Olivia Sutton's Fanfic Journal

Music Meme / Writing Prompts -- April 2009

 

This is how it works, as always.  Set iTunes, your Ipod, or other music device to "shuffle" or "random", then write down the first line of every song played for 10 - 20 songs.  I'm going to list 15 here.  Then, guess or try to figure out what the song title is and who the artist is who sings it.  Answers will be posted in one week.  Lines can be used as inspiration for fanfic.  If you write a fic using these prompts let me know and please provide a link to your fic.  Thanks and have fun!

 

1.  "Come gather 'round people wherever you roam, and admit the waters around you have grown."

"The Times They Are A Changin' ", Billy Joel, Kohuept (Live in Leningrad), Folk

 

2.  "Late at night, when it's dark and cold, I reach out for someone to hold."

"Baby Grand", Billy Joel & Ray Charles, Greatest Hits Vol. 3 (originally on The Bridge), Rock

 

3.  "In the year of  our Lord 1806, we set sail from the port quay of Cork, we were sailing away with a cargo of bricks, for the grand city hall of New York."

Pub Songs Medley, The Dublin City Ramblers, Irish Pub Classics, Vol. 3 (The song is: "The Irish Rover", The Dublin City Ramblers, Irish Folk), Irish Folk

 

4.  "I don't drink café, I take tea my dear; I like my toast done on one side, you can hear it in my accent when I talk..."

"Englishman in New York", Sting, The Very Best of Sting & the Police, Rock

 

5.  "I love you, and you love me.  I love you, so let's make a family tree."

"I Love You", Barenaked Ladies, Gordon, Alt. Rock

 

6.  "Dancing - in the mirror, yeah, you could see her from a mile, man."

"Help Me (She's Out of Her Mind), Stereophonics, The Dead Zone Original Soundtrack, Soundtrack

 

7.  "In this town, there's a joke going 'round, and everyone said it's you."

"Carolyn", Steve Wynn, Tales from the Rhino (Disc 2), Comedy/Novelty

 

8.  "She came from Providence, the one in Rhode Island."

"The Last Resort" (Live), The Eagles, Hell Freezes Over, Rock

 

9. "One little girl was called Jane Marie, another little girl was called Felicity, another little girl was Sally Joy, the other was me - and I'm a boy.  My name is Bill and I'm a head case."

"I'm a Boy", The Who, Who's Better, Who's Best, Rock

 

10.  "You may talk of your outings, your picnics and parties, your dinners, your dances, your hoolies and all, but wait until I tell you of the gas we had on the night that we danced at ..."

"The Charladies Ball", Black Family, Irish Pub Classics, Vol. 1, Irish Folk

 

11.  "You and I in little toy shop, buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got, set them free at the break of dawn."

99 Luftballons (99 Red Balloons English Version), Nena, Club Epic a Collection of Classic Dance Mixes, Rock/Dance

 

12.  "You don't answer my call with even a nod or a wink, but you gaze at your own reflection."

"Smash the Mirror", The Who, Tommy, Rock

 

13.  "Casanova broke it just like china, he was smooth as southern bluebell cream."

"Dirty Secret", Grant-Lee Phillips, The Dead Zone Original Soundtrack, Soundtrack

 

14.  "It's been a long, long road, and I've got all my supplies - a can of Diet Dr. Pepper, and a 20-sided die.  I know that I'll be up all night, but my homework's done - so it's all right.  No exercise outside for me - just a quest for the Hydra's key.  Will I make it to the dragon's lair?"

"Living on a Roll and a Prayer", Hot Waffles, The FuMP (Funny Music Project) 7:  Vol 7 Jan/Feb 08, Filk

 

15.  "When the winter wind, blows cold upon my window, and the mood I'm in is darker' than the deep blue sea."

"Winter Wind", Patty Larkin, Angels Running, Modern Folk

 

Music Meme / Writing Prompts -- February

 

This is how it works, as always.  Set iTunes, your Ipod, or other music device to "shuffle" or "random", then write down the first line of every song played for 10 - 20 songs.  I'm going to list 15 here.  Then, guess or try to figure out what the song title is and who the artist is who sings it.  Answers will be posted in one week.  Lines can be used as inspiration for fanfic.  If you write a fic using these prompts let me know and please provide a link to your fic.  Thanks and have fun!

 

1.  "Take your fingers don't you dare touch it, well you know it don't belong to you."

 

2.  Give Away # 1:  Tara's Theme, Gone with the Wind, John Williams: Boston Pops Orchastra, Encore!, Classical

 

3.  "Hot sun beating down, burning my feet just walking around."

 

4.  Give Away # 2:  Doctor Who (Theme), Ron Grainer, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Soundtracks.

 

5.  "Winding you way down to Baker Street, light in your head and dead on your feet"

 

6.  "DW Washburn, I heard a sweet boy say."

 

7.  "Through you've played at love and loss, the sorrow's turned your heart to frost.  I will mend your heart again."

 

8.  "I hope you never change."

 

9.  "Don't call me a zero, I'm gonna be a hero, like Phil Esposito or the Kennedys."

 

10.  Give Away # 3:  "Pit of Peril", Barry Gray, Thunderbirds Soundtrack, Soundtracks.

 

11. "Please don't mistake me, or try to make me the shadow of anybody else."

 

12.  "I opened the music box, I wish you would have changed the locks."

 

14.  "Wilken, Bliken, and Nod, sailed off in a wooden shoe."

 

15.  "What is this song all about?  Can't figure any lyrics out."

 

16.  "On the fourth of July 1806, we set sail from the sweet home-bound port, we were sailing away with a cargo of bricks, for the grand city hall in New York."

 

17.  "It's a marvelous night for a moondance."

 

18.  "At the dark end of the street, that is where we always meet."

 

19.  Give Away #4:  "The Treason of  Isengard", The Lord of the Rings - Fellowship of the Ring, Howard Shore, Soundtrack

 

20.  "It's been five years since we went on-line."

Hi all,

A friend of mine just got a .mp3 player, so she sent me this game (which originated on Live Journal :)
I haven't done this for awhile on my blog 'cause it takes awhile to prepare, but what better time than finals week for a musical "test"?
Don't worry -- there's no points to win or lose but bragging rights.  And, I invite my readers to try the same thing and post to their blogs the results.

The Set-Up:  Take your Ipod, Zune, iTunes, etc music player and set it on "shuffle" or whatever setting will just skip around to various songs, rather than playing straight through a playlist or album.

Write down the first line of each song.  I'm including 15 songs here.  (Usually write down 10-20 songs).  I had three instrumental songs that came up, two from soundtracks and one classical -- I included them as give aways, but you can skip those songs -- AND CONTINUE until you have the number of songs you agree to do.

Song lines can be used as inspiration for fanfic, journal entries, etc.

OK enough with the rules.  Try to guess/figure out the name of the song and the artist for the following 15 tracks.

--Olivia

1.  "Baby, Do you understand me, now?"

 

2.  "When the sun goes to bed, that's the time you raise your head."

 

3.  "Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, Look down, look down, don't look 'em in the eye, look down, look down, you're here until you die."

 

4.  "When all is left to do, is affectin' what's been done, this is where sadness breeds, the sadness of everyone."

 

5.  Give Away #1 -- Instrumental "Pit of Peril", Barry Gray, from Thunderbirds Soundtrack

 

6.  "I would have thought in the average affair that the first hint of trouble would be, oh so small, barely perceptable, easy to miss, Why is ours on TV?"

 

7.  "Because they had no horses."

 

8.  "One day, one night, one moment, my dreams will keep tomorrow."

 

9.  "Here comes Dick, he's wearing a skirt.  Here's come Jane, you know she's sportin' a chain. Same hair, a revolution, same build, evolution. Tomorrow who's gonna' fuss?"

 

10.  "Oh, when my shift is over, don't listen to the radio, I like to be alone."

 

11. "As the walls are closing in and the colors fade to black, and my eyes are falling fast and deep into me."

 

12.  "Enid and I, never really knew each other anyway."

 

13.  "In the middle of the night, I go walking in my sleep, from the mountains of fame to the river so deep."

 

14.  Give Away # 2 -- The Geometry of Shadows, Babylon 5 Soundtrack

 

15.  "It's feels, and dreams, and everything's there for you."

 

16.  Give Away # 3 -- Sinfonietta:  Allegretto, LA Philharmonic Orchestra, Classical Thunder Vol 2.

 

17.   "Out by the port, on a Autumn night, she's come to watch the birds take flight."

 

Above all -- Have fun!!!

Today's weather -partly sunny, probably cold.

Hi all,
Okay, it's been a week.  Here are the answers to last week's quiz/writing prompt.  But I'd love to see the same thing from you guys and gals out there!

Writing Prompt Answers

 

1.  "In comes a train and the whole platform shakes, it stops with a shudder, a screaming of breaks, the parting has come, and my weary so legs, I'm leaving my Nancy-o."
Leaving Nancy, Hyland Paddy, Classic Irish Folk Vol. 2, Irish Folk (Ireland)

 

2.  "There's a man who leads a life of danger, to everyone he meets he stays a stranger.  With every move he makes, another chance he takes, odds are he won't live to see tomorrow."
Secret Agent Man, Johnny Rivers, Spy Magazine Presents Spy Music, Vol. 1, Soundtrack

 

3.  "When I look up to the sky, I see your eyes, a funny kind of yellow."
Pictures of Matchstick Men, Status Quo, The Best of  60's Psychedelic Rock, Rock

 

4.  "O Fortunia, ..." (sorry, it's in Latin, can't understand it)
Carmina burana:  O Fortuna,  Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Classical Thunder 2, Classical

 

5. "When we're fighting in the streets, with our children at our feet, and the morals to be worshiped will be gone.  And the men who spurred us on, sit in judgement of our own, they decide and the shotgun sings a song."
Won't Get Fooled Again, The Who, Who's Better, Who's Best, Rock

 

6.  "Try to remember, the kind of September, when life was slow, and oh so mellow, try remember the kind of September, when grass was green and grain was yellow, try to remember the kind of September, when you were a tender and callow fellow, try to remember and if you remember, then follow, follow, follow."
Try to Remember, John Barrowman, Reflections From Broadway, Soundtrack

 

7. Instrumental:  Tara's Theme - Gone With the Wind, John Williams:  Boston Pops Orchestra, Encore!, Classical

 

8. "The thundering waves are calling me home to you, the pounding sea is calling me home to you."
The Old Ways, Loreena McKennitt, The Visit, Irish Folk (Canada)

 

9.  Instrumental:  The Awakening, Peter Howell, Doctor Who - The Five Doctors, Soundtrack

 

10.  "Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, nothing you can do, that can't be done, nothing you can sing that can't be sung, nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game, it's easy."  All You Need Is Love, The Beatles, The Beatles 1967-1970, Rock

 

11.  "I'm going to lay down my sword and shield, down by the riverside, down by the riverside, down by the riverside, I'm going to lay down my sword and shield, down by the riverside, and study war no more."  Down by the Riverside (aka Study War No More), Peter, Paul, and Mary, Around the Campfire, Folk

 

12.  "It's been a hard day's night and I've been working like a dog."
A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles, The Beatles 1962-1966, Rock

 

13.  "It's the choices that you make, and the ones that you don't, that define what you will be.  What you are and what you seek.  All the promises you've kept and the ones that you break."
Choices, Heather Alexander, Freedom, Flight, & Fantasy, Filk

 

14.  "She had a 'Do Not Disturb' hanging off her back, she looked taller than she was in her tapered slacks, calculated head of hair and cowboy boots, she said, 'I'm a country girl from down on 8^th Avenue', she bought a bottle of wine, two bananas, and a New York Times, the man behind the counter smiled, this time, can't blame him boys, I heard him sigh from the dirty white noise."  Do Not Disturb, Patty Larkin, Angels Running, Folk (Really, it's Modern Folk, I just haven't gotten around to re-classifying it)

 

15. "I was born in a Dublin Street, where the Royal Drums do beat, and the loving English feet they tramped all over us, and each and every night when me father come home tight, he'd invite the neighbours outside with this chorus:"
Come Out Ye Black and Tans, Paddy Reilly, Rebels of Ireland:  16 Patriotic Irish Songs, Irish Folk (Ireland)

 

16.  "When the dark wood fell before me, and all the paths were overgrown, when the priests of pride say there is no other way, I tilled the sorrows of stone."
Dante's Prayer, Loreena McKennitt, The Book of Secrets, Irish Folk (Canada)

 

17.  "I don't need a shrink to tell me what to think, there ain't no missing link in my love life, it's all right, I ain't that uptight."
I'm Holding On To Love, Shania Twain, Come On Over, Country

 

18.  "I'm have all my Wisdom teeth, two up top and two beneath, and yet I'll recognise, my mouth says things that aren't so wise."
Comin' Back Soon, (The Bereft Man's Song), Crash Test Dummies, The Ghosts that Haunt Me, Alternative & Punk

 

19.  "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot, with a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot, don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone."
Big Yellow Taxi, Maire Brennan, Misty Eyed Adventures, New Age

 

20.  "You came here from a distant shore, by your side a friend and an open smile."
Atlantic Shore, Maire Brennan, Maire, New Age

 

21.  In Irish - No idea Gaoth Barra Na d'Tonn, Clannad, An Díolaim, Irish Folk (Ireland)

 

22.  "I'm running down the road, trying to loosen my load, got seven women on my mind, four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, one says she's a friend of mine."
Take it Easy, The Eagles (live), Hell Freezes Over, Rock

23.  "Holiday quiet on these streets, except some starving leaves that didn't fall with the fall, and now they clatter in vain, holiday sky, midnight clear, wind is high, hard to steer."
What About Everything? , Carbon Leaf, Indian Summer, "Pop" according to iTunes and I haven't gotten around to re-classifying it.

 

24.  Instrumental/vocalising The Drunken Piper Natalie McMaster, Women of the World: Celtic II, Irish Folk (Ireland)

25.  "Life's a show and we all play our parts, and when the music starts, we open up our hearts."
Something to Sing About, The Cast of Buffy:  The Vampire Slayer, Once More, With Feeling (Buffy:  The Musical), Soundtrack

Thank you for playing!
--Olivia Sutton