Music Meme Answers

[hobbitomm]

1 Mailed my letter off to Dallas, but her reply came from…..
Anchorage: Michelle Shocked

2 It’s wrong to wish on space hardware
New England: Billy Bragg and Kirsty McColl

3 I’ll walk out, a wiser, weaker man
San Quentin: Johnny Cash

4 I’ve seen this thing before, in my best friend and the girl next door
Maria: Blondie

5 I think about him now and then, every time I try, and every time I win, and if I have a son….
... I'm gonna call him John, or Bill, or George! Anything but Sue! ;)
Man Named Sue: Johnny Cash

6 You’d better duck down an alleyway, looking for a new friend
Subteranean Homesick Blues: Bob Dylan

7 Bridge outside Moosejaw spans a mighty river. Farmers cross in so much fear, their stomachs are aquiver.
Last Saskatchewan Pirate: The Arrogant Worms

8 You’re so great. I can’t wait for you to operate.
Sexual Healing: Marvin Gaye

9 I can bring whole cities to ruin- and still have time to get some soft shoe in.
What you feel: Sweet (the musical demon): Buffy 'Once more with Feeling'

10 You’re right about dead animals, and cannibals. Someday you’ll stop dating dogs, and try higher mammals
Will the Real Slim Shady please Shut up!: Allegedly Christina Aguillera

11 If you’re out of luck, and out of work, we could send you to Johannesburg
Olivers Army: Elvis Costello

12 He’s the hairy handed gent, who ran amok in Kent.
Werewolves of London: Warron Zevon

13 He’s gonna give up the booze and the one-night stands
Baker St: Gerry Rafferty

14 I’ve got your ring on my finger, your bells on my toes. And I’ve got everything that every woman longs for, I suppose.
Dr Fell: Juliet Turner

15 As the Miller told his tale, that her face, at first just ghostly, turned…
Whiter Shade of Pale: Procul Harum

16 I’m a man of the land, I’m into discipline. Got a bible in my hand, and a beard on my chin
Amish Paradise: Weird Al

17 But if you dig on Vegan food, come on over to my work
Bohemian like you: Dandy Warhols

18 Do they know the places we go when we’re Grey and Old?
Angels: Robbie Williams

19 Isn’t there a white knight upon a firey steed?
Holding out for a Hero: Bonnie Tyler

20 She’s got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends.
Hotel California: The Eagles

Comments

[loupblanc.livejournal.com]

Gee, the only songs I know in there are 15 and 20....

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

There are probably a fair number you'd recognise if you heard them played- not least if you've heard Acarin's 'Canadian music' performed- the Last Saskatchewan Pirate is a campfire favourite ;). And Holding out for a Hero is a rock classic!

[loupblanc.livejournal.com]

I'm French, remember?

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

I thought you were Norman? ;)

There's quite a few you'd probably recognise if you heard.

[loupblanc.livejournal.com]

I'm French if I'm being a dork...