Once More, The First Line Meme!
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solidfoamsoul:
Step 1. Put your iTunes on random.
Step 2. Post the first line or two from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3. Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly. NO GOOGLING.
A couple of modications to fit my music collection and make this more fun:
A) I'm skipping any tunes with no lyrics.
B) I'm also skipping songs that have a play count of 0, since it's unlikely that I know the lyrics yet.
C) If a song starts with the chorus, I'm posting the first line of the actual first verse.
D) I have a *lot* of covers. If the same song comes up more than once, I'm skipping it, and I'll take *any* artist who legit did the song as a correct answer no matter which cover was actually played.
E) I'm screening replies, so multiple people can guess the same song and it's not a speed trial; we'll score by total points. I'll post results after about 24 hours.
In case anyone wanted to know the seed, I'm starting with Holst's "Mars" and hitting shuffle.
1. A soldier came knocking upon the queen's door / He said "I am not fighting for you any more"
2. Sometimes you're better off dead / There's a gun in your hand; it's pointing at your head
3. When the night falls down / I wait for you, and you come around
4. People wore dumb hats and they fell in love / Cities were good things, someone was president
5. Seven o'clock in the evening watching something stupid on TV
6. Nobody ever loved me like she does / Oooh, she does / Yes, she does
7. Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
8. Excuse me, Mr. Hoots, I hate to bug a busy bird / But I want to learn the sax, and I need a helpful word
9. Until tomorrow / Until tomorrow / The only voice was far away
10. There's something happening here / What it is ain't exactly clear
11. [Title] if we were older? / Then we wouldn't have to wait so long
12. [Title], we got fun and games / We got everything you want, honey, we know the names
13. (Here we go, [title]) So those are my dreams and these are my eyes / Stand tall like a man, headstrong like a horse
14. Don't chop off his head to make yourself look tall / Don't tear a strip off to make yourself feel wonderful
15. We both lie silently still in the dead of the night / Although we lie close together we feel miles apart inside
16. So you were born in an electrical storm / Took a bite out of the sun
17. She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean / She was the best damn woman that I'd ever seen
18. One man used his mighty voice to call / All for one, and baby, one for all
19. The last that ever she saw him (Carried away by a [title]) / He passed on worried and warning (Carried away by a [title])
20. Lying in my bed, I hear the clock tick and think of you
Whoa, some of these are hard. 8-( Y SO OBSCURE, iTunes?
Edit: Closed at 4:30 am - answers in another post, scores below!
solidfoamsoul:Step 1. Put your iTunes on random.
Step 2. Post the first line or two from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3. Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly. NO GOOGLING.
A couple of modications to fit my music collection and make this more fun:
A) I'm skipping any tunes with no lyrics.
B) I'm also skipping songs that have a play count of 0, since it's unlikely that I know the lyrics yet.
C) If a song starts with the chorus, I'm posting the first line of the actual first verse.
D) I have a *lot* of covers. If the same song comes up more than once, I'm skipping it, and I'll take *any* artist who legit did the song as a correct answer no matter which cover was actually played.
E) I'm screening replies, so multiple people can guess the same song and it's not a speed trial; we'll score by total points. I'll post results after about 24 hours.
In case anyone wanted to know the seed, I'm starting with Holst's "Mars" and hitting shuffle.
1. A soldier came knocking upon the queen's door / He said "I am not fighting for you any more"
2. Sometimes you're better off dead / There's a gun in your hand; it's pointing at your head
3. When the night falls down / I wait for you, and you come around
4. People wore dumb hats and they fell in love / Cities were good things, someone was president
5. Seven o'clock in the evening watching something stupid on TV
6. Nobody ever loved me like she does / Oooh, she does / Yes, she does
7. Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
8. Excuse me, Mr. Hoots, I hate to bug a busy bird / But I want to learn the sax, and I need a helpful word
9. Until tomorrow / Until tomorrow / The only voice was far away
10. There's something happening here / What it is ain't exactly clear
11. [Title] if we were older? / Then we wouldn't have to wait so long
12. [Title], we got fun and games / We got everything you want, honey, we know the names
13. (Here we go, [title]) So those are my dreams and these are my eyes / Stand tall like a man, headstrong like a horse
14. Don't chop off his head to make yourself look tall / Don't tear a strip off to make yourself feel wonderful
15. We both lie silently still in the dead of the night / Although we lie close together we feel miles apart inside
16. So you were born in an electrical storm / Took a bite out of the sun
17. She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean / She was the best damn woman that I'd ever seen
18. One man used his mighty voice to call / All for one, and baby, one for all
19. The last that ever she saw him (Carried away by a [title]) / He passed on worried and warning (Carried away by a [title])
20. Lying in my bed, I hear the clock tick and think of you
Whoa, some of these are hard. 8-( Y SO OBSCURE, iTunes?
Edit: Closed at 4:30 am - answers in another post, scores below!
