i do dig this meme. really.

[fox]

20 random songs on the playlist. (in fairness, i'll admit that these are not the first twenty to come up on random shuffle, but the first twenty that have lyrics.) (in english.) name that tune!

1. and i've walked most all the way and i ain't heard her call/ and i'm getting to thinking if she's coming at all
2. all you gotta do is scratch beneath the surface/ and it's fool's gold - Indigo Girls, "Power of Two" - cmshaw, with special mention to darthrami for getting the title but not the artist and datlowen, on AIM, for getting the artist but not the title
3. i am reaching, but i fall/ and the stars are black and cold - "Javert's Suicide" from Les Misérables - angevin2
4. beneath the stains of time the feelings disappear/ you are someone else - i am still right here - Johnny Cash, "Hurt" (originally by Nine Inch Nails) - autiger23
5. you tell me it's holy holy/ i don't know what that is - Indigo Girls, "Shed Your Skin" - cmshaw
6. you need help or i'd have never spoken/ and why break someone in when i'm already broken?
7. and finally, i'm sorry for any pain i may have caused you/ i know what you wanted of me, but i'm just not that way/ what a strange thing to be sorry for - "Gabriel's Letter" from Kiss of the Spider Woman - jgesteve
8. i can't see why people disagree/ each time i tell them what i know is true
9. his body may be past its peak/ but his soul's in paradise - "One More Angel in Heaven" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - angevin2
10. you have carried firm conviction/ to my hesitating heart - "Never mind the why and wherefore" from HMS Pinafore - angevin2
11. unless there's something else you've got in mind/ we've got better things to do
12. if your love has to tie me, don't try me/ say good-bye
13. but though the compliment implied/ inflates me with legitimate pride/ it nevertheless can't be denied/ that it has its inconvenient side - "The law is the true embodiment" from Iolanthe - angevin2
14. you walk a lonely road/ oh, how far you are from home - Enya, "May It Be" - angevin2
15. ontario, you know i've seen a place i'd rather be/ your scummy lakes and the city of toronto don't do a damn thing for me
16. we got time/ oh, baby, there's no rush/ it's gonna be a better day for us - The Georgetown Phantoms, "Time and Tide" (originally by Basia) - mearagrrl
17. every devil i meet becomes a friend of mine/ every devil i meet is an angel in disguise - Indigo Girls, "Jonas and Ezekiel" - kaalee
18. the best in every town, best at shaking down, best at making mountains of money/ they can't take it with them, but what do they care? - "All For the Best" from Godspell - angevin2
19. i'm not worried 'bout the ring you wear/ 'cause as long as no one knows then nobody can care - Train (though I was thinking of Uncle Kracker), "Follow Me" - elance
20. don't just stand there/ say nice things to me - Matchbox 20, "Push" - elance

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[angevin2.livejournal.com]

3. "Javert's Suicide," Les Mis
9. "One More Angel in Heaven," Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
10. "Never mind the why and wherefore," HMS Pinafore
13. "The law is the true embodiment," Iolanthe
14. "May It Be," Enya
18. "All for the Best," Godspell (which is now going to be stuck in my head ALL DAY LONG ;) )

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

right, right, right, right, right, and right! (dude, i have 2300 songs on this damn iTunes. i swear they are not all from musicals.)

which is now going to be stuck in my head ALL DAY LONG

hey. could be worse. :-)

[kaalee.livejournal.com]

every devil i meet becomes a friend of mine/ every devil i meet is an angel in disguise

indigo girls - jonas and ezekial!!!

[kaalee.livejournal.com]

but I think the lines are the other way around.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

you are right, but then you are wrong.

"now when i was young, my people taught me well - give back what you take or you'll go to hell. it's not the devil's land, you know it's not that kind - every devil i meet becomes a friend of mine. every devil i meet is an angel in disguise; jonas and ezekiel, hear me now ..."

[kaalee.livejournal.com]

*concedes* ;)

do I still get credit?

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

[points to credit]

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

Wah, the only one I knew for sure was already guessed. I can hear #2 in my head, but can't. come up. with the name.

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

Power of Two! Power of two! ahahahaha.

By, um. somebody.

I dunno. It's on one of the CDs that selk made me. and it was on the boys on the side soundtrack. wah.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

yes. you know that one! and i know you know many of the others as well.

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sure I do. It's just, as I said in tangleofthorn's journal earlier today, I have a really hard time connecting visual input with aural memory. (add into that the fact that 90% of the time I can't remember the title or artist of the song even when I do know all the words, and... yeah *g*)

[elance.livejournal.com]

19. Follow Me, most recently sung by Train, I think.
20. Push, by matchbox twenty (and that would be one of my favorite songs, yes)

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

hmm. i do not know this Train of which you speak, but Google turns up many hits for these lyrics by Train (and though a few of them have a note saying "[person i was thinking of] sings this song, not Train", it's possible the person who left the note was just unaware of the cover -- as i am. [g])

and: right!

[elance.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I've checked their albums on Amazon, and I don't see that song on there, but I would have been willing to swear it was the same voice that sang "Meet Virginia"! I'm basically going by my recollections of what radio station I was listening to at the time.

I have a visual of driving down a road listening to that song on the radio, several times, and it was a road I have only driven down at a certain period in my life, and during that time I would have only listened to a certain radio station, and that radio station plays /these/ sorts of songs, and going by my knowledge of how the voice sounds, it sounded like Train to me.

Not a foolproof method, certainly. I could well be wrong. But /someone/ who would have been played on that radio station (which didn't deviate too far from the hits) sang it.

[autiger23.livejournal.com]

4. NIN - Hurt. Well, I assume it's the NIN version and not the Johnny Cash re-make. But that could be a false assumption.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

in fact it is the johnny cash remake, but you mentioned it, so there you go, and you get the props. :-)

[axiom_of_stripe]

indigo girls! 2. power of two. 5. argh...argh. i know this. *hums* *hums* *nods head* shed you skin!

[axiom_of_stripe]

shed your skin, i mean.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

you got it! [points to edited entry]

[axiom_of_stripe]

score!

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

16. Time and Tide--I don't know who the original artist is, but I suspect you've got the Phantoms version!

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

i do indeed have the phantoms version. in fact i had to google for the original artist. so you win!

[jgesteve.livejournal.com]

#7 is from "Gabriel's Letter" from Kiss of the Spiderwoman by John Kander and Fred Ebb sung in the original Broadway cast by Victor Garber I believe...

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

i don't think it's victor garber (i think he's a little old for that part and i think i'd have remembered -- but of course i'm prepared to be wrong), but yes, that's the track. i knew if anyone was going to get it, it'd be you. :-D

[jgesteve.livejournal.com]

Must have seen him sing it at some point cause I have this firm image of him in my head... but you are right he was not the original according to ibdb.com...