friday random 10

Last week. This week:

1. “Calling America” by Electric Light Orchestra
   Talk is cheap on satellite
2. “Television” by Robyn Hitchcock
   You’re the devil’s fishbowl, honey
3. “Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell” by the Flaming Lips
   I was waiting on a moment
4. “Kiss Me ‘Til it Bleeds” by Nina Gordon
   Inciting a riot on my radio
5. “Jump Around” by House of Pain
   Try and play the role and the whole crew will act up
6. “House of the Rising Son” by Public Enemy
   The gun didn’t know I was loaded
7. “Poetry of the Deed” by Frank Turner
   They’re quicksilver wracked by some invisible heat
8. “Take This Heart of Mine” by Marvin Gaye
   Sounds like a real bad case of a girl who needs a guy
9. “Somebody” by Aerosmith
   Said I won’t be choosy, you could send me a floozy
10. “Mutiny, I Promise You” by the New Pornographers
    What’s the weight of the world worth to ya, kid?

Guess the lyric, win no prize! Good luck!

A surprisingly low turnout last week. Were the songs really that obscure? Is nobody but me really enjoying this? Oh well, here are this week’s puzzling song lyrics:

1. “Elephants” by Rachael Yamagata
   And I am dreaming of them on the plains, dirtying up their beds
2. “My Brother Makes the Noises for the Talkies” by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
   But what is even better is his noise for Mickey Mouse
3. “We’ll Be Free” by BLAMMOS
   We spent so much time neglecting what’s before our eyes
4. “Awaiting on You All” by George Harrison, guessed by Eric B.
   You don’t need to designate or to emigrate before you can see Jesus
5. “Since I’ve Been Loving You” by Led Zeppelin, guessed by Kim
   I said you had the nerve to tell me you didn’t want me no more, yeah
6. “Broad Daylight” by Gabriel Rios
   Lloyd’s still got them Polaroids
7. “Apeman” by the Kinks, guessed by Generik
   I don’t want to die in a nuclear war
8. “When Will I Be Loved?” by Linda Ronstadt, guessed by Clayton
   He always breaks my heart in two
9. “Suck on the Jugular” by the Rolling Stones
   Let’s live lasciviously down in the muck
10. “Got to Get You Into My Life” by the Beatles, guessed by Generik
    And had you run, you knew in time we’d meet again for I had told you

Good luck!

Last week. This week:

1. “Answer” by Sarah McLachlan
   For the night has been unkind
2. “Shadow on the Wall” by Pale Young Gentlemen
   Bask in the light of the day
3. “O Canada Girls” by Dar Williams
   In the late-night sun at Winnipeg
4. “Fallen” by Bree Sharp
   She has starry eyes, starry eyes
5. “Cannonball Blues” by Those Darlins (orig. the Carter Family)
   From Buffalo to Washington
6. “Open All Night” by Son Volt (orig. Bruce Springsteen)
   Early north Jersey industrial skyline
7. “In My Head” by the Ballet
   I know it’s wrong to make you fall in love with me
8. “Come Away From it” by Ani DiFranco
   Are you trying to tell me this world just isn’t beautiful enough?
9. “El Condor Pasa (If I Could)” by Simon & Garfunkel, guessed by Clayton
   A man gets tied up to the ground
10. “Time Is a Healer” by Eva Cassidy
    I spoke such harsh words before goodbye

And so it goes. Good luck!

Last week. This week:

1. “Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley
   Even your emotions have an echo in so much space
2. “Iris” by Live, guessed by Kim
   I liked the way my hand looked on your head
3. “Take it to the Limit” by the Eagles, guessed by Occupant
   You can spend all your love making time
4. “Day Tripper” by the Beatles, guessed by Occupant
   Got a good reason for taking the easy way out
5. “Hitch Hike” by Marvin Gaye
   That’s what the sign on the highway read
6. “Please Be Kind” by Frank Sinatra
   My dreams are on parade
7. “Seven” by David Bowie
   The gods forgot they made me, so I forgot them too
8. “Bad Moon Rising” by the Holmes Brother (orig. CCR), guessed by Occupant
   Looks like we’re in for nasty weather
9. “Changing of the Guards” by Bob Dylan
   A messenger arrived with a black nightingale
10. “Lazybones” by Soul Coughing
    Drunkenness is a hand-held scrambling down Delancey

As always, good luck!

Last week. This week:

1. “Dry the Rain” by the Beta Band
   This is the definition of my life
2. “The Time Warp” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, guessed by Kim
   Madness takes its toll
3. “You Can Never Hold Back Spring” by Tom Waits
   You can be sure that I will never stop believing
4. “Haunted” by Poe
   And these shadows keep on changing
5. “Jake Summers” by Fight Like Apes
   Those geese were stupefied
6. “The Legionnaire’s Lament” by the Decemberists
   I am on reprieve, lacking my joie de vivre
7. “Baltimore” by the Tamlins
   Hard times in the city, in a hard town by the sea
8. “Across the Universe” by the Beatles, guessed by Kim
   They slither while they pass
9. “Jailhouse Rock” by Elvis Presley, guessed by Kim
   Spider Murphy played the tenor saxophone
10. “Build That Wall” by Aimee Mann
    She’s feeling nostalgic and feeling that fall

Good luck!