lyrics!

[schmerica]

I haven't done it in a while now, so time for another game of "Identify the song!" Woohoo! Fun and prizes!

Only, uh, without the prizes, I guess.

First twenty songs up on itunes, without repeating artists:

1. Come true for the new martyrs
With your hair parted like the red sea
"It's Only Divine Right" by The New Pornographers, identified by thefakeheadline

2. I rehearsed those words just late last night
When I was thinking about how right tonight might be
"Anticipation" by Carly Simon, identified by shayheyred

3. We've talked about it in letters
And we've talked about it on the phone
But how you really feel about it
I don't really know
"What's Yr Take on Cassevetes?" by Le Tigre, identified by sprkid

4. But my friends keep telling me to give it up
Saying I'm too young, I ought to live it up
"Papa Don't Preach" by Madonna, identified by danielleleigh

5. The church of man love is such a holy place to be
"Moonage Daydream" by David Bowie, identified by thehoyden

6. Whining and pining is wrong and so on and so forth, of course, of course
But no, you can't have a divorce
"Busby Berkeley Dreams" by Magnetic Fields, identified by danielleleigh

7. Baby, say that it's all gonna be all right
I believe that it isn't.
"On the Bound" by Fiona Apple, identified by jess79

8. Can't get to heaven with a three-chord song
Called you a sinner, the people want to sing along
"All Hands on the Bad One" by Sleater-Kinney, identified by sprkid

9. My head used to swim from the perfume I smelled
My hands kind of fumbled with her white plastic belt
"Hot Patootie (Bless My Soul)", Rocky Horror Picture Show, identified by mylenn

10. I'm so afraid I'll lose you
If I can't seduce you
"Johnny Are You Queer" by Josie Cotton, identified by ladysorka

11. So why don't you do something about it?
Things don't happen to you, you make them happen
"Things Here Are Different" by Jill Sobule, identified by sprkid

12. But my hands remember hers, rolling round the shaded ferns
Naked arms, her secrets still like songs I never learned

13. Lift up the receiver
I'll make you a believer
"Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode, identified by danielleleigh

14. You are the devil that sells
A line of dark fantastic passion
"Darts of Pleasure" by Franz Ferdinand, identified by danielleleigh

15. Nonsense isn't new to me
I know my head, I know my feet
But mischief knocked me in the knees
"Monty Got a Raw Deal" by R.E.M., identified by marinwood

16. Is a wind makes a palms start blowing
A big big storm fall and break my crown
"Here Comes Your Man" by the Pixies, identified by sprkid

17. I'm gonna drive to the ocean
Go skinny dipping
Blow kisses to Venus and Mars

18. Someone's saying
I'm being self-deceiving
Hold me, mold me
Whatever, know me

19. Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
"Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" by They Might Be Giants, identified by moireach

20. For an ugly boy you sure look pretty
Cowboy Frankenstein

Comments

[moireach.livejournal.com]

19. TMBG, Istanbul! Natch. ;)

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

2. Anticipation (Carly Simon)
19. Istanbul (Not Constantinope)

[danielleleigh.livejournal.com]

4. Papa Don't Preach, Madonna.

6. Busby Burkely (spelling?) Dreams, The Magnetic Fields.

13. Personal Jesus, Depeche Mode.

14. Darts of Pleasure (?), Franz Ferdinand

19. As somebody already said, Instanbul by TMBG.

wow...that is sort of sad that those are the only songs I know...

[china_shop]

4. Madonna, Papa Don't Preach.

Some of these are really surreal. :)

[ladysorka]

10. Johnny are You Queer, Josie Cotton

[thehoyden.livejournal.com]

#4 Papa Don't Preach, by Madonna
#5 Moonage Daydream, by David Bowie
#19 Istanbul, by They Might Be Giants

[mylenn.livejournal.com]

#9 - Hot Patootie Bless My Soul from Rocky Horror (LOVE!)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Dude, I giggled when that one came up. Because, man, talk about your give away.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yep! Although the version of Anticipation I was listening to was actually a cover, I believe.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Dude, it's not that sad -- you got more than anybody else so far! (And, yeah, that's right on the title of the Franz Ferdinand.)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Hee, yeah. "Sense" isn't the main concern in a lot of lyrics, really.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yes! Yay!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

All right!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Man, you know, I just can't resist Meat Loaf in general.

[hobbledehoy.livejournal.com]

3. what's yr take on cassavettes - le tigre (http://academic.evergreen.edu/f/fracla27/letigre/)

8. all hands on the bad one - sleater-kinney

but i'm a fag. really.

[hobbledehoy.livejournal.com]

and here comes your man by the pixies! sixteen, of course.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Somehow I am not shocked by any of your skills here, my darling. (Although nothing for #12, too?)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Except for how by "#12" I clearly mean "#11".

[marinwood.livejournal.com]

drive by lyric ID:

15 = REM, "Monty Got A Raw Deal."

[poisoninjest.livejournal.com]

7. Fiona Apple-- "On the Bound."

[hobbledehoy.livejournal.com]

she laughed. . .

things here are different, by jill sobule. my job is to overlook things, you see.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I am here to cheat and give you hints, so it works out!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Indeed, it is so.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yep!

[thefakeheadline.livejournal.com]

Oh! #1 is definitely the New Pornographers - "It's Only Divine Right," I think? *hearts them*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yay, yes! Go you!

I actually kind of had to cheat with that one and look up a couple of the lyrics on that one myself, because as much as I love them, I can only make out random bits of most of their songs.