melannen | But I've said nothing so far and I can keep it up as long as it takes.

Current Mood: lonesome's unconditional
Current Music: rain, rain on my face.

But I've said nothing so far and I can keep it up as long as it takes.

Oh, fine, since everyone else is. You know how it goes: first 20 random songs (not counting instrumental) on your mp3 playlist and copy a line of lyrics from each. Flist, try to name the song and/or artist and I'll edit the post with correct guessers as they're posted.

1. Can you live your life completely? Can you do it wild and sweetly? (

kiswara) Carmen Sandiego Out of this World Soundtrack - Cake for Breakfast
2. And she smiles because it's understood there are no words to sing.
3. Every rung goes higher, higher, Soldiers of the Cross. (

reclusivewaffle) We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder (from the Civil War CD)
4. Through the storm we reach the shore, you give it all but I want more. (

woap) U2 - With or Without You
5. Their twilight campaign is easy to explain. (

kiswara) Pinky and the Brain - Theme
6. When I'm a-walkin' I strut my stuff, man I'm so strung out. (

stellar_dust) Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun
7. Oh fatherland, fatherland, show us the sign your children have waited to see. (

stellar_dust) Cabaret - Tomorrow Belongs to Me
8. When Johnny comes marching home again, hooray, hooray, he'll make the guy who wrote this song pay and pay. (

zodiaccat) Spike Jones and His City Slickers - Ghost Riders in the Sky
9. I've given all I can, but we're still on the payroll. (

franthephoenix) Radiohead - Karma Police
10. Who cut the arm off a voodoo doll that resembles a Republican president? (

random_dragon) They Might Be Giants - My Evil Twin
11. Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen. (

speakerender) Garth Brooks - Papa Loved Mama
12. Anna Karenina the ill-starred lover speaks to me, she draws a breath and whispers my name. (

speakerender) Bob Hillman - Tolstoi
13. In what you wear I'd look better than you. (

stellar_dust) Irving Berlin - Anything You Can Do
14. Hogyn cam to bower dore, he trilled upon the pin for love.
15. Tell me why ain't nothin' but a mistake. (

stellar_dust) Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way
16. Light up the mike like a silmaril. (

random_dragon) The Lords of the Rhymes - The Lords of the Rhymes (Sauron's Flying V Mix)
17. Part of the journey, part of the growing, part of beginning to understand.
18. You cared for me too little, I could tell that I loved you too well.
19. Kiss today goodbye and point me toward tomorrow. (

stellar_dust) A Chorus Line - What I Did For Love
20. But I want you despite the past, let's see if we can make this thing last. (

stellar_dust) Jet Set Six - Try

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stellar_dust) Blues Traveler (generics) - Hook

Anyone who gets 1, 8, or 12 will greatly impress me. And bonus points for mood, title and current music.

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4 - U2, With or Without You! I got one!!!

Erm... that's it :-/ I shall try this now.

yep! it surely is!

6 is I'm Too Sexy. Still looking, want to get this in before I'm scooped by someone. (;

It was 15, btw. d-:

No. Six is not "I'm Too Sexy". It is one I got from you a long time ago, however.

Yours was 15. I *do* have other friends. q: Actually it's very interesting, it's coming in from two different trails. the people who gacked it from you say 15, the hp people all say 20.

oh, duh! Blister in the Sun, Violent Femmes! ::smacks forehead::

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Nope, 8 isn't Tom Lehrer, but you're on something resembling the right track.

16 is available for download here (http://www.lordsoftherhymes.com/). I've mentioned them here before. Oh, wow, they have a new track out!

7 is Tomorrow Belongs to Me from Cabaret.
Because I know you, I'm going to bet that 8 is by Tom Lehrer, but I don't know the song. (;
13 is Anything You Can Do from Annie Get Your Gun.
15 is I Want It That Way, Backstreet Boys. "(Let's find out what two hearts make)/(Come get some Jedi beefcake)/I've thought it each and every day/I wanted Padme...."
16 intrigues me.
19 is What I Did for Love from A Chorus Line.
20 is Try by Jet Set Six.

Deleted, reposted to get title. Don't know song or mood. d-:

and yep, it even was the Generics version. Yay!

Go me. d-;

Greh, I repost, and that makes the link go away. Eh, everybody just click here. (http://www.theforce.net/songbook/Songs/49.htm)

8 is Spike Jones. "Riders in the Sky" I think.

I'll admit to Googling the mood, so I'll email it rather than post, since it can't count.

Yep!

Just realized, I meant "Current Music" for the one I Googled.

I was gonna object that this was biased towards those in the mainstream...and then I googled a couple, and you get at least one Thumb up from a music snob, but I'd bet you couldnt get one of mine..

I am so far from a music snob that I don't even know what the mainstream *is* at the moment. I just listen to whatever passes my way. But I don't think any of these are newer than about two years, and at least half of them pre-date the 80's . . . out of curiosity, which one wins your approval? Tolstoi?

Nope, I can't get any of yours. Heck, I'd be lucky to get most of *mine*. q:

Approval comes from having even more obscure music tastes than I. A lot of the lines I didn't know came from groups I didn't even recognize. Except the voodoo doll of a republican pres, I know that band and they amuse me.

11. Garth Brooks - Papa Loved Momma
12. Tolstoi (maybe?)

Yep! Did you honestly get Tolstoi without Googling it? How?

Yes I got it without googling, now I know who its by *grin*

11. "Papa Loved Mama"
8. Spike Jones and his City Slickers wrote it, but the title escapes me...ARGH!

Yay! Both right!

9 is Karma Police, but I suck and don't know any of the others.

Yep! Hey, that's about my score on other people's. . .

Hey, how do you get the picture on your journal front page to be different from your default? Is it something specific to that theme, or what?

/wants an xf icon on the front page, but doesn't want to change her default chessie patch ...

Yep, I just hardcoded it into the theme as a graphic. (as foo/icon.jpg so it'd be easy to switch) Bad style, but eh, whatever, I wanted it to match. It links to my allpics page, too.

I need to play with my theme and style a bit more. Eh, later.

Hmm. Guess I'll have to actually muck around with *code* then. Meh. d-:

cake for breakfast... mmm.. cake.

...and 5 is of course from the Pinky and the Brain main title.

Sweet. I was hoping someone would get those. Do you have an artist name for either of them?

3 is jacob's ladder. Artist is probably no one I've heard of.

--C

Yep! Don't need an artist for that one.

haHA! I know #16! It's from "the Lords of the Rhymes" by the Lords of the Rhymes, right? The others, I don't know, but everyone else seems to have been able to get them, so it's okay.

Best hip-hop group *ever*.

I have to disagree and say that the pure shock value of Rap Group makes them the best hip hop ever. One has to be in pure awe of lyrics like "I'll f*** you while youre pregnant and call it a threesome."

Eh. That doesn't even rhyme. Not to mention having Quenya lyrics and sampling Leonard Nimoy albums.

"It's the chronic pipeweed that I'm smokin'
When I get high I spin tales like Tolkien."

Well it'd rhyme if I remembered the line that came before it, which is equally offensive. Of course, I dont remember it because its a weird little group that a friend of a friend put together. One day, though, they'll be huge. And in interviews I'll say "Yeah, I knew them back in the day. And if I'd known what was to happen, I would've put a stop to it."
And you stay up late.

Now that you mentioned that one of these is TMBG, I can identify number 10 as being from "My Evil Twin" by They Might Be Giants (though I actually found this out by looking up the lyrics for reasons nearly unrelated to your meme). I applaud your good taste in music, even though I haven't heard of half of these groups/people.

There's something about TMBG that just screams Good Taste, isn't there.

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But I've said nothing so far and I can keep it up as long as it takes.

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Hook, by Blues Traveler. Unless you're listening to the Generics version.

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Hmm

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Leo Nicolaevitch Tolstoi new everything there is to know about you.

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Muffins are for people who want

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nope

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