Enginerd deserves credit for 83, it is the Drop Kick Murphys, and the name of the song is Bar Room Hero.
I didn’t want to post until I could answer one:
- Sukiyaki, A Taste of Honey
Here’s my contributions:
- Every day my mind is all around you
- Strange what desire will make foolish people do
- The birds flew off with a fallout shelter
- You won’t rely on open eyes to see
- I closed my eyes, and I slipped away
- Can I believe the magic of your sigh
She Comes in Colors, by Love
133 is Wicked Game by Chris Isaac
134 is American Pie by Don McLean
136 is More than a Feeling by Boston
- The desert’s quiet and Cleveland’s cold
- The gambler’s face cracks into a grin as he lays down…
- No local yokel gonna shut me down
This one’s been bothering me for almost two days, but finally it’s come to me: She Said by Collective Soul.
- What if there were two, side by side in orbit?
- I’m a professional cynic, but my heart’s not in it.
- And five hundred more were thrashing madly, as parasites might…
- “nightswimming” by R.E.M.
NO. (I’m saying it like that to be rude, just so that it wouldn’t show up in the compilations!)
Here are 10 more words from the same song:
One two into the amplifier, one two into the amplifier
And here are a couple more, one of which is by the same artist:
144) His eyes go funny, you can’t place why
145) To be in England in the summertime with my love
- “Pancho and Lefty” by Townes Van Zandt
- “Guitar Town” by Steve Earle
- There’s a place every one of us can go to.
- Let’s take a walk with no point and no purpose
This is ‘Close to the Edit’ by Art of Noise.
Correct on #131 being “She Comes in Colors”, Biffy the Elephant Shrew!
I’ll expand my #29 to the full ten words, because I’m sure plenty of people know it:
Yet there’s still this appeal that we’ve kept through our
(don’t forget 28 and 118 as well! :))
- “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,” The Shirelles
- “The Card Cheat,” The Clash
- “Stoking the star-making machinery behind the popular song”
- “'C’est La Vie,” say the old folks"
- “Stoking the star-making machinery behind the popular song”
Free Man in Paris–Joni Mitchell
You rang?
You Never Can Tell by Chuck Berry.
146 is High Fashion Queen by the Flying Burrito Brothers (Gram Parsons et al.)
- Ring the bells of Rhymney 'til they ring inside my head
I’m still waiting for someone to get one of my postings:
- Flimsy as it is, it’s business-like
but in the meantime here’s more!
- Now he’s combing through every ounce of trash
- Hasn’t stopped raining for days
- And normally I’d be upstaging the host
Enginerd, I figured you’d get the Gram Parsons tune right away! 147 is a little more obscure. Let me know if you need a hint.
And 150 is “Goin’ Back to Harlan” by Kate and Anna McGarrigle
152. Hasn’t stopped raining for days
Jars of Clay - “Flood”
two more!:
- If I could change anything, I would change everything
- I won’t throw a fit, I don’t give a shit
Well, since you asked…that’s from You Turn the Screws, by Cake.
- But I know the reason why you keep this silence