There is a fun game that’s gone viral on Facebook the last couple of days. You hit shuffle on your iPod, then type the first line of the first 25 songs, and see if people can guess the song that goes with the lyric. Like my pal LipstickLibrarian, I am paring it down to 10 (I only got one measly song on her list). See if any of these ring a bell:
1. I called you so many times today, and I guess it’s all true what your girlfriends say.
2. I know it, I can feel it, I know it enough to believe it.
3. Vivid Vision dreams of passion, and all the while I think of you.
4. Bring your own lampshade, somewhere there’s a party.
5. They loved me like I was a brother.
6. Now you don’t call anymore; I sit and wait in vain.
7. Outside there’s a box car waiting.
8. Yesterday I got so old I felt like I could die.
9. Hey, kids, shake it loose together.
10. Went to Carvel to get a milkshake; this honey ripped me off for my loot case.
December 18, 2008 at 3:58 pm
10: TRIBE!
December 18, 2008 at 4:09 pm
5. Nice Dream
7. Here Comes Your Man
8. In Between Days
December 18, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Damn. I only know #7, and sigourney got it. That bitch.
December 18, 2008 at 4:31 pm
I am impressed you got the Tribe, Nadarine! It is pretty obscure! I love that song, all about a guy’s really bad day.
Sigourney: I knew you were good for the Radiohead.
December 18, 2008 at 4:36 pm
I KNOW you guys know No. 9, and you’re going to be “oh shit!” when you realize what it is.
December 18, 2008 at 4:49 pm
1. Can’t Stand Losing You, The Police
2. Jennifer’s Body, Hole
3. White Lines, Grandmaster Flash (it’s “vision,” btw)
9. Benny and the Jets, Elton John
December 18, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Trix, you know how much I love that song!
Also, I just googled #4 and now I am kicking myself. D’oh!
It just goes to show that I don’t know half of the words to the songs I like. I just make them up.
December 18, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Is it vision? I couldn’t make it out and went to two different sites, one said vision, the other said vivid. I thought vivid made more sense so I went with it!
Nice work, Lipstick! I knew you’d get most of these!
So No. 4 and No. 6 remain unsolved.
December 18, 2008 at 5:10 pm
9. Blink 182
December 18, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Oh Jesus. Not music too. I just spent way too much time compiling 20 movie quotes. I don’t even have 20 favorite movies. A couple of those I just phoned in.
December 18, 2008 at 6:27 pm
The movie ones were way too hard for me. I tried some and I was lucky if I could get any, and they were all from movies I’ve seen a dozen times each — Butch Cassidy, Grosse Point Blank, Raising Arizona … yada yada yada.
December 19, 2008 at 3:04 am
Number 4 is the only damn one I got. The Replacements (AKA Placemats) “Swingin’ Party”.
December 19, 2008 at 3:38 pm
It’s Friday. Where are the lesbians?
December 19, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I don’t know, MBB.
Surely one of the lesbians could have got No. 6, which was “Til You Come Back to Me” by Aretha Franklin.
December 19, 2008 at 11:46 pm
This lesbian got a couple of submissions from a few other lesbians, but not in time to submit before this lesbian had to rush off to SF for a job interview, long after the cutoff time!
NEXT FRIDAY, I SWAN!
Cue Morrissey’s “All The Lazy Dykes…”
December 21, 2008 at 7:57 am
Oh my, I only knew #8 right off the bat. Apparently I got so old a while back.