also, a meme

[occultatio]

1. Put your playlist on shuffle.
2. Post the first lines to the first 30 songs to come up (along with these instructions).
3. Have people guess the songs and artists in comments to the post.
4. Post the answers to the ones people guessed correctly. A couple of days later, post the first two lines of the ones no one got and get people to guess again.
5. Repeat, adding the next line to the unguessed songs each time, until they're all guessed/you've posted the whole song/you've gotten bored/no-one's going to get the damn thing if you don't tell them.

I skipped songs with Japanese lyrics.


1. Baby, I don't understand why we can't just hold on to each others' hands
2. I was just seventeen when you rode into town -
3. Rain, glistening...
4. Gotta leave town, got another apartment
5. We got a call to write a song about the war in the Gulf
6. You need to straighten your posture and suck in your gut
7. Try to think that love's not around
8. How can it happen every time?
9. Somebody's reading your mind, damned if you know who it is
10. You can't imagine so many monkeys in the daily mail
11. Sooner or later you're certain to meet
12. I was hell, sarcastic silver swell, that day it rained top spun
13. Drove downtown in the rain
14. I heard you sing the rebel song, sung it loud and all alone
15. See the outline of the frames of where the pictures used to be
16. Something's up with Jack...
17. Sometimes the snow comes down in June
18. Let's run away to Atlantic City
19. I shall marry the miller's son
20. I had it coming!
21. Well I've drunk to drown, on every ocean I've been
22. My father needs money, my uncle needs money
23. Sun just slipped its note below my door
24. Sleeping on a planter at the Port Authority
25. I want to believe in myself once again
26. Galileo's head was on the block
27. What you want, baby I got it
28. I had a friend named Ramblin' Bob
29. What's with these homies dissin' my girl?
30. Missing truth and forever

Answers:



2. Surabaya Santa (Songs for a New World)
3. Poems (Pacific Overtures)
4. Cold Hard Bitch (Jet)
10. Another Postcard (Barenaked Ladies)
11. Kiss of the Spider Woman (synonymous)
16. Jack's Obsession (Nightmare Before Christmas)
17. Save The Best for Last
18. Atlantic City (Ragtime)
19. The Miller's Son (A Little Night Music)
20. The Law School Tango (Noteables Spring Concert '05)
21. Every Dog Has Its Day (Flogging Molly)
22. The Money Song/Sitting Pretty (Cabaret)
25. Black Friday Rule (Flogging Molly)
26. Galileo (Indigo Girls)
27. Respect (Aretha Franklin) (a tiny portion of my faith in HRSFA has been restored by somebody getting this)
28. In The Jailhouse Now (The Soggy Bottom Boys)
29. Buddy Holly (Weezer)

WHEE.

Comments

[dr_whom]

2. "Surabaya-Santa", Songs for a New World
3. "Poems", Pacific Overtures
11. "Kiss of the Spider Woman", Kiss of the Spider Woman
17. "Save the Best for Last"
18. "Atlantic City", Ragtime
19. "The Miller's Son", A Little Night Music
22. "Sitting Pretty", Cabaret
26. I think the title of this is just "Galileo".
27. "Respect"

[occultatio.livejournal.com]

My copy lists #22 at "The Money Song," but otherwise, yeah.

[tiamat360.livejournal.com]

Grr. I could tell you where many of these come from but not the exact song...

1: Santa Esmerelda, "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
2: Clearly Johnny Cash something
3: Pacific Overtures, "Poems"
4: Jet, "Cold Hard Bitch"? Or is it their other one?
10: Barenaked Ladies, "Postcards"?
11: Kiss of the Spider Woman, "Kiss of the Spider Woman"
16: Nightmare Before Christmas, is the song itself called "Something's Up With Jack"?
17: I feel like this is Fountains of Wayne...
17: Ragtime, "Atlantic City"
19: A Little Night Music, "Miller's Son" (pin my hat on a nice piece of property...I could have gotten this one without the title being in the first line, thank you)
20: Chicago, "Cell Block Tango"
21: Flogging Molly, "Every Dog Has Its Day"?
25: Flogging Molly, "Black Friday Rule" (very hard to get after mine, I know...)
26: I think this is Indigo Girls? "Galileo," is it called?
27: "Respect," but I have no idea who sings it.
28: "In the Jailhouse Now," I don't know who sings it but it's from O Brother Where Art Thou?
30: Utena, closing theme, but damned if I know what it's called

[tiamat360.livejournal.com]

And by the second #17, I meant 18

[tiamat360.livejournal.com]

Clearly wrong on #2 and #17...pbbttt.

[occultatio.livejournal.com]

1. Nope!
2. Nada!
4. Yes!
10. Close: "Another Postcard"
16. "Jack's Obsession"
17. You are correct in that much
20. Not exactly...
21. Yes.
25. Also yes.
28. It's the "Soggy Bottom Boys," which is the name for the in-movie group
30. This is correct.

[occultatio.livejournal.com]

Oops... you are right about being wrong about #17. There is a Fountains of Wayne, but not that one, so I got confused.

[tiamat360.livejournal.com]

Oh no. Wow, I've meshed the two songs together so much in my mind that I didn't even notice it was "I" and not "He." Anyway, it's us doing "Law School Tango!"

[tiamat360.livejournal.com]

And 29: Weezer, "Buddy Holly"

[dumble.livejournal.com]

My list before looking at the answers:

3. Poems? America? I don't know what it's called. (Pacific Overtures)
13. Brian Wilson (BNL)
26. Galileo (Indigo Girls?)
27. Respect (Aretha Franklin)

I feel silly for not getting 2 or 18.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Drawing a blank on all of the lyrics that haven't been guessed yet, but anyhow, hi. I'm Lila. Other Ada-housemates may be found at gaudior, weirdquark, and lignota, and your current roommate may be found at eredien.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Ada does not do the LJ thing on the grounds of no time and carpal tunnel.

[clauclauclaudia]

13. Brian Wilson
14. Become You
30. Truth / Utena closing theme