Music game revisited
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garranIn the 'things on the internet' portion of last post, I forgot to mention Kate Beaton's comics. She's getting kind of famous now, at least if Shaenon Garrity and Ryan North linking to her is any indication, but maybe you haven't seen them yet, and you really should. (I think I found them through ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
angrylemur.)
Speaking ofangrylemur and stuff inspired in this entry by same, a while ago she posted that song lyric guessing game I like, and it made me notice that it's been almost two years since the last time I did it myself, which naturally awakened a resolve to do it again. I was going to wait until after I'd posted more of the things of actual substance I've been intending to write for this journal, but it's occurred to me that this actually takes way less time than those things, so it's not like it's delaying them significantly to do it now. I am going for it.
Here follows the list. It's 20 first lines again (even though Ms. Lemur did 16), and I'm not going to make it zero-sum, so I encourage people to guess before looking at anyone else's answers.
1. Edna Million in a drop-dead suit
2. Looking out for love, in the night so still
3. Here we go -- they're back again -- look alive, warn your friends
4. Are you such a dreamer, to put the world to rights?
5. Delirious blue, wash over me
6. I never sang my songs, on this stage, on my own
7. Hey, I said you're a godless man
8. She drives a little white car to the seminar on modern romance
9. Well, I'd rather see you dead, little boy
10. Drink up, baby; stay up all night
11. Well, I started out, down a dirty road
12. Crowned myself the prince of buzz
13. It's not what you thought when you first began it
14. When the revenant came down, we couldn't imagine what it was
15. Hold me down; I am floating away
16. Look at those buggers who are looting the crash site
17. We used to leave the blue lights on, and there was a beat
18. I concede that you were right about this place
19. It's getting near dawn, when lights close their tired eyes
20. Everything is catching -- yes, everything is catching on fire!
angrylemur.)Speaking of
angrylemur and stuff inspired in this entry by same, a while ago she posted that song lyric guessing game I like, and it made me notice that it's been almost two years since the last time I did it myself, which naturally awakened a resolve to do it again. I was going to wait until after I'd posted more of the things of actual substance I've been intending to write for this journal, but it's occurred to me that this actually takes way less time than those things, so it's not like it's delaying them significantly to do it now. I am going for it.Here follows the list. It's 20 first lines again (even though Ms. Lemur did 16), and I'm not going to make it zero-sum, so I encourage people to guess before looking at anyone else's answers.
1. Edna Million in a drop-dead suit
2. Looking out for love, in the night so still
3. Here we go -- they're back again -- look alive, warn your friends
4. Are you such a dreamer, to put the world to rights?
5. Delirious blue, wash over me
6. I never sang my songs, on this stage, on my own
7. Hey, I said you're a godless man
8. She drives a little white car to the seminar on modern romance
9. Well, I'd rather see you dead, little boy
10. Drink up, baby; stay up all night
11. Well, I started out, down a dirty road
12. Crowned myself the prince of buzz
13. It's not what you thought when you first began it
14. When the revenant came down, we couldn't imagine what it was
15. Hold me down; I am floating away
16. Look at those buggers who are looting the crash site
17. We used to leave the blue lights on, and there was a beat
18. I concede that you were right about this place
19. It's getting near dawn, when lights close their tired eyes
20. Everything is catching -- yes, everything is catching on fire!
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my guesses
Date: 2008-02-10 01:11 am (UTC)9: an altered cover of the beatles' run for your life?
11: tom petty - learning to fly
14: sufjan stevens - concerning the ufo sighting near somewhere or other
16: hawksley workman - your beauty must be rubbing off
17: metric - combat baby
I want to know what the last song is!
Re: my guesses
Date: 2008-02-10 02:32 am (UTC)-Andy H.
Re: my guesses
Date: 2008-02-10 02:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-10 02:43 am (UTC)2. Fleetwood Mac - Big Love
5. Perpetual Dream Theory - Setting Sun
6. Faye Wong - Eyes On Me (PS. It's "whenever sang my song")
9. Cowboy Junkies - Run For Your Life
13. Aimee Mann* - Wise Up
14. Sufjan Stevens - the first track of Illinois
18. I know this and cannot find it in my mind.
20. They Might Be Giants - Fingertips
* I had to check my mp3 for her name.
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Date: 2008-02-10 08:35 am (UTC)Is that really the lyric? It makes both more and less sense.
-Andy H.
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Date: 2008-02-10 03:40 am (UTC)IV is "2 + 2 = 5", by Radiohead.
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Date: 2008-02-10 08:34 am (UTC)-Andy H.