I don't quite know why, but I love random iPod memes.

[jackshoegazer]

Show off how lyrically clever you are. iPod is on shuffle, here are the first lines from each of the first twenty-three songs I hear (unless they're immediately self-identifying.)  Which ones do you know?

01)  "Should time allow us to describe our prowess..." For We Are the King of the Boudoir - The Magnetic Fields by urte
02)  "She took me off my guard with disappointment..."  Nitemare Hippy Girl - Beck by enamour
03)  "Sunbeam shine, mousy girl on the end pew..." Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie - Belle & Sebastian by antarcticlust
04)  "Do you not hear me anymore?" Battle Of Who Could Care Less - Ben Folds Five by antarcticlust
05)  "She don't like her eggs all runny..." In Spite of Ourselves - John Prine by antarcticlust
06)  "Tuna, rubber..." Marianne - Tori Amos by decemberthirty
07)  "She said you'd given up..."
08)  "I don't know just where I'm going, but I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can..." Heroin - Velvet Underground by atomic_goo
09)  "Gold teeth and a curse for this town were all in my mouth." New Slang - The Shins by antarcticlust
10)  "I can't help my feelings, I'll go out of my mind..." Hash Pipe - Weezer by punkybrister69
11)  "Tell your boyfriend next time he around, to buy his own weed and don't wear my shit down..." Addicted - Amy Winehouse by maeghanne
12)  "Neither the flowers on the hill or the moonlight on the sea have ever looked so blue..." 12 Old Familiar Way - Of Montreal by urte
13)  "When you climb to the top of the mountain, look out over the sea, think about the places perhaps, where a young man could be..." It Ain't Easy - David Bowie by tekelili
14)  "I'm gonna fight 'em off..." Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes by matadin
15)  "Lately I've been wishing i had one desire..." 15 A Perfect Sonnet - Bright Eyes by emilyreplied
16)  "Do I need? Destiny."
17)  "This is the definition of my life..." Dry the Rain - The Beta Band by antarcticlust
18)  "I call ye cabin neighbors, I call you once my friends..." The Avalanche - Sufjan Stevens by antarcticlust
19)  "The rain it started tappin' on the window near my bed..." Bowl of Oranges - Bright Eyes by protodisco
20)  "We sit and we sigh and nothing gets done..." Compliments - Bloc Party by urte
21)  "I've been in and out of every honky tonk in town..." Mrs. Leroy Brown - Loretta Lynn by decemberthirty
22)  "A heart that's full up like a landfill, a job that slowly kills you, bruises that won't heal..." No Surprises - Radiohead by protodisco
23)  "New realities are conditions much to little for us to suffer..."

Good luck and happy hunting!

Comments

[pretzelcoatl.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Some of them seem familiar, but the only one which I can recognize right now is 14: "Seven Nation Army" - The White Stripes

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Feel free to delete if I don't count. :)

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

# 3 is Le Pastis de la Bourgeoisie by Belle & Sebastian - it's funny, I never knew what the lyrics actually were there, but when I read that I thought - Ooooh! It was the sounds of the words that did it. :)

#5 is In Spite of Ourselves by John Prine?

#6 is...something by Tori Amos I can't think of without looking it up...Not the Red Baron?

#9 is by the Shins - one of my favorites - New Slang

#17 is Dry the Rain by the Beta Band

#18 is Avalanche by Sufjan!

#22 sound familiar....

Re: Feel free to delete if I don't count. :)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I should have banned you from playing since you hear so much of this at home ;)

Re: Feel free to delete if I don't count. :)

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

And plus a lot of it is music I already know and love - hence our mutual attraction. :)

[decemberthirty.livejournal.com]

#6: Marianne by Tori Amos
#21: Mrs. Leroy Brown by Loretta Lynn (at least I think that's the title...)

Those are the only ones I'm even close to knowing--the rest are totally unfamiliar.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

DING! DING! DING!

We have a winner!

I didn't think anyone would get #6 :)

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

I knew all the LYRICS, I just couldn't remember the SONG title. :)

"Little blubber for my igloo..."

[atomic-goo.livejournal.com]

8 - Heroin by The Velvet Underground

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

YAY! (one of my favorite songs!)

[atomic-goo.livejournal.com]

Same here!

[anubis75.livejournal.com]

Dammit! The one track I knew for sure somebody else beat me to it. FUCK!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

It's okay, you get a pretty ribbon for 2nd place :)

[abmann.livejournal.com]

None of these are ABBA or Ace of Base. I'm sunk. :P

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Aren't those the same band? ;)

[abmann.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes they are. oO

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

Do you like the Scissor Sisters? I'll bet you would.

[punkybrister69.livejournal.com]

10: "Hash Pipe" by Weezer

It was bugging the hell out of me, but I got it, damnit.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

WOOHOO! Congrats!

[anubis75.livejournal.com]

that one was stuck in my craw too.

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

#4 Selfless, Cold & Composed - Ben Folds Five. I can't believe I missed that the first time!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Oooh, right band, wrong song!

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

I meant to say The Ballad of Who Could Care Less! The titles are kind of similar. :)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Sure they are!

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

Just shut up and change the song, ok buddy?

[protodisco.livejournal.com]

19 is bowl of oranges by bright eyes, 22 is no surprises by radiohead

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

DING! DING! DING!

You win the world!

[maeghanne.livejournal.com]

11 is Amy Winehouse - addicted

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

You gotz it!

[maeghanne.livejournal.com]

:D

[tekelili.livejournal.com]

Wow, no one's got 13 yet? "It Ain't Easy" by David Bowie.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

WE HAVE ANOTHER WINNER!

[blackdreams.livejournal.com]

Damn you did this too and I missed it??? Grr

Well, I actually replied to give you this - http://community.livejournal.com/10variations/

Thought you might be interested in the challenge.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I may do that :)

[blackdreams.livejournal.com]

I found it on the LJ home page of interesting communities.

[enamour.livejournal.com]

02) Beck, "Nitemare Hippy Girl!" Mellow Gold was totally my favorite album in seventh or eighth grade. Now I'm going to have to go dig it out.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Ding! Ding! Ding!

I was amazed no one got that sooner. I love that album. For me, at least, it's Beck's best. I love how raw and folky it is.

[emilyreplied.livejournal.com]

#15 is Bright Eyes- A Perfect Sonnet

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Congrats! I was wondering if anyone would get that one :)

[urte.livejournal.com]

1. The Magnetic Fields - The Magnetic Fields - For We Are the King of the Boudoir
12. Roger Waters - Old Familiar Way
20. Bloc Party - Compliments

Am I right?

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Almost completely!

You got 1 & 20 and I'm giving you 12 since it would appear it was actually of Montreal doing a cover :)