You know I love my iPod. You know I love memes. You know I love quizzes that compel you to comment. How could I resist an iPod-shuffle-meme-lyric-quiz? Thanks to Alison for this one!
The Rules:
Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 50 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing. (I got to 35 before the baby woke up)
Step 3: Bold out the songs when someone guesses both artist and song title 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.
And, after seeing what the iPod coughed up, I am adding Step 6: Do not mock my taste in music!
- Baby we can talk all night But that ain’t getting us nowhere: Meatloaf – Two out of three ain’t bad
- My friend assures me, “It’s all or nothing.”
- Love makes me treat you The way that I do: Billie Holliday – Baby Ain’t I Good to You
- Come out Virginia, don’t let me wait: Billy Joel – Only the Good Die Young
- Summer has come and passed The innocent can never last: Green Day – Wake me up when September Ends
- Throw away the radio suitcase That keeps you awake: Our Lady Peace – Clumsy
- This thing called love I just can’t handle it : Queen – Crazy Little Thing Called Love
- love I get so lost, sometimes: Peter Gabriel – In your eyes
- Bill Barilko disappeared that summer: Tragically Hip – Fifty Mission Cap
- Wake up maggie I think I got something to say to you: Rod Stewart – Maggie May
- And the men who hold high places will be the ones to start: Rush – Closer to the Heart
- Sundown in the Paris of the prairies: Tragically Hip – Wheat Kings
- I can see her lyin back in her satin dress: Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown
- The heart is a bloom, shoots up through the stony ground: Beautiful Day – U2
- How do you document real life When real life is getting more Like fiction each day: Rent soundtrack
- I’m trying to tell you something about my life, Maybe give you insight between black and white: INdigo Girls – Closer to Fine
- Take me out tonight, Where there’s music and there’s people: The Smiths – There is a light that never goes out
- Stayed awake all night toss and turnin’, Now my blood shot eyes are burnin’
- Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go: Ramones – I wanna be sedated
- Standing in the dock at Southampton, Trying to get to Holland or France: Beatles – Ballad of John and Yoko
- Everyone who sees you thinks you should be smiling: TPOH – Hard to Laugh
- When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school,
It’s a wonder I can think at all: Paul Simon – Kodachrome - Every now and then I get a little bit lonely and you’re never coming round: Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse of the Heart
- At home drawing pictures of mountain tops with him on top: Pearl Jam – Jeremy
- I I will be king And you You will be queen: David Bowie – Heroes
- I’m so cool, too bad I’m a loser: BNL – Falling for the First Time
- Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick, and think of you: Cyndy Lauper: Time after Time
- Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord that David played: Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen
- There is freedom within, there is freedom without: Crowded House – Don’t Dream It’s Over
- I can’t stand to fly, I’m not that naive. Five for Fighting – Superman (It’s not easy)
- She’s got a smile that it seems to me, Reminds me of childhood memories: GNR – Sweet Child Of Mine
- Here they come, walking down the street: Monkee’s Theme
- 1 2 1 2 3 Yeah I was working part time in a five-and-dime: Prince – Raspberry Beret
- Music is a world within itself With a language we all understand: Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke
- Well, I don’t hate my parents, I don’t get drunk just to spite them: TPOH – I’m an Adult Now
I found this one way easier than the movie quote quiz. What do you think?
Oooh, I’m the first! Yeah.
6. – Green Day: Wake Me When September Ends
10. – Rod Stewart: Maggie May
19. – The Ramones: I Want to be Sedated
27 – Cyndi Lauper: True Colours (I know there are a bunch of remakes, but I figure you are a girl of the 80s, it’s got to be the original)
A bunch of them seem so familiar, but I just can’t seem to figure them out. Much easier than the movie one. I didn’t get any of those!
1. Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad — Meatloaf
23. Total Eclipse of the Heart — Bonnie Tyler
24. Jeremy — Pearl Jam
26. Falling For the First Time — Barenaked Ladies
29. Don’t Dream It’s Over — Crowded House
31. Sweet Child O’ Mine — Guns and Roses
4. Only The Good Die Young — Billy Joel
7. Crazy Little Thing Called Love — Queen
8. In Your Eyes — Peter Gabriel
6. Clumsy – Our lady peace
30. Superman (It’s Not Easy) — Uh oh, can’t remember who sings this. But I LOVE this song!!!
OK:
9. Fifty Mission Cap – the Hip
11. Closer to the Heart – Rush (an aside, I can’t believe you didn’t get the opening line to ‘Lakeside Park’ in my quiz. I know you’re into Rush.)
12. Wheat Kings – the Hip again
13. Sundown – Gordon Lightfoot (great song)
21. Hard to Laugh – the Pursuit of Happiness (it’s on my mp3 too)
35. I’m an Adult Now – also TPoH
I would never mock your tastes, nevah. They’re too similar to mine…..
Actually, step #6 is “Tell Dani we have a lot of the same taste in music.”
Of the ones not claimed yet:
16. Closer to Fine — Indigo Girls
20. Not sure of song name . . . — John Lennon
22. You may be right — Billy Joel
32. The Monkees ?????
33. Sounds like Bruuuuuce though I can’t be sure.
My captcha is “collegians ex” which is appropriate because most of my music is stuff I got in college . . .
Sneaking back:
25. David Bowie – Heroes
OOOOH FUN!!! I’m going to do this once my techno detox week is over (i’m cheating cuz I’m at work and HAVE to use the computer there…)
14 – Beautiful Day – U2
15 – Rent – the cast of Rent
25 – That scene on the top of the Elephant in Moulin Rouge, and I can’t remember what they called it… – Ewan McGregor (YUMMY) and Nicole Kidman (“You, you will be mean. And I, I’ll drink all the time…” I love that movie.)
28 – Hallelujah – written by Leonard Cohen – I have no idea which version you have on your iPod.
22 – Kodacrome – Paul Simon (or maybe Simon and Garfunkle)
27 – Time After Time – Cindy Lauper
28 – Hallelujah – ??? (It was in Shrek)
32 – Monkees Theme song – The Monkees
33 – Rasberry Beret – Prince
34 – ????? – Stevie Wonder
16- Closer to Fine – Indigo Girls!
27 – Time after time – Cyndi Lauper? or Dilana from rockstar Supernova?
30. Superman by Five for Fighting
Is it cheating if I look in my own iTunes for the name when I recognize the song?
20. The Ballad of John and Yoko — The Beatles
You have “Total Eclipse of the Heart” on your ipod?
I like you more every day 🙂
Late to the party. I’ll take #34. Sir Duke. Stevie Wonder.
Now I think you need to add a few more chicks to your i-pod. Might I recommend Liz Phair, Amy Winehouse, Feist and Jann Arden?
I wish I had gotten here sooner, because I know a bunch of the ones already guessed.
#34. Sir Duke–Stevie Wonder
Mad, how funny that you noticed the testosterone tendency in my playlists. Hmmm, the iPod didn’t cough up any Jann Arden (one of my fave songs evah is Good Mother) or Sarah McLachlan or Holly Cole, of which I have lots. And you’re right, I’ve been meaning since the Junos to add some Feist. But that would taint my anti-millennial music bias, no?
17 — The Smiths — There Is a Light That Never Goes Out ??? Maybe?
3. Diana Krall; Gee Baby ain’t I good to you
OR
3. Nat King Cole; Gee Baby ain’t I good to yo
Close enough, Alyssa. I have a Billie Holiday version, but I’m sure it’s been covered hundreds of times!
2. Anna Begins – Counting Crows