Random songs and snippets thereof.

[vakkotaur]

Via mycroftb: On your current playlist, hit shuffle and pick the first twenty songs on the list (no matter how cheesy or embarrassing), and write down your favorite line of the song. Try to avoid putting the song title in the line. Then, have your friends comment and see if they know the songs.

I did make one cheat. I skipped over the one non-vocal that showed up.

1. The stars are out tonight in all their glory.


2. Correlate, tabulate, process and screen, program, printout, regress to the mean.


3. Ah, Petrushka, they're playing our song.


4. We've got a heckuva job to do, but you can bet that we'll see it through.


5. Those eastern Winters, I can't endure 'em, so every year I pack my gear and come out here 'til Purim.


6. In '88 still not complete, a contractor's salvation.


7. And who was Sandy Duncan in Veronica Lake on the Dyna Shore east of Audry Meadows?


8. Our scientists have admitted that we're five years behind. And if that's true, I'm telling you this hiddin' place is mine.


9. Just a plain bomb is bad, but that A-bomb is worse, and they done named that H-bomb well.


10. Let's party with centaurs...


11. If you get advice from the fish in the river, it's surely a sign that you're stark raving mad.


12. No matter how I try, I simply can't get high, but'ch ya ought to see the way I climb a tree!


13. ...warning signs, electric fences, HIGH VOLTAGE!


14. We have every convenience that man that devised in the year 1573.


15. But lately I have been spotted, with a Big Mac on my breath, stumbling into a Colonel Sanders with a face as white as death.


16. Hey, I don't care if you don't think she's there, I'll just keep her for myself.


17. Be careful my dear brothers, don't take away the joy, just use it for the good of man and never to destroy.


18. My Pop is still in the factory because he don't know what time it happens to be.


19. She's just the way I want her to be, a million times hotter than TNT.


20. But I know it will all make sense, if you love me in the present tense.

And this really is from the playlist I had up already and I'm not actively trying to be obscure.

Comments

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

1. MoM: Brother Gregory.

13: AC/DC: Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap.)

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

1. Yes, though the title I have is "Star Lover".
13. Actually, the version I was listening to was "Dirty Deeds (Done with sheep)" but it is a very close match to the original.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

Oops, well, maybe MoM use 'Brother Gregory" as the title. Craig of Farrington uses the "Starlover" title.

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

I tend to blend the two together, just because Craig so often plays with them. I have the mp3 here as well.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

Got it. I tend not to recall the band/performer name most of the time. And I did just have a go, albeit not much of one, at your list.

[michaelmink.livejournal.com]

I, for one, recognize three of the songs, 2 and 15 being Dr. Demento warhorses, and 6 being a song supplied to me by Vakko.

Starting out on my iPod with one song, and skipping over any songs without vocals, we have...

1. "All that you wear/is a little here and there/in the Congo, in the Congo/You get a villa up a tree/and you'll be high society/with a view of a swamp where the alligators romp..."

2. "In the Bronx of New York City/lives a girl she's not so pretty/Leena/is her name./Such a clever girl is Leena/how she plays her concertina/really it's a shame."

3. "A lot of shoes/a lot of rice/the groom is nervous/he answers twice."

4. "There's a man that every little kid adores/they like him even better than old Santa Claus./He's the greatest man the country knew/gee you ought to know who I'm referring to."

5. "Life upon the wicked stage ain't ever what a girl sup-poses/Stage Door Johnnies aren't raging over you with gems and ro-ses."

6. "Memories of just one sweet kiss/one that I always will remisce..."

7. "Beale Street Momma won't you come back home/it ain't proper to leave your poppa all alone."

8. "When you're after/fun and laughter/this aggravates you/some reformers say a warmer/climate awaits you."

9. "I'm walking around in circles/around and around/like a merry-go-round/I'm always groping/and hoping/to find the one little lane/to take me home again."

10. "Southern trees bear a strange fruit/blood on the leaves and blood at the root."

11. "Tear up your poker deck/and play no more/follow, follow the fold."

12. "She had a million dollars/worth of nickels and dimes/she sat around and counted 'em all/a million times."

13. "Love me or leave me/and let me be lonely/you won't believe me/and I love you only/I'd rather be lonely/than happy with somebody else."

14. "With a song in my heart/I behold your adorable face/just a song to the stars/but it's soon a hymn to your grace."

[timmowarner.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm... I don't think I know any of those.

I'm not doing very well at these.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Most amusing. There are no vocals on my list. Not one. Would make it hard to guess, wouldn't it?

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

Aye, that it would.

[michaelmink.livejournal.com]

I probably should have mentioned: (6) is Interstate Highway System, (2) is the chain gang song parody Workin' on the Xerox Line, and (15) is Junk Food Junkie.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

Right on all counts, though #2 is White Collar Holler by Stan Rogers.

[pharwarner.livejournal.com]

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6. Interstate Highway System.
7.
8. Sputniks and Muttniks
9. Atomic Sermon
10.
11. Advice from the Animals
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13. Dirty Deeds, Done With Sheep
14.
15.
16. Centaur Girlfriend
17. Atomic Power
18. 5 O'Clock Whistle
19. Atom Bomb Baby
20.

I thought I'd do better, I feel so ashamed. :0)

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

Don't be. You got more than most folks did, and certainly some of the stuff few would get. I suppose sometime this weekend I'll re-list these with title (and artist if I can find that information).