Music Meme swunked from kennahijja

[fpb]

Step 1: Put your MP3 player (or WMP or whatever) on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 10 songs that play.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!

1 The bravest animals in the land
2 Talk to me, tell me your name and sevenorora bags this one!
3 The man is tall, mad, mean and goodlooking
4 Oooh, bet you wonder how I knew And congratulations to un_crayon_rouge for getting the right interpreter over a far better known one.
5 On a dark desert highway rfachir got it nearly as soon as I posted it.
6 These mist-covered mountains un_crayon_rouge again.
7 What's that round your head, is it a halo?
8 Down around the corner, a half mile from here Congratulations to affablestranger
9 Bisogna che lo affermi fortemente, che certo non appartenevo al mare
10 Well I was running down the road and congratulations to saturndevouring!
BONUS (for those with no Italian): I am he as you are he and well done becomethesea!

Comments

[rfachir.livejournal.com]

#5 Hotel California - Eagles. (I thought this song and Stairway to Heaven were too long for the original Ipod releases What kind is yours 10G?)

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I just used my computer, I have no Ipod

Greeting

[(Anonymous)]

Does Lattergate, KSC, Gollop mean anything to you? Mike

Re: Greeting

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Lattergate House, King's School Canterbury? Gollop I can't think of.

Re: Greeting

[(Anonymous)]

Hi FPB,

Were you in Lattergate in 1977? Mike

Re: Greeting

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I was indeed. I came in in January, and then spent a couple olf terms in Linacre, but then my family blew up and there were financial problems, and they took me away.

Re: Greeting

[(Anonymous)]

I arrived in January '77 also. I always wondered what happened to FPB :) Ian Gollop was the House Master of LG and was one of the biggest jerks I have encountered in my life. http://mstoneworks.net/Microbiology/ASMDradiodurans.htm

Re: Greeting

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Yes, I remember now. Ian Glossop, mustached professional Welshman, widely unpopular. I'm not sure I ever understood why, but then I was always outside the whole English schoolboy ethics (beginning with the no-sneaking rule). I do know that I was personally much happier with the Linacre housemaster, whose name I also forget, and who was an Anglican clergyman; whether he was happy with me, on the other hand....

The link you placed had a gap. I closed it and found myself in an article on a remarkably hardy microbe that could be selected for the controlled environment of a flight to Mars. Is that where you wanted me to go? Is that your work? (I did not realize that they designed the environment of spaceships in such detail, but thinking about it, it makes sense. One undersirable microbe might result in a sick, starved or dead crew before the mission is achieved.)

I haven't become an academic, as was my ambition, but I do some research in my own time, in a rather different field: http://www.facesofarthur.org.uk/fabio/contents.htm

Re: Greeting

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Fabio – what caught my attention first and which led to you was ‘Remarks on Science and Christianity – two' - (http://community.livejournal.com/fpb_de_fide/6828.html#cutid1). I found myself nodding my head in agreement. There is much I can relate to and see many parallels in my field. Mike D

Re: Greeting

[fpb.livejournal.com]

A blogger, especially one as obscure as I am, is someone who is constantly sending his/her creatures out into the world with no idea of where they will end up or even if they will end up anywhere. I am always very glad when I find that they worked for someone else. Have you read my recent essay on knowledge?
http://fpb.livejournal.com/481660.html
http://fpb.livejournal.com/481835.html

[fpb.livejournal.com]

The missing four: http://fpb.livejournal.com/487937.html

[un-crayon-rouge.livejournal.com]

Ok, I'll take a shot:

4. Is "I Heard it through the Grapevine" by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
6. Is "Brothers in Arms" by Dire Straits.
8. Is "Down on the corner" by Creedence Clearwater Revival

I have a feeling I know some of the others as well, but I can't put my finger on it.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, no. But congratulations for saying "Creedence Clearwater Revival" rather than "Marvin Gaye" for no.4 - that was a bit of a trap. As for no.8, a hint: you did not get the right song or group, but almost the right period and style. And no Googling!

[un-crayon-rouge.livejournal.com]

Ack, too hard for me. My musical knowledge is scattered. Curiously enough though, I wouldn't even have thought of Marvin Gaye, that song will always be Creedence for me :-)

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I'll tell you what: in a day or two, or when I have had all the answers, I will publish Youtube videos of all the songs. Most of them are great - there is only one that is a bit of a guilty pleasure (a singer whom I love for other work).

[un-crayon-rouge.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm all for guilty pleasures. This spoken by a woman who had Britney Spears on her iPod, which is why I'm always reluctant to participate in this kind of memes: I'm always in trepidation she will show up, because I'm too, I don't know, honest or guilt-ridden, to cheat. Uff.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

http://fpb.livejournal.com/487937.html

"Down around the corner..."

[affablestranger.livejournal.com]

"Long Train Runnin'" by The Doobie Brothers

Re: "Down around the corner..."

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Eee-yup!

Re: "Down around the corner..."

[fpb.livejournal.com]

The missing four: http://fpb.livejournal.com/487937.html

[becomethesea.livejournal.com]

...as you are me and we are all together! :-)

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Bonus point to becomethesea!

[fpb.livejournal.com]

The missing four: http://fpb.livejournal.com/487937.html

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Gah... I would have got 5 and 6, but apart from those, I have no clue. Though somehow 1 screams 'Disney'...

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Actually, no, it is from this side of the pond, and I think Uncle Walt was already dead when it came out.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

To be fair, apart from 2 and 10, the ones left are the toughies - unless you are Italian, blue-state American, or seventies English. (But I actually published a video of 3 on this blog a few weeks ago!) But please don't tell me that you seriously mean you never heard 2, 10, and the bonus!

[fpb.livejournal.com]

http://fpb.livejournal.com/487937.html

[sevenorora.livejournal.com]

I think 2 belongs to "She Bangs" by Ricky Martin.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

You are right. And please don't take this the wrong way, but I'm amaxed it took so long. I sort of expected everyone to know it. Congratulations nevertheless.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

The missing four: http://fpb.livejournal.com/487937.html

10.

[saturndevouring.livejournal.com]

Is "Take Is Easy" by the Eagles?

Re: 10.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Well, thank God for that! Yes, it is.

Re: 10.

[un-crayon-rouge.livejournal.com]

Well. That was so obvious.

Re: 10.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

The missing four: http://fpb.livejournal.com/487937.html

[elegant-bonfire.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, everyone already tagged the ones I knew!

the missing four...

[fpb.livejournal.com]

http://fpb.livejournal.com/487937.html

Re: the missing four...

[elegant-bonfire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that, I didn't know any of them anyway!

Re: the missing four...

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I'm glad - most of them are really worth knowing, so I may have given you something. And even the worst of them is by Marty Robbins, after all.