lyrics game

[curgoth]

Lyrics Game

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 40 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly. Remove from the list when guessed.
Step 4: For those who are guessing -- looking the lyrics up on a search engine is cheating, and really, an awful lot of work. Also Santa will know and give you coal for Xmas.



Complete list of answers!
1 Rasputina, Rose K
2 My Scarlet Life, This Fine Line
3 Shriekback, Exquisite Corpse
4 Dresden Dolls, Androgynous (cover)
5 Crematory, Time For Tears
6 Spahn Ranch, Vortex
7 T.O.Y., Dream With Me
8 Nanochrist, I, Robot
9 Deathboy, We Will Destroy
10 The Cure, Open
11 Penal Colony, Third Life
12 Nick Cave, (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For
13 Amanda Palmer, Astronaut: A Short History of Nearly Nothing
14 David Bowie, Everyone Says 'Hi'
15 Black Tape For a Blue Girl, Our Future Imagined
16 And One, To Get You Closer
17 The Changelings, Outrun Your Fears
18 Apoptygma Berzerk, Deep Red
19 KOMPRESSOR, Kompressor Middle School
20 Front 242, Im Rhythmus Bleiben
21 The Dresden Dolls, Girl Anachronism
22 This Ascension, In The Flat Fields (cover)
23 RHPS cast, Rose Tint My World
24 Swarf, Vision
25 New Order, Chemical
26 L7, (Right On) Thru
27 David Bowie, Within You
28 KMFDM, Waste
29 The Cure, Round and Round and Round...
30 The Vampire Beach Babes, Tomb Mau Mau
31 A Perfect Circle, Renholder
32 Evil Dead Cast, Cabin in the Woods
33 Killing Joke, Love Like Blood
34 Ohgr, Suhleap
35 Einsturzende Neubauten, Ein Stuhl in der Holle
36 Johnny Cash, Hurt
37 Bauhaus, Hollow Hills
38 Rotersand, Move On
39 Rita Lynch, Call Me Your Girlfriend
40 Strong Bad, Strong Bad Techno

1. She doesn't know the man who tries to push her wheelchair
   in the sand Rose K. by Rasputina, guessed by corwin77


2. I walk alone on the fine line


3. Up the stairs, go through the cupboards, secrets are to
   me Shriekback, Exquisite Corpse, guessed by diaphoni


4. Here come Dick, he's wearing a skirt
   Androgynous, originally by someone other than the Dresden Dolls. (The Replacements) *Cover*. Guessed by corwin77


5. Time for tears - caught in fire


6. Cleanse this disease


7. Stars you try to catch so close to the sky


8. Shutting out external stimuli, like you and all your hurt and lies


9. We will destroy


10. I really don't know what I'm doing here


11. Roadkill fascination, Isn't that the way to do it


12. I've felt you coming girl, as you drew near


13. Is it enough to have some love? Amanda Palmer,
    Astronaut: A Short History of Nearly Nothing, guessed by corwin77


14. Said you took a big trip, they said you'd moved
    away David Bowie, Everyone Says "Hi", guessed by marev


15. i wish we could return


16. Receiving you, the games we ever knew now And One, Get You Closer, guessed by rednikki


17. Outrun your fears


18. Deep red is blurring my eyes


19. Take your books out, and read them to the end


20. Einatmen, ausatmen, einatmen, ausatmen


21. Well you can tell by the scars on my arms The Dresden Dolls, Girl Anachronism, guessed by mycrazyhair


22. A gut pull drag on me *Cover*


23. It was great when it all began mcroft has guessed that this is from RHPS. lovecraftienne got the title - Rose Tint My World


24. Stand on the edge where the vision is clear


25. Any kind of fool with the will to live


26. Well I hate the rain when I drive L7, (Right on)
    Thru, guessed by diaphoni


27. How you turn my world you precious thing David Bowie, Within Youtryslora got it.


28. What I don't know I don't like


29. Round and round and round we go! Round and Round
    and Round... by the Cure, guessed by athena_51


30. So where is this great vampire? Tomb Mau Mau by the Vampire Beach Babes, guessed by misslynx


31. Humble and helpless, learning to pray ? by A Perfect Circle, band
    guessed by diaphoni


32. We're all taking a car, and we're driving really
    far Evil Dead Cast, Cabin in the Woods, Guessed by corwin77


33. We must play our lives like soldiers in the field Love Like Blood by the Killing Joke, guessed by rednikki


34. crashes time out of place facing take off faster


35. Ein stuhl in der hölle Einsturzende Neubauten, band guessed by
    marev


36. I hurt myself today *Cover* Johnny Cash covering NiN's Hurt, guessed by mcroft


37. Ancient earthwork fort and barrow


38. Searching for silence, escaping the pain


39. Lover didn't need you, lover didn't want you


40. The System is down Strong Bad Techno, by Strong
    Bad. Guessed by corwin77

Comments

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

36 hurt, johnny cash(--or else kermit the frog)
23 rhps, dammit, I forget the title

[curgoth]

Yup, it was the Johnny Cash version. And you're right on 23.

[poeticalpanther.livejournal.com]

Isn't 23 Rose Tint My World? I know it's Columbia's lines.

[curgoth]

yup

[kalivor.livejournal.com]

Rose Tint My World ... it is bizarre that this was on both our lists.

[tryslora]

#36 is obvious, but the question is which cover? The cover I have happens to be Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt" (which yeah, that doomsday voice and those lyrics... mmm...), but I remember seeing at least one more out there recently and I am totally failing on remembering who did it.

[curgoth]

Johnny Cash.

I haven't run into another cover recently, unless you count Lore's Nine Inch Noels.

[tryslora]

I could swear I saw one, but I could be misremembering too. I've been all over the place hunting music lately. I'll have to see if I can bump into it again. *thoughtful*

[tryslora]

Oh, and is #27 "As the World Falls Down" by Bowie in Labyrinth?

[curgoth]

You are very close...

[tryslora]

"Within You", yes? I realized after I posted that comment that I had the wrong song...

[curgoth]

yup

[mycrazyhair.livejournal.com]

21 - "Girl Anachronism" by Dresden Dolls

[curgoth]

yup

[delerium69.livejournal.com]

Wow, other than the Johnny Cash cover of NIN I got nothin'. Truly sad.

[curgoth]

Don't feel bad - this is my music, and I wouldn't get more than 50% here. I had to trust the internet for the lyrics to a couple because I've *never* been able to make them out clearly.

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

I believe #30 is "Tomb Mau Mau" by the Vampire Beach Babes.

Apart from that, I don't recognize any of the others except ones that have already been guessed.

[curgoth]

Yup

[olletho.livejournal.com]

yeah this is difficult.

I'm thinking maybe some of these deserved two lines.
:P

29 is putting me in mind of The Cure but I'm not sure.

[curgoth]

Some of them I did bring along a bit more than the first line to try to make it easier.


And The Cure is probably the right way to be thinking for 29.

[marev.livejournal.com]

Number 14 is Everyone says "Hi" by David Bowie

and I want to say number 35 is Neubauten, just because it sounds German, but really I have no other basis for that guess.

[curgoth]

Correct on 14, and you're right on the band for 35.

[corwin77.livejournal.com]

1. Rose K. - Rasputina
40. Strong Bad Techno song? - Strong Bad?

[corwin77.livejournal.com]

WAIT! Also 13. Astronaut - Amanda Palmer...now you have to get the Amanda Palmer one off of mine.

[corwin77.livejournal.com]

4. Androgynous - Dresden Dolls.

[corwin77.livejournal.com]

32. Cabin in the Woods - Evil Dead the Musical soundtrack

[curgoth]

Took you long enough.

[corwin77.livejournal.com]

Yeah and it took YOU long enough to...suck! :P

[50-ft-queenie.livejournal.com]

10. The Cure - Not sure of the song, but I think the album it's from is Wish.

29. Love and Rockets - Ball of Confusion

[curgoth]

10 - yes on both counts
29 - Nope. Though I wonder if if I have the L+R track and if it also starts with the same line. olletho seemed to think it was the Cure, and she wasn't wrong...

[curgoth]

bingo

[night--watch.livejournal.com]

Ach, missed a few I knew.

16. Receiving you, the games we ever knew now

-David Bowie? Maybe?

I probably should know some of the others, but they may be lyrics I can't comprehend...

[curgoth]

Hmm. There are a few you might get if you paid close attention to the CDs I burned you, way back when.

16., though, is not Bowie.

[night--watch.livejournal.com]

Oh, likely. Close attention and I are often utter strangers. I'm not sure I would recgonize zir if we met on the subway.

[rednikki.livejournal.com]

16. Get You Closer by And One
33. A Love Like Blood by Killing Joke

[curgoth]

Right on both counts.

[diaphoni.livejournal.com]

3:Shriekback Exquisite Corpse
26: L7(right on) thru
31 A Perfect Circle Thomas

and I r done until I'm more caffinated

[curgoth]

Right on 3 and 26, wrong song title on 31...