Memesheepage: First lines of songs

[asterroc]

Occurred to me that despite the many iterations of this meme, I'd never actually done it. Well, been listening to music all day while doing laundry, so I figured it was about time I did it.

Put your music on shuffle, post the first line of the first ten songs that come up. Well, I'm posting the first line of the last ten songs that I played without skipping. If the first line contains the song title, put the next line that doesn't. If it's instrumental, skip it. Everyone else comment w/ the song names and titles - don't use teh intartubes, just your memory.

10) Just a castaway, an island lost at sea, oh - "Message in a Bottle" by The Police (the particular version I was listening to was a live version by Sting), jrtom
9) All of my purple life I've been looking for a dame
8) ...It seems to leave this troubled world behind
7) All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore - "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy" by Sarah McLachlan, jrtom
6) Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band - "Tiny Dancer" by Elton John, jrtom
5) The strands in your eyes that color them wonderful stop me and steal my breath - "I'll Be" by Edwin McCain, best_ken_ever
4) I miss you confuse you make it easy - "Satisfy" by Guitar Vader, oh_chris
3) I'm back on board that '49 Ford in 1956
2) I've seen your face somewhere before I swear
1) Traveling in a fried-out combie - "Down Under" by Men at Work (punk cover by ???), best_ken_ever

Comments

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Both right, but jrtom got them first.

Part of why I decided to post this is I realized while it was on shuffle today that I had a nice assortment of genres. No metal, techno, bagpipe, or local bands popped up in these ten, but Louis Armstrong was soon after.

I expect #3 will be the last to be guessed.

[marquiswildbill.livejournal.com]

I didn't look at the other comment, but I'm not surprised someone else got them. They seem to be the easy ones. It took me a second to remember Tiny Dancer. I had to go through the lyrics in my head until I got to hte chorus. I'm so bad with the names of songs and bands, but I remember lyrics really well for some reason.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

The other comment was nearly identical to yours, including the commentary about usually knowing more. :)

Ditto here on remembering lyrics - for me I think it comes from my choral background. I can learn lyrics to a new pop song in three repetitions if I'm really trying, and I'll have the tune as fast as I hear it. I started on Rock Band 2 the other day, and was amused to find that all the 80's rock songs that I've never heard, I can do the vocals 90% on the first try on Hard.

[marquiswildbill.livejournal.com]

I saw, they really were close.
I don't know where my memory for lyrics comes from, I like to sing but I'm not very good at it. I had perfectly flat pitch as a kid but I never did chorus or anything to train it away, and high frequency/high intensity sounds have changed my hearing pattern over the years to where I know I'm just off key now. I can still sing by myself in the car. T is getting big enough to notice when I sing off key. It's cute when she tells me to stop.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

In college I took a 10-person voice lessons class. One student (who unfortunately IMO dropped out of the course) had no sense of pitch at all - I mean some people in the class sung off key, but she couldn't tell the difference between higher and lower pitches. She sang even "Happy Birthday" on a single note.

I say it's unfortunate that she dropped out, b/c I was really curious how the instructor was going to go about helping her, and if it was even possible. I mean, is being perfectly tone-deaf like that something that can be trained out, or is it like being colorblind and it's inherent and biological?

[marquiswildbill.livejournal.com]

That is an interesting question. I'll put it in my list of things to look up when bored. I've never heard of someone being that tone deaf before either.
Basically the only time I sing in public is sing-along type things or occasionally karaoke if people manage to "convince" me to sing.