Ok, fine. I guess it’s my turn

So I’m a bit late in getting around to this meme, but here’s the deal (I’m stealing this version from atara):
This is a twist on the music meme. Load up your entire music directory/s into your player of choice, spin it to random, and list a random line from each song. Then you, fair reader, get to guess what each song is! There are 20 songs below, from a weird variety of genres. Post your guesses in the comments.

1. Let’s make Friday part of the weekend and give all of these people chocolate eclairs

2. She tries to forget but she hasn’t yet, not a single day goes by

3. Cause rockin’ and rollin’, it’s only howlin’ at the moon

4. I’ve done everything as you say, I’ve followed your rules without question.

5. If I follow along does it mean I belong or will I keep on feeling different from everybody else?

6. Allen baby, why so jaded? Have the boys all grown up and their beauty faded?

7. And the last one out of the circus has to lock up everything or the elephants will get out and forget to remember what you said

8. There’s a cold wind blowin’ through the old east side and it cuts with the devil’s curse

9. Daylight waits to shine until the moment you awaken so you never miss the dawn

10. Folks roamed the earth like big rolling kegs.

11. Here comes the helicopter – second time today

12. Jenny came over and told me about Brad. “He’s such a hairy behemoth,” she said

13. We used to say that come the day we’d all be making songs or finding better words. These ideas never lasted long.

14. When they gathered around and started talkin’ that’s when Billy would take me walkin’.

15. A dewdrop can exalt us like the music of the sun and take away the plain in which we move

16. May I die before a while, maybe you can tell me why all that you scream is so divine

17. We hear the playback and it seems so long ago and you remember the jingles used to go.

18. Now security they did not see him, they just hovered ’round his tomb

19. I am Jeremiah Dixon, I am a Geordie boy

20. She’ll turn once more to Sunday’s clown and cry behind the door.

(These are probably pretty easy in the grand scheme of things, and I admit I sort of did that intentionally. I suck at these sorts of quizzes, so I made it more like I could actually get the answers if I knew the songs 🙂

18 thoughts on “Ok, fine. I guess it’s my turn”

    1. woofwoofarf Post author

      Right on #18 (Mark Cohn, “Walking in Memphis”) and #14 (“Son of a Preacher-Man”, though the version I have is by Cam Clarke, who was the singing voice of Simba).
      Wrong on #11, though.

      1. plonq

        I got one of the Canadian bands with my guess, so I’ll just toss out another one that I suspect would be on your play list: Moxie Fruvous. I’m not intimately familiar with their music, but some of those lyrics look like something they would write.

    1. woofwoofarf Post author

      Re: 2
      “Every Once in a While” by Blackhawk, correct!
      And don’t worry – these are from such a weird variety of genres, I doubted anyone would get them all.

  6. sumatrae

    1. Once I was the king of spaaaaiinn
    14. Son of a preacher man
    17. Video killed the radio star
    18. Walking in fursuit 😉

    2. woofwoofarf Post author

      I can’t believe it took people this long to get #17: Video Killed the Radio Star. While the original was recorded by The Buggles, the version I have is by Presidents of the United States of America. I love this version – I always thought the song needed some nice crunchy guitars.
      Walking in Memphis in fursuit in August is a good way to die of heat stroke, by the way.

  7. rasslor

    I knew I liked this song for some reason when I was a teenager
    #6: Hey, Jack Kerouac: 10,000 Maniacs
    Of the San Francisco Beat boys, you were the greatest.
    I would have gotten a couple more if I actually read my friends LJs. 🙂

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