first lines of random songs

[jinian]

Random music selections, first couple lines of each, for guessing. There may well be something for everyone here, weird subset that it is.

1. There’s a ship a-sort of sinking in the harbor / And my lover is come down from the sea All-Purpose Folk Song, the Flash Girls (hattifattener)

2. Early mornin' sunrise come and pull the song from me / So I can turn away and rest my tired eyes

3. I know you like her / Well, I like her too / I know she likes you / It's not as if I'm being sent off to war

4. Am I wasting time / With all this metaphysical wandering? / And have I left my prime / from all this inspirational squandering?

5. I don't want to spend the rest of my life / Looking at the barrel of an armalite Invisible Sun, the Police (marzipan_pig)

6. I've not done anything at all since I last saw you / And I haven't had anything to eat for a day or two

7. If I called you tonight / I would be giving in

8. Don't start me talking / I could talk all night / My mind goes sleepwalking / While I'm putting the world to right Oliver's Army, Elvis Costello (rushthatspeaks)

9. Couldn't sleep so I went out walking / Thinking about you and hearing us talking

10. When I'm out walking, I strut my stuff / Then I'm so strung out Blister In the Sun, Violent Femmes (marzipan_pig)

11. I wander hopelessly trying to think about me / I'm trying to forget the things that dwell on me

12. Maybe I'm still hurting / I can't turn the other cheek

13. Let me take you on a trip / Around the world and back

14. Lime and limpid green, a second scene / A fight between the blue you once knew

15. I dream in colors / I walk the straight line / I wanna die but I'll just smile and bide my time

16. You know it'll be there / You just push on through

17. Came from the skies / Burst through the gates / With no mercy or disguise

18. Oh Sally, my dear, it's you I'd be kissing / She smiled and replied you don't know what you're missing

19. Romeo, where'd you go? / It's been years and still no sign

20. I've found a way to make you / I've found a way / A way to make you smile

21. Oh I've been traveling on a boat and a plane / In a car on a bike with a bus and a train

22. Out on the wily, windy moors / We'd roll and fall in green Wuthering Heights, Kate Bush (marzipan_pig)

23. Hear the rain falling from the mizzenmast / Feel the pain, knowing that you cannot last

24. Yo, this song, yo, this song is for all the women out there / That have been lied to by their men

25. Saturday night and I'm sitting in Andy's closet / While he's on the phone with his girlfriend

Removed: repeat artists (1), unintelligible or non-English (1), obscure covers of incredibly popular songs (1), those with titles in the first two lines (9)

Number of these I could guess myself: 4 or 5?

Comments

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

5 INVISIBLE SUN Police
10 BLISTER IN THE SUN Violent Femmes
13 [from VIOLATOR] Depeche Mode
22 WUTHERING HEIGHTS Kate Bush

Those were the obvious ones, and I don't think I can get further.

[swanjun.livejournal.com]

Waah, you got the only two I knew (10 and 22).

[jinian.livejournal.com]

A lot of them are pretty obscure. I knew you would get 22 (though you have no way of knowing that it was actually the Josh Pyke cover). Half points for 13.

I'm hoping everyone tries it. There are songs from very different genres here, but I think likers of all of them are represented on my FL.

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

Hoisted on my own 'just post them even if they are a cover' petard!

It's possible that I don't actually know the name of 13 but someone else will.

[hattifattener]

#1 is the All-Purpose Folk Song (Flash Girls?)

[jinian.livejournal.com]

That is correct!

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

8 is Elvis Costello. Because my brain is fried today and I haven't listened to any music in a while, I am not one hundred percent certain that it is 'Oliver's Army'; but fairly.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Right!