What, sheep, me?

[listersgirl]

I don't have a playlist, because I am Not Cool Enough for that shit, and still cling resolutely to my CDs. Of course, I spend 8 hours a day in a room with 175,000 of the damn things.

So, I'm doing the dork version of the lyrics meme, also known as Look what's sitting on my desk at work! I took 25 random CDs* and picked a line from the third song on the CD.


1. I write myself this later, I tell myself you let me go
2. You're the only one who's miffed about it
3. The clear voice of bad choice sounding like an ache in my day
4. But what if I'm a mermaid in these jeans of his Tori Amos, Silent All These Years, guessed by caffeinediary
5. I should give you every rose that ever grew This Flower, Kasey Chambers, guessed by minervacat
6. You're the reason why the opera is in me U2, Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own, guessed by tinpanalley
7. You can go and be what you want to be and it'll be alright if we disagree
8. The cat on her mind the ring in her tanline
9. So get yourself up off your past, friend/There's so much to rearrange Bobby Darin, Change, guessed by dramaqueen_23
10. Hydromatic overdrive four-on-the-floor/Pushbutton windows pushbutton doors
11. I thought you were an intellect/But now that I reflect, you left me reeling
12. But still I'd rather be famous than righteous or holy The Smiths, Frankly, Mr. Shankley, guessed by bruiseblue
13. No throwing things or throwing up
14. With a waiter with a face made for currency
15. Cos all I have are secrets and memories of the dark
16. The wind's blowing warm to the one I love
17. I said there'd been a flood, I said there's nothing left
18. Volunteers are soon forgotten and many more of us shall die
19. Take your economy car and your suitcase/Take your psycho little dogs
20. And if he smiles, it's no more than a genius deserves/For all his curious nerve and his passion
21. She smiled and rung me up/Orange juice $3.29 Jill Scott, Exclusively, guessed by crimsonkitty
22. And since folks here to an absurd degree/Seem fixated on your verdigris Wicked, The Wizard and I, also guessed by tinpanalley
23. I stole this sweater from a costume shop/It makes me look like Daisy Mae The Last 5 Years, See I'm Smiling, guessed by swedishfrogs
24. My Sally's like the ravens wing her hair is like her mothers'/With hands that make quick work of a chore and eyes like the top of a stove
25. Like the Magi on the hill/I can divinate your presence from afar


*They're not entirely random - I was kind and ignored the Christmas CDs littering my desk, and also all the indie promo CDs that no-one will have ever heard of. Also the classical. Plus, be warned, these are not at all indicative of my taste in music, since at least half of them are things that I'm working on, rather than things that I'm listening to for fun.

Go forth and identify!

Comments

[caffeinediary.livejournal.com]

4) Tori Amos-Silent All these Years.

That was my teenage-angst anthem.

[listersgirl]

Right!

[jeejeen.livejournal.com]

Boo, I suck!

Although #20 sounds familiar...

*thinks furiously*

[listersgirl]

I promise you it's not Sir Devil Pants.

[dramaqueen-23.livejournal.com]

9 is Change. Not sure but I think it's by Bobby Darrin.

[listersgirl]

Well done!

[globetrotter1.livejournal.com]

I sucketh!

[listersgirl]

I've only managed to get something like 4 answers for all the thousands of these that have gone around in the past few days. :)

[minervacat.livejournal.com]

5. I should give you every rose that ever grew
The song is called "This Flower"; I know Kasey Chambers does a version, but I don't know if it's a cover or not.

[listersgirl]

Nope, that's the one. :)

[erinmorgenstern.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure 21 is Jill Scott, "Exclusively"

[listersgirl]

And you're right!

[starfishchick]

I got nothin'.

[pescana.livejournal.com]

I'm on your team then. Clearly I have some learning to do here, because none of this even rings a bell. Maybe I shouldn't have stopped listening to the radio three years ago?

[listersgirl]

Heh, yes, this is what happens when I take things off my desk - at least a few of them are from very recent albums.

If they were all from my own CDs they'd be woefully out of date. :)

[bruiseblue.livejournal.com]

12 is morrissey, that song that starts with Frankley Mr Shankley

[listersgirl]

You're half right - that's the song, but not the version that's sitting on my desk.

[bruiseblue.livejournal.com]

I don't know of any covers of that, except perhaps it's on one of the bazillion smiths tribute albums?

Not fair, at any rate.

[listersgirl]

I suppose not, especially since that's why I didn't do any of the Christmas songs.

Ok, changed!

[tinpanalley.livejournal.com]

#6 is from Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own by U2

and

#22 is from The Wizard and I from Wicked.

Those two were easy because I've been listening to both of those CDs a lot lately!

[listersgirl]

And it paid off! Hee.

[swedishfrogs.livejournal.com]

23. "See, I'm Smiling" from Last 5 Years. I CLEARLY RULE.

[listersgirl]

Oh, you CLEARLY DO.

[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

OMG I know NOTHING.

Except: #8 is a great line. #13 is going on a sampler to be hung in my front hallway. And #16 seems hauntingly familiar, but I'm pretty sure I don't know it anyway. (Sure sounds like Gordon Lightfoot or similar could sing it nicely, though, eh?)

[listersgirl]

Bwa! Yes, that would make a great sampler.