That music meme.

[holli]

20 songs, picked at random from iTunes. Guess the song from the words.

1. ba ba ba da ba ba goes the backing vocal / I'm trying not to be so anti-social
2. so let's take a loan out / put it down on a house in a place we've never lived
3. the leaves are falling back east / that's where I'm gonna stay
4.  It was you breathless and tall / I could feel my eyes turning into dust
5. Oh, I said I’m so happy, I could die. / She said drop dead, then left with another guy.
6. and I say your uncle was a crooked French Canadian / and he was gut-shot running gin The Decemberists, "July, July," tempe
7. And I know life is getting shorter / I can't bring myself to set the scene
8. I'm a ghost, I'm no one of any note / sure your mind was made up long before I spoke
9. there was an exodus of birds from the trees / 'cause they didn't know we were only pretending
10. American schools call you starlight / in fourteen-point type
11. tell it to the judge, man / tell it to your motherless reflection
12. 'cause I'm thinking 'bout you baby / and I'm falling over
13. Today, today is trembling / through the trees.
14. I know it seems that I don’t care / But something in me does I swear
15. It’s this stupid pride that makes me feel / Like I have to follow through / Even half-assedly, loving you
16. hey / who's that playing / the guitar They Might Be Giants, "The Guitar,' dxmachina
17. You said I should get professional help / it always makes me cry
18. Cars on the highway, planes in the air / Everyone else is going somewhere Fountains of Wayne, "Sink to the Bottom," susano
19. I've made charts and graphs that should finally make it clear / I've prepared a lecture on why I have to leave Postal Service, "Nothing Better," jendotcom
20. Comment allez-vous ce soir? Je suis comme ci comme ça / Yes, a penguin taught me French back in Antarctica The Weakerthans, "Our Retired Explorers," tralf2001

Comments

[tralf2001.livejournal.com]

I ♥ 20.

[holli.livejournal.com]

If nobody guesses it, I'll tell you, so you can dl it. It's a great song.

[tralf2001.livejournal.com]

I know the song, I have that CD! :)

[tripoli8.livejournal.com]

#6! July, July! I love the Decemberists like a crazy loving thing. I saw them live in the Bowery over the summer, it was pretty amazing.

[holli.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool! I'd lone to see them live.

[tripoli8.livejournal.com]

They put on a great show--except they were pretty drunk by the time they got to singing The Tain, and dropped my favorite line (she's a salty little pisser/ with her cock in your kisser). C'est la vie. But they did a couple of songs off their new album, which sounds like it's going to be great.

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

16. hey / who's that playing / the guitar

"The Guitar" -- They Might Be Giants

[holli.livejournal.com]

Yup!

[susano.livejournal.com]

18. is Sink to the Bottom by the Fountains of Wayne.

[jendotcom.livejournal.com]

yo, 19 is the postal service nothing better

[septembergrrl.livejournal.com]

#5 is Elvis Costello, and I'm memfaulting on the song title.

[dreamwriter21.livejournal.com]

number 9 is Ani DiFranco "Independence day"

[tvsadam.livejournal.com]

I got two.

3. Ben Folds Five: "Don't Change Your Plans."

14. Ben Folds Five: "Narcolepsy."