Lyrics quiz
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Back in February, I got an iPod for my birthday. Ever since then, I've been waiting for the iPod shuffle quiz meme to pop up again, now that I can do it properly.
It's just occured to me I don't need to wait until someone else does it, I can just do it.
So here we go. Under the cut are the opening lines of the first 30 songs that came up when I put my iPod on shuffle. I've skipped spoken word tracks[1], instrumentals and songs where the first line includes the title ... although I included instrumentals with spoken lines. Post your guesses as to title and artist in the replies. Google is cheating. As ever, I apologise for my super-obscure musical tastes.
1. Driving home from Birmingham this morning
2. Every day we see them, in all the magazines
3. I saw a snail drive a nail
4. Great halls, wide with the ages and filled with the treasures of time
5. When I saw her walking 'cross the street
6. Through the stars the turtle comes
7. Like a ghostwriter's ending
8. I wish that you could see us, it would cheer your weary heart
9. And the evergreen flame, together in a dark day, appears symbolic
10. On wings of the wind o'er the dark rolling sea
11. I wanna live a simple life like a wild man in the woods
12. Was it a tragic accident, or something they had planned?
13. From up here, she said, there's no compromise
14. Our life is just one great big public display of affection
15. Far across the bad road winding through the forest
16.Through the shadows of evening, dark corners of night Got by
sabremeister
17.Against the wash of stars, a nebula hangs Got by
sabremeister
18. You made me older than my years
19. I still remember late St Vincent nights
20. Birds are calling to sing along
21. A royal king, a shining knight
22. So many years I've done this
23. Heart adrift with all uncertainty
24. They never said why she was wicked
25. One morning he went riding through the Itchen Valley fields
26. Now if you have a problem and you don't know where to turn
27.Iron enough to make a nail Got by
pedanther
28. I am the breeze that blows
29. When spring has returned and the trees are in bud
30. So this is the end, the curtain is falling
[1]I considered having a spoken word bonus feature, like
pedanther did. But most of them were "Thank you for downloading the Friday Night Podcast from Radio 4" And no, I don't know why my iPod puts the Friday Night Podcast under "music" rather than "podcasts".
It's just occured to me I don't need to wait until someone else does it, I can just do it.
So here we go. Under the cut are the opening lines of the first 30 songs that came up when I put my iPod on shuffle. I've skipped spoken word tracks[1], instrumentals and songs where the first line includes the title ... although I included instrumentals with spoken lines. Post your guesses as to title and artist in the replies. Google is cheating. As ever, I apologise for my super-obscure musical tastes.
1. Driving home from Birmingham this morning
2. Every day we see them, in all the magazines
3. I saw a snail drive a nail
4. Great halls, wide with the ages and filled with the treasures of time
5. When I saw her walking 'cross the street
6. Through the stars the turtle comes
7. Like a ghostwriter's ending
8. I wish that you could see us, it would cheer your weary heart
9. And the evergreen flame, together in a dark day, appears symbolic
10. On wings of the wind o'er the dark rolling sea
11. I wanna live a simple life like a wild man in the woods
12. Was it a tragic accident, or something they had planned?
13. From up here, she said, there's no compromise
14. Our life is just one great big public display of affection
15. Far across the bad road winding through the forest
16.
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17.
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18. You made me older than my years
19. I still remember late St Vincent nights
20. Birds are calling to sing along
21. A royal king, a shining knight
22. So many years I've done this
23. Heart adrift with all uncertainty
24. They never said why she was wicked
25. One morning he went riding through the Itchen Valley fields
26. Now if you have a problem and you don't know where to turn
27.
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28. I am the breeze that blows
29. When spring has returned and the trees are in bud
30. So this is the end, the curtain is falling
[1]I considered having a spoken word bonus feature, like
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Date: 2013-11-09 01:42 am (UTC)#6 is almost certainly also Discworld-related, though I don't think I know it.
I can't place any others (but there are one or two that I suspect I'll nod and go "Oh, of course" when I find out what they are).
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Date: 2013-11-10 01:09 pm (UTC)17: Great A'Tuin the Star Turtle
Both on Dave Greenslade's Album From the Discworld
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Date: 2013-11-10 01:20 pm (UTC)