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iceinyourmusic20 lyrics meme, answers, with commentary.
1. now talking to god is laurel begging hardy for a gun: I got the mp3 of this one from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gatefiction, listened through it, and asked her: "Do you think the Western culture will ever find something to talk about besides the Bible?" She said: "No." - Josh Ritter, "Girl in a War"
2. turns out i was a vampire myself: Haha, Tony Lucca, I was reading RPS about you long before you made it onto any FNL soundtracks. We all were. - Tony Lucca, "Devil Town"
3. he's got a woman at home he's got another woman down the hall / he seems to want me anyway: One of the reasons I love this meme (God, do I ever love this meme) is that it finds, and makes me really listen to, music I hardly knew I even had. Case in point. I've owned Hejira forever, but I don't think I've ever listened it all the way through, and when iTunes threw this one at me, I couldn't have told you what it was about, much less quote any lyrics. It's a fine song. - Joni Mitchell, "Coyote"
4. and a sun that doesn't set but settles: Case in point two. Never noticed before quite how sad this one was. - Augie March, "There's No Such Place"
5. oily marks appear on walls where pleasure moments hung: Is there an internet Rule for this yet? That as soon as you can think of a tv series or a movie, a related vid based on the SNL "Dear Sister" Digital Short The O.C. parody appears on YouTube? The Haitian shoots Mr. Bennett, mmmm whatcha saa-ay? hmm that you only meant weeell? Darth Vader kills Ben Kenobi, mmmm whatcha saa-ay? that it's all for the beeest? Ross Geller bumps his head into a washing machine, mmmm whatcha? Etc. Etc. Etc. - Imogen Heap, "Hide & Seek"
6. is it a dream? is it a lie? i think i'll let you decide: My playlist is so two years ago. - Arcade Fire, "Neighborhood #3 (Power-Out)"
7. this is a song about anyone, it could be anyone: Not in a million years. You're nasty. Please leave me alone. - Lily Allen, "Knock 'Em Out"
8. you're my desire / the woman i require / i just changed my tire: I swear, I never hear this one until it's time to do a randomizing meme, and then it just won't leave me alone. Another thing, not necessarily pertaining to the song as such: even more than Justin's novel about basketball detectives, I'm still waiting for JC's book of (rhyming) poetry. - The Stone Movement feat. JC Chasez, "Slow Songs"
9. she was right in the rain of the bullets that eventually brought her down: Even though I've heard this one countless times (and so have you), I really doubt I would ever be able to spot it from out-of-context lyrics alone. I mean, there really isn't anything about the words as such to suggest that peculiar forward-rolling, tripping rhythm of it, is there? - The Beach Boys, "Heroes & Villains"
10. just something i knew i had to do / but through it all i kept my eyes on you: Ahahaaah. If you didn't think I'd be the type to listen to Joy Division, that's okay. Really. I didn't either. Question: is my entire music collection about murder? - Joy Division, "The Kill"
11. a much up-dated ruin from a much out-dated style: The fact that no one got this means that none of y'all have been paying any attention. Rule #1 for cheating at lyrics games over atleksa's: there's always a Nick Drake song involved. Next time, just pick any one of the vaguely pseudo-poetic lines you don't recognize and say, "ah, Nick Drake!", and VICTORY SHALL BE YOURS. - Nick Drake, "Fruit Tree"
12. sick and tired of trying to save the world / i just wanna spend my time with you, girl: The other song I'm shocked (shocked!) that no one got. Not that I expect anyone to have the album memorized, but, really, with so many of you with some sort of roots in popslash, it could have been possible that the (unfortunate) sentiment + the world/girl rhyme + the context combo alone would have computed into an eerie sense of... something. - Also, you know how sometimes song-makers make songs that make you want their song-making privileges revoked until they promise never to do it again? Right. As far as I can tell, the only redeeming feature of this one is its not being what one reviewer v. accurately called the "daft song about a guy named Bob". - Justin Timberlake, "Until the End of Time"
13. if fashion is your trade, then when you're naked i guess you must be unemployed: Is it just me or is this basically every Pulp lyric ever? A little "clever", a little "shocking", a lot "", ubiquitous Pulp syntax. Oh, '90s, you didn't always treat us good, but sometimes we miss you. - Pulp, "Underwear"
14. you know, i feel so dirty when they start talking cute: Aww. And everyone knew this one. - Rick Springfield, "Jesse's Girl"
15. someone controlled you / they bought and sold you: Beatles songs: v. hard to handle in lyrics memes. Here I ended up sort of cutting the first part of the line in half, mostly for nicer symmetry. (Can you still remember the time when you couldn't decide whether your favourite should be George or John, because you wanted to be both artistic & special and edgy?) - The Beatles, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
16. is history recorded? does someone have a tape?: I <3 my friendslist. I also <3 Kings of Convenience, and I'm sure I would never have heard of them, if it weren't formandysbitch. <3. - Kings of Convenience, "Know-How"
17. oh how your bubble's gonna burst when you meet another nurse (she'll be driving in a hearse): It's also entirely thanks to my friendslist (jenny_pop in particular) that I can tell you, off the top of my head, that this was originally recorded in the mid-1960s, in French, by yé-yé girl France Gall, as "Laisse tomber les filles". Ha! - April March, "Chick Habit"
18. i'm not dumb but i can't understand why she walks like a woman and talks like a man: It's a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world, except for Lola. La-la-la-la Lola. - The Raincoats, "Lola"
19. drop to my knees to elicit crowd response: Radical song, or the radicalest song? - Da Vinci's Notebook, "Title of the Song"
20. the t-shirt says shoot pool, not people / kill time, not life: Did I say my playlist was two years ago? Clearly, I meant five. Emo!rap, man. - Atmosphere, "Blamegame"
1. now talking to god is laurel begging hardy for a gun: I got the mp3 of this one from
gatefiction, listened through it, and asked her: "Do you think the Western culture will ever find something to talk about besides the Bible?" She said: "No." - Josh Ritter, "Girl in a War"2. turns out i was a vampire myself: Haha, Tony Lucca, I was reading RPS about you long before you made it onto any FNL soundtracks. We all were. - Tony Lucca, "Devil Town"
3. he's got a woman at home he's got another woman down the hall / he seems to want me anyway: One of the reasons I love this meme (God, do I ever love this meme) is that it finds, and makes me really listen to, music I hardly knew I even had. Case in point. I've owned Hejira forever, but I don't think I've ever listened it all the way through, and when iTunes threw this one at me, I couldn't have told you what it was about, much less quote any lyrics. It's a fine song. - Joni Mitchell, "Coyote"
4. and a sun that doesn't set but settles: Case in point two. Never noticed before quite how sad this one was. - Augie March, "There's No Such Place"
5. oily marks appear on walls where pleasure moments hung: Is there an internet Rule for this yet? That as soon as you can think of a tv series or a movie, a related vid based on the SNL "Dear Sister" Digital Short The O.C. parody appears on YouTube? The Haitian shoots Mr. Bennett, mmmm whatcha saa-ay? hmm that you only meant weeell? Darth Vader kills Ben Kenobi, mmmm whatcha saa-ay? that it's all for the beeest? Ross Geller bumps his head into a washing machine, mmmm whatcha? Etc. Etc. Etc. - Imogen Heap, "Hide & Seek"
6. is it a dream? is it a lie? i think i'll let you decide: My playlist is so two years ago. - Arcade Fire, "Neighborhood #3 (Power-Out)"
7. this is a song about anyone, it could be anyone: Not in a million years. You're nasty. Please leave me alone. - Lily Allen, "Knock 'Em Out"
8. you're my desire / the woman i require / i just changed my tire: I swear, I never hear this one until it's time to do a randomizing meme, and then it just won't leave me alone. Another thing, not necessarily pertaining to the song as such: even more than Justin's novel about basketball detectives, I'm still waiting for JC's book of (rhyming) poetry. - The Stone Movement feat. JC Chasez, "Slow Songs"
9. she was right in the rain of the bullets that eventually brought her down: Even though I've heard this one countless times (and so have you), I really doubt I would ever be able to spot it from out-of-context lyrics alone. I mean, there really isn't anything about the words as such to suggest that peculiar forward-rolling, tripping rhythm of it, is there? - The Beach Boys, "Heroes & Villains"
10. just something i knew i had to do / but through it all i kept my eyes on you: Ahahaaah. If you didn't think I'd be the type to listen to Joy Division, that's okay. Really. I didn't either. Question: is my entire music collection about murder? - Joy Division, "The Kill"
11. a much up-dated ruin from a much out-dated style: The fact that no one got this means that none of y'all have been paying any attention. Rule #1 for cheating at lyrics games over at
leksa's: there's always a Nick Drake song involved. Next time, just pick any one of the vaguely pseudo-poetic lines you don't recognize and say, "ah, Nick Drake!", and VICTORY SHALL BE YOURS. - Nick Drake, "Fruit Tree" 12. sick and tired of trying to save the world / i just wanna spend my time with you, girl: The other song I'm shocked (shocked!) that no one got. Not that I expect anyone to have the album memorized, but, really, with so many of you with some sort of roots in popslash, it could have been possible that the (unfortunate) sentiment + the world/girl rhyme + the context combo alone would have computed into an eerie sense of... something. - Also, you know how sometimes song-makers make songs that make you want their song-making privileges revoked until they promise never to do it again? Right. As far as I can tell, the only redeeming feature of this one is its not being what one reviewer v. accurately called the "daft song about a guy named Bob". - Justin Timberlake, "Until the End of Time"
13. if fashion is your trade, then when you're naked i guess you must be unemployed: Is it just me or is this basically every Pulp lyric ever? A little "clever", a little "shocking", a lot "", ubiquitous Pulp syntax. Oh, '90s, you didn't always treat us good, but sometimes we miss you. - Pulp, "Underwear"
14. you know, i feel so dirty when they start talking cute: Aww. And everyone knew this one. - Rick Springfield, "Jesse's Girl"
15. someone controlled you / they bought and sold you: Beatles songs: v. hard to handle in lyrics memes. Here I ended up sort of cutting the first part of the line in half, mostly for nicer symmetry. (Can you still remember the time when you couldn't decide whether your favourite should be George or John, because you wanted to be both artistic & special and edgy?) - The Beatles, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
16. is history recorded? does someone have a tape?: I <3 my friendslist. I also <3 Kings of Convenience, and I'm sure I would never have heard of them, if it weren't for
mandysbitch. <3. - Kings of Convenience, "Know-How"17. oh how your bubble's gonna burst when you meet another nurse (she'll be driving in a hearse): It's also entirely thanks to my friendslist (
jenny_pop in particular) that I can tell you, off the top of my head, that this was originally recorded in the mid-1960s, in French, by yé-yé girl France Gall, as "Laisse tomber les filles". Ha! - April March, "Chick Habit"18. i'm not dumb but i can't understand why she walks like a woman and talks like a man: It's a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world, except for Lola. La-la-la-la Lola. - The Raincoats, "Lola"
19. drop to my knees to elicit crowd response: Radical song, or the radicalest song? - Da Vinci's Notebook, "Title of the Song"
20. the t-shirt says shoot pool, not people / kill time, not life: Did I say my playlist was two years ago? Clearly, I meant five. Emo!rap, man. - Atmosphere, "Blamegame"
