143 is Nautical Disaster, by the Tragically Hip… "Four thousand men died in the water, and five hundred more were thrashing madly, as parasites might in your blood.
Here are three more, this time with a theme!
- I kissed you girl, I knew how sweet a kiss
- Looking like a tramp, like a video vamp
- I see your face I get all choked up inside.
Enginerd, you must be getting back at me for “a walk with no point and no purpose,” because your “highway 441” line is driving me nuts! That is so familiar, simply because highway 441 was the route we used to take when I was a kid to visit my grandparents in the Smoky Mountains. So I suppose it’s a line from somebody in the southeast! I got out a map and looked at US 441. I didn’t realize it went so far down into Florida. Is it by a Florida band? Maybe the Vulgar Boatmen? (but I thought I knew all their songs!)
I am just about to Google it just so I’ll get some peace!
OK, looks like mine are too obscure. Next 10 words:
125. My darling left me this morning and I didn’t know…
125a. what to say. She left me there drinking my coffee…
- …Beijing flu, and you choose then not to come home
127a. A week later I caught you kissing a girl who…
New ones:
167. Do you bury me when I’m gone? Do you teach…
168. And it feels so good, it’s like walking on glass
169. I’d be fired if that were my job, after killing…
Oh, and 164 is Sugar Sugar by The Archies, yes?
168 is Epic by Faith No More
169 is Birdhouse in Your Soul by They Might be Giants
…Me when I’m here? something something something I Disappear, by Metallica.
Correctomundo.
Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def Leppard
And no one ever got my #53. Breakin’ necks while I flex my sex appeal, but it fell off the list. Since it’s been dormant for a few pages, how about I re-submit using a different line from the same song?
- Don’t call it a comeback, I’ve been here for years.
[sub]Come on, people, didn’t any of you ever watch “Yo! MTV Raps”?[/sub]
And now I realize the new 53. is from a different song by the same artist (D’oh :smack: ). Oh, well. I’ll accept either song as the correct answer.
[sub]Come on, Pash, didn’t you ever watch “Yo! MTV Raps”, ya big dope?[/sub].
Hey, I know the old #53… that’s “Jack the Ripper” by LL Cool J.
#28 is “No Compassion” by Talking Heads.
Nice work, Rickjay.
- We always wish for money, we always wish for fame.
Pash
Congratulations, RickJay! I was wondering if anyone was ever going to get #28.
I am still ridiculously surprised that no one has guessed #29:
Yet there’s still this appeal that we’ve kept through our
Although I’m less surprised about #118. I’ll expand on it here:
Sun comes up, another day begins, and I don’t even worry about the state I’m in
Labdad, that song is by a band from Cuba by way of Florida, but I think they’re in New York now. I’ll be surprised if anyone gets it, but I forgot that you were in the area.
Not the Vulgar Boatmen. And Tom Petty’s American Girl mentions the same highway (She could hear the cars go by/out on 441, like waves crashing on the beach), but that’s not it either. The next line:
I’m ashamed to say I gave up and searched for the “walk with no point and no purpose.” I know I’ve heard it, but I don’t really know the song.
After actually singing it in my cubicle about fifty times, experimenting with different tunes, I think #29 is “Love Will Tear Us Apart” by Joy Division. Or was it just “Tear Us Apart”? I can’t recall.
Some more to add to the list to replace the four I’ve gotten:
#171 - kiss and hug and then we disrobe
#172 - I played “Love Tara” by Eric’s Trip
#173 - Brown is the sky, green green are her eyes
#174 - Making mistakes is a part of life’s imperfection
Country House by Blur
My submission is this:
175: So in love the preacher’s face turned red
Low, by Cracker. I heard this on the radio yesterday for the first time in ages. While driving with a green-eyed gal, actually.
176: And through the walls, you hear the city groan
177: I’m running like a rat and I don’t know why
178: We serve an old man in a dry season
179: It’ll sweep up our skeleton bones
180: God damn it, I can see them, crawling just under my skin (no one, NO one, will get this one. I don’t think even Google will help.)
181: Hello teacher tell me what’s my lesson
182: These kings of beasts now counting their days.
Just a-flippin’ through my MP3 collection. I wonder whether some of these count as pop songs…at least one is technically punk…
Desire, U2
#171 is from “Heterosexual Man,” by The Odds.
#172 is also from The Tragically Hip, from “Put it Off” off of Trouble at the Henhouse (pretty much the only song I like on that album).
And damn it, I know that I know #156. It’ll come to me.
183: He is looking out the window at somebody coming in
184: What do you do? Oh yeah, I wait tables too…