Another Arbitrary Milestone! Plus, point of interest, new icon.

[active_apathy]

It's been a while in the making, but here we go: the quizpost for entry number 400. Wheee!

(Long enough, in fact, that the new icon in the subject line is actually this one:



So, there you go. I now return you to your not-really-scheduled post 400-ness)

Part 1: Haiku!
Haiku is a favourite verse form for the Interwebs, and here it's been applied to the noble pursuit of music quizzing. Your job here is to identify the artist and title.
(Plus, it makes my new icon slightly appropriate, except that I'm not sane and normal, and possibly not harmless)

1 - Red Right Hand / Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - deepfishy
Stacks of green paper
Are in the clutches of his
Crimson appendage

2 - Wild Wild West / Escape Club - abberanteyes
On a back street
All living in the same house
Forty seven deadbeats

3 - Everybody's Fool / Evanescence - mrpyro
Perfect by nature
Icons of self indulgence
Just what we all need

4 - Space Oddity / David Bowie - abberanteyes
Papers want to know
The designer of your shirts
But the circuit's dead

5 - Killer Queen / Queen - captainsblog
Möet and Chandon
In an attractive cupboard
Talking like a peer

6 - Better Be Home Soon / Crowded House - riverchild
And I know I'm right
For the first time in my life
And that's why I tell you

7
Dark wings descending
Shadows gathering around
Falling one by one

Part 2: Babble!
Babble is a 'text mixing studio', notably used by Neil Gaiman in writing the short story Diseasemakers Croup. Here, song lyrics have been run through it. Artist and title would be Most Excellent.

8 - Shut Your Mouth / Garbage - abberanteyes
Play it smart girl
They say you're a saint
Guess it doesn't matter people
I waited to say something
What they want to see and you could be something

9 - Nothing Else Matters / Metallica - riverchild
Open mind for a different view
Open mind for what they say
All these words I don't just say
Trust I don't just say
But i know

10
I won't run, someone else will
Things I thought I put behind me to face it
Does it feel right?
But I won't run, there's no turning back from here
Getting stronger, I don't make it, someone else will
Now once it sets its eyes on you

11 - Don't Dream It's Over / Crowded House - deepfishy
When the door of your heart
We know they won't win
Only shadows ahead barely clearing the roof
Hey now
While you're traveling with me
To build a wall between us

12 - Kiss / Prince - abberanteyes
You just leave it all up to be cool
I'm gonna show you what it's all about
You can't be to flirty, mama (Not your shoe size)
To be your fantasy
I want to be my girl
You don't have to be your food

13
Blinds on the window and a new set of lies
It's a mystery to meet all sorts
I still can't get used to it
Digging up the dirt
There's always an excuse for it
Plus expenses

14 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / U2 - tears_of_nienna
And you loosed the chains
It was warm in the bonds
It burned like fire
I believe in the hand of a devil

Part 3: First Lines!
Yes, this is a recycled game. You get the first line, and then you give me the traditional information.

15
You wanna make me sick, you wanna lick my wounds, don't you, baby?

16 - Listen to the Music / The Doobie Brothers - captainsblog
Don't you feel it growin', day by day

17 - Enjoy the Silence / Depeche Mode - riverchild
Words like violence

18 - I Think I'm Paranoid / Garbage - abberanteyes
You can look, but you can't touch

19 - The Outlaw Torn / Metallica - mrpyro
And now I wait my whole lifetime

Part 4: Last Lines!
And, lastly, a new one - you get the last line, and work from there. Whee!

20 - Hotel California / The Eagles - deepfishy
But you can never leave

21 - White Wedding / Billy Idol - abberanteyes
It's a nice day to start again

22 - Something So Strong / Crowded House - raptor_au
Could carry us today

23 - Fires at Midnight / Blackmore's Night - palmer_kun
Stars are out and magic is here

24 - Ain't no Sunshine / Bill Withers - riverchild
Anytime she goes away


Aaaaaand... that's it!

Comments

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

Yay, postage!

1: Red Right Hand, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Is 11...Don't Dream It's Over, Crowded House? This babble thing is puzzling :p

And finally, 20: Hotel California, Eagles.

Happy Arbitrary Milestone!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

1: Yes!
11: Indeed it is.
20: Verily.

And thanks kindly! :D

I've probably been scooped on some of these by now...

[aberrantangels]

2. The Escape Club, "Wild Wild West"
4. David Bowie, "Space Oddity"
8. Garbage, "Shut Your Mouth"
12. Prince, "Kiss"
18. Garbage, "I Think I'm Paranoid"
21. Billy Idol, "White Wedding"

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

And... it's yes for all six of them.

[riverchild.livejournal.com]

6 Better Be Home Soon - Crowded House ♥ looove that song, and how fantastic that it fits a haiku! :D
9 Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
17 Enjoy The Silence - Depeche Mode
24 Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

6 - I've never been quite so happy about counting to 17. :)
9 - yes!
17 - Also yes!
24 - Yes, and yes again.

[mrpyro.livejournal.com]

3) Evanescence - Everybody's fool

9) Metallica - Nothing else matters

17) Depeche Mode or Lacuna Coil - Break the Silence

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

3: Yes!
9: Yes, but second.
17: Artist, yes; second artist, also yes, and I like their cover rather a bit more than I like the original; title, no; again, second. :)

[mrpyro.livejournal.com]

Stupid simultaneous commenting; I knew I should have posted the Metallica answer as soon as I saw it.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I could give you half of it, or you can keep the moral victory. Sharing it would be my normal solution, anyway - it's what I do when I can't immediately check answers.

And, really, I'm surprised by how long 3 and 6 managed to hide in plain sight. 3 especially - it's the opening lines verbatim.

[mrpyro.livejournal.com]

It took me a moment to remember which song 3 was, but I recognised it as familiar when I first saw it.

Also, 19 is Metallica - The Outlaw Torn

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

*nods* It is indeed.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

5 is Killer Queen by Eponymous

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

and 16 is Listen to the Music by the Doobies

I am hereby claiming the 70s. Where shall I plant the flag?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Um... somewhere. Possibly a somewhere that's overrun with the discarded remains of horrid 1970s artefacts.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

So it is.

[tears-of-nienna.livejournal.com]

Oooh, #14 is "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" by U2. I think.

I'm bad enough at these memes when it's the actual lyrics. ;D

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

It surely is. :)

I don't think there's a meme for that one. I tracked down a copy of Babble the moment I read through Smoke and Mirrors, and when I got stuck after the seventh haiku I decided it'd be a fun toy to play with.

[fireflyfailure.livejournal.com]

happy arbitrary milestone!

i don't think i know ANY of these... >_>

[raptor-au.livejournal.com]

22: Something So Strong by Crowded House

I take it by the icon that you've caught up with BSG?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Yes, and yes. So, of course, I just had to make an icon out of it.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

....aaand I got nuthin.

Also I just accidentally commented on somebody else's quiz thinking it was yours. It is clearly too early in the morning.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Of course. The entire morning is too early in the morning.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

I know! Sometimes even the afternoon is too early in the morning - it must be a space-time anomalily!

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

Whee.
13 is Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
23 is Blackmore's Night - Fires at Midnight

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

13... isn't.
23 is.