Lyrics meme
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pedantherI was feeling nostalgic about the old random lyric quiz meme, so I decided to give it another go.
The rules:
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.
On this occasion, rather than going back to the music player (the contents of which haven't changed much since last time I did this), I instructed a popular streaming service to create a playlist based on my listening history.
I've skipped 3 tracks to avoid having two consecutive songs by the same artist, 2 instrumentals, and 1 song in French that I listened to once before and that even I wouldn't be able to recognise from the written lyrics.
Where a track had a spoken preamble, I've skipped that and quoted the first lines of the actual song.
1.
When are you gonna come down?
When are you going to land?
(identified by thisbluespirit)
2.
I have climbed highest mountains
I have run through the fields
3.
Her name is Noelle
I have a dream about her
4.
A long, long time ago
I can still remember how that music used to make me smile
(identified by thisbluespirit, igenlode)
5.
Talk to me softly
There's something in your eyes
6.
Talking away
I don't know what I'm to say
7.
I think I've already lost you
I think you're already gone
8.
The moment I wake up
Before you put on your make-up
(identified by thisbluespirit)
9.
I will come for you at night time
I will raise you from your sleep
10.
Rows and flows of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
(identified by thisbluespirit)
11.
Lay a whisper on my pillow
Leave the winter on the ground
(identified by thisbluespirit)
12.
In my eyes, indisposed
In disguises no one knows
13.
There were nights when the wind was so cold
That my body froze in bed if I just listened to it right outside the window
14.
Come home in the morning light
My mother says, "When you gonna live your life right?"
(identified by thisbluespirit)
15.
Meet me down by the jetty landing
Where the scientists all say
16.
Who's the black private dick who's a hit with all the chicks?
[WORD FROM TITLE]
(identified by igenlode)
17.
A long time ago come a man on a track
Walkin' thirty miles with a sack on his back
18.
I can't seem to face up to the facts
I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax
19.
A lovestruck Romeo
Got a serenade
Laying everybody low with a love song that he made
20.
Good news for beautiful people
Watching the world go by
21.
[TITLE]
Like the first morning
(identified by thisbluespirit)
22.
A poor boy
Whose story's seldom told
Squanders his resistance
23.
These mist-covered mountains
Are home now for me
24.
If you
If you could return
Don't let it burn
25.
It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
26.
Clock strikes upon the hour
And the sun begins to fade
(identified by thisbluespirit)
27.
The Mississippi Delta
Was shining like a National guitar
28.
I'm giving you everything
All that joy can bring, this I swear
29.
Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while
Heaven can wait, we're only watching the skies
30.
She's a rich girl
She don't try to hide it
[TITLE]
The rules:
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.
On this occasion, rather than going back to the music player (the contents of which haven't changed much since last time I did this), I instructed a popular streaming service to create a playlist based on my listening history.
I've skipped 3 tracks to avoid having two consecutive songs by the same artist, 2 instrumentals, and 1 song in French that I listened to once before and that even I wouldn't be able to recognise from the written lyrics.
Where a track had a spoken preamble, I've skipped that and quoted the first lines of the actual song.
1.
When are you going to land?
(identified by thisbluespirit)
2.
I have climbed highest mountains
I have run through the fields
3.
Her name is Noelle
I have a dream about her
4.
I can still remember how that music used to make me smile
(identified by thisbluespirit, igenlode)
5.
Talk to me softly
There's something in your eyes
6.
Talking away
I don't know what I'm to say
7.
I think I've already lost you
I think you're already gone
8.
Before you put on your make-up
(identified by thisbluespirit)
9.
I will come for you at night time
I will raise you from your sleep
10.
And ice cream castles in the air
(identified by thisbluespirit)
11.
Leave the winter on the ground
(identified by thisbluespirit)
12.
In my eyes, indisposed
In disguises no one knows
13.
There were nights when the wind was so cold
That my body froze in bed if I just listened to it right outside the window
14.
My mother says, "When you gonna live your life right?"
(identified by thisbluespirit)
15.
Meet me down by the jetty landing
Where the scientists all say
16.
[WORD FROM TITLE]
(identified by igenlode)
17.
A long time ago come a man on a track
Walkin' thirty miles with a sack on his back
18.
I can't seem to face up to the facts
I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax
19.
A lovestruck Romeo
Got a serenade
Laying everybody low with a love song that he made
20.
Good news for beautiful people
Watching the world go by
21.
Like the first morning
(identified by thisbluespirit)
22.
A poor boy
Whose story's seldom told
Squanders his resistance
23.
These mist-covered mountains
Are home now for me
24.
If you
If you could return
Don't let it burn
25.
It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
26.
And the sun begins to fade
(identified by thisbluespirit)
27.
The Mississippi Delta
Was shining like a National guitar
28.
I'm giving you everything
All that joy can bring, this I swear
29.
Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while
Heaven can wait, we're only watching the skies
30.
She's a rich girl
She don't try to hide it
[TITLE]
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Date: 2024-06-10 09:00 am (UTC)8. Dream A Little Dream of Me??
9. Both Sides Now
11. It Must Have Been Love
14. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
21. Morning Has Broken
I know 25 & 26 well, too, but I cannot quite get at them. I think I know 4 too.
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Date: 2024-06-10 09:21 am (UTC)I'm going to offer you a chance to look at 9 again and see if you want to change your answer.
1 and 8 are both incorrect, but I can see how you got there.
I think you're probably right about knowing 4.
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Date: 2024-06-10 09:36 am (UTC)Yeah, 8 was the one I was less sure of. I know it, and that was where singing it got me, but... evidently not to the right place.
9 is Both Sides Now, or From Both Sides Now! Is that not the title?? I cannot think what the title actually is, then, without looking.
Ohhhh. I mean, 10!!! lol. I couldn't understand why that was wrong. Ahem. Again, state of my brain this morning. I'm not great with numbers.
Oh, I know what 4 is now! But I am blanking on the title: it's only that super famous song about Buddy Holly dying that everybody knows, except my brain this morning, American something??? /o\ *cries*
26 might be I Wanna Dance With Somebody, but again, I'm not sure if I'm getting to the right chorus from singing the first two lines...
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Date: 2024-06-10 09:50 am (UTC)I think in the circumstances I'm going to have to insist on the full title for 4.
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Date: 2024-06-10 12:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-06-10 01:34 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2024-06-11 01:57 am (UTC)(No, it's not Cornflake Girl.)
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Date: 2024-06-11 08:21 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2024-06-11 02:07 am (UTC)I would have said that 8 was "Dream a Little Dream" as well :-(
I think I may have heard 28 -- it's a rather different genre from the others if so... and in any case I have no idea of the title.
4 has already been identified as "American Pie".
I'm reasonably certain I've never heard any of the others!
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Date: 2024-06-11 03:05 am (UTC)28 is rather different, and not something I think either of us would usually be interested in (the version on the playlist is a cover). That said, the original was all over the place for a while when it was new, so I wouldn't be surprised if you'd been exposed to it at some point, but probably not in circumstances where you'd have been interested in learning the title.
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Date: 2024-06-11 08:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-06-23 08:28 am (UTC)I see you've posted the answers, but I'm going to have a go at this before I go look. Sadly, I can hear the lyrics (and then more) to #9, but I don't know what the title of the song is -- the best I can do is 'is it one of those Crowded House songs my school friends were obsessed with?'.
19 - I think is called 'Romeo and Juliet', I think by Dire Straits.
27 - Paul Simon, possibly 'Graceland'
and the others that I recognise someone else has already identified. There are a couple of others where I can put a tune to them, but not enough lyrics to get me to a title. In particular that last one, which I know I know!