Audience participation.

[hannah]

I've seen this around several times, and I've wanted to try it out for a while: Guess The Lyrics! All songs taken from my 'random MP3' playlist, and is not indicative of my overall music collection - none of my Joni Mitchell is on there - but there's a wide range of things. Bonus points for guessing the proper artist of cover versions. Please accept this until I get my head together for some proper content.


1. [Name of song, name of song]/Won't you spare me over til another year
2. I roll the window down/And then begin to breathe in
3. Beware the bottle thoughts of angry young men/Secret compartments hide all of the skeletons - Nightmares By the Sea, Jeff Buckley, kernezelda
4. When I want you in my arms/When I want you and all your charms - All I Have To Do Is Dream, Roy Orbison, nachtschade
5. I had skin like leather and the diamond-hard look of a cobra/I was born blue and weathered but I burst just like a supernova - It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City, David Bowie, karaokegal
6. If we can call them friends we can call them on red telephones/And they won't pretend that they're too busy or they're not alone
7. I've got a smile on my face, I've got four walls around me/The sun in the sky, the water surrounds me - Ordinary Day, Great Big Sea, roga
8. I've watched the stars fall silent from your eyes/All the sights that I have seen - The Great Beyond, R.E.M., euclase
9. Counting all different ideas drifting away/Past and present, they don't matter, now the future's sorted out
10. I was a stranger in the city/Out of town were the people I knew
11. You hit me once, I hit you back/You gave a kick, I gave a slap - Kiss With A Fist, Florence & The Machine, swatkat24
12. A long, long time ago/I can still remember how that music used to make me smile - American Pie, Don McLean, swatkat24
13. You take your white finger/Slide the nail under the top and bottom buttons of my blazer - The Dark Of The Matinee, Franz Ferdinand, perspi
14. I will arise and go now, and go to [Name of song]/And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made
15. Say say my playmate/Won't you lay hands on me - Wolf Like Me, TV On The Radio, euclase
16. Could you whisper in my ear/The things you wanna feel - Slide, The Goo Goo Dolls, recrudescence
17. I was twenty-one years when I wrote this song/I'm twenty-two now but I won't be for long - Leaves That Are Green, Simon and Garfunkel, recrudescence
18. If the rain comes they run and hide their heads/they might as well be dead - Rain, The Beatles, swatkat24
19. This is the definition of my life/Lying in bed in the sunlight - Dry The Rain, The Beta Band euclase
20. Falling from the western selves/To find yourself alone again

Comments

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

11 is Kiss with a fist, 12 American pie. 14 is... Lake Isle of Innisfree? Yeats? Put to music, I guess.

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

Also 18 is Rain, The Beatles.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Yes to all four. 14 is by Cherish The Ladies.

[recrudescence.livejournal.com]

16: "Slide" by the Goo Goo Dolls

And! 17: Simon and Garfunkel's "Leaves That are Green"

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Yes to both.

[leaper182.livejournal.com]

1. Oh, Death from the O Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack.
12. Don McLean - American Pie
# 15 made me think of a kid's rhyme that you do with clapping. Say Say My Playmate. But I ended up googling it, and I'm thinking you're talking about a released song.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

1. Right song, wrong artist. Care to guess again?
12. Correct!
15. Released, yes. As a hint, the band's from Brooklyn.

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

Didn't Cracker do a version of "O, Death"? But I also have another version on Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?. So, technically, that's correct too.

[perspi.livejournal.com]

Ooh ooh! #13 is Dark of the Matinee, by Franz Ferdinand

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Correct!

[perspi.livejournal.com]

I just heard it on my own playlist. :)

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

5. It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City-Bruce Springsteen. (2nd guess would be the Bowie cover.)
10. A Foggy Day (In London Town)-Fred Astaire
17. A New England-Kristy McColl
18.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

5. Your second guess is correct.
10. Right song, wrong artist. Want to guess again?
17. Incorrect.

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

17-Interesting. Cause unless I'm totally delusional, Billy Bragg used that line in A New England, which Kirsty recorded. Oh well. I'll be interested in the reveal.

10-Billie Holiday?

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

17. A quick Google search proves that's correct, but the lyrics belong to a different song.

10. Still no.

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

At least I wasn't losing my mind. (Not over that anyway.)

Pretty much every interpreter of popular song has had a crack at #10.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

The Internet: surprisingly supportive for immediate answers if you know where to look. As I've said, "Why are we arguing? We have the Internet!" And we checked, and the argument fizzled out in under three minutes.

I don't think Neil Hannon has gotten to that one yet. Here's a hint: the artist has another cover on the list.

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

I didn't want to cheat.

If Bowie recorded it, I'll be both gobsmacked and happily impressed.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

It's not cheating if you aren't going to answer the question.

Yep! From the cover album Red Hot & Rhapsody: The Gershwin Groove. You want a copy of the song?

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

By all means! Thanks. :)

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Sent over. Enjoy!

[roga.livejournal.com]

7. Ordinary Day/GBS!
12. American Pie/Don MacLean? Madonna? Idk
14. Idk, but it sounds like a cool song! GBS again?

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

7. Correct!
12. Don MacLean. I don't think I've got any Madonna songs, come to think of it.
14. Nope. I'm waiting to see if anyone else knows that group before striking it off.

[euclase.livejournal.com]

1. is o death
6. is (something) by andrew bird. i can't remember the title, but i know it's andrew bird because you gave it to me, lol
8. is rem's the great beyond
10. is a foggy day in london town by... several people, i think?
19. is the beta band's dry the rain

that's all i know of what's left :)

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

1. Yes! But can you guess the artist?
6. Right singer - but no points for not knowing the title.
8. Correct!
10. Right song. Can you guess the singer?
19. Correctamundo!

[euclase.livejournal.com]

1. guess? dude, it's a folk song. that's like asking me to guess who sings happy birthday. it could be my sixth grade music teacher for all i know. maybe jen titus? that's a pretty trendy version. or rise?

10. same problem as the first song, lol. i don't know which artist you're more likely to have in your collection. maybe you have the rufus wainwright version, or frank sinatra, or the david bowie version. beats me.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

1. Jen Titus. In this case I thought since her version is so popular for most of my friends-list, that the people who'd likely respond to this post would know of her. But you're right, I was generalizing-from-self again.

10. It's David Bowie. Although until I did this post, I wasn't aware there were so many recordings of the song - I thought it was just three or four.

[euclase.livejournal.com]

actually, that's pretty brilliant to go with the jen titus. i think she's on the supernatural soundtrack (or maybe i just have a fanmix from someone made for supernatural, and they put that on there). but yeah, definitely, you're right. if people don't have the o brother version, they have the jen titus version.

...and now that you mentioned david bowie, i'm thinking that you probably sent me BOTH the jen titus and the david bowie, which is why i even have the songs to begin with.

LOLOLOL *headdesk*

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

She's on the soundtrack, and the song was used for promos and released for free from the CW on their website. And come to think of it, I've got the O Brother version too, but it's on the CD instead of the computer.

Heee! I might well have.

[euclase.livejournal.com]

omg wait! 15 is tv on the radio! dude, i love them. i didn't even see that one until i read back over the list.

i can't remember the song title. ummmm i think it's be a wolf like me (or maybe just wolf like me) (or maybe just wolf) (there is WOLF somewhere in the title lol!)

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Wolf Like Me, on the nose.

[kernezelda]

4. Roy Orbison, All I Need to Do Is Dream

:)

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Got it!

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Ten is striking me as another verse to a familiar standard. Is that April In Paris?

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

I didn't change the song; I just corrected the lyrics. Google, you fool!

[joe-pike-junior.livejournal.com]

14. I will arise and go now, and go to [Name of song]/And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made
That's the Lake Isle of Innisfree, by Keats. I Googled that one, although it was on the tip of my tongue, because it threw me that it's a poem set to music (presumably). Who sings it?

The Dark Of The Matinee I can remember listening to that album on repeat when it came out. The title track is still one of my "feel good" songs.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Cherish The Ladies, off the album Threads of Time.

[joe-pike-junior.livejournal.com]

Are there any lyrics other than Keats?

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

The song itself is a direct adaptation of the poem, so probably not. As for the rest of what the band's done, I've only got two of their songs so I can't really say, but with ten albums they must have a lot to work with.

[nachtschade.livejournal.com]

3- Jeff Buckley with... I'm not too sure but is it Nightmares by the sea or something like that?

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

You've got it!