These 20 songs recently played in a row during an iTunes shuffle on my office computer. While I was sitting there, I wondered how many of them I could name with just a line or two of the lyrics as clues.
Sooooo … how many can you name with my hand-picked lyrics as clues? If you want to give it a shot, please do so in the Comments section below!
- “I have to celebrate you, baby …”
- “And I guess that I just don’t know …”
- “But my sorrows, they learned to swim …”
- “No shadow, no darkness, no tolling bell shall pierce your dreams this night …”
- “A teardrop fell in the deep crimson dew …”
- “And, man, we never had the real thing but sometimes we used to kiss …”
- “A notch in your bedpost, but you’re just a line in a song …”
- “He’s not too fancy, but his line is pretty clean …”
- “Get the money, dolla dolla bill, y’all …”
- “Oil wasted on the oceans and upon our seas …”
- “She came along to turn on everyone …”
- “Besides you ain’t got nothin’ better to do, and I’m bored …”
- “That part of me left yesterday, the heart of me is strong today …”
- “And this is not the racy race …”
- “Put me out with no shoes on my feet …”
- “This way is-a-waterslide-away-from-me-to-chase-her-fuller-everyday! Hey! …”
- “Friends, take control of me, stalking ‘cross the gallery …”
- “Broken bits of you and me …”
- “They’re the ones who’ll hate you when you think you’ve got the world all sussed out …”
- “I’m new in the city but I’m down for the night …”
UPDATE: The Answers
- Praise You – Fatboy Slim
- Heroin – The Velvet Underground
- Until The End Of The World – U2
- Jesus Was An Only Son – Bruce Springsteen
- Redemption – Johnny Cash
- The Best Of Everything – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
- Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down – Fall Out Boy
- Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag – James Brown
- C.R.E.A.M. – Wu-Tang Clan
- Mercy Mercy Me – Marvin Gaye
- Sexy Sadie – The Beatles
- It’s So Easy – Guns ‘N’ Roses
- Dead And Gone – T.I. (with Justin Timberlake)
- Turn You Inside-Out – R.E.M.
- Beast Of Burden – The Rolling Stones
- Say It Ain’t So – Weezer
- Club Foot – Kasabian
- Only A Memory – The Smithereens
- High And Dry – Radiohead
- Lost In The World – Kanye West and Bon Iver
Good work, those of you that played along!
no google!
praise you
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until the end of the world
jesus was an only son
redemption
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papa’s got a brand new bag
-can’t decide bwt coolio/everlast/wu-tang
-mercy mercy me
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dead and gone
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beast of burden
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only a memory
high and dry
lost in the world
I got #12. It’s So Easy. Guns and Roses-Appetite for Destruction. I ride my bike to this CD.
Damn! These are not easy.
12. G&R
15. Stones
16. Weezer
I know I’ve heard a couple more of those lines.
1. fatboy slim
2. velvet underground
3. U2
4. Sprinsteen
5. Johnny Cash
6. Tom Petty
7. ??
8. James Brown
9. Wu-Tang
10. the late great Marvin Gaye
11. Beatles
12. Guns n Roses
13. ??
14. REM
15. Stones
16. Weezer
17. Kasabian (one of my fave bands)
18. Smithereens
19. THE BEST BAND OF ALL TIME!!! RADIOHEAD!!!!
20. Kanye West w/Bon Iver (good song)
**missed a few