Music Trivia Thread

[Jennpurr]

Seems that I killed the thread. I'll give you a hint. The singer of this song starred in Queer As Folk.


Jen

[FineyMcFine]

"She Waits" by the Hal Sparks Band?

If so, here's one:

they call the house the risin' sun but the rooms were dark and dingy
she packed her bag when the year was done, she won't be back again
she's a-goin' home, back to carolina
leavin' fiddler's rim behind her

[kisstheviolets]

ooh, ooh, i know. it's dave carter and tracy grammer, "farewell to fiddler's rim." i love them. i was at falcon ridge the week he died and tracy came anyway and played "gentle soldier of my soul" at the beginning of the tribute set, and it was just so incredibly sad. his music still has such an amazing presence at that festival every year since his death. it's funny, today i was filling out one of those silly surveys on myspace in which you finish a sentence. one said "love is..." and i wrote "a tanglewood tree" and linked to the lyrcis. such an incredible songwriter that guy.

okay, here's one that just popped up on my playlist:

she says, "come on grow old with me,
they say the best is yet to be.
i ask you to hold my hand, put your arm around me, help me understand.
dependence is new to me.
completeness, a wonder to see.
something comes inside of me,
and i, i have never, never felt so free.
i'll tell you once.
i can't do it again.
i love you more than i can comprehend."
this was an independent girl.

[FineyMcFine]

That is the lovely and of course talented Erin McKeown, "Something Comes."

This one is apropos for today:

Tumble outta bed
And stumble to the kitchen
Pour myself a cup of ambition
Yawnin’, stretchin’, try to come to life
Jump in the shower
And the blood starts pumpin’
Out on the streets
The traffic starts jumpin’

[JustSkipIt]

Ok, it's been over an hour and I can't stand it.

That's Dolly Parton - 9 to 5.

"Look at the monkey, funny monkey.
Little Red Monkey, cute as can be.
Look at the monkey, funny monkey.
Little Red Monkey, cute as can be."

[dorksrcool]

Is that a children's song? Did They Might be Giants sing it? Or someone named Joy Nicholas or something? I don't know but this thread has been dead for a while so I was just wondering.

[Sandman78]

Little Red Monkey by Jimmy Edwards and Dick Bently

Here's one:

Leave me lying here cause I don't wanna go
A million miles running and I hit the wall
I bounce back and I run some more
But this is it I'm giving up I'm calling quits
So get down and meet me on the floor

[Kaia]

Volcano Girls - Veruca Salt

Here's another one:

You the stranger who took a chance
held me at a distance so I could see myself
so thank you for everything you gave without knowing
and thank you for letting me fall in love
without withholding

[dorksrcool]

Melissa Ferrick- The Stranger

It's under my skin but out of my hands.
I'll tear it apart but I won't understand.
Will not except the greatness of man.

[Sandman78]

Tears For Fear- "Woman In Chains"


Now maybe
I didn't mean to treat you oh so bad
But I did it anyway
Now maybe some would say you're left with what you had
But you couldn't share the pain

[kisstheviolets]

candlebox's "far behind"... i haven't heard that song in forever.

you know that i want your loving
but my logic tells me that it ain't never gonna happen
and then my defenses say i didn't want it anyway
but you know sometimes I'm a liar

[Auburn]

Violent Femmes - Promise?

OK, that one killed the thread.... easy one?

Don't know much about history,
Don't know much biology,
Don't know much about a science book,
Don't know much about the french I took.

[Twisted Minstrel]

What a Wonderful World.


I got silly and I found a frog
In the water by a hollow log
And I shook it at her
And I said "This frog's for you"

[meretricious]

Jim Stafford, "spiders and snakes"
(definitely showing my age there)

you turn out the light
and the dark sucks on the embers of the fire
my heart smoulders in the night
and these tumbling boulders of desire
come rolling out the shadows in me

[Twisted Minstrel]

The Light, David Gray


Francesca lays across the couch
They fight with words from mouth to mouth
And then with handfuls of her flesh
See how the zipper broke off of her dress

[Auburn]

Squeeze - What the butler saw?

Kiss the rain
Whenever I'm gone, too long.
If your lips
Feel lonely and thirsty
Kiss the rain
And wait for the dawn.
Keep in mind
We're under the same sky
And the nights
Are as empty for me, as for you

[Candleshoe]

Billie Myers - Kiss the Rain. Good song!

Another ditch in the road
You keep moving
Another stop sign
You keep moving on
And the years go by so fast
Wonder how I ever made it through

[oneyedchicklet]

Savage Garden "Two Beds and a Coffee Machine"



Paint what you know not what you see
Hope binds reason thankfully
Know how it when something fits
Then there's just a question of being it

HUGS
Barb

[Auburn]

Beth Orton - Anywhere

I pretend I can always leave
Free to go whenever I please
But then the sound of my desperate calls
Echo off these dungeon walls
I've crossed the line from mad to sane
A thousand times and back again
I love you baby, I'm in chains

[Candleshoe]

Oh, I love Tina Arena and this is Chains. Is she "family"? I could never work it out..

After we've said all there is to say
Am I still in your heart or am I just in your way
My desire for you is running wild, jealousy, the dangerous kind
When I see you looking at another woman that way

PS: I went to see Beth Orton a couple of months ago, she was wonderful...

[boomstick79]

That's Alannah Myles' Lover of Mine.
And one that hasn't left my playlist all week - cracking song!:

"And if I leave you would you smile?
And it's not up for discussion
So don't ask tonight
Don't waste your time and walk away
It was futile anyway"

~Lou

[dorksrcool]

Hundred Reasons- "Kill Your Own"

With your feet in the air
and your head on the ground
try this trick and spin it, yeah.
Your head will collapse
but there's nothing in it,
and you'll ask yourself....

[Beamer311]

Where is my Mind by Pixies

there's a shake with the shock
and a gift off with them
they carry the dust of the failing wisdom
for you there's not any warning

[Twisted Minstrel]

Star Bodies, New Pornographers.

But don't think for a moment dear
We'll ever be through;
I'll build a bonfire of my dreams
and burn a broken effigy of me and you.

[VixenyTarasHot]

I think this is called...Indoor Fireworks... I know a few people have done it...
Elvis Costello maybe? Wrote it? Man, I dunno but close enough right?


You touched my heart you touched my soul.
You changed my life and all my goals.
And love is blind and that I knew when,
My heart was blinded by you.
I've kissed your lips and held your head.
Shared your dreams and shared your bed.
I know you well, I know your smell.
I've been addicted to you.

-Ashleigh

[Foomatic]

Goodbye My Lover, James Blunt

I am the sound of love's arriving
Echoed softly on the sand
Lay your head upon my shoulder
Lay your hand within my hand
I give you all that I am

And I breathe where you breathe
Let me stand where you stand
With all that I am

[Kaia]

Rob Thomas - "All that I am". I like his voice.

What's it been over a decade?
It still smarts like it was four minutes ago
We only influenced each other totally
We only bruised each other even more so

[kisstheviolets]

good song kaia... "flinch" by alanis morissette

You left the state without me.
Shows how much you care about me.
I could call, but you could hang up.
You could take my loving cup.

But I don't wanna share.
I don't wanna care.
I don't wanna bare it all.

[dorksrcool]

Dude, kisstheviolets that is an excellent song. Based on your username and this lyric I would have to say that you have superb musical taste. Anyway, the lyric in question belongs to the song "Little Pieces" by Juliana Hatfield (or The Juliana Hatfield Three, to be more precise).

Falling for the creep the body leech here he comes
Vicious hypnosis, a clenched fist saying it's wrong
to want more than a folk song
underneath the shaker knit he's a brick wall
she keep falling for the trick vegetariate sing-along
give a little kick with your fine thigh high.

[Kaia]

Dorkscool, what a great song. "Wet Blanket" by Metric, right?

Once I was open, could hope, I had no doubt
But that was the worst thing that I could do
It was just about the worst thing that I could do

Once I came close to that most elusive fire
Burning with hopeless love and desire
But it was just about the worst thing that I could do
It was just about the worst thing I could do