In a mirror, dimly

Music meme wrap-up, the missing answers:

• How, how am i supposed to feel?
  (”Cant stop the rain” - Cascada)
• It’s five and I’m driving home again
  (”Dancing with tears in my eyes” - Novaspace cover of the original Ultravox track)
• I will not make the same mistakes that you did
  (”Because of you” - Jason Nevin’s club mix of the Kelly Clarkson track)
• I am sitting in the sun, I can feel the power
  (”Light” - Benassi Brothers)
• The summer sun was fading as the year grows old
  (”Forever Autumn” - from Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds)
• Received a letter just the other day, dont seem to want to know you no more
  (”Embarassment” - Madness)
• Where’s will?
  (”Spybreak” - Propellerheads, from the Matrix soundtrack)
• I dont want your adoration, dont want your train stopping at my station
  (”Ga Ga” - Melanie C, from her album “Northern Star”)

It’s probably obvious that there’s a theme in my music tastes:

1. Modern covers of older songs
2. Dance remixes
3. Dance / electronica

The song by Madness was misquoted slightly - I posted what I thought the words were without doing the appropriate lyrics searches. That said, it’s an awfully depressing song which I thought I’d post in full along with a second song that ranks as the next most painful. For some strange reason these 2 are ones that I know by heart, and the lyrics pop back to mind quite quickly. Perhaps this is a little too self-revealing, but, here they are:

You have Merinda to thank for inspiring this post…

• Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
• Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
• Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
• Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
• Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!

So, here you go. Have at them (some are easier than others):

1. Twentyfive years and my life is still
   (”What’s up” - DJ Miko’s dance remix of the origianl track by 4 Non-Blondes - Quantum Tea)
2. I’m gonna wake up, yes and no
   (”Die another day” - Madonna, radio edit - Quantum Tea)
3. All the leaves are brown (And the sky is grey)
   (”California Dreamin” - DJ Sammy cover of the original 1966 hit by the Mamas & The Papas - Merinda)
4. Boy meets girl - You were my dream, my world
   (”Miracle” - Cascada - Quantum Tea)
5. Your cruel device, Your blood like ice
   (”Poison” - Groove Coverage’s dance cover of the song by Alice Cooper - Quantum Tea)
6. Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit lonely and you’re never coming around
   (”Total eclipse of the heart” - dance cover version by “Jan Wayne meets Lena” on the album 80’s energy - YouTube video! - from the original by Bonnie Tyler - Edeyn)
7. She says her love for me could never die
   (”Run to you” - Novaspace cover of the original track by Bryan Adams - Quantum Tea)
8. How, how am i supposed to feel?
9. It’s five and I’m driving home again
10. I will not make the same mistakes that you did
11. I am sitting in the sun, I can feel the power
12. The summer sun was fading as the year grows old
13. Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man of wealth and taste
    (”Sympathy for the devil” - Guns ‘n Roses cover of the Rolling Stone’s original - Merinda)
14. Received a letter just the other day, dont seem to want to know you no more
15. Where’s will?
16. Now I will tell you what I’ve done for you
    (”Going under” - Evanescence - Quantum Tea)
17. I dont want your adoration, dont want your train stopping at my station
18. Feels like you made a mistake, made somebody’s heart break
    (”Disease” - Matchbox Twenty - Quantum Tea)
19. Never made it as a wise man, couldnt cut it as a poor man stealing
    (”How you remind me” - Nickelback - Merinda)
20. I get out of bed at half past ten

Broken
Seether (feat. Amy Lee)

I wanted you to know I love the way you laugh
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away
I keep your photograph; Not know it serves me well
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain

Cause Im broken when Im lonesome
And I dont feel right when youre gone away

Youve gone away; you dont feel me here anymore

The worst is over now and we can breathe again
I wanna hold you high, you steal my pain away
Theres so much left to learn, and no one left to fight
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain

Cause Im broken when Im open
And I dont feel like I am strong enough
Cause Im broken when Im lonesome
And I dont feel right when youre gone away

Cause Im broken when Im open
And I dont feel like I am strong enough
Cause Im broken when Im lonesome
And I dont feel right when youre gone away

The Mummer’s Dance
Loreena McKennitt

When in the springtime of the year
When the trees are crowned with leaves
When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew
Are dressed in ribbons fair

When owls call the breathless moon
In the blue veil of the night
The shadows of the trees appear
Amidst the lantern light

We’ve been rambling all the night
And some time of this day
Now returning back again
we bring a garland gay

Who will go down to those shady groves
And summon the shadows there
And tie a ribbon on those sheltering arms
In the springtime of the year

The songs of birds seem to fill the wood
That when the fiddler plays
All their voices can be heard
Long past their woodland days

We’ve been rambling all the night
And some time of this day
Now returning back again
we bring a garland gay

And so they joined their hands and danced
Round in circles and in rows
And so the journey of the night descends
When all the shades are gone

A garland gay we bring you here
And at your door we stand
It is a sprout well budded out
The work of Our Lord’s hand

We’ve been rambling all the night
And some time of this day
Now returning back again
we bring a garland gay

We’ve been rambling all the night
And some time of this day
Now returning back again
we bring a garland gay

I’ve never really bothered to look at the “top 25 most played songs” list on iTunes but I was spinning through the stuff on my iPod this morning and thought I would take a gander. Nothing too surprising really, but I thought it worth sharing as it gives a nice snapshot of my current musical tastes. If you’re also an iPod user, how about you post your 25 most played songs list to your own blog / LJ, and leave a comment here with a link?

1. I’ve been thinking about you
   Damae (feat. London Beat)
2. Tourniquet (Signal Boost Mix)
   Evanescence
3. Fly again (Scumfrog radio edit)
   Kristine W
4. Hung up (SDP Extended Vocal)
   Madonna
5. What’s up
   4 Non Blondes
6. Poison (live version)
   Alice Cooper
7. Light
   Benassi Bros.
8. (I just) died in your arms
   Cutting Crew
9. Radar love
   Golden Earring
10. Tainted love
    Marilyn Manson
11. Black velvet
    Alannah Myles
12. Everytime we touch
    Cascada
13. Bad boy
    Cascada
14. Winter born - this sacrifice
    The Cruxshadows
15. Sandstorm
    Darude
16. Sweet child o’ mine
    Guns ‘n’ Roses
17. From Paris to Berlin (radio edit)
    Infernal
18. Furious angels
    Rob Dougan
19. Toxic
    Britney Spears
20. Miracle
    Cascada
21. Cant stop the rain
    Cascada
22. Heaven
    DJ Sammy
23. Taking over me
    Evanescence
24. Cant fight the moonlight (Graham Stack radio edit)
    LeAnn Rimes
25. Run to you (extended mix)
    Novaspace

The “odd song out” is Tourniquet (Signal Boost Mix) - a remix of my own, taking the track from the live album (”Anywhere but home“) and from the earlier studio album (”Fallen“) and blending them. One of the better mixes I’ve made, supplanting either of the “real” tracks as having “most played” status in the playlist.