Music meme (again)

[qatarperegrine]

One of my favorite memes is going around again, so I'm yet again joining in. :-)

Here are lyrics from the first 25 songs that came up on my iPod. (OK, I cheated -- if the same band came up more than once or twice I skipped their later songs.)

Read the lyrics, guess the song. No Googling!

1. Radiohead's "No Surprises" (jcreed)
   Bring down the government,
   They don't, they don't speak for us.
   I'll take the quiet life,
   A handshake of carbon monoxide...
   
   
2. I'm young and I love to be young
   I'm free and I love to be free
   To live my life the way I want
   To say and do whatever I please
   
   
3. Jonathan Coulton's "Skullcrusher Mountain" (nicodemusrat)
   I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you
   But I get the feeling that you don't like it --
   What's with all the screaming?
   
   
4. I spoke your name for many days,
   Pronouncing it in several ways
   And moving letters all around...
   
   
5. Carbon Leaf's "Desperation Song" (lasa)
   I've waited by the phone,
   Cold as river stone.
   Anxiety. Alone...
   
   
6. Ben Folds Five's "Selfless, Cold and Composed" (jcreed)
   But you just smile
   Like a bank teller,
   Blankly telling me,
   "Have a nice life."
   
   
7. Akon's "Smack That" (cmucheer)
   Maybe go to my place and
   Just kick it like Tae Bo...
   
   
8. Men at Work's "Land Down Under" (lasa)
   I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
   He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich.
   
   
9. The Beatles' "Something" (lasa)
   You're asking me will my love grow,
   I don't know, I don't know.
   
   
10. Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" (_tove)
    But for now we are young,
    Let us lay in the sun
    And count every beautiful thing we can see.
    
    
11. TMBG's "Destination Moon" (nicodemusrat)
    Thank you for the card with the cartoon nurse,
    But you see there's nothing wrong with me
    
    
12. You are complete, George, you all alone.
    I am unfinished, I am diminished,
    With or without you.
    
    
13. The Beatles' "Yesterday" (lasa)
    Why she had to go
    I don't know;
    She wouldn't say...
    
    
14. Nirvana's "All Apologies" (chrisamaphone)
    I wish I was like you,
    Easily amused...
    
    
15. Now I wonder, I wonder what she would say
    If I told her that I felt, that I felt this way
    You know it might make her turn, might make her turn, might make her turn either way,
    So all I can do is patiently pray, pray, I pray pray pray pray
    
    
16. My mind's distracted and diffused
    My thoughts are many miles away
    They lie with you when you're asleep
    And kiss you when you start your day
    
    
17. Mika's "Any Other World" (cmucheer)
    I tried to live alone
    But lonely is so lonely, alone
    So, human as I am,
    I had to give up my defenses
    
    
18. Sleepy time when I lie
    With my love by my side
    And she's breathing low
    
    
19. And everything's spinning
    You're beginning to think
    Women are swimming in pink
    Linen again in the sink...
    
    
20. Damien Rice's "Volcano" (chrisamaphone)
    What I am to you is not real
    What I am to you, you do not need
    What I am to you is not what you mean to me
    You give me miles and miles of mountains and I ask for the sea.
    
    
21. Kimi no kami
    Sora to kumo tokashita sekai
    Himitsu ni michite...
    
    
22. The Decemberists' "Legionnaire's Lament" (nicodemusrat)
    I am on reprieve,
    Lacking my joie de vivre,
    Missing my gay Paris
    In this desert dry.
    
    
23. Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (chrisamaphone)
    All I know is that to me
    You look like you're lots of fun
    Open up your lovin' arms,
    Watch out, here I come
    
    
24. Mika's "Grace Kelly" (cmucheer)
    Why don't you like me?
    Why don't you like me
    Without making me try?
    
    
25. David Bowie's "Life on Mars" (_tove)
    Take a look at the lawman
    Beating up the wrong guy
    Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know
    He's in the best selling show...

Comments

[lasa.livejournal.com]

5. Desperation Song, Carbon Leaf. I'd better get this one - having seen the band close to 30 times live!

8. Men at Work - I'm trying to remember the name of the song... Land of Thunder? All I can do is mentally replay the lyrics!

9 Michelle - The Beatles

13. Yesterday - The Beatles - I thought you didn't have the same band twice...?

And I really like some of those other lyrics that I don't recognize - especially 16.

[qatar.livejournal.com]

5 and 13 are right. On 9 you have the right band but the wrong song (and I said "more than once or twice"). :-)

On number 8, you're very close! Where do they eat Vegemite?

[lasa.livejournal.com]

Okay, number 8 - Land Down Under?

And I'm headsmaking - of course #9 is Something

[qatar.livejournal.com]

Yes and yes. :-)

[lasa.livejournal.com]

Rob tells me that #2 is "You Don't Own Me" by Rasputina.

[qatar.livejournal.com]

LOL! Rasputina sings it, but it's a cover. I have the original. So that doesn't count. :-)

[nicodemusrat.livejournal.com]

Hey, I recognized a couple of 'em! :)

3. "Skullcrusher Mountain" by Jonathan Coulton
11. "Destination Moon" by They Might Be Giants
22. Umm... I should know this. Is it by the Decemberists? Is it something like "Foreign Legion"? Rrgh. I don't actually own this track.

[qatar.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, and ooh very close! It is The Decemberists, and you have the right song, but that is not the title. :-)

[nicodemusrat.livejournal.com]

Oooh, dang. "Legionnaire"? "Legionnaire's Lament"? Shoot.

I'm not sure if it's cheating to go find a discography with a track list online. :)

[qatar.livejournal.com]

The Legionnaire's Lament, yes. :-)

[kit-ping.livejournal.com]

I know all the ones that have already been guessed. :P Oh well!

[jcreed.livejournal.com]

is 1 Radiohead's "No surprises"? Pretty sure 6 is ben folds five and 14's nirvana but I can't remember the titles...

[jcreed.livejournal.com]

ooh, I remember now, "selfless, cold, and composed"?

[qatar.livejournal.com]

yep yep. That's my favorite Ben Folds Five song.

[chrisamaphone]

argh yeah i thought 1 was radiohead but i couldn't pin down the title.

[chrisamaphone]

14 is nirvana - all apologies
20 is damien rice - volcana (love that song)
23 - dead or alive - you spin me right round

[chrisamaphone]

errr *volcano.

[chrisamaphone]

and i may have gotten the title of 23 wrong, iirc it has "like a record" parenthetically in the title or something

[chrisamaphone]

(sorry for the comment spam, but) i just looked up "volcano" on youtube and discovered that the string part is _cello_. i was pretty sure it was a viola! weird.

[qatar.livejournal.com]

Yes on all three. #23 is technically "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" but I think it's an unfair title (due to not quite ever appearing in the song) so I'm counting your version. :-)

?

[http://users.livejournal.com/syd___/]

because they say
"you spin me right round, baby, right round
like a record baby, right round, round, round."

Re: ?

[qatar.livejournal.com]

But they never say "You spin me round" with out a "right" in the middle.

[lasa.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to tell you that I've got other friends who do this meme, but yours is by far the best for me. There are always some songs I know right out, some that take a bit of puzzling, some I don't know at all, and are delighted to learn about, and some that bug me terribly because I /know/ I know those lyrics, but I can't place them... like #16. I'm just barely getting snatches of melody with the words, but I can't quite place it...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_tove/]

I think that #10 is "Aeroplane Over the Sea."

[http://users.livejournal.com/_tove/]

Oh, and #25 is "Life on Mars."

[qatar.livejournal.com]

Correct on both counts!

[cmucheer.livejournal.com]

um, I know I'm a little late in joining the conversation, but number 7 is Akon, "Smack That" (I am soooo embarrassed that I know that!)...

17 and 24 are both Mika... "Any Other World" and "Grace Kelly"

[qatar.livejournal.com]

Yes to all three!

I was beginning to worry that I'm the only person I know who listens to Akon. :-/