Answer Key for My "Name That Tune" Meme Post

[chomiji]

Eh, I don't think anyone else is going to play. > snif! <

1. The daylight's fading slowly, but time with you is standing still - The Corrs, "Breathless"
    
2. We're coming to the edge, running on the water - Carly Simon, "Let the River Run"
    
3. If you loose your faith, babe, you can have mine - Everything but the Girl, "We Walk the Same Line"
    
4. I remember the nights I watched as you lay sleeping - Sarah McLachlan, "I Will Not Forget You "
    
5. She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes - Billy Joel, "Always a Woman"
    
6. You ought to see your face; you ought to hear your voice - Freedy Johnston, "Perfect World"
    
7. Workin’ Friday night down at the Alley - Carrie Newcomer, "Bowling Baby"
    
8. Operator, well, could you help me place this call? - Jim Croce, "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)"
    
9. It was 100 degrees as we sat beneath a willow tree - Death Cab for Cutie, "Crooked Teeth"
    
10. "The problem is all inside your head", she said to me - Paul Simon, "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover"
     
11. She says it's been so long she can't remember when - Mary-Chapin Carpenter, "There's a Keeper for Every Flame"
     
12. Desert loving in your eyes all the way - Culture Club, "Karma Chameleon"
     
13. Darling don't you understand, I feel so ill at ease - Annie Lennox, "The Gift"
     
14. Turned on the weather man just after the news - Sting, "Heavy Cloud, No Rain"
     
15. He had a dream haunting him at night - October Project, "Funeral in His Heart"
     
16. While the poor people sleepin' with the shade on the light - Steely Dan, "Show Business Kids"
     
17. I've been sitting up waiting for my sugar to show - Joni Mitchell, "Car on a Hill"
     
18. Hey, your glass is empty / It's a helluva long way home - Sarah McLachlan, "Good Enough"
     
19. Walking like a ghost in my own movie - Carrie Newcomer, "Seven Dreams"
     
20. Lights out tonight, trouble in the heartland - Bruce Springsteen, "Badlands"
     
21. Just a kiss, just a kiss / I have lived just for this - k.d. lang, "Miss Chatelaine"
     
22. I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told - Simon & Garfunkel, "The Boxer"
     
23. You look frenzied, you look frazzled, peaked as any alp - the musical Pippin, "The Right Track"
     
24. Is it too much to ask? I want a comfortable bed that won't hurt my back - Mary-Chapin Carpenter (or Lucinda Williams) "Passionate Kisses""
     
25. When the road gets dark, and you can no longer see - John Hiatt, "Have a Little Faith in Me"
     
26. Out on the street - you'd better get on home - Heart, "Kick It Out"
     
27. The language of love slips from my lover's tongue - Eurythmics, "Who's That Girl?"
     
28. And now I'm all alone again, nowhere to turn, no one to go to - the musical Les Miserables, "On My Own"
     
29. Tell me, where did Helen go? This is where she had her dwelling - Sydney Carter (best known for "Lord of the Dance" - the song, not the show), "Like the Snow"
     
30. If I could turn the page / In time then I'd rearrange just a day or two - Fleetwood Mac, "Little Lies"
     
31. Johnny take a walk with your sister the moon - U2, "Mysterious Ways"
     
32. I'll buy you six bay mares to put in your stables - Jethro Tull, "The Whistler"

Comments

[chomiji]

Some of those are among my personal top 20: Mysterious Ways, The Whistler, Car on a Hill, Passionate Kisses, and We Walk the Same Line among them. I do like Paul Simon, but oddly enough, I don't love his stuff with the passion I feel for some of the others - probably because he tends to be cerebral rather than passionate himself.

I love "Songs from the Wood." I was just telling Zilch that her latest thing - the autumn storm story - made me think of "Fire at Midnight." I also like the tune "Moths" from the "Heavy Horses" album.

[chomiji]

Hmmm ... actually, Steely Dan's "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" is one of my favorites. The little opening bossanova riff can pull me right out of a blue funk if I hear it randomly on the radio. I think that on the more wistful numbers ("Deacon Blues," also, for example), the nasal, cynical tone in the vocals sounds like he's trying to be tough and cover up feelings, so it works for me on that level. And I love some of their more foot-stomping numbers, like "My Old School" and "Boddhisatva."

I think my favorite Paul Simons are from the Simon & Garfunkel days - deep cuts from Bridge Over Troubled Water: "Only Living Boy in New York" for a slow number (that one can make me tear up, in the right mood), and ""Keep the Customer Satisfied" for something more raucous.

It's perhaps ironic that of Tull's three folkloric albums, I like Broadsword the least ... ah, well.

Re: Oh, and never mind the words, just hum along and keep on going...

[chomiji]

What's funny is that when I hear a group that really seems to have it together - really tight - I feel sort of exhilirated - "Wow, listen to how they're all really working together on this!" Even if there's a certain amount of after-production, I still have that kind of feeling. I think it's from when I went to art-and-music camp and listened to all the orchestra geeks working together, and also I sang in madrigal choir there as my elective. So to me, that very polished sound seems, more often than not, to be the result of some very unglamorous hard work. And they may have cared very much while they were doing that work, even if the result seems overly pristine and mannered.

Songs really can get charged with meaning. Dan Fogelberg's "Leader of Band" is on one level a piece of sentimental easy-listening tripe. On the other hand, to me and the Mr., it represents his father: "My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man/I'm just a living legacy of the leader of the band."