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09 March 2012

Name That Tune: Shuffle 10! →[More:]

No skips, no do-overs, no compromises; this is going to be totally random*!

0. are you visible today?
1. of that ancient and precious wound
that's been covered, long ago, by a scar
2. steal your heart when you're blind
3. she looks as lovely as she's ever gon' get
4. when they act tough, you call their bluff
5. she make grandpa feel like twenty-one
6. you are so hard to read
you play hide and seek
7. scuffed up and forgotten, left just to dream
waiting for my ship to sail me out to sea
...a ship that will never come
8. how easy would it be to be home in time for tea
and stop feeling like a sailboat rocking on the sea?
9. but I paid such a lot
the price you pay for living under glass
A. wine from your tears
B. apes in the plan
C. dressing up in costumes, playing silly games
D. you know you feel like dying
E. your eyes were cinnamon
F. we go fishing or go swimming in the sea

* okay, so really pseudorandom since I'm using WinAMP's randomizer.

post by: Eideteker at: 11:05 | 10 comments

Answers from last time are here.

posted by Eideteker 09 March | 11:06

C. is Games Without Frontiers.

posted by JanetLand 09 March | 11:13

Correct!

posted by Eideteker 09 March | 11:16

A. is Never Tear us Apart by INXS and I gave a busker a fiver a few weeks ago because he was playing it and I got (neighbor) homesick.

posted by gaspode 09 March | 11:43

...I got nothing.

posted by The Whelk 09 March | 12:27

only one I knew was Games Without Frontiers

posted by rollick 09 March | 12:30

F: Mungo Jerry's In the Summertime. I was just humming this the other day while out in the lovely warm weather.

posted by arse_hat 09 March | 12:53

Well if no one else is in I also know d: Cheap Trick's I Want You To Want Me.

posted by arse_hat 09 March | 15:23

Right on both, arse!

posted by Eideteker 09 March | 17:16

0. are you visible today?
R.E.M. - Pop Song '89

1. of that ancient and precious wound
that's been covered, long ago, by a scar
Trailer Bride - Arrowheads

2. steal your heart when you're blind
Bel Biv Devoe - Poison

3. she looks as lovely as she's ever gon' get
Living Colour - Love Rears Its Ugly Head

4. when they act tough, you call their bluff
RENT!

5. she make grandpa feel like twenty-one
Little Richard - The Girl Can't Help It

6. you are so hard to read
you play hide and seek
Paula Abdul - Straight up

7. scuffed up and forgotten, left just to dream
waiting for my ship to sail me out to sea
...a ship that will never come
Molly McGuire - Plastic Pirates

8. how easy would it be to be home in time for tea
and stop feeling like a sailboat rocking on the sea?
The Wonder Stuff - Size of a Cow

9. but I paid such a lot
the price you pay for living under glass
'Til Tuesday - Don't Watch Me Bleed

A. wine from your tears
InXS - Never Tear Us Apart

B. apes in the plan
DEVO - Jocko Homo

C. dressing up in costumes, playing silly games
Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers

D. you know you feel like dying
Cheap Trick - I Want You to Want Me

E. your eyes were cinnamon
Beth Orton - Stolen Car

F. we go fishing or go swimming in the sea
Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime

posted by Eideteker 03 April | 10:03

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