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[themidnightgirl]

Probably an old idea, but what the hey...

Identify the songs from a collection of words in them...

1) apricot, gavotte, coffee. Carly Simon - You're So Vain (bopeepsheep)
2) Hot rod, concerned, dust bowl, dreamers. Prefab Sprout - Cars And Girls (reindeerflotila)
3) hollow, transistor, stadium, laughing. Van Morrison - Brown-eyed Girl (spikydavid)
4) valley, blade, sinner, crack. Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell (crocodilewings)
5) Eskimo, pigeons. Manfred Mann - The Mighty Quinn (bopeepsheep
6) flesh, receiver, believer, touch. Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus (karohemd)
7) bluest, ounce, thunder, memories. Guns'n'Roses - Sweet Child Of Mine (bopeepsheep)
8) evergreens, engineers, bell, go. Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode (phlebus)
9) behave, running, beating, tumble, knew. Tiffany - I think we're alone now (reindeerflotila and the_alchemist simultaneously.)
10) desert, lie, strangers, rules, aching, shy. Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up. (sherbetsaucers)

No Googling!

Comments

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

I assume google (which is very efficient at solving this one) is banned?

[borusa.livejournal.com]

Indeed!

[reindeerflotila.livejournal.com]

by a quirk of fate I am listening to number 9 right now.

" i think we're alone now "

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

Embarrassingly, I find myself recognising '9'. 'I Think We're Alone Now', which was a hit during my childhood by someone called Tiffany, though I suspect that was a cover version.

[borusa.livejournal.com]

Indeed it was a cover, though the original (Tommy James & The Shondells) never charted over here.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I'm not with it today, the only one I seem to get is

6) flesh, receiver, believer, touch.
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus

[reindeerflotila.livejournal.com]

bthe may have meant the marilyn manson cover version.....

[borusa.livejournal.com]

(1) Doesn't matter.
(2) On which planet?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Or Johnny Cash. :oP
I think the point is the song, not the artist.

[borusa.livejournal.com]

You should get (2) as well, probably.

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

1 sounds as though it's an early draft of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'. There are 'coffee spoons', of course, and I know the peach that the narrator may or may not have dared to eat was originally an apricot. I fall down at gavotte, but perhaps it was there to rhyme with apricot?

(Not a serious suggestion, though it's apparently true about apricots.)

[borusa.livejournal.com]

In one of my band's songs, we do rhyme "Killer apricot" with "Rorschach blot", but it's not that song (which would be really cruel and cheating).

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

IIRC the scarf was apricot, the terribly vain person watched themselves gavotte in the mirror, there were clouds in the coffee... Carly Simon, and one of my favourite songs... /me nips off to iTunes to start it up. :)

[borusa.livejournal.com]

One of mine, too. It was on Radio 2 this morning, and I cranked up the volume and wound the window down.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

5 has to be the Mighty Quinn. Manfred Mann version better than other versions IMO.

[spikydavid.livejournal.com]

3 is "Brown-eyed Girl", I believe...

[spikydavid.livejournal.com]

And I *think* that 10 is Hotel California - but I'm not 100%

[borusa.livejournal.com]

Nope, not "Hotel California".

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

7 Bluest eyes, ounce of pain, thunder and rain...

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, childhood memories. Definitely SCoM, G&R.

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

4 is quite obviously Bat Out Of Hell, by Meatloaf.

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

I'm probably way off here, but is 10 Desert Rose (Sting)?

[borusa.livejournal.com]

*chuckle*

Nope.

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

Bah!

*g*

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

8 is Johnny B Goode?

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Aw, man! The ones I thought I knew have already been guessed! Bah humbug.

[reindeerflotila.livejournal.com]

*goes out on a limb * I can only think of two songs i have that involve hot rod and it doesn't sound like a Peaches song to me.. I cannot recall who it is by, but i have a song on my pc i like that has those lyrics I think, is it 'cars and girls'?

[sherbetsaucers.livejournal.com]

10) Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley?

And I'm sure I know 2.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

D'oh on 4) and 7). Still no clue on 2) but that'll be another case of slapping my forehead, I guess...

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

No, no bells.
*adds to to-listen list*

[purplepiano.livejournal.com]

Damn your clever friends, there's none left for me!

[cryx]

did you get the icon i made for you? (is fine if you dun like it, but i just thought you may not get comments emailed to you)

[borusa.livejournal.com]

This one here?

Yes! Thank you very much!

[cryx]

yay! *beam*