All awake in Clapham

[caddyman]

I should have seen this coming, but a fortnight of laying in bed as long as you are wont tends to put it out of your mind. Yes, folks it's the small wee hours of Wednesday morning, and I am wide awake. Sunday night syndrome for midweek.

The joy of it.

To pass the time, I have decided to plug in the old jukebox and play at random. So, without googling, which is ver' ver' naughty, can you identify these lyrics snatched from the last ten random tracks kicked up by the Archos? The first one is clearly a gimme...

• Commencing countdown, engines on... Space Oddity, David Bowie irdm


• He didn't do it, he wasn't there. He didn't want it, he wouldn't dare.. Good Morning, Judge, 10cc pauln


• I was distracted at the time; forget about yours, what about mine?... Not My Idea, Garbage grendelchild


• Sometimes I drive so fast just to feel the danger Anything But Ordinary, Avril Lavigne ephraim


• If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall and the mountains crumble to the sea... Stand By Me (in this case by Lennon)ephraim


• All I know is the way I feel, and it's the key to being alive...


• I know I laughed when you left, but now I know I only hurt myself... Bring It On Home To Me, Sam Cooke cybersofa


• So deep this feeling I have for you, your eyes pierced through my heart...


• When I was just a child, my parents would drive me wild...


• What made my life so wonderful? What made me feel so bad? I used to wake up the ocean, I used to walk on clouds Afraid, David Bowie cybersofa

Hey, it's something to do, ain't it?

Comments

[irdm.livejournal.com]

First one is Space Odditity?
Second one I recognise, can sing along to.... but can't name!!!
And fifth....

Rest; nada!

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Well, you got the gimme, but you'll have to work on the others... ;-)

[ephraim.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I drive so fast just to feel the danger

This is Avril Lavigne - Anything but ordinary. And I'm ashamed that I know this.

If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall and the mountains crumble to the sea...

Is (originally) Ben E King's marvellous Stand by me. But it could also be any of a million trillion cover versions.

Other than that I think that your taste is too obscure for me...

[cybersofa.livejournal.com]

I know I laughed when you left, but now I know I only hurt myself...

Bring It On Home To Me by, ooh, could be lots of people, Animals, the late Lennon, Sir Van etc, but let's say Sam Cooke.

What made my life so wonderful? What made me feel so bad? I used to wake up the ocean, I used to walk on clouds

Bowiebowiebowie, but what is it called? Afraid?

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

No fair - you got the only one I knew!

[pauln.livejournal.com]

A bit of humming along and trying to remember the next line suggests that 2 is Dreadlock Holiday, 10cc

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Close, but no cigar.

Try for another, Squire?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Right and right - except that I was listening to Lennon's rendition. Still, short of being psychic...

I think you might find that these aren't all as obscure as you might think...

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Quite right on both counts.

I wasn't actually sure anyone would get 'Afraid'.

[pauln.livejournal.com]

Definitely 10cc. Good Morning Judge?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

That's the one.

[grendelchild.livejournal.com]

Heh, the third one is "Not my idea" by Garbage :)

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Indeed it is.