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So, last post has a happy ending! I emailed my teacher, and she let me use her computer yesterday afternoon. Her Garage Band turned out to hate me too, but she turned out to have the old version of iMovie, so with the help of that, a handheld recording device, and a lot of staying up late last night, I finished the project! :D Presented it in class this morning, and people seemed to like it. I ended up being actually pretty darn proud of it myself. So. :D

(Also, the speaker seems to have righted itself somehow, at least well enough that I'm not complaining. :B)

ALSO I got the grade back for that oral I posted about a couple weeks ago. Turns out I got a 100. o_O I didn't even think one could get a 100 on an oral. But first time for everything, I guess. :D

Right now despite these successes I am still kind of sad because my favorite class with my favorite teacher ended today. :( To take my mind off it, and to celebrate finally uploading all my CDs (I've been procrastinating since September), I am going to do this meme that I stole from

fujicori. Let's see how many of the 194 new songs are on it. :D

Rules:
Step 1: Put your MP3 player on random
Step 2: Post the first line or so from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Bold the songs when someone guesses correctly. (Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!)

1. Now I've always said that love was nothing more than a waste of my time
2. From underneath the trees we watch the sky If Everyone Cared - Nickelback (

cazzwell)
3. I lived my life in shadow, never the sun on my face Under Your Spell - Once More With Feeling (

cazzwell)
4. Miageta yozora no hoshitachi no hikari *~Asterisk~ - ORANGE RANGE (

cykotyks)
5. Hit my snooze alarm for the twenty-seventh time Callin' In Sick - Weird Al Yankovic (

cazzwell)
6. Here's wishing you the bluest sky
7. Dai Jesu achoinekwa ndaizofara naye
8. Kak uzor na okne, snova proshloe ryadam
9. Das ist mein Zeug, gar nicht so schlecht?
10. Some people are just all show Down to Earth - Barenaked Ladies (

cazzwell)
11. Sometimes I really want to be alone, but that's a state I'm never in
12. What's a boy to do?
13. The death bell had been rung
14. Listen, baby! Ain't no mountain high Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell (

lisacharly)
15. Me and the Major could become close friends 'cause we
16. Jeonhaejugo shipeo seulpeun shigani
17. As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain Amish Paradise - Weird Al Yankovic (

quadruplify)
18. Let me tell you the story about the call that changed my destiny The Call - Backstreet Boys (

cazzwell)
19. I climb the walls of my mind just like I'm climbing on a jungle gym
20. Love is a burning thing Ring of Fire - Bob Dylan (

ember_reignited)
21. I tear my heart open, I sew myself shut Scars - Papa Roach (

cykotyks)
22. Love, dream, eternity, hope, and... bye-bye
23. Put your hand on the computer
24. Au revoir
25. Spirit on the water, darkness on the face of the deep
26. I just moved in to 14G
27. Bill, I love you so, I always will
28. Hurley was a rambler's son, he wanted to be free
29. You'll remember me when the west wind moves Fields of Gold - Life in General (

lisacharly)
30. When the night has come and the land is dark Stand By Me - Ben E. King (

ember_reignited)

Left in the non-English songs this time, but I can tell you now that no one is going to get them. :P Also this was a pretty terrible sampling for this meme, wow. I'm not sure why I'm posting it.

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I'm pretty sure #17 is "Amish Paradise" by Weird Al Yankovic. That's the only one I can guess, I'm afraid. :P

Glad to hear school is going well! :D

It's okay, I wasn't expecting anyone to get too many of these. :P And you're right!

School is going well mainly because it's almost done for the semester. :P But thank you. I just hope I can get through my finals okay. ._.

#14 might be Aretha Franklin, Ain't No Mountain High Enough?

#29 is Fields of Gold by Sting. Booyah, favorite Sting song even if it's cheesy. I remember watching Michelle Kwan skate to it way back in the day.

I really thought I'd know more of these.

They're both different versions, actually (the former is Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, the latter is a pretty terrible cover by Life in General), but yes! :D And Fields of Gold is an amazing song, seriously. Though I have been known to be a sucker for cheesy.

It's okay, I don't think most people would know most of these. I wouldn't know half of 'em off the top of my head. Terrible sampling.

Marvin Gaye is A+, for the record.

Going off to do this meme now.

Marvin Gaye is excellent and I have no excuse for not having more than a few of his songs. ._.

Oh man I am excited considering the sweet music that you have. :D

Me neither. We should rectify this.

...Barely any of my awesome music came up. Instead I got a lot of 80's stuff. WTF? Posted.

When I go home I'll raid my mom's Motown library. :B

Hey man, the '80s were supposedly pretty awesome. Or ridiculous, but it's basically the same thing. Also I do not know enough of your songs. :(

We got the same amount of each other's? IDK.

The 80's were a musical cesspool*. 90's all the way, biznatch!

*Siouxsie & the Banshees, Dead Kennedys, Leonard Cohen, Queen, Whitney Houston, Cyndi Lauper and a few other exceptions made.

#21: Scars by Papa Roach

#4: *~Asterisk~ by ORANGE RANGE (credit to

honorbound, since I wouldn't have gotten it until he actually sang it XD)

And I'm pretty sure #9 is Rammstein, but I can't find the song P:

I know #8 is Russian! XD

Correct and also correct! :D

#9 is... pretty far from Rammstein, actually. :P Also can you understand any of #8? I am just curious because I cannot. ._.

Ahah... Of course xD;; I just thought I recognized it from one of their songs, but I guess not.

I pretty much know "kak," but some creative poking in my translator yielded:
как узор на огне, с ново прошлое or "as pattern on the fire, the newly past" and I can't figure the last word out. Russian's a bit difficult to figure out when romanized by sound alone, because "o" can sound like "a" if it's unstressed, and a few other letters have similar sounds under different circumstances. I can tell you that "ogne" (огне) is "fire," though XD (unless it's the plural form, огни, that's being said. I've no clue from the romanization.)

Maybe one of their songs is similar! But yeah, for one thing, this is Austrian German. Not sure what the differences are, but there you go.

The website I got the lyrics from has "like a pattern on a window, the past is near again", so yeah, you're pretty good. :D Unfortunately, it didn't have the Cyrillic, though I can try poking around some more.

Ah! Window is "akno" (акно), the prepositional case being "okne" (окне), so "na okne" is "on (the) window."

Austrian German is a different dialect, I think like how British English is different from American English? Generally understandable both ways, but they are distinct in their sound.

Edited 2010-12-15 04:11 (UTC)

Hurr durr trusting the internet. :P

That makes sense. Like, they have different words for some things. *goes off to research the differences*

Also, I realized that the last word I was looking at was from the line above the Russian one. "Rjadam" should be "Ryadam," because "rjadam" leads me to жадам/жадом which means "by the jade" or "to the jade," where "ryadam" is рядом and means "next."

In Cyrillic, I think it should be: как узор на окне, с нова прошлое рядом, though the translation I get out of that is strange. I've no clue. I could be wrong, but that at least makes some sense with what you've found as the translation xD

Found the Cyrillic lyrics. If they're correct, they match yours (except for having снова as one word, which I don't know if it changes anything). So yes, Russian skills! :D

...it does, actually XD I just remember "s uma" being two words (which means "going insane," btw) so I thought "snova" would be, too. Derp. The translation is a bit more readable now: "as pattern on the window, the again past next" (my translator has problems with lyrical sentences, I think XD)

Oh whoops just saw your edit. So the internet lied to me only partially! Will wonders never cease.

Only partially XD It would've been one thing if "ogne" hadn't been a word, but it means "fire," so I didn't think to try the "g" as a "k" (letters in Russian end up softened sometimes, like they do in English)

20. "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash!

30. "Stand by Me" by... uh... actually, I only know the John Lennon cover. So... John Lennon?

Yes! Although as above, they're both actually different versions (the Bob Dylan cover and the Ben E. King original, respectively). :B

Also, geeze, 18 is by some horrible '90s boy band, isn't it? They always used to play it at the skating rink.

18 is by my favorite horrible '90s boy band. :D

It's The Call by Backstreet Boys! 8D Isn't it?

Also working on real guesses in as we speak.

Ding ding ding! Favorite boy band song by favorite boy band. :D

I am playing it in youtube in another window as we speak. This totally brings me back. BSB = life to my nine year old self.

I just looked it up. It is by THE horrible '90s boy band. XD

That's why they're the best. :D

...um, I think.

2. If Everyone Cared - Nickelback
3. ... Under Your Spell from Once More With Feeling otherwise known as the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode? (Please tell me I'm not crazy.)
5. Callin In Sick by Weird Al |D

;lkasjd;oivnawer I KNOW I KNOW MORE BUT I CAN'T THINK OF THE NAMES.

If you're crazy, I am too, because that's what it says in iTunes. :D (I... haven't actually seen the episode yet. OTL) All correct!

It's okay, man. They will come to you. Or maybe they will not. If worst comes to worst, I can post the answers later. :P

YES! I am so happy to hear that! 8D I loved that episode. I can't even tell you how much. Watch it immediately. Just... just watch it. /dies

Also, hum.
10. Down to Earth by Barenaked Ladies?

I will watch it, man. I promise. :D

Correct! One of my favorite songs on that album. :B

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