Guess the song meme

[jenepherre]

I really shouldn't inflict my music library on you guys, but who knows? You all might surprise me.

Found on marauder_bex's and i_am_tre's journals.

Put your music library on shuffle.
Post the first lines of the first 25 songs that come up.
The game: Guess which songs the first lines are from!
Google is your friend cheating!

ETA: Added a bit more of the lyrics for the ones that haven't been guessed yet. Included hints on some of the more obscure ones too. Try again, you guys. I know you can get more of them than you have so far. I know you can. Or send your friends over to guess. It'll be fun... come on... please?

1. No one can blame you for walking away
   But too much rejection, uh huh...
   No love injection Underground - David Bowie - darksylvia


2. He thinks he's Oscar Wilde but he's Paul Lynde
   Can't say anything good about anything
   (the band was mentioned in season 1 of QAF)


3. My baby moves at midnight
   Goes right on till the dawn
   My woman takes me higher
   My woman keeps me warm - You Should Be Dancing - The Bee Gees - rgrandixie
   (from the late 70's)


4. Take me out tonight
   Where there's music and there's people
   And they're young and alive There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths - falling_words


5. I'm crazy flowing over with ideas Love to Hate You - Erasure - katya23


6. Then when you let it
   You asked for nothing
   Why don't you share it
   All of the time you live
   There's something out there
   (a bit more obscure, I think, though a lot of you should know the band)


7. The means are right for taking, fade to grey
   Trying to be ruthless, in the face of beauty
   In this matrix, it's plain to see
   It's either you or me.


8. I'm ridin' in your car
   You turn on the radio
   You're pullin' me close
   I just say no
   I say I don't like it
   But you know I'm a liar Fire - The Pointer Sisters - rgrandixie
   (lots of speculation on this one... and the most embarrassing one on the list for me - also from the late 70's)


9. We're caught in a trap I can't walk out Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley (and later covered by Fine Young Cannibals) - i_am_tre


10. You wear guilt
    Like shackles on your feet
    Like a halo in reverse
    I can feel
    The discomfort in your seat
    And in your head it's worse Halo - Depeche Mode - katya23


11. Maybe in you I'll believe Maybe I'll believe in you Crumb By Crumb - Rufus Wainwright - calidearie


12. Last night I saw a movie
    and I thought about many movies I've seen at your house
    excuse me if I'm rude
    but I'd rather that we just strike from the record ones I'd see again without you
    leaning on my shoulder
    distracting me from the plotline
    (early song by a band we're all talking about right now)


13. Can you feel me coming
    open the door it's only me
    I have that desperate feeling
    in trouble is where I'm going to be
    (artist has a tie-in to artist for #10)


14. Hey now the well run dry
    Pages of the book on fire
    Read the writing ...on the wall...
    
    Hoedown, say showdown
    Everywhere you look
    they're fighting...Hear the call...
    (classic rock, was probably used on Supernatural)


15. I don't get many things right the first time
    In fact, I am told that a lot
    Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls
    Brought me here The Luckiest - Ben Folds - falling_words
    (I love this song so damn much... incredibly beautiful)


16. Jamie's on the bathroom floor she don't know why
    She's shaking underneath the sink can't feel a thing
    She'd love to live a life she's afraid of failure
    With all the voices in her head
    Now what was that I thought I hear you scream
    (slightly more obscure; Canadian artist who has a tie-in to a Canadian ex-gf of Gale Harold)


17. Sucking on a tap that never dries
    Could you take it right between your eyes
    Bending blood, bending blood
    The father stood, the father's hood
    Like shadow on an acid bird that etched her way across a field
    So long ago
    (I don't really expect anyone to get this one. English singer/songwriter. Lyrics tend to be very surrealist, focusing on death, eating or sex. Also had a small acting role in 2004's The Manchurian Candidate)


18. A house on fire
    A wall of stone
    A door that once was open
    An empty face and empty bones
    Who ate your heart?
    You're cold inside
    You're not the one I hoped for
    I'll see you on the other side
    I'll see you on the other side


19. It's you, you, you again Minimal Peach - Greek Buck - darksylvia


20. You are the lighthouse, the seamark Echo - The Hush Sound - disc0_dancer


21. I'm in a mess, I'm in a dress
    There's nothing from here till tomorrow morning
    How will I get there?
    How will I get there?
    I don't do drugs
    All my friends are on their holidays
    (I have a love/hate relationship with one of the words in the title of this song)


22. Unbidden shadows of you formed yesterday
    I ran away to a room here on the bay
    Interrupted life again, another new beginning
    Where the silence echoes you're no longer with me
    
    Here and now, i feel that i'm embracing freedom
    Even though i may be alone, but that's ok
    (artist does very ethereal sounding music; they had a remix of one of their songs used in season 2 of QAF)


23. These are the days of the open hand Praying for Time - George Michael - katya23


24. Baby, when you walk that sweet walk
    Oh, you walk it good, yes you walk it good
    Baby, when you talk that sweet talk
    Oh, it sounds so good, oh so good
    (classic rock; title has a tie-in to a Cobra bandmember)


25. She had something to confess to
    But you don’t have the time so
    Look the other way
    You will wait until it's over
    To reveal what you’d never shown her
    Too little much too late
    (I don't even know this song well, but love the artist, who has a tie-in to the Twilight saga)


There's a pretty wide variety in there. I did have to skip over a few instrumental songs, and I skipped over one where the first line was the song title. Can't make it too easy, right? So... guesses? And should I post what the songs are after a few days or something?

Hints: There's a couple of classic rock songs in there, a fair amount of 70's, 80's and 90's music, and there are two by FBR/Decaydance artists.

Comments

[kingsnvagabonds.livejournal.com]

9 is unchained melody by the rightous brothers (unless you're listening to the gareth gates cover) and I think 3 is by boys like girls is it called five minutes to midnight?

[i-am-tre.livejournal.com]

3's not blg

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Those are both wrong, although you kind of have the right idea for #9. Same era anyway.

[kingsnvagabonds.livejournal.com]

OMG 3 is by the BeeGees aint it? I remember hearing it at work.

I still recognise 1 and 21 but idk.

re 12 I had to cheat cause of the main band were talking about rn bit and I gotta say I've not got that song by them.

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

3 is the Bee Gees, but someone else beat you to it with the song title.
1 has been guessed now too.
21 - I looked on your last.fm profile, and this band is on the list of artists you've listened to, but they're way way down on the list. I can try and come up with a hint for you if you want.
12 - assuming we are talking about the same band, it's very possible you don't have this song. It's from their very first album. I'll probably post the names of the songs that haven't been guessed in a day or two.

[kingsnvagabonds.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, ill have to have a look at my last.fm for 21 when I get home then.

And I thought I had all of 12's first album hmm maybe I've not, I hardly listen to it really.

[i-am-tre.livejournal.com]

9. suspicious minds - elvis presley

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

That's my girl! What about the rest of them though? You don't recognize anything else?

[i-am-tre.livejournal.com]

noppe :(

[darksylvia.livejournal.com]

19. It's you, you, you again - Minimal Peach, Greek Buck

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Yep. You should know a lot more of these songs than just that one though, I think.

[darksylvia.livejournal.com]

I don't recognize any others!

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

If you can't figure out #1 I'll be seriously disappointed in you. :-P

[katya23.livejournal.com]

Dude, you really should know number 1. I didn't guess it in my entry, because I think you should have another chance.

[mellicat1963.livejournal.com]

4 is Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Nope. Does that song start with the same line? Huh. But I didn't post anything where the first line of the song included the title of the song.

[mellicat1963.livejournal.com]

No.... I have it wrong, that's not how that song starts.... Nope, don't know any of your

[mellicat1963.livejournal.com]

I think I should know 8 - but I can't think of it.

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

That's probably the one song on the list I was sort of embarrassed to include. Late 70's.

[disc0-dancer.livejournal.com]

20. The Hush Sound - Echo

bc omg, i love that song so hard. :')

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Yes! ♥ the Hushies

[calidearie.livejournal.com]

11=>Crumb By Crumb - Rufus Wainwright

one of my favorite songs EVER :D

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Ah. Good job! ::applauds::

[katya23.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm here from darksylvia's lj. I figured you wouldn't mind if I guessed a couple?

5. Love to Hate You by Erasure

8. that Turn the Radio Up song? I don't know who sang it, but I really loved it when I was in high school.

23. Praying for Time George Michael

I KNOW I know more of them.

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Hi! I've seen you over there, and you're totally welcome to guess a few!

Check out the edited post. I added a bit more of the lyrics for each of the songs that haven't been guessed yet, including #8. You were right, of course, about #5 and #23. And Leah really should try guessing #1 again. She'll kick herself when she figures it out. LOL

[falling-words.livejournal.com]

4 is the Smiths - "There Is A Light"
15 is Ben Folds - "The Luckiest"

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

YAY!!! Both great songs, don't you think? "The Luckiest" just makes me melt.

[falling-words.livejournal.com]

I do love me some Ben Folds!

And I mean this in no way as a hate on The Smiths but David Ford does the most heart breaking cover of that song I've ever heard in my life. Absolutely gorgeous. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWZdtm2apAA

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Whoa. That is the best cover of that song *ever.* So beautiful! Thanks for pointing it out to me!

[katya23.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! 10 is Depeche Mode. I'm not sure of the title. Is it Halo?

I did one of these a while ago and I think you've already got more correct guesses than I did. I'm not sure whether to blame my odd music taste or my small flist.

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

It *is* Halo! Find the link for yours, if you don't mind. I'm curious to see it now.

[katya23.livejournal.com]

Wow, I had to go back quite a ways. I also forgot that as last resort I had G (my husband) guess some, too. But there are still some here.

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

I got 3 that hadn't already been guessed. Not too shabby, huh? I had to friend you too. We seem to have a common love of 80's music. Hope you don't mind.

[katya23.livejournal.com]

I suspect you would have gotten a lot more if you had been in on the start of the it.

Of course I don't mind. As long as you don't mind that I haven't been posting much recently. :D I friended you back. (I believe we also share an...appreciation of Jon Walker?)

(Oh, and hilariously, G and I heard song number 8 on the way up to Portland yesterday. I got all excited and said something along the lines of "Oh! Oh! This is that driving in the car song!" G just looked at me funny)

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

They played that on the radio? How funny! And random, huh? LOL

An appreciation for Jon Walker. OMG YES. Check out my icon page (Panic-related stuff starts about halfway down). He is one of several Men Who Own Me™. Such a gorgeous and sweet man.

[katya23.livejournal.com]

a gorgeous and sweet man

AND he's a bass player. Can you get any nearer to perfection? :D

[darksylvia.livejournal.com]

Ha, okay, I still don't recognize any of the other ones, but the first is "Underground" by David Bowie and I know why I didn't recognize it--it's my least favorite Labyrinth song, so much so that it isn't actually in my itunes, ahaha. Though I do love the video.

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Your least favorite? Huh. It's not my favorite from the soundtrack, but I wouldn't have called it my least favorite. But yeah... Labyrinth. I figured you'd get that one right off. LOL

[rgrandixie.livejournal.com]

3 is you should be dancing by the Bee bGees. Now I'm off to see if I know any more.

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Yes! I knew someone on my flist had to know that one!

[rgrandixie.livejournal.com]

is number 8 that Pointer Sisters song? Fire, or something? It sounds so familiar I can almost sing the lyrics in my head. It's kinda making me crazy.

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Yep - that's it exactly! You got the two disco songs. :-D

[rgrandixie.livejournal.com]

Lol! How sad, and I barely remember disco from my youth.

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Apparently you remember it better than you thought. LOL