I'll name those lyrics in...?

[robinbloke]

Bored? Busy? Tempted to use google? See if you can name some of these...

As provided by my MP3 players random shuffle. No apologies at all.

1. The whole single malt family
2. With twelve months suspended from sentence and fifty-two lovely black eyes
3. He made harp pins of her fingers fair
4. Hey you, are you trying to be me?
5. But they see me so large that they think I’m immune to the pain
6. 'Cause you had me in deep with the devil in your eyes
7. Your frozen heart is going to melt for me, I'm gonna turn this love into what it's supposed to be
8. And when the rain comes down, would you choose to walk or stay?
9. My disease, my infection.
10. Closed the door and left me blinded by the light

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

well, 3. is one of the "Swan swims bonny / fair maid drowned in Allen" group of folk songs, but frankly it could be any of them.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Just so; sung by Loreena McKennitt in this instance.

My knowledge of traditional folk type songs is sadly lacking.

[belak-krin.livejournal.com]

1 is When I go out with artists Crash Test Dummies. "What if the artists ran the TV? All the ads would be for fine scotch whiskey. Glenfiddich, Glenlevitt, the whole single malt family" :D

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

There's a whole bunch of these ones, some giving a more complete narrative than others. Usually it's either the girl's fiancee, or her jealous sister(s) who bump her off by pushing her into the river (and sometimes she also hits her head on a stone), and a miller's son or wandering musician finds her washed up either in the millpond or at the riverside. In the musician versions, he makes a harp or a fiddle from her body and takes it to perform to the fiancee/sister's family; in the miller's son version they simply take the body with them to the castle or manor. In both, the body or grisly instrument speaks of its own accord and names the killer.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Charming. Sounds almost quasi-folk-goth :)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Well done sir. Nice new icon too :)

The crash test dummies have fantastic lyrics imho.

[flamma-lupus.livejournal.com]

8 is smashing pumpkins "Bodies" I believe

[notintheseheels.livejournal.com]

8. And when the rain comes down, would you choose to walk or stay?
Walk Away by the Sisters.
9. My disease, my infection.
Reptile by NIN.

[flamma-lupus.livejournal.com]

although it's also "walk away" by paradise lost or sisters of mercy according to google!

[razornet.livejournal.com]

Walk away by the sistersd of mercy, I think you'll find.

[flamma-lupus.livejournal.com]

google lied to me guv! :)

[quisalan.livejournal.com]

6 = Aerosmith "what does it take" from the Pump albumn...

[belak-krin.livejournal.com]

They do indeedy, and thankyee :)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Correct! :)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Yep! You win a shiny new invisible doughnut!

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Well it was kind of cheating, naughty naughty, no biscuit!

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Indeedy :)

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

2 is Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine! From 30 Something, I think, but can't name the song atm.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Correct band, yes yes!

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Indeedy. Although my version was sung by Roger Daltry (from the Lost boys soundtrack)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

No, that's "Don't let your son go down on me". ;oP

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Gah, I haven't listened to Pump in years, it seems!

[belak-krin.livejournal.com]

hehe. Folk is full of the tragic - Oysterband do a great version of 'Molly Bond'- a song about a guy who shoots his fiancée because her skirts make her look like a swan.

[belak-krin.livejournal.com]

I would've thought they'd preferred DO let your son go down on me :D

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

When I saw them they played 'love will tear us apart' and 'road to nowhere' How did they know I was coming?!?

[belak-krin.livejournal.com]

they have mystical powers maybe? Where'd you see them?

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

In Nottingham last year. Very good they were too.

[wildrogue.livejournal.com]

Oysterband are truly fab - though I haven't listened to them in a long time and had forgotten all about Molly Bond.

There are some wonderful folk songs that are fore-runners of the whole hand-stapled-to-forehead side of the goth scene. Fairport Convention do a lovely version of 'She's like the Swallow' that just needs a slightly more prominent back-beat to make it proper goff.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

5 is Garbage, "Drive you home".

4 I should know, I think, but I can't remember.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

5 yep!

[belak-krin.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you could pass a miked up Bodhran through some effects to get the authentic drum machine beat ;)