Open up my eager eyes

[venta]

Right. As pointed out to me, it's Friday afternoon. Accordingly, we have the first iteration of the self-writing lyrics quiz. I think it's come out really, really difficult.

Keep your answers to yourself for now, and I'll post a poll to allow for self-marking tonight/tomorrow. Feel free to comment on difficulty or otherwise (I'll be delighted if my estimate of difficulty is wrong), but please don't post answers in the comments.

You sure you're ready ?

OK...

1. You have found yourself trapped in this incomprehensible maze.


2. I was 21 years when I wrote this song, I'm 22 now but I won't be for long
   
   [NB. I warn you, the setter of the above question is going to get pedantic with the answer. Bear in mind you may have only half-answered it.]


3. Oh Bless me father for I have sinned - She had big brown eyes silky skin


4. We can't even think of a word that rhymes


5. Margery's wingspan's all feathers and coke cans, TV dinners and letters she won't send


6. Funny how my memory skips while looking over manuscripts of unpublished rhyme, drinking my vodka and lime


7. I made love to a BBC micro Touching on the disk drive, the monitor got hot


8. I found angels; Beached outside your doors; Don't you set those lonely eyes on me


9. Let us cling together as the years go by / Oh my love, my love


10. She's often inclined to borrow somebody's dreams till tomorrow


11. I've got another plan, this time it will work


12. And as we sit here alone, looking for a reason to go on


13. I once believed in causes, too. I had my pointless point of view.


14. Hanging round bars at night wishing I had never been born


15. I don't see you, I won't call you, I dont know enough to stall you


16. We have pay-or-play contracts


17. my clothes will impress you and my claws will undress you


18. going back to Romford


19. The sirens are screamin' and the fires are howlin', way down in the valley tonight // There's a man in the shadows with a gun in his eye and a blade shinin' oh so bright


20. And now you've paid your money and you've taken your choice.


21. It worries me, this kind of thing - how you hope to live alone and occupy your waking hours. We're taking sides again; I just wept, I couldn't understand why you started this again.


22. I took the wrong road that led to the wrong tendencies


23. I reached inside myself / And found nothing there / To ease the pressure of / My ever worrying mind


24. It's a lot like life, and that's what's appealing


25. She nervously undressed in the dancing beams of the Fidra lighthouse


26. and even on clear days i can't see the point


27. What if I'm a mermaid


28. This girl is made of Lipstick, Powder and paint. Sees the pictures of herself...


29. Dance with me, pretty boy tonight, dance with me and we'll be alright


30. Your clock is ticking, tick tock tick tock, Your heart is beating tum tum tum tum tum


31. Every day I look at the world from my window But chilly, chilly is the evening time


32. The night you died I cut it off. I really don't know why


33. Bolton. Barnsley. Nelson. Colne. Burnley. Bradford. Buxton. Crewe.


34. Saappahat somannäköiset


35. California holiday gets on my wick and the kids that sing about it make me sick.


36. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon the cloudy seas


37. Tick-tick-tock, it's a quarter to two


38. There's a warning sign on the road ahead, there's a lot of people saying we'd be better off dead

Comments

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

Yay number 16 :-)

[venta.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you can guess (quietly, to yourself) who'd have picked that!

[davefish.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of a meta quiz of working out who submitted the lyric :)

[failmaster.livejournal.com]

That might become a viable option after the answers are revealed.... =)

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

*heh* I saw Q2 and thought "Ah, but how detailed an answer do they want for that one?"

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sorry, that would be me. There are at least two songs that begin with that line.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Aha, it's YOU. :D My immediate response on looking at that was "I can think of three; how many/which are wanted, I wonder?".

The debate about whether it's two, three, more... can be had after the quiz is scored, I guess. :D

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Properly three? Gosh.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'd defend that stance... (There are good reasons which I can elaborate on once the guessing game is over!)

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

..one of which has at least three variants.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

That's very difficult IMO. I only know about 4 or 5 and one of those was one I entered :-).

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

I suspect the average score will be fairly low. With the potential for a number of gratuitous outlying results.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Pah. I was on a plane when you posted the poll for submissions. Although I'm very amused to see a line I'd have chosen, exactly as written (IYSWIM). Who is channelling my brain - or am I channelling them?

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

I think I can do four of those. I'm always crap at lyrics quizzes, but I think that's harder than most.

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

Wow. I only know the one I submitted.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Yay! This means I beat someone in a music quiz!

<does victory lap>

...although I'm a little concerned that the other one I can do might have been submitted by lathany.

[venta.livejournal.com]

You can retain your victory lap, I don't believe lathany submitted one!

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. At first glance I think I'd get 2.5/38 - and one of those is mine.

[skorpionuk.livejournal.com]

Yeah another one for about 4 or 5... wow, hard!

[mrlloyd.livejournal.com]

Oddly I think this is v hard. But I also think I can get 10-12 of them, and I don't normally outperform people on these kind of things.

Clearly the real Musos are in hiding.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Would you regard yourself as having fairly broad musical tastes ?

Quizzes I write always have a late-90s indie bias, while this one's really quite diverse.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I reckon I could be pushing 10 or so. But quite a few of the others look really tough.

(PS hooray for whoever submitted #29!)

[kauket.livejournal.com]

It was me :) There's even a youtube video of the dance moves...

[octalbunny.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's hard. 2 for me.

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

7 and a few probables. Most of the others don't even sound familiar. Are we looking for title and artist, or just title (or possibly more than one title in a certain case)?

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Two, one of which is mine and the other of which may be wrong.

Hurrah!

[shui-long.livejournal.com]

I was expecting to get zero on this - my musical knowledge being almost entirely classical - but was rather surprised to recognise one (no. 32 if you really want to know).

[failmaster.livejournal.com]

I think I've got 4½.

[satyrica.livejournal.com]

I'm in the two-one-of-them-mine camp

Maybe we need to learn from this and all be less obscure next time!

[(Anonymous)]

even your Aged Ps got three (and hadn't submitted one)

[ulfilias.livejournal.com]

2 - interesting I know the track and artist and am now about to google for pendantricity

3- Wooo. Great band. Awesome track. Curious who set that though.

12 - Origional artist, most well known artist, or gothiest cover version

And yes. That is quite hard !

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

Ooh - another person submitted one from the same band as mine!

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

Seven, though question two depends on certain factors.