Fiddle and Burn Answers
Here are the song titles to go with the lyrics posted earlier. As I said, these are pretty obscure, even by my standards. I'm very happy with the tape as a whole, though.
- 1) "You don't know, just how I lie awake, and dream a while about your smile, and the way you make your ass shake." "Somethin' Hot" by the Afghan Whigs. The kickoff to their party album, 1965.
- 2) "Got it just don't get it 'till there's nothing at all." "Hey Ya" by OutKast. As noted previously, I'm not much for hip-hop, but this I like. I recently bought the album, so sure-to-be-hilariously-off-base commentary will be posted soon.
- 3) "I asked her if she wanted to dance, she said that all she wanted was a good man." "I could Never Take the Place of Your Man" by Prince. This should've been as popular as "Little Red Corvette," back in the day. Go figure.
- 4) "I ain't a jock and I ain't a freak, and I ain't no computer geek." "Time Bomb High School", by the Reigning Sound. If the Ramones used lots of keyboards, they'd sound like this.
- 5) "I think I had a black wallet in my back pocket with a bus ticket and a picture of my baby inside." "Bright Future in Sales" by Fountains of Wayne. The catchiest song you'll ever hear about destructive alcoholism. Kate thinks it should be a single, but I think that editing "I'm gonna get my shit together" for radio would kill the whole chorus.
- 6) "I'll cater, with all the birds that I can kill." "Plea From a Cat Named Virtue" by the Weakerthans. I was tempted to follow this with "Murder or a Heart Attack," to have two songs about cats back-to-back, but I decided that was too cute.
- 7) "I hide in a cave, where I can grab hold of love when I want it." "It's Over" by the Fire Theft. A little operatic prog-rock sort of thing, here. Takes me back to high school.
- 8) "Bittersweet baby, where'd you get that gun?" "Six O'Clock News" by Kathleen Edwards. Another absurdly catchy depressing song. If I could've snuck "Conrad" in here, I'd've hit the trifecta...
- 9) "I don't know what it is they're trying to do to me, make me into some sick joke." "Rock Hard Times" by the Eels. Everybody knows, these are rock hard times...
- 10) "Whatever happened, I apologize. Dry your tears and baby, walk outside." "4th of July" by X. I've got the Dave Alvin version as well, but I like this one a little better, probably because I heard it first.
- 11) "It's the hardest way to give, it's the hardest way to take, it's the hardest way to live for Christ's sake." "The Hardest Way Possible" by Rustic Overtones. A sort of ska/ hip-hop influenced band out of Maine (because when I think of ska and hip-hop, I think of Maine) that was popular with WEQX's DJ's a couple of summers ago. A good summer song.
- 12) "I know things happen for a reason, and that's quite all right with me." "Time Goes By" by the Mavericks. A song by one of the few bands with a horn section that could comfortably play Bob's Country Bunker. Because when I think of ska, hip-hop, and Maine, country music is not far behind.
- 13) "You probably told yourself you're better off without me. When I'm out of sight, I'm out of mind." "The Back of Your Mind" by the Domino Kings. The late-night band at A-Train's wedding.
Side Two:
- 14) "You sound just like Dolly, singin' on the radio." "Help You Dream" by the Blasters. The live version off Trouble Bound, which is vastly superior to the studio version. Phil Alvin does a geat job as a pick-up artist.
- 15) "Wish you were here, wish I was too. I drink myself to sleeplessness, I always do." "Big Brown Eyes" by the Old 97's. Possibly my favorite song off Too Far to Care, which has become my favorite album of theirs.
- 16) "I'm old enough to sin, but too young to vote." "I Feel So Good" by Richard Thompson. We were in a bit of a country rut there, and needed to get out. Having seen him live, he is perhaps the least credible person ever to sing "I'm gonna take someone apart tonight," but damn, he can play guitar.
- 17) "I'm laying out the table for to welcome you back home. I'm calling all the angels for to lighten up your load." "Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead" by Ted Leo. The names make me think that this is probably a reference to something, but I'll be damned if I know what.
- 18) "High upon a parapet a Scottish piper stands alone." "What It Is" by Mark Knopfler. Off Sailing to Philadelphia, where he finally began to accept that what people really want from him is fancy guitar playing.
- 19) "Here she comes breakin' through my window, in the early morning hours." "Lily and Parrots" by Sun Kil Moon. I couldn't find any official lyrics for this online, which tells you something about how well known they are. Another KEXP find.
- 20) "I got sixteen hours to burn, and I'm gonna stay up all night." "Teenage Wristband" by the Twilight Singers. Greg Dulli, singing a song that would almost have fit in on a Whigs album.
- 21) "Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow." "Brimful of Asha" by Cornershop. Every now and then, you just need some really goofy, bouncy pop songs.
- 22) "She's gotta be strong to fight them, so she's taking lots of vitamins." "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (part 1)" by the Flaming Lips. Speaking of goofy... What a strange, strange album this is. And yet, weirdly enjoyable.
- 23) "Beauty's just another word I'm never certain how to spell." "Reconstruction Site" by the Weakerthans. The title track off the best album I've bought in quite a while. It's got all the feature that make me like them (sharp writing, a catchy tune) and that condemn them to obscurity (too-clever lyrics and unconventional song structure). 24) "They said everything was sacred, nothing was profane, and money was just something you throw off the back of trains." "Diamond in Your Mind" by Solomon Burke. A Tom Waits song done by an aging soul legend. Burke does Waits's lounge-singer-from-another-dimension act, only he can actually sing.
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