Song lines meme answers

[altariel]

1. Blur, Country House: "I’m a professional cynic, but my heart’s not in it." Blur are secretly one of my favourite bands. Well, not so secretly, if you've ever read my 'Current Music' entries.
   
   
2. 10,000 Maniacs, The Painted Desert: "On a blanket in the cooling sand you and your friend agreed that the stars were so many there they seemed to overlap." Does anyone listen to the 10,000 Maniacs any more?
   
   
3. Suzanne Vega, Soap and Water: "Daddy’s a dark riddle, Mama’s a headful of bees." I've been listening to all her albums in sequence this week. This is from the last one, which she wrote while her marriage was breaking up. It's quite depressing.
   
   
4. Richard Thompson, Night Comes In: "The songs pour down like silver, they can only break my heart." I first heard this as a much rockier cover done by June Tabor and the Oyster Band. The original is slower and mesmerizing.
   
   
5. Joni Mitchell, A Case of You: "You are in my blood like holy wine, you taste so bitter and so sweet". Blue is such a lovely album.
   
   
6. David Grey, We’re Not Right: "Betty Ford, oh won’t you be my valentine?" I know he was very fashionable in a "free CD with this week's Independent on Sunday" kind of way, but I like this album because I think the songs are good. Also, he's one of the few male singer-songwriters who writes things in a key I can sing along to (although I don't much like his voice).
   
   
7. Leonard Cohen, Sisters of Mercy: "They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem." I think this is one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
   
   
8. The Pogues, Bottle of Smoke: "Fuck the stewards, a trip to Lourdes might give the old fuckers the power of sight." God Bless Shane MacGowan.
   
   
9. Aimee Mann, Save Me: "You look like the perfect fit for a girl in need of a tourniquet." I caught this by chance at the end of some kind of lunchtime pop show that I would never usually watch, and thought it was a great song - I'd not heard anything by her before. Took me a while to track down who the singer was. Magnolia really benefits from knowing the songs, I think; when I went to see it in the cinema, I was in tears at the bit where Wise Up starts, whilst the people around me where shifting in their seats and looking uncertain. Although I am very easily moved to tears.
   
   
10. Kirsty MacColl, A New England: "I saw two shooting stars last night, I wished on them, but they’re only satellites... it’s wrong to wish on space hardware..." Billy Bragg wrote it, but Kirsty released it as a single, with a couple of extra verses Bragg wrote for her.
    
    

Well done, forodwaith, with 5/10!

Comments

[ex-harrietva568.livejournal.com]

Dang. And "A New England" is one of my favorite songs. Don't I feel stupid.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I thought Bruce Springsteen was the Indigo Girls, doing this quiz the other day.

[applegnat.livejournal.com]

"They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem." I think this is one of the most beautiful songs ever written.

Entirely in agreement. And it won't make me jealous if I learn that they've sweetened your night/We weren't lovers like that, and besides it would still be alright...

<3

[altariel.livejournal.com]

That was my next choice of favourite line from that song :-)

[applegnat.livejournal.com]

Oooh. :) Although When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned... is simply lovely too. Well, the whole song is. I can never decide between it and "So Long, Marianne".

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Yes, the whole song could be quoted, really. "Suzanne" is my other favourite.

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

Hee. I'm actually a musical illiterate, so all this proves is that we must have similar tastes. :-)

"A little black cloud in a dress" is my favourite Billy Bragg lyric, and quite descriptive of me (or would be if I wore dresses more often).

[altariel.livejournal.com]

"A little black cloud in a dress" is my favourite Billy Bragg lyric, and quite descriptive of me (or would be if I wore dresses more often).

It suits me too (apart from the dresses). "A little black cloud in velvet flares".

[raspberryfool.livejournal.com]

I noticed Suzanne Vega in your music thingie. I haven't listened to her for ages, and i only have the first two albums, both on vinyl. I remember 'Small Blue Thing' being played on Radio Caroline a lot - happy(ish) days.

'Language' from Solitude Standing is probably my favourite Vega track. It's a very literate and intelligently written album. for some reason, i never bought any of her later stuff. Maybe one day...

I picked up a Beth Orton album - Daybreaker - the other day for a couple of quid. That'll be staying in my CD player for a whilst... *g*

[altariel.livejournal.com]

'Language' is a lovely song.

Her third album is a bit odd, and takes a bit of listening to, but all the albums after that (three of them) have been brilliant.

[raspberryfool.livejournal.com]

Thanks, i'll add them to my mental wish list :-)

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

I was listening to 'Save Me' today, but I didn't recognize that line at all - I'm terrible at deciphering lyrics! It is a superb song.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I hope I got the line right! - I did it from memory rather than checking the sleeve notes.