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posted by [personal profile] selkie at 10:27am on 12/12/2004

See how many you can guess. I have eclectic taste in music -- well, everybody does! -- and this is not actually truly random, as I filtered out the French pop, the German soft metal, and the Yiddish klezmer. Also the French Fraggle Rock song, but only cos it made my computer hiccup. Joue au Fraggle Rock!


1. And all these knots, so tightly tied, we could not uncoil...
2. The park is full of Sunday fathers, and men with ice cream who try to do their best within the given time...
3. On a bright mosaic, she is washing on her knees, and she looks up at the black sky beyond the mountain top...
4. Fifteen years gone now, I still wander this parapet and shake my rattle bone...
5. Drink up, baby, stay up all night, with the things you could do -- you won't, but you might
6. Darling, never dream another woman might have been your mother; someday you may be a refugee.
7. Do you dream about music or mathematics or planets too far for the eye?
8. Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods?
9. Under the Arctic fire, over the seas of silence, fallen on frozen rocks for all my days remaining
10. I say, my wife has just given me a son; A son, you cry, is that all that you've done?
11. Bye-lo, my baby, she begins...
12. And still she cried, bonnie boys are few, and if my love leaves me, what will I do?
13. One way is Rome, and the other way is Mecca
14. Tell me where did Helen go...
15. Then all is silent, and the snow falls settling soft and slow...
16. Who made up all the rules? We follow them like fools...
17.  There was steam on the windows from the kitchen, and laughter like a language I once spoke with ease
18. Lord knows we've learned the hard way all about healthy apathy
19.  Maybe it's too far away, or maybe I'm just blind
20. Well, I hate to be a bother, but it's you and there's no other...
21. I wonder if the stars regret me? I know they'd like me, if they only met me...
22. My hand on the rail of this windy ride, eyes on the land on the starboard side
23. If thou gave'st ever hosen or shoon, any night and all, then sit thee down and put them on
24. Into your dreams, into your sleep, until you break, until you yield...



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posted by [personal profile] florahart at 04:30pm on 12/12/2004
Yay! One I know! 8 is Holding Out for a Hero. There's a version on the Footloose soundtrack and two on the Shrek 2 one.
 
posted by [identity profile] muchabstracted.livejournal.com at 04:32pm on 12/12/2004
So of course I don't recognize any of the songs actually listed, but...

*coughs*

Did you know there's also a German version of the Fraggle Rock theme song floating around? (I have both, because I'm a dork.)
 
posted by [identity profile] darthrami.livejournal.com at 04:34pm on 12/12/2004
3. This was Pompeii, by Dar Williams
5. Between the Bars, by Elliot Smith
7. When You Dream, by BNL
10. Lock Keeper, by Stan Rogers
20. Life Less Ordinary, by Carbon Leaf
 
posted by [identity profile] setissma.livejournal.com at 04:40pm on 12/12/2004
13 would be Rufus's greek song. And although Cole has Gotten It, 3 is Dar's This Was Pompeii! :)
 
posted by [identity profile] debka-notion.livejournal.com at 04:49pm on 12/12/2004
3. is something by Dar Williams, I *think* it's on "End of the Summer", but I forget the name.

6. is the Klezmatics, An Undoing World

Wow, this is nearly the first time I've been able to guess any songs on one of these lists. I'm not usually so focused on music in English.
 
posted by [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com at 04:52pm on 12/12/2004
Yay! YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY! You got the Klezmatics!

Brandeis Oy!
 
posted by [identity profile] debka-notion.livejournal.com at 05:09pm on 12/12/2004
And to think that I had that CD from long before I got here... Frank London and Lorin Sklamberg pplayed a concert and did a set of short workshops at my parents' shul when I was in early high school, and I got the CD they were playing material from (Nigunim, not a full Klezmatics recording, just them and a pianist), and liked it, and went and got most of their other music- something quite unusual for me.
 
posted by [identity profile] miscellanny.livejournal.com at 05:24pm on 12/12/2004
#23's quoted in Neverwhere I lot, I know that much. ;)
 
posted by [identity profile] metallumai.livejournal.com at 06:49pm on 12/12/2004
#11, of course, is The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry.

(trad. at heart, me)
 
posted by [identity profile] metallumai.livejournal.com at 06:50pm on 12/12/2004
and 23's the Lyke Wake Dirge
 
posted by [identity profile] kraada.livejournal.com at 07:16pm on 12/12/2004
#3 is Leslie Anne Levine, by the Decemberists.
 

oh!

posted by [identity profile] bluecowdied.livejournal.com at 07:23pm on 12/12/2004
16 is "they" by jem
 
posted by (anonymous) at 09:15pm on 12/12/2004
17. Indigo Girls, "Language or the Kiss"
21. Kate Rusby, "Underneath the Stars"
22. Louise Taylor, "While My Love Is Away"

French "Fraggle Rock"? I want that.


--Sonya
 
posted by [identity profile] kraada.livejournal.com at 05:53am on 13/12/2004
I also want me some French Fraggle Rock.

And since people have had time to figure these things out, it is now time for me to go use the power of Google to procrastinate my paper and tell you that:

1. is Peter Gabriel's "Lovetown" from the Philadephia soundtrack. Note: there is actually no "and"

2. is Toby Keith "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying". This has been covered by Sting & Police as well. Note: the actual line is "The park is full of Sunday fathers and melted ice cream/We try to do the best within the given time"

9. is Sting "Why Should I Cry For You" Note: it's frozen ropes, not frozen rocks.

12. is a traditional song entitled "I Know My Love." It was covered by "The Corrs". However, in their discography, they spell it "Bonny"

14. is alternately called "Like the Snow" or "Vanished Like The Snow" and was done by Sydney Carter and Solas, respectively. I think Carter's version is the original, though I am not positive.

15. is "Snow" by Loreena McKennitt.

18. is "Latter Days" by Over The Rhine (also called OTR).

19. is "When I'm Gone" by Three Doors Down. Note: there's no "or".

24. is "The Plagues" by Ralph Fiennes & Amick Byram, from the Prince of Egypt Soundtrack.

Sigh. Now I should go work on my paper . . .
Thanks for the distracation!
 
posted by [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com at 12:09pm on 13/12/2004
2. In Sting's cover, he changed some words, then.

You spent this much quality time with google?
 
posted by [identity profile] kraada.livejournal.com at 09:53am on 14/12/2004
Yeah, well, I'm really good with google, what can I say? :)

Alternately I really wanted to procrastinate that much . . . take your pick.

Also, if the words really were "frozen rocks", then nobody, anywhere has ever documented this.

The search "why should I cry for you" + "frozen rocks" returns exactly zero hits. In fact "cry for you" + "frozen rocks" returns zero hits.

"Frozen rocks" and "cry" returns only 94 hits . . .

Sorry, but I don't know whose version you heard originally, but nobody ever in the world has documented it. Either that or you misheard the lyrics.
 
posted by [identity profile] zaliness.livejournal.com at 06:31am on 14/12/2004
24's from the prince of egypt soundtrack. the plauges.
*dances up and down*
i have that song! its awesome, no?
 
posted by [identity profile] caffeinediary.livejournal.com at 05:08pm on 17/12/2004
18) Latter Days-Over the Rhine.

One of my favorite songs EVER!

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