The guessing game.

[mrsronweasley]

Borrowed lovingly from mayatawi:

First, put your playlist on shuffle. Second, post the first lines for the first 20 songs to come up (along with these instructions). Third, have people guess the songs and artists in comments to the post. Fourth, in a few days the answers will be posted.

Some of these are really easy, some maybe not so much. ENJOY. And Duck loves you, too.

1) Straight jacket your own beauty, because it's just a breakdown away
2) A Bouvier till her wedding day, shots rang out, the police came
3) Well, the smart money's on Harlow, and the moon is in the street
4) Here I am in Amsterdam, I like it here they speak my language
5) Here’s a true story, said someone to me yesterday
6) He’s got himself a homemade special, you know his glass is full of sand
7) Nice girls not one with a defect, cellophane shrink-wrapped, so correct
8) I am a poor wayfaring stranger, while journeying through this world of woe
9) Sleeping is giving in, no matter what the time is
10) Tonight we watch the burning cars shining bright; was it boredom is not the sky enough
11) I wonder where you are tonight; you’re probably on the rampage somewhere
12) Jacqueline was seventeen working on a desk
13) Standing in line to see the show tonight
14) I said I'll been leaving and now I thank you for the trouble
15) Repeat After Me Fuck Queen and Country
16) As I took a step number four into the close of your tenement
17) When boyhood's fire was in my blood, I read of ancient freemen
18) And now it's coming on down, a hard and fast regime
19) It's amazing to me but I can't seem to say what I'm doing here
20) It’s four in the morning, the end of December

Four more hours till the weekend. YAY.

Comments

[bohemian--storm.livejournal.com]

14 is Reframed (Every Single Failure) by Headstones. And 18 is ... shit, I want to say Absolutely, but I don't know for sure. That's my guess anyway.

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

It WAS "Absolutely". :D Woo, I love that song...

[bohemian--storm.livejournal.com]

Me too. I kept wanting say Unsound, but, yeah, I guessed right! Go me! :D

[aneli8.livejournal.com]

2. Tori Amos, Jackie's Strength (I killed that spelling, didn't I?)
8) Eva Cassidy, Wayfaring Stranger
12) Franz Ferdinand, Jacqueline (I... have issues with this name...)
13) RHCP, By The Way
14) Headstones, Reframed
15) Manics, Um...
18) Headstones, er... Unsound?
20) SHIT I KNOW THIS WHAT IS IT OMG...

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

It was Leonard Cohen. Shame. ;)

You're right in all the other ones, anyway. :D

[katrin.livejournal.com]

12) is Jaqueline by Franz Ferdinand.
20) is Famous Blue Raincoat by Leonard Cohen, among others.

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

YEP! :D

[katrin.livejournal.com]

Um, how did I not get the Arcade Fire one? **FACEPALM**

[helleboredoll.livejournal.com]

#6 Tom Waits- Walking Spanish *LOVES YOU FOR THIS*
#18 Headstones- Absolutely

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

*loves you for KNOWING THAT*

And yes!

[helleboredoll.livejournal.com]

*LOVES TOM WAITS*

That is my single favorite song off that album. *G*

[joandarck.livejournal.com]

13 is that Chili Peppers thing that always seems like it's going to be good but then it just repeats that bit over and over. The rest, I have no clue.

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

Very, very true. And correct, of course. :)

[karabou.livejournal.com]

Yay! Tori and Tom Waits! <3

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

*beams* You bet. :D

[rhythmsextion]

... wow, I suck. Damn.

[alpheratz.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

Only a little! :P

Mwah!

[alpheratz.livejournal.com]

Thing is, I actually have listened to some of those songs. It's just that the lyrics don't even register with me the first ten or so times I listen to the song, you know?

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

I am EXACTLY the same way. I suck at these a lot, too. Heh.

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

Aww, I'm sorry! Lots of those happened to be Manics b-sides...hehe...oops. *LOVES*

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

12 and 16 are Franz Ferdinand. 'Jacqueline' and 'What You Meant'.

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

Correct! :D

[jadis31.livejournal.com]

1 - R.P. McMurphy
4 - Valley Boy
5 - Ready for Drowning
7 - Wow. I didn't know you were an Elvis fan! Watching the Detectives (LOVE THAT SONG)
9 - The Arcade Fire - Rebellion
10 - Firefight (you know those are James' lyrics, right? so proud of my boy!)
15 - Duh. Repeat.
17 - Awwwwwwwwwwww! Just Awwwwwwww! Haven't heard that in AGES. Oh, and it's A Nation Once Again


I think that's all I konw. Thank you for all the Manicy b-sides. I usually suck at this game :D

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

You know I was just WAITING for you, right? I KNEW you'd know. *LOVES* Don't thank me - thank Duck the MP3 player for spitting them all out. ;) And 17. I was SO COUNTING ON MY JOJO and you didn't fail me. :D :D :D This is why I love my MP3 player. This is Duck on Random.

All correct! :D (I love you for knowing AF. I really love you for that.)

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Off-topic, but have you heard from soupytwist since she announced she was really sick TEN DAYS AGO? I'm starting to worry!

Thanks!

-J