Lyrics game

[michiexile]

Inspired by xthread, a lyrics game of my own. I'll post the first lines of a number of songs, and it is your tasks to guess song & artist. Search engines are cheating, but digging through your own music collections is by far kosher. Comments are screened, but will get unscreened as soon as I get around to reviewing them.

1p for right artist. 1p for right song. If it's a cover, 1p for original artist too; though this shouldn't be an issue with these songs unless I missed something subtle. Points are handed out to everyone until the first correct answers have been unscreened, after which no additional points are available for that answer.

One day later, I'm following xthread's treatment and adding a second line of lyrics to the ones still unguessed.

Another day goes by, and I'll add more lines. I'm a little surprised that this year's BIG summer plague in Europe at #7 resonates with no-body at all.

Aaaaand it is time for a wrapup. Final scores are:
awahlbom: 6p
krfsm: 3p
reynardo: 2p
lederhosen: 2p
stripecat: 1p

And here are the answers:

1. Man har borrat genom bergen för att finna rikedom
   Adolphson & Falk: Hav. awahlbom
   
2. Some bright morning when this life is over
   I'll fly away.
   Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch: Fly Away krfsm
   
3. You came to me this morning, you handled me like meat
   You'll have to be a man to know how good that feels, how sweet.
   My mirror twin, my next of kin, I'd know you in my sleep
   Leonard Cohen: Reciting the poem that A thousand kisses deep is based on, on the London Concert album.
   
4. He was a famous trumpet man from out Chicago way
   The Andrew Sisters: Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. reynardo
   
5. I met him out for dinner on a Friday night
   Christina Aguilera. Candyman stripecat.
   
6. Inter Deum et Diavolum semper Musica ist
   Durch Feuer und Glut Ein Heulen, Jammern, Kreischen
   Corvus Corax: Tanzwut krfsm.
   
7. Qui dit étude dit travail
   Qui dit taf te dit les thunes
   Qui dit argent dit dépenses,
   Stromae: Alors on danse
   
8. Hey, heute ist wieder eine der verdammten Tage
   Die ich kaum ertrage und mich ständig selber frage
   Warum mich all diese gefühle plagen, die ich nicht kannte oder nur von hören-sagen
   Die fantastischen Vier: Sie ist Weg
   
9. Ich träume ich treff dich ganz tief unten
   Einstürzende Neubauten: Stella Maris. awahlbom
   
10. O crown of light, O darkened one
    I never thought we'd meet
    You kiss my lips, and then you're gone
    Leonard Cohen: Boogie Street
    
11. Er war ein Punker und er lebte in der grossen Stadt
    Falco: Rock me Amadeus. awahlbom
    
12. I ride across the desert on my camel
    Spinal Tap: Clam Caravan. lederhosen
    

Hints: #3 and #10 are related. #4 and #5 are related. #7 nauseates Europeans by now.

Comments

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

#12 is Spinal Tap, 'Clam Caravan' (knew the album but had to check track listing for the name).

[michiexile]

lederhosen, deux points. Deux points.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Is number 4 "Boogie Woogie Bugle boy"? I'd go the Andrews Sisters, also done by Bette Midler and Manhatten Transfer.

((After) And I googled once I'd run out of other choices for them and I am SO ANNOYED I didn't get number 3!

[michiexile]

reynardo, deux points. Deux points. Andrews Sisters: Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.

#3 gets harder with my choice of recording.

[awahlbom.livejournal.com]

1. Adolphson-Falk: Hav
9. Einstürzende Neubauten: Stella Maris
11. Falco: Rock Me Amadeus

3 sounds familiar somehow, but I can't quite place it...

[michiexile]

awahlbom, six points. Six points.

I knew I had SOMEONE here who knew #1.

And #3 seems to be almost triggering for very many. I'm looking forward to someone cracking it.

Got it!

[stripecat.livejournal.com]

"I met him out for dinner on a Friday night"
Candy Man. Artist was unknown before I googled... Damn there's no way to cheat when you're in the same room as I am. ...

Re: Got it!

[michiexile]

That's one point! :-)

[krfsm.livejournal.com]

#2 is "I'll fly away", made famous (at least to me) by the O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack, where it was performed by Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch. I do believe it's a traditional song, though.

#6 is something I first heard performed by Corvus Corax, but I'm pretty sure it, too, is a traditional thing (given their usual œuvre). And I can't recall the title.

[michiexile]

#2 is perfectly right.
#6 is right artist: which title though? ;-)