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All of the above25 More First Lines
The recent 25 First Lines meme seems to have been quite popular, if a little difficult for some people. Well, here's another chance to play. As before, you have to guess the title and artist (though if you get either feel free to have a stab at it). There are no instrumentals, spoken word, stuff I didn't recognise when I played it or tracks by artists who were in the first 25. Also none of what Clare Sudbery succinctly summed up as "Albanian folk music". There are still a couple of obscurities this time, but more really well-known tracks and I would say the middle ground is a little easier. I think - and hope - that you'll enjoy them.
Post your answers in the comments box and I'll cross out lines as they're guessed right.
Tonight At Noon: "The John MacLean March" - Alan (or Alan's Dad)
Billy Ray Cyrus: "Achy Breaky Heart" - Gert
Yes: "Wonderous Stories" - Alan
British Whale: "This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us" - Phil
Meat Loaf: "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" - Jason
Mitch & Mickey (Eugene Levy & Catherine O'Hara): "A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow" (from A Mighty Wind) - Eddie
Supertramp: "The Logical Song" - Udge
Electric Light Orchestra: "Rockaria" - Kate
Mandy Miller: "Nellie The Elephant" - Lisa
10. Won't you rise for the hangman, his pleasure is that you should rise
Captain Beefheart: "Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles" - Jim Bliss
12. Baby lonely crying in the rain
13. There's a man who's been out sailing in a decade full of dreams
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: "(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?" - Jim Bliss
Carole King: "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" - Lisa
16. Hey let's party, let's get down, let's turn the radio on, this is the meltdown
Napoleon XIV: "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" - Jason
Mike Oldfield: "On Horseback" - Phil
Pink Floyd: "Chapter 24" - Jim Bliss
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: "Eddie" - Udge
21. Tu t'en vas, l'amour a pour toi le sourire d'une autre
22. A perfect education estimating the calculus was all a beastly trauma to me
23. Slick Willie was a shoeshine boy working downtown 42nd Street
Kevin Ayers: "Everybody's Sometime And Some People's All The Time Blues" - Phil
Joseph McFadden: "I Want Doesn't Get" (from Sex, Chips & Rock'n'Roll) - Gert
posted by Rob @ 19:47
21 Comments:
7 Supertramp "The logical song"
20 Rocky Horror, "Eddie"
3 sounds familiar too, but I just can't get there. Yet.
Udge - spot on. And I'm sure number 3 will come. It was a fairly big hit.
Ooh, ooh! I got two! Without even thinking about them! I'm so sad....
9 is nellie the elephant!
15 is will you still love me tomorrow!
Yeah! Phew, I feel so much better after my failings with most ov everyone else's lists!
This is even worse than the first one for nearly-but-not-quite's - I think I've got not only 3 but also 6, 11 and possibly 25, but damned if I can put names to them.
10 has to be the String Band. But that's just an educated guess.
4 ("the mammals are your favourite type and you want her tonight") is Sparks, "This town ain't big enough for both of us"
15 is "Will you love me tomorrow?" (written) by Carole King
18 is a song I'll probably never hear again - flogged my copy of "Boxed" years ago - viz. "On horseback" by Mike Oldfield
24 is the wonderfully-titled "Everybody's some time and some people's all the time blues" by Kevin Ayers
You old hippie, you.
Reader, I googled 'em (I reckoned I'd had my go). I should have got 3 and 11, but I would never have got 6 (although I did recognise it) and I didn't know 25.
This is fun. I've half a mind to try it again myself.
Nellie the Elephant was the only one that I knew...but I was beaten to it!
No:8 is Rockaria by ELO - not sure how I knew that LOL
5: Paradise By The Dashboard Lights -- Meat Loaf
17: They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haa -- Napoleon XIV
I'm so ashamed.
Oh, Napoleon. That one brings back as much as Flowers on the Wall. Both seem to belong to each other.
As for the rest, looks like I do have a rather bad memory. Can't blame it on them being local UK songs.
Lisa - so pleased you were the one to get Nellie.
Phil - nope, no Incredibles in this bunch. Though there is an Incredibles connection to #10 in fact...
#4 - in fact it was the British Whale cover of TTABEFBOU rather than the Sparks original, but well spotted. #18 - I have the first 3 Oldfields on vinyl. I think "On Horseback" is the B side of one of the singles too so I'll have it twice. And - old hippie - guilty as charged. But the last bunch should have suggested that!
Jason - someone was bound to get #17 - it just happened to be you.
This is all going rather well. We still have #2, #3 and #14 to go in the kick-yourself category, and plenty of others likely to go. Only #12, #22 and #23 could really be called obscure, though #25 is a little out-of-the-way.
Oh, and Hi to Magpie! I visited your place earlier today and liked the look of it. Hope to see you around here again.
No 1 is the John MacLean March. I can't take credit for getting this though. It was my dad. I thought it was something by the Proclaimers!
Well, I got so damned annoyed at #3 that I googled it. Hah. I knew it, of course, you were right; but I was completely wrong, I thought it was Nick Cave so I would never have got there. Ah well.
Just to say that I've upped my me-too-ism score by posting 25 of my own.
Oh, hadn't noticed. Number 3 is Wonderous Stories by Yes, isn't it? And this time it is me, dad had nothing to do with it!
Alan - of course #3 is teh Yes. Your Dad too is a man of taste and discretion. #1 is Hamish Henderson's "John Maclean March" in the version by "Tonight At Noon" which apparently was HH's personal favourite. Though they spell it McLean. (I think they're wrong though: Dick Gaughan has it as MacLean, and as Google gives both in profusion I'll go with you and Gaughan.)
Hmm, you didn't put Nellie in just for me did you?!
Hee hee hee
11. Captain Beefheart - Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
14. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?
19. Pink Floyd - Chapter 24
There's a couple of others that I recognise but I just can't place right now. Maybe they'll come back to me...
New arrival Jim ties with Phil for correct guesses at three each. I've put some hints up for the last ten (one really easy, one fairly easy, five fair to middling, three really tough).
Most of us from the U.S. have successfully eradicated #2 from our memory, but unfortunately, I'm not one of them. It's Billy Ray Cyrus, "Achy Breaky Heart".
#16 is Sheryl Crow, "There Goes The Neighborhood".
number 21 is by Vicky Leandros - "Apres Toi"
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