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26 February 2009

Dan's First Lyrics Contest Guess early and often!→[More:]1. Lazy diamond-studded flunkies.
2. This won't be the prince to grant my wishes.
3. And above all this folderol.
4. Let's rock with the tough girls in the part of the world.
5. Oh my my, Oh hell yes.
6. But it grieves my heart, love, to see you tryin' to be a part of a world that just don't exist.
7. I'll teach you everything that a boy should know.
8. I crossed my old man back in OreGONE.
9. Did an angel whisper in your ear.
10. Givin' me head, on an unmade bed.

post by: danf at: 10:58 | 22 comments

5. 'Last Dance with Mary Jane,' Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

6. 'To Ramona,' Bob Dylan

posted by box 26 February | 11:07

Right on both.

(I have no idea whether these are all easy or not)

posted by danf 26 February | 11:10

Finally, someone whose musical tastes are similar enough to mine that I can get some of these.

9. Lucinda Williams, "Lake Charles"

I know 8 and 10 too, but it's going to take some singing to get them off the tip of my tongue.

posted by mudpuppie 26 February | 11:10

right, pups!

posted by danf 26 February | 11:13

1. The Doors - Love Street
3. I'm pretty sure it's the decemberists, but I can't get the song.

posted by gaspode 26 February | 11:17

The Crane Wife?

posted by gaspode 26 February | 11:18

Close but no cigar

posted by danf 26 February | 11:19

6. Sounds like a Leonard Cohen lyric.

posted by mudpuppie 26 February | 11:22

6. is already correctly guessed, up there.

posted by danf 26 February | 11:24

#10 is Leonard Cohen, "Chelsea Hotel"

I think I recognize #7, but damn if I can come up with it.

posted by BoringPostcards 26 February | 11:27

Bingo, bp. . .(he claims to have written this about Janis Joplin)

posted by danf 26 February | 11:29

8. Steely Dan "Don't Take Me Alive"

posted by jonmc 26 February | 11:33

#8 bites the dust!

posted by danf 26 February | 11:34

alright, 2 should be easy. 3 is almost guessed. 4 is the tough one, but 7 should also be pretty easy.

As a bonus:

11. Metal clips, restraints. The Secret Lives of the Saints.

posted by danf 26 February | 11:55

The Island?

posted by gaspode 26 February | 12:06

No, wrong album Gaspode. Think one album earlier.

posted by danf 26 February | 12:08

Ah! The Infanta. Yes. I have been hearing it in my head, and I knew it was either the first or second song on the album, but right. Album confusion.

posted by gaspode 26 February | 12:36

Only Colin Meloy would incorporate "folderol" into a rock song.

OK, we still have 2, 4, 7, and 11. Any more guesses?

posted by danf 26 February | 13:16

#7 does sound vaguely familiar, but I'm really not having any luck placing it!

posted by richat 26 February | 14:20

7 is covered by a girl duo. . .orig. by one of the noted girl bands of yore. ..

posted by danf 26 February | 14:24

alright. . .

2. Where Are You Tonight, Cowboy Junkies.
4. Ballad of a Lady Man, Sleater Kinney
7. In Your Room, The Bangles
11. Year of the Fling, Amy Rigby

posted by danf 26 February | 16:15

Agh! No wonder I recognized 7. I wasn't thinking quite THAT far back, though.

posted by BoringPostcards 26 February | 16:20

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