posted 2005/07/17 at 06:20
Provided I can ever get to sleep here, when I wake up I'll have an awful lot to tell you all about just how bad Saturday sucked. In the meantime, while I'm waiting for my mind to stop racing, I figured I should go ahead and reveal the answers to the latest round of Name That Tune. Since I only got three correct answers again this time, in addition to naming the song and artist, I'll also be including links so you can buy the albums that the songs appear on. (Said links also include my Amazon affiliate link, so in addition to treating yourself to good music, you'll be sending me some pennies to help me expand my own collection.)
1. You treated my woman to a flake of your life / And when she came back she was nobody's wife.
Leonard Cohen, "Famous Blue Raincoat" (from the album Songs of Love and Hate)
2. It's sometimes just like sleeping / Curling up inside my private tortures.
Björk, "Play Dead" (originally released on the European version of Debut, first available in the US on Greatest Hits)
(Correctly guessed by JBoy.)
3. Elysian fields are dead and brown / And your picture's hanging upside down.
Jill Tracy, "The Other Side of Pain" (from the album Diabolical Streak)
4. I was driving a Chevy '72 / Had four on the floor, girl, a hundred-twenty it could do.
Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise, "Once Upon a Time" (from the album Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise)
5. And when they're on a roll she pulls a razor from her boots / And a thousand pigeons fall around her feet.
Tom Waits, "Time" (from the album Rain Dogs)
6. It's not for free / But I'll take your love if your love will pay me.
Helium, "XXX" (from the EP Pirate Prude)
7. There is no hope in regretting now, all the pain that we could not see / We both knew what we wanted, and we took it believing it free / And we took it believing it free.
Sarah McLachlan, "Mercy" (from the album Solace)
(Correctly guessed by JBoy.)
8. I could sneer, I could glare, say that life is so unfair / And the one who made it, made it 'cause her breasts were really big.
Jill Sobule, "Bitter" (from the album Happy Town)
(Correctly guessed by Penny.)
9. The broken glass that fades / The past is a parade of countless days / Painting patterns in the sand.
Sean Lennon, "Home" (from the album Into the Sun)
10. Just before our love got lost you said, / "I am as constant as a northern star."
Joni Mitchell, "A Case of You" (from the album Blue)
In case no one caught the theme I had going here, 1, 5, and 10 are all songs that Tori Amos has covered, although I didn't include any of Tori's songs in NTT this time. Anyway, JBoy wins, and Penny gets her second straight second-place finish, and you all really need to buy some of those CDs. Seriously.
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