Ancient Meme!
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tree_and_leafAges and ages ago, I did the iTunes meme (and also the imdb meme). Some songs, and indeed some films, remained stubbornly unguessed. Time to give the answers, I think (now that you've all lost interest....)
An iTunes meme, from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kalquessa
Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line(s) from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song. (Skip the instrumentals, the remixes and the mashups)
Step 3: Let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
In addition, I have removed the spoken word tracks, and the ones that began in Russian and that I thus couldn’t spell… Some of them are from opera or similar, in which case I recommend guessing the opera and composer)
1. “Don’t close the door” (Don’t Close the Door, Gerry Rafferty)
2. “There was a lady in the north, you scarce would find her marrow” (The Dowie Dens of Yarrow, Karine Polwart)
3. “Bleib Senta!” (Act II of the Fliegender Holländer, R Wagner)
4. “Oh the summer time is coming, and the leaves are sweetly blooming” (The Wild Mountain Thyme, in this case by Robin Hall and Jimmie McGregor) guessed by angevin2 and nineveh_uk
5. “The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart” (The Prodigal Son, A Sullivan; one of Sullivan’s attempts at srs music, and really rather good)
6. “I know that lately things haven’t been so good” (I will be your friend, Sade) Guessed by ms_wanderlust
7. “I bless the day I found you, I want to stay around you” (Let it be me, The Everly Brothers)
8. “Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy” (Sunshine on my Shoulders, John Denver) guessed by angevin2
9. “All around my hat I will wear the green willow” (All around my Hat, Steeleye Span) guessed by parrot_knight
10. “Down among the reeds and rushes, a baby boy was found” (Born at the Right Time, Paul Simon)
11. “In the chilly hours and minutes of uncertainty, I want to be in the warm hold of your loving mind” (Catch the Wind, by Donovan, and guessed by doctor_biscuit, who kindly enlightened me as to the actual words.
12. “Kiss me, among the bearded barley” (Kiss me, Sixpence None The Richer, guessed by kalquessa. SNTR are probably the only band named in reference to CS Lewis who have had a UK number One... I remain irrationally convinced that this song is actually about bridal mysticism and that the young man in question is Our Lord - but this probably just shows that you can over think things. This is also virtually the only song I possess by a self-identified Christian band (the other being James Barclay’s ‘Hymn’), though I do own an awful lot of Runrig songs which sound suspiciously theological to my ear.)
13. “Long as I remember, the rain’s been coming down” (Who’ll stop the rain, Creedence Clearwater Revival) Guessed by rosemary_green
14. “Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away” (Yesterday, The Beatles) Guessed by angevin2, officially, but it’s so bleeding obvious that I bet you all did.
15. “If I could make a wish, I think I’d pass” (All I need is the air that I breathe – more famous in the Hollies version, but the one that came up was Albert Hammond, who wrote it). Guessed by snorkackcatcher
16. “Woke up one morning fast asleep with all my blankets in a heap” I would point out that this was the first song played on Radio 1, but you all know that anyway
17. “The little creatures run in from the cold, back to the nest just like in days of old” (War of Men, Neil Young.)
18. “He watching over Israel slumbers not” (Elijah, Mendelssohn), guessed by angevin2
19. “There’s a man I meet, walks up our street, he’s been working for the council these twenty years” (Dignity, Deacon Blue) Guessed by eagles_rock
20. “A lady was walking on a midsummer’s day” (Sweet Bride, Kate Rusby). I’m surprised that no-one got this, but the trouble with folk songs is that a lot of them have very similar beginnings…
The unguessed film quotes were as follows:
iii. A: Whaddya thinkin' about?
B: Girls... naked girls... in a fishtank.
B:Why don't we kill it? Hit it with something hard...
A: You've already done that with a two-ton automobile!
C: You want to buy my church?
A: Not as a going concern.
This is Local Hero, of course. Am surprised no-one got this.
iv A: Are you laughing at me?
B: I am laughing because what I see is laughable. I see a coward, a man running from the world.
With an orchestra, the Jesuits could have subdued the entire continent.
So, your Holiness, now your priests are dead, and I am left alive. But in truth it is I who am dead, and they who live. For as always, your Holiness, the spirit of the dead will survive in the memory of the living.
The Mission One of the films that can be relied on to make me cry (not many do; I'm not sure whether or not to be embarrassed that Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan also has this effect...) I am less surprised that no-one got this, because the most memorable bits of the film are visual and musical. Though I do love the line about the orchestra.
vii.
I know he was a good man at whatever it was he did. No one was more pleased than I when I heard you had taken him on as your... whatever he was.
A:You're not very tall are you?
B: Well, I, uh, I try to be.
She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up.
Somebody's always giving me guns.
The Big Sleep, the Bogart version. Wonderful film, though breaks all the rules of detective fiction by having a plot which makes no sense whatsoever. Possibly not unconnected to Chandler's favoured method of moving the plot along, 'having a man come through the door with a gun'.
An iTunes meme, from
kalquessaStep 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line(s) from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song. (Skip the instrumentals, the remixes and the mashups)
Step 3: Let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
In addition, I have removed the spoken word tracks, and the ones that began in Russian and that I thus couldn’t spell… Some of them are from opera or similar, in which case I recommend guessing the opera and composer)
1. “Don’t close the door” (Don’t Close the Door, Gerry Rafferty)
2. “There was a lady in the north, you scarce would find her marrow” (The Dowie Dens of Yarrow, Karine Polwart)
3. “Bleib Senta!” (Act II of the Fliegender Holländer, R Wagner)
angevin2 and nineveh_uk5. “The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart” (The Prodigal Son, A Sullivan; one of Sullivan’s attempts at srs music, and really rather good)
ms_wanderlust7. “I bless the day I found you, I want to stay around you” (Let it be me, The Everly Brothers)
angevin2parrot_knight10. “Down among the reeds and rushes, a baby boy was found” (Born at the Right Time, Paul Simon)
kalquessa. SNTR are probably the only band named in reference to CS Lewis who have had a UK number One... I remain irrationally convinced that this song is actually about bridal mysticism and that the young man in question is Our Lord - but this probably just shows that you can over think things. This is also virtually the only song I possess by a self-identified Christian band (the other being James Barclay’s ‘Hymn’), though I do own an awful lot of Runrig songs which sound suspiciously theological to my ear.)rosemary_greenangevin2, officially, but it’s so bleeding obvious that I bet you all did.snorkackcatcher17. “The little creatures run in from the cold, back to the nest just like in days of old” (War of Men, Neil Young.)
angevin2eagles_rock20. “A lady was walking on a midsummer’s day” (Sweet Bride, Kate Rusby). I’m surprised that no-one got this, but the trouble with folk songs is that a lot of them have very similar beginnings…
The unguessed film quotes were as follows:
iii. A: Whaddya thinkin' about?
B: Girls... naked girls... in a fishtank.
B:Why don't we kill it? Hit it with something hard...
A: You've already done that with a two-ton automobile!
C: You want to buy my church?
A: Not as a going concern.
This is Local Hero, of course. Am surprised no-one got this.
iv A: Are you laughing at me?
B: I am laughing because what I see is laughable. I see a coward, a man running from the world.
With an orchestra, the Jesuits could have subdued the entire continent.
So, your Holiness, now your priests are dead, and I am left alive. But in truth it is I who am dead, and they who live. For as always, your Holiness, the spirit of the dead will survive in the memory of the living.
The Mission One of the films that can be relied on to make me cry (not many do; I'm not sure whether or not to be embarrassed that Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan also has this effect...) I am less surprised that no-one got this, because the most memorable bits of the film are visual and musical. Though I do love the line about the orchestra.
vii.
I know he was a good man at whatever it was he did. No one was more pleased than I when I heard you had taken him on as your... whatever he was.
A:You're not very tall are you?
B: Well, I, uh, I try to be.
She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up.
Somebody's always giving me guns.
The Big Sleep, the Bogart version. Wonderful film, though breaks all the rules of detective fiction by having a plot which makes no sense whatsoever. Possibly not unconnected to Chandler's favoured method of moving the plot along, 'having a man come through the door with a gun'.
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Date: 2008-06-19 01:13 pm (UTC)Glad you enjoyed the cricket story, too!