Sing, Sing A Song

Make it simple to last a whole life long?

If we were to try to identify the songs in our own list, we would only be able to recognize about 9 of them. That's because we don't really pay much attention to lyrics unless we likes the song. Also, we've gotta find time to spring clean our iPod a bit more.

To make sure that the lyrics were identifiable we'd actually Googled the lot too. Only in a couple of cases the search engines didn't turn up correct hits.

Anyways, kudos to both Aik Yong and Savante, scoring 3 unique corrects each (although in Aik Yong's case we wonders if the question marks meant he was just taking potshots in the dark)! Now here's the list of all the songs we went through for the 25!

1. 'Moonlight Densetsu' by DALI
"Gomen ne sunao ja nakute..."
The opening song for Sailormoon. So happy we were to start off with this one.

2. 'Beauty And The Beast (Work Tape And Demo)'
"Tale as old as time..."
Not the Peabo Bryson and Celine Dion duet but no way to know, is there? A recording of Alan Menken working on the song.

x. Men Staked On Blitz
A track from Final Fantasy X.

3. 'Notes/Prima Donna' from The Phantom Of The Opera
"'Mystery after gala night' it says 'Mystery of soprano's flight'..."
No problems with this one. We loves the motif for the two opera owners.

x. 'LEI-LEI Winning' from Vampire Hunter Soundtrack
Music from the Capcom fighting game. Skip.

4. 'Be With You' by Enrique Inglesias
"Monday night, and I feel so low..."
This was during the college years? He had only a few songs that we like, and they were the upbeat ones.

5. 'J'Irai Ou Tu Iras' by Celine Dion
"Che moi les forets se balancent..."
From The French Album. One we didn't and wouldn't have recognized ourselves.

x. 'Medley: Always There - Theme to 'Howard's Way'/Anyone Can Fall In Love - Theme to 'Eastenders' by Richard Clayderman
Skip.

x. 'Rough Lands Theme' from Heroes Of Might And Magic IV
A nice Celtic-themed song but of course, skip.

6. 'Lady In Red' by Chris DeBurgh
"I've never seen you looking so lovely as you did tonight..."
And we thought the good doc might recognize this one. Although personally we might need some time to have placed it ourselves.

x. 'Light's Theme' from Death Note Soundtrack

7. 'Kaze no Mon Ami' by Sakura Nogawa, Azumanga Daioh Character Series (Kaorin)
"Hizashi no aizu ni kakete kuru"
Azumanga Daioh had a series of extra soundtracks sung by each character from the series, as we found out to our delight.

8. 'The Song Of Epona' from The Legend Of Zelda: The Ocarina Of Time
"Epona Epona soba ni oide..."
We initially thought this wasn't a song but some music track initially. From our Mario & Zelda Big Band Live CD. Once we get a Wii then we'll start catching up on the Zelda games we're missing out on.

x. 'Flight Of The Bumblebee' by Maksim
This version used to be our alarm clock tone.

9. 'PPR: Kut' by Cheapshot/Jubacca
"Why does it feel like night today? Something in here's not right today..."
Answers of Linkin Park would also have been accepted. This is the Reanimation take. Nope, wouldn't have recognized this ourselves.

10. 'Keep The Faith' by Bon Jovi
"Mother mother tell your children, that their time has just begun..."
Mental note: delete Cross Road album from iPod and hard disk.

x. 'More Lemmings' from Lemmings 2 Soundtrack
Never heard this song within the game, though.

11. 'Stand By Me' by The Temptations
"When the night has come and the land is dark..."
Stephen King, anyone?

12. 'Stuck' by Stacie Orrico
"I can't get out of bed today..."
Initially once we'd completed this quiz (we wonders how can this be a meme) that for some songs, 'one line of lyrics' proved too short and so we added an extra line. Somehow we missed this one, sorry!

x. 'Narcissism' from Sound Of Death Note Soundtrack
We should delete this album too. The movie soundtrack and the 'music inspired by...' albums aren't good.

x. 'Harkonnen - "Saboteur..."' from Dune II
Remember Dune II, the game? If you had extended memory and a Soundblaster card then, not only you'd get background music but synthesized voices announcing stuff. This one was the voice for House Harkonnen, stating that a Sabotuer...something. Usually, "...destroyed." But this isn't a song.

13. 'Superstar' by Jamelia
"People always talk about all the things they're all about..."
If we had put the 'ay oh ay oh ay oh' would that have made it more recognizable?

14. '21st Century Kid' by Jamie Cullum
"There's maybe a way I can tell you 'cos with everyday things continue..."
From Catching Tales, an album that we don't listen to much.

15. 'Raspberry Heaven' by Oranges & Lemons
"Kokoro ni hane wo motte tsutate mune no sasayaki..."
We hearts Azumanga Daioh. Although admittedly we wouldn't have identified the lyrics. If you're gonna watch the MV as linked above, watch till the chorus at the least to see just why we likes this anime!

16. 'The Most Beautiful Girl' by Harry Connick Jr
"I met her but I never thought she'd belong to me"
We must have gotten this from lad.

x. 'Cleopatra In New York' by Nickodemus
This from Hotel Costes Etage 3. Great stuff.

17. 'Adestes Fideles' by The Vienna Boys' Choir
"Adeste Fideles laeti triumphantes..."
Carols always give themselves away in the first line, heh. We were introduced to this during our choir club days in Glasgow, where the sopranos (lucky them) got to sing an extra descant part.

x. 'Boredom/Taikutsu' from Death Note Soundtrack

x. 'Feria sexta in passione Dominii (Good Friday)'
Gregorian chant. If we had the exact words chanted we might have put it up.

x. 'The Sacrifice' by Michael Nyman
From The Piano. Lovely piece although we finds it a bit too short.

18. 'Everything' by Alanis Morissette
"I can be an asshole of the grandest kind..."
The last song we'd ever gotten from her. Correction: second last song. Last song is 'Wunderkind' from the Narnia soundtrack. Still prefer her Jagged Little Pill album.

19a. 'One Night In Bangkok' by Vinylshakerz
"One night...and the world is your oyster..."
Considering that it's a remix for clubs (or BodyStep in this case) and the first line wasn't the full line ("One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster") we were considering skipping this track. Then we thought, put it as a side option instead.

19b. 'Miss You Much' by Janet Jackson
"Shot like an arrow going through my heart..."
Would recognize the music but not the lyrics. :P So long ago!

20a. 'S.M.S.' by Juwita Suwito
"Little castles in the air..."
The Juwita Suwito who was in Malaysian Idol 1 for voice training or summat. She used to be in our church (WMCK!) and so a churchmember got the album for us. We didn't have the lyrics with us then nor did we bother straining to transcribe it, so we just put in the first line and made it another optional.

20b. 'I Only Have Eyes For You' by Jamie Cullum
"Are the stars out tonight? I don't know if it's cloudy or bright..."
Really, think we might as well delete the Catching Tales album too.

21. 'When It's Over' by Sugar Ray
"When it's over that's the time I fall in love again..."
Sugar Ray kept us company a good deal during our secondary school years when we did our homework in front of the radio. Don't know how Eagle Eye Cherry came into the picture there.

22. 'Crash And Burn' by Simple Plan
"One more day before you go, we'll stay up late for one more show..."
When we saw the title on the iPod our first thought was Savage Garden.

x. 'O Tennenbaum/Minuit Chretien/He Was Born The Holy Child' by Richard Clayderman
His christmas album.

23. 'Immortality' by Celine Dion
"So this is who I am and this is all I know..."
Featuring Bee Gees! Goes into our Depressive playlist! :P

24. 'Moroccan Peoples Revolutionary Bowls Club' by Blur
"The trees are spinning oxygen, they're the rockets we should fear..."
Erm. We enjoys Blur, and got the Think Tank album because it was cheap at that time. Blah. Guess we'll just stick to their 'Best Of' then.

25. 'Valentine' by Jim Brickman & Martina McBride
"If there were no words, no way to speak, I would still hear you..."
Almost skipped this as well, thinking it was just a piano piece.

x. 'Lose Combat' from Heroes Of Might And Magic III

x. 'Julie' from Final Fantasy VIII Soundtrack

x. 'Watermark' by Cerise
From our Celtic Circle 2 compilation. Took us a while to place it as a cover from Enya.

x. 'Outdoor' from Lemmings 2 Soundtrack
We loves the music from Lemmings 2! We hearts Lemmings (even tho' we suck at the game)!

BONUS. 'Crawling In The Dark' by Hoobastank
"I will dedicate and sacrifice my everything for just a second's worth of how my story's ending..."
Guess most of us will only know Hoobastank for 'The Reason'.

There. 46 songs in all just for 25 songs.