This week's meme: Name That Tune From The First Line.....

[poltr1]

From numerous people on my LJ-friends list.....

Step 1: Put your Media player on random.
Step 2: Post the first line(s) of the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
I'm gonna play this my way. Most of the stuff I've ripped are instrumentals. So instead, I'm gonna go through my collection and select 20 songs for you.
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: NO CHEATING (that goes for the guesser, too!)
Oh yeah. To make it a little harder, I'm screening all replies for the first 72 hours. Nyah.


1) Said the straight man to the late man, "Where have you been?" redaxe
2) Standing tough under stars and stripes we can tell
3) It's nine o'clock on a Saturday athenawindsong and erinwrites
4) The rain auditions at my window redaxe
5) I still dream of Organon trektone
6) Flew in from London, only to shop Seventh Avenue
7) Then the rainstorm came over me
8) Hello again, it's me, your shoulder's where I sit
9) Why are you doing this to me?
10) I know something about opening windows and doors redaxe
11) How can you see into my eyes like open doors tollers
12) The insect-headed worker-wife will hang her waspies on the line
13) Pays the price, works the seasons through redaxe
14) I was fourteen, she was twelve peteralway
15) My love and I, we work well together, but often we're apart
16) So you think you're schooling's phoney
17) Agents of the law, luckless pedestrian
18) Don't think sorry's easily said
19) Walking across the sitting room, I turn the television off redaxe
20) High vibration go on, to the sun, oh let my heart dreaming

Comments

[athenawindsong.livejournal.com]

#3 - Piano Man, Billy Joel

The rest is beyond me.

[erinwrites.livejournal.com]

So the only one I've got is #3...Billy Joel, Piano Man

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Here are the easy ones (with the albums they're from, to make it a bit more difficult):

(1) "I Talk to the Wind", King Crimson (from In the Court of the Crimson King)
(2) "The Web", Marillion (from Script for a Jester's Tear)
(10) "Intruder", Peter Gabriel (from Peter Gabriel III (Melt))
(13) "Mother Russia", Renaissance (from Turn of the Cards)
(19) "Supper's Ready", Genesis (from Foxtrot)

5 right!

[poltr1]

Spot on, my friend. Except that #2 wasn't what you said. It was #4. I guess that's what you meant to say.

Re: 5 right!

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Yep. I can't count, clearly. Of course, I omitted to note that it was conceivable that the albums were inaccurate, in the event that you were listening to the (official) live versions :-)

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

Yow, those are tough. Only a few seem even vaguely familiar. Only one I'm sure of, and it's already been guessed (#3, Piano Man, Billy Joel).

[trektone.livejournal.com]

#5 - Cloudbusting, Kate Bush

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

#14 - Europa, Thomas Dolby. The only other one I could get was #3, Piano Man, though I always confuse myself by hearing the words in my head "It's Friday Night on a Saturday."

[poltr1]

You are so close. But not quite right.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's right. THe title was something about the pirate twins. I can't check because my ex got the CD. So I will just have to hang at the verge of "so close" for eternity.

[poltr1]

I'm gonna give this one to you. The correct title is "Europa And The Pirate Twins".

[tollermom]

11... Evanescence... "Bring Me To Life"