Let's play a game!

[snacky]

Ugh, back to work. Happy New Year. :(

To cheer myself up, I am listening to my Singalong playlist on my iPod. I can't say my coworkers are enjoying my singing, but they will have to endure!

But you can enjoy it! We shall play the lyrics game: I give you the lines, and you guess the titles and artists.

Ready? Go!



1) I laid on my back, let the punk record spin / the sloppy guitar, it was shooting out stars

2) Everybody wants respect / Just a little bit

3) Or maybe she's in the Bahamas / Where the Caribbean sea is blue

4) they all said "she's just another groupie slut" / and I said I thought you were anything but Sugar High, title guessed by cass404, but still looking for the artist.

5) I want to be great but greatness is giving / Giving leaves me empty / Oh great emptiness

6) and all my instincts, they return / and the grand facade, so soon will burn In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel, guessed by smiley_b

7) But wherever I have gone I was sure to find myself there / You can run all your life but not go anywhere Ball and Chain by Social Distortion, guessed by musesfool

8) You could be my flamingo

9) I'm so wired-up / Don't need no coffee in my cup Jackie Wilson Said by Van Morrison, guessed by forodwaith

10) But I know no matter what the waitress brings / I shall drink it and always be full Runaround by Blues Traveler, guessed by musesfool

11) I picked up my bag, I went lookin' for a place to hide / When I saw Carmen and the Devil walkin' side by side The Weight by The Band, guessed in a team effort by phosfate, cass404, and sorchar! :D

12) My occupational hazard being my occupation's just not around A Pirate Looks at Forty, guessed by cass404

13) Everything is wonderful / Being here is heavenly Mary's Prayer by Danny Wilson, guessed by smiley_b

14) I wanna know what it's like to be awkward and innocent, not belligerent

15) So, kiss me my sweet / and so let us part

16) Like a river that don't know where it's flowing / I took a wrong turn and I just kept going Hungry Heart by Bruce Springsteen, guessed by intothespin and smiley_b

17) Things ain't cookin' in my kitchen / Strange affliction wash over me Weather With You by Crowded House, guessed by smiley_b

18) And I always thought that it would make me smarter / But it's only made me harder Near Wild Heaven by REM, guessed by musesfool

19) And we were too young to be hippies / missed out on the love Summer of Drugs (I was listening to Soul Asylum's cover), guessed by musesfool

20) So if you care to find me / Look to the western sky! Defying Gravity from Wicked, guessed by smiley_b

Comments

[intothespin]

16) Bruce Springsteen, "Hungry Hearts"

[snacky]

Yes! :D

[smiley_b]

Ooh, I love this!

6 is In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel
13 - Mary's Peayer by Danny Wilson?
16 - Hubgry Heart by Bruce Spribgstewn
17 - Weather With Yiu - Criwded House
20 - Defying Gravity from Wicked

I've been singing these to myself to make sure I'm right - getting some odd looks off my mum!!

[snacky]

You are good at this game! :D

[smiley_b]

Haha, thank you!! One of the advantages to working as an office admin, radio is always on!!

[musesfool]

9. Ball and Chain - Social Distortion
10. Runaround - Blues Traveler
18. Near Wild Heaven - REM
19. Summer of Drugs - Soul Asylum

I feel like there are a couple more I know but can't put my finger on. YOU HAVE FAILED ME, BRAIN!

[snacky]

7 was Ball and Chain, but yes!

BRAIN, KICK INTO GEAR! :D

[lone_lilly]

10) Runaround by Blues Traveler

[lone_lilly]

OH NO I WAS TOO LATE

[snacky]

Beat to the punch! :(

[phosfate]

11 is "The Weight" by the Grateful Dead.

[snacky]

Partial credit! :D

[phosfate]

The Band. *commits suicide out of shame*

[snacky]

No, no! *revives you* I need someone around to call people "whiny little fucksticks."

[phosfate]

Oh fine then.

[cass404]

4) they all said "she's just another groupie slut" / and I said I thought you were anything but

Sugerhigh! I was just on a Gin Blossoms kick the other day.

11) I picked up my bag, I went lookin' for a place to hide / When I saw Carmen and the Devil walkin' side by side

The Weight and I am blanking on the original band. I've got the Panic at the Disco version.

12) My occupational hazard being my occupation's just not around.
Jimmy Buffett's Pirate Looks at Forty.

[cass404]

and I am blanking on the original band

Okay, so I Googled after I posted and now I am like a bunny facepalming. Because, yeah, the band was The Band. But I totally didn't remember that.

[snacky]

Partial credit for 4 and 11, and you got 12!

[forodwaith]

#9 is Van Morrison! "Jackie Wilson Said".

[snacky]

Go team you!

[lilacsigil]

#2 RESPECT, Aretha Franklin, originally Otis Redding

[snacky]

Actually, this makes me a little ashamed of my taste in music, because it's not that song, by either of those artists. :D

[sorchar]

#11 - "The Weight" by The Band, among others.

[snacky]

Yay, you got it!