Meme! Musical, this time
Nov. 11th, 2011 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tree_and_leafVia eponyomous_rose. Like her, I got fed up and cut the list of songs down to twenty-five.
1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few lines of the first thirty (I did 25 because I am lazy and want to go to sleep) songs that come up that do not give away the name of the song. Skip instrumentals, but don't skip the embarrassing ones.
3. Make hapless LJ denizens guess the song names and artists. Google is cheating. For musical songs, the name of the musical is acceptable in place of the artist.
4. Least hapless LJ denizen wins admiration. That's right, just like a lobbyist in budget season, the points don't matter.
I also omitted most of the choral stuff, because ‘Guess the Mag and Nunc and Ave Verum” is not a particularly fun game... The folk songs are arguably a bit unfair, but as there is no actual prize, I feel less than guilty.
1. Put a candle in the window, but I feel I’ve got the blues.
2. To sail on a dream on a crystal clear ocean, to ride on the crest of the wild raging storm. (Not one of my favourites, I must admit).
3. It’s autumn in Gothenburg, I want it all to myself.
4. Oh my bags are packed, I’m ready to go.
5. I’m going higher, I’m soaring higher, far above the clouds of doubt and fear.
6. Walk a lonely foreign street, hunger sets the pace.
7. Called you so many times today, I guess it’s all true what your girlfriends say.
8. No I would not give you false hope, on this strange and mournful day.
9. Well you wonder why I always dress in black.
10. Grab your ticket and your suitcase, thunder’s rolling down the tracks.
11. Come rede me dame, come tell me dame, my dame come tell me truly…
12. I was lost in the lakes and the shapes that your body makes.
13. In dem Kerker saßen zu Frankfurt an dem Main.
14. If you want a lover, I’ll do anything you ask me to.
15. One dark and stormy winter’s night the snow lay on the ground.
16. I had a little gramophone, I’d wind it round and round.
17. Didn’t know what time it was, the lights were low.
18. Walking out on the resurrection trail, going nowhere slowly.
19. Jetzt ist der Unsinn bald vorbei, es war auch allerhöchste Zeit.
20. Come gather round people wherever you roam.
21. I wish, I wish, I wish in vain.
22. Woke up from a dream Thursday morning.
23. Te Deum Patrem colimus, Te laudibus prosequimur.
24. She’s taking her time making up the reasons to justify all the hurt inside.
25. Just as the sand made everything round.
eponyomous_rose. Like her, I got fed up and cut the list of songs down to twenty-five.1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few lines of the first thirty (I did 25 because I am lazy and want to go to sleep) songs that come up that do not give away the name of the song. Skip instrumentals, but don't skip the embarrassing ones.
3. Make hapless LJ denizens guess the song names and artists. Google is cheating. For musical songs, the name of the musical is acceptable in place of the artist.
4. Least hapless LJ denizen wins admiration. That's right, just like a lobbyist in budget season, the points don't matter.
I also omitted most of the choral stuff, because ‘Guess the Mag and Nunc and Ave Verum” is not a particularly fun game... The folk songs are arguably a bit unfair, but as there is no actual prize, I feel less than guilty.
1. Put a candle in the window, but I feel I’ve got the blues.
2. To sail on a dream on a crystal clear ocean, to ride on the crest of the wild raging storm. (Not one of my favourites, I must admit).
3. It’s autumn in Gothenburg, I want it all to myself.
4. Oh my bags are packed, I’m ready to go.
5. I’m going higher, I’m soaring higher, far above the clouds of doubt and fear.
6. Walk a lonely foreign street, hunger sets the pace.
7. Called you so many times today, I guess it’s all true what your girlfriends say.
8. No I would not give you false hope, on this strange and mournful day.
9. Well you wonder why I always dress in black.
10. Grab your ticket and your suitcase, thunder’s rolling down the tracks.
11. Come rede me dame, come tell me dame, my dame come tell me truly…
12. I was lost in the lakes and the shapes that your body makes.
13. In dem Kerker saßen zu Frankfurt an dem Main.
14. If you want a lover, I’ll do anything you ask me to.
15. One dark and stormy winter’s night the snow lay on the ground.
16. I had a little gramophone, I’d wind it round and round.
17. Didn’t know what time it was, the lights were low.
18. Walking out on the resurrection trail, going nowhere slowly.
19. Jetzt ist der Unsinn bald vorbei, es war auch allerhöchste Zeit.
20. Come gather round people wherever you roam.
21. I wish, I wish, I wish in vain.
22. Woke up from a dream Thursday morning.
23. Te Deum Patrem colimus, Te laudibus prosequimur.
24. She’s taking her time making up the reasons to justify all the hurt inside.
25. Just as the sand made everything round.
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Date: 2011-11-11 08:18 pm (UTC)23 is the Te Deum? By, you know, ancient Latin-speaking people- I'm Lutheran, sorry, we only do that piece in choir concerts when we aren't busy singing in German. :)
And is 9 by Johnny Cash? SGA has corrupted me.
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Date: 2011-11-11 09:04 pm (UTC)23 is not the Te deum - I didn't go for any of the canticles that pop up in the liturgy, so it is a Latin hymn.
9 is indeed Johnny Cash.
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Date: 2011-11-11 08:18 pm (UTC)1. "Long As I Can See The Light" - CCR
4. "Leaving On A Jet Plane" - John Denver or Peter Paul and Mary?
7. I feel like it's Sting, but I can't get the tune in my head.
9. "Man in Black" - Johnny Cash
10. "Land of Hope and Dreams" - Springsteen
14. "I'm Your Man" - Cohen, or a cover?
17. "Starman" - David Bowie
20. "The Times They Are A-Changin'" - Bob Dylan
24. This one was driving me crazy, and I had to hum through most of the song before I remembered who sang it. "To The Moon And Back" - Savage Garden
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Date: 2011-11-11 09:07 pm (UTC)4 was Peter Paul and Mary. 14 is indeed Cohen, but 20 was a cover by the Scottish band Runrig.
7 - you're very close indeed with the artist, but not quite there.
Still, well done!
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Date: 2011-11-11 08:26 pm (UTC)9. "Man In Black," Johnny Cash
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Date: 2011-11-11 11:15 pm (UTC)#7 is I Can't Stand Losing You, the Police; #8 is Mother and Child Reunion, Paul Simon; #14 is I'm Your Man, Mr Leonard Cohen; #17 is Starman, David Bowie; #20 is The Times They Are a'Changin', Mr Bob Dylan.
And #10 is Bruce Springsteen's Land of Hope and Dreams, which is possibly my favourite Springsteen track, and which I want played at my funeral. A little rough on the congregation, as it's about ten minutes long, but hey.
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Date: 2011-11-12 10:30 am (UTC)"Land of Hope and Dreams" is a wonderful song - you should go for it.
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Date: 2011-11-12 01:33 am (UTC)17 - David Bowie - Starman
20 - Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'
24 - Savage Garden - To The Moon And Back
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Date: 2011-11-14 05:33 pm (UTC)8 - Mother and Child Reunion - Paul Simon
9 - Is this Johnny Cash's Man in Black?
20 - The Times They Are A'Changing - Bob Dylan
24 - To the Moon and Back - Savage Garden?
2, 14, and 17 all sound familiar too, but I can't swear to them. Is 17 Paul Simon's Late in the Evening? And I thiiiink 2 may be another John Denver? I'd Rather Be in Colorado or something, perhaps.
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Date: 2011-11-14 07:30 pm (UTC)8. Correct,
9. Yes.
20. Right song, wrong artist.
24.Yes.
2 is another John Denver, but not that one. I can see why you might think 17 was Paul Simon, but it's not - a rather different artist.
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Date: 2011-11-14 07:45 pm (UTC)I blame you for the fact that I'm now listening to early Paul Simon songs on YouTube :)
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Date: 2011-11-14 08:05 pm (UTC)