Stupid memes
Dec. 10th, 2004 11:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tahnanYeah, OK, favorite lines from 25 essentially random songs in my collection, why not.
1. And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China (jadelennox)
2. It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine (lsl, and cnoocy moments later)
3. Rest your head; you worry too much (jadelennox)
4. Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast
5. Let that doggy of your mind go foul the footpath of your soul
6. That a heart falls tinkling down, / Never think it ceases. / Every likely lad in town / Gathers up the pieces. (silkblade)
7. I forget to pray for the angels, and then the angels forget to pray for us. (temvald)
8. He says, "They remind of my friends from high school--they're all so spineless" (temvald)
9. Took her home, I nearly made it, sitting on the sofa with a sister or two (cyrano)
10. Sad and grumpy, down in the dumpy, snuggly, hugly, mean and ugly, sloppy, slappy, hoppy, happy: change and change and change (jadelennox, for the source; mineravish, for the title; anyone for the artist?)
11. Hair is grey and the fires are burning; so many dreams on the shelf. You say "I wanted you to be proud of me"; I always wanted that myself. (srl)
12. Well there's a dark and a troubled side of life (srl)
13. Got my eyes wide open and I see the signs (temvald) [editor's note: actually, my favorite lyric from the song is really just "BAY-bee!", but it seemed so unfair to only use the one word]
14. So all alone I keep the wolves at bay (cyranocyrano)
15. You lie there, an innocent baby; I feel like the thief who is raiding your home (srl)
16. I'm like a dog without a song, I'm like a singer without a bone
17. Dance and dance, still dancing as he goes off to sleep (tablesaw, who probably knows the artist too)
18. She's about five feet four from her head to the ground (temvald)
19. Most of your generals wouldn't be recognized by their own mothers! (minervaish, for the source--anyone for the exact title?)
20. No more will you be without your family (temvald)
21. A spirit born of earth and water, fire flying from your hands (cnoocy)
22. Melted him, lead and bones and all (temvald)
23. When he spotted a billboard for Denny's: bacon and eggs for half price! (canadianpuzzler; and I didn't think anyone would know it)
24. Pleading with your eyes, gonna make you some peace some day (lemurtanis)
25. What would you think if I sang out of tune? (jadelennox and srl, nigh-simultaneously)
Bonus: the first song that came up has, as I suppose my favorite lyric, "I wrote this song play". Kudos to anyone who can come up with it, but I'm not including it in the set of 25. (I also had to skip another song by the same artist. And a few other songs here and there when they were songs I didn't really know, they just kind of made their way into my MP3 mix.)
1. And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China (jadelennox)
2. It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine (lsl, and cnoocy moments later)
3. Rest your head; you worry too much (jadelennox)
4. Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast
5. Let that doggy of your mind go foul the footpath of your soul
6. That a heart falls tinkling down, / Never think it ceases. / Every likely lad in town / Gathers up the pieces. (silkblade)
7. I forget to pray for the angels, and then the angels forget to pray for us. (temvald)
8. He says, "They remind of my friends from high school--they're all so spineless" (temvald)
9. Took her home, I nearly made it, sitting on the sofa with a sister or two (cyrano)
10. Sad and grumpy, down in the dumpy, snuggly, hugly, mean and ugly, sloppy, slappy, hoppy, happy: change and change and change (jadelennox, for the source; mineravish, for the title; anyone for the artist?)
11. Hair is grey and the fires are burning; so many dreams on the shelf. You say "I wanted you to be proud of me"; I always wanted that myself. (srl)
12. Well there's a dark and a troubled side of life (srl)
13. Got my eyes wide open and I see the signs (temvald) [editor's note: actually, my favorite lyric from the song is really just "BAY-bee!", but it seemed so unfair to only use the one word]
14. So all alone I keep the wolves at bay (cyranocyrano)
15. You lie there, an innocent baby; I feel like the thief who is raiding your home (srl)
16. I'm like a dog without a song, I'm like a singer without a bone
17. Dance and dance, still dancing as he goes off to sleep (tablesaw, who probably knows the artist too)
18. She's about five feet four from her head to the ground (temvald)
19. Most of your generals wouldn't be recognized by their own mothers! (minervaish, for the source--anyone for the exact title?)
20. No more will you be without your family (temvald)
21. A spirit born of earth and water, fire flying from your hands (cnoocy)
22. Melted him, lead and bones and all (temvald)
23. When he spotted a billboard for Denny's: bacon and eggs for half price! (canadianpuzzler; and I didn't think anyone would know it)
24. Pleading with your eyes, gonna make you some peace some day (lemurtanis)
25. What would you think if I sang out of tune? (jadelennox and srl, nigh-simultaneously)
Bonus: the first song that came up has, as I suppose my favorite lyric, "I wrote this song play". Kudos to anyone who can come up with it, but I'm not including it in the set of 25. (I also had to skip another song by the same artist. And a few other songs here and there when they were songs I didn't really know, they just kind of made their way into my MP3 mix.)
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Date: 2004-12-10 09:47 pm (UTC)3. Don't give up, Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel
10. um. um! I can sing it. It's from free to be you and me. um...
25. Little help from my friends, Beatles
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Date: 2004-12-10 10:14 pm (UTC)(For the record, I did know "It all comes out of your hands"; I just didn't realize that was the lyric. I'd always carelessly heard it as a repeat of the line before it.)
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Date: 2004-12-10 09:48 pm (UTC)12: "Keep on the Sunny Side of Life", recorded by a bunch of different people
25: Beatles, "with a little help from my friends" (or whatever the formal title is
and I know that the answer to 3 is right on the tip of my brain. augh.
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Date: 2004-12-10 10:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-10 10:37 pm (UTC)also, 11: Tori Amos, "Winter"
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Date: 2004-12-10 10:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-10 11:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-12 02:16 pm (UTC)bonus
Date: 2004-12-10 10:02 pm (UTC)bzzzzzt!
Re: bonus
Date: 2004-12-10 10:14 pm (UTC)7. so long marianne, leonard cohen
8. james, nields
13. they don't know, tracey ullman
18. gloria, van morrison
20. keys to the kingdom, nields
22 isn't the man who was boiled in lead by boiled in lead, is it?
and i _know_ 11...
Re: bonus
Date: 2004-12-10 10:21 pm (UTC)And yes, I think you do know 11. I don't know that it's near the top of your playlist, but I suspect you've heard it, anyway, and probably own it.
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Date: 2004-12-10 10:50 pm (UTC)19. The "I must now be Vice-President" section of the second act of Evita. ("For the rest of the world/I am Argentina")
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Date: 2004-12-11 12:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-12-11 01:25 am (UTC)Other people got all the other ones I recognized.
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Date: 2004-12-11 01:43 am (UTC)24: "We Will Rock You", Queen.
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Date: 2004-12-11 05:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-11 05:37 am (UTC)#21: "The One" by Elton John (I think)
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Date: 2004-12-11 08:03 am (UTC)23 is "His Cheeseburger", as sung by "Mr. Lunt" in the "Love Songs With Mr. Lunt" segment that took the place of "Silly Songs with Larry" in the Veggietales video "Madame Blueberry".
Fun fun song. One of my favorites.
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