Catch a meme

[jethrien]

Name the title and the artist of the song (either artist who wrote it, or the one most known for performing it). As Ivy03 said, I don't know how many of these people will know, so tried to choose interesting lyrics. (I honestly can't decide whether these are too easy or too hard...they make sense to me...)


1.I lost myself to him and laid my face upon my lover's breast
"The Dark Night of the Soul", Loreena McKennitt

2.This is a place where eternally fire is applied to the body
"Hell", Squirrel Nut Zippers

3.My bonnie lass she looketh like a jewel, and soundeth like a mule.
"My Bonnie Lass, She Smelleth", PDQ Bach

4.They lived and they died, they prayed to their gods; but the stone gods did not make a sound
"All This Time", Sting

5.Watched by empty silhouettes who close their eyes, but still can see
"Solsbury Hill", Peter Gabriel

6.Venus made me, Eros betrayed me, instead of an arrow he used a poison dart
"Golden Heart", Kirsty MacColl

7.Underneath a shady tree, a shadow sitting next to me

8.But it's written in the starlight and every line on your palm

9.Clark Kent reached the highest height with the help of Perry White
"I Love My Boss", Moxy Fruvous

10.I do not feel the romance I do not catch the spark
"Prince of Darkness", Indigo Girls

11.Think of all the fun I've missed - think of all the fellas that I haven't kissed
"Santa Baby", by Javits, Springer and Springer; recorded by Eartha Kitt

12.And like a boat out on the ocean I'm rocking you to sleep
"Goodnight, My Angel", Billy Joel

13.We've quips and quibbles heard in flocks
"When you had left our pirate fold", Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert & Sullivan

14.It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift
"Hallelujah", Rufus Wainwright

15.Flying too high with some guy in the sky is my idea of nothing to do
"I Get A Kick Out of You", Cole Porter

16.And all the leaves on the trees are falling to the sound of the breezes that blow
"Moondance", Van Morrison

17.As your life spills into mine, changing with the seasons
"Since You've Asked", Judy Collins.

18.Haunted echo that surrounds the glen; the heather creeping through the burned out ruins

19.You don't have to worry 'cause you have no money
"Proud Mary", Tina Turner

20.Now Mary and her mother gang an awful lot together,
In fact you hardly ever see the one without the other
"Mary Mack", Celtic folk song

(Mom, I'm going to be disappointed in you if you can't figure out at least four of these. I know you know six or seven at the minimum.)

Comments

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

#9 is "I Love My Boss" by Moxy Fruvous
#10 is "Prince of Darkness" by the Indigo Girls
#12 is "Goodnight My Angel" by Billy Joel
#14 is "Hallelujah" by Rufus Wainwright
#15 is "I Get a Kick Out of You" from Anything Goes (by Cole Porter)

I feel like I should probably know a few of the others...

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

You do. A bunch of them are on my shelf.

[feiran.livejournal.com]

Poops, you beat me to 10, 12, and 14.

Also I recognize:

Hell - Squirrel Nut Zippers
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel

17 was bothering me awfully, so I googled it--and actually, I had both that artist and Indigo Girls pop up on my list as well, but I cut them both when I pared it down. :-P

[feiran.livejournal.com]

Those would be numbers 2 and 5, respectively.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I'm glad someone besides my mom has heard 17. I was afraid no one else had.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Only 25% from the other half of jethrien's brain? Shame...

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

So...is this more fun when the quotes are really obscure, or when they're relatively easy?

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

4 - Mad About You by Sting
And you didn't get the quote from that album on my meme????
11 Is this "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say No?" I think I'm totally wrong here...
13 ...but none to beat this paradox
I don't know the title of the song, but it's from Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

4 - Right artist, wrong song.
11 - Nope. Hint - think holidays.
13 - Actually, I don't think it has a title - they usually just call it the first line of the song.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Stupid me. It's All This Time (is that the name of the song?). Again, I wonder that you didn't catch the lyric in my meme from the same album.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Got it.

Because I don't have that album. I've got a Best of Sting album I stole from my mother, which is where I know the song from. I'll take another look at your list and see if I pick it up.

[lyriendel.livejournal.com]

1 is by Loreena McKennitt, I think. Don't know which one, tho. I've never been good at identifying songs. In band I'd have entire songs memorized without ever being able to identify their names.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is Loreena McKennitt.

[lyriendel.livejournal.com]

The Dark Night of the Soul.

[fairylane.livejournal.com]

20 is Mari-Mac by Great Big Sea.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a Celtic folk song, but that is a group that's covered it, so close enough.

I was actually hoping that some of the people who went to the Ren Faire a few weeks ago would get it - we heard it there, and most of us also heard it the previous trip to the Ren Faire as well. They usually perform it at the Bawdy Ballads/Sultry Sirens of Sin show.

[barefootsailor.livejournal.com]

16: "Moondance," Van Morrison
17: "Since You've Asked," Judy Collins
11 is "Santa Baby," but I can't think of the artist.

(Props to you for the overall wonderfulness of the songs on the list!)

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I'd been thinking of the Dan Fogelberg version of "Since You've Asked", which I didn't know was a cover until now. Thanks.

Santa Baby's been recorded by a dozen different people at least, but the original Eartha Kitt recording is still the best by far.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

And my mother gets 3, 6, and 19.

[(Anonymous)]

7: TMBG, Lullaby to Nightmares
8: Dire Straights, Brothers in Arms
18: Clannad, Poison Glen

-Em

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Bravo.