Lyrics quiz meme

[pedanther]

(via daibhid_c)

I put my iPod on shuffle and post the first lines of 25 songs. Spoken word tracks and instrumentals are skipped, but spoken words in instrumentals aren't.

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is then to identify the songs without the aid of search engines.

On this occasion, I've elected to also skip any song in which the first line contains the title, and any song that would result in two songs in a row by the same artist. The list does, however, include a single song twice (not consecutively) in two different renditions by the same artist, because they start in different places in the song.

I also skipped "Nanibali" by Solo Cissokho, because I don't know the language and couldn't make out the words, and the internet was no help.

If the song is preceded by stage banter, or begins with "la la la"s, those have been ignored.


1. After six hours of school I've had enough for the day

2. I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told
(identified by swordznsorcery)

3. Half of what I say is meaningless

4. Six o'clock already, I was just in the middle of a dream
(identified by lost_spook)

5. I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
(identified by justice_turtle)

6. Keep on a-naggin' an' bully-raggin'

7. Well the eagle's been flyin' slow

8. I remember I was in the tanning salon

9. Out of the tree of life I just picked me a plum

10. Writing the lines as they come to me

11. I was never alive till the day I was blessed with you

12. Here's a hint of gold stuck into a tooth

13. Moonlight on Swanee's muddy shore

14. I remember eyes that shined as they looked so hard back into mine

15. I hear the train a-comin', it's rollin' round the bend
(identified by justice_turtle)

16. What's the use? There is no excuse

17. All you fellas, gather 'round me

18. Each time you trill a song with Bill or look at Will I get a chill

19. Look at her! A prisoner of the gutter
(identified by ariaflame)

20. I shouldn't love him - he's lazy

21. A winter's day in a deep and dark December
(identified by daibhid_c)

22. I was all right for a while
(identified by swordznsorcery)

23. I hear you through the wire

24. Now that I've lost everything to you

25. I'm getting married in the morning
(identified by ariaflame, daibhid_c)

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

4. is Manic Monday (presumably by The Bangles).

[pedanther]

Correct.

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

#02 Simon & Garfunkel: The Boxer
#22 Roy Orbison: Crying
#25 Isn't that rather a give away?! Although maybe that's not the exact title. And I can't remember who sang it anyway...

[pedanther]

First two are correct.

#25: No, because the title is the last line, not the first. (Which is...?) Also, this is one of the ones where if you don't know who sang it, I'll settle for what they sang it in.

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

#25 is from My Fair Lady I'm fairly sure. Is it also #17?

But then my brain also suggests #19 is from that also.

[pedanther]

Your brain is correct about #19 and #25, but not about #17.

(Can you narrow down #19 a bit?)

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

"Why can't the English learn to speak?" I think. Sung by whoever is playing Higgins.

[pedanther]

Correct.

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

#5 is "Walk the Line" and #15 is "Folsom Prison Blues", both Johnny Cash. :D

[pedanther]

Correct!

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

Darnit, I instantly recognised a lot of the ones that are already got.

Is 21 "I am a Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel?

And 25 is "Get Me to the Church On Time" which I think is from My Fair Lady.

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

Oh, swordznsorcery already identified it as from My Fair Lady, so I'm definitely right, but I probably only get half a point...

[pedanther]

Both correct.

[igenlode.livejournal.com]

No. 20 - "Can't Help Loving That Man" from "Showboat"?

[pedanther]

Sorry, but no.