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graycardinalBy way of icepixie, slightly modified to accommodate my particular playlist:
Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line (or first and second line if it's completely impossible) from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike out the songs when someone guesses the song, performer, and/or source 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!
A couple of notes first:
My musical range is odd and eclectic even by fannish standards. I will be extremely surprised if more than about a third of these are actually guessed. I'll also note that my actual first 30 entries would have been stacked very heavily with about three performers, which would have made the game either very easy (for a select few) or completely impossible (for a wide audience). I've therefore limited the selections, with one partial exception, to one song from any given performer or source.
As an additional aid, some statistics and trivia: 13 of the 30 can be classified as television theme songs (this probably won't help as much as you think!), although in at least two cases related feature films can be cited. Three each are from theatrical films and from stage musicals, although one of these six actually has both a film and a stage version. Of the remaining eleven songs, only three were released by major commercial labels; one of these three was subsequently adapted into a movie. The other eight have all been recorded and released independently (see, I told you they were obscure!).
1. “Way up in the Ozarks where the trees are thick and green, there’s a gifted band of warriors the world ain’t never seen”
2. “I was raised in castles made of maple, fir, and pine, sheltered under fortress walls made of fire and snow and time”
3. “That waitress at Pete’s that took so long to seat you, and left you to stand in the doorway”
4. “If you wake at midnight and hear a horse’s feet, don’t go drawing back the blind or looking in the street”
[This one was a poem before it was set to music, and more than one artist may have written music for the verse.]
5. “Consider the penguin, relaxing in slumber, all snug in his bed on a cold winter’s night”
6.“Say the words (and we’ll begin) (say the words and we’ll begin), say the words and we’ll begin; It’s threescore miles (it’s threescore miles) (it’s threescore miles) and ten”
-- "Earthquake Weather", Seanan McGuire, on Stars Fall Home (guessed by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
erinlin)
7. “Scarecrow, Scarecrow, the soldiers of the king fear his name”
8.“When I was just a lad, looking for my true vocation, my father said ‘Now son, this choice deserves deliberation’”
-- "A Professional Pirate", from Muppet Treasure Island (guessed byerinlin)
9. "Come and gather round, my children, come and listen to the tale of the shifting of a large tectonic plate”
10. “(Oh, yeah; Yeah, yeah) Now God said to Noah, I don’t want no sinnin’, (Oh, yeah; Yeah, yeah) I been tellin’ you this since in the beginnin’”
11. “I know the gutter and I know the stink of the street; kicked like a dog I have spat out the bile of defeat”
12.“Up where the smoke is all billered and curled, ‘tween pavement and stars is the chimney sweep’s world”
-- "Chim Chim Cheree", from Mary Poppins (guessed byerinlin) [The version I quote here is from the stage musical.]
13. [spoken] “My name is Frances Marion; I fought the British redcoats in ‘76”
14.“George, George, George of the jungle, strong as he can be”
-- "George of the Jungle" (TV theme) (guessed byerinlin)
15. “Look ahead, look astern, look the weather and the lee”
16. “As I traveled down the backroads of this home I love so much, ev’ry carpenter and cowboy, ev’ry lame man on a crutch”
17. “Ev’ry mornin’ at the mine you could see him arrive, he stood six foot six and weighed two forty five”
18. “There’s a man who leads a life of danger,”
19. [spoken] “Guardians of freedom, defenders of liberty, explorers of the frontiers of space, brave men one and all”
[Guess carefully here....]
20. “Oh, we’re meeting at the White House, at eight o’clock tonight; you just come in the door and take the first turn to the right”
[I assure you I'm quoting the recording accurately on this one.]
21.“Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee, greenest state in the land of the free”
-- "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" (TV/movie theme) (guessed byerinlin)
22.“Come and listen to my story ‘bout a man named Jed”
-- "The Beverly Hillbillies" (TV theme) (guessed bytwilight2000)
23. “Breaker One Nine, this here’s Rubber Duck, you got a copy on me, Love Machine?”
24. “The end of the Civil War was near, when quite accidentally”
25. “Ooo, wah-ooo, wah-ooo, wah-ooo, wah-ooo, wah-ooo”
[In contrast to #6: here I've skipped past the first spoken line -- a dead giveaway -- to the first sung line.]
26. “I see a land with liberty for all; next thing I know, the truth will rise and fall”
27.“Fighting evil by moonlight; winning love by daylight”
-- "Sailor Moon" (TV theme, English version) (guessed byerinlin)
28. “There’s a holdup in the Bronx; Brooklyn’s broken out in fights”
29. “If you’ve got a case that needs super detection, well, here come the CAPERs and we never lose”
30. “(From now on) One question, one last question, it’s all that we have time for, (From now on) Good question, excellent question, forty feet or more”
[More lines won't help, I promise. This one basically requires having been in the right place at the right time.]
icepixie, slightly modified to accommodate my particular playlist:Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line (or first and second line if it's completely impossible) from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike out the songs when someone guesses the song, performer, and/or source 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!
A couple of notes first:
My musical range is odd and eclectic even by fannish standards. I will be extremely surprised if more than about a third of these are actually guessed. I'll also note that my actual first 30 entries would have been stacked very heavily with about three performers, which would have made the game either very easy (for a select few) or completely impossible (for a wide audience). I've therefore limited the selections, with one partial exception, to one song from any given performer or source.
As an additional aid, some statistics and trivia: 13 of the 30 can be classified as television theme songs (this probably won't help as much as you think!), although in at least two cases related feature films can be cited. Three each are from theatrical films and from stage musicals, although one of these six actually has both a film and a stage version. Of the remaining eleven songs, only three were released by major commercial labels; one of these three was subsequently adapted into a movie. The other eight have all been recorded and released independently (see, I told you they were obscure!).
1. “Way up in the Ozarks where the trees are thick and green, there’s a gifted band of warriors the world ain’t never seen”
2. “I was raised in castles made of maple, fir, and pine, sheltered under fortress walls made of fire and snow and time”
3. “That waitress at Pete’s that took so long to seat you, and left you to stand in the doorway”
4. “If you wake at midnight and hear a horse’s feet, don’t go drawing back the blind or looking in the street”
[This one was a poem before it was set to music, and more than one artist may have written music for the verse.]
5. “Consider the penguin, relaxing in slumber, all snug in his bed on a cold winter’s night”
6.
-- "Earthquake Weather", Seanan McGuire, on Stars Fall Home (guessed by
erinlin)7. “Scarecrow, Scarecrow, the soldiers of the king fear his name”
8.
-- "A Professional Pirate", from Muppet Treasure Island (guessed by
erinlin)9. "Come and gather round, my children, come and listen to the tale of the shifting of a large tectonic plate”
10. “(Oh, yeah; Yeah, yeah) Now God said to Noah, I don’t want no sinnin’, (Oh, yeah; Yeah, yeah) I been tellin’ you this since in the beginnin’”
11. “I know the gutter and I know the stink of the street; kicked like a dog I have spat out the bile of defeat”
12.
-- "Chim Chim Cheree", from Mary Poppins (guessed by
erinlin) [The version I quote here is from the stage musical.]13. [spoken] “My name is Frances Marion; I fought the British redcoats in ‘76”
14.
-- "George of the Jungle" (TV theme) (guessed by
erinlin)15. “Look ahead, look astern, look the weather and the lee”
16. “As I traveled down the backroads of this home I love so much, ev’ry carpenter and cowboy, ev’ry lame man on a crutch”
17. “Ev’ry mornin’ at the mine you could see him arrive, he stood six foot six and weighed two forty five”
18. “There’s a man who leads a life of danger,”
19. [spoken] “Guardians of freedom, defenders of liberty, explorers of the frontiers of space, brave men one and all”
[Guess carefully here....]
20. “Oh, we’re meeting at the White House, at eight o’clock tonight; you just come in the door and take the first turn to the right”
[I assure you I'm quoting the recording accurately on this one.]
21.
-- "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" (TV/movie theme) (guessed by
erinlin)22.
-- "The Beverly Hillbillies" (TV theme) (guessed by
twilight2000)23. “Breaker One Nine, this here’s Rubber Duck, you got a copy on me, Love Machine?”
24. “The end of the Civil War was near, when quite accidentally”
25. “Ooo, wah-ooo, wah-ooo, wah-ooo, wah-ooo, wah-ooo”
[In contrast to #6: here I've skipped past the first spoken line -- a dead giveaway -- to the first sung line.]
26. “I see a land with liberty for all; next thing I know, the truth will rise and fall”
27.
-- "Sailor Moon" (TV theme, English version) (guessed by
erinlin)28. “There’s a holdup in the Bronx; Brooklyn’s broken out in fights”
29. “If you’ve got a case that needs super detection, well, here come the CAPERs and we never lose”
30. “(From now on) One question, one last question, it’s all that we have time for, (From now on) Good question, excellent question, forty feet or more”
[More lines won't help, I promise. This one basically requires having been in the right place at the right time.]
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Date: February 28th, 2011 03:53 pm (UTC)8. "A Professional Pirate" from Muppet Treasure Island
12. "Chim-chim-a-ree" from Mary Poppens
14. ....Tarzan? (Ha! I kid. George of the Jungle)
21. Davey Crocket (I think I spelled that wrong. Proof that I didn't google it!)
27. Sailor Moon!
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Date: February 28th, 2011 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: March 1st, 2011 04:01 am (UTC)