A meme! Why? Because!

[kyrielle]

[Edit: okay, it's been nearly a week. I'm posting the remaining answers for anyone who was curious.]

step 1: put your music player on shuffle.
step 2: post the first line from the first 15 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
step 2a: Skip any instrumentals and songs where the first line is or contains the title.
step 3: strike out the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
step 4: looking them up on google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
step 5: if you like the game, post your own.

(optional step 1a: turn off the "repeat one song over and over option" you had on from amusing the toddler earlier in the day....)

(disclosure: I put the list of songs I LIKE and LISTEN TO on shuffle, not everything that's ever been imported/added, because lo, I import/buy whole CDs and only like some of what's on them....)

1. Pick me up, then put me down
   Seanan McGuire - Dorothy (identified by tollers, and subsequently by tibicina)


2. Mmm...hold on tight to your dreams. [Electric Light Orchestra - Hold on Tight]


3. Across the vein of night there cuts a path of searing light
   Dan Fogelberg - Nexus (identified by leeshajoy)


4. It's clear as tattoos on your eyes
   SJ Tucker - Girl in the Garden (identified by solcita, and subsequently by tollers and tibicina)


5. The kitsune girl with the sakura smile
   Seanan McGuire - Take Advantage of Me (identified by bayushi)


6. 'Cause if the devil would take her, I'd thank him for his pain
   Great Big Sea - Scolding Wife (identified by solcita)


7. Girl, don't tell me that it's morning
   Great Big Sea - Boston and St. John's (identified by dormouse_in_tea)


8. Things haven't been the same since you came into my life [Madonna - Secret]


9. I can no more be bound than the hawk in flight [Spiral Rhythm - Freedom]


10. There are stars in the southern sky
    The Eagles - Seven Bridges Road (identified by bayushi)


11. Ia ora te natura [alt first English: I know I don't get there often enough]
    Jimmy Buffett - One Particular Harbour (identified by bayushi)


12. Out of this island, far from the cage that most will know [Christopher Cross - Hunger]


13. It is the night. My body's weak. [Christopher Cross - Ride Like the Wind]


14. under blue and silver sky, far from the sea [SJ Tucker - Cold Sunshine]


15. Moving on the floor now babe you're a bird of paradise.
    Duran Duran - Rio (identified by bayushi)

Comments

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

I thought I knew No. 2 but I was wrong. I got nuthin. I like the idea of this meme though.

[kyrielle]

It's a fun one!

Number of songs I got right on the friend's copy of it that led me to doing it: NONE.

Even though I really really should know one of them, I got a different song by the same artist stuck in my head and couldn't shake it. :P

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

to be fair, it is NOT one of the key ones....want it in email?

[kyrielle]

Thank you! :)

[erisiansaint]

5. Take Advantage of Me, Seanan McGuire
10 Seven Bridges Road, Eagles
11 One Particular Harbor(?), Jimmy Buffett
15 Rio, Duran Duran

[kyrielle]

Yes on all counts. :)

[erisiansaint]

YAY! (All of the mentioned ones are in my own playlists.)

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

7 is "Boston and St John's" by Great big Sea.

I'd swear six is also them, but I'm not placing it as a first line.

[kyrielle]

#7 is! :)

[solcita.livejournal.com]

#4: SJ Tucker - Girl in the Garden

#6: Great Big Sea - Scolding Wife

[kyrielle]

Yes!

[tollermom]

1 is "Dorothy", Seanan McGuire, on "Stars Fall Home"

4 is "Girl in the Garden", S.J. Tucker, on "Sirens" (also on her compilation that I think is also named "Girl in the Garden")

[kyrielle]

Yep!

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

1 - Dorothy, Seanan McGuire (off Stars Fall Home.)
4 - The Girl in the Garden, SJ Tucker/Skinny White Chick
6 - Great Big Sea... I know the song and can't remember the proper title it's something about rather being dead than marrying again, though. Actually it might be 'quarelsome wife'. Meh.

8 seems very familiar, but very generic.

[kyrielle]

Yes, yes, and almost - solcita pegged #6, it's Scolding Wife.

#8 is, ironically, one of the ones by an artist more non-filk community people are likely to recognize. It is not, however, a very well-known first line. (It's also technically the first two lines, as I felt "Things haven't been the same" by itself was especially unfair.)

[leeshajoy.livejournal.com]

#3 is "Nexus" by Dan Fogelberg.

[kyrielle]

Yep!