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Alice Pawley is an assistant professor of I saw this over at Addy's and absolutely should not have spent the time on it. But I did. And here you go.
Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike through when someone gets them right I'm doing italics
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING.
Some of these are not very hard - particularly for the song title - though the artist to which I'm listening might require a bit more guessing. A few of these will be impossible. I'll try to check back at least once a day through the weekend and let you know how it's going.
1. on my way up north / up on the ventura
2. They say that richard cory owns one half of this whole town,
3. T'was on one bright March morning I bid New Orleans adieu
4. You think that we connect / That the chemistry's correct
5. Would your love in all its finery / tear at the darkness all around me
6. My love is not a compromise*
7. SATURDAY night! (Artist is still up for grabs)
8. Once my lover, now my friend. / What a cruel thing to pretend.
9. Charlie you're not my Charlie anymore / You're screwing it up
10. I don't go to therapy to find out if I'm a freak (The artist is Dar Williams)
11. Heaven bent to take my hand / And lead me through the fire
12. And you know you're gonna lie to you
13. The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
14. All through the night I delight in your love
15. wanting you the way I do / I only want to be with you
16. I used to carry the weight of the world
17. I gave my love a cherry that has no stone
18. If only tonight we could sleep
19. Maybe it's intuition / But some things you just don't question
20. Farewell Angelina / The bells of the crown
21. You've got such a pretty smile / Its a shame the things you hide behind it
22. Well there's a light coming from the window
23. You're like a cool breeze, on a summer's day
24. One fine day, you'll look at me
25. O come, O come, Emmanuel (Chanteuse is still up for grabs)
(*This one is absolutely impossible, even with google)
Comments
13. The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordon Lightfoot, unless you're listening to a cover version.
24. One fine day, you'll look at me
One Fine Day, Carol King
7. SATURDAY night!
(Saturday Night, Bay City Rollers???)
Posted by: Kim | April 25, 2008 1:01 PM
2, Richard Corey (i think there's an 'e') is Simon and Garfunkel
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, check.
btw, you should turn on moderation for comments until people have all had a chance to play....
Posted by: DrugMonkey | April 25, 2008 1:17 PM
I think No. 4 is Spider webs by No Doubt.
Posted by: Sean F | April 25, 2008 1:25 PM
3. T'was on one bright March morning I bid New Orleans adieu
Lakes of Pontchartain, The Be Good Tanyas (love them!!)
Posted by: volcano girl | April 25, 2008 1:27 PM
Kim - 13. check
24. check.
7. Right song, but wrong group for the version on my iPod.
DrugMonkey - No "e", I googled it. No comment moderation, just don't read the comments if you don't want to know the answers.
SeanF - yep.
volcano girl - yep. I love them too. They played in Portland while I was post-docing in Utopia, but I couldn't find anyone to go see them with me. Wish you'd still been around.
Posted by: ScienceWoman | April 25, 2008 2:00 PM
8. Fiona Apple - shadowboxer
Posted by: Sarah White | April 25, 2008 2:11 PM
1. Tori Amos- Sorta Fairytale
8. Fiona Apple- Shadow Boxer
11. Sarah McLachlin- Fallen
Posted by: Amanda | April 25, 2008 2:58 PM
Betraying my children's chorus background:
#14 Cole Porter. This song was used in one version of "Anything Goes," but its been used a lot of places and sung by a bunch of people. I believe the title is "All though the night".
#17 This is a traditional "riddle" song. "I gave my love a cherry that had no stone, I gave my love a chicken that had no bone, I gave my love a baby with no cryin', I gave my love a life with no dyin'. How can there be a cherry with no stone?, how can there be a chicken with no bone, how can there be a baby with no cryin', and how can there be a life with no dyin'?" Unfortunately that as far as my memory goes.
#19 The title on this is a gimme. O come, O come Emmanual...I believe its based on a Georgian chant.
Posted by: Amanda | April 25, 2008 3:03 PM
1. check.
8. check.
11. check
14. check.
17. check. I won't make anyone try to guess that I have the "wee sing" version on my iPod.
19 - I think you meant 25. Yes, that's the title. But what chanteuse is singing it into my earbuds? (And why is it still on an active playlist in late April?)
Posted by: ScienceWoman | April 25, 2008 3:24 PM
Thanks for the correction. I don't know why I saw 25 and wrote 19. As for what version you have I have no clue. I've got at least two versions on my playlist because I haven't bothered to separate the "Classical" from "Christmas Music", but I'm pretty sure you don't have either unless you're into obscure children's choirs or a rabid Virgil Fox fan. :-)
Posted by: Amanda | April 25, 2008 4:29 PM
For number 25, is the chanteuse Sarah MacLachlan ?
Posted by: Muriel Lobier | April 25, 2008 4:36 PM
Is the artist for O Come O Come Emmanuel Carter's Chord (it was a free download on itunes last year)? I recognize a few but can't place them :)
Posted by: Jac | April 25, 2008 5:03 PM
20 - Angelina by Buffalo Creek?
Posted by: Rachel | April 26, 2008 12:09 AM
Number 19-I knew I loved you by Savage Garden
Posted by: Robert M. Bradford | April 26, 2008 12:35 AM
5 is Sarah MacLachlan's Train Wreck. And 15 is Where You Lead, but who knows whose cover of it you have.
Posted by: The Ridger | April 26, 2008 7:35 AM
18. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, by The Cure.
Posted by: femalecsgradstudent | April 26, 2008 1:09 PM
20 - Farewell Angelina, either Joan Baez or Bob Dylan
Posted by: Citronella | April 26, 2008 3:51 PM
I think 10 is a Dar Williams song.
Posted by: Cara | April 26, 2008 4:36 PM
5 check.
10 - yep, it's a Dar Williams song, but which one?
15 check on the song, but not even a guess on the artist?
18 check.
19. check
20. check. Joan Baez.
None of the guesses for 25's chanteuse are correct.
Posted by: ScienceWoman | April 26, 2008 9:16 PM
#25: Amy Grant?
#12: Tori Amos- Siren
Posted by: Mel | April 27, 2008 12:29 PM
#12. check.
#25 - still not right. But now I have quite the list of people who have recorded one of my favorite carols!
Posted by: ScienceWoman | April 27, 2008 1:23 PM
#9 is Buy Now, Pay Later (Charlie No. 2) by The Whitlams. Fantastic song, on a fabulously eclectic list!
Posted by: Amber | April 27, 2008 9:23 PM
#9. Yeay! someone got that one. It's one of my favorite songs, but such a singable band.
Posted by: ScienceWoman | April 27, 2008 11:10 PM
Oh, and 21 came back to me. It's by Jude, and I think the song is called I Know.
Posted by: Citronella | April 27, 2008 11:37 PM
Sadly, all the ones I knew have been taken, but I've put my own up at my new blog. :-)
Posted by: Pneu | April 28, 2008 1:13 AM
21. Check. I believe its on the City of Angels soundtrack. Weepy movie, but a pretty great soundtrack.
Posted by: ScienceWoman | April 28, 2008 9:18 AM
#10 is "What Do You Hear In These Sounds" By Dar Williams. (A great song I might add!)
Posted by: AB | April 28, 2008 9:32 AM
#10. check. Yep, one of my favorites.
Posted by: ScienceWoman | April 28, 2008 10:41 AM
#25: I have a version by Blackmore's Night. At least that's a chanteuse!
Posted by: Nele | April 29, 2008 5:40 AM
22. There's a light
16. Carry the weight
23. Cool breeze
(In my experience, a bit over 10% of songs have titles that are the first line, or part thereof)
Posted by: Lab Lemming | May 3, 2008 9:18 AM
Hmmm...but none of these do.
Remaining answers are:
6. Endings by Brian Jacobs (a self-released album by an acquaintance of mine)
16. Weight of the world by Chantal Kreviasuk
22. Good ol' Acapella by one of those ubiquitous college acapella groups
23. Always on my mind by India.Arie
25. My version is sung by Bette Middler.
Posted by: ScienceWoman | May 3, 2008 12:23 PM