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]

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. :-)