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featherynscaleI remember a feeling when I was in college, and I had missed a couple of classes in a row, and I didn't want to go back to the class, because I didn't know how much I'd missed, or where we were, or if I was going to ask a question that had already been covered in depth. Having LJ down for a bit produces the same feeling -- I'm vaguely embarrassed to post, because it's been so long since I posted.
Luckily, I'm never too embarrassed for games. So here's one, nicked from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
druidevo:
1. Pick one dozen songs that are ones that you have special feelings about.
2. Pick a few lyrics that mean something to you.
3. As people guess the song, strike out that entry.
4. If possible, after the song is guessed, explain why that song made the list.
1. "For the May Day is the great day, sung along the old straight track. And those who ancient lines did lay will heed the song that calls them back"
Cup of Wonder, Jethro Tull. The second line here has more potential wordplay packed into it than you usually get in a whole song, but I always wonder if they meant it to be like that, or if it just sort of, you know, happened.
2. "I dreamt about you last night, and I fell out of bed twice. You can pin and mount me like a butterfly."
Reel Around the Fountain, The Smiths. Included because it seemed silly to make a list of favorite songs without including at least one by The Smiths, and because this is, for some reason, one of the absolute sexiest song lines ever. At least in my world.
3. "You shouldn't mess with me, I'll ruin everything you are. I'll give you television, I'll give you eyes of blue."
China Girl, David Bowie. The implication that television will ruin everything you are is dear to my heart.
4. "When I think of heaven, (Deliver me in a black-winged bird), I think of flying down into a sea of pens and feathers and all other instruments of faith and sex and God in the belly of a black-winged bird."
Rain King, Counting Crows. No reason. I just like this song more than there's any need to.
5. "I'll tell them what the smile on my face meant (My heart going boom boom boom) "Hey" I said "You can keep my things, they've come to take me home.""
Solsbury Hill, Peter Gabriel. Near and dear to the sort of person who's convinced that wherever it is that they are is somewhere they don't belong.
6. " "We're not gonna make it" He explained how the end will come - You and me were never meant to be part of the future"
7. "Excess ain't rebellion - you're drinking what they're selling."
Rock & Roll Lifestyle, Cake. Also noteworthy for inclusion of the lines "Your liver pays dearly now for youthful magic moments, but rock on, completely, with some brand new components!
8. "Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline."
It's the End of the World as We Know it (And I Feel Fine), REM. I tried to get this selected for the class song of my graduating class in high school. Too late - hardly anybody knew it. I mean, it's So Old.
9. "You make me forget myself, I thought I was someone else, someone good."
10. "Can you extract me from my plastic fantasy? I didn't think so, but I'm still convinceable"
11. "Why each of us must choose, I've never understood, one special friend, one true love -- Why each of us must lose everyone else in the world"
12. "If you look at the soil around any large U.S. city with a big underground homosexual population - Des Moines,Iowa, perfect example. Look at the soil around Des Moines, you can't build on it, you can't grow anything in it."
Stuart, Dead Milkmen. A major part of the reason why for many years, I was not sure that Des Moines, Iowa was a real place, and why when I came to Kansas City, I always snickered at road signs for 35 N.
And special bonus: 13. "You can change the world in tiny ways, go on, change the world in a tiny way"
Luckily, I'm never too embarrassed for games. So here's one, nicked from
druidevo:1. Pick one dozen songs that are ones that you have special feelings about.
2. Pick a few lyrics that mean something to you.
3. As people guess the song, strike out that entry.
4. If possible, after the song is guessed, explain why that song made the list.
Cup of Wonder, Jethro Tull. The second line here has more potential wordplay packed into it than you usually get in a whole song, but I always wonder if they meant it to be like that, or if it just sort of, you know, happened.
Reel Around the Fountain, The Smiths. Included because it seemed silly to make a list of favorite songs without including at least one by The Smiths, and because this is, for some reason, one of the absolute sexiest song lines ever. At least in my world.
China Girl, David Bowie. The implication that television will ruin everything you are is dear to my heart.
Rain King, Counting Crows. No reason. I just like this song more than there's any need to.
Solsbury Hill, Peter Gabriel. Near and dear to the sort of person who's convinced that wherever it is that they are is somewhere they don't belong.
6. " "We're not gonna make it" He explained how the end will come - You and me were never meant to be part of the future"
Rock & Roll Lifestyle, Cake. Also noteworthy for inclusion of the lines "Your liver pays dearly now for youthful magic moments, but rock on, completely, with some brand new components!
It's the End of the World as We Know it (And I Feel Fine), REM. I tried to get this selected for the class song of my graduating class in high school. Too late - hardly anybody knew it. I mean, it's So Old.
9. "You make me forget myself, I thought I was someone else, someone good."
10. "Can you extract me from my plastic fantasy? I didn't think so, but I'm still convinceable"
11. "Why each of us must choose, I've never understood, one special friend, one true love -- Why each of us must lose everyone else in the world"
Stuart, Dead Milkmen. A major part of the reason why for many years, I was not sure that Des Moines, Iowa was a real place, and why when I came to Kansas City, I always snickered at road signs for 35 N.
And special bonus: 13. "You can change the world in tiny ways, go on, change the world in a tiny way"
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Date: 2005-01-17 07:26 am (UTC)#12 I *think* is TMBG, but I haven't the slightest idea on the song title...
Other than that I haven't a clue...
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Date: 2005-01-17 08:02 am (UTC)3- China Girl, Bowie
4- Counting Crows, Rain King
5- Peter Gabriel, Salisbury Hill
7- Cake, Rock and Roll Lifestyle
8- REM, end of the world as we know it
*light flicks on over head*
Date: 2005-01-17 09:00 am (UTC)2 - Smiths, Reel Around the Fountain
12 - Dead Milkmen, Stuart
Good job, excellent choices!
I'm too late
Date: 2005-01-17 12:54 pm (UTC)Now I'm going to have "China Girl" running through my head all day.
Don't think of this weekend like missing a couple days of class; think of it more like a couple snow days that everyone missed.
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Date: 2005-01-17 01:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-17 02:39 pm (UTC)However, I must have a copy of whatever #2 is. You know, for inspiration and stuff.
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Date: 2005-01-17 04:36 pm (UTC)Not my trad, man. ;)
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Date: 2005-01-17 04:56 pm (UTC)Nooooooooo!!
Date: 2005-01-17 07:12 pm (UTC)3) China Girl by David Bowie
4) Rain King by Counting Crows
8) It's the End of the World As We Know It by REM
humphf, I may now have to come up with some myself.