Guess Sixteen!
November 25, 2005
A new random ten for you to guess! If you’re stumped on these, there are still “six lyrics left unidentified”:http://www.thudfactor.com/textpattern/1258/guess-ten. Not even all the easy ones are gone, and there’s at least one I know my “brother Glen”:http://www.art-machine.org/ knows.
Now for the new set. For you newcomers, it works like this: I give you a lyric, you tell me singer and album.
# And your companion will not help you navigate for fear she may be wrong.
# “Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)”, Van Halen (et. al.) [ "Tk":http://triptronix.net/bleahh ] -He’s a man that they all used to fear, now the people call him “Sweet Papa Willie Dear…”- [ Multiple answers possible for artist ]
# If I happen to run you down, please don’t leave a scratch.
# “Gold Dust Woman”, Fleetwood Mac [ "Claudia":www.freedomofthought.com ] -Rulers make bad lovers, you better put your kingdom up for sale-
# “Your Mama Don’t Dance”, Loggins & Messina (covered by Poison) [ "Fred":http://www.unreality.net/weblog/fishes.html ] -When evening rolls around and it’s time to hit the town, where do you go?-
# In with the early dawn, moving right along, I couldn’t buy an eye of sleep.
# “I Love You Always Forever”, Donna Lewis [ Blogless Mike ] -You’ve got the most unbelievable blue eyes I’ve ever seen.-
# It doesn’t take Robert The Bruce to see the web you’ve spun. Either you are simply beautiful or I am simply dumb.
# “Running Up That Hill,” Kate Bush [ "Sheila":http://www.dontbeadumbass.com ] -And if I only could I’d make a deal with God, and I’d get him to swap our places.-
# “Halley’s Waitress”, Fountains of Wayne [ "ME-L":www.ishbadiddle.net ] -It’s been so long, so long. Darling don’t you know we miss you when you’re gone?-
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November 25th, 2005 at 8:22 am
#5 is “Your Mama Don’t Dance” by Loggins & Messina
November 25th, 2005 at 10:42 am
#9 is “Running Up that Hill” by Kate Bush.
November 27th, 2005 at 2:57 pm
Argh! I can sing #10—but can’t for the life of me remember artist or title. It’s in harmony, poss. Brit?
November 27th, 2005 at 6:13 pm
#4 is Fleetwood Mac and I think the song is Gold Dust Woman…but can’t remember the album that it’s from….
November 27th, 2005 at 6:34 pm
Claudia—good job! It’s on Rumours, but album is too much to ask. ;-)
Mel—right on the harmony, but the band is American, East Coast.
November 28th, 2005 at 8:30 pm
Fountains of Wayne, Halley’s Waitress?
November 28th, 2005 at 11:33 pm
You’ve got the most unbelievable blue eyes I’ve ever seen.
That lyric is from the song “I Love You Always Forever” by Donna Lewis… now you have that dang song stuck in my head. Normally, not a song I’d usually know… but as long as a song came out during my college years, I probably do know it… and well, this one I remember on the radio all the time somewhere near the end of my senior year! UGH!
November 29th, 2005 at 2:49 am
Bang on, Mel!
Mike: it is a stupid, awful song. And yet, it’s one of the few songs that has been on my DAP since my first one in 2001. Strange, that…
November 29th, 2005 at 12:45 pm
#2 has got to be “Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)”—I know it as a Van Halen song (featuring Eddie and Michael’s dad on clarinet), but I know they didn’t write it. “Diver Down” is the album, and it’s my fave of the original VH lineup, even though it came out too late for Camaro Rock. I have this knack for liking the really wacko albums by big groups.
November 29th, 2005 at 12:59 pm
Yup. It’s been recorded by Van Halen, Leon Redbone, Merle Haggard, Peggy Lee, Judy Garland… originally released in 1924, by Jack Yellen and Milt Ager. Funny you should mention Camaros (#3, hint).