The Music Strikes Back!

[hobbitomm]

Not all on my playlist this time (it’s getting a bit harder to avoid repeating myself!), but mostly, and the rest are in my CD collection, or have been played on the radio recently
No repeated artists, with previous memes, or within this one.

1 Can you last another week? Does the Cistern still leak? Or have you found a man to mend it?

2 In the wilds of Borneo, And the vineyards of Bordeaux

3 You're the devil in disguise, That's why I'm singing this song to you

4Working for the city - she has to discipline her body

5 I don´t wanna have to split the holidays, I don´t want two addresses

6 Like a hurt lost and blinded fool.

7 In his warm embrace? Oh no that's just his arms.

8 I left my home in Georgia, Headed for the 'Frisco bay

9 Mais par effort il faire chançon, Mout ai amis, mais povre sunt li don.

10 And a time to every purpose under heaven

11 Tennessee made me lose my rest

12 I saw the rain-dirty valley, You saw Brigadoon

13 He had a woman he loved in Saigon. I got a picture of him in her arms

14 The stern decision was to trace with art, The secret dictates of the human heart.

15 He turns and says, "Are you alright?" Oh, I must be fine cause my heart's still beating

16 Science tells us Love’s a chemical reaction in the brain

17 Victoria's Secret, well their stuff's real nice, But I can buy the same damn thing on a Wal-Mart shelf half price

18 All her friends they've been tried for treason. And crimes that were never defined

19 And we found out that the two things we put together had a bad tendency to explode

20 When she said I could have her, her sister's cadaver, Must surely have turned in its crypt.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Oh oh!
no. seven is that Cher thing that goes 'if you wanna know if he loves you so, it's in his kiss *that's where it is!* probably called 'it's in his kiss' ... or something like that.

'draigin (whos much better at poetry than music :P)

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Yes. It's the 'Shoop shoop song', most recently performed by Cher, tho' that's not the version I have.

[chicagowench.livejournal.com]

15 is the Joss Stone cover of 'Fell in Love with a Boy', originally 'Fell in Love With a Girl' by the White Stripes.
5 is Family Portrait by Pink
6 is Losing My Religion, REM

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Correct to all three. I presumed 15 was a cover, since I think all of the tracks on that album are, but I didn't realise that it was a White Stripes number. I shall have to look it up.

[kfitzwarin.livejournal.com]

10 is the Byrds - Turn, Turn, Turn

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

It certainly is!

[chicagowench.livejournal.com]

Doh. 11. Mississippi Goddamn, Nina Simone.
13, Born in the USA, Springsteen (I can't believe I didn't notice that one pre-coffee)
And, um, holy crow. 14's.... from an opera. Handel's Solomon?
18, Savage Garden...er...(to the)Moon and Back. Damn, there's a neuron that hasn't fired in years.

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Yes to all of them!

14 is from Solomon by Handel, technically an Oratorio, rather than an Opera (no acting involved). It's from the Solomon and the Two Harlots segment.

[ggreig]

2. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, Ian Dury and the Blockheads
5. Family Portrait, P!nk
7. The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in his Kiss), Betty Everett (or possibly a more recent version, like Cher's)

Wild guesses department:
12 The Whole Of The Moon, The Waterboys
16. She Blinded Me With Science, Thomas Dolby
16. Bunsen Burner (Burn Baby Burn), John Otway

If I had to pick one of the two guesses for 16, I'd pick John Otway, with his mean theremin playing. I wish I'd bought that single.

Burn baby Burn!

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

2, 5, 7, 12 all correct.

16 is indeed 'Bunsen Burner' by John Otway!

Unidentified?

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

1 Can you last another week? Does the Cistern still leak? Or have you found a man to mend it?

3 You're the devil in disguise, That's why I'm singing this song to you

4Working for the city - she has to discipline her body

8 I left my home in Georgia, Headed for the 'Frisco bay

9 Mais par effort il faire chançon, Mout ai amis, mais povre sunt li don.

17 Victoria's Secret, well their stuff's real nice, But I can buy the same damn thing on a Wal-Mart shelf half price

19 And we found out that the two things we put together had a bad tendency to explode

20 When she said I could have her, her sister's cadaver, Must surely have turned in its crypt.

Re: Unidentified?

[evilgrayson.livejournal.com]

8 is 'Sitting on the Dock of the Bay', or whatever it's called. Dunno the title, just half the words.

Re: Unidentified?

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

It is, yes. And that's the title ;) By Otis Reading.