Music lyric quiz

[dolabellae]

Because it's a bank holiday here. I suppose I should have posted it earlier to be more in the spirit of newspapers giving you things to entertain yourself with, just in case you were totally lost without work (sorry, maple_clef...) but, erm, I forgot

Comments

[lazy_neutrino]

Yay for #2! Suzanne Vega - think it's called The Queen and the Soldier?

[dolabellae]

::bounce::

It is indeed The Queen and the Soldier. I love that song - such strong images! I'm very fond of that whole first album; though I have a couple of her others none of them grab me quite as much.

[lazy_neutrino]

I also love 'Calypso' (I think it's called; the one about the nymph on the island) which I think is from the second album.

[dolabellae]

I haven't actually got Solitude Standing. I don't know why...

[tree_and_leaf]

13 is the Sundays' 'Here's where the story ends'. I would have thought loving someone for their choice of books meant quite a lot, but that's probably just me...

16 is of course Paul Simon's "Kathy's Song", in which rain makes him think of his girlfriend in England. Well, he did spend a lot of time in the North West. (Absolutely gorgeous song, anyway).

[dolabellae]

Both right, of course.

If people only bought books for show and didn't read them, then that would be one thing, but there's also whoever would have said the books that you read... so it can't apply here... I do agree with you, really, but it's a good tune anyway! And yes, Kathy's Song is special.

[lareinenoire]

12. Björk - Bachelorette

Can't say I recognise the rest, but they sound intriguing!

[dolabellae]

Yep! Glad you like the others - I tried to go for interesting ones.

[a_t_rain]

#6 -- "Lady Midnight" by Leonard Cohen.

#10 -- "Diamonds and Rust" by Joan Baez.

#14 -- "Love Minus Zero / No Limit" by Bob Dylan.

And #20 is Joni Mitchell, off of the album Blue, but I can't for the life of me remember the title.

[snorkackcatcher]

And #20 is Joni Mitchell, off of the album Blue, but I can't for the life of me remember the title.

Dammit, you're right, and I just got that album recently. :) A Case of You.

getting by with a little help from our friends...

[dolabellae]

Yes, that's the one. Lovely song.

[dolabellae]

I thought you might prove to be a sixties/seventies-singer/songwriter-fan soulmate! All correct (despite the fact that I see I managed to get one word wrong in the Joan Baez song, will correct now...)

[snorkackcatcher]

Annoyingly, although a few of these were familiar I had to look them up to get them. :) Except 13, although I know it from the Tin Tin Out version.

Anyway, 18 is 'A New England' (the late lamented Kirsty, or Billy Bragg), 9 is 'Rent' (Pet Shop Boys). 6 I thought seemed familiar, but when I checked it's not a track of his I've got. :(

[dolabellae]

Very honest of you to reveal the looking up! But at least they were familiar, so you can have them all the same. Yes to both - the only version of 18 I have is the Kirsty MacColl one (I ought to improve my Billy Bragg collection). And Lady Midnight is beautiful, I recommend getting hold of it. It's on Songs from a Room

[nineveh_uk]

Damn you! 18 was the only one I could get (but I'm a bit of a musical illiterate, I fear).

[dolabellae]

There there, never mind... I think the remaining ones are definitely on the more obscure side now. Apart from the two really famous ones, of course :-)