The song meme

[ivyfic]

Ah, the song meme. Below are lyrics, identify the song/artist and you get a something something. Since I'm fully aware all y'all might not know this music, I've tried to at least make the lyrics interesting.


1. Those demigods with their nine-inch nails and little fascist panties deep inside the heart of every nice girl.

2. Goo-goo-ga-joob.
I Am the Walrus - The Beatles

3. That snorkel's been just like a snorkel to me!
Albuquerque - Weird Al

4. All around me was silence as if mocking my frail human hopes, and a question mark hung in the canvas for the wind it had died in the ropes.
The Wild Wild Sea - Sting

5. (This one is just so good, I'm putting in a couple of lines from different parts of the song.)
-Judge Dredd, found dead, face down in Snoopy's bed.
-Captain Kirk from planet Earth fights it out with Papa Smurf.
-Betty Boop's tired of life, took vows and became a bride of Christ.
Absurd - Fluke

6. They can turn off my feelings like they're turning off the light.
Take Me Home - Phil Collins

7. Saw me round your fruitcage cause I will be your honeybee.
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel

8. And it's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around.

9. Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes, contestants in a suicidal race.

10. What are these chains that are binding my arms? (Part of you dies each passing day.) Say it's a game and I'll come to no harm. (You'll feel your life slipping away.)
The Cask of Amontillado - The Alan Parsons Project

11. She said, "Honey take me dancing," but they ended up a-sleepin' in a doorway, with the bodegas and the lights on over Broadway.
Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes - Paul Simon

12. A foreign student said to me, was it really true – there are elephants and lions too at Piccadilly Circus.


Hint: 4 is from the solo career of the lead singer of the band that did 9. And the name of the Poe story in 10 is the name of the song (think bricks).

Comments

[feiran.livejournal.com]

Hrm, don't know too many of these.

2) I Am The Walrus - The Beatles
6) Take me Home - Phil Collins
11) Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes - Paul Simon

[nyias.livejournal.com]

Darn! The only one I knew was #11. (Is musically ignorant, in many ways).

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I'll give you a hint - 8 of the 12 (including the three feiran guessed) are Brits.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Bingo.

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Well, I can get Weird Al every time...

3) Albuquerque (sp?) -- Weird Al

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I knew this crowd would get the Wierd Al.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Yeah, see, the ones I would have gotten had already been gotten by the time I saw this.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

7 is "Sledgehammer", Peter Gabriel.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I know 5!!!! I love that song! It's Absurd by Fluke. They're fairly awesome. ANd that song is in every trailer or preview you've ever seen, but the lyrics, so geeky!!!

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got it on the Sin City soundtrack. I liked it initially, but was completely unable to make out any of the lyrics. So I googled them. WTF???? So strange.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I only understood half of them, but mostly when I'm listening I get them just fine. I'd forgotten it was in Sin City. That really annoyed me, actually because I liked The Servant song used in the trailer "The Cells" right at the moment they used "Absurd" in the film, and "Absurd" is absurdly overused as was whereas "The Cells" was different enough to stand out.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Do you have any Fluke albums? Could I pinch them?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

'Fraid I don't. More than willing to lend you the mp3s I've got. I like about four-five songs of theirs, but I seem to remember listening to more and finding that their style got a little old. But yes, we can make with the exchanging of the mp3s. I'll YSI or e-mail it, depending on if Google will let me.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

4 is The Wild Wild Sea, Sting. Sorry, I needed more context to place it.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Love that song. Now can you at least get the band for 9, given my hint?

Incidentally, it was googling the lyrics for 4 to verify that led to my computer being so infested by spyware that the tech guys had to confiscate it for a day. Damn lyrics sites.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. Presumably 9 is the Police. Is 10 The Cask of Amontillado? (I've never heard of such a song, but the lyrics would fit well.)

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

It is indeed The Cask of Amontillado. I'll give it to you. It's by the Alan Parsons Project.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Now I feel like I need to make you a copy of the album. The album is called "Tales of Mystery and Imagination," and each song is a Poe story: there's "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Raven," "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether," and the 20-minute long prog rock piece "The Fall of the House of Usher." Pretentious, yes. But good. And solid enough as a debut album for essentially a studio band to launch a string of over a dozen albums for the group. And in all that time, they only gave one live performance.