The Lyrics Quiz

[jbsegal]

This is actually a combo of the current randomized playlist and Lyrics Quiz memes.

I'll leave out the ones in languages I don't speak (which means it'll be english-only...)

This is the original version of the lyrics quiz - 1st line or 2, unless the song name's in those lines, and this is what's in my randomized playlist (currently picking from a 4060 song library).

• 1: I've been up and I've been down and I've worn a paper crown. It didn't leave a single mark on me.
  
• A: {Not in english - Juluka - Musa Ukungilandela: Nans'impi}
  
• 2: Far away on a hill to a sunny mountainside, 10 years ago we parted, my little Ruth and I, from the sunny mountainside.
  
• B: {Instrumental: Butt Boy - Visions: The Waltz Of The Imps}
  
• C: {Instrumental: Väsen - Spirit: Femtolen}
  
• D: {Instrumental: Robin Adnan Anders - Omaiyo: Tuva}
  
• E: {Instrumental: Dirk "Mont" Campbell - Music From A Round Tower: When The Rain Comes, Roses Dance On Gold}
  
• 3: She puts the ring on her finger. She keeps her eye on the door. She keeps a light in the window, though she knows it's a little cliche.
  
• 4: I've been crying racetrack tears, I've been chasing you for years. Now someday you're gonna be last.
  
• F: {Instrumental: Slapp Happy - Casablanca Moon / Desperate Straights: Caucasian Lullaby}
  
• G: {Instrumental: Stephane Wrembel: Introducing... - Sheik Of Araby}
  
• 5: ...that made you feel bad? I'm so sorry that I hurt you... (a cover, not the original)
  
• H: {Instrumental: Skylark: Light And Shade - Frank Quinn's and Peter McArdle's}
  
• I: {Instrumental: Ozric Tentacles: The Hidden Step - Tight Spin}
  
• J: {instrumental: Kajiura Yuki: Noir OST Vol. 1- Snow}
  
• K: {instrumental: Synergy: Sequencer - S-Scape)
  
• L: {Not in english: The Plastic People Of The Universe: 1997 - Spofa Blues (Czech)}
  
• 6: ...and you were a lady, would you marry me anyway, would you have my baby?
  
• M: {Instrumental: Thomas Nunn: (VA) Gravikords, Whirlies and Pyrophones - Entomological Effervescence}
  
• N: {Instrumental: Ad Vielle Que Porra: Ménage Á Quatre - La Turlutte De La Dure Lutte}
  
• O: {Instrumental: Hedningarna: Hedningarna - Multihalling}
  
• 7: I live my life in shadow, never the sun on my face.
  
• P: {Not in english: Lo'Jo: Mojo Radio - Si Jamais Si (French)}
  
• 8: Here with your god and your mothers and your brothers and your {???} powers. ('lyrics' start 2m into the piece)
  
• Q: {Instrumental: Django Reinhardt: To Each His Own/Symphonie}
  
• R: {Instrumental: Quarkspace: Drop - Starbridge Freaks 3}
  
• S: {Instrumental: Skrona: Herr Gurka (via mp3.com. Album unkown)}
  
• 9: Oh I've just come from the land of the sun, from a war that must be won in the name of truth. (cover. 2 possible albums)
  
• 10: The loveliness of paris {applause}("This guy can really sing!"seems somehow sadly gay. {applause} Thank you very much. You're really wonderful. And very lucky...
  
• 11: Walking through the world with ... you can feel the sun go down.
  
• T: {Instrumental: Phillip Pickett with Richard Thompson & The Fairport Rhythm Section - Chi Passa Per Sta Strada}
  
• U: {Instrumental: Einsteins Little Homonculus: Don't Ask - King Of The Faeries/The Wizard's Walk}
  
• V: {Instrumental: Play Time OMPST: Paris Circus}
  
• 12: ... ... Someone's calling {ring} "hello?...you don't say...you don't say! Hm." "Who was it?" "He didn't say."
  
• W: {Instrumental: Shooglenifty: The Arms Dealer's Daughter - The Nordal Rhumba}
  
• X: {Instrumental: Ad Vielle Que Porra: Ménage Á Quatre - Kalamatiano}
  
• 13: When first to this country I came as a stranger, I placed my affection on a maiden that was young.
  
• 14: ... Dream Talker. In a shady world of disbelieving, love seemed always too believing.
  
• 15: Gonna tell you a story you that you won't believe, but I fell in love last Friday evening with a girl I saw on a barroom tv screen. (Many different albums)
  
• Y: {Instrumental: Ad Vielle Que Porra: Ménage Á Quatre - Un Fronças Au Kébak}
  
• 16: Make it simple, to last your whole life long. Don't worry if it's not good enough for anyone else to hear. (Many different sources. I think this is the 1st recorded for the home market)
  
• 17: You broke my heart so many times that I can't count the pieces. Every time you push me down it seems my strength increases.
  
• 18: She wore an S.E.G. when she came back home, like the cat that ate the canary. And I stood befuddled, a chauvanist stud, with his mistress quite contrary.
  
• Z: {Instrumental: Hedningarna: Hedningarna - Polska Efter Hins Anders}
  
• 19: We had spark and we had fire. Kisses that sizzled on our lips. Beatnik poets rolled their own. Rich folks had filter-tips.
  AND FINALLY!
  
• 20: When Billy's whore are working... Well, they're working with a skeleton crew
  

Ok, I wasn't expecting that to take so long.

Hints and stuff later.

I expect feste_sylvian and ceo to do the best, knowing their tastes. I don't expect anyone to do particularly well.

Comments

[gingicat]

16 - just sing... sing a song. - Sesame Street

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

My brain wants #1 to be an Oysterband song ... or maybe Richard Thompson but mostly my brain says Oysters ... weird.

3. This is What Love is for/Uncle Bonsai
7. Under Your Spell/Willow&Tara (want actress names and composer?)
9. Love Vigilantes (original New Order/cover (and better version) Oysterband
16. Sing/multiplet artists - the most notable I remember is oscar singing it with a bunch of kids once :)

given that you said you thought i'd only get one, i'm sort of curious which one you thought was the "one" ... and if you're surprised by the others that i did know ...

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

1: You are correct. Not that it's one you've ever heard, I don't think. You're good. :)
3: Yes, and almost
7: Yup. No, that's fine.
9: Of course. :)
16: Yep.

Somehow, my brain blanked on a couple that everyone would know (7 & 16), I didn't expect you to get 1, and I really should have known you'd get 3, too.

I plead losing track of what was on the list, in the 26 instrumental/non-english tracks.

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

6: "Leather & Lace", no clue who the artists are.
12: Spike Jones, but I can't remember the song name.
16: Sesame Street, "Sing a Song"
19: The Bobs, "Smoke"

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

6: Nope.
12: Yes, and of course, no...:)
16: Yup
19: Indeed.

[drglam]

6. If I were a carpenter (I don't know which version you have, but I'm partial to Johnny Cash's rendition)
7. Under Your Spell (Joss Whedon, sung by Amber Benson. I was JUST watching "Once More With Feeling" about an hour ago...)

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Indeed, Johnny and June. Not sure what album it was originally on, I have it on a Wonderfully Retentive german box set.

[ceo]

1. Oysterband, "Sticks and Stones".
9. Oysterband, "Love Vigilantes".
11. Oysterband, "Pigsty Billy".

You need to branch out a bit there, dude. :-)

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Only 20 of the 292 albums are Oysters....
You'll not that there are 3 tracks from one Ad Vielle Que Porra album. Don't ask me to explain the Party Shuffle algorithm...

I went for random, that's what I got...

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

#6: "If I Were a Carpenter", artist hazy
#9 sounds familiar... New Order? "Bizarre Love Triangle"?
#12 is an old riff from a radio show, possibly Jack Benny's.

Feh. Neighbor is mowing their lawn with a very noisy machine, and I can't concentrate.

[dbang.livejournal.com]

Yeesh. I have never heard any but 19, which is of course, "Sing a Song", which has been performed by every Sesame Street character over the course of the last 35 years. I don't know who the original was, though -- Helen Reddy maybe?