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Subject: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist (hints!!)

Written By: Billy Florio on 11/02/04 at 12:23 am

ok, I have my Itunes playlist on, and whatever song it randomly lands on, in order, Im gonna give a lyric from (unless of course its an instrumental)...so, knowing my playlist, there may be some obscure stuff on here..Ill try not to make it too hard...  No Limit


Note: because it is randomly selected, there may be more than one song by one artist here


1)I said be careful his bow-tie is really a camera
Karen  America-Simon & Garfunkel
2)Hand me my nose ring
Indy Gent  Underground-Ben Folds Five
3)I seem pretty good and I guess that I could get crazy now, baby
Fragswife Kick out the Jams-MC5
4)He was thrown head over heels into the traffic coming on
Indy Gent  Fair-Ben Folds Five
5)Is this your name or a doctor's eye chart
Indy Gent  Dyslexic Heart-Paul Westerberg
6)I wanna kiss you every minute, every hour, every day
Joelle  I beleive in a thing called love-The Darkness
7) You're out of luck singing funeral songs
Same artist as number 20, off of a later album
8)You dress in pink and blue just like a child
lebeiw Steppin' out-Joe Jackson
9)No I cant forget tomarrow when I think of all my sorrow
cf  Without you-Harry Nilsson
10)Crockadile tears and a pockett full of tissues
the title is of similar meaning to a phrase "That's past all rational possiblities that one could think"
Mikey/???  ???-Elvis Costello and the Attractions
11)We're afraid to be alone, everybody got to have a home
a former Beatle, who made an album more or less filled with complete anguish towards another former Beatle
12)We could make each other happy, oh we could make each other happy
Gaylon  Jump into the fire-Harry Nilsson
13)The Teenagers who love you, they will wake up, yawn, and kill you
Mikey  You know I wouldn't last-Morrissey
14) Oh say say say, oh say say say, oh say say say, oh say say say.  Wait, they dont love you like I love you, wait they dont love you like I love you
KimberIndy  Maps-Yeah Yeah Yeahs
15)You're such a wonderful person, but you got problems, oh let me touch you
  This is from his album Low and his Berlin Triligy with Brian Eno
Fragswife/???  ???-David Bowie
16)Cause the man from Mars stopped eating cars and eating bars, and now he only eats guitars
lebeiw  Rapture-Blondie
17)So I looked around and I noticed there wasnt a chair
Tanya  Norweiggwen Wood (this bird has flown)-Beatles
{Skip the Flaming Lip's "Psychiatric exploration of the fetus with needles" because no one in their right minds will get it}

18) Left you at eight, came back at nine
60s garage one hit wonders.  You can find them on a Nuggets set, or maybe one of them is a lion hearted King of England
19)What a life you've never seen, woman
KimberIndy  Rhiannon-Fleetwood Mac
20) She's got a cigarette on each arm
KimberIndy  The New Polution-Beck
21)Well it's too late to say Im sorry, How would I know, why should I care?
Jaytee  She's Not there-The Zombies
22)Come and join the party baby
One of the last great songs from a band that had it's fairwell tour in the 80s, but somehow reunited, and then suffered the loss of another one of their members (and are still going on)
23)Knocked the shirt right off his back, aint got nuthin' at all
same artist as 29.  this is the last song off an album called Loaded
24)I know what you're doing, I know where you've been, I know where, but I dont care, cause there's a no such thing as an original sin
 When you're wife says this phrase to you, you know it means the complete opposite..and boy are you gonna pay
Mikey/???  ???-Elvis Costello
25) Wish I was a Kelloggs Cornflake, floating in my bowl
KimberIndy  Punky's Dilemma-Simon & Garfunkel
26) Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust
Cat  London Calling-The Clash
27)The grave remains of a friendship start
a band popular in the Movie Garden State...off their album Choutes too narrow
28) Everytime we're together, your love is moving like lightning through me, it's such a beautiful feeling
Mikey/Fragswife  Heaven Knows-Grass Roots
29)Im looking for Miss Linda Lee
KimberIndy  Cool it down-Velevet Underground
30)Im high as a kite, I just might, stop to check you out
Fragswife  Blister in the sun-Violent Femmes


Just for guessing purposes...I'll tell you this:
number of songs on playlist: 1164
Artists with most songs on my playlists:
The Clash
David Bowie
Elvis Costello
Flaming Lips
Beastie Boys
Beach Boys
Beatles
The Kinks
The Smiths
Velvet Underground
Weezer
White Stipes
Blondie
Sloan

thats just by looking at it though..that may or may not help you probability wise..your call

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist

Written By: lebeiw15 on 11/02/04 at 12:36 am

8.  STEPPIN' OUT--JOE JACKSON!!!!!!!
16.  Rapture--Blondie :P

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist

Written By: Billy Florio on 11/02/04 at 12:38 am


8.  STEPPIN' OUT--JOE JACKSON!!!!!!!
16.  Rapture--Blondie :P


both right, but Im shocked you didnt get another one

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist

Written By: fragswife on 11/02/04 at 12:46 am

30.  Blister in the Sun  (by the Violent Femmes)

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist

Written By: Billy Florio on 11/02/04 at 12:48 am


30.  Blister in the Sun  (by the Violent Femmes)


correct

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist

Written By: CeramicsFanatic on 11/02/04 at 1:08 am

Hi Billy!

#9 is "Without You" by Nilsson.  :)

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist

Written By: Billy Florio on 11/02/04 at 1:29 am


Hi Billy!

#9 is "Without You" by Nilsson.  :)


right!

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist

Written By: Tanya1976 on 11/02/04 at 1:37 am

#17 Norweigan Wood - The Beatles

Tanya

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist

Written By: Billy Florio on 11/02/04 at 2:41 am


#17 Norweigan Wood - The Beatles

Tanya


there we go

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist

Written By: jaytee on 11/02/04 at 6:25 am

Hiya Billy

#21  She's Not There - Zombies

There's a couple more there that I know but I just can't pick em :(

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist

Written By: karen on 11/02/04 at 7:07 am

#1 is by Simon and Garfunkel - America

jaytee got the other one I recognised

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist

Written By: Gaylon on 11/02/04 at 8:06 am

12. sounds like Jump Into the Fire by Harry Nillson

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist

Written By: Joelle on 11/02/04 at 11:59 am

6. I Believe in a Thing Called Love- The Darkness (I think that's the correct band.)

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist

Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/02/04 at 12:43 pm

#26. London Calling-The Clash




Cat

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist

Written By: Indy Gent on 11/02/04 at 6:44 pm

2. Underground-Ben Folds 5
4. Fair-Ben Folds 5
5. Dyslexic Heart-Paul Westerberg, formerly of The Replacements.

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist

Written By: Billy Florio on 11/02/04 at 7:23 pm

all are right...and Im very happy someone got that Paul Westerberg one....

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist

Written By: KimberIndy on 11/03/04 at 10:27 pm

19.  Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac

20.  The New Pollution - Beck

25.  Punky's Dilemma - Paul Simon

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist

Written By: Billy Florio on 11/04/04 at 1:34 am


19.  Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac

20.  The New Pollution - Beck

25.  Punky's Dilemma - Paul Simon


and right you are

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist

Written By: KimberIndy on 11/04/04 at 11:48 am

14.  Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

26.  London Calling - The Clash

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist

Written By: Billy Florio on 11/04/04 at 6:23 pm


14.  Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

26.  London Calling - The Clash


London calling was already gotten, but Maps is right

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist (hints!!)

Written By: Mike Florio on 11/07/04 at 9:07 pm


ok, I have my Itunes playlist on, and whatever song it randomly lands on, in order, Im gonna give a lyric from (unless of course its an instrumental)...so, knowing my playlist, there may be some obscure stuff on here..Ill try not to make it too hard...  No Limit


Note: because it is randomly selected, there may be more than one song by one artist here


1)I said be careful his bow-tie is really a camera
Karen  America-Simon & Garfunkel
2)Hand me my nose ring
Indy Gent  Underground-Ben Folds Five
3)I seem pretty good and I guess that I could get crazy now, baby
also did a song called "Shaken Street"
4)He was thrown head over heels into the traffic coming on
Indy Gent  Fair-Ben Folds Five
5)Is this your name or a doctor's eye chart
Indy Gent  Dyslexic Heart-Paul Westerberg
6)I wanna kiss you every minute, every hour, every day
Joelle  I beleive in a thing called love-The Darkness
7) You're out of luck singing funeral songs
Same artist as number 20, off of a later album
8)You dress in pink and blue just like a child
lebeiw Steppin' out-Joe Jackson
9)No I cant forget tomarrow when I think of all my sorrow
cf  Without you-Harry Nilsson
10)Crockadile tears and a bucket full of dentures (??? I think thats what he says)
same artist as 24
11)We're afraid to be alone, everybody got to have a home
a former Beatle, who made an album more or less filled with complete anguish towards another former Beatle
12)We could make each other happy, oh we could make each other happy
Gaylon  Jump into the fire-Harry Nilsson
13)The Teenagers who love you, they will wake up, yawn, and kill you
(Former Smith's frontman's last song off an album called You are the Quarry )
14) Oh say say say, oh say say say, oh say say say, oh say say say.  Wait, they dont love you like I love you, wait they dont love you like I love you
KimberIndy  Maps-Yeah Yeah Yeahs
15)You're such a wonderful person, but you got problems, oh let me touch you
The musicial genius of the 70s.  This is from his Berlin Triligy with Brian Eno
16)Cause the man from Mars stopped eating cars and eating bars, and now he only eats guitars
lebeiw  Rapture-Blondie
17)So I looked around and I noticed there wasnt a chair
Tanya  Norweiggwen Wood (this bird has flown)-Beatles
{Skip the Flaming Lip's "Psychiatric exploration of the fetus with needles" because no one in their right minds will get it}

18) Left you at eight, came back at nine
60s garage one hit wonders.  You can find them on a Nuggets set, or maybe one of them is a lion hearted King of England
19)What a life you've never seen, woman
KimberIndy  Rhiannon-Fleetwood Mac
20) She's got a cigarette on each arm
KimberIndy  The New Polution-Beck
21)Well it's too late to say Im sorry, How would I know, why should I care?
Jaytee  She's Not there-The Zombies
22)Come and join the party baby
One of the last great songs from a band that had it's fairwell tour in the 80s, but somehow reunited, and then suffered the loss of another one of their members (and are still going on)
23)Knocked the shirt right off his back, aint got nuthin' at all
same artist as 29.  this is the last song off an album called Loaded
24)I know what you're doing, I know where you've been, I know where, but I dont care, cause there's a no such thing as an original sin
same artist as 10.  he was originally backed by the Stiff Little Fingers before the Attractions and the Impostors
25) Wish I was a Kelloggs Cornflake, floating in my bowl
KimberIndy  Punky's Dilemma-Simon & Garfunkel
26) Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust
Cat  London Calling-The Clash
27)The grave remains of a friendship start
a band popular in the Movie Garden State...off their album Choutes too narrow
28) Everytime we're together, your love is moving like lightning through me, it's such a beautiful feeling
(I never noticed how bad lyrics this song has)  a band known for their songs "Temptation Eyes", "Bella Linda" and "The River is wide"
29)Im looking for Miss Linda Lee
same artist as 23...this is off the same album too
30)Im high as a kite, I just might, stop to check you out
Fragswife  Blister in the sun-Violent Femmes




13. You know I wouldnt last-Morrisey
10 and 24 are Elvis Costello
28 is the grass roots

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist (hints!!)

Written By: Billy Florio on 11/10/04 at 12:08 am

right....cmon people, guess more

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist (hints!!)

Written By: fragswife on 11/10/04 at 9:19 pm

28.  Heaven Knows - Grass Roots

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist (hints!!)

Written By: fragswife on 11/10/04 at 9:27 pm

#15 is David Bowie (song???)

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist (hints!!)

Written By: Billy Florio on 11/11/04 at 12:01 am

right on both!

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist (hints!!)

Written By: fragswife on 11/11/04 at 8:07 pm

3.  Kick Out the Jams - MC5 (Motor City Five)

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist (hints!!)

Written By: KimberIndy on 11/12/04 at 5:54 pm

29.  Cool It Down - Velvet Underground

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist (hints!!)

Written By: Billy Florio on 11/12/04 at 6:21 pm

excellent!  KimberIndy, how did you get that was Cool it down? lol

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist (hints!!)

Written By: KimberIndy on 11/12/04 at 10:53 pm


excellent!  KimberIndy, how did you get that was Cool it down? lol


I love Velvet Underground! I was listening to it in the car this morning, and it struck me when I looked at your quiz again. Trivia is my curse!  :-\\

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist (hints!!)

Written By: fragswife on 11/12/04 at 10:59 pm

I struggle with lyrics also...  if you give me a few of the opening notes, I'll get it everytime.  Lyrics and I don't get along!

:-) fw

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist (hints!!)

Written By: Billy Florio on 11/12/04 at 11:19 pm


I struggle with lyrics also...  if you give me a few of the opening notes, I'll get it everytime.  Lyrics and I don't get along!

:-) fw

you seem to be doing good so far

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist (hints!!)

Written By: fragswife on 11/13/04 at 12:54 am



you seem to be doing good so far


Awww  shucks  :-[  thx Billy

Subject: Re: Random lyrics quiz from songs on my randomly playing playlist (hints!!)

Written By: Billy Florio on 12/18/04 at 7:03 pm

bump this

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