First Lines of Songs; varying difficulty
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titusnowl1. Time, it needs time to win back your love again
2. Just like the white-winged dove
3. When I wake up well I know I'm gonna be
4. Looking down through a tide of no return
5. When they kick in your front door
6. I want to hold the hand inside you
7. Never know how much I love you
8. Blue sky to forever, green grass blows in the wind dancing
9. Mother told me yes she told me I'd meet girls like you
10. Oh by gee by gosh by gum by jove
11. I, I wish I could swim
12. I just want a lover like any other, what do I get?
13. Where do I take this pain of mine
14. One time a thing occured to me, what's real and what's for sale
15. Alas, my love, you do me wrong
16. Please allow me to introduce myself
17. Yippee-ay, there'll be no wedding bells for today
18. The storm is threatening my very life today
19. Tall and tan and young and lovely
20. I've heard there was a secret chord
21. Dance your cares away
22. Once upon a time you dressed so fine
23. No one told me about her, the way she lied
24. Whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel like I am home again
25. If you take a life do you know what you give
26. Reluctantly crouched at the starting line
27. This is the self-preservation society
28. It goes real fast but it sure feels good
29. What a drag it is getting old
30. I'm the darkness in the light, I'm the leftness in the right
31. Picture yourself when you're getting old
32. Hello darkness my old friend
33. All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey
34. Is this the real life?
35. I'm the king of the swingers, boy
36. I won't make you tell me what I've come to understand
37. Do you have the time to listen to me whine
38. Please leave all overcoats, canes and top hats with the doorman
39. Look at all the lonely people
40. John Henry moved a mountain out of nothing but a hammer and sweat
41. Take me out tonight where there's music and there's people and they're young and alive
42. When there's nowhere else to run is there room for one more son
43. Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street
44. Pressure pushing down on me
45. Well there's a light in your eye that keeps shining
46. You've got a great car, yeah what's wrong with it today
47. I've been waiting a long time for this moment to come
48. Last night a little dancer came dancing to my door
49. Oh pirates yes they rob I, sold I to the merchant ships
50. I've fallen in love with you, I'm taking it badly
2. Just like the white-winged dove
3. When I wake up well I know I'm gonna be
4. Looking down through a tide of no return
5. When they kick in your front door
6. I want to hold the hand inside you
7. Never know how much I love you
8. Blue sky to forever, green grass blows in the wind dancing
9. Mother told me yes she told me I'd meet girls like you
10. Oh by gee by gosh by gum by jove
11. I, I wish I could swim
12. I just want a lover like any other, what do I get?
13. Where do I take this pain of mine
14. One time a thing occured to me, what's real and what's for sale
15. Alas, my love, you do me wrong
16. Please allow me to introduce myself
17. Yippee-ay, there'll be no wedding bells for today
18. The storm is threatening my very life today
19. Tall and tan and young and lovely
20. I've heard there was a secret chord
21. Dance your cares away
22. Once upon a time you dressed so fine
23. No one told me about her, the way she lied
24. Whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel like I am home again
25. If you take a life do you know what you give
26. Reluctantly crouched at the starting line
27. This is the self-preservation society
28. It goes real fast but it sure feels good
29. What a drag it is getting old
30. I'm the darkness in the light, I'm the leftness in the right
31. Picture yourself when you're getting old
32. Hello darkness my old friend
33. All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey
34. Is this the real life?
35. I'm the king of the swingers, boy
36. I won't make you tell me what I've come to understand
37. Do you have the time to listen to me whine
38. Please leave all overcoats, canes and top hats with the doorman
39. Look at all the lonely people
40. John Henry moved a mountain out of nothing but a hammer and sweat
41. Take me out tonight where there's music and there's people and they're young and alive
42. When there's nowhere else to run is there room for one more son
43. Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street
44. Pressure pushing down on me
45. Well there's a light in your eye that keeps shining
46. You've got a great car, yeah what's wrong with it today
47. I've been waiting a long time for this moment to come
48. Last night a little dancer came dancing to my door
49. Oh pirates yes they rob I, sold I to the merchant ships
50. I've fallen in love with you, I'm taking it badly
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off the top of my head
Date: 2006-11-11 12:26 am (UTC)16. Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
22. Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
29. Rolling Stones - Mother's Little Helper
32. Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
34. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
39. The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
43. Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him?
44. Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
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Date: 2006-11-11 12:41 am (UTC)"Redemption Song," Bob Marley''
23. No one told me about her, the way she lied
"She's Not There," The Zombies
20. I've heard there was a secret chord
"Hallelujah," Leonard Cohen/Rufus Wainwright/John Cale/Jeff Buckley/whoever
5. When they kick in your front door
"Guns of Brixton," the Clash
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Date: 2006-11-11 12:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-11 12:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-11 12:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-11 12:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-11 12:44 am (UTC)(Sorry about all the one-song responses. I go to close the window and see another I know!)
(I think we have similar musical taste.)
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Date: 2006-11-11 12:58 am (UTC)9 Cheap Trick - Surrender
11 David Bowie - Heroes
14 STP - Vasoline
24 The Cure - Love Song
27 Drawing a blank on the artist - Get a Move On
33 The Mamas and the Papas - California Dreamin'
34 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
45 Led Zeppelin - Fool In the Rain
48 Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
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Date: 2006-11-11 01:04 am (UTC)The Reverend Horton Heat - Texas Rockabilly Rebel
I knew it was The Reverend but I wasn't sure of the song. BTW, he's playing in Dallas next month if you want to see his act.
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Date: 2006-11-11 04:19 am (UTC)26. The Distance, Cake
32. The Sound of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel
33. California Dreaming, The Mamas and the Papas
34. Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen
35. I Wanna Be Like You, The Jungle Book
37. Basket Case, Green Day
I didn't look at the other comments so these may all be repeats.
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Date: 2006-11-11 04:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-11 08:27 am (UTC)7. Never know how much I love you - Fever, god knows who by. Michael Buble version (wild guess)?
13. Where do I take this pain of mine - Until It Sleeps by Metallica
15. Alas, my love, you do me wrong - Greensleeves??? What the hell, dude.
40. John Henry moved a mountain out of nothing but a hammer and sweat - John Henry Was A Steel Driving Man? Damned if I know who your crazy American folk songs are by. :P
46. You've got a great car, yeah what's wrong with it today - Bohemian Like You! I love that song. By the Dandy Warhols, of course.
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Date: 2006-11-11 08:31 am (UTC)15 - Dude, I was hitting "random"
40 - Nope
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Date: 2006-11-12 03:24 pm (UTC)3) I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" - Proclaimers
7) Never know how much I care "Fever" - Peggy Lee
9) She also told me, "Stay away, you'll never know what you'll catch" "Surrender" - Cheap Trick
12) I only want a friend that'll stay til the end, what do I get? "What Do I Get?" - Buzzcocks
16) I'm a man of wealth and taste "Sympathy For The Devil" - Rolling Stones
22) Didn't you? "How Does It Feel?" - Bob Dylan
23) Well no one told me about her, how many people cried "She's Not There" - The
Motha Fuck'nZOMBIES!!!24) Whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel like I am whole again "Lovesong" - The Cure
29) Things are different today I hear every mother say "Mother's Little Helper" - Rolling Stones
32) Simon and Garfunkel, the title escapes me because I hate Simon and Garfunkel. heh
33) California dreamin' on such a winter's day "California Dreamin'" - Mamas and Papas
34) Is this just fantasy? "Bohemain Rhapsody" - Queen
35) The jungle, V.I.P. I reached the top and had to stop and that's what's botherin' me - from Then Jungle Book "I Wanna Be Like You"
37) About everything and nothing at once? "Basket Case" - Green Day
39) Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been "Eleanor Rigby" - Beatles
48) Last night a little angel came pumping on the floor "Rebel Yell" - Billy Idol
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Date: 2006-11-12 03:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-12 11:38 pm (UTC)7.
16. Sympathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones
19. The Girl From Ipanema - That Breathy Female Vocalist
20. Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
22. Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
23. She's Not There - The Zombies
26. The Distance - Cake
27. Is this the theme from "The Italian Job"?
29. Mother's Little Helper - Rolling Stones
32. The Sounds Of Silene - Simon & Garfunkel
33. California Dreamin' - The Mamas & The Papas
34. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
43. Is She Really Going Out With Him? - Joe Jackson
44. Under Pressure- Queen & David Bowie
49. Redemption Song - Bob Marley
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Date: 2006-11-13 02:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-13 02:05 am (UTC)16) Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
19) Stan Getz/Astrud Gilberto - Girl From Impanema
20) Leonard Cohen (covered by everyone including Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, Bob Dylan, and k.d. lang) - Hallelujah
22) Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
23) The Zombies (and Santana) - She's Not There
29) Rolling Stones - Mother's Little Helper
32) Simon & Garfunkel (and often Paul solo) - The Sound of Silence
33) Mamas & Papas - California Dreaming
39) Beatles - Eleanor Rigby