Name that tune
May. 17th, 2010 08:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyranoI haven't done this for a while, and I've got a new bunch of eyeballs so it should be a real treat.
....hopefully for some of you reading this.
The way this works is, I set my grotesquely diverse iTunes library to shuffle, and I grab the first lines of the first twenty songs. Your job is to guess WTF they are, listing song title and artist (if it's a cover, I'll be liberal) and score points toward valuable prizes!
I'll probably edit things a little for superobscure stuff, film scores, spoken word (maybe), and whatnot*. Oh yeah. If the song title shows up in the first line, I'll substitute the phrase "hermaphroditic supermodel werewolf" in its place. As usual, I frown upon googling for the lyrics, but it's not like I can stop you. Unless you're one of the people in whose houses I've installed spycams.
1. Get up out of your rocking chair, Grandma!
2. Hermaphrodite supermodel werewolf deserves a quiet night.
R.E.M., Nightswimming--MirrorBallMoon
3. Like the falling leaves and the shifting past, sometimes the treasured things are not the things that last.
Shriekback, Dust and a Shadow--KirbyK
4. I've waited hours for this, I've made myself so sick.
The Cure, Close to Me--Darth Snarky
5. Got a good reason for taking the easy way out.
Beatles, Daytripper--9thMoon
6. Everybody knows where you go when the sun goes down.
7. Don't want to hear you say it's hot when something's wrong baby.
8. Some folks are born to wave the flag--oo, they're red white and blue.
Dropkick Murphys, Fortunate Son--Corwin77
9. I work on the front line, I work to survive.
Thompson Twins, You Take Me Up--Pusifoot
10. You think that we connect, that the chemistry's correct.
No Doubt, Spiderwebs--Corwin77
11. I've built a little empire out of some crazy garbage called the Blood of the Exploited Working Class.
They Might Be Giants, Kiss Me Son of God--KirbyK
12. Hey folks, here's a story about hermaphrodite supermodel werewolf. She was a lowdown hoochy coocher.
Cab Calloway, Minnie the Moocher--KirbyK
13. The drugs they say make us feel so hollow, we love in vain narcissistic and so shallow.
14. Hermaphrodite supermodel werewolf, mi ritmo bueno pa gozar, mulata
15. Whoa baby, you don't get turned on by the radio.
16. She's driving away with the dim lights on.
17. Hermaphrodite supermodel werewolf has got it goin' on.
Fountains of Wayne, Stacey's Mom--Corwin77
18. Every time I think of you, I get a shot right through into a bolt of blue.
New Order, Bizarre Love Triangle--9thMoon
19. When people keep repeating that you'll never fall in love; when everybody keeps retreating, and you can't seem to get enough
Pete Townsend, Let My Love Open the Door--Corwin77
20. Why do you come here, and why, why do you hang around?
Morrissey, Suedehead--Darth Snarky
*And Tom Waits because I have no idea what that crazy motherfucker is saying.
....hopefully for some of you reading this.
The way this works is, I set my grotesquely diverse iTunes library to shuffle, and I grab the first lines of the first twenty songs. Your job is to guess WTF they are, listing song title and artist (if it's a cover, I'll be liberal) and score points toward valuable prizes!
I'll probably edit things a little for superobscure stuff, film scores, spoken word (maybe), and whatnot*. Oh yeah. If the song title shows up in the first line, I'll substitute the phrase "hermaphroditic supermodel werewolf" in its place. As usual, I frown upon googling for the lyrics, but it's not like I can stop you. Unless you're one of the people in whose houses I've installed spycams.
1. Get up out of your rocking chair, Grandma!
2. Hermaphrodite supermodel werewolf deserves a quiet night.
R.E.M., Nightswimming--MirrorBallMoon
3. Like the falling leaves and the shifting past, sometimes the treasured things are not the things that last.
Shriekback, Dust and a Shadow--KirbyK
4. I've waited hours for this, I've made myself so sick.
The Cure, Close to Me--Darth Snarky
5. Got a good reason for taking the easy way out.
Beatles, Daytripper--9thMoon
6. Everybody knows where you go when the sun goes down.
7. Don't want to hear you say it's hot when something's wrong baby.
8. Some folks are born to wave the flag--oo, they're red white and blue.
Dropkick Murphys, Fortunate Son--Corwin77
9. I work on the front line, I work to survive.
Thompson Twins, You Take Me Up--Pusifoot
10. You think that we connect, that the chemistry's correct.
No Doubt, Spiderwebs--Corwin77
11. I've built a little empire out of some crazy garbage called the Blood of the Exploited Working Class.
They Might Be Giants, Kiss Me Son of God--KirbyK
12. Hey folks, here's a story about hermaphrodite supermodel werewolf. She was a lowdown hoochy coocher.
Cab Calloway, Minnie the Moocher--KirbyK
13. The drugs they say make us feel so hollow, we love in vain narcissistic and so shallow.
14. Hermaphrodite supermodel werewolf, mi ritmo bueno pa gozar, mulata
15. Whoa baby, you don't get turned on by the radio.
16. She's driving away with the dim lights on.
17. Hermaphrodite supermodel werewolf has got it goin' on.
Fountains of Wayne, Stacey's Mom--Corwin77
18. Every time I think of you, I get a shot right through into a bolt of blue.
New Order, Bizarre Love Triangle--9thMoon
19. When people keep repeating that you'll never fall in love; when everybody keeps retreating, and you can't seem to get enough
Pete Townsend, Let My Love Open the Door--Corwin77
20. Why do you come here, and why, why do you hang around?
Morrissey, Suedehead--Darth Snarky
*And Tom Waits because I have no idea what that crazy motherfucker is saying.
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Date: 2010-05-18 12:24 am (UTC)11. Kiss Me, Son of God by They Might Be Giants, a gimme.
12. Minnie the Moocher. I know it as by Cab Calloway.
That's the only ones I know!
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Date: 2010-05-18 12:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-18 12:26 am (UTC)17. Stacey's Mom - Fountains of Wayne
There are at least 4 others that are familiar that I have to think on.
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Date: 2010-05-18 12:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-18 12:53 am (UTC)ans
19. Let my love open the door - I forget who...
Oh no, not a spycam!
Date: 2010-05-18 12:33 am (UTC)18. New Order, Bizarre Love Triangle
Only two. I suck!
Re: Oh no, not a spycam!
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Date: 2010-05-18 05:38 am (UTC)But I'm glad you came by to bat eighties clean up for me. (:
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Date: 2010-05-18 12:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-18 03:05 pm (UTC)Plus? My music collection can be described as 'esoteric'. Anybody who could get all twenty (and I couldn't--that's why I wrote them down as I listened) is probably a cyborg sent back from the future to take over Club Sin and become the ultimate DJ, changing history so that robots learn how to pop and lock. Plus? 14 is almost not fair.
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Date: 2010-05-19 08:33 pm (UTC)Also, Eliel was going through my CDs ripping them recently and he discovered that I have all the TT albums. This led him to ask "Who are Thompson Twins?"
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Date: 2010-05-19 08:38 pm (UTC)(They're on the Red Hot & Blue tribute. You should grab a copy.)
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Date: 2010-05-19 07:57 pm (UTC)I think I do anyway; if #2 isn't Nightswimming by REM I'll eat all of my hats.
And be sad, for it is my favourite REM song
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