“What happens when you lose everything? You just start again, you start all over again.”
“You lock the door and throw away the key. There’s someone in my head but it’s not me.”
“Tried to turn the sauna up hotter, drank a whole jar of holy water, but it wont let go.”
“I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes. And I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that I
Recognised three; can hum a fourth, without being able to place it.
Hmmm not in order I get… Abba, Pet Shop Boys/Elvis/Willie Nelson, Patti Smith (?), Pink Floyd, Nilsson and a couple of others.. that are annoying me now… dammit…
And is the last one self-penned? (or did you just forget the ” “)??
God I’m so crap at this blogging thing. Why didn’t I realise that I could turn this into an interactive “How many can you spot?” game?
I just liked the exercise of pulling out the most striking (to me) lines from each song. But now I’m intrigued. Mike, what was the one you can’t place?
Gordon, thanks for the punctuation heads-up. Now corrected.
I’ll post a list of all artsts/songs in a couple of days in this comments box, but for now… how many can you spot?
Using Google would be cheating, of course.
This would work way better for me if my brain hadn’t melted with the heat so I can’t remember the titles/artists for the stuff I recognise
Antony & the Johnsons; Mountain Goats. Only two I can get off the top of my head… because I’m listening to both of those obsessively these days.
Later than originally anticipated and from the top down, the songs are:
Maximo Park – Apply Some Pressure
Pink Floyd – Brain Damage
Erykah Badu – I Want You
Bee Gees – I Started A Joke
Mountain Goats – Up The Wolves
Ben Christophers – The Spaces In Between
Patti Smith – Redondo Beach
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – I Second That Emotion
Brian Eno – Cindy Tells Me
Anthony & The Johnsons – For Today I Am A Boy
Martha Wainwright – Don’t Forget
Madonna – Live To Tell
Elvis Presley – Always On My Mind
Beautiful South – Everybody’s Talkin’
Tim Buckley – Sweet Surrender
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood 3 (Power Cut)
Abba – The Winner Takes It All
U2 – City Of Blinding Lights
James – English Beefcake
Magic Numbers – I See You, You See Me