steve, you're way behind time
19.
Come on and hear [TITLE] man cry
Any yam today?
20.
Ladies and gentlemen, I take pride in introducing
The greatest show on earth
Liza Elliott's Gargantuan Three-Ring Circus
21.
Round countless fires in strange attires in many southern bands
(identified by
fred_mouse)22.
[TITLE]
Wearing sandals, lighting candles by the sea
23.
But he knew it couldn't last
(identified by
thisbluespirit)24.
I saw you today
She's lovely, you're such a heavenly pair
25.
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
(identified by
sqbr, thedarlingone)26.
People say I'm no good, and crazy as a loon
'Cause I get stoned in the morning and get drunk in the afternoon
27.
When I'm with you, I shake inside
My heart's all tangled up, my tongue is tied
28.
I can see him in his black silk suit
(identified by
igenlode)29.
Right as a morning in May
(identified by
thedarlingone)30.
[TITLE]
Could supply my sky of blue?
Skipped: 16 instrumentals, 3 choral works in Latin (where even if I could have made out the words I didn't think anybody would be able to pin them), and 1 audio book chapter
Bonus round!
This was the very first track to come up in the shuffle. If you can identify it, you win the game immediately:
1.
[TITLE]
[TITLE]
[TITLE]
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Date: 2019-11-23 03:04 pm (UTC)7. Morning has broken, which is a traditional folksong but I think one of the more well known versions was sung by Nana...Mascouri?? I am spelling that wrong.
17. Oh man...I forget the title but it's from Les Mis! (Yes ok that much is pretty obvious)
25. Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
I wanted to make a silly answer for the bonus round but can't think of examples any off the top of my head.
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Date: 2019-11-24 12:08 am (UTC)*cues up Nana Mouskouri's version on Youtube*
Ooh, that's nice. I hadn't heard that exact version before. Mine's Cat Stevens, which is the original of the arrangement that Mouskouri is covering.
Wikipedia tells me that this arrangement, with the twiddly backing music, was written for Stevens by Rick Wakeman, in the style of one of the tracks on his album The Six Wives of Henry VIII. So I've only been up for half an hour and already I've learned something new today!
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Date: 2019-11-24 10:24 am (UTC)Happy to oblige :)
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Date: 2019-11-23 07:47 pm (UTC)3. "A Spoonful of Sugar" from the Mary Poppins soundtrack
7. "Morning Has Broken", folk
16. "Daddy Sang Bass" by Johnny Cash
17. "The Confrontation" from Les Miserables
25. "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen
29. "Jolly Holiday" from Mary Poppins
Bonus round: Probably not actually "Wimoweh" because I seem to remember having a conversation with you about the existence of that song separate from "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" some years ago, but it fits the information provided... ^_^
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Date: 2019-11-24 12:14 am (UTC)This isn't likely to get anybody much closer to the answer, but I'll note that the song in question has its title exactly three times at the beginning, each time comprising one line of the song, and then the fourth line is something different.
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Date: 2019-11-23 08:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-11-24 12:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-11-27 09:30 pm (UTC)28 is "That's Your Funeral" from "Oliver!"
13 is "Oliver!" itself.
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Date: 2019-11-27 11:54 pm (UTC)Specifically, 13 is the reprise of "Oliver!" after Mr Bumble and Widow Corney find out about the locket.
I'm not going to insist on more specificity on 10, because it's just a brief linking track, not one of the ones with a memorable song or scene. (On the track listing it's titled "The Artilleryman Returns", even though, at least the way the tracks are divided on the CD, the Artilleryman doesn't actually reappear until the beginning of the following track.)
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Date: 2019-11-28 01:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-11-28 03:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-11-30 11:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-19 01:50 pm (UTC)I am currently clearing out an old email folder, and found this comment still unfiled/undeleted. Entertainingly, the song was being sung with gusto the other day, until we got to a line that I realised I've not sung for the kids, because it is so appallingly racist, but figured that they were old enough to actually hear it. And now it shall go unsung again.