Pop Quiz!

[the_other_sandy]

Yes, it's song lyrics meme time again here at Dr. Terror's House of Pancakes.

Ganked from sinjinh1.

Step 1: Put your MP3 player on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play.
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!


1. Grand pianos crash together when my boy walks down the street
"When My Boy Walks Down the Street" by Magnetic Fields

2. I don't know where to start or where to stop / my luck's like a button / I can't stop pushing it
"Tenderness" by General Public

3. What you say / what you mean / and the space in between those words
Guessed by bit_boy -- "Anymore Time Between" by Bob Mould

4. I looked out this morning and the sun was gone / turned on some music to start my day
Guessed by bit_boy -- "More Than a Feeling" by Boston

5. I don't have to sell my soul / he's already in me
"I Wanna Be Adored" by The Stone Roses

6. You wear guilt / like shackles on your feet / like a halo in reverse
Guessed by viridian5 -- "Halo" by Depeche Mode

7. I finally see the light / down on the east side / wasted like a memory
"Burning Photographs" by Ryan Adams

8. I like where we are / when we drive in your car
"Here In Your Arms" by Hellogoodbye

9. My reflection, dirty mirror / there's no connection to myself
"Zero" by Smashing Pumpkins

10. I put on a fake smile and start the evening show / the public is laughing / I guess by now they know
Guessed by kb9vcn -- "Dear Madam Barnum" by XTC

11. And it starts sometime around midnight / or at least that's when you lose yourself for a minute or two
"Sometime Around Midnight" by The Airborne Toxic Event

12. Hey, don't write yourself off yet / it's only in your head you feel left out / or looked down on
"The Middle" by Jimmy Eat World

13. You're always ahead of the game / I drag behind
"Drag" by Placebo

14. If she wants to dance and drink all night / well, there's no one that can stop her
"Thrash Unreal" by Against Me!

15. I wish I was a neutron bomb / for once I could go off
"Wishlist" by Pearl Jam

16. Love comes down upon us and it floats like water / burning with the hope of insight
"Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly)" by The Icicle Works

17. Following every time / after she slowly waves / she doesn't seem so shy / perhaps it's love she saves
"Waterfall" by Riverside

18. Roll yourself away from me / unveil me from your layers
"Sweetest Drop" by Peter Murphy

19. All our times have come / here but now they're gone
Guessed by bit_boy -- "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult

20. I've got a lot of thoughts / I've got a lot of plans / I've lost a lot of sleep / trying to understand
"Dream All Day" by The Posies

ETA: Now with bonus answers!

Comments

[wilde-moon.livejournal.com]

Wow, number 8 is the only one that sounds even vaguely familiar. I still don't have a clue what it is.

*cheats and looks it up* Okay, I've heard the song, but I couldn't tell you where. lol It's not something I know.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

There was a really cute J2 vid to this song that Tara and Theresa were watching during a lunch break at the last WinMid.

[wilde-moon.livejournal.com]

I was kind of think it was a J2 vid, but I wasn't sure. That explains it, then.

Well, I suppose I should make my contribution...

[bit-boy.livejournal.com]

3. Anymore Time Between - Bob Mould (preening for turning you onto that song after you were kind enough to turn me onto Bob Mould to begin with).
4. Boston - More Than a Feeling (hadn't realized you did Boston)
19. (Don't) Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

Re: Well, I suppose I should make my contribution...

[wilde-moon.livejournal.com]

Oh, Jesus. How did I miss 19? I must be more tired than I thought! lol I think I'll go to bed now.

Re: Well, I suppose I should make my contribution...

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Come back and try again when you're awake.

Re: Well, I suppose I should make my contribution...

[wilde-moon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've still got nothing. lol

Re: Well, I suppose I should make my contribution...

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Correct on all three, but then you knew that already.

hadn't realized you did Boston

Boston is one of many, many bands that I like one or two songs by.

[kb9vcn.livejournal.com]

10 is Dear Madam Barnum by XTC.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

You are correct, sir!

[viridian5.livejournal.com]

#6 is "Halo" by Depeche Mode. I keep thinking I should know #2, but I won't cheat.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Correct!

I bet you would know #2 in a second if you heard the words sung instead of just seeing them lying there. In fact, I bet you would also know #9 and #15.

[jade-kadir.livejournal.com]

Sorry hon, but none of those are familiar. I might try this one on my LJ though. I guess if I get an instrumental track I skip it right?

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's pretty hard to type out the lyrics of a song that doesn't have any. I skipped a J-Pop song because the lyrics are in Japanese and I can't spell them.