Song meme

[jere7my]

From reldnahkram: On your current playlist, hit shuffle and pick the first twenty songs on the list (no matter how cheesy or embarrassing), and write down your favorite line of the song. Try to avoid putting the song title in the line. Then, have your friends comment and see if they know the songs. No cheating!

Ha! Good luck, kids! If anyone gets five, I'll be amazed—although I misread the instructions, and selected the first line of each song, which should make it easier. From The Amazing Rotating Playlist, ignoring (for instance) TMBG's I'm Having a Heart Attack:

1. It's colder in this house than anywhere in Boston.


2. Nights are long, oh so long, on the prairie.


3. I came home on a Monday night, as drunk as drunk can be.


4. Is it worth it? A new winter coat and shoes for the wife?


5. Our love is like water, pinned down and abused for being strange.


6. Everyone agreed that she looked delightful / except for her sister who was hateful and spiteful.


7. Hush my little one, don't cry so.


8. La la la, I'm the maker, I'm the maker, I'm the maker, oh yeah.


9. Where did your long hair go?


10. You've seen it all, you've seen it all before.


11. Got a surprise from my honey! Got a message from my girl!


12. The western lands, day turns to night, / the immaterial play of light.


13. People point us out and shake their heads in shame.


14. Washed my cotton socks, I'm in the news.


15. Gypsy gal, the hands of Harlem / cannot hold you to its heat.


16. Up those stone steps I climb, / hail this joyful day's return.


17. Where is Mona? She's long gone.


18. Aren't you the wise one? Isn't that what you claim to be?


19. It'll all wash down, it'll wash down when it rains.


20. Hello my friend; it seems your eyes are troubled. / Care to share your time with me?

Comments

[omnia-mutantur.livejournal.com]

4, 13 and 17 99% sure on.
6 and 20, i think i know the singer, but not the title.
3. i don't know the title or the singer, but i think i remember the gist of it. does that count?

That's a lot of LHC

[(Anonymous)]

Being a Costello nut gives me #s 4, 6, 7, which is three out of 25. Even I don't think the Little Hands of Concrete accounts for 12% of my collection, but I could certainly get lucky and hit 3 out of 25.
Being a T-Heads fan gives me # 10, I think. Is # 3 some version of the song I know as Cabbage Head, which begins 'last night I come home, tired as a man can be/and I saw a mule in the stable, where my mule was supposed to be'? There's a different version Steeleye Span recorded (different verses, different chorus, different melody, but the same song) but I don't recall how it starts.
Is it possible you're including tracks from musicals in this mix? I can't say I would recognize any more of the tracks from that, but I might have a stab at one or two.

By the way, in conversation just before checking LJ, I was saying that if Jere7my were to participate in this meme, I would probably take the time to try it out, but I couldn't think of anybody else on LJ whose list would be entertaining for me to guess... I would have predicted I would get more of them, but no, you are too eclectic for me.

By the way, I assume the way to play is to skip instrumentals, but what about 'no lyrics, but the name of the song is shouted repeatedly' as an entry, or possibly more than one entry if the randomness strikes? Speaking of randomness, it's perfectly possible that I would have three or even four tracks out of 25 whose lyrics begin 'I'm goin' down to St. James Infirmary/to see my baby there'...

,
-Vardibidian (http://www.kith.org/vardibidian/journal/).

Re: That's a lot of LHC

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

Being a T-Heads fan gives me # 10,

Nope. But now I'm trying to think of which Heads song that might be....

Is # 3 some version of the song I know as Cabbage Head...?

I believe so; it's Tom Smith's filk of the song about the spaceman who comes home to find another man in his bed, and hears more and more outlandish excuses from his wife.

(different verses, different chorus, different melody, but the same song)

Neat trick, that.

what about 'no lyrics, but the name of the song is shouted repeatedly' as an entry...?

That's why I skipped TMBG's I'm Having a Heart Attack, the lyrics of which are, "I'm having a heart attack. I'm having a heart attack. I'm having a heart attack. I'm having a heart attack."

Is it possible you're including tracks from musicals in this mix?

I did, but none turned up in the list.

(I should perhaps mention that #18 is an Ann Arbor band nobody will have heard of, fronted by my ex-dentist.)

[jaipur.livejournal.com]

Just those first lines alone read like a poem--disjointed, but it almoooost makes sense... ;)