20 Random Songs meme

The rules, as quoted from Eminy’s LiveJournal:

You know the rules: 20 random consecutive songs from my library, first lines given here (or second lines if the first contains the title). You identify the song, and I’ll cross it out. Googling is cheating. N.B.: Items in square brackets are instrumental only, included here to preserve the consecutivity principle.

  1. I have to swear by Almighty God Guns On The Roof, The Clash – Rob G
  2. When we were young, we pledged allegiance
  3. All you pretty women, bring it to my home
  4. [skipped one in Bulgarian]
  5. I’ve been [loved?], down in the delta
  6. Her eyes they shone like diamonds Black Velvet Band/Galway Shawl, 4 To The Bar – Ayana C
  7. Dust falls on the empty halls of my old school
  8. Well, you could see it in his eyes as they strained against the night
  9. Men and people will fight ya down (Tell me why!) Exodus, Bob Marley – Ian York
  10. [Bach keyboard concerto]
  11. [Red Shingle Bay, Many Hands]
  12. He started out to be a tugboat man, but he never got the hang of a ratchet bar
  13. [Something from Green Linnet]
  14. Many’s the day I took for granted, breathing the air that silenced some
  15. Ships may come and ships may go, as long as the sea does roll Jolly Roving Tar, Great Big Sea – Becca
  16. Now come tell me Sean O’Farrell, tell me where you hurry so Rising of the Moon, Shane McGowan and the Popes – Ian York
  17. [Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus]
  18. High speed drift on a prairie road, hot tires sing like a string being bowed SteelSilver Wheels, Bruce Cockburn– Ian York
  19. Well I’ve got a friend who’s a man (who’s a man?) Hateful, The Clash – Rob G
  20. [Duologue, Rare Air]
  21. I was a miner, I was a docker Between The Wars, Billy Bragg – Becca
  22. [Marion Livingstone, Rare Air]
  23. There’s a noble fleet of whalers, a sailing from Dundee Old Polina, Great Big Sea – CMD
  24. In the merry month of June, when from my home I started The Rocky Road To Dublin, The Irish Descendants – Fnord Prefect
  25. [skipped first line]He had a little tavern by the strand Yarmouth Town, Great Big Sea – Laura
  26. [Infernal Dance of King Kashei, Stravinsky]
  27. [Water Music, Handel]
  28. [skipped first chorus]Said – said – said: I remember when we used to sit, In the government yard in Trenchtown No Woman, No Cry, Bob Marley – Ian York
  29. [Trumpet Concerto, Wynton Marsallis]
  30. [The Pigeon On the Gate, Casdh An tSugian]
  31. The island, it is silent now, but the ghosts still haunt the waves Thousands Are Sailing, The Pogues – Ian York

I cheated a bit – I’ve got a lot of music on my iPod that I haven’t listened to or assigned a star rating to yet. I have enough time picking up lyrics on songs I’ve heard a few times, so I did this with my “4 or 5 Stars” playlist.

15 thoughts on “20 Random Songs meme”

  1. A lot of those are familiar but I can’t put a name (or especially, a title) to them, so I’ll start with the easy one, #31: Pogues, Thousands are Sailing.

    #18 is Bruce Cockburn, “Silver Wheels”

    #28 is Bob Marley, “No woman no cry”

    #16 is Shane McGowan and the Popes, I think it’s “Rising of the Moon”

    #15 is Great Big Sea, but I don’t know the title

    Is #3 Bo Diddley? No idea of the title, in any case.

    Is #21 Billy Bragg?

    #8 is Canadian folk … not sure who, but (knowing you listen to him) maybe Stan Rogers?

  6. No. 6 is the Dropkick Murphys. I’m terrible at song titles, though.

    Despite my lack of title knowledge, No. 5 is Jolly Roving Tar. Or Rovin’ Tar? I forget.

    Oh, and 21 is Between the Wars — Ian was right, Billy Bragg.

  7. Becca, not bad (modulo the typo where you wrote “No. 5” instead of “No. 15”). I don’t know if Dropkick Murphys did No. 6, but if they did I don’t have that version. I’ve got two others by other artists, though.

  8. #24 is “The rocky road to Dublin”; I’ve heard it done by several groups, “The Celts” and “Banh Tre”(sp?) being two of them.

  10. I’m not going to get #14, because I can think of is “Many’s the time I’ve been mistaken, and many times confused”, the opening lines from Paul Simon’s “American Tune”, and it’s not that.

    #8 is Stan Rogers or I miss my guess, but I’m never going to come up with the title.

  14. Oh, I think #1 may be from “Guns of the Roof” by the Clash, from the “Give ’em Enough Rope” album, but I thought the line was “I swear…”, not “I have to swear…”.

    Yes? No?

Comments are closed.