...it's not dark yet, but it's gettin' there...
Okay here's a fun idea I just came up with. I was inspired by Sheila's old "Guess the First Lines of Novels" game, which is a lot of fun to look at, even though the game is long over.
Then I thought about my Friday iPod post. How boring is it to just post the songs, hoping you'll think I'm cool and all eclectic and shit. Why not give my readers a chance to show how cool you are.
So here's the opening four lines from ten random songs off my iPod. Some of them should be easy, and some will probably be impossible. You could google the lyrics, but I don't know how you'd sleep at night if you did so. Anyways, if you do google, don't post the answer because someone else might want to guess.
There are no prizes in this game, just good karma.
Can you guess the title and the artist? Green means somebody got it. Good luck!
In other news, coming in July: the return of annika's journal Jeopardy. Bigger and badder than ever. Consider this a warm-up.
We had a fight on the promenade out in the rain
She said she loved me, but she had somewhere to go
She couldn't scream while I held her close
Who holds a gun that fires ’cost’
And people die from being cold
Or left alone because they’re old
But that blood it never burned in her veins
Now I hear she's got a house up in Fairview
And a style she's trying to maintain
I'd find a way to believe that its all true
Knowing that you lied straight-faced while I cried
Still I look to find a reason to believe
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup
There’s a battle ahead, many battles are lost
But you’ll never see the end of the road while you’re travelling with me
Strangers in many ways
We’ve got a lifetime to share
So much to say and as we go on from day to day
Let me remember things I love,
Stoppin’ at the log where catfish bite,
Walkin’ along the river road at night,
in a room full of emptiness
by a freeway i confess
i was lost in the pages
And I've looked between the lines that lie on the pages that I tread
I met the walking dude, religious, in his worn down cowboy boots
He walked liked no man on earth I swear he had no name
to shoot a sex machine drug
he got 24 hours
to shoot all paulenes between the legs
I have no idea who wrote those lines but they made me feel sick.
Posted by: kyle8 on Jun. 4, 2006Number 2 is from "Helpless Dancer" by The Who, from The Greatest Album of All Time, Yes, Even Better Than "Born To Run" Which is Waaay Overrated And Sucky To Boot: Quadrophenia.
Think it's at the tail end of Side 2 or the beginning of Side 3, if anyone still remembers back when albums had sides.
Posted by: Victor on Jun. 4, 2006#7 is "Green River" by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
The Green River I know is the town in Utah on the edge of the desert, bisected by the river of the same name. A hot and dusty place...
I make a point of cueing that song up on the truck's stereo or my MP3 player whenever I roll into Green River on a roadtrip, maybe twice a year.
Oh man- now I wanna go back AGAIN...
Nice one Victor. I agree, Quadrophenia is underrated.
You are right too, Barry. I also like to play "Lodi" when i'm driving though Lodi, which is too often for my taste. Often I'm through the town before the song is over. I sometimes think I should play "Lookin Out My Backdoor" while travelling through Bakersfield, since the song mentions Buck Owens, and he was from Bakersfield. But by the time I get to Bakersfield i'm usually so burnt out that i don't even care.
Posted by: annika on Jun. 4, 2006#1 is off my favorite album from last summer, by the Killers. The song title is Jenny Was a Friend of Mine. The album is a rarity: every song is good. #5 is by Crowded House: Don't Dream It's Over. Those guys could sing. And #6 is Reason to Believe by Rod Stewart. I have not a clue about the rest.
Posted by: Blu on Jun. 4, 2006Blu, with the hat trick!
Posted by: annika on Jun. 4, 2006except that #4 is Reason to Believe by Rod Stewart, not #6
Posted by: annika on Jun. 4, 2006Well, I guess that proves that I have been mostly successful in eliminating all those old songs from my mind.
It is sheer agony to go through life as a child of the sixties and seventies being forever bombarded with songs you got tired of hearing twenty to thirty years ago. I guess that is because modern music is so sucky, or maybe because brain dead baby boomers can't ever let anything go.
Well, the more obscure ones are not too bad, but the top forty songs are hell.
#6 is by the Carpenters, but I never knew the name. We just called it the "Love, Look at the Two of Us" song.
Posted by: gcotharn on Jun. 4, 2006As best I recall. From the days back when dinosaurs sang on AM radio.
Posted by: gcotharn on Jun. 4, 2006#4 "Taxi, Part 2" by Harry Chapin? Not sure if that's the correct title.
Posted by: Tuning Spork on Jun. 4, 2006oops. I meant #3.
Posted by: Tuning Spork on Jun. 4, 2006Number 6 is the Carpenters "For All We Know." Good song. I have it on The Singles 1969-1973. Great album.
Posted by: minero on Jun. 4, 2006Harry Chapin? No. Interesting guess though.
Minero is correct, and gcotharn is 1/2 right.
Posted by: annika on Jun. 4, 2006#3 Bruce
#5 Crowded House
#7 Doobie Brothers, Blackwater
And yes, Quadrophenia was underrated. Who's next was a great accessible album, but Quad required more thought.
The Kids are Alright...
Posted by: will on Jun. 5, 2006Jim is right and will gets half credit on #3 and 5! But #7 is CCR.
The ones that are left are challenging but not impossible. Well, maybe 8 is impossible, but you punks should know #10, its a classic! And 9 is a fantastic song, with a literary theme too!
Posted by: annika on Jun. 5, 2006wow that's weird. its posting comments out of order.
Posted by: annika on Jun. 5, 20063 is Darkness on the Edge of Town, by Springsteen.
Posted by: Jim Bricker on Jun. 5, 2006Is #9 "The Stand" by the Alarm?
Posted by: Hugo on Jun. 5, 2006Hugo is awesome! Yes, I love that song. Really anything by the Alarm I love.
Posted by: annika on Jun. 5, 2006#8:
Impossible? Like a Stone-Chris with the remnants of Rage Against the Machine.
Otherwise known as Audioslave! nice one Jasen!
Posted by: annika on Jun. 5, 2006I googled for #10 because you said it was a punk classic. Well, I liked that band a lot, but the song wasn't one of their best, imho. I mean it's a good song n' all, but a classic?! Hmmm...
Posted by: Tuning Spork on Jun. 5, 2006cmon, its a great song!
Posted by: annika on Jun. 5, 2006Okay, okay.
BTW, my trackback apparantly didn't work. Stop on by and take a crack at the Blather Review edition!
Posted by: Tuning Spork on Jun. 5, 2006Hey, favorite interviewer ever -- you've inspired me to go and download some Alarm... lots of clear Christian faith in their lyrics...
Posted by: Hugo on Jun. 5, 2006Okay, biotch, Have a crack at Volume II. If you don't get at least three of these I'll be very disappointed.
Good luck.
Posted by: Tuning Spork on Jun. 6, 2006