Meme!

[mitchy]

There's yet another "Guess the song from the lyrics" music meme going around atm and I wanna play too. But as I don't have any music on this PoS PC or an MP3 player with music on it, I'm going to have to do this pretty much from memory. ETA: Heh, this ended up as kind of a musical history of a Mitchy, although not strictly in order. If anyone gets no. 3 without extensive Googling, 'm gonna be impressed.

The current meme suggests 40 lyrics but the thought of doing that is making my brain cry so I'm gonna do 20 :)

1) But the stars we could reach/were just starfish on the beach - bibliogirl
2) Sweep through the heather like deer in the glen/Carry me back to the days I knew then. - bibliogirl
3) Hey Control, this is 67 here / I can hear you loud and I can hear you clear yehbibliogirl
4) Still there was a way to hear her voice again/The phone rang one, the phone rang twice/And then I heard her say
5) And soldiers coming home like shadows turning red - thessalian
6) I know what you think/The girl means business/So I'll offer her a drink - bibliogirl
7) There's a motorway/It's a monument/To distant cities with distant cries
8) I know what it means to work hard on machines/It's a labour of love so please don't ask me why - bibliogirl
9) And here I am/Tryin' to keep you in my line of sight/I'm never certain that you read me right - thessalian
10) I guess we all have these feelings/We can't leave unreconciled/Some of them burned on our ceilings
11) I'm sure he once walked down our street/'cause he painted kids who wore nowt on their feet - bibliogirl
12) I heard you on the wireless back in Fifty Two/Lying awake intent at tuning in on you - thessalian
13) The Gods may throw a dice/Their minds as cold as ice - bibliogirl
14) No one in your life is with you constantly/No one is completely on your side - bibliogirl
15) Eight to Ten years after coming home almost eight hundred thousand men/Are still fighting the Vietnam War - bibliogirl
16) I reached inside myself and found/Nothing there to ease the pressure/Off my ever worrying mind - bibliogirl
17) Come from greed/Never born of the seed/Took life from a barren land - silenttex
18) Young hearts are foolish, they make such mistakes/They're much too eager to give their love away - combined effort by silenttex and itsjustaname
19) You can't turn back the clock/You can't turn back the tide/Ain't that a shame/I'd like to go back one time on a roller coaster ride
20) Please don't put your life in the hands/Of a rock 'n' roll band/Who'll throw it all away - thessalian

Comments

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

Crap? CRAP?! I resent that remark :)

Sadly I am a child of the 70s and 80s when it comes to music... and the 70s, in particular, was hardly a golden era.... ;)

Ah, memories. I had a bloke try to chat me up by telling me Seasons In The Sun was his favourite song, once. "Try" being the operative word.

I assume I heard Car 67 on the radio in my youth. "Is there anything else you want me to do... you know I'm only here to please you..." Doesn't sound like any minicab driver _I've_ ever encountered.

I have a very good memory for song lyrics. If I could get that chunk of brain back to use for something more useful...

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

I assume I heard Car 67 on the radio in my youth. "Is there anything else you want me to do... you know I'm only here to please you..." Doesn't sound like any minicab driver _I've_ ever encountered.

This is because he's not talking to the customer but to the controller :) The song was interspersed with comments from aforementioned controller. The band name (I think it was just one guy, officially) was Driver 67. This was their only hit.

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I knew he was talking to the controller, but I haven't heard drivers talking to their controllers like that either ;)