Lyrics quiz!

[borusa]

I like quizzes, OK? First lines from things... google is cheating, natch.

1) Many times I've tried to tell you. Many times I've cried alone. Always I'm surprised how well you cut my feelings to the bone.
2) There's cold wind in the city. There's a darkness on the land. There's rust upon the slipways where the great ships used to stand.
3) You

Comments

[braisedbywolves]

3 sounds quite familiar, and I'll throw out an lazy guess of "It's raining men" by the Weather Girls for 5, but mostly I'm posting to try to get in first on 8 being Sexuality by Billy Bragg.

[borusa]

8 is indeed Sexuality. 3 is quite famous.

[borusa]

Yep! My version is by Jack Teagarden - there's a rather good rendition by both Teagarden and Armstrong on youtube somewhere.

[strongtrousers]

I fear 3 might be Cum on Feel the Noize (sic) by Slade.

[borusa]

It is indeed. I have both the Slade and the Imagined Village versions.

[emperor]

2) Milford Haven, Oysterband
[deep and wide, deep and wide...]

[borusa]

Alas, no. Though the right kind of musical area.

[emperor]

Darn.

[phlebas]

I feel as though I should know a couple of the others, but 4 is Dr. Fell, Juliet Turner.

[blane_firewing]

No 9 is No Light, No Light by Florence and the Machine

[borusa]

Correct!

[borusa]

Yep!