Author: Mark
• Monday, November 24th, 2008

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 22 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: For those who are guessing — looking the lyrics up on a search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like the game post your own

  1. We were standing on a cliff above the ocean
  2. Come on baby leave some change behind
  3. Are you gonna live your life wondering, standing in the back, looking around?
  4. El viento de la noche gira en el cielo
  5. And to love a god and to fear the flame…
  6. Reluctantly crouched at the starting line, engines pumping and thumping in time
  7. In the morning I was losing my head and reading too much and losing my head and I was…
  8. The queen of light took her bow and then she turned to gold
  9. War is overdue, the time has come for you
  10. Can’t believe that I did it again, wake me up from this nightmare
  11. Some say now suffer all the children and walk away a savior
  12. Goodnight, to every little hour that you sleep tight, may it hold you through the winter…
  13. Somebody’s Heine is crowding my icebox
  14. What’s a matter Mary Jane?
  15. G****mn this dusty room, this hazy afternoon
  16. What if this day lasts forever, is tomorrow all I want?
  17. If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s gonna break…
  18. There gonna clean up your looks with all the lies in the books to make a citizen out of you
  19. I wanna be by myself, sometimes I do.  I don’t wanna be left behind, but sometimes I’m left by you.
  20. I get home from work and you’re still standing in your dressing gown, Well what am I to do?
  21. It’s not yet 6, the sun’s not up, father take away this cup.
  22. I stand on the bloodfield, shell shocked and guilty.

I confess that I had to look up the spelling on #4 and I had to skip the original #8 because it was “The Holly and the Ivy” (an instrumental) from Behold! The Lamb of God which is a TRULY excellent album if you have not heard it.  It is beautiful musically and incredible as a story.

Thanks to Emily DeLoach for posting hers.   Very cool idea.

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8 Responses

  1. Oddly enough. The first and last song are by my favorite indie artist. Also, I am only embarrassed by one of the songs on this list–but I doubt anyone will get it :)

  2. 2
    Brian Beck 
    Monday, 24. November 2008

    2. Live - Waitress
    5. Live - Selling the Drama (and I believe it is to fear “a” flame)
    6. Cake - The Distance
    17. Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks
    20. Radiohead - Black Star

    I’ll let the others bounce around in my head and see if anything comes up.

  3. 14. Alanis Morrissette - Mary Jane.

  4. 4
    Mika Spence 
    Monday, 24. November 2008

    #7 Live - TBD
    #13 Weezer - Say It Ain’t So

  5. 13. I know that one! Say it ain’t so by Weezer.

  6. Doh! And 10 is Piece of Glass by Caedmon’s Call

  7. Haha! 16 is Kiss the New Day by the most awesomest band EVAR, the Green Letters

  8. 12. Farewell and Goodnight by the best band ever :)

    I thought this was fun, so I put my own up, I think my computer has a an SP bias though.

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