Music Meme

[redfiona99]

Guess who's stuck in work for the next few hours.

Rules:
Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random. (I'm having to use lastfm so some of them might be more than a smidge obscure. I've also skipped the instrumentals. And the tracks in Gaelic.)
Step 2: Post a favorite line from the first 20 songs that play
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Webcheating is frowned upon.

1 - Your imperfections make you what you are
My defective star
My inelegant love

2 - Second Verse, Second verse
Already lost for words
Not complicated i'm just so frustrated

3 - I'd whisk off the girl
with the white jeans
for a singles night's bliss

4 - Let the clocks be reset
And the pendulums held

5 - They'd like to wed me everywan
Just let them catch me if they can
You cannae tak’ the breeks aff a Hielan’ man
And I don't wear the troosers Donald, Where's Your Troosers as guessed by lilacsigil. Andy Stewart's version by preference.

6 - I'm in a [title redacted]
I'm staring
There's something quite bizarre I cannot see Wide Open Space by Mansun, guessed by pyroyale. I couldn't track the video down, but have them performing it on Later with Jools Holland

7 - Beauty is on the matress
Left in the patterns from her skin

8 - Well wouldn’t it be nice to be Dorian Gray?
Just for a day

9 - And so he gave up
On his black belt and first dan
As near as he got to China
Was a week in Camber sands

10 - as a real life person he wasn’t much fun
but he sure made a good ass bottle of rum

11 - Her eyes they shone like diamonds
I thought her the queen of the land Black Velvet Band as guessed by lilacsigil. The Dubliners version, of course ;)

12 - Your crappy weekend is your only escape
I want to wake up in the afternoon
With daytime tv and my favourite tune

13 - Now, through the town we rode together
My black eye and her red hair
Smiling gaily at the tinkers
And by God, we were a handsome pair Red Haired Mary, as mostly guessed by lilacsigil. The Clancy Brother's version.

14 - Our strongest weaknesses were lies
In these towering spires

(Although, given the time of year, I was tempted by - Do you hear?
I'm cutting down my christmas list this year)

15 - Again today, a thought to pass the time
To occupy my mind, while I'm waiting for her

(The lyrics are not the best thing about this song. The bassline is.)

16 - Life is short but love is strong
There lies a hope that I have found

17 - I know the night has reached that stage again,
Were I never wanna see my home.

18 - If I were a clerk
And I could write a good hand
I would write to my true love
So that she'd understand

19 - All the roses in the garden
They bow and ask for pardon
For not one could match the beauty
Of [title redacted]. Also guessed by lilacsigil, the Queen of Argyll, the Silly Wizard version With an assist from st_aurafina :)

20 - Someday you might find your hero
Some say you might lose your mind

Comments

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

11. Black Velvet Band
19. Queen of Argyll

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

Correct with both. You might also know 5 and 13.

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

Oh, of course! #5 was my grandmother's second favourite song (after the Village People's "Macho Man") "Donald, Where's Your Troosers?"

I can sing #13 to myself but I cannot think of the title. Red-Haired Somebody? Mary? Sarah? Annie?

[st-aurafina.livejournal.com]

Excuse me, I want a point for Queen of Argyll because it was me that put it on our communal playlist.

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

It has been duly noted :)

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

Correct with number 5. Your grandmother's mix-list sounds interesting.

The red haired lassie is Mary in this case, but I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if she had other names. A NZ colleague had entirely different names for various songs so I suspect they've done the folk thing and mutated over time.

[pyroyale.livejournal.com]

#6 is Wide Open Space by Mansun.

I haven't heard that song in years. I need to go see now if YouTube has the video...

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

Correct. I thought you'd be the one that would catch that :)

[st-aurafina.livejournal.com]

I can't guess any of these! I would have guess Queen of Argyll if someone hadn't gazumped me on it.