lyrics guessing game

[wisdomeagle]

I am so confused about this meme where you list your favorite music artists and people guess your favorite song by that artist. Because:
1. As you might have guessed from my 'shipping preferences, the word "favorite" confuses me
2. I really doubt my flist would know my favorite songs, even if I did have them
3. No one's heard of most of my favorite artists.

So instead, let's play a lyrics game. I'll try to be generous and choose mostly songs you might actually have heard.

1. That girl thinks she's the queen of the neighborhood Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl
2. I love you, and the song that I sing is the only way that I can explain Cat Stevens - Two Fine People
3. Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy Cat Stevens - Father and Son
4. soon my face will be on every magazine, and my voice will be on every frequency Tegan and Sara - Superstar
5. long time, short time, any time at all, cost a little extra if you want to take all year Les Mis - Lovely Ladies
6. Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, who are you, what have you sacrificed? Jesus Christ Superstar - Superstar
7. Bonjour, bonjour, bonjour bonjour bonjour! There goes the baker with his tray like always Beauty and the Beast - Belle
8. skinned our hearts and skinned our knees/goodbye my friend it's hard to die Cat Stevens - Seasons in the Sun
9. now how absurd to swallow a bird Raffi - I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
10. But I gave it up, and all for love, it was his career or mine Dar Williams, Lucy Kaplansky, and Richard Shindell - The Ballad of Mary Magdalen

And now (appropriately) I really must go work on my thesis. Help?

ETA: aaand they've all been guessed. Damn, you guys are good. Or bored. :p

Comments

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

9. now how absurd to swallow a bird

The only one I know. The child's song, I Knew An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly. (what's the real title of it?)

And now (appropriately) I really must go work on my thesis. Help?

*readies SMACK OF DOOOOOOOOOOOOOM* You really don't want me to use this, do you???

[wisdomeagle]

Yep. I pretty much don't know if there's a real title; that's the one in the info on my playlist. Raffi's cover.

*fears smack of doom*

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

*is glad, as this means thesis work will happen*

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

4. Dar "Are You Out There" or "What Do You Hear in These Sounds"? no, that's wrong
5. "Lovely Ladies" - Les Mis
6. Jesus Christ Superstar - totally don't know song titles from that
9 "I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" (perhaps she'll die :) )

[wisdomeagle]

4. Nope, not Dar. *cries*
5. Yep!
6. Yes indeed, and I'll give you credit, since the title of that track is, in fact, "Superstar"
9. Yep!

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

4. *Googles* Dude, i so know that song. Though apparently not most of the words to it.

Now GO THESIS!

[anr]

3. Cat Stevens - Father And Son
6. Jesus Christ Superstar
7. Beauty And The Beast - Bonjour

[wisdomeagle]

3. Yes!
6. Yes!
7. Yes (though as spacedoutlooney notes, it's called "Belle")!

[velvetandlace.livejournal.com]

*Guesses*

1. Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl
3. Cat Stevens - Father and Son
7. Beauty and the Beast - I can't remember what it's called, though! 'This Provincial Life'?
10. Dar Williams - The Ballad of Mary Magdalen

[velvetandlace.livejournal.com]

Oh! 8 is Seasons in the Sun!

[wisdomeagle]

Yes. :)

[wisdomeagle]

Yes to all (#7 is called "Belle"). #10 is on the album Cry Cry Cry and I *think* it's actually sung by Lucy Kaplanksy. Could be wrong.

Also, it's about a quarter of my thesis. Mmm, that old time BiblehetOTP!

[velvetandlace.livejournal.com]

Oh, possibly my bad - it probably is Lucy Kaplansky! *mourns the excessive scratching of my only copy of Cry Cry Cry*

And yes, yay the BibleOTP :D

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

8. skinned our hearts and skinned our knees/goodbye my friend it's hard to die

That's "Seasons in the Sun" but I don't know who recorded it.

[wisdomeagle]

Yep. Artist is Cat Stevens.

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

That's interesting; I didn't know he'd recorded it. I remember it by someone else, though, way back in the late sixties or early seventies when it first came out.

*googles*

Okay, the version I knew was recorded by Terry Jacks in 1974. The lyrics are by Rod McKuen and are themselves a translation of the French tune "Le Moribond" ("The Dying Man") by Jacques Brel. Thought I recalled a Jacques Brel connection.

The full scoop (with a distinctly unflattering spin) is here... and that's doubtless waaaay more than you ever wanted to know. *g*

[wisdomeagle]

Huh. It's quite possible that's also the version I have. People who rip to teh_interweb aren't always scrupulous about proper attribution... it's labled as Cat Stevens, but since looking at his official fansite reveals that he never recorded it, uh, well, yeah. *shame*

[spacedoutlooney.livejournal.com]

3 I Have To Go Away by Cat Stevens

4 Beunos Aires (from Evita the movie version)?

7 Bonjour from Beauty and the Beast

[spacedoutlooney.livejournal.com]

oops. 7 It's called "Belle"

[wisdomeagle]

3. Right artist, wrong song title. It's "Father and Son"

4. Nope.

7. Yes, with your correction below. :)

[stinkingweiwei.livejournal.com]

Hey! number 7 is from beauty and the beast, the song that plays when belle goes to town in the morning in the very beginning of the movie!

[wisdomeagle]

Yep! :)

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

4. Tegan and Sara - "Superstar"

[wisdomeagle]

Yes!

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

Ha! How anyone could miss this song is beyond me. It was the first song of Tegan and Sara I listened to, and played over and over. :)

[wisdomeagle]

I'm a bit confused myself. But at least you got it! *gives you shiny sticker*

[mellfromva.livejournal.com]

2. I love you, and the song that I sing is the only way that I can explain

That's a Cat Stevens song as well. I know the whole song, but for the life of me I can't recall the name. The chorus keeps having lines starting with "I love you"... moutains to sand... old man... etc. It's one of my favorite Cat Stevens song. Dammit, what is the name? This is really going to frustrate me, not being able to remember....

[wisdomeagle]

Yes, you're right... it's "Two Fine People".