The Lyric Game
Remember the movie game? Well, this is the same, but for song lyrics.
Rules: I’ll start with a lyric. Whomever guesses the correct song (and artist if you know it) gets to put up the next lyric. Repeat. Let’s just make sure that we’re offering lyrics which others actually have a possibility of guessing (Susan, I’m looking at you). And no Google cheating.
I’ll start:
I can make the run or stumble,
I can make the final block;
And I can make every tackle, at the sound of the whistle,
I can make all the stadiums rock.
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Posted on December 10, 2008, in Pop Culture. Bookmark the permalink. 74 Comments.
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Is that “Making Love out of Nothing at All” by Air Supply?
If so,
You’re on your own
Inside your room
Claiming victory
You were just using me
And there is no one you can use now
Heh, I only know that one from Rock Band Chad, it’s “Only Time will Tell”.
Sound check’s at 5:02
Record stores and interviews
Oh, but I can’t wait
To be with you tomorrow
jjohnsen chimes in with a toughie.
Nobody’s going to get that one.
I googled it and I still never heard of it. Does this mean I have to leave the cool kids’ table?
A table that I never sat at.
Maybe it means jjohnsen needs to offer another one.
I had to google it, too. I think Brian V might be able to get it. Just to keep the ball rolling:
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration,
But we know all her suicides are fake
I believe that’s Synchronicity II, Susan.
How’s this?:
We are the Sherlock Holmes English Speaking Vernacular
Hell take Fu Manchu, Moriarty and Dracula
Sorry, that was my favorite Ramones song, so I didn’t realize it isn’t well known. How about
BTD Grag, your post reminds me of a Beastie Boys song, but I really don’t have a clue.
jjohnson, that’s Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes.”
This is the coastal town
That they forgot to close down
Armageddon – come armageddon!
Come, armageddon! come!
SG, that’s Morrissey’s “Every Day Is Like Sunday”
still he sings an empire song
still he keeps his navy strong
and he sticks his flag where it ill belongs
(Susan M should get mine easily…)
(Susan M should get mine easily…)
Good. We’ve narrowed the game down to two people. This is fun.
OH MY HECK I’ve actually heard this one. Waterboys. Or their version of it. ROCKS. Is there another version?
I always thought it was “all belongs”?
When I was just a little boy
I threw away all of my action toys
I became obsessed with operation
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No other version, definitely the Waterboys. “Old England.”
Don’t know #15.
Maybe mine was harder than I thought.
Here are a couple of clues:
1) British Invasion
2) It was used in a recent Edgar Wright/Simon Pegg/Nick Frost movie.
p.s. I always liked Waterboys When Ye Go Away about Indian summers and magic (from the same album).
Ah,the Kinks? Is it called Village Green?
American Yak, read the rules: “make sure that we’re offering lyrics which others actually have a possibility of guessing“
I read the rules. Is Andrew Bird (“Darkmatter”) really that obscure? I guess so. Sorry.
Try this:
Haven’t had a dream in a long time
See, the life I’ve had
Can make a good man bad
heh, OK maybe that’s too easy.
But yeah, I hadn’t even heard of Andrew Bird before. (ducks)
The Smiths, Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want.
In another direction:
Get up mule, here comes a lock
We’ll make Rome ’bout six o’clock
One more trip and back we’ll go
Right back home to Buffalo
Finally one I know! That’s Springsteen, with Erie Canal.
And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
A little light looks through her bedroom window.
She dances and I dream, she’s not so far as she seems,
Of brighter meadows, melting sunsets,
Her hair blowing in the breeze.
And she can’t see me watching.
BTD Greg’s is called Village Green Preservation Society.
Here’s mine:
Flags are flying, dollar bills
Round the heights of concrete hills
You can see the pinnacles
I don’t know 25 or 26.
American Yak, the Waterboys are my favorite band of all time. “When Ye Go Away” is one of my favorite songs.
Steve: I think you’d like Andrew Bird. Check him out. But yeah, he’s not very well-known.
Tim ,that’s Bittersweet by Big Head Todd.
JJohnson –
“God Only Knows” by the Beatles
I know the nerve is walking
I know the dirt it hangs
Out by the boxcar waiting
By the Beatles? Blasphemy!
Hmm…a lot of those internet lyrics websites seem to disagree with my transcription.
Oops. I meant the Beach Boys. I think there’s something wrong with my keyboard.
BTD Greg: Pixies, “Here Comes Your Man”
I can’t seem to face up to the facts
I’m tense and nervous and I can’t relax
Can’t sleep ‘cuz my bed’s on fire
Don’t touch me I’m a real live wire
Psycho Killer by Talking Heads. Good one.
She knows what’s going on
Seems we got a cheaper feel now
All the sweeteaze are gone
Gone to the other side
Tori Amos, Cornflake Girl.
Stop wasting my time
You know what I want
You know what I need
Or maybe you don’t
(supergenius can’t answer)
Gimme Some Money by The Thamesmen.
okay, Brian:
Any ordinary man wouldn’t think twice
Takin’ his chances and rollin’ the dice
Sheesh, didn’t anybody see Tapeheads?
Here’s an easy one.
Don’t want to work in a building downtown
Parking the cars in the underground
The voices when they scream, well, they make no sound
Want to see the cities rust
And the troublemakers riding on the back of the bus
You stumped me with the Tapeheads one. I saw that movie but it was a loooong time ago. I was going to guess Bad News, but that would’ve been based only on how you phrased your question.
No guesses at all on mine from earlier? The band is REALLY famous.
Brian, it sounds like something from the Dead, but (I think) I know all their lyrics, so it can’t be that…
Right era, wrong band.
Kathy,
That’s Arcade Fire, Antichrist Television Blues. Typically brilliant stuff from AF.
I’ve been listening to this band a good part of this early morning:
“I have all I want is that simple enough
a whole lot more I’m thinking of
every night about six o’clock
the birds come back to the pond to talk
they talk to me, birds talk to me
if I go down on my knees”
~
Brian: The Stones.
Thomas: I had to Google. I confess, to me that band was a one-hit wonder, but the decision was made back in high school–am I missing out?
Here’s another for you:
And your mom would drink until she was no longer speaking
And dad would dream of all the different ways to die
Each one a little more than he could dare to try
(still waiting for the anniversary post, supergenius)
“I confess, to me that band was a one-hit wonder, but the decision was made back in high school–am I missing out?”
This just made my brain explode!
#42 is Crowded House – Private Universe
“Sometimes I think you want me to touch you
How can I when you build a great wall around you
In your eyes I saw a future together
You just look away in the distance”
Kathy guessed the band correctly. The song is Citadel.
#43 is The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 by Neutral Milk Hotel.
Here’s my next one:
Straight off, I bought me a through train ticket,
Ridin’ cross Mississippi clean
And I was on that midnight flyer out of Birmingham
Smoking into New Orleans.
Gabby’s is “China” by Tori Amos. I love that song.
Here’s one:
If I could
Baby I’d give you my world
How can I
When you won’t take it from me
You can go your own way, Fleetwood Mac.
Who the heck is Neutral Milk Hotel??
“Who the heck is Neutral Milk Hotel?”
This just made my brain explode!
(just kidding, tracy. And gabby.)
NMH is the only band on God’s green earth that successfully combined bagpipes with songs about semen.
As far as I know, that is.
Neutral Milk Hotel are responsible for all the indie bands today with singers who can’t sing.
Neutral Milk Hotel are responsible for all the indie bands today with singers who can’t sing.
Who’s to blame for Pavement then?
Sorry, I meant indie bands with quirky-sounding vocalists (who can’t sing). See: Decemberists; Death Cab For Cutie.
Although if you look up NMH on allmusic.com, Pavement is listed as a similar artist. Ha.
Nobody seems to be able to guess the ones I’m picking so here’s an easier one:
Boredom’s a pastime that one soon acquired
Where you get to the stage where you’re not even tired
Kicking your heels till the time comes around
To pick up your bags and head out of town
What was your other one? I don’t know this one either!
Kathy,
Crowded House is probably the best pop band, ever.
Maybe the Beatles, but it’s close. ~
Thomas Parkin is a wise, wise man…
#46 is Promised Land by Chuck Berry. I’ll give folks a bit longer to try and guess #54.
Sounds like I missed the boat when it sailed twenty years ago. Which isn’t surprising, considering the fact that I was busy carving subhumans in the chemistry lab table.
Brian: Elton John, Holiday Inn.
Indeed.
Here’s an easy one:
Say it ain’t so, I will not go,
turn the lights off, carry me home
Keep your head still, I’ll be your thrill,
the night will go on, my little windmill
She said she needed a break
a little time to think
but then she went to Cleveland
with some guy named Leland
that she met at the bank
MCQ – Weezer, but only because my 11yo told me.
Sorry, your 11 yr old is wrong.
Bowling For Soup – Ohio
My 3 yr old dog got that one, queuno.
Brian #46: the Dead.
I downshifted as I pulled into the driveway
The motor screaming out, stuck in second gear
The scene ends badly, as you might imagine
In a cavalcade of anger and fear
There will be feasting
And dancing
In Jerusalem next year
The Grateful Dead did a version of it, but I think it’s a Chuck Berry song…
Yeah, it’s Promised Land by Chuck Berry (see #58)
ooh, i can get one! mcq’s is blink!
and so i will cook all your books
you’re too good-lookin’ and mistooken
you could watch it instead
from the comfort of your burning beds
forgot the title! “all the small things” by blink-182.
makakona:
Jack Johnson – Sleep Through The Static
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