The original instructions are:

step 1: set your playlist on random and fire away.
step 2: pick your favorite lines from the first 15-25 songs that play.
step 3: those unlucky enough to have friended you should guess the lines.
step 4: cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly.


I added:

Mixtape to the person who can name the most.

That provision shall stand for this board, as well.


And the first 21 songs I decided upon were as follows:



01. I read the words you wrote, but I did not dare to quote, my friend, the lines you amend, like.. "what's so bad about dying, anyway?"

02. It makes you want to feel, makes you want to try, makes you want to pull the stars from the sky. And I can't stand up, I can't cool down, I can't get my head off the ground.

03. We played a show and no one came, we played and played it just the same.

04. I don't know where you find your nerve. I don't know how you choose your words.

05. I do what I can, do what I can, do do do do what I can..

06. No one's going to make it that much better, we can say goodnight and stay together.

07. There's a man holding a megaphone, he must have been the voice of god.

08. Everybody, come together, free.

09. I'm not as daft as Dostoevesky, I'm not as clever as Mark Twain. I'll only buy a book for the way it looks and then stick it on the shelf again.

10. The boy done good, the girl done better, the season's turned, but we're still together.

11. We want it and we want it now.

12. Lie down on the couch, what does that mean? You're a nut! You're crazy in the coconut!

13. Well, it's time to go home and I ain't even done with the night.

14. Passing through unconscious states. When I awoke, I was on the high-way.

15. Baby, you don't have to be a picture in a magazine.

16. We may well be the ones to set this world on its ear. We may well be the ones. If not, then why are we here?

17. Try to squeeze a drop of blood from a sugarcube.

18. Je t'aime the valley!

19. Every time I work out what I think I want, it slips away.

20. Someone told me long ago, there's a calm before the storm. I know, it's been coming for some time.

21. Pop open a bottle of bubbley. Here's to another goddamned New Year. And outside, 2000 drunk Bostonians are getting ready to sing Auld Lang Syne out of tune.


Have fun.

would you rather me post here or in your livejournal? i can only think of about 6 or 7 right now with a few that i know the band, but not the song.

Post here. I'll keep them separate and decree two different winners.

Weezer - Butterfly?

Jesus And Mary Chain - Head On

4) gbv - 'best of jill hives'
eight (not a smiley)) cat power - 'free'
10) billy bragg - 'the boy done better'
11) sunday's best - 'saccharine'
12) the avalanches - 'frontier psychiatrist'
14) dcfc - 'a movie script ending'
21) dismemberment plan - 'ice of boston'



i have a paper i should be writing.

Honorary medal goes to spizzle already.

I did not think anybody would get Sunday's Best.

there's no way i ever would have heard it otherwise had i not gotten it on a mixtape a few years ago. tis a darn fine song, too.

3. imperial teen - "you're one"
16. paul westerberg - "we may be the ones"

#11 could also be "world domination" by ash; it's just a general lyric.

9. belle & sebastian - "this is just a modern rock song"

Am I missing something? #6 is "God Only Knows" right?


edit - ahem, or "Wouldn't Be Nice" . . . i'm a jackass.

1 = sloan - the lines you amend

i suppose it would be looked down upon for one to google these lyrics?

5 - Violent Femmes - Never Tell
9 - Belle & Sebastian - This is just a modern rock song
13 - John cougar mellencamp - aint even done with the night
15 - Pretty girls make graves - this is our emergency
17 - Yo La Tengo - sugarcube
18 - Xiu Xiu - i luv the valley
20 - CCR - have you ever seen the rain

The rankings are:

splates - 2
spizzle trunk - 7
Z - 3
almost - 1
Patrick Bateman - 1
a mighty good leader - 6


#7 is the only one left. And frankly, I'm surprised that it hasn't been guessed yet. I thought it would have been chosen before Mellencamp or Westerberg for sure.

AMGL can guess it and tie ST, otherwise he's won.

is this a Bright Eyes song? can't remember the title...

it is... off of lifted "from a balance beam"

This amuses me for way too many reasons to list here...

Final score:

spizzle trunk - 7
a mighty good leader - 6
Z - 3
splates - 2
paladisiac - 1
Patrick Bateman - 1
almost - 1


I guess I owe a mix to the trunk.

hot diggity. we could continue this with each winner making up their own list of 21 under the same rules...

inspired by alongdrive, i did one this afternoon...lots of fun!

http://www.livejournal.com/users/kntel/58316.html

KPH

mine is pretty much halted.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/swth/145318.html

Make sure no Sigur Ros songs come up else we're fucked

ok here's mine:

1) i don't want to give the impression that predistination is set

2) they say we're all forsaken, well at least i try

3) your works of nature are unnatural

4) a beard half eaten - smiled, crawling with legs

5) it was me against the world, i was sure that i'd win

6) but you never looked hard at a fetus in a jar

7) i drove all the way from carpentersville to see you here tonight

eight) plan b arrived on a holiday

9) it's time for something biblical

10) i close my eyes so i won't see the things i'd have to try to get

11) 'cause everyone is rock 'em sock 'em robots

12) i haven't seen the sun or moon for twenty-seven years

13) knife me let's

14) she sat on his face and the rest is history

15) there's a girl with a crown and a scepter who's on WLSD

16) let's gather 'round the carcass of the old deflated beast

17) a rabbit falls away from me, i guess i'll crawl

eighteen) if you're gonna play your part, you must drink it down (drink it dow-ow-own...)

19) now something crawls right up my spine that i've always got to follow

20) i won't go out at night unless the corners there are bright

21) in the city of the future, it is difficult to concentrate

this is tough. i need to think more, but...

18. ted leo - "high party"

This made me realize how many instrumentals I have in my collection...

http://www.livejournal.com/users/neo_vincent/95386.html