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the great lyrical challenge!
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PaleFigure
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 		the great lyrical challenge!
Actually put this in my LJ but since hardly anyone has seen it, let alone tried it, I thought you guys would enjoy having a crack.
Simple rules: I just set every song I have in my mp3 collection on random play. I selected 25 songs and chose a random line of lyrics from each one. I post the lyrics, and you try and guess the song name and artist who sang them.
I won't repeat the ones that have already been ID'ed in my LJ version, that would make it too easy for you though!
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1) "And on and on we'll keep churning them out, 'cause we put the 's' in 'hit' you know"
2) "Gonna take a trip around the world, there's more to life than kissing pretty girls" Fuzysheep
3) "I may be buried alive or just left in the dust, I'm fading as fast as my jeans"
4) "I only knew you for a while, I never saw your smile 'til it was time to go, time to go away" GreenWindmill
5) "And even though I'm back on Earth, I can still hear this sound"
6) "I am the bush and I am koala, we are one, go hand in hand" Daffy889
7) "My aunty told her I kissed a soldier, now she won't buy me a rubber dolly" Tobester
8 ) "It is dandy on brandy but hopeless on rum, loses its bearings and falls on its tum!"
9) "You're looking good just like a snake in the grass, one of these days you're gonna break your glass" Nightmare Tony
10) "We're coming to the edge, running on the water, coming through the fog, your sons and daughters" drizjr
11) "I'm hearing footsteps, come to collect debts. Next thing you know they'll be right at the door"
12) "But on the way back, I cuddled with Jack and we opened a bottle of cider" Slyfox
13) "She'll see a shadow pass overheard, she'll find a feather beside my bed"
14) "Hazards, meet a lot of hazards, meet a lot of hazards in my dugout canoe"
15) "You don't even mind if it starts to fade, that only makes it nicer still"
16) "He'd slice you silly if you got too friendly. If you value living better treat her gently"
17) "No, I don't listen to their wasted lines, got my eyes wide open and I see the signs"
18 ) "But not a real green dress, that's cruel" Gestas
19) "Then she stroked my thigh, looked me right in the eye and said something that I can't repeat!" BoJangles
20) "See chameleon, lying there in the sun. All things to everyone, run run away" addlepated
21) "A certain texture, that certain beat brings forth the night-time heat, chi-kow!"
22) "Light, shining from your illumination, good versus evil equals confrontation" BoJangles
23) "When my work is all done, and my race here is run, let me see by the light thou has shown"
24) "Now the harbour light is calling, this will be our last goodbye" Tobester
25) "And every night, night, night there is laughter" Daffy889
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 9:29 pm
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Gestas
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 		Without going all google-mad, I'm afraid only one line was recognisable to me:
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18. If I had a million dollars - Barenaked Ladies.


Question - are Google, and your LiveJournal allowed?

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PaleFigure
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 		the use of Google is frowned upon, but in all honesty I have no way of policing whether you use it or not. But it does remove all the fun of trying to figure out the lyrics yourself.
My LJ won't help because the only two songs that were identified there have been replaced in this version of the quiz.
That being said, you are correct in your Id. Congratulation on being the first!
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Gestas
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PaleFigure wrote:
the use of Google is frowned upon, but in all honesty I have no way of policing whether you use it or not. But it does remove all the fun of trying to figure out the lyrics yourself.


Well, in my case I can't use Google because I've already admitted that I don't know where the other lyrics come from Smile
(though the odd one sounds like it should be familiar)

If I had to guess, I would say number 6. was either Rolf Harris, Jon Farnham, or Midnight Oil Very Happy

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PaleFigure
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Gestas wrote:
If I had to guess, I would say number 6. was either Rolf Harris, Jon Farnham, or Midnight Oil Very Happy


No, but it is by an Australian performer with a beard. One who is known for his Australiana songs, especially that godawfully annoying "Hey True Blue".
This isn't that song, by the way.
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Nightmare Tony
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 		the snake in the grass line from #9 I heard before, 70s rock, wait, don't bring me down by elo.....
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 		Here's one I recognize.
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#10 Carly Simon's Let the River Run


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PaleFigure wrote:
Gestas wrote:
If I had to guess, I would say number 6. was either Rolf Harris, Jon Farnham, or Midnight Oil Very Happy


No, but it is by an Australian performer with a beard. One who is known for his Australiana songs, especially that godawfully annoying "Hey True Blue".
This isn't that song, by the way.


John Williamson! Is it from that "Rip Rip Woodchip" song or whatever it's called?

Edit - Oh, and #25 is Moscow by Genghis Khan.

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 		Re: the great lyrical challenge!
PaleFigure wrote:

20) "See chameleon, lying there in the sun. All things to everyone, run run away"

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Slade


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 		well done addlepated, I'd been waiting for somebody to get that one. I mean, heck, the song title was even written in it!
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PaleFigure wrote:
well done addlepated, I'd been waiting for somebody to get that one. I mean, heck, the song title was even written in it!

Heh, a pox on thy earworm, good sir!

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 		Hey, is #5

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Louis Prima - Beep Beep
???
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PaleFigure
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Dorkmaster wrote:
Hey, is #5

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Louis Prima - Beep Beep
???


No, but that name is familiar. Was that the song about the Chevy and the Volkswagon?
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"Yeah, pull your hat down a little."

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 		7) "My aunty told her I kissed a soldier, now she won't buy me a rubber dolly"
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" The Clapping Song" Aaron Carter

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PaleFigure
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Tobester wrote:
7) "My aunty told her I kissed a soldier, now she won't buy me a rubber dolly"
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" The Clapping Song" Aaron Carter


I actually have the version performed by The Belle Stars, but the song is correct so credit goes to you!
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