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!