Lyrics Game #8 – Real Places

Um, well, I still haven’t progressed with the whole 1982 thing *embarrassed silence*….so here’s another Lyrics Game instead!

This time around all the song titles have place names in them (planets,countries, cities, towns and streets). They’re all the names of real locations…though the song writer may not have necessarily have had the real location in mind. You’ll see what I mean. Some of them may also use a colloquial or slang name for that place (for instance LA might be referred to as ‘The City of Angels’)

Nest time around I’ll do fictional places…..…

Just a wee Lyrics Game to fill the gap as I finally get around to wrapping up 1982 and prepare to move on to 1983……

Each song title has either sun, moon or star in it. It seemed like a good idea but there weren't nearly as many sun/moon/star titled songs as I imagined, and it produced a very strange mixed bag…..

The Lyrics

1. Now we play our final hand
Move in closer, understand
This time like never before
1000 Stars - Big Country

2. Someone will call
Something will fall
And smash on the floor
The Sun and…

You know the drill - guess the songs without the aid of Googling. Easy peasy!

So this time around all the songs were recorded, released or charted during 1982…..

Enjoy the trip!

The Lyrics

1. Hey sucker
What the hell's got into you?
Young Guns (Go For It)

2. Shine on, shine the light on me,
In all of my life so that much more I see
Glittering Prize

3. Tongue-tied, I’m short of breath,
Don't even try, try a little harder
Too Shy

4. Poor old Johnny Ray,
Sounded sad upon the radio,
Moved a million hearts in mono.…

Yes, that's right, it's 1982!…all over again….

Kind of self explanatory really. Or perhaps not.

Well then, this is part two of my deranged plan to review my music collection year by year in an attempt to overcome the fact that I have too much music and too little time to really appreciate it, while also giving myself the rather odd opportunity to relive the 80s all over again – but as an older and (possibly) wiser person.

Originally I thought I’d do one year per week, but considering I started 1981 way back in December and am only now…

Radio 1981

Relive the music of 1981 at
http://www.last.fm/listen/usertags/Kattastic/1981

it might jog a few memories for the 1981 lyrics game, eh?
http://www.last.fm/user/Kattastic/journal/2006/12/5/283408/

Beginnings and Endings

1981 for me is a year marked by some pretty big endings and beginnings……..

The beginning of me buying my own music and the end of only listening to parents and sisters records (though not the end of their influence as I’m still listening to ABBA, Electric Light Orchestra, Supertramp, Village People etc etc)

The beginnings of the New Wave and the New Romantics as 1981 was the year that saw the first record releases…

OK, I know – my whole re-living the 80s thing seems to have ground to a halt – but when you add together Christmas + holiday planning + brother-in-law and girlfriend staying + husband's best friend, wife and child visiting + New Year + the other brother-in-law and his girlfriend staying + going for a month to the UK + getting home for a couple of weeks and trying to get life in order + a long weekend away wine tasting + time for enjoying copious wine purchases = very behind on 80s project!

So while I catch up, finish…

OK - it's yet another lyrics game with a twist. This time round the songs featured were all released and/or in the charts in 1981.

The Lyrics Game Standard Blurb (plus paranoia):

Step 1: Open up whatever MP3 program you use
Step 2: Spend a f*cking eternity finding out what years songs were released and re-enter all the date information
Step 3: Make a playlist and shove everything you've labelled as being from 1981 in there
Step 4: Start doubting your dates and go and add in any songs which were released in 1980 but charted in 1981
Step 5:…

Like a lot of people I have too much music and too little time to really appreciate it. I spend a lot of time making up (increasingly bizare) playlists - but still I don't feel like I'm really getting to grips with it all. So, I devised yet another deranged plan - to review my collection year by year. My first idea was to start with 1973 - the year of my birth - but then I realised that 1981 was the year I bought my first single, with my own pocket money. A rather momentous occasion - and the…

OK I'm still aglow with the thrill following today's installation of Firefox, Greasemonkey and various scripts - notably Chart Changes, Blue Theme and Artist Fan Rank.

If you don't have these little extras - man, you should. They're great fun. Now I'm gonna have to wait a week to really enjoy the Chart Changes….however the Artist Fan Rank has kicked in already. It's quite a thrill as you watch each Band Name, then Song Name etc in your charts light up as the search starts….. OK I'm desperately sad and a complete loser - just put on a pair of…

It's your bog standard lyrics game - but with a theme…..

1. Danny was an old-time Bourbon Street barker
Who wanted the same as Charlie Parker

2. At times like these when enemies can number more than friends
A friend indeed is what I need, not someone who pretends
Another Day

3. Celebrate the fact that we’ve seen the back
Of another (title)
Black Day

4. All is quiet on (title)
A world in white gets underway
New Year's Day

5. (Title) rain is falling
Steal some covers share some skin
Sunday Morning

6. I know you well and I…