Saturday's music meme
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Put your media player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first is the title.
I did it twice: once on total random, once on the uber-depressing playlist I've been listening to lately. I think the first is probably more interesting; the second is more thematically cohesive.
What was sent to the soldier’s wife
It’s four in the morning
Canada oh Canada I never been your son
No one to talk with
Show me a prison, show me a jail
You took the best years of my life
Dead is the drunkest that you can get
As soon as you’re born, they make you feel small
Moving near the edge at night
In the nineteen hundred and seventies
Now you caught me off guard
I’m under your spell
Let’s make love tonight
So basically a lot of people ask me how life was then
Outside another yellow moon has punched a hole in the nighttime
Come all you young rebels
Broken glass everywhere
Leonard Cohen, “Famous Blue Raincoat”
A Silver Mt. Zion, “Teddy Roosevelt’s Guns”
Phil Ochs, “There But For Fortune”
Sex Pistols, “Schools Are Prisons”
Rheostatics, “Dead Is the Drunkest You Can Get”
Green Day (shut up), “Working Class Hero”
Julee Cruise, “The World Spins”
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, “Satanic Reverses”
Madvillain, “Operation Lifesaver”
Tara & Giles, “Wish I Could Stay”
Queen of Japan, “Sexual Healing” (why do I have this?)
K’Naan, “My Old Home”
Tom Waits, “Downtown Train”
Black 47, “Patriot Game”
Grandmaster Flash, “The Message” (I am old)
P.J. Harvey, “Ballad of the Soldier’s Wife”
Still Night, Nothing For Miles
Davenports and kettle drums
Death smiles as we paint decay
This was a stormy ending
What will you do when the war is over?
Lay me down the long white line
On the lam from the law
Here on these cliffs of Dover
Even through the darkest phase
Unforgettable, that’s what you are
Many men have loved the bell you fasten to the rein
Send a heartbeat to the void that cries through you
They put angels in the electric chair
One million died to make this sound
And yes I believe in what we had
Why be sweet, why be careful, why be kind?
Entangled in your arms
You may tire of me
If you want a lover
Take me home, you silly boy
Came in from a rainy Thursday
Tom Waits, “Soldier’s Things”
Snark, “Streetlight Apocalypse”
A Silver Mt. Zion, “Mountains Made of Steam”
Billy Bragg, "Tender Comrade"
Sisters of Mercy, “Heartland”
Decemberists, “The Bagman’s Gambit”
Decemberists, “We Both Go Down Together”
k.d. lang, “Constant Craving”
Nat King Cole, “Unforgettable”
Leonard Cohen, “Take This Longing”
Smashing Pumpkins, “The Beginning is the End is the Beginning” (I’m embarrassed)
A Silver Mt. Zion, “God Bless Our Dead Marines”
A Silver Mt. Zion, “1,000,000 Died To Make This Sound”
Sisters of Mercy, “Some Kind of Stranger”
Tom Waits, “Everything Goes to Hell”
Snark, “If Romance is Roses and Candlelight”
Death Cab for Cutie, “Brothers On a Hotel Bed”
Leonard Cohen, “I’m Your Man”
Holly Cole, “Take Me Home”
Duran Duran, “Ordinary World”
Sisters of Mercy, “Driven Like the Snow”
the_red_shoes:Put your media player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first is the title.
I did it twice: once on total random, once on the uber-depressing playlist I've been listening to lately. I think the first is probably more interesting; the second is more thematically cohesive.
What was sent to the soldier’s wife
It’s four in the morning
Canada oh Canada I never been your son
No one to talk with
Show me a prison, show me a jail
You took the best years of my life
Dead is the drunkest that you can get
As soon as you’re born, they make you feel small
Moving near the edge at night
In the nineteen hundred and seventies
Now you caught me off guard
I’m under your spell
Let’s make love tonight
So basically a lot of people ask me how life was then
Outside another yellow moon has punched a hole in the nighttime
Come all you young rebels
Broken glass everywhere
Leonard Cohen, “Famous Blue Raincoat”
A Silver Mt. Zion, “Teddy Roosevelt’s Guns”
Phil Ochs, “There But For Fortune”
Sex Pistols, “Schools Are Prisons”
Rheostatics, “Dead Is the Drunkest You Can Get”
Green Day (shut up), “Working Class Hero”
Julee Cruise, “The World Spins”
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, “Satanic Reverses”
Madvillain, “Operation Lifesaver”
Tara & Giles, “Wish I Could Stay”
Queen of Japan, “Sexual Healing” (why do I have this?)
K’Naan, “My Old Home”
Tom Waits, “Downtown Train”
Black 47, “Patriot Game”
Grandmaster Flash, “The Message” (I am old)
P.J. Harvey, “Ballad of the Soldier’s Wife”
Still Night, Nothing For Miles
Davenports and kettle drums
Death smiles as we paint decay
This was a stormy ending
What will you do when the war is over?
Lay me down the long white line
On the lam from the law
Here on these cliffs of Dover
Even through the darkest phase
Unforgettable, that’s what you are
Many men have loved the bell you fasten to the rein
Send a heartbeat to the void that cries through you
They put angels in the electric chair
One million died to make this sound
And yes I believe in what we had
Why be sweet, why be careful, why be kind?
Entangled in your arms
You may tire of me
If you want a lover
Take me home, you silly boy
Came in from a rainy Thursday
Tom Waits, “Soldier’s Things”
Snark, “Streetlight Apocalypse”
A Silver Mt. Zion, “Mountains Made of Steam”
Billy Bragg, "Tender Comrade"
Sisters of Mercy, “Heartland”
Decemberists, “The Bagman’s Gambit”
Decemberists, “We Both Go Down Together”
k.d. lang, “Constant Craving”
Nat King Cole, “Unforgettable”
Leonard Cohen, “Take This Longing”
Smashing Pumpkins, “The Beginning is the End is the Beginning” (I’m embarrassed)
A Silver Mt. Zion, “God Bless Our Dead Marines”
A Silver Mt. Zion, “1,000,000 Died To Make This Sound”
Sisters of Mercy, “Some Kind of Stranger”
Tom Waits, “Everything Goes to Hell”
Snark, “If Romance is Roses and Candlelight”
Death Cab for Cutie, “Brothers On a Hotel Bed”
Leonard Cohen, “I’m Your Man”
Holly Cole, “Take Me Home”
Duran Duran, “Ordinary World”
Sisters of Mercy, “Driven Like the Snow”
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Date: 2008-11-29 07:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-29 07:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-29 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-29 10:06 pm (UTC)(Do you?)
When I last had a similar challenge...
Date: 2008-12-01 08:36 pm (UTC)OK, take all your LPs and throw them in a pile on the floor, jump on them, and choose 20 of the largish fragments. The songs on those pieces are your answers. Now, go find the questions ...
Trouble, I could only do it once! But then I glued the wrong pieces back together, creating some novel mash-ups.
my ipod is trying to make me like slightly less of a geek than I am
Date: 2008-11-29 10:21 pm (UTC)I want a little sugar in my bowl.
Give your hand to the Indian.
Let the winds of the seven seas blow my good ship where they please.
It was so very long ago.
Cocaine, cocaine
Royal lady, at your feet
You say there's always gonna be this thing between us, days are filled with dreams
Water, walking on water.
Like an imprisoned fly, the little heart beats its wings.
Los han visto por ahí
The sea, the soil of Provence--what has stricken them from your heart?
It's amazing also how quickly evolution works sometimes.
Bright ray of hope and pleasure
Free and easy, that's my style
There's a saying old, says that love is blind
O azure skies, o sweet native air.
[ok that's plenty. Nina Simone, Soledad Bravo, some showtune Barbara Cook sing by god knows whom, Clem Snide song I had never listened to, Townes van Zandt, Donizetti: Roberto Devereux, Lucinda Williams, PJ Harvey who I totally do not listen to, Madama Butterfly, Shakira, La Traviata, Laurie Anderson, Rossini: Semiramide, Harold Arlen or whoever wrote "Any place I hang my hat", Gershwin, Aida, Arcade Fire]
Re: my ipod is trying to make me like slightly less of a geek than I am
Date: 2008-11-29 10:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-29 10:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-29 10:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-29 11:08 pm (UTC)I JUST SAW THIS ON FOF
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS? http://ashbet.livejournal.com/1321404.html
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Date: 2008-11-29 11:19 pm (UTC)marry and reproduce! (my favourite gag shot in the film)
Date: 2008-11-29 11:31 pm (UTC)THAT JUST ACTUALLY MADE ME SMILE, WHICH, GIVEN TODAY, IS NO MEAN FEAT
Re: marry and reproduce! (my favourite gag shot in the film)
Date: 2008-11-29 11:33 pm (UTC)SO WE ARE BOTH SMILING. TOGETHER. ONLY ON OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE CONTINENT AND STUFF.
THIS IS YOUR GOD
Date: 2008-11-29 11:47 pm (UTC)GHOULISH ALIEN-PALIN SPREADING SMILES INTERNATIONALLY
NOW _THAT_ WOULD BE AN SNL SKIT TO REMEMBER
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Date: 2008-11-30 03:24 am (UTC)You might like this Thanksgiving message:
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Date: 2008-11-30 03:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-03 04:08 pm (UTC)Sounds like a reasonable story to me.