clauclauclaudia: (coulton - wolves)
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Oh yes, another one of these....

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.

Step 2: Post the first line (unless the first line reveals the song title) from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like the game, post your own!


(ganked from [livejournal.com profile] miss_bowtruckle this time)

1. We're talking away, I don't know what I'm to say

2. Clearing webs from the hovel, a blistered hand on the handle of a shovel

3. Shall I shy down, that's boring, snoring [I predict this to be a toughie--actually, I think this came up the last time I did one of these memes]
I'd like to teach me to sing in perfect harmony

4. No man, no madness, though their sad power may prevail

5. When we wore a heart of stone we wandered to the sea

6. Couldn't ask for a better day, two by two

7. Dance dance, dance dance dance all right, dance dance dance, everybody dance! [okay, this was just a tease -- skipping ahead]
The mama pajama rolled out of bed and she ran to the police station


8. Come out, Virginia, don't let it wait

9. You want to lose your only friend? Well, keep it up, you're doing fine

10. Ahh, now I don't hardly know her

11. I'm John, Hinkley, you are, Stephen Sondheim on high

12. I remember the nights I watched as you lay sleeping
Your body gripped by some faraway dream

13. Oh yeah? That's what you think!

14. It's not often that time turns itself around

15. Hey, pal, feelin' blue?

16. (spoken) Gather round, handmaidens of sorrow! (sung) Sound the flute, blow the horn...

17. (dialogue skipped) Everyone's a little bit unsatisfied

18. Today I strike out on my own.
The dog is dead, the kids have grown.

19. Here I'm debating time, I'm waiting, chime the wake
Free fall the cannonball volcanic shatters on the lake

20. Benjamin, you nasty youth!

21. I peeked in to say goodnight
And I heard my child in prayer

22. Why are there so many songs about rainbows

23. Someone else's world goes by
As my train runs through this night

24. Andy would bicycle across town in the rain to bring you candy

25. Hands touch, eyes meet, sudden silence, sudden heat

26. Why is it that as we grow older and stronger, the road signs point us adrift and make us afraid

27. Love endures, it clings away
When asked to leave, it begs to stay
Like the perfect song in imperfect times
It's the way the chords struck with the rhymes

28. Even without our help, look at the way he won
Everyone sold him short! {Think they'll ask for a recount?}

29. Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical science in the home

30. Early in the evening, just about suppertime

Edit: 9:19 PM EST, 40% done, and two Sondheim songs still up for grabs? Shocked. Shocked, I tell you. (Three other showtunes too.)

And, uh, half the post was struck due to an html error. Better now.

Edit: 12:17 AM: of the 9 songs left, 6 are by three artists already identified for other songs.

Added more lines for the songs that are still mysteries.

Date: 2008-02-02 01:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miss-bowtruckle.livejournal.com
#8 Only the Good Die Young-- Billy Joel

#22 The Rainbow Connection--Kermit the Frog

#29 Maxwell's Silver Hammer--The Beatles

#30 Bad Moon Rising--CCR

Date: 2008-02-02 01:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miss-bowtruckle.livejournal.com
Or...duh...#30 Down on the Corner. ;)

Date: 2008-02-02 01:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dumble.livejournal.com
8. Only The Good Die Young, Billy Joel
10. Crimson and Clover, by um, someone...
17. For Now (I think?), Avenue Q
22. Rainbow Connection, Kermit the Frog
25. I'm Not That Girl, Wicked
30. Down On The Corner, Creedance Clearwater Revival (though, I have to admit, I had to look up the artist)

Date: 2008-02-02 01:53 am (UTC)
angelbabe_cj: Close up of red-haired woman (dr who - geek)
From: [personal profile] angelbabe_cj
17. For Now - Avenue Q
20. Benjamin's Calypso - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (I think it's that one)

I have a couple more I need to think about too.

Date: 2008-02-02 02:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] surrealestate.livejournal.com
20. Aw, the silly calypso part wasn't added until *way* later, though that line was still there. Just no calypso. I have the vinyl somewhere to prove it. :)

But to add something to the process:
2. Hammer and a Nail, IG

Date: 2008-02-02 02:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] surrealestate.livejournal.com
I'm having a hard time finding the historical info of when the various songs were added. The album I had pre-dated the Broadway opening and also had other significant differences. (I also have the original Broadway cast recording on CD.)

Date: 2008-02-02 01:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jadasc.livejournal.com
1. "Take on Me," a-ha.
9. "Nobody's Side," the Chess soundtrack.
10. "Crimson & Clover," Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (Could be Tommy James and the Shondells, but seems less likely.)
11. "Forbidden Assassins," Forbidden Broadway
30. "Down on the Corner," CCR

Date: 2008-02-02 02:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] firni.livejournal.com
I can't think, so here... have some bad 80s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

Date: 2008-02-02 02:17 am (UTC)
ceo: (Default)
From: [personal profile] ceo
2. Indigo Girls, "Hammer And A Nail"
5. Sarah McLachlan, 'Drawn To The Rhythm".
6. Carbon Leaf, "The Boxer".

Date: 2008-02-02 02:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiamat360.livejournal.com
Okay, Matt says that #2 is "Hammer and Nail," by the Indigo Girls.

Also, despite its strikethrough, I don't see the answer to #15. It's "Everybody's Got the Right," from Assassins.

I also feel like #16 is "Blow, Gabriel, Blow," from Anything Goes.

Date: 2008-02-02 02:26 am (UTC)
saxikath: (Default)
From: [personal profile] saxikath
#4 is "Anthem," from Chess.
#13 is "My New Philosophy," from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

There are a couple others I feel I should know, but am not coming up with.

Date: 2008-02-02 02:30 am (UTC)
saxikath: (Default)
From: [personal profile] saxikath
It's the bit right before "Nobody's Side," I think, but I don't remember what that's called.

Date: 2008-02-02 02:30 am (UTC)
ceo: (Default)
From: [personal profile] ceo
14. Patty Larkin, "I'm Fine"

Date: 2008-02-02 02:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wcg.livejournal.com
Not even going to try. Just dropping in to say "Howdy stranger! Long time no see!" Also, happy almost-birthday!

Date: 2008-02-02 02:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wcg.livejournal.com
Great! I hope it's a wonderful celebration for you.

Date: 2008-02-03 05:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wcg.livejournal.com
And now the day is upon us! Happy birthday!

Date: 2008-02-02 02:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whipartist.livejournal.com
#9 is You want to lose your only friend? from Chess. I think that's the title, at least.

Date: 2008-02-02 02:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whipartist.livejournal.com
http://www.amazon.com/Chess-1988-Original-Broadway-Cast/dp/B000002WBG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1201920530&sr=1-2

Track #7 is titled "You Want to Lose Your Only Friend?"

I claim that there is more than one right answer. :-)

Date: 2008-02-02 03:16 am (UTC)
saxikath: (Default)
From: [personal profile] saxikath
Is it just called "Argument"? (I haven't gone and looked it up. Yet. :) )

Date: 2008-02-02 03:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] filkertom.livejournal.com
#9 -- "The American and Florence" from Chess

Date: 2008-02-02 04:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] metagnat.livejournal.com
26. You're Aging Well - Dar Williams (love that song)

Date: 2008-02-02 04:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rmd.livejournal.com
16 is the funeral number from "a funny thing happened on the way to the forum" by sondheim.

24 is "i'm the luckiest guy (on the lower east side)" by magnetic fields.

Date: 2008-02-02 06:35 am (UTC)
dr_whom: (Default)
From: [personal profile] dr_whom
I don't know any of the remaining ones, but I suspect (12) is from Miss Saigon.

Date: 2008-02-02 02:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cassandrasimplx.livejournal.com
1: Icon love! May I?

2: Driven mad by the familiarity of 28, I Googled for it and discovered that your journal is open to search engines; you can fix that if it's not what you want (second entry under "Additional Privacy options").



Date: 2008-02-02 07:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lowellboyslash.livejournal.com
Oooh, I really want #12 to be from Miss Saigon, and it really isn't. Bugger! FAIL.

Date: 2008-02-03 01:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iamlisabee.livejournal.com
#7 Me and Julio down by the school yard - simon (and garfunkel)?

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