Music Meme Answers

[redfiona99]

1 - where Hector was the first of the gang
with a gun in his hand
and the first to do time is from 'First of the Gang To Die' by Morrissey - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRRjX8pbfPQ

2 - Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' by Green Day as guessed by lilacsigil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tijW_SrCoxs

3 - Do you wanna get triple x groovie
Gimme gimme some of that kinda movie is from 'Fever For The Flava' by Hot Action Cop and is terrible (and horribly catchy) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAURo0rwt6g

4 - So you're sat there in first class
well I'm not gonna kiss your ass
'Cause I don't care is from 'Jump on Demand' by [Spunge] (I apologise for the typography) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNpbCUfpD5E

5 - I stretched over to reach you
I tried to meet you, I've been wrong is from 'Fireworks' by Embrace - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVaMDTXHr3M (Performance on Later with Jools)

6 - Sae rantin'ly, sae wantonly
Sae dauntin'ly, gaed he;
He played a tune and he danced it roon'
About the gallows tree. is from McPherson's Lament, the version I was listening to was by Hamish Imlach, but, as I am a fiend, have the Corries doing it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4pJBQxEA0Q

7 - Twelve reasons why I wrote this love song
It's off the cuff
I jotted down a shopping list of love is from 'Twelve Reasons Why I Love Her' by My Life Story. It's not that my last FM has a lot of 90s UK indie in any way - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlGY24vhdJY (Performance on The White Room)

8 - Sometimes I'm bad and sometimes I'm rotten,
And sometimes I say things
I probably should have forgotten 'What Took You So Long' by The Courteeners, which I hadn't heard before this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aJ_bAV0LyU Also containing the glorious, if somewhat inaccurate, lyrics of 'I'm like a Morrissey with some strings'. Sir, I know of Morrissey, and you are not him.

9 - I'm becoming this, all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you is from 'Numb' by Linkin Park - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXYiU_JCYtU

10 - I'm just want to tell you nothing,
You don't want to hear. is from 'Love You Till The End' by the Pogues - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjtzdummdCA

11 - How many special people change?
How many lives are living strange?
Where were you while we were getting high? 'Champagne Supernova' by Oasis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3C7DECI0jU This song is *my* summer song

12 - Mary's locks are like the crow, her eyes like diamond's glances
She's aye so clean red up and raw, she kills whene'er she dances 'Betsy Bell and Mary Gray', the version in question the one by Cherish The Ladies - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3l5qM2xveU

13 - As I was going up Wexford Street
My own first cousin I chanced to meet;
My own first cousin did me betray
And for one bare guinea swore my life away. 'The Croppy Boy', Dubliners version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QMx1lXgUKc Not that I have a first cousin who wouldn't think twice to betray me, for far less then a guinea.

14 - The only one I see, has carved her way into me 'The Only One I Know' by the Charlatans. Chosen, mostly because every other lyric is the song title - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DtC-qc0Bxg

15 - let's make the most of it
the time we've got together
quit all the secrets that are
choking up your heart
and tearing all the light from the stars 'Little Superstitions' by The Rakes which I hadn't heard before either - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtMysYVtr8M

16 - I don't wanna spend the rest of my days
Running around, chasing your shadow 'Step Into My World' by Hurricane #1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jPZgLszqRY (Performance on TFI Friday)

17 - We lived in a dogfish, egg case
You could barely call it home
Sorry, little lot no roof on top
But the fish left us alone 'Love Is The Law' by The Seahorses - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVzUFNWIYM0

18 - So farewell my dear father, and mother, adieu
My sister and brother farewell unto you,
I am bound for Americay my fortune to try. 'Bunclody', Luke Kelly version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RPaE0VMtWo

19 - Being good ain't always easy
No matter how hard I try 'Son of a Preacher Man' by Dusty Springfield, guessed by joanne_c Live version from goodness knows where - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp4339EbVn8 but wherever it was, they needed to turn the brass mics down.

20 - Don't drink, don't smoke, what do you do?
Don't drink, don't smoke, what do you do?
Subtle innuendo follows Goody Two Shoes by Adam Ant as guessed by lilacsigil - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o41A91X5pns

Comments

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

Oh, Champagne Supernova! Of course!

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

It's definitely one of those where you know it but just can't place it.

[coneyislandbaby]

I thought I recognised some of the Irish/Celtic stuff as being Irish/Celtic without knowing the songs.

Did you know that there's a bit of fic based on Son Of A Preacher Man? It's one of those songs I've read through the lyrics of several times for that reason.

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

There's always going to be a fair selection of Irish/Celtic songs in anything where the selection is based on things I like. Partly because I like them and partly that I've never found anything better (other than up-tempo classical) for working along with.

I know of the one that got written for thefourthvine, but I always accept recs.