Following Sara's Random Music Meme

April 30, 2008 - 10:00pm
Submitted by kirstin on April 30, 2008 - 10:00pm.

The Steps for the Meme:
Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.

Your steps:
Step 3a: Post your guesses in the comments.
Step 4: I’ll strike through bold them when someone gets them right
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING.

Here’s my 25…. Good Luck

1 Midnight, On the water. I saw the ocean’s daughter…. Can’t Get it Out of My Head – Fountains of Wayne (cover)
2 Rain falls, I fix my eyes Stinging Velvet – Neko Case
3 Ten Years ago, on a cold dark night Long Black Veil – Chieftains & Mick Jagger
4 How’s hope feeling today, tired and sick of this place Outro with Bees – Neko Case
5 Ever close your eyes, ever stop and listen? Wild Child – Enya
6 Well I guess it would be nice if I could touch your body Faith – Everlast (cover) I have ZERO idea why I have this MP3.
7 Lying beside you, here in the dark Open Arms – Journey
8 I see you on the street and you walk on by Open Your Heart – Madonna
9 Pretty soon we were taking it serious Delirious Love – Neil Diamond
10 Aaaah, now I don’t hardly know her, but I think I could love her Crimson and Clover – Tommy James & Shondells
11 When I was a little boy (when I was just a boy) Loves Me Like a Rock – Paul Simon
12 I’m Coming out of my cage and I’ve been doin’ just fine Mr. Brightside – The Killers
13 Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight Afternoon Delight – Starland Vocal Band
14 Sometimes you’re better off dead West End Girls – Pet Shop Boys
15 Put it on, And don’t say a word Blue Dress – Depeche Mode
16 This bed is on fire With passion and love Laid – James
17 I keep hearin’ you’re concerned about my happiness Flowers on the Wall – The Statler Brothers
18 No More Talk of Darkness, forget these wide-eyed fears All I Ask of You – Phantom of the Opera
19 We skipped a light fandango, Turned cartwheels ‘cross the floor. Whiter Shade of Pale – Procol Harum (the original version
20 Like a ghost don’t need a key Don’t Leave Home – Dido
21 Once in every show,There comes a song like this The Song That Goes Like This – Spamalot
22 When I see you alone, I see what’s in your mind. Baby Love Child – Pizzicato 5
23 I lied and told her I loved her, She didn’t care, But Anyway – Blues Traveler
24 Oh is this the way they say the future’s meant to feel? Sorted for E’s and Wizz – Pulp
25 I close my eyes when I get too sad Wonderful – Everclear

3 titles

May 1, 2008 - 12:00am
Leengreenbean (not verified)

4. Outro with Bees, Neko Case
7. Open Arms, REOBonStyxJourneySupply
19. A Whiter Shade of Pale, either Smokey Robinson or Annie Lennox

A few more

May 1, 2008 - 11:38am
Jonathan (not verified)

Oh, I missed the Neko Case one (Sorry Neko, don’t think less of me!). I did get the other ones Leengreenbean named. And also these:

6. Faith by George Michael (I’m embarrassed that was the first one I knew)
12. The Killers. Don’t know the song title though. It’s from the Hot Fuss CD. Do I get a half point for that?
16. Laid by James (great song, great album)
20. Don’t Leave Home by Dido (another great song)

Gee...

May 1, 2008 - 8:36pm
Sara Ziemendorf (not verified)

I knew George Michael/Faith (6) and Whiter Shade of Pale (19) but the others elude me.

Only three, I suck

May 1, 2008 - 11:11pm
murph (not verified)

1) ELO – Can’t get it out of my head
(please, please tell me your version was a cover grin)

7) Journey – Open Arms
14) Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls

ELO

May 1, 2008 - 11:24pm
kirstin

Actually, it was a cover. It was Fountains of Wayne which is a really decent cover. They also have a strangely good cover of …Baby One More Time.
Um, I have the ELO version of Can’t Get it Out of My head.
And the, um, original of baby one more time….

Hmmm....

May 2, 2008 - 8:42am
Leengreenbean (not verified)

#2 isn’t I Wish I Was the Moon, is it? It must not be one of the ones Little Bean fixated on. Hmmm. I’m going to have to go to my iPod now and figure it out…

Neko will be so disappointed

May 2, 2008 - 4:03pm
Jonathan (not verified)

#2 I’m going to be drummed out of the Neko Case Fanboy Club if I missed another one. It must be from the Blacklisted album, I don’t play that one much.

Some of the hints are helping though (must… resist… the urge… to Google…)

#10 Crimson and Clover by Tommy James and the Shondells #11 Loves me like a Rock by Paul Simon