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[msmcknittington]

From the illustrious aikea_guinea (who I totally thought was named Aikea for the first three or four months I internet-knew her.)

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 35 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like the game post your own.


1. (spoken) Once there was a princess / Was the princes YOU? . . . (sung) He was so romantic, I could not resist.

(The next one was instrumental, but I felt that would unfair. What would I write? Instrumental?)

2. A 'níon mhín ó, sin anall na fir shúirí / A mháithair mhín ó, cuir na roithléan go dtí mé (English: Oh gentle daughter, here come the wooing men / Oh gentle mother, put the wheels in motion for me)

3. (spoken) Give me an F! (F!) Give me a U! (U!) Give me a C! (C!) Give me a K! (K!) What's that spell? (War!) (sung) Come on all of you big strong men, Uncle Sam needs your help again.

4. I think I'm sophisticated because I'm living the life like a good homo sapien.

5. Thirteen miles along 31 are drying

6. Well, a bonny commander, his troops for to stand, and they planted their cannon all over the land.

7. Honey! (Honey! Honey! Honey!) There was honey in my mouth, honey in my hair, honey for the bees, and honey (Honey! Honey! Honey!) . . . for the bears.

8. Good Caiaphas, the council waits for you. The Pharisees and priests are here for you.

9. Just tell me what you've got to say to me / I've been waiting for so long to hear the truth

10. Lazy old day / Rolling away / Dreaming the day away

11. You got the cool water when the fever runs high

12. If you want beautiful, pitiful, have me in a picture

13. I heard you're doing OK, but I want you to know: I'm a dick, I'm addicted to you.

14. Hush, little baby, don't say a word / Mama's gonna stop all your crying

15. All the fear has left me now / I'm not frightened anymore

16. We've painted hell since Moscow burned, as Cossaks tore us piece by piece

(Here there was a medieval French chant that I do not know the lyrics to, and cannot find online. Not knowing medieval French, I couldn't transcribe it. So I skipped it.)

17. I am the wind that breathes on the sea / I am the wave, wave on the ocean

18. 'Round Cuillin's peaks, the night is creeping / The banshee's croon is around us sweeping

19. Once upon looking for Donna time, there was a 16-year-old virgin

20. Hey you gender nectar / Sifting through the grain of gold / Tripping at your door is that you.

21. Mercury, I see visions of galaxies

22. Winter's day in a deep and dark December

23. I'm sailing away / Set an open course for the virgin sea*

24. (Wow, we're in stereo) Question for the ages / What's going on with my back pages?

25. Little Jack Horner fell in love with a witch up on the moon

26. Look down! Look down! Don't look him in the eye!

27. O light the candle, John / The daylight has almost gone

28. Who's that whispering in the trees? It's two sailors and they're on leave.

29. Man, it's a hot one. Like seven inches from the midday sun.

30. I took my love and I took it down.

31. Call you up in the middle of the night, like a firefly without a light.

32. Try as you might, but you never could quite forgive the forgiven.

33. All dressed in white (babbling) My future, my future

34. Oh, metal fan, so generally electric, buzzing like a wasp with chronic asthma

35. Spend all your time waiting for that second chance, the break that will make it OK

*This is a cover.



My non-professional analysis reveals that I listen to a lot of music that was popular when I was in middle school.

Comments

[aikea-guinea.livejournal.com]

8) Something from Jesus Christ Super Star, but as it's been over a decade since I heard it I'm not sure which song.
15) Fumbling Towards Ecstasy - Sarah McLachlan
20) Lust - Tori Amos
27) Skellig - Loreena McKennitt
28) Zoot Suit Riot - Cherry Poppin Daddys (Daddies? Daddy's? Dad-eeze??)
35) Angel - Sarah McLachlan

I have no idea what 7 is, but it's managed to lodge 'Honey ... do do do do DO do ... oh sugar sugar do do DO do do do ... you are my CANDY girl!' right firm into my brain.

And I think 'Aikea' would be a cool name to have for real, even if it would be a nightmare of constant mispronunciations.

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

Yep. No. 7 is actually a children's song. Ridiculously cute.

Aikea would be a cool name to have for realsies, but I have no idea how say it. Like Ikea? Only with less birch?

[aikea-guinea.livejournal.com]

It's pronounced EYE-key, and is apparently "an old Scottish colloquialism for a seashell." It sounds pretty, sort of light and airy, a lot like the song that has the same name.

By the way, I should have you know that when my brother was visiting, we spent quite a bit of time stalking your journal and photos. He's been trying to learn how to knit, so we were ooing and ahhing over your work.

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's neat. I've been pronouncing it Ikea, because it was all phonetic.

And I find it amusing that you and your brother were admiring my knitting. Hee. I mean, it's just stuff I've made.

You should point him to knittinghelp.com, by the way. It has lots of videos of different knitting techniques. A lot of beginners find it very useful and helpful.

[aikea-guinea.livejournal.com]

We (my husband, his girlfriend, me) were absolutely crying with laughter when we discovered he'd gone to youtube to figure out how to cast on. It took him no less than three days to work out how to do a slip knot (which we managed to capture in a series of stunning photographs), but after that things went a little quicker. Part of the problems he was having come from being left-handed, and I'm right-handed, so there was much confusion when I'd try to teach him what little I know about knitting.

I'll certainly point him in the direction of knittinghelp.com!