Oh noes, lyrics meme!
You know how this one goes: Put iTunes on random, pick the first N songs that show up, paste in some lyrics, guess away! I'll strike 'em out when they've been guessed correctly.
Only I had to skip a lot, because about 80% of my Macbook music inventory is instrumental good-to-program-to music. And I avoided the first lines of lyrics if they gave the game away. Some of these are obscure; some are dead easy.
Still unguessed: a song by the most famousest band ever, one by their rough contemporaries, another 80s item, and two really obscure 70s prog items.
- There's a stain on my notebook where your coffee cup was
Squeeze, "Black Coffee in Bed",
mireille719 & seldomifever - Yes, your marriage is a tragedy, but it's not my concern
- Out of college, money spent / See no future, pay no rent
- You know, sometimes, I don't know why, but this old town just seems so hopeless
Tom Petty, "Here Comes My Girl",wide_rider - This is why events unnerve me / they find it all, a different story
- When the night shows / the signals grow / on radios
Peter Gabriel, "Here Comes the Flood",nutterbudgie - Once you picked her up on your antenna / You'd never be free of her spell.
Tom Lehrer, "New Math",myconoclast - I would say I'm sorry / If I thought that it would change your mind
The Cure, "Boys Don't Cry",writtenhistory - Drive boy dog boy / dirty numb angel boy
Underworld, "Born Slippy .NUXX,psychoadept - There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder
Dave Edmunds (or Elvis Costello), "Girls Talk",seldomifever - And if affairs are preceding, as we're expecting soon enough, the weak spots will show.
- I'm looking in my little black book / to see if I was right or wrong
- It seems like everything was going well / it seems like a dream
- Deep river runs its course to the warm horizon / Shadows of falling leaves / October moon and rusty skies
Chicane, "Autumn Tactics",fairygothmum - Well you're slim and you're weak / You've got the teeth of the hydra upon you
T-Rex, "Bang A Gong",mireille719 - There’s fodder for the cannons, and the guilty ones can all sleep safely
XTC, "Senses Working Overtime",writtenhistory - You spurn my natural emotions / You make me feel like dirt / And I'm hurt
the Buzzcocks, "Ever Fallen in Love",mireille719 - Well the girls would turn the color of an avocado / when he would drive down their street in his El Dorado
- I often wonder what he is feeling / has he ever heard a word I've said?
The Who, "Go to the Mirror,fairygothmum - Do you cry your eyes asleep? / Is it peace you seek at night when your body's weak?
1. Squeeze, "Black Coffee in Bed"
15. T. Rex, "Bang a Gong"
17. Buzzcocks, "Ever Fallen in Love?"
10. Girl's Talk - dave edmunds
That's it for me!
No:8 The Cure Boys Don't Cry
No:16 Mandy Moore Senses Working Overtime
Edit: Yay grammar.
Edited at 2007-12-12 09:30 pm (UTC)
It is "Alma" by Tom Lehrer!
I just adore him. My grandparents had all his records and would play them when I was little, and I am kind of embarrassed to admit it, but one of the reasons I chose UC Santa Cruz for grad school was because he was a professor there. (I left after the first quarter, though, and never saw him once.)
Also embarrassing? I have a master's in math and I still can't catch where he messes up doing base 8 arithmetic in "New Math".
Two is less than three,
So you look at the four in the eights place.
Hooray for new math! New-ew-ew math! It won't do you a bit of good to review math! It's so simple, so very simple, that only a child can do it (do it).
Hooray for Tom Lehrer! If only he were writing satirical songs about today's politics.