Here’s something fun. Put iTunes on "Party Shuffle," click "Refresh" and write out the first lyric line from the first 25 songs on the list (I skipped instrumental songs, and songs that nobody would recognize).
Now, you get to play: without using the Internet, see if you can tell me the song name and artist for any of these tunes… again, no cheating, just tell me what you recognize.
- You bite through the big wall, the big wall bites back, You just sit there and sulk, sit there and bawl
- Put on your coat when it’s bitter and cold, and step forth into this good night
- I’ve been dragging around the end of your coat for two weeks
- Falling out of touch with all my friends are somewhere getting wasted
- Don’t bring me bad news, no bad news, I don’t need none of your bad news today
- Say goodbye to the old street that never cared much for you anyway
- We took a walk that night, but it wasn’t the same
- Back to you, it always comes around back to you
- I had a friend named Ramblin’ Bob, who used to steal, gamble, and rob
- Strings of lights above the bed, curtains drawn and a glass of red
- It’s in our nature, it’s in our nature, it’s in our nature, put down your sword
- I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known
- I’m ready, I’m ready for the laughing gas, I’m ready, I’m ready for what’s next
- You are the sunshine of my life, that’s why I’ll always be around
- In matching blue raincoats, our shoes were our show boats
- I want to trip inside your head, spend a day there
- Velvet sounds you make, sleeping symphony as I would lie awake
- I’m so tired of these mortal men with their hands on their wallets and their hearts full of sin
- On a tear, under siege, under oath, Anna Lee
- Faith, you’re driving me away, you do it every day
- When there weren’t any parties, she’d park by the quarry
- I call ye cabin neighbors / I call you once my friends
- Doing everything by halves / you got a real flair with excuses
- I like the peace in the backseat / I don’t have to drive, I don’t have to speak
- Serenade me with rocks, love / no lullabies through the locks, love
Which ones do you know?
This is driving me mad, but I love it – nice to be doing someone else’s crazy lyric challenges for a change.
Only one (and a half) so far:
20: Radiohead My Iron Lung
13: I know who, but can’t quite get to the song…age is my enemy, Google is my friend…must…resist!
Nice coat/cold/street themes too.
Yeah I found the themes interesting – the two “coat” lyrics in a row, etc. There’s also two songs in a row from the same artist (#5, #6)!
That’s pretty fun. All I know is 5 and 6: Patty Griffin, a favorite!
I can do 12 and 13 with another day to think about it. And I think I know the title of 14 🙂
Well 13 and 16 are easy for me, being a U2 fan. 13) U2’s Zoo Station and 16) U2’s Miracle Drug, one of my favorite songs from their latest album. I also knew Radiohead’s My Iron Lung was number 20, as mentioned above. But that’s all I got! However, I have the feeling that I’ll kick myself when a few others are revealed…
Good guessing everyone! Time for the answerkey:
1. “Sulk” – Radiohead
2. “Galaxy” – Vigilantes of Love
3. “Brainy” – The National
4. “Green Gloves” – The National
5. “No Bad News” – Patty Griffin
6. “Useless Desires” – Patty Griffin (hello shuffle? Two in a row in a row?)
7. “Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine” – The Killers
8. “Back To You” – John Mayer (embarrassing!)
9. “In the Jailhouse Now” – Soggy Bottom Boys
10. “All I Ever Get For Christmas Is Blue” – Over the Rhine
11. “In Our Nature” – Jose Gonzalez
12. “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” – Green Day
13. “Zoo Station” – U2 (congrats Jeff)
14. “You Are The Sunshine Of My Life” – Stevie Wonder
15. “On The Bus Mall” – Decemberists
16. “Miracle Drug” – U2 (Jeff again)
17. “Velvet Sounds” – Holly Williams
18. “Savior on Capitol Hill” – Derek Webb (a hilarious song)
19. “Star Bodies” – New Pornographers
20. “My Iron Lung” – Radiohead (congrats the_exile)
21. “One For the Cutters” – The Hold Steady (new favorite band)
22. “The Avalance” – Sufjan Stevens
23. “Loose Ends” – Imogen Heap
24. “In The Backseat” – Arcade Fire
25. “Rumors” – Josh Ritter
We’ll have to play again sometime – fun!