Meme!

[bubosquared]

1. Open Winamp/Windows Media Player and set your playlist to shuffle.
2. Record a lyric from the song. I'm doing fifty, so there's plenty of chances to win.
3. FLIST! GUESS THE LYRICS... GO!
4. I'll cross out and credit to the first person to guess correctly.

I take no responsability for any weirdness. I have a diverse taste in music, and my iPod is developing AI.

1. No pearly gates, no thorny crown (safti)
2. I shall possess within the veil / A life of joy and peace (rane_ab)
3. In a world of steel-eyed death, and men / Who are fighting to be warm. (carelessmemory)
4. You broke the bonds / And you loosed the chains / Carried the cross / Of my shame (kaiberie)
5. How long shall they kill our prophets / While we stand aside and look? (pj_princess)
6. That perfect feeling when time just slips
7. He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition (inruins)
8. And if my time on earth were through / And she must face this world without me (elance)
9. Breathing shifts your careless head / Untroubled by the chaos of our lives (carelessmemory)
10. I stop on red, but I leave on amber / Danger face my way (carelessmemory)
11. September’s coming soon / I’m pining for the moon (jamaisneutral)
12. The taste of love is sweet / When hearts like ours meet (rane_ab)
13. But you know that we shall meet again / If your memory serves you well. (evadne_)
14. My father he’s going crazy / Says I’m living in a trance
15. Nothing to do / Nowhere to go (pj_princess)
16. I am older than I once was, and younger than I'll be (rane_ab)
17. What should I say / what should I do / No way to hide / this feeling so true
18. And I been around the world / And I’ve tasted all the wines (elance)
19. Pour yourself all over me / And I'll cherish every drop here on my knees (pj_princess) (Lyric chosen for maximum pervness - ed.)
20. Avoiding all work / Cause there’s none available (evadne_)
21. Well my daddy worked the furnaces / Kept 'em hotter than Hell (carelessmemory)
22. I’ll be damned, here comes your ghost again / But that’s not unusual
23. Don't need reason / Don't need rhyme (rane_ab)
24. Christmas is here, bringing good cheer / To young and old, meek and the bold (elance)
25. Eye of newt and toe of frog / Wool of bat and tongue of dog (jamaisneutral)
26. She can wait if she wants, she's ahead of her time (waltzingalong)
27. We’ve got to hold on to what we’ve got / It doesn’t make a difference if we make it or not (evadne_)
28. Can I survive all the implications / Even if I tried could you be less than an addiction (jamaisneutral)
29. Your voice is small and fading / And you're hiding here alone
30. And although we're wearing different faces / Nobody wants to hide (rane_ab)
31. Like a fool, I fell in love with you, / You turned my whole world upside down
32. Valentine is done / Here but now they're gone (safti)
33. Now Watergate does not bother me / Does your conscience bother you? (kaiberie)
34. Here is fruit for the crows to pluck / For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck (pj_princess)
35. You been running all over the town now / I guess you gotta put your flat feet on the ground (carelessmemory)
36. Well there's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing (sparklyfabulous)
37. And did they get you trade your heroes for ghosts? (carelessmemory)
38. He was something to observe / Came in close, I heard a voice (safti)
39. They hurt you at home and they hit you at school (safti)
40. There's a world outside your window / And it's a world of dread and fear (waltzingalong)
41. Two drifters off to see the world / There's such a lot of world to see(wild_boys)
42. Ora, ora pro nobis peccatoribus / Nunc et in hora mortis / Et in hora mortis nostrae (jamaisneutral)
43. A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices / For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn (evadne_)
44. Those who died are justified for wearing the badge, they’re the chosen whites (jamaisneutral)
45. I know we've come a long way / We're changin' day to day
46. It's called the art of survival / In a modern age
47. I sometimes feel I should just go home / But I'm dealing with a memory that never forgets
48. I try to laugh about it / Cover it all up with lies (evadne_)
49. You pretend it doesn’t bother you, but you just want to explode (pj_princess)
50. Try imagining a place where it's always safe and warm (carelessmemory)

Edit: Whoops, missed two songs.

ETA2: Come on, people, you'ev guessed half, but there's a lot of easy ones left!

Comments

[unlovablehands.livejournal.com]

13. "This Wheel's on Fire" first artist who came to mind was Siouxsie & The Banshees, and I know it's a cover, but I forget of whom.
20. "Girls and Boys," Blur
27. "Livin' on a Prayer," Bon Jovi
43. "O Holy Night." I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume it's the *NSync version :)
48. "Boys Don't Cry," The Cure

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

13. It's originally written by Dylan, but the most famous version, the one I have, is by Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity.

43. sorry, I'm going to have to take that limb, it's the Vienna Boy's Choir. ^_^

[birdsflying]

#4 - Hurt, Jonny Cash
#25 - Harry and the potters? Dunno title
# Blue River? Um. No idea on artist

[birdsflying]

#41

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Nope, nope, and nope, I'm afraid. :(

[starbrow.livejournal.com]

8. "If Tomorrow Never Comes" In my universe, Garth Brooks sings it. :)

18. "Dance With You" Live. (I /love/ this song.)

24. "Carol of the Bells"

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

18. It is a great song!

[kaiberie.livejournal.com]

4. - I still haven't found what I'm looking for - u2
33. Sweet home alabama

I'll think about the rest...I love musical stuff :)

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Correctomundo! :D

[wild-boys.livejournal.com]

41 : Moon River? It's in Moon River, that line, anyway.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

You are correct indeed!

[waltzingalong.livejournal.com]

I'm not on your flist (found this on my friendsfriends page) but #26 is "She's Always A Woman" by Billy Joel, and #40 is whatever version you have of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" -- I think :)

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Right you are! And I have the original version, as I like to pretend this newfangled abomination doesn't exist. (Lalala, I cannae HEAR you!)

[jamaisneutral.livejournal.com]

11. REM - Nightswimming (how that song makes me cry)
25. that's from MacBeth, the witches song that they play in the beginning of Prisoner of Azkaban. right?
26. Always a woman to me - Billy Joel
28. Melissa Etheridge - The way I do
44. Fuck you I won't do what you tell me (headbangs) - Rage against the machine

[jamaisneutral.livejournal.com]

if my latin serves me well... the Ave Maria is in there as well, but I can't see the song list now... "pray for us in the hour of our death"...

[omgimnaked.livejournal.com]

5. How long shall they kill our prophets / While we stand aside and look?
Bob Marley-Redemption Song
11. September’s coming soon / I’m pining for the moon
REM-Nightswimming
15. Nothing to do / Nowhere to go
Um, The Ramones-I Wanna Be Sedated?
19. Pour yourself all over me / And I'll cherish every drop here on my knees (Lyric chosen for maximum pervness - ed.)
Jessica Simpson-I Wanna Love You Forever I HAD NO IDEA ABOUT THAT SONG OMG PERVY. lol
26. She can wait if she wants, she's ahead of her time
Billy Joel?-She's Always A Woman To Me (i know it from the cute redhead kid on american idol last season :p)
34. Here is fruit for the crows to pluck / For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
Billie Holliday-Strange Fruit
44. Those who died are justified for wearing the badge, they’re the chosen whites
Rage Against the Machine-fuck. i'm drawing a blank. i got the artist yey!
49. You pretend it doesn’t bother you, but you just want to explode
Bob Seger, Metallica if you like-Turn The Page

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

#11&26 had already been guessed, and I'm afraid you get no patrial credit for the RatM song, but you're dead on for everything else. Go you!

And, um, while I have both the Bob Seger and the Metallica version of Turn the Page, that one was by Nick Carter. Um.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Gold star for you!

[sparklyfabulous]

36 is definitely Counting Crows, but I'm not sure what song. Um.... oh! Mrs. Potter's Lullaby. I think. It's not from their first two albums, anyway.

(i love this meme a lot)

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Indeedelydoodely! ("Shut up, Flanders.)

[babyofthegroup.livejournal.com]

Rar. People have guessed all the ones I know! ::cries::

Now they're going to guess the so-called "easy" ones and I'm going to smack myself in the forehead, right?

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Quite probably! To be fair, a lot of the ones left are either kind of obscure, or I picked really difficult lyrics. But you really should know #2 ...

[carelessmemory.livejournal.com]

I'm not exactly on your flist but... it's a lyrics meme!! I wanna play. ;p

9. Eurythmics - When tomorrow comes
10. Metallica - It's electric
21. Bruce Springsteen - Youngstown
35. Lots of people have done it, The Commitments? - Mustang Sally
37. Pink Floyd - Wish you were here

3 and 50. Bob Dylan - Shelter from the storm

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Ack, I thought I'd skipped the doubles, dammit! *facepalm* You are, however, quite correct!

[rane-ab.livejournal.com]

30. Love Is All by Roger Glover and Guests. <3

[rane-ab.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me, our slashers' gathering will be on the 26th, or else Piglet's gf can't make it. :D

If it's possible, Sileas and I would meet you again on the 28th in Antwerp (sileas's holiday only starts on the 24th, so...). :-)

[safti]

1. Dear God. There've been a couple of covers, the one I'm most familiar with is Sarah Mclachlan.
32. Um, it looks like Don't Fear the Repear, CCR or HIM.
38. Solisbury Hill, Peter Gabriel. If not, I know Ms. Mclachlan did a cover of it. *grins*

Erk, that's all of the undone ones I have a clue about. I am amused that I can think of two versions per song, even if I can only identify five artists.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Dear God is originally by XTC, which is the version I've got, but I'll give you it anyway. And Don't Fear the Reaper is the original by Blue Oyster Cult. :)

[i-amthecosmos.livejournal.com]

1. "Dear God", XTC
39. "Working Class Hero", John Lennon

[wibbble]

Damn. #39 was the only one I knew. :op