The name that song meme!

[letterblade]

Done with the influential music playlist, which I'm not quite finished assembling yet, but which is functional. (This is a playlist full of music that I've been obsessed with at some point or another, that I've spawned characters to, that I have deep associations with, etc. Terrible variety.)

Gacked from loads of people. If you haven't met this one: I take a playlist, put it on random, pick out the first twenty songs (with lyrics, in English because I'm too lazy to deal with translation), and write down my favorite line from each. You try to figure out what the hell they are.

1. I have used up all my weapons, and I'm helpless and bereaved / Wounds are all I'm made of

2. And maybe we'll do in a squirrel or two / While we're poisoning pigeons in the park! (Tom Lehrer. "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park." Scored by melannen.)

3. She is like a cat in the dark / And then she is the darkness (I know it as Fleetwood Mac, "Rhiannon." archbishopm knows it as "Rhianna" by Steve Nicks. I'll give her the score, since she probably knows more about the origin of the song than I do.)

4. And so it has been, and so it is written / On the doorways to Paradise (I don't even know who composed Le Mis. "Stars." Scored by melannen.)

5. I drink the honey inside your hive / You are the reason I stay alive (Nine Inch Nails. "Closer." Scored by Caroline.)

6. But to and fro in my dreams I go / And I kneel and pray for you / For slavery fled, O glorious dead (Irish traditional--the version I have is the Chieftains and Sinead O'Connor. "The Foggy Dew." Scored by tyraarane.)

7. Like a drop of rain / Flowing to the ocean

8. I kept a chain upon my door / That would shake the shame of Cain into a blind submission (Yoko Kanno and co. "Gotta Knock a Little Harder," from the Cowboy Bebop movie. Scored by weemallard.)

9. Where deep in the desert twilight / Sand melts in pools of the sky / When darkness lays her crimson cloak (Loreena McKennit. "The Mystic's Dream." Scored by Caroline.)

10. When souls are torn to everlasting fire and fiends of Hell rejoice upon the slain--O who can stand? [Okay, so technically the singing is wordless and this is spoken. But I let it go. Maybe I shouldn't have. Chosing one line was hard.] (Loreena McKennit, text from a Yeats poem. "Lullaby." Scored by Caroline.)

11. So hot so cold so far so out of control / Hard to come by and harder to hold (The Sisters of Mercy. "More." Scored by mctabby.)

12. Burnt out ends of smoky days / The stale cold smell of morning (Andrew Lloyd Weber and assorted bastardizations of T. S. Eliot. Cats. "Memory." Scored by melannen.)

13. Echoes of an ancient time live inside your mind / Why don't you set them free?

14. What do we need to make our world come alive? / What do we need to make us sing? (The Sisters of Mercy. "More." Scored by mctabby.)

15. Dreams of war, dreams of liars / Dreams of dragon's fire (Metallica. "Enter Sandman." (In my case, the S&M recording.) Scored by tyraarane.)

16. I see the sons of the city and the dispossessed / Get down, get undressed (The Sisters of Mercy. "Lucretia My Reflection." Scored by pogrebin.)

17. I don't think you trust in my / Self-righteous suicide / I cry / When angels deserve to die (Band scored by archbishopm: System of a Down. Title awaiting score.)

18. So sayeth Death, the world is mine / I have built a tomb for all mankind (Mediaeval Baebes, although the song is 14th-century German. Scored by Caroline, except she gave the title of my songfic rather than their song. Song title, anyone?)

19. I've heard a million conversations going where they've been before / Seen the way that careful lingers undecided at the door (The Sisters of Mercy. "Some Kind of Stranger." Scored by mctabby.)

20. She's so heavyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy (Band scored by archbishopm: The Beatles. Title scored by Caroline--"I Want You/She's So Heavy.")

(For the record, that was 50 songs into a 101-song playlist.)

And three bonuses--the next three in--because of the three that are just blindingly obvious. Like they've got the title in my favorite quote. Or I've songficced them.

21. He told of death as a bone white haze / Taking the lost and the unloved babes

22. The paper holds their folded faces to the floor / And every day the paperboy brings more (Band scored by Caroline--Pink Floyd. And she got the album right. Title awaiting score.)

23. Wish I could fade, can't made the grade / Nothing but dark days in sight

Also for your entertainment: other languages I had music in: German, Medieval Latin, Finnish, Italian, Ancient Egyptian, Swedish, Sami, Karelian Finnish, Gabriella-Robin-ese, Japanese, and French.

Comments

Tom Lehrer!

[melannen.livejournal.com]

2. Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
4. Les Mis - Stars
12. Cats - Memories

And just for fun, I have songs in: Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Jellese (actually that one's spoken), Valdyan (http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/valdyas/taal/hanleni_halsen/index.html), German, Irish Gaelic, Middle English, Midieval Latin, and Russian.

Re: Tom Lehrer!

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

o.O

Two in languages I haven't heard of!

*is outgeeked*

*edits post*

Tho the Tom Lehrer was one of the Blindingly Obvious ones. Still. It was worth it for doing in squirrels. ;)

Re: Tom Lehrer!

[melannen.livejournal.com]

The blindingly obvious ones are the only kind I *get*, I'm happy. Anyway, it's always worth it for the squirrels.

And I'm a conlang fangirl, that's why the super-obscure languages. You had two I didn't know either.

Re: Tom Lehrer!

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

Two? Gabriella Robin (somebody associated with, or maybe an alter ego of, the Japanese composer Yoko Kanno) has a conlang she uses for random strange songs on anime soundtracks. What was the other?

Re: Tom Lehrer!

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Sami. I'm thinking maybe Asian? but I don't know anything about it.

Re: Tom Lehrer!

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

Sami is the language and tribal name, the original name, for the Laplanders. Family-wise, it's in the distant end of the Finno-Ugric group, along with some other languages of small peoples in cold places, at least if I understand correctly.

[archbishopm.livejournal.com]

2. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park - Tom Lehrer

3. Rhianna - Stevie Nicks

17. Um. System of a Down. I know the song well! Its name is...damn. I got nothin'.

20. The Beatles. Ditto.

Pathetic.

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

2. I think mel beat you to it.
3. Is that who actually wrote the song? I only know it through Fleetwood Mac...

*tries to figure out whether she should give credit for 17 and 20*

*gives half-credit*

[pogrebin.livejournal.com]

16. Lucretia, My Reflection- Sisters of Mercy

And goddam. I know more of these songs, but my brain is broken. *curses*

[mctabby.livejournal.com]

You beat me to TWIB's theme song! *pouts*

Ah well, I'll throw in Some Kind of Stranger for 19. :D

[pogrebin.livejournal.com]

ahahaha. yes. you are the one who introduced me to sisters of mercy, and now I obsessively download their music. Whenever I play it in the car and we hit the words 'two worlds & in between), the one RL friend of mine who's into hp slash and I start grinning, much to the consternation of our poor impoverished non-fandom friends. :)

(oh, and great list, by the way. the smiths! the cramps! b52! <3.)

[mctabby.livejournal.com]

Hee! *shares the grinning*

Have you heard Under the Gun, by the way? Spare a grin for that one - great song, and it donated the title for Two Worlds Apart, my TWIB-compatible Riddlefic. Ah, my thanks to the Sisters for using the phrase "two worlds" twice in their lyrics... Even though they probably didn't do so with the aim of pleasing Potter-pastfic writers. :D

*waves at Arkady*
Hey! #11, More! #14, Vision Thing! (Sorry, was in a hurry yesterday. *slurps*)

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

Ahh, good. I was beginning to think your Sisters-lyric-brain had broken, and that would be very sad.

*slurpsback*

If the Slytherclaw sub-fandom ever formed a goth band, it'd be named Slurpback, and it would be all your fault. ;)

[alchemine.livejournal.com]

16. Sisters of Mercy -- Lucretia My Reflection

oooh oooh I wanna play!

[(Anonymous)]

5) NIN- Closer (that's probably my favorite line tooooo!)
9) Loreena McKennit- The Mystic's Dream
10) Well, the song you got it from is Lorenna McKennit- Lullaby. but the words in that song are spoken and are actually a poem by Yeats but I don't remember the name.
18) Medeval Babes- So Sayeth Death. I bet you associate it with Tom due to a certain fic (or did the association cause the fic?)
20) the song title is "I want you/She's so heavy" I thiiiink. [resists urge to cheat and grab the Abby Road album from wherever it is on her desk]

is 22 "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd on album of same name? or at least did I get the album right? because "And every day the paperboy brings more" is definatly in there but I don't remember the first half of that line at all. I think I remember a line that I couldn't hear the words too, though.

You know, considering we were ROOMATES for two terms, I should know more (though I also got Poisning Pigeons and Stars, but I was beat to them ;))

-Caroline
p.s. call me sometime or something maybe? or should I call you?

[weemallard.livejournal.com]

8. "Gotta Knock a Little Harder" from the "Knocking on Heaven's Door/Bebop! The Musical Movie!" soundtrack.

[tyraarane.livejournal.com]

6. "The Foggy Dew" -- um, it's an Irish traditional, so I don't know who did your version...but I've got one by the Chieftains and Sinead O'Connor.

15. "Enter Sandman" -- Metallica. (Dude, nobody got that one yet? Whoa. o.O)

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

I've got the same one, and it's a lovely. :)