Ganked Meme

[knights_say_nih]

Step 1: Put your MP3 player on random.
Step 2: Post the first line(s) of the first 25 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: NO CHEATING (that goes for the guesser, too!)



1. It's astounding, time is fleeting, madness takes it's toll... Time Warp, Rocky Horror

2. Please, baby, can't you see, my mind's a burning hell I'm the only one, Melissa Ethelridge

3. I've been in the right place, but it must have been the wrong time.

4. Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today, I want a be a part of it, New York, New York... New York, New York (canadabear)

5. Live in my house, I'll be your shelter Cover Me- Rent, Hallia

6. Where on Earth are you from? We're from En-ge-land. Where you come from do you put the kettle on?

7. I have often walked down this street before

8. Everywhere I hear the sound of marching-charging people

9. I'm happy, feeling glad, I've got sunshine in a bag. Clint Eastwood, Gorillaz, canadabear

10. OW. Mmm, yeah. I used to think maybe you loved me, now baby I'm sure.

11. We'll be singing, when we're winning, we'll be singing I GET KNOCKED DOWN, BUT I GET UP AGAIN Tubthumpers, canadabear

12. Beneath the Opera House, I know he's there. Phantomn of the Opera, canadabear

13. Bring it all back now, Don't stop, never give up, hold your head high and reach the top! Don't Stop, S Club 7

14. Ho (yo!) Ho ho yo! Mucho gasolina in verrano de punto (dunno spelling) Gasolina, Daddy Yankee

15. Anything you can do I can do better, I can do anything better than you. Annie Get your Gun

16. I can't get no satisfaction, I can't get no satisfaction, cause I try... Satisfaction, Rolling Stones

17. Well hello, Mr Soul, I dropped by to pick up a reason.

18. I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis. She tried to take me upstairs for a ride.

19. Got a big plan, his mind's set, maybe it's right, at the right place and right time, maybe tonight [hint: this is one of my Nightbane Stalker songs] Tear You Apart

20. Whose bed have your boots been under? Whose Bed have your Boots been Under, Shania Twain, canadabear

21. Another lonely, lonely night. You didn't expect him, but... Rolling Home, Dougie MacLean

22. Looked out my window this morning, to the East there was a big dark cloud.

23. You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life... Dancing Queen, ABBA

24. Elpheba? Why couldn't you have stayed calm for once, instead of flying off the hanlde! Defying Gravity, Wicked, canadabear

25. Please allow me to intruduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste, I've been around for a long long time... Devil, Rolling Stones, canadabear


ETA: HIIIIIIIIINTS!!!!!
3. I've posted it in relation to Katherine
6. Vindaloo
7. Another showtune
8. V
10. What is this person ON?
17. 1960's
18. This verse is largely illegible
22. Soul

TWO OF THE REMAINING VERSES ARE ROLLING STONES

Comments

[silverpenlight.livejournal.com]

5. I'll Cover You - Rent

...yep. that's it.

*le sigh*

[knights-say-nih.livejournal.com]

Yep!

[canadabear.livejournal.com]

4. New York, New York - I have no clue >.>
12. The Phantom of the Opera - pick a soundtrack
20. Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under - Shania Twain
23. Dancing Queen - ABBA (I hope)
25. Sympathy For the Devil - could be any one of a few versions, but I'll guess the Stones

[knights-say-nih.livejournal.com]

Exactly right. I've edited to remove recordings that NO ONE else will have (like the Clancy Brothers)

And it is the Stones version!

[canadabear.livejournal.com]

And now I know more!

11. Tubthumping - Chumbawumba
16. Satisfaction - Stones
24. Defying Gravity - Wicked soundtrack

And I know the lines from 9 and 15 but I can't think of the songs. I think they're showtunes, though.

[knights-say-nih.livejournal.com]

*cheats*

Number 9 isn't a showtune at all, it's rap.
15 is Annie Get Your Gun

[canadabear.livejournal.com]

Ahahah 9 is Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz!

[buggy-542.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm,

13 I can sing in it's entirety, but I don't know the name or artist.
14 - Gasolina by Daddy Yankee?
15 is on the CD in your car...
23 I know as well. aaargh.

[buggy-542.livejournal.com]

OH OH!!! 23 is DANCING QUEEN!!!

[knights-say-nih.livejournal.com]

S CLUB 7 BGEEEE!

[walksbyherself]

1. The Time Warp from RHPS

2. I'm the Only One by Melissa Ethridge

19. Tear You Apart by She Wants Revenge (who do some of the most awesome twisted stalker music ever)

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

#1 - 'Time Warp' from the Rocky Horror Picture Show

#21 - 'Rolling Home' - Dougie Maclean

#15 - ARG! Who knows if this song even has a name? 'Anything you can do'? Who knows? I can sing you the entire thing but can't tell you what show it comes from - and now its totally stuck in my head. GRRR!

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, #6 is 'Vindaloo' by Fat Les. Awesome footy song! Can't believe I didn't get that before, durr.

And #18 is the Rolling Stones, 'Honky-tonk Woman' - wouldn't have got it without the hint, but now I recognise it. Same for #8 - the Stones and 'Street Fighting Man'

Annnd, also 'cos of the hint - #7 is 'On the Street where You Live' from My Fair Lady.