Difficulty…
OK, I got this idea off Si’s blog (link –>)
You take the first 20 tracks off a random search on your iPod, list some lyrics from them and then see if anyone can guess what songs they’re from.
You’re not supposed to replace any of them, but two came up as instrumental (Charlie Parker & Stevie Ray Vaughan), and one as a near instrumental (Anyone who has heard Fantomas before will know what I mean) so I replaced those ones.
I reckon this is quite hard, so I’ve marked the easy\difficult ones for easy reference.
Guess Away!
1. (easy)
“Right about now, The funk soul brother”
2. (tough)
“I see the hoes and the hustlers
be piled up in clusters
since they upped the ante, and hooked up Giuliani”
3. (very tough)
“brooklyn is burning down the discotheque, lets shake it
I feel the fire tonight, I hear I hear the people cry ”
4. (70s - cover!)
“And now the marriage vow is very sacred,
The man has put us together now
You ought to make it … ”
5. (very tough)
“It could happen to you,
It could happen to me,
It’s so easy, so easy,
you don’t know ….”
6. (Tough)
“Follow me into the desert as thirsty as you are,
Crack a smile and cut your mouth and drown in alcohol.”
7. (Recent! Easy!)
“My best friend called me the other night
He said “Man - are you crazy”
My girlfriend told me to get a life
She said “Boy - are you lazy”
8. (you have no chance of getting this one)
“Not today,
Not tomorrow,
Not ever,
I’ll never be what you want me to be,
Don’t try to make a saint out of me”
9. (50s! - though I was listening to a Led Zepp cover version of it)
” a look a-there, here she comes
there comes that girl again
wanted to date her since i don’t know when
but she don’t notice me when i pass
she goes with all the guys from outa my class
but that can’t stop me from a-thinkin’ to myself
she’s sure fine lookin’ man … ”
10. (British Indie at it’s finest!)
“The world is in my chaos dream,
But I am not invited”
11. (Cover, but you’ll know the original better)
“I can’t help my feelings, I’ll go out of my mind
These players come to get me ’cause they’d like my behind
I can’t love my business if I can’t get a trick
Down on santa monica where tricks are for kids”
12. (early 90s - classic)
“Gotta find a way, a better way, when I’m there
Gotta find a way - a better way - better way ”
13. (Gracefully Easy)
“There’s the moon asking to stay
Long enough for the clouds to fly me away
Well it’s my time coming, I’m not afraid, afraid to die”
14. (very tough)
“The time is running out, the time is running, the water’s running out, the water’s running
The girl is running out, the girl is running, the girl is running out again”
15. (Mahinda, you should get this)
“The statue of liberty looks so solemn on the tv
100% risk of stepping outside
Every second too precious to try ”
16. (perfectly hard)
“Screaming feed me here
Fill me up again
Temporarily pacify this hungering”
17. (Hip to the Hop)
“Tell me why are we — so blind to see
That the ones we hurt — are you and me ”
18. (Very Tough)
“Makes you high makes you hide
Makes you really want to go, stop
Psycho, groupie, cocaine, crazy
Psycho groupie coke”
19. (Blues Rock)
“I want to shine for you
I want to sparkle too
Just like a diamond cursed”
20. (If you’ve heard this, it’s very easy)
“Alan’s mum & dad,
They brought him up quite well,
They taught him how to read & write,
And how to speak and spell”
