Bored memeage

[lederhosen]

Birthday lunch for a colleague soon, then off to visit Rey's grandmother for what will probably be the last time. No point in starting work now that I won't get finished before I have to go, so some time-wasting memeage:



Same deal as before: I post the lyrics, you tell me the name of the song and who first recorded it with those lyrics, no Googling. Some easy, some obscure, some tricky.

1. "I'll find someone/That's not going cheap in the sales" Song and artist picked by lordstorm

2. "I need my treatment it's tomorrow they send me/Singing "I am an American"/Do you?"

3. "I love you though you hurt me so/Now I'm going to pack my things and go" Song picked by freyaw

4. "I'm begging you to stay/Out of my way" Song and artist picked by drzero

5. "Outside another yellow moon/Has punched a hole in the night time mist" Song picked by quatranoctal, artist by waitingman

6. "I wear this crown of thorns/Upon my liar's chair" Song and artist (via email) picked by drzero

7. "Fingering my silver St. Christopher/And saving my empty shells for her"

8. "Lower the curtain down in Memphis/Lower the curtain down all right" Song and artist picked by drzero

9. "There are heroes in the seaweed/There are children in the morning" Song picked by drzero

10. "I melted wax to fix my wings..." Song and artist picked by drzero


And five bits that are spoken rather than sung:

11. "Y'see, it's strictly confidential -" "Mmm-hmm." "And it may prove influential." "Mmm-hmm."

12. "I cannot see his eyes through his trademark dark glasses and I have no idea if he is merely being polite or if he genuinely has an interest in cling-film." Source picked by krfsm; not really expecting anybody to pick the artist

13. "This friendly little devil is the heptothilidi, unfortunately harmless." Song and artist picked by waitingman

14. "Can you please tell me what the time is?" Song and artist picked by lordstorm

15. "You'd better listen to Marco."

Comments

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Ooo! Oooo! Miss! I know one!

3. 'Tainted Love'. Covered by Marilyn Manson 'cos I can't remember the original singer.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Yup!

[drzero.livejournal.com]

3. "I love you though you hurt me so/Now I'm going to pack my things and go"
Soft Cell

4. "I'm begging you to stay/Out of my way"
Everybody Loves You Babe, Billy Bragg, William Bloke album.

6. "I wear this crown of thorns/Upon my liar's chair"
"Hurt", Nine Inch Nails

8. "Lower the curtain down in Memphis/Lower the curtain down all right"
"Under The Milky Way" - The Church

9. "There are heroes in the seaweed/There are children in the morning"
"Suzanne" - Leonard Cohen

10. "I melted wax to fix my wings..."
"Dumb Things" - Paul Kelly

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

#4, 8, 10 correct; half-marks for #6 and #9.

[lordstorm.livejournal.com]

1. Soft Cell - "Say hello, wave goodbye"
3. Soft Cell - "Tainted love"
14. I believe it's The Angels - "No secrets"

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

#1 & #14: Yes and yes.
#3: No and yes.

[waitingman.livejournal.com]

13. Alice Cooper (& Vincent Price) "The Black Widow'
14. The Angels - 'No Secrets'

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Yes and yes.

[krfsm.livejournal.com]

#12 is from one of the "Roy Orbison in clingfilm" slashfics. I'm notnotnot going to go looking for them to find the exact one, though.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed that anybody got that much :-) (I think I did mention those here, but it would've been over a year ago.)

[quatranoctal.livejournal.com]

#5 sounds, to me, like Downtown Train by Rod Stewart.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Song yes, artist no :-)

[waitingman.livejournal.com]

Well, in that case, it's the Tom Waits original...

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Correct!