Lyric Quiz

[daibhidc]

Not memed from anyone, I just felt like doing it.

Usual rules. I put my iPod on shuffle and post the first lines of 25 songs. Spoken word tracks and instrumentals are skipped, but spoken words in instrumentals aren't. And as an experiment, I'm going to put "(spoken)" at the start to see if this helps. (Although with my ridiculously obscure musical tastes, I suspect not redacting the title if it appears wouldn't help that much...)

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is then to identify the songs without the aid of search engines.


1. Well, [redacted]? The man who has the plan?

2.The road ahead is dark, the sky is blind

3. I wanna live a simple life, like a wildman in the woods

4.(Spoken) The turtle moves

5.We've been driving around

6. Everyone is crying at the dread hypnotic flying

7. This time can dispense with all the optimistic

8.They'll be gathering together

9. Dressed only in clothes

10. Oh, some do say the farmer's best,

11. Driving home from my meth lab

12.Throw open all the doors

13. Can anyone explain?

14. [redacted] is a long, black car

15. There'll be bluebirds over
Got by sabremeister and pedanther

16. Gonna tell everybody, all around the world

17. I reflect on my reflection

18. You called me last night on the telephone

19. Very sad sack is a sad bag

20.I don't wanna play, I don't wanna play, I don't wanna play

21. Ain't nobody smiling, they only curl their lip

22. [redacted], in London he did dwell.

23. The river runs through the valley

24. Mama Pajama rolled out of bed and she ran to the police station
Got by pedanther

25.You know what's wrong with me

Comments

[sabremeister]

4 - A'Tuin the Turtle, From The Discworld, Dave Greenslade
15 - White Cliffs of Dover, Vera Lynn

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

Almost, but no.

It's a cover version, but I'll accept that.

[pedanther]

#4 is the only vocal in an otherwise instrumental track that I don't recall the name of from Dave Greenslade's Discworld album.

#15 is "(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover".

#24 is "Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard" by Paul Simon.


There are a couple others I suspect I'm going to go "Oh, of course!" when I find out what they are (particularly #10 and #22, although that might just be because of the folk idiom).

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

Yep. An actual pop song that was in the charts in one of my lyric quizzes! Who'd have thought?

(I'm afraid it's the only one, although one of the others won an Oscar, so it's not completely obscure.)

[rhiannon-s.livejournal.com]

I am so useless at these things, I couldn't even get the Vera Lynn one.

[peeeeeeet.livejournal.com]

I only knew the white cliffs one :(