Bookishly Fabulous had a good rainy-day meme today that I thought I’d copy. The rule is put your iPod on shuffle and write the first line of the song and see if folks in your neighborhood can guess. I chose our “Happy Hour” playlist, which includes songs from the 1940s until today. A few are dead giveaways. The only songs I skipped past were instrumentals (of course).
1. Well, you can’t turn him into a Company Man, and you can’t turn him into a whore… (Last DJ, Tom Petty, Saris)
2. Come fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly away… (Come Fly With Me, Frank Sinatra, Hannahbanana)
3. His head was a city of paper buildings and the echoes that remain…(Long Division, Death Cab For Cutie, Grandma-P)
4. Heading up to San Francisco, for the Labor Day Weekend show… (Come Monday, Jimmy Buffet, Eli's Dad)
5. Come up to meet you, and tell you I’m sorry. You don’t know how lovely you are. (The Scientist, Coldplay, Saris)
6. Well, well, well… here it is again. (Well Well Well, Lucinda Williams.)
7. I may not always love you, but as long as there are stars above you, you never need to doubt it. (God Only Knows, The Beach Boys, Hannahbanana)
8. The lights go out and I can’t be saved… tides that I tried to swim against. (Clocks, Coldplay, Joie)
9. Don’t know why… there’s no sun up in the sky…stormy weather (Stormy Weather, Etta James, Kevin Wolf)
10. I’ve been a long, long way from here. Put on a poncho, played for mosquitoes. (If It Makes You Happy, Sheryl Crow, Little Odd Me)
11. Well, it’s been almost a year to the moment… when I finally realized it was over. (Bleed, Anna Nalick)
12, People… keep on learning. Soldiers… keep on warring… (Higher Ground, Stevie Wonder, Kevin Wolf)
13. I hold you in my arms, as the band plays… (Brilliant Disguise, Bruce Springsteen, Little Odd Me)
14. Here comes the weather… it’s looking like another storm (Angelyne, The Jayhawks)
15. Left behind everything I knew. All the colors are bone-white and sky blue…(Antarctica, The Weepies)
16. If you came to make some trouble, better make it good. (Trouble, Over The Rhine)
17. You keep sayin’ you’ve got something for me… (These Boots Were Made For Walking, Nancy Sinatra, Bookishly Fabulous)
18. So the saying says… an elephant never forgets…(People Have a Lot of Nerve, Neko Case)
19. Sit back, matter-of-fact, tease and toy and turn and chat and charm and hiss and play the crowd (A Million Ways (To Be Cruel), Ok Go)
20. Well, there’s a light in your eye that keeps shining, like a star that can’t wait for the night. (Fool In The Rain, Led Zeppelin, Bookishly Fabulous)
I'll mark them off as they're guessed. Time's up — good job though — not many left. Unguessed answers in blue.
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Stevil 
Wow. I can't believe how many I don't recognize at all. I'll just contribute: 10. Sheryl Crow – If it Makes You Happy.
I thought about doing this, but then listened to a few songs on shuffle and realized it would be impossible for most to guess. Besides, sometimes I can't even understand the first line.
I am really bad at these. Let's see….
#2. Frank Sinatra – Come Fly With Me
# 7. God Only Knows – could be any number of artists. The Beach Boys? The Smiths?
Yep, that's all I've got.
I was gonna say #2 was "Come Fly With Me" by Michael Bublé, but something tells me Hannah is more correct :p
Oh no, not another game too hard to play. Can I cheat?
Ding!
Ding ding!
#12 "Higher Ground" by Stevie Wonder, perhaps.
Actually Zack, we have it by both artists on that playlist — I would have taken either answer — actually it was the Frank version that played.
Yes — you can cheat — there are still two songs whose title is in the first line listed here.
Ding!
One of them is "Stormy Weather".
Oops, you psyched me out. #9 is Stormy Weather, I believe.
Ack — sorry — I made a transcription error when I copied them over — you're right about "Stormy Weather" — it is now corrected to be #9.
Oh duh, is #13 Bruce Springsteen – Brilliant Disguise?
#3 The Remainder ;o)
#5 is The Scientist by Coldplay. Is #1 the Last DJ by Tom Petty? I think those are the only 2 I know. :)
Oh geez, I knew very few of these. #8 is "Clocks" by Coldplay!
Ding!
Keep trying Grandma-P!
Ding!
Ding ding!
5 – Coldplay – The Scientist17 – Nancy Sinatra – These Boots20 – Led Zeppelin – Fool in the Rain? Can't decide if that's the title…
Saris beat you to #5 — I thought it funny that I had two Coldplay songs on the list after your post too.Ding ding on the other two!
#3 Long Division
You got it! — I had no idea you were such a Death Cab For Cutie fan, Grandma-P… :)
You said I could cheat! Google is amazing. I could find the answers to the rest but that would spoil your game. I know I'm a brat.
Believe #4 is Jimmy Buffet's Come Monday
Ding!
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