Lyrics Meme, gakked from nostalgia_lj

[dlgood]

On your current playlist, hit shuffle and pick the first twenty songs on the list (no matter how cheesy or embarrassing), and write down a line of the song.

Try to avoid putting the song title in the line. Then have your friends comment and see if they know the songs!

Whoever gets them first and its correct I'll place the title & artist along with the persons name who guessed it. And no cheating searching the lyrics online! Screened to avoid hints.


1) Do you fake a smile when you dodge the blows?
2) Do you think I can afford to give you my love?
3) Drain the Lizard or take a chair (Anthrax - I'm the Man ludditerobot)
4) Every where I turn, seems like everything I see (Supremes - Reflections dherblay)
5) I can let you go, cause there's a lotta girls out there who won't say no
6) I make dough, but don't call me doughboy (Ice Cube - Check Yo Self ludditerobot)
7) I try to sleep, they're wide awake, they won't let me alone (Cheap Trick - Dream Police ludditerobot)
8) If this isn't love we're making, then I don't know what it is (Jack Wagner - All I Need anonymous_sibyl)
9) If you don't expect too much from me, You might not be let down (Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy ludditerobot)
10) It's a land unknown to man where fantasy is fact (Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of the Mind dherblay)
11) It's not the future that I can see, it's just my fantasy (Men at Work - Who Can it Be Now? ludditerobot)
12) Leave your number on the table by my databank. I love you but you got to go.
13) My heart's like an open book for the whole world to read (Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home ludditerobot)
14) So far I got this hatchback, and everywhere I go, yo I get's laughed at (Skee Lo - I Wish dherblay)
15) So I came to her college on a surprise visit, to see my girl that was so exquisite (Biz Markie - Just a Friend ludditerobot)
16) When I feel down, I want you above me.( Divinyls - I Touch Myself cleapet)
17) When your late night friends leave you in the cold gray dawn (Rolling Stones - Shine a Light dherblay)
18) You ain't got nothin better to do and I'm bored (Guns N Roses - It's So Easy ludditerobot)
19) You gave away the things you loved, and one of them was me (Carly Simon - You're So Vain ludditerobot)
20) You've won all my money and my brand new stetson hat. (LLoyd Price - Stagger Lee ludditerobot)

Still Remaining: 1, 2, 5, 12


And this week's Nip/Tuck had a line of dialogue I've been savoring all day:

Christian: "Sean, you're so moralistic that if Anne Frank were living in your attic, she wouldn't have gotten past 'Dear Diary'".

Comments

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

6) Ice Cube, "Check Yo Self"
7) Cheap Trick, "Dream Police"
9) Gin Blossoms, "Hey Jealousy"
11) Aldo Nova, "Fantasy"
13) Motley Crue, "Home Sweet Home"
15) Biz Markie, "Just A Friend"
18) Guns 'n' Roses, "It's So Easy"
19) I bet you think that song is about you. Carly Simon, "You're So Vain"
20) One of N+1 versions of Staggerlee, I would guess Nick Cave's but any would doo.

[cleapet.livejournal.com]

# 11 I know it, I'm singing that part of it in my head, wait for it...Loverboy? It's from that era, I know. Aldo Nova? Billy Squire?

# 16 The Divinyls, "I Touch Myself"

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

3) Anthrax, "I'm The Man"?

"I'm so bad I should be in detention!"

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

6, 7, 9, 12, 15, 18, 19 and 20 all correct. Though I was listening to the original (to the extent that it's based off an old blues song) Lloyd Price version from 1958.

#11. No.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

#11 - You have the decade right.
#16 Yes

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Yes

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah! Men At Work, "Who Can It Be Now?"

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

yup. This list is not as hard as yours

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

I totally should not have given you credit since you don't know Lloyd Price. he rocks.

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that. I'm sorry for bogarting half of it.

Thing is, I wasn't trying to go obscure. I have some straight-up pop on my current playlist.

[cleapet.livejournal.com]

Huh. I think I was thinking the same thing as ludditerobot for # 11 and I'm still singing that lyric in my head. Is it possible it's the same lyric in both songs? Weird.

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

Re Lloyd Price: Of course he rocks. Just, I associate that song with Mississippi John Hurt, and later with Nick Cave's album of murder ballads, not the "doin' the shag" anthem. I heard that 100 times before I knew what it was about.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

#13, by the way, is one of the worst lyrics ever, and among my favorite to mock.

[anonymous_sibyl]

8) If this isn't love we're making, then I don't know what it is
I don't want to guess because knowledge of the song I think this is makes me worry for you and for me. All I Need, Jack Wagner.

13) My heart's like an open book for the whole world to read
Home Sweet Home, Motley Crue

16) When I feel down, I want you above me.
I Touch Myself, The DiVinyls

19) You gave away the things you loved, and one of them was me
You're So Vain, Carly Simon

We are knowlege whores...

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

I don't want to guess because knowledge of the song I think this is makes me worry for you and for me. All I Need, Jack Wagner.

I'm not ashamed of knowing that song. Jack Wagner comes up in quizbowl all the time, because he played golf at ASU and almost made the PGA Tour.

[theantijoss.livejournal.com]

HEE HEE! Dude... has Christian met his match or WHAT? I'm still amused an hour later.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

We always think that, and we are almost always surprised. He's got more levels.

[theantijoss.livejournal.com]

Hm. It's true, I think Christian is more of a pro than Eva, AND it's now his SON at stake, but...

She'll give him more trouble than the usual of his chippies before they're done.

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

I'm sure others will get these as I scroll around my MP3 player trying to dislodge a few more fragments of memory. 10 is "Journey To The Center Of Your Mind" by the Asbury Dukes. Number 17 is, I think, off of Exile On Main Street -- there it is, "Shine A Light." (Great, it had to be the seventeenth track on an eighteen-track album.) I'll take a flier on fourteen: Skee-Lo's "I Wish I Was A Little Bit Taller." Number four is driving me crazy . . . not the Supremes . . . Martha & the Vandellas . . . "Nowhere To Run"! No, that's "Everywhere I go, your face I see." Damn! It's not Chris Clark's "Love's Gone Bad," either. Is it the Supremes? "Reflections"? Yes! Holland-Dozier-Holland really abused that sentence structure.

Re: We are knowlege whores...

[anonymous_sibyl]

Knowledge whore. I like that. It's way better than saying, "well, I used to watch General Hospital" which then leads to the revelation that I may possibly still know all the words to the General Hospital rap.

Rock it hard, rock it steady, pick yourself up and get yourself ready, raise your hands, I wanna hear you yell, we're gonna rap about General Hospital. *cough*

Re: We are knowlege whores...

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

As noted, I used to play the competetive quizbowl. We have our own lexicon and "knowledge whore" is definitely one of the terms. (I.e., people who have no shame over what they know, when they can win a contest)

But I don't know the GH rap. OTOH, I still distinctly remember SNL's "We Are the Kickers" parody of that "Superbowl Shuffle" football team rap knowck-off craze. (We are the Rams, We are the Oilers, etc.. was awful)

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

And the not-rhyme between that and "Sometimes nothin' keeps me together at the seams"? Also bad.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

And the not-rhyme between that and "Sometimes nothin' keeps me together at the seams"?

I very much meant the line and it's follow up. And Vince Neil's oh-so-earnest delivery. I actually still kind of enjoy the early Crue records. This song is pretty representative of the cheesy Power Ballad, isn't it?

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

Beyond individual songs that made frat parties 1988-1992, my appreciation of the Crue ended with Theatre of Pain. I liked "Smokin' in the Boys Room", but there wasn't much else of worth on that album. Shout At The Devil had some strong material.

And yeah, that song is the one that inspired a thousand bands to start putting those songs into their act. Watching MTV, I get the idea that it isn't because they liked 'em but rather because the girls did, improving their choice of girls for backstage, which is somewhat Darwinistic, I suppose.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

As luddite eventually noticed, that lyric is the bridge of the Men at Work song "Who Can it Be Now?"

Is it the man come to take me away?
Why must they follow me?
It's not the future that I can see.
It's just my fantasy.
(saxaphone solo)

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Agree w/respect to Crue, though I had to work backwards through the catalogue from Dr. Feelgood what with being seven when Shout at the Devil came out.

I get the idea that it isn't because they liked 'em but rather because the girls did

Pretty much. It became pretty obligatory in the late 80s. Sometimes you got a "Don't Close Your Eyes", where the ballad was actually supposed to be all meaningful, but for the most part it was "the song we have to do so we can have our video, make our money, and get the action".

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

#4 - Yeah. That's a hard song to pick a lyric from - I did because it follows into a choruse - "Every where I turn, seems like everything I see reflects a hurt I can't control"

#10 - That's Amboy Dukes, not Asbury, but I'll give you a close enough.

#14 - Correct. (It's just "I Wish")

#17 - The meme was - first 20 songs, and that's one of them. Quite the challenge as a non-single off a 30-year old double album. And a hard song to pick lyrics from, too.

[cleapet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. I meant I thought it was weird that both songs had the same words, but what I found out was that in my head I was singing "It's not the future that I can see, It's just my fantasy" to the tune of Aldo Nova's stanza "Life is just a fantasy, can you live this fantasy life". The first set of lyrics matches the second song perfectly and they got twisted in my head. And apparently, luddite's too, at first.

Sinus infections hamper my ability to communicate, more so than usual.