Kate ([info]kate_nepveu) wrote,
@ 2008-09-09 10:37:00
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Another very short lyrics quiz

After this spring's very short lyrics quiz, I started collecting more lyrics, and then forgot all about it until just recently. So, it's a rainy and (so far) quiet day here, let's play.

I think some of these are probably harder than the last time, and so I've ordered them roughly easiest to hardest, at least according to my best guess.

  1. mirrored perspective
  2. burned-out Chevrolets
  3. insanity laughs
  4. Houston and Third
  5. out on 441
  6. scimitars and scarves
  7. telephonic invasion
  8. gemstone halters
  9. winter in Firenza
  10. useless tools ourselves
  11. soup-stained tie
  12. bottlecap ashtrays
  13. pink private jet

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[info]epj
2008-09-09 02:40 pm UTC (link)
#2 is "Thunder Road" by Bruce Springsteen. I love that song! (I'm also not surprised the only one I know is an easy one) :)

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[info]kate_nepveu
2008-09-09 02:41 pm UTC (link)
Correct!

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[info]lbmango
2008-09-09 02:41 pm UTC (link)
1) is Death Cab for Cutie, I will posses your heart (one of the creepiest songs ever)

7) No Doubt, is Spider webs.

I think I should know 2, but can't think of it...

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[info]kate_nepveu
2008-09-09 02:44 pm UTC (link)
Both correct.

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[info]telophase
2008-09-09 02:54 pm UTC (link)
I disqualified myself by Googling for #9, because it was the only one I recognized, to the point of being able to sing it, but it drove me nuts not being able to recall the song title or artist. But now I know. :D

Edited at 2008-09-09 02:54 pm UTC

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[info]kate_nepveu
2008-09-09 02:58 pm UTC (link)
Heh. I do that all the time.

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[info]telophase
2008-09-09 03:00 pm UTC (link)
And now I'm going to have it stuck in my head all day!

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[info]rysmiel
2008-09-09 03:43 pm UTC (link)
3 is "Under Pressure", Queen and David Bowie.

6 sounds like "Whole of the Moon", the Waterboys, though I had always heard that line as "scimitars and stars".

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[info]kate_nepveu
2008-09-09 03:47 pm UTC (link)
Yes and yes; I can hear what you mean but since "stars" is in the line that rhymes with it, I think it is "scarves."

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[info]rysmiel
2008-09-09 04:06 pm UTC (link)
Gahh.

I typed "stars". I meant to type scars.

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[info]kate_nepveu
2008-09-09 04:10 pm UTC (link)
I hate it when my fingers do that.

The awkward artist's website ( http://www.mikescottwaterboys.com/ ) does say "scarves," though.

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[info]leighdb
2008-09-09 04:33 pm UTC (link)
The only one I recognized was #7, which, of course, someone else already guessed. Curses!

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[info]marydell
2008-09-09 04:43 pm UTC (link)
#3 is Under Pressure, as noted above.
#9 is Canary in a Coalmine, by the Police

many of the others sound familiar, arg

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[info]kate_nepveu
2008-09-09 05:35 pm UTC (link)
Correct!

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[info]lnhammer
2008-09-09 05:25 pm UTC (link)
The only one left I recognize is #10, which is something by Modest Mouse with a title I can never remember -- something like "We Missed the Boat" maybe?

---L.

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[info]kate_nepveu
2008-09-09 05:36 pm UTC (link)
Just "Missed the Boat."

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[info]lnhammer
2008-09-09 07:37 pm UTC (link)
Gnah!

Oh well.

---L.

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[info]orzelc
2008-09-09 05:59 pm UTC (link)
I don't suppose it's fair for me to answer #11 and #12, is it?

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[info]kate_nepveu
2008-09-09 06:11 pm UTC (link)
Well, you can at least feel smart for knowing them, since I'm sure you do.

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[info]kate_nepveu
2008-09-09 10:11 pm UTC (link)
(In fact, I expect you know all but 8 and 13.)

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[info]schulman
2008-09-09 07:21 pm UTC (link)
Just a geography-based guess, but I'm betting #5 is a Tom Petty song.

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[info]kate_nepveu
2008-09-09 07:31 pm UTC (link)
. . . keep going.

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[info]schulman
2008-09-10 12:56 pm UTC (link)
My brain wants to say that it's "American Girl", but my brain has been wrong before. (And it currently has "Telephone Road" stuck in a loop, so that's kind of killing retrieval.)

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[info]kate_nepveu
2008-09-10 01:02 pm UTC (link)
Go, brain!

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