Nicked from Cadey

[apolla]

Here's another twist off the playlist meme:

I'm naming the song titles. You need to give me artist and a sample lyric. It's got to be lyrics that you actually know. (no googling, plskthx, although I will allow for some instances [ie, Percy in his 'Look Ma, I can sing the blues!' tortured scream or anything by Dylan] where you need to clarify words.)

 

1. Telstar
2. Picture Book
3. Pleasant Valley Sunday
4. Real Love (Two possible, similar answers to this)
5. Chain Gang
6. Sea Of Love
7. Walking My Baby Back Home
8. Michael
9. Why Don't You Do Right?
10. Fade To Grey
11. The Fields Of Athenry
12. The Point of No Return
13. I Could Be So Good For You (if anyone gets this, they earn my love and respect for eternity)
14. Freebird
15. Promise Me You'll Remember
16. Fly Me To The Moon (I'll be kind and tell you it's not Frankie)
17. Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)
18. The Air That I Breathe
19. Sentimental Journey
20. The Snot Rap
21. Reasons to be Cheerful, Part Three
22. The Dark Of The Matinee
23. Inna Gadda Da Vida
24. One Is The Loneliest Number
25. Fire
26. The Ballad of Lucy Jordan
27. Song For Ireland
28. Innamorata
29. Monster Mash
30. A Feast of Friends
31. Cool For Cats
32. God Only Knows
33. Ave Maria (to narrow this down a bit, the artiste in question is higher up on this list already)
34. Venus
35. I Knew The Bride
36. Twenty Flight Rock
37. Some Enchanted Evening
38. She Loves You (it is NOT who you think it is)
39. Mr Soft
40. As The World Falls Down
41. Chant No. 1
42. Ooh La La
43. Finnegan's Wake
44. After The Fox
45. Love Man
46. New York Girls
47. Victoria
48. Mad About The Boy
49. Rock And Roll
50. Bring Me The Disco King
51. Love Will Tear Us Apart
52. Cowboy Song
53. Thunderball
54. Itchycoo Park
55. House of the Rising Sun
56. The Eve of War
57. A View To A Kill
58. What Do You Want
59. Mr Blue Sky
60. The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)
61. Without Your Love
62. Real Good Looking Boy
63. He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
64. Don't Believe A Word
65. Tears of a Clown
66. Concrete And Clay
67. Higher and Higher
68. Love Street
69. The Celebration Of The Lizard
70. I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You

I think I'll stop at 70. Good luck!

Comments

[cadey.livejournal.com]

3. The Monkees "It's another pleasant valley sunday in status symbol land"
14. Lynryd Skynyrd "If I stay here with you girl, things just couldn't be the same"
22. Franz Ferdinand something about her white nail slips under the envelope
24. Three Dog Night "one is the loneliest number that you'll ever do"
29. Dr. Demento "What ever happened to my Transylvania Twist?"
32. The Beach Boys can't think of the lyrics, tho
41. Spandau Ballet
49. Led Zeppelin "Been a long time since I rock and rolled/ been a long time since I did that stroll"
55. The Animals "I'm headed back to New Orleans to wear that ball and chain"
62. The Who coming up on a blank for lyrics though.


But dammit, I know 63, 65, and 67.

[apolla.livejournal.com]

29. The Bobby Pickett original, I'm afraid.
62.... YOU LISTENED TO THIS WITH ME, SILLY! I musta watched the video on artistdirect.com about a million times while I was chatting with you!! *laughs*

[emberfire.livejournal.com]

Hey Clare,

24. Three Dog Night. "One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do, two can be as bad as one."

51. Joy Division for the original and Fall Out Boy did a cover. "When ambitions are low and resentment rides high"

57. Duran Duran. "Meeting you with a view to a kill. Face to faces, secret places, feel the chill." I'll stop with that and not write the whole song :)

I also know 22 is Franz Ferdinand but I can't remember any lyrics.

~Ember

[apolla.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes!

It's the Joy Division version of course- it's turning up everywhere here on TV/radio/whatever here because it's just turned 25 years since Ian Curtis killed himself.

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees
Chain Gang - Sam Cooke (the original song?)
Sea Of Love - I know this is old but I can only think of the Honeydrippers' version
Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Air That I Breathe - The Hollies
The Dark Of The Matinee - FRANZ FERDINAND!!!
Inna Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly, DUHHH Inna Gadda Da Vida Baby,
One Is The Loneliest Number - Three Dog Night. One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do/ Two can be as bad as one, but one is the loneliest, the loneliest number one.
Fire -Arthur oh WTF is his last name??! Yoikes
Monster Mash - Boris Karloff
God Only Knows - Beach Boys
Venus - Oh I'm your Venus, I'm on fire at your desire. Ohhhh crap. Who sang this???!?
I Knew The Bride - Rick Springfield (played at every wedding in the USA since then)
Twenty Flight Rock
Some Enchanted Evening - Rodgers & Hammerstein, from South Pacific
Victoria
Mad About The Boy - written by Noel Coward but I don't know who sang it
Itchycoo Park - Manfred Mann
House of the Rising Sun - ack, I only know the Animals' version
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother - The Hollies (?)
Tears of a Clown - Smoky Robinson and the Miracles

[apolla.livejournal.com]

You're right about all of them except:

Fire -Arthur oh WTF is his last name??! Yoikes Arthur Brown. My old art teacher used to play organ/keyboard for him.
Monster Mash - Boris Karloff Actually it's Bobby Pickett.
God Only Knows - Beach Boys
Venus - Oh I'm your Venus, I'm on fire at your desire. Ohhhh crap. Who sang this???!? They're called Shocking Blue, and if I recall were from Holland. The singer woman always reminds me of writer/Morrison bride Patricia Kennealy.
I Knew The Bride - Rick Springfield (played at every wedding in the USA since then) You know, it's listed as Status Quo (dl'ed it during a brief Buzzcocks-inspired Quo-fest) and it sounds like them, but now you've said that... I HATE when people mis-label shit. I shall have to look into this..
Some Enchanted Evening - Rodgers & Hammerstein, from South Pacific Dean Martin's version, sadly. Well, not sadly for me, obviously.
Mad About The Boy - written by Noel Coward but I don't know who sang it Lots of people sang it, but I was listening to Julie London.
Itchycoo Park - Manfred Mann Nope, the Small Faces. One of these days I'm getting meself a Steve Marriott haircut...