Stolen from too many people to guess, at this point:
Here’s how the game works:
Step 1: Get your playlist together, put it on random, and play!
Step 2: Pick your favorite lines from the first 15 or so songs that play!
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song the lines come from! (Artist & title as best applicable)
Step 4: Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly!
P.S: no cheating and pasting the lyrics into a search engine.
This was a bit tough for me. I had to skip all the songs that came up that weren’t in English, mostly because I couldn’t figure out the lyrics well enough to type them in. And, obviously, the instrumental tracks were pretty useless for this too. There were a surprising number of both of those.
And now for the tough part for you all. With comments disabled, you’re going to have to e-mail me your guesses. Send ’em to quirkblog – at – gmail – dot – com
1
No sun no moon
No morn no noon
No dawn no dusk
No proper time of day
2
I can’t separate your fiction from fact
You’re lost, I know you’re trying to wind your way back
You’ve been talking as fast as you can
I’m not listening anymore
Now baby, you’re changing all the rules
You’re taking advantage of a fool
3 – She Taught Me To Yodel, Frank Ifield & the Backroom Boys
I went across to Switzerland where all the yodelers be
To try to learn to yodel with my yo-del-lay-de-hee…
I climbed a big high mountain on a clear and sunny day
And met a yodelin’ gal up in a little Swiss chalet…
4
I heard you on my wireless back in ’52.
Lying awake, intent on tuning in to to you.
If I was young it didn’t stop you comin’ through.
5
It is almost three years since Madge and Bobby Rawlinson pulled up roots and were arrested by the parks department. The Mandrake screamed. Jeremy Sphincter has sailed for Austrailia after the poultry scare. We won’t mention him again.
6 – Trouble Every Day, Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention
Well I’m about to get upset from watching my TV
And checking out the news until my eyeballs fail to see
People say that every day is just another rotten mess
And when it’s going to change, my friend is anybody’s guess.
7
It’s just gone noon, half past monsoon
On the banks of the river Nile.
Here comes the boat, only half afloat
Boatman grins a toothless smile.
8
Animals came from miles around,
Tired of walking so close to the ground
They needed a change, that’s what they said.
Life is better walking on two legs,
But they were in for a big surprise: they didn’t know the law.
9 – We Want a Rock, They Might be Giants
Throw the crib door wide, let the people crawl inside
Someone in this town is trying to burn the playhouse down.
10 – Cannon Song, Stan Ridgway
John was all present, and Jimmy was there
And Georgie was up for promotion.
Not that the Army gave a bugger who they were
When confronting some heathen commotion!
11
Lipstick gleam, hexachlorophine.
Cling-cling, the ring
“Clang Clang!” she sang
It’s tragic magic.
There are no coincidences.
But sometimes, the pattern is more obvious.
12
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way.
13
You ran out of lies!
You ran out of lies! Lies!
Stronger than reason, stronger than life,
The only truth I know is the look in your eyes.
14
Your life is leaning downhill
Sloping off the outer edge
Your undetermined oyster beds
Were found to be a hedge
15
I think you ought to recollect
You cannot show too much respect
Towards the highly titled few;
But nobody does, and why should you?
16 – Silk Pajamas, Thomas Dolby
Said it was driving her half insane
To live in a city with no underground train
She took her umbrella and her biscuit tin
And she wandered off into the smog
For a slurpy and a tofu dog, singing…
17
Woke up in my clothes again this morning
Don’t know exactly where I am.
I should heed my doctor’s warning.
He does the best with me he can.
18
Said there ain’t no use in crying. Cause it will only drive you mad
Does it hurt to hear them lying? Was this the only world you had?
So let me take you to the movie. Can I take you to the show?
Let me be yours ever truly. Can I make your garden grow?
19 – Once in a Lifetime, Talking Heads
Water dissolving, and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Under the water? Carry the water!
Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean!
20 – Cosmik Debris, Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention
Now is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?
Don’t you know, you could make more money as a butcher?
So don’t you waste your time on me.
Badmovie submits the first answers:
Although I may have some titles spelled wrong, here are my guesses (and yeah, I think I got all the easy ones):
#3 – Frank Ifield “She Taught Me To Yodel”
#6 – The Mothers of Invention “Trouble Comin’ Everyday”
#9 – They Might Be Giants “Everybody Wants a Rock”
#10 – Stan Ridgway “Cannon Song”
#16 – Thomas Dolby “Silk Pyjamas”
#19 – Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime”
#20 – Frank Zappa “Cosmic Debris”…and there are others that sound familiar (#5 from a Goon Show?), but which I cannot precisely place.
All present & correct. #5 is not a Goon Show though. I left out anything that was specifically a spoken word track (i.e. no books on tape, no radio plays, no skit comedy). This one was borderline, combining both spoken word and music, so I left it in.