Yet another music meme

[veronica_rich]

Stolen from haldir_fancier:

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line(s) from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Bold out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!

1. I've had so many lives ...
2. Pure energy...
3. I like my toast buttered/And I'll take mine dry ...
4. Veruca Salt/The little brute ... (a hearing-impaired person could get this one)
5. I would walk home every evening/Through the pyramids of light ...
6. Time goes by/So slowly ...
7. It'll all click when the mortgage clears/All our fears will disappear ...
8. She wore faded jeans/And soft black leather ...
9. Keep me hanging on ...
10. You are the perfect drug ...
11. Breathe it in and breathe it out/And pass it on, it's almost out ...
12. To have, and not to hold/So hot/Yet so cold ...
13. Coffee, tea, or me, baby, touche ole/My opening line might be a bit passe ...
14. Look at this face/I know the years are showing ...
15. Well, you can just believe/I'm the only girl in your life ...
16. No more timing each tear that falls from my eyes ...
17. I was down to zero/Still an unsung hero/Waiting for my ship to come to shore ... (Extra points if you know what 80s movie it's from)
18. Tongue-tied, short of breath ...
19. I'm in love with you/You silly thing/Anyone can see ...
20. Funny how sometimes life just changes overnight/Magically everything you do turns out so right ... (Same movie as #17)
21. Well it started out down a dirty road/Started out all alone ...
22. Well, I saw fireworks from the freeway/And behind closed eyes, I can't make them go away ...
23. Debbie just hit the wall/She never had it all/One Prozac a day/Husband's a CPA ...
24. Look at us, baby, up all night/Tearing our love apart ...
25. Back to life/Back to reality (4x) ...
26. All our times have come/Here, but now they're gone ...
27. She'd like you to think she was born yesterday/With her innocent looks and her little-town ways ...
28. Looking into your eyes, I know I'm right/'Cause anything worth my love is worth a fight ...
29. With the heartbreak open/So much you can't hide/Put on a little makeup, makeup ...
30. Somebody's gonna hurt someone before the night is through/Somebody's gonna come undone/Nothing we can do ...

Comments

[vejiicakes.livejournal.com]

Yeeee~!

3. Stephen Lynch - "Best Friends Song"
4. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - "Veruca Salt" (Well, I'm not hearing-impaired, but I gave it my best shot anyway ..)
23. Bowling for Soup - "1985"

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Correct on all! (Though I have the first one being called "F Your Sister," for some reason.)

[xzombiexkittenx.livejournal.com]

6. Madonna, Hung Up
11. K's Choice, Not An Addict

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Yup!

[captsparrow4evr.livejournal.com]

6. Unchained Melody, Righteous Brothers
26. Don't Fear the Reaper, Blue Oyster Cult
29. Goody Two Shoes, Adam Ant
30. (There's Gonna Be a) Heartache Tonight, The Eagles.

*sigh* I feel so old.:)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

All correct ... but for #6 ...

[yoiebear.livejournal.com]

8. "Square One," Tom Petty
25. "Lose Yourself," Eminem

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Sadly, not either one. (Now, if #25 IS Eminem in some way - I mean the original song from which it came.) Although, you do have the right artist for #8 ...

[yoiebear.livejournal.com]

Then my iPod is wrong. Bastard...

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

If you mean the Tom Petty one, I'm going by the soundtrack cover itself, yeah ...

[yoiebear.livejournal.com]

well, damnit. then it is "It'll all Work Out."

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

There you go!

[yoiebear.livejournal.com]

yeah, i'm not all that bright. LOL

[finding-neo.livejournal.com]

You all have WAAAYYYY too much time on your hands...

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

You're just annoyed that it's mostly crappy 80s and 90s music you don't listen to. *G*

(Actually, for me, it's called *How can I distract my brain while it comes up with the right opening paragraph for an article about 20-some-odd people killed in a tornado last weekend?*)

[captsparrow4evr.livejournal.com]

I heard about that. Sorry you have to be the one to write about it. Must be depressing as hell.:(

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, I don't live anywhere near it - I'm clear on the other side of the state. Writing about disasters as news stories ... I won't say it doesn't bother me, but it's sort of like being a doctor, in that after so seeing/hearing so many things over the years, you get to a point where it doesn't bother you as much. What the problem turns *into* is trying to write it so that other people care, with just enough details and style to make it interesting, without descending to a level that makes it overblown and maudlin. THAT is the part I was having problems with last night. Sad stuff happened and no matter how you show it, it's sad stuff.

[fiona64.livejournal.com]

18. "Too Shy," by Kajagoogoo
29. "Goody Two-Shoes," by Adam Ant
30. "Heartache Tonight," by The Eagles

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Right on all! (Someone else beat you to 29 and 30, but you still got them right.)

[shebit.livejournal.com]

10. Nine Inch Nails, The Perfect Drug - I know the song, but is that the title?
12. Reminds me of an Evenascence lyric, but can't place the song.
25. Dammit, I can sing the opening verse but can't think who or what it is! It's an early-90s band/dance act.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

#10 is correct (sort of helps when the first line is the song title, lol). For #12, you're off-base, but it is a female singer - perhaps THE modern female singer. #25, keep trying - you'll think of it!

[sirocco-360.livejournal.com]

9. Kim Wilde - (You Just) Keep Me Hanging On (or is it the Diana Ross version?)
13. Teena Marie - Lovergirl
14. Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt - All There Is To Know (I think that's the title)
24. The Eagles - I Can't Tell You Why
25. Soul II Soul - Back to Life

A couple of others look familiar, but I can't place them.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

All are correct! (Except for #14, which is "Don't Know Much," but you were impressively close so I gave it to you.)

You're either good with Google or old like me. *G*

[sirocco-360.livejournal.com]

I almost picked "Don't Know Much," but oh well.

And yep, I'm old. :D

Your icon makes me think of avian crack!fic.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Which you're going to write ... right? <:-D

[sirocco-360.livejournal.com]

The rest of that sentence was going to be "...and no, I am *not* going to write it myself."

Actually, I did give it some thought, but aside from a few very lame jokes/puns, I couldn't come up with anything worth reading. Sorry. :(

I wouldn't even know how to begin writing bird slash, and I'm not sure I want to learn.

I will, however, continue to try to finish some of my unfinished stories (starring the human versions) before the next movie comes out and messes up my continuity.

[lyricl.livejournal.com]

Soo...Not actually on your flist or whatnot but...

22. Jason Mraz, the Remedy

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Correctamundo!