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.