song meme answers

[trinityvixen]

Answers to last Friday's song lyrics meme are below the LJ cut. There were so few missed, and the ones that weren't guessed didn't surprise me much.

The ones that were guessed are in italics; those no one got are in bold.

1. I looked under chairs/ I looked under tables/ I tried to find the key to 50 million fables
The Who – The Seeker

2. Been a whole lot easier since the bitch left town/ Been a whole lot happier without her face around
Spin Doctors – Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong

3. Make up your mind/ Decide to walk with me
Toadies – Possum Kingdom

4. She shines in a world full of ugliness/ She matters when everything is meaningless
NIN – The Fragile

5. I walked around my good intentions/ And found that there were none
Our Lady Peace – 4 AM

6. Blue like water/ Blue like heaven is/ All of the time
Marcy Playground – Opium

7. I come home in the morning light/ My mother says when you gonna live your life right?
Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Want to Have Fun

8. You're sorta stuck where you are/ But in your dreams you can buy expensive cars
The Flaming Lips – Bad Days

9. There's a little girl I know/ You might know her too
Reel Big Fish – I Want Your Girlfriend

10. Here come old flattop/ He come grooving up slowly
The Beatles – Come Together

11. I wasn't jealous before we met/ Now every woman I see is a potential threat
ABBA – Lay All Your Love on Me

12. Got a green light, gotta green light, yeah/ But I'm going nowhere.
Filter – The Best Things

13. Hey where did we go?/ Days when the rains came/ Down in the hollow/ Playin' a new game
Van Morrison – Brown-Eyed Girl

14. Sometimes I really want to be alone/ But that's one state I'm never in
“Weird Al” Yankovic – Germs

15. Rain, rain on my face/ Hasn't stopped raining for days
Jars of Clay – Flood

16. Blue jean baby/ L.A. lady/ Seamstress for the band
Elton John – Tiny Dancer

17. Crazy, but that's how it goes/ Millions of people living as foes
Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train

18. Pretty soon now/ Y'know I'm gonna make a comeback Joe Jackson – I’m the Man

19. Gotta make a move to a town that's right for me
Lipps Inc. – Funkytown

20. I've been searching for you/ I heard a cry within my soul
Lenny Kravitz – Again

21. Like a sentence of death/ I've got no options left
Rob Dougan – Furious Angels

22. C'est moi et les garcons/ voila, c'est notre vie/ nous pensons que c'est bon/ de dormir apres midi
Freezepop – Parlez-Vous Freezepop

23. I like to dream/ Yes, yes, right between my sound machine
Steppenwolf – Magic Carpet Ride

24. I, I look but never touch/ She says I drink too much/ I only think about myself, sex, and the couch
Zebrahead – The Hell that is My Life

25. See them walking hand in hand across the bridge at midnight
Duran Duran – Girls on Film

Final Scores:
chuckro - 5.5
edgehopper - 2
feiran - 5
hslayer - 2
ivy03 - 1
moonlightalice - 1
neo_levaithan - 2
saikogrrl - 4
viridian - 9

So viridian is the big winner! Her prize? My respect (for as long as I can remember to give it).

Comments

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Well, I edged out Feiran for second place. That counts for something. And looking over the list, I could never have matched Viridian, even if I'd guessed every song on this listed I'd ever heard before.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

You did do extremely well, however. I should do this every week and see how many songs in my iPod collection are really so out-there that no one guesses them (Duran Duran!?) and which ones are more popular than I thought (Our Lady Peace, Reel Big Fish...)

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

You consider Duran Duran more out there than Freezepop? I was under the impression that no one knew of their existence outside Harmonix games.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

It was a little bit unfair of me to even answer, given the amount of music we shared back and forth in college, but I think most of these I already had and already knew.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I was employing sarcasm as I expected, then and now, that so many people know Duran Duran that it's ridiculous no one knew that lyric.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Hey, I know lots of these songs on memes, but I don't get them right because I can't place them. You're getting point for placement ability much as anything else.