Random songlist meme

[kiya]

To play this game one puts one's music-generator on random and picks a lyric from the first twenty things that come up. (Possibly jiggering the thing if it's duplicating artists too much.)

Then one posts those twenty things and sees how many people can guess them, stripped devoid of their contexts and possibly specifically chosen to be difficult to figure out, because one is a bit of a sadist.



1. A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
2. Close your mind to stress and pain.
3. Back at ground control, there is a problem.
4. Another prop which occupied my time.
5. You're a damned kind, can't you see that the winds will change.
6. I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
7. Another jet black night, another drink to go.
8. It means so much to me, like a birthday or a pretty view.
9. In wildness is the preservation of the world.
10. Life is demanding without understanding.
11. We can move with savage grace to the rhythms of the night.
12. And I am the dream forgotten in the morning, and I am, I am . . .
13. Runnin' with the devil, shouldn't gamble with your soul.
14. Because tonight I'm finding it hard to be your man.
15. The curtains are closed, the cat's in the cradle.
16. Every moment I'd die just to look in your eyes.
17. Help me make the most of freedom and of pleasure.
18. Through all the tumult and the strife I hear its music ringing.
19. Too late to turn around when the love goes down.
20. I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream.

If I'd been allowing duplicated artists, this list would have produced:

a. Hello, I'm sorry, I lost myself.
b. an instrumental containing a version of that well known Beethoven's Ninth theme
c. A time for peace, I swear it's not too late.
d. I'm on my own again with a Saturday in the rain.

I also scratched an instrumental from a .hack//SIGN soundtrack.

Rereading this, I know I couldn't get 'em all . . .

Comments

[boojum.livejournal.com]

1. The Boxer, by Simon and Garfunkel. I heard this while sitting on the roof a few hours ago.
4 This One Goes Out to the One I Love. I don't remember who it's by, but I should.
10. The Sign, by Ace of Bass
17. Everybody Wants to Rule the World, by Tears for Fears

I have the feeling I should know what 14 is. Argh.

[kiya]

"The One I Love" is REM, patron saint of baffling lyrics.

I wouldn't be surprised if 14 got radio play a few years ago on the current-pop stations.

[boojum.livejournal.com]

REM! That makes much sense. (I heard it several times from a classmate I had a crush on, so it's much more strongly linked with him and the general emotional foo of the crush than it is with anything else.)

If 14 was vaguely recent pop, I've probably got it stored somewhere. It'll get stuck in my mind two months from now when I've forgotten why I ever wanted to know. Silly brain organization.

[lysana.livejournal.com]

3) Major Tom - Peter Schilling
4) This One Goes Out To the One I Love - REM
7) Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds
8) Rio - Duran Duran

a) is also REM, but the title's escaping me.
c) Turn, Turn, Turn - The Byrds

[kiya]

"Pop Song 89". It's a particularly uninformative title, even for REM.

[rainfallsautumn.livejournal.com]

Since others have already called the others that I know...

15. "I Just Died in Your Arms" Cutting Crew (I'll always remember this one, because it earned the best music review line I ever saw-- "the Outfield, after being force-fed "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway." But then, I'm an old-Genesis fanatic, so...)

[kiya]

*grin* Which other ones did you know?

Me, I much, much prefer "One for the Mockingbird". Stupid one-hit wonders not releasing their really good songs!

[rainfallsautumn.livejournal.com]

3, 4, 6, 8, and 17.

I've never heard any of their other stuff, I just had that song on 45.

I'd love to do this meme sometime, but I don't really have a music-generator-- I have very few things on mp3, lots of CDs, and about 200 cassettes. I suppose I could always cheat, close my eyes and grab things. ;)

[kiya]

Goodness, six. You're winning on points.

"One for the Mockingbird" is a really good illegitimis non carborundum song. ;)

[elisem.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much what I did.

[brooksmoses]

Yeah, the "close my eyes and grab things" was about what I was thinking of, except that with my collection I'd want to do it with my eyes open so's to ensure that I at least get things I've heard of. (I have a lot of Goodwill-store LPs that I got because they looked interesting, some of which I'm not sure I've gotten around to listening to yet....)

[maedbh7.livejournal.com]

I pulled every 13th CD, and picked the song I liked best (and thought anyone else might ever have heard) and ran with those. -H...

[rainfallsautumn.livejournal.com]

Oh, my gosh... posting again just to comment on your current music, which is one of my all-time favorite songs-- and one I haven't heard in a long, long time. That's an earworm I actually don't mind being given!

[elisem.livejournal.com]

1. A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Simon and Garfunkel, "The Boxer"

3. Back at ground control, there is a problem.
Not Bowie and "Ground Control to Major Tom," but it sure makes me think of it. Ah, well, it's a familiar earworm. And it's wearing glitter, which is always nice. And those boots.

6. I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Good Ghod. It's "Mr. Tambourine Man," and now I want my Bowie earworm back, thank you very much. I can't remember which version of Tambourine Man I heard last; probably the most frightening one of all, though.

18. Through all the tumult and the strife I hear its music ringing.
"How Can I Keep From Singing?" which I think I first heard from a bunch of Quakers.

I also scratched an instrumental from a .hack//SIGN soundtrack.
I don't even know what that is. Hopeless.


*rereads*
*blinks*
*rereads that last comment*

Oh my god, I'm turning into jimbat.

[kiya]

Not Bowie and "Ground Control to Major Tom," but it sure makes me think of it.

Peter Schilling's "Major Tom", which is a tribute to / riff off of Bowie's "Space Oddity". So your thinker is thunking in the right line. ;)

.hack//SIGN is a Deeply Weird Anime. Colloquially referred to amongst my people as "Incomprehensible But With A Really Good Soundtrack."

I'm sure that if we catch jimbattery early it's curable.

[autumnesquirrel.livejournal.com]

I have a CD by the lady who does the music. Or some of it anyway. She did music for Noir too. Will you be about tonight?

[kiya]

Mmmph. Probably.

[kiya]

brooksmoses complains that he's trying to extract an earworm of "Oh my god, I'm turning into jimbat" done as Gregorian chant.

I thought you might like to know.

(Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been.)

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yes, thank you, I did want to know. Now I want to hear it done that way.

[rosefox]

Ah, but have you heard "You Can't Keep Me From Singing"? *)

[linenoise.livejournal.com]

Upon first read through, I got one. The Simon and Garfunkel, though it took me far too long to place it.

This meme drives me batty, because my brain just doesn't work in that direction. I swear my brain runs on bogo-sort. The *oddest* things pop up all the time, but when I actually *want* to find something it runs away from me.

Am tempted now to post same meme on my own journal though, to inflict battiness on others.

[brooksmoses]

Yes, exactly. To all of it, including wanting to inflict it on others and why. (If I could place my record collection on random and used that as the source, though ... well, God help us all.)

[linenoise.livejournal.com]

You have reminded me that I still have not managed to devise a method of digitizing my mother's old vinyl. She has an impressive mass of vinyl. But you have also reminded me that such a project is *vastly* more likely to succeed this summer, with the upgrades being done to the parental sound system. (Father wants Home Theater (TM))

The thought of spending hours .mp3'ing her vinyl fills me with glee. I shall need to perhaps buy another hard drive. Oh yes, we shall have a good time this summer.

[the preceeding has been brought to you by Bogo-Sort Thinking (TM pending)]

[maedbh7.livejournal.com]

Know artist and title: #8
Should know, but don't: #1

-H...