So here's a fun game, but I'm adding rules to make it actually fun, as opposed to just stupid. The existing thing:
Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Check off the songs when someone guesses both artist and track 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.
I'm changing it so that I'm only selected from songs that I have played 10 times or more, and also, non-instrumental songs. The second to make it possible, and the first to make it more entertaining. Partially so there won't be songs that even I don't know what they are (I have a lot of those), and also so it'll be more of a sense of the kind of music I actually listen to. So it could conceivably be more embarrassing. Here goes. (Also, "first line" is relatively subjective, I've tried to make them mostly the same length.)
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special_kitten 1. Say goodbye, lose your friends, make them go, don't need them around. [Happier - Guster]
geeger 2. J'ouvre un oeil sur notre monde, pyromanes et poseurs de bombes.
[This is not in English so you get an extra chance. I'll be impressed, though, if you get this.] [Et si on dormait - Garou]
geeger and jewtemplar 2a. See the stone set in your eyes, see the thorn twist in your side. [With or Without You - U2]
toreadmegslife 3. Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? [Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen]
4. This is the definition of my life, lying in bed in the sunrise.
special_kitten 5. I have called you children, I have called you son. [
For the widows in paradise, for the fatherless in ypsilanti - Sufjan Stevens]
toreadmegslife 6. They made up their minds, and they started packing. [The Way - Fastball]
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toreadmegslife 7. At first I was afraid, I was petrified. [I Will Survive - Cake]
8. Flick the brights on high to burn through my blurry eyes.
[I know for a fact no one will get this, (a friend's band) so I'm adding an 8a.]wickywoo 8a. Out here in the fields, I fight for my meals. [Baba O'Riley - The Who]
9. Super trouper, beams are going to blind me.
[Disqualified for having the title in the first line.]
astrafiammante 9a. I still hear your voice when you sleep next to me. [Everytime We Touch - Cascada]
10. If I was the Grand Canyon, I'd echo everything you say
[Same as 9.]
10a. A little less conversation, a little more action.
[Godammit, again.]
10b. Can you hear them, the helicopters, I'm in New York.
geeger 11. You say you want diamonds on a ring of gold. [All I Want Is You - U2]
toreadmegslife 12. I heard there was a secret chord. [Hallelujah - Rufus Wainwright]
13.Love me, please love me, je suis fou de vous.
[Disqualified, reasons 2 and 9.]
special_kitten 13a. And you walked out, when I asked you to stay. [Careful - Guster]
special_kitten 14. Are you really here? Or am I dreaming. [If You Want Me - The Swell Season]
15. I got some bills this morning, they tumbled through the door.
16. I hear mariachi static on my radio, and the tubes they glow in the dark.
17. Rain in February has got to be the worst.
[Disqualified, reason 8 (well, except possibly for Waring folk).]
17a. Words are better when they're written down.
[Reason 9.]17b. Tell everybody I'm on my way.
[9, again.]
17c. On the corner of Main Street, just trying to keep it in line.
special_kitten 18. You say life is a dream, where we can't say what we mean. [Life's A Song - Patrick Park]
special_kitten 19. Here's the day you hoped would never come. [Speeding Cars - Imogen Heap]
astrafiammante 20. Mud, sand, water, straw, faster! [From a movie musical, so just in case we just want pop songs.] [Deliver Us - The Prince of Egypt]
20a. The girl works at the store, sweet Jane St. Clair.
[Item 9. Heh.]
20b. If you leave, don't leave now.
[9.]
geeger 20c. We went down at the May Parade, mumbled words under my breath. [I Spy - Guster]
wickywoo 21. When you're on a holiday, you can't find the words to say. [Island in the Sun - Weezer]
astrafiammante 22. Pressure, pushing down on me. [Under Pressure - David Bowie and Queen]
23. Time provides the rope, but love will tie the slipknot.
24. The unfolding of the year, and now our season is here.
[The interweb says these lyrics are wrong, but it's what I hear.]25. Up the street beside the red neon light, that's where I met my baby on a hot summers night
[Irish, so for reason 20.]
25a. I stood on faith and the corner of ambition.
[Bluegrass, so 20 again.]25b. It's now or never, come hold me tight.
[9.]
25c. Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling.
[9, duh.]
25d. One fine day, you;'ll look at me, and you will know our love was meant to be
[9, sigh.]
25e. Belle, c'est un mot qu'on dirait inventé pour elle
. [2 and 9.]
wickywoo 25f. You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips. [You've Lost That Loving Feeling - The Righteous Brothers]
Finally, done. Ok so that was 43, not 25, but I wanted 25 valid ones, and I wanted to show that I really wasn't skipping any (well, except for the instrumental ones, of which there were many). Some of these are covers, but I'll accept any version (make your best guess), and I'll count it and put down the correct version, as long as you get the song. Also, feel free to get the easy ones, if you want to feel accomplished. I'll have a final tally of who got the most, when the majority are guessed.
One last note, I actually hate the song at 21, and I don't know why it's been played so much. Not to say I'm embarrassed about it, since most people like the song, but I just wanted to state an opinion.
And thanks
astrafiammante, for the book.
