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So you'd better be saying something more than words words words

posted by [personal profile] purplerabbits at 02:30pm on 29/06/2006
I've had a somewhat crappy couple of days, so to cheer me up here is a lyrics quiz.

Step 1: Put your MP3 player on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play.
Step 3: Ask everyone to guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: No cheating



  1. I'm surrounded by idiots every day, frustrated by the games that people play, confused by what the TV says I need
  2. Coming down say I love it now now now
  3. You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain
  4. Here silver trumpets will trill in the Arabic streets of Seville.
    Oranges roll in the gutter and you pick them up and peel back the skin
  5. See her face, everyday. I see her face, it doesn't help me
  6. For once in my life I've got something to say
    I wanna say it now for now is today
    A love has been given so why not enjoy
    So let's all grab and let's all enjoy
  7. Eternity is a lonely place,
    An ocean without shores
    Empty faces tracing paths through lonely corridors
  8. Watching him dash away, swinging an old bouquet
  9. My flatmate told me,
    Said that you'd rung while I was out
    Celebrating being young
    And I was thinking while I was drinking,
    I'd like to think I'm an adventurous chicken...
  10. 22 miles of hard road 33 years of tough luck 44 skulls buried in the ground crawling down through the muck
  11. Oh I had nine lives but I lost all of them
    and I've been seaching the night
    and I've been seaching in the rain
    I tried to find them
    But they disappeared
  12. I'd burn all the uniforms I'd burn all the ask me buttons
    I'd burn all the intercoms I'd burn all the time clock cards
  13. We were tight, but it falls apart as silver turns to blue.
    Waxing with a candlelight, and burning just for you
  14. And she was lying in the grass
    And she could hear the highway breathing
  15. I know cos I've seen it it was great and I want it
    There's no point in sitting going crazy on my own
  16. On 6.6.66 I was little I didn't know shit
    About 7.7.77 eleven years later still don't know any better
  17. Destiny, destiny protect me form the world
    Destiny hold my hand protect me from the world
  18. Sharp as teeth and stars
    I can't give you up
    Like a moth to light
    Move like caramel
  19. Every morning now I pray
    The phantom pains not to come again
    A million tears to slip away
    And take the vessel of my blame
  20. I wanted to be with you alone
    And talk about the weather
    But traditions I can trace against the child in your face
    Won't escape my attention
Music:: Grebo Guru: PWEI
Mood:: 'aggravated' aggravated
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posted by [identity profile] devilgate.livejournal.com at 01:49pm on 29/06/2006
This is hard. I'm only sure about number 6.

3. Jerry Lee Lewis: Great Balls of Fire
6. Sham 69: If The Kids Are United
10. The Doors: Who Do You Love?
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Quatre points

posted by [identity profile] purplerabbits.livejournal.com at 01:53pm on 29/06/2006
You are correct on 3 and 6. Who do you love actually goes - I walked 47 miles on barbed-wire, Cobra-snake for a necktie. Built a house by the roadside, Made of rattlesnake hide.
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posted by [identity profile] devilgate.livejournal.com at 02:55pm on 29/06/2006
Yeah, I kind of knew I wasn't right on that one; but you can see how those words might fit...
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posted by [identity profile] joexnz.livejournal.com at 01:50pm on 29/06/2006
I know number 14, I can hum it
can't name it or tell you who did it though
it was the 80's
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posted by [identity profile] grendelsmere.livejournal.com at 02:12pm on 29/06/2006
Talking Heads, maybe?
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posted by [identity profile] skx.livejournal.com at 02:47pm on 29/06/2006
Yeah ..
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posted by [identity profile] joexnz.livejournal.com at 03:03pm on 29/06/2006
yes, I believe it was
oh this is so annoying, my mother does this
gah!
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posted by [identity profile] protocol-rain.livejournal.com at 01:59pm on 29/06/2006
12 is of course TMBG 'If I Wasn't Shy'
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posted by [identity profile] purplerabbits.livejournal.com at 02:06pm on 29/06/2006
Two points to the private secretary in the corner...
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posted by [identity profile] skx.livejournal.com at 02:41pm on 29/06/2006
5 Blur - She's so high.

14. Talking Head - And She was
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posted by [identity profile] joexnz.livejournal.com at 03:04pm on 29/06/2006
loud rasberry noise
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posted by [identity profile] skx.livejournal.com at 03:05pm on 29/06/2006
To be honest I wouldn't have got that one if it hadn't been for the clues up there - it was one I "knew" but couldn't place.
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posted by [identity profile] purplerabbits.livejournal.com at 03:10pm on 29/06/2006
Yup, though one of your points goes to Jane...
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posted by [identity profile] ajva.livejournal.com at 02:46pm on 29/06/2006
15 - Modern Way, Kaiser Chiefs.
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posted by [identity profile] purplerabbits.livejournal.com at 03:18pm on 29/06/2006
Yes indeed
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posted by [identity profile] gingiber.livejournal.com at 02:47pm on 29/06/2006
Ahh SKX got there before me.
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posted by [identity profile] gingiber.livejournal.com at 02:48pm on 29/06/2006
2 - might be a bit easy ;)
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posted by [identity profile] duranorak.livejournal.com at 02:50pm on 29/06/2006
13. 36 Degrees - Placebo. Possibly my favourite song from their first album, though I don't know why.

14. And She Was - Talking Heads.

15. Modern Way - Kaiser Chiefs (I think it's that song, anyway)

18. Koko - Goldfrapp. I fell hopelessly in love with those lyrics the moment I heard them.

20. Head Over Heels - Tears For Fears, probably my favourite of their songs, too.

All of which reminds me. I took all your things from your Audiography post in 80s week, and I have yet to listen to some of them, but this is principally because I have been obsessing over, and indeed rolling around on the floor sobbing and listening to, 'Calypso' by Suzanne Vega. Thank you very much for making it part of my life, it's important.

E.
x
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posted by [identity profile] purplerabbits.livejournal.com at 03:15pm on 29/06/2006
Yes indeed. I would have expected you to know the most. Though I might have expected you to et 8 and maybe 16...
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posted by [identity profile] purplerabbits.livejournal.com at 03:17pm on 29/06/2006
Doh, I meant 19 not 16.
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posted by [personal profile] zotz at 02:52pm on 29/06/2006
14 - Talking Heads, And she was
16 - Morphine, French Fries with pepper.
Chips in a peppery sauce actually was what I had for dinner on 9/9/99. It seemed best.

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You are correct

posted by [identity profile] purplerabbits.livejournal.com at 03:09pm on 29/06/2006
I too had french fries with pepper then. It seemed only fair.
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posted by [identity profile] chillies.livejournal.com at 03:07pm on 29/06/2006
10 - eels on souljacker. no idea what the track's called.
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posted by [identity profile] purplerabbits.livejournal.com at 07:14pm on 29/06/2006
I'll give you that since the track's actually called Soujacker Pt 1
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posted by [identity profile] ciphergoth.livejournal.com at 04:01pm on 29/06/2006
17 - radiohead, "anyone can play guitar"
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posted by [identity profile] purplerabbits.livejournal.com at 05:26pm on 29/06/2006
Good, I'm glad someone got that one!
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posted by [identity profile] neilhudson.livejournal.com at 06:27pm on 29/06/2006
I'll take number 8 - by chance I only just got a copy of Aladdin Sane for my birthday. Not quite sure how I've gone without it all this time.
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Two points

posted by [identity profile] purplerabbits.livejournal.com at 08:16am on 30/06/2006
I am shocked! I got my copy on my 18th birthday I think...
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