looked like fun, didn't quite work
Feb. 10th, 2007 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dichroicGacked from [Bad username or site: ginger dragon @ livejournal.com].
Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 15 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
Well, I was going to do it, anyway, using the big iPod that has ALL our music on it. Only here were a few problems.... A bunch of mine were too obscure. How many people out there really recognize much by Garnet Rogers or Bill Staines? Some of them were Ted's, and our tastes differ, so I don't know his stuff well enough to come back and say, oh yes, that's from that song by Def Leppard or Banarama. So someone guess a song a week from now (and those probably are the ones more likely to be guessed) and I'd have no idea, if I hadn't written it down. (Actually, that also applies to some of mine I haven't listened to as much - like anything from Dar Williams' more recent albums.) A bunch of instrumentals came up, because though I vastly prefer vocal music, a bunch of my albums have one or two thrown in - it's pretty common with traditional-ish music. Then there was one by Metallica, one band Ted collects that I do like - but half the time I just can't tell what they're saying. And then there was one by Bernadette Peters, and while it might be easy to recognize the lyrics of The Gentleman is a Dope, it's obviously impossible to tell who's sining it just from reading the first line. That applies to some of the folkie stuff that's been covered by multiple people too, like the song Cold Missouri Waters (which would have been in the first fifteen songs, too). I think my music is too eclectic for this meme.
Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 15 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
Well, I was going to do it, anyway, using the big iPod that has ALL our music on it. Only here were a few problems.... A bunch of mine were too obscure. How many people out there really recognize much by Garnet Rogers or Bill Staines? Some of them were Ted's, and our tastes differ, so I don't know his stuff well enough to come back and say, oh yes, that's from that song by Def Leppard or Banarama. So someone guess a song a week from now (and those probably are the ones more likely to be guessed) and I'd have no idea, if I hadn't written it down. (Actually, that also applies to some of mine I haven't listened to as much - like anything from Dar Williams' more recent albums.) A bunch of instrumentals came up, because though I vastly prefer vocal music, a bunch of my albums have one or two thrown in - it's pretty common with traditional-ish music. Then there was one by Metallica, one band Ted collects that I do like - but half the time I just can't tell what they're saying. And then there was one by Bernadette Peters, and while it might be easy to recognize the lyrics of The Gentleman is a Dope, it's obviously impossible to tell who's sining it just from reading the first line. That applies to some of the folkie stuff that's been covered by multiple people too, like the song Cold Missouri Waters (which would have been in the first fifteen songs, too). I think my music is too eclectic for this meme.
