Name That Tune meme! (sans iPod!)

[chomiji]

I don't have an iPod, but I did this anyway! The process involved generating random numbers with an Excel spreadsheet ... .

Like everyone else, I skipped things that weren't in English.

Meme:

1. Put your music player on Random.
2. Post the first line from the first 32 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song
3. Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
4. Bold the songs when someone guesses correctly.

And ... here we go:

1. The daylight's fading slowly, but time with you is standing still
    
2. We're coming to the edge, running on the water
    
3. If you loose your faith, babe, you can have mine,
    
4. I remember the nights I watched as you lay sleeping
    
5. She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes
    
6. You ought to see your face; you ought to hear your voice
    
7. Workin’ Friday night down at the Alley
    
8. Operator, well, could you help me place this call?
    
9. It was 100 degrees as we sat beneath a willow tree
    
10. "The problem is all inside your head", she said to me
     
11. She says it's been so long she can't remember when
     
12. Desert loving in your eyes all the way
     
13. Darling don't you understand, I feel so ill at ease
     
14. Turned on the weather man just after the news
     
15. He had a dream haunting him at night
     
16. While the poor people sleepin' with the shade on the light
     
17. I've been sitting up waiting for my sugar to show
     
18. Hey, your glass is empty / It's a hell of a long way home
     
19. Walking like a ghost in my own movie
     
20. Lights out tonight, trouble in the heartland
     
21. Just a kiss, just a kiss / I have lived just for this
     
22. I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told
     
23. You look frenzied, you look frazzled, peaked as any alp
     
24. Is it too much to ask? I want a comfortable bed that won't hurt my back
     
25. When the road gets dark, and you can no longer see
     
26. Out on the street - you'd better get on home
     
27. The language of love slips from my lover's tongue
     
28. And now I'm all alone again, nowhere to turn, no one to go to
     
29. Tell me, where did Helen go? This is where she had her dwelling
     
30. If I could turn the page / In time then I'd rearrange just a day or two
     
31. Johnny take a walk with your sister the moon
     
32. I'll buy you six bay mares to put in your stables

Comments

[chomiji]

100% correct!

XD

(Yeah, I laughed when "Funeral" came up ... it's like "And if that's not enough to make you recall the song, there's some more in the LJ layout!")

[chomiji]

It pops up on my Playlist of the Mind fairly frequently, along with several of the others. I'm very stuck on "Ariel" for some reason, which is funny because it's kind of a dorky song. I think "Return to Me" is my favorite overall, "Bury My Lovely" the most affecting, and "Eyes of Mercy" the one that is most sympatico to my usual operating wavelength.

[ipperne.livejournal.com]

1. the corrs - breathless (or maybe it's actually a cover, and you're hearing the original... who knows?)

might know the others, but no bells ringing

[chomiji]

Yep, it was the Corrs I had in mind ... I have the VH1 Concert CD, with them performing it live!

[ipperne.livejournal.com]

heh, I only remember it because I bought the single at the same time I got The Marshall Matter EP... strangely enough, both cds are missing now...

[chomiji]

Heh, Marshall Mathers and the Corrs - what a combination!

[ipperne.livejournal.com]

heh, you should see the contents of my iPod then^^

[chomiji]

I'm beginning to think I must have quite a range myself, given how few things people are guessing ... .

[artillie.livejournal.com]

9. Death Cab for Cutie, Crooked Teeth

<3

[chomiji]

Yes indeed! If I ever do get an iPod, at least half that album will end up on it.

[artillie.livejournal.com]

I preferred The Photo Album, but Plans had some good songs, too.

[chomiji]

Hmmm, maybe I'll put The Photo Album on my holiday list ... the relatives like it when we want CDs or DVDs because then they don't have to think too much ... . (Really, it's not their fault - we're out and out geeks, and they're not. It's just how life is ... .)

[bad-mushroom.livejournal.com]

Is #2 a James Taylor song? Possibly off Hourglass?

[chomiji]

No, sorry. More or less the right era, but not the right song or singer.

[bad-mushroom.livejournal.com]

Huh...it sounds so familiar.

[bad-mushroom.livejournal.com]

Ah! I cheated and looked it up and...wow, I was pretty damn close :P

[chomiji]

Yes - in that way, very close!

;-)

[cicer.livejournal.com]

4. I Will Not Forget You, Sarah McLachlan

18. Good Enough, Sarah McLachlan

(tunes meme)

[chomiji]

Right, and of course, right!

:-)

All my Sarah McLachlan albums are at work - they're soothing for me there. (You might like October Project, btw ... same sort of dreaminess, but the lead has a stunning alto voice and the emotional intensity is ratcheted up a few notches.)