meme yoinked from lots of people...

[lucifermourning]

Put your music player on random. Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song. Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from. Mark the songs when someone guesses correctly.

(ignoring instrumentals and songs where the first line is the title)

1) "Hey you, gender nectar"

2) "If I had met you on some journey, where would we be now?" guessed by ashoe: "Some Journey" by Suzanne Vega

3) "I can't use what I can't abuse" guessed by cryx: "Vow" by Garbage

4) "Pick me up love"

5) "I'm not threatened by every pair of legs you watch go by"

6) "Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road" guessed by lawrencegillies: "Good Riddance (The Time of Your Life)" by Green Day

7) "There was a boy" guessed by inquis: "Nature Boy" by David Bowie and Massive Attack (honourable mention to cream_horn though)

8) "Ever loved a woman who made you feel tall?" guessed by urizen: “I Can See Now” by Dead Can Dance

9) "Nothing can bring me closer"

10) "They hung a sign up in out town"

11) "Awaken from a dream, the neighbour hood is green"

12) "Outside there's a box car waiting" guessed by lawrencegillies: "Here Comes Your Man" by The Pixies

13) "Running to and fro, hard working at the mill"

14) "I could start dreaming, but it never ends"

15) "I'm drunk. And right now i'm so in love with you" guessed by 2eclipse: “The Only Time” by Nine Inch Nails

16) "Let me lay my head on your heart"

17) Oh, come crush me now"

18) "I see your teeth flash"

19) "On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair" guessed by lawrencegillies: Hotel California by the Eagles (well, mine was a cover by Pennywise, but close enough)

20) "Some folks like to get away, take a holiday from the neighbourhood" guessed by ashoe: "New York State of Mind" by Billy Joel

Some should be pretty easy.

Comments

[lawrencegillies.livejournal.com]

6) is Good Riddance (The Time of Your Life) by Green Day
12) is Here Comes Your Man by The Pixies

19) Hotel California by the Eagles (I think)

[redacted.livejournal.com]

okay, these were the exact ones i knew.

[satyrica.livejournal.com]

yep, those were the ones I knew too!

[urizen.livejournal.com]

Damn, I should've got 12. It seemed familiar but just didn't click...

[cream-horn.livejournal.com]

7 - it's from Moulin Rouge, right?! Isn't that the somg title, in fact? Or is it just something totally different?

[inquis.livejournal.com]

Nature Boy I think? possibly David Bowie?

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

15 is nin with the only time.

[urizen.livejournal.com]

Ack! I got the NIN song wrong!

*hangs head in shame*

[fyrespritetryst.livejournal.com]

i have that song tattooed on my arm.

[urizen.livejournal.com]

This meme is a lot easier when so many of the songs are from my music collection! Still tricky though...

3)Garbage I think? Perhaps 'Fix me now' but I'm kinda guessing.

8) Dead Can Dance, no idea of the song name though.

15) Nine Inch Nails - 'That's What I Get' I think!

19) Is that Hotel California? If it is, then I reckon it's the Alabama 3 version. Insider knowledge. :D

[urizen.livejournal.com]

8) 'I Can See Now' - had to look it up though

[lucifermourning.livejournal.com]

So close, but not actually correct on any of these. I see you got one below.

I already gave "Hotel California" to someone else who guessed the wrong cover version...

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[ashoe.livejournal.com]

20) New York State of Mind, Billy Joel

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[ashoe.livejournal.com]

2) Some Journey, by Suzanne Vega

[cryx]

3) garbage - vow