Music Meme

[redfiona99]

Data crunching again. The rules are very similar to last time,

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. And the three folk tracks where this is almost impossible.)
Step 2: Post the first 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.

And as with last time, I originally pinched this from biorhythm.

1 - save me
i can't run this time
am i under a spell?
fighting for my life?

2 - He's not sure what he should do,
She's 17 he's 22,
Is that too much of a difference?

3 - The lights in all the cities have now gone
Restless hearts and minds are moving on
Baby, take the best escape for all
Dunno if I'm coming back for more

4 - You're living but you've got no soul
You captivate but you hold no weight at all
So watch as I start to smile

5 - [Title x 3]

Don't let me hear you say life's
taking you nowhere,
angel Golden Years by David Bowie, guessed by st_aurafina

6 - I come old friend from Hell tonight
Across the rotting sea
Nor the nails of the cross
Nor the blood of Christ
Can bring you help this eve

7 - Oh, you've got green eyes
Oh, you've got blue eyes
Oh, you've got grey eyes
And I've never seen anyone quite like you before
No, I've never met anyone quite like you before Temptation by New Order as guessed by lilacsigil

8 - I read the news today oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph A Day In The Life by the Beatles, as also guessed by lilacsigil.

9 - Said her name was Marie
From the banks of the Lee
With the prettiest eyes my own had ever seen
Her hair like ripples
They danced with the tide
As our hearts washed away to the sea

10 - Radio, live [title redacted]
Radio, live [title redacted]

Listen to the silence, let it ring on.
Eyes, dark grey lenses frightened of the sun.
We would have a fine time living in the night,
Left to blind destruction,
Waiting for our sight.

11 - Well, come on baby take a chance
and get your shit together

Well, come on baby take a risk
until it comes out right

12 - Well I believe there's someone watching over you
They're watching every single thing you say
And when you die they'll set you down and take you through
You'll realise one day that the grass is always greener on the other side

13 - I can get a record player, and a [title redacted]. Generate the music that makes you feel better.

(Although the lyrics are not what's good about this.)

14 - I met my love by the gas works wall
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
Kissed a girl by the factory wall

15 - Honey, It's been a long time coming
And I can't stop now
Such a long time running
And I can't stop now

16 - I’ve been rockin since the 1900s
a microphone and two 1200's
so back in the day we use to fuck with LSA
now we kick it with the liquid from Kingston J.A.

17 - She's the face on the radio
She's the body on the morning show
She's there shaking it out on the scene
And she's the colour of a magazine She's In Fashion by Suede. Guessed by pyroyale

18 - [Title Redacted]
She's in a family full of eccentrics
She done things I never expect She's Electric by Oasis. As guessed by lilacsigil.

19 - Last night as I lay dreamin'
Of pleasant days gone by
Me mind bein' bent on travelin'
To Ireland I did fly

20 - She calls out to the man on the street
"Sir, can you help me?
It's cold and I've nowhere to sleep,
Is there somewhere you can tell me?"

Comments

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

7 and 8 are two of my favourites! Temptation by New Order and A Day in the Life by the Beatles.

18 is She's Electric by Oasis.

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

Correct with all three. I also suspect you might be able to get 10.

[pyroyale.livejournal.com]

17 - Suede 'She's in Fashion'

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

Correct. My last.fm is disturbingly fond of them.

[st-aurafina.livejournal.com]

5: Golden Years, David Bowie.

I had to sing it over and over to get those first couple of lines though! - "Something, something, beep beep beep..."

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

Correct. One of the songs that I didn't put in was 'What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor' because that's impossible to redact the title from, and I was worried that this and number 10 would be too difficult to test because of the way the title redacted bit gives the rhythm.