kate_nepveu: sleeping cat carved in brown wood (wood cat)Kate ([personal profile] kate_nepveu) wrote,
@ 2012-02-07 12:54 pm UTC
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Entry tags:music

So here are the first lines of the first ten songs from my 5-star playlist, set to shuffle, that are in English and don't contain the song name in the opening. Behind the cut, a poll:

Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 24


Pick a first line:

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1. This uneven situation, I don't need 'cause I take things on the chin. Smelling salts to ease sensation, a losing man who takes his shots to win.
1 (4.8%)

2. They told me that I couldn't come back here again, took me for some kind of fool. Said I was doing things that never should be done, but I don't care about their rules.
0 (0.0%)

3. I've been taking off and landing, but this airport's closed, and how much thicker this fog is gonna get, well God only knows.
1 (4.8%)

4. Sit back, matter of fact, teasing, toying, turning, chatting, charming, hissing, playin' the crowd.
0 (0.0%)

5. I broke free on a Saturday morning, I put the pedal to the floor. Headed north on Mills Avenue, and listened to the engine roar.
5 (23.8%)

6. L.A. proved too much for the man, too much for the man. He couldn't make it, so he's leaving the life he's come to know.
5 (23.8%)

7. I walk along the city streets you used to walk along with me, and every step I take reminds me of just how it used to be.
3 (14.3%)

8. Song came and went, like the times that we spent, hiding out from the rain under the carnival tent.
1 (4.8%)

9. Well I'm lost, I'm a frayed rope tying down a leaky boat to the roof of a car on the road in the dark and it's snowing.
4 (19.0%)

10. We crossed the line, who pushed who over? It doesn't matter to you, it matters to me.
1 (4.8%)

Why?

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Liked the quote.
14 (63.6%)

Liked the song.
13 (59.1%)

Random choice.
0 (0.0%)

I am inscrutable.
4 (18.2%)

Care to identify any of the songs? (continue in comments if necessary)

Ticky?

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Ticky.
16 (88.9%)

I have a better set of responses for the ticky question that I will offer for the next time Kate is posting in a hurry ahead of a sleeping baby.
2 (11.1%)



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[personal profile] kate_nepveu
2012-02-07 06:03 pm UTC (link)
I picked #9 because it has a wordplay bit not obvious in text, a pause after "a frayed" that makes the listener hear "afraid" on the first listen.

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[personal profile] onyxlynx
2012-02-07 10:01 pm UTC (link)
I recognized a couple of the others, but #6 was the only thing I could identify.

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[personal profile] kate_nepveu
2012-02-07 11:37 pm UTC (link)
#6 and #7 are, I think, the most recognizable of the lot, though #5 is a close call in this crowd, likely.

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