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Answers to the lyrics meme quiz.

It might have been fairer if I'd mentioned that, due to my music streaming habits, nearly everything on the playlist ended up being either a live-in-concert recording or a cover version (or a live-in-concert recording of a cover version), and that consequently a few of these aren't exactly the standard lyrics. Mostly, though, I figured that anybody who was going to recognise the song at all would still recognise a slight variation. We'll see if I was right...

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I 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.

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Here are the answers to the lyrics meme from last month, a bit later than I originally intended to post them:

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This is a fairly representative sample of my music collection, although once again the Charlie Daniels entry is a song I don't like from the album I bought solely for "The Devil Went Down to Georgia".

I'm amused to note that this time round the list includes both the Tom Lehrer patter song "The Elements" and one of its inspirations, the Danny Kaye patter song "Tchaikovsky (and other Russians)" -- although the latter was harder to spot, because the recording I have includes the two-and-half-minute recitative lead-in from the stage show, and I gave the opening lines of the recitative instead of the opening lines of the patter song ("There's Maliszewski, Rubinstein, Arensky, and Tchaikovsky..."). Though I don't know if anybody now would have recognised it even if I had started there.

I'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.

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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]

Here are the answers to the lyrics quiz meme:
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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.

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Here are the answers to the lyrics meme, including several I'm astonished my friendslist didn't get:

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(memed from

justice_turtle)

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.

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Here are the answers to the lyrics meme bonus round:

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I'd just like to remind everyone that the lyrics meme bonus round is still open. Frankly, I'm astonished - given the composition of my friendslist, I expected it to have been fully-identified within 24 hours of opening.

Tracks that were left out of the lyrics meme on account of being spoken-word, not songs.

For multi-track works, I've taken the first track to come up from each work. Quotation marks indicate a character speaking. In one case, I've resisted the temptation to count "Chapter Ten" as the first line.

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Update: Answers here.

Here are the answers to the lyrics meme:

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Memed from

justice_turtle:

1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few lines of the first thirty pieces of music that come up that do not give away the name. 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.
4. Least hapless internet denizen wins admiration. That's right, just like a computer when you don't have power, the points don't matter.

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Update: Answers here.

Okay, it's been at least a week since the last guess, so I don't think we're going to get any more.

Here are the answers to the lyrics meme:

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It's been nearly a week since I posted the lyrics meme, and there's still 13 left to guess.

Anybody else want to have a go? Would it help if I offered hints?

Memed from

justice_turtle and

lost_spook:

1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few lines of the first thirty songs that come up that do not give away the name of the song. Skip instrumentals, but don't skip the embarrassing ones.
3. Make hapless LJ 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.

There's a smattering of songs from albums that I bought for only one song which isn't the song that ended up in the list. Otherwise, it's a pretty fair sampling of my collection, I think.
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Update: Answers here.

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