Once upon a time there was content.

[kiya]

I don't remember much of any of it. Aside from finding a recipe today that I really want to try to make sometime I'm that insane. (And if I get my act together and get involved in the SCA again, I'll probably make it for a potluck feast or something. That sort of insane.)

This is now annwyd's fault:

The idea is guess-what-the-song-is. My random shuffle was really random today. But occasionally hysterically funny, at least to me.

1. Tell me what you think, tell me what you know, did you really think that there would be an ever-after? --"Mephistopheles' Return", Trans-Siberian Orchestra (keshwyn)

2. Windows to the mystery -- open your eyes and see! Take all of the dreams you need. --"Tallis the Messenger", David Arkenstone (teinedreugan)

3. Can I get back to where I've come from? Cause there are people, who believe in life. --"People Asking Why", Seal (chabas, keshwyn)

4. Live for each second without hesitation And never forget I'm your man --"I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues", Elton John (lysana)

5. Who do you dream about are you alone in your sleep? To who will you reach out? Oh, let it be me.

6. She falls on her back without flinching and squeaking, for love was all her play. --"Lady So Frolic and Gay", The Bawdy Balladeers (teinedreugan)

7. And we know for certain that some lovely day someone will set the spark off and we will all be blown away. --"The Merry Little Minuet", the Kingston Trio (almost identified by keshwyn)

8. What have I done to deserve such a fate? I realize I have left it too late. And so it's true, pride comes before a fall. I'm telling you so that you won't lose all. --"I'm a Loser", The Beatles (tiassa)

9. Say goodnight, don't be afraid -- calling me calling me as you fade to black. --"My Last Breath", Evanescence (roimata)

10. 'Cause we! came! here to change! what you believe in now. (Think about it.) --"Whatchyousin", Innate (oneironaut, on overlandmush)

11. Talkin' to myself, runnin' in the heat, beggin' for your touch in the middle of the street and I-- --"High on You", Survivor (worldmage, ardaniel)

12. Boston, you know we love you madly, hear the crowd roar to your sound. . . --"Tessie", the Dropkick Murphys, identified first by brooksmoses

13. There may come a say when I'll dance on your grave, unable to dance I'll still crawl across it, unable to dance I'll still crawl. --"Hell in a Bucket", The Grateful Dead (lysana)

14. The autumn leaves have got you thinking about the first time that you fell. You didn't love the boy too much, no, no; you just loved the boy too well, farewell. --"Wasted Time", the Eagles (wordweaverlynn)

15. Though I must live up to contracts, I will not give up my dreams. --"Getting Closer", Billy Joel (roimata)

16. We are forces of chaos and anarchy, everything they say we are we are. And we are very proud of ourselves. Up against the wall, up against the wall, motherfucker. --"We Can Be Together", Jefferson Airplane (wordweaverlynn)

17. The crooked straight and the rough places plain, the crooked straight, the crooked straight, and the rough places plain, and the rough places plain. The Messiah, Handel. (Balsamic Dragon)

18. Where was I? I forgot the point that I was making. --"We Want a Rock", TMBG (worldmage, davidgoldfarb, Balsamic Dragon)

19. So I'm looking for a girl with a gun and a job. And a house. With cable. --"Lost in America", Alice Cooper (davidgoldfarb)

20. Who is this flower above me, and what is the work of this god? I would know myself, know myself, know myself, in all my parts. --"The God Soul Waltz", yezida (ardaniel)


I have elided songs in Bielorussian, Afgan, and a few instrumentals, and skipped duplicate artists as usual.

Comments

[brooksmoses]

Well, 12's easy, given that we were discussing it yesterday. ("Tessie", Dropkick Murphys).

7's Lehrer, right?

And 15 I should know, but don't.

[kiya]

The fact that "Tessie" came up amused me mightily.

15 I had on my desk when I worked in the lawroffice.

And 7 is wrong. ;)

[lysana.livejournal.com]

4) "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues" - Elton John

13) is the Grateful Dead, but I'm unsure of the title. "Hell in a Bucket"?

I once sang an arrangement of the source quote for 17, but I have no clue what that's in.

Minor aside-type question of a Kemetic nature: do the gods have colors associated with them? If so, who might be green and black?

[kiya]

Correct and correct; 17 is a well-known arrangement of the source quote. ;)

For green and black, I'd say Wesir (Osiris). Black for chthonic stuff and regeneration and rich, fertile earth; green for grain, vegetation, growing things. He's often portrayed with either green (sometimes blue, but there wasn't much distinction) or black skin. Black and green are very close to each other, symbolically.

[oneironaut.livejournal.com]

Black and green are very close to each other, symbolically.

As well as adjacent on the cookie.

Nothin' Says Lovin'

[kiya]

Well, they wouldn't be the Sacred Cookies of Osiris otherwise!

[lysana.livejournal.com]

Gah. I don't remember the bleeping composer for the arrangement of 17 I sang. Been over half my life.

And thank you. Someone had a vision of me in Egyptian high court dress (as she put it) with green and black faience beads on the ensemble. Not sure how well the Wesir thing resonates to me, but at least I have a clue what she saw. She didn't. Thanks.

[kiya]

To answer the question I didn't, there are some colour-associations with the gods; I can back up some of them with data and some are personal gnosis thingies. THe black and green for Wesir is supportable.

The Ifa craftsman orixa is black and green. I forget His name though. (I amused an Ifa priest at P-Con by saying something to the effect of, "So if I made beads in, say, black and green, that would be . . ." and then looking up which orixa I was talking about.)

[oneironaut.livejournal.com]

I've already told you this, but to Make It Official, 10 is Watchyousin.

[worldmage.livejournal.com]

11 is "High On You" by Survivor

and 18 is "We Want A Rock" by They Might Be Giants, of course! :D

[ardaniel]

11 is "High On You," by, IIRC, Survivor.

20 is something from Thorn's CD, which I don't have, so I don't have song titles. ;)

[kiya]

I'll give you the God-Soul Waltz. ;)

[chabas.livejournal.com]

3 is Seal, People Asking Why.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

Well, I got #18 on sight too. #19 is "Lost in America" by Alice Cooper, which I know because it's off the concept album that Cooper based on a short story by Neil Gaiman and I got it back when I was even more of a raving Gaiman fanboy than I am now.

[kiya]

That is an awfully cool factoid.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

And for another factoid: You came close to quoting the only song line on the whole album that was actually written by Neil. He mentioned on his journal that he had written one. I emailed him expressing curiosity (and with a wildly wrong guess). He replied that he had been in the studio one day while Alice Cooper was doing some lyric-noodling, and Cooper said: "I can't get a girl 'cause I ain't got a car;/I can't get a car 'cause I ain't got a job;/I can't get a job 'cause I ain't got a car;/ ... hmm, what comes next?" And Neil said, "So I'm looking for a girl with a job and a car."

Gaiman and Michael Zulli also adapted the story into a comics miniseries; if you like the album it's worth looking for.

From Balsamic Dragon

[(Anonymous)]

...lurking on anu3bis's livejournal :)

17 is from one of my favorite arias in Handel's Messiah

18 is They Might Be Giants, a rock to wind a string around, from Flood

Re: From Balsamic Dragon

[kiya]

Yay, someone ID'ed the Handel!

[keshwyn]

1. Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Mephistophiles' Return
(I cheated and had to look up the song title, though I knew the entire song right off, I've never bothered to read the back of the CD case much. ;)

3. Seal - People Asking Why

7. Tom Lehrer - The Merry Minuet

18. They Might Be Giants - I said if it was your birthday I would buy a piece of string and a neat rock to wind that string around... ;)

(And 11 is nagging at the back of my head.)

[kiya]

I don't think Lehrer ever covered the Merry Little Minuet. That is, however, what the song is. I'm not sure how to count this one.

[brooksmoses]

Funny how I wasn't the only one to think it was Lehrer. :). I did, with a bit of Googling, find that someone is pretty sure he never covered it, too.

[keshwyn]

Hmm. I could have sworn I heard it on one of my Dad's Lehrer CDs... I know he doesn't have Kingston Trio.

Maybe I'm just misremembering you singing it, Lil. In which case...I have the right song by the wrong person. That's amusing.

[teinedreugan.livejournal.com]

#2 is David Arkenstone, Tallis the Messenger, I believe.

#6 is by the Bawdy Balladeers, can't remember which song though.

Other people got to the other ones I knew earlier.

[(Anonymous)]

Tsk tsk, should you really have crossed out #6 before teinedreugan identified "A Lady So Frolic And Gay"? It's pretty obscure for two reasons. Limited release of a local band AND rarely sang at one of our shows. We used it as a walking song through the village of Revel Grove at the Maryland Renaissance Festival and others. We would get a lot of attention as we sang through the street and stopped for the finale. Most days we used it for a trek after one of our White Hart Tavern sets. When "Frolic" was finished we began our "Banana Song" (never sang on stage) all the way to Friars Fritters. I would start it with "Lov-e-ly long, thick, ba-na-nas . . . " and was freestyle. We would end up in front of the stand singing "Friars Fritters" over and over in different harmonies. We kissed the man of the stand for our *free* frozen bananas. It would always draw a big crowd for them, hungry for their food! Eating them out front was just as the Joust let out was great advertising. Oh what timing. Oh what a spectacle. Oh . . . I better stop now.

Bliss Goodbody
The Bawdy Balladeers

[kiya]

He just doesn't listen to FYP as much as I do. ;)

[tiassa]

8 is the Beatles, "I'm a Loser"?

[kiya]

It is indeed!

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

Number 14 is the Eagles, "Wasted Time," from Hotel California.

Number 16 is Jefferson Airplane, the lovely, melodic "We Can Be Together."

[kiya]

the lovely, melodic "We Can Be Together."

*snorft*