The answers to Round 2 of the "20 Lyrics for 20 Tunes" meme.....

[poltr1]

21. They're so light and fluffy brown; they're the finest in the town
Frank Zappa, "St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast"
22. I told her that she's much too young to keep me satisfied
Styx, "Jennifer"
23. Just what you need to make you feel better
The Alan Parsons Project, "(The System Of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether"
24. On a cold and rainy night when Mr. Miller had a rare flight
The Manhattan Transfer, "Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone"
25. Let the maps of war be drawn
Emerson Lake & Palmer, "Karn Evil 9 (Third Impression)"
26. I've had enough of your pretty, pretty speeches
Marillion, "Grendel"
27. Watch what you'll say, they'll be calling you a radical
Supertramp, "The Logical Song"
28. We've gotta move those refrigerators
Dire Straits, "Money For Nothing"
29. Ten true summers we'll be there and laughing too
Yes, "Roundabout"
30. Who's gonna plug your ears when you scream
The Cars, "Drive"
31. They say the fittest shall survive, yet the unfit may live
Devo, "Wiggly World"
32. Life was easy when it was boring
The Police, "Darkness"
33. Gazing out the window of the 42nd floor
Kansas, "Closet Chronicles"
34. They started to fight when the money got tight
Billy Joel, "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant"
35. All the world is biscuit-shaped
XTC, "Senses Working Overtime"
36. She poses for consumer products now and then
Kraftwerk, "The Model"
37. So many men no one needs
Peter Gabriel w/Kate Bush, "Don't Give Up"
38. There's Winston Churchill dressed in drag
Genesis, "Willow Farm" (from the suite "Supper's Ready")
39. Lonely man cries out for love and has none
The Moody Blues, "Nights In White Satin"
40. He who made kittens put snakes in the grass
Jethro Tull, "Bungle In The Jungle"


Thanks for playing!

And now.....Round 3 (where I have to resort to either the CD lyrics or booklet to ensure that the lyrics are correct.). I think this will be the last round for a while.

41. It's just a silly phase I'm going through
42. In the village where I grew up, nothing seems the same
43. Watch the basket people walk around and mumble
44. Inside you the time moves and she don't fade
45. I'm sick of fighting, even though I know I should
46. Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land
47. Can't pretend it's not been lonely since you went away
48. The thief of Baghdad hides in Islington now
49. He walks across the perfect lawn
50. You can blow out a candle but you can't blow out a fire
51. No more can they keep us in / Listen, damn it, we will win
52. So when it's over, we're back to people
53. We thought that the world would freeze (This wasn't correct!)
54. Dance to the tune of economic decline
55. Desire is a sylph-figured creature that changes her mind
56. And Go-cart Mozart was checking out the weather chart
57. You took my body and played to win
58. Your kisses taste of acid; your looks beguile
59. What will be your last contribution?
60. Now I've lost everything / I give to you my soul

Comments

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

53. Problaby not "Stones" by Ben Wakeman, though there's a line almost exactly like that in that song.
56. "Blinded by the Light" by Bruce Springsteen (most well known version is by Manfred Mann's Earth Band)

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

#42 is "On the Border" by Al Stewart
#50 is "Biko" by Peter Gabriel (though you might be hearing Joan Baez, or the Flirtations) (interestingly enough, I heard this earlier today and fixed on the same line as the one I'd use in this game :-)
#56 is "Blinded by the Light" by Bruuuuuuce Springsteen (are you listening to the Manfred Mann version?)

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Geez, is #56 a gimme?

#41 Urgh..my brain wants to say "I'm Not In Love" but I can't for the life of me recall who did that one.

#49 "Map of the World" (part II, I think) by Jane Siberry. And now I've got the followup line in my head! "You mean the perfect, perfect, perfect lawn?"

#56 "Blinded by the Light" (original is Springsteen, but you may well be listening to Manfred Mann's much better version)

[maedbh7.livejournal.com]

50 is the only one I know, though I should know 53 as well. -H...

[poltr1]

Geez, is #56 a gimme?

It is for all you native Noo Yawkahs. :-)

I think I've heard Bruce's version once. Not as "cosmic" as the version that Manfred Mann's Earth Band did around 1976. Of course, the Manfred Mann version gets much more airplay than Bruce's version.

[poltr1]

50 is the only one I know, though I should know 53 as well. -H...


You did; better than I knew it. You had the correct line in your latest 20 songs meme.

(Damn wetware memory. Time to swap it out and get some newer, more reliable memory.)

[maedbh7.livejournal.com]

Bwah! That's so cool! I totally put it in mine because it's a cool song, not even realizing that you had put it here in yours :) That's awsome, even if we disagree on the precise lyrics. On all of mine, I cheated, and looked the lyrics up on line, going with the version supported by the most sites. This becomes important when using lyrics by people like Seal, for instance. :) -H...