IMDb redux; Guess the song meme

[tree_and_leaf]

The Answers

1
A: And remember, this gun is pointed right at your heart.
B: That is my least vulnerable spot. Casablanca, guessed by wemyss, and just about at the same time by azdak

2
You broke the ship. You broke the bloody ship.. Galaxy Quest, guessed by bookwormsarah

4
If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit. Back to the Future, guessed by bookwormsarah

5
Is there anyone here who speaks English? Or maybe even ancient Greek? Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, guessed by bookwormsarah

6
A: Why, you speak treason!
B: Fluently. The Adventures of Robin Hood, with lots of swashbuckling and pretty frocks and a wonderful Korngold soundtrack, guessed by sacred_sarcasm

12
It was then I received the Victoria Cross for bravery above and beyond the call of duty. Ha ha! Those were the days. Discipline! Discipline was the thing! Builds character, and all that sort of thing, you know. Hathi, in The Jungle Book (the cartoon version), guessed by lareinenoire

14
A: Come, I'm taking you on a walk.
B: No, I've been on a walk.
A: You need another.
B: It's going to rain.
A: It is NOT going to rain.
B: You ALWAYS say that, and then it ALWAYS does. Sense and Sensibility (the Ang Lee one), guessed by nineveh_uk

15
A: Oh, [B]! The most wonderful thing happened!
B: What?
A: Guess.
B: They repealed prohibition? Some Like It Hot, guessed by parrot_knight

Up for grabs

i. Damn it, Jim, what the hell is the matter with you? Other people have birthdays, why are we treating yours like a funeral?

A: He's never what I expect, sir.
B: What surprises you, Lieutenant?
A: He's so - human.
B: Nobody's perfect.

Y: Is that a poem?
X: No. Something Spock was trying to tell me. On my birthday. Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, guessed by angenvin2


ii. It happened once... It happened once, and so it will be forever.

When the child was a child, it was the time of these questions. Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there? When did time begin, and where does space end? Isn't life under the sun just a dream? Isn't what I see, hear, and smell just the mirage of a world before the world? Does evil actually exist, and are there people who are really evil? How can it be that I, who am I, wasn't before I was, and that sometime I, the one I am, no longer will be the one I am?

It's great to live by the spirit, to testify day by day for eternity, only what's spiritual in people's minds. But sometimes I'm fed up with my spiritual existence. Instead of forever hovering above I'd like to feel a weight grow in me to end the infinity and to tie me to earth. I'd like, at each step, each gust of wind, to be able to say "Now." Now and now" and no longer "forever" and "for eternity." Der Himmel über Berlin, guessed by prelud.


iii. A: Whaddya thinkin' about?
B: Girls... naked girls... in a fishtank.

B:Why don't we kill it? Hit it with something hard...
A: You've already done that with a two-ton automobile!

C: You want to buy my church?
A: Not as a going concern.


iv A: Are you laughing at me?
B: I am laughing because what I see is laughable. I see a coward, a man running from the world.

With an orchestra, the Jesuits could have subdued the entire continent.

So, your Holiness, now your priests are dead, and I am left alive. But in truth it is I who am dead, and they who live. For as always, your Holiness, the spirit of the dead will survive in the memory of the living.


v. A: When's your mother's birthday?
B: Why?
A: I'm sending her two thousand gardenias.

I like to think of life as a limousine... though we are all riding together we must remember our places, there is a front seat and a back seat and a window in between.

A: After all, this is the 20th century, Father
C: Twentieth century? Why, I could pick a century out of a hat, blindfolded, and come up with a better one.

D: Where are you off to?
A: The office. Where do you think?
D: The office? On Sunday?
A: Today is Wednesday. Sabrina, guessed by harriet_wimsey


vii.
I know he was a good man at whatever it was he did. No one was more pleased than I when I heard you had taken him on as your... whatever he was.

A:You're not very tall are you?
B: Well, I, uh, I try to be.

She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up.

Somebody's always giving me guns.




Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line(s) from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song. (Skip the instrumentals, the remixes and the mashups)
Step 3: Let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.

In addition, I have removed the spoken word tracks, and the ones that began in Russian and that I thus couldn’t spell… Some of them are from opera or similar, in which case I recommend guessing the opera and composer)


1. “Don’t close the door”
2. “There was a lady in the north, you scarce would find her marrow”
3. “Bleib Senta!”
4. “Oh the summer time is coming, and the leaves are sweetly blooming” The Wild Mountain Thyme, in this case by Hall and McGregor, guessed by angevin2 and nineveh_uk
5. “The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart”
6. “I know that lately things haven’t been so good” I will be your friend, by Sade, guessed by mswanderlust
7. “I bless the day I found you, I want to stay around you”
8. “Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy” Sunshine on My Shoulders, by John Denver, guessed by angevin2
9. “All around my hat I will wear the green willow” All Around My Hat, by Steeleye Span, guessed by parrot_knight and angevin2
10. “Down among the reeds and rushes, a baby boy was found”
11. “In the chilly hours and minutes of uncertainty, I want to be in the warm hold of your loving mind” Catch the Wind, by Donovan, and guessed by doctor_biscuit, who kindly enlightened me as to the actual words.
12. “Kiss me, among the bearded barley” Kiss me, Sixpence None The Richer, who I think are probably the only band named in reference to CS Lewis who have had a UK number One... I remain irrationally convinced that this song is actually about bridal mysticism and that the young man in question is Our Lord - but this probably just shows that you can over think things.
13. “Long as I remember, the rain’s been coming down” Who'll Stop the Rain? by Creedence Clearwater Revival, and guessed by rosemary_green
14. “Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away” Bleedingly obvious - The Beatles with Yesterday, in this case first guessed by angevin2
15. “If I could make a wish, I think I’d pass” The Air That I Breathe, in this case by Albert Hammond rather than the Hollies, guessed by snorkackcatcher.
16. “Woke up one morning fast asleep with all my blankets in a heap” Flowers in the Rain, by The Move, guessed by parrot_knight, which as any fule kno was the first record played on Radio 1.
17. “The little creatures run in from the cold, back to the nest just like in days of old”
18. “He watching over Israel slumbers not” Mendelssohn's Elijah, guessed by angevin2
19. “There’s a man I meet, walks up our street, he’s been working for the council these twenty years” Dignity, Deacon Blue, guessed by eagles_rock
20. “A lady was walking on a midsummer’s day”

Comments

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

9 - 'All around my hat', Steeleye Span
16 - One of those seminal moments in British radio, 'Flowers in the rain', The Move

[tree_and_leaf]

Both quite correct!

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

18 - ought to be a Handel opera, but which...?

14 - seems obvious but must be a trick question - 'Yesterday', but is it actually the Beatles?

[tree_and_leaf]

18 - isn't; it's later - and as angevin2 says, it's Mendelssohn's Elijah.

14 No, quite right - it is a random meme, after all!

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

i is Star Trek II.

For the iTunes meme:

4. "Wild Mountain Thyme"
8. "Sunshine On My Shoulders" by John Denver
9. "All Around My Hat" -- I'm guessing the Steeleye Span version?
14. "Yesterday" by the Beatles
18. "He watching over Israel" from Mendelssohn's Elijah (yay, I am singing in that!)

[tree_and_leaf]

All correct. The particular version of 'Wild Mountain Thyme,' as it happens, is Robin Hall and Jimmie McGregor, but you can't tell with folk songs...

And lucky you - Elijah sounds as if it would be fun to sing in.

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

It is fun! This is my second time doing it. :)

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I am _rubbish_ at film quotes. And I know that I've seen (i) and have no idea what it is.

4. Wild Mountain Thyme!

12. I know it, but have no idea what it is called.

14. Is fairly obvious!

That is quite astonishingly good for me on a music meme, especially as I also know (9).

[tree_and_leaf]

12 - actually, the title's in the opening line of the song. It's also, I think, the only piece of music that I own by a self-identifyingly Christian group†, though you wouldn't know from the words


† Assuming we discount various choirs, and also discounting Runrig. I have no idea about any of the band's religious affiliations, but they do sound suspiciously Christian a lot of the time.

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

11 is 'Catch the Wind' by Donovan (on checking, the line appears to be 'the warm hold of your loving mind', but I always mentally sang heart!)

[tree_and_leaf]

It is indeed, and thanks for the correction (Donovan is pretty incomprehensible at times!)

[prelud.livejournal.com]

ii - Der Himmel über Berlin!

[tree_and_leaf]

Hurrah! At last someone got it!

[prelud.livejournal.com]

"Als das Kind Kind war..."
I need to rewatch it. A difficult film to quote, unless you quote the whole monologue...

[tree_and_leaf]

Yes, it's not a film that lends itself to being choped up into little bits... I wish my copy wasn't in storage.

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

12. "Kiss Me" by Sixpence & None the Richer

I love this song! It is so shamelessly '90s with the "sparkly guitars" and it reminds me of the year I was dating/engaged to my husband.

[tree_and_leaf]

Quite right. I'm fond of it too, though I don't have any specific memories associated with it, other than it came out when I was still at secondary school.

I also have a crack theory that it's about bridal mysticism, but that's probably my thesis rubbing off on me....

[penguinity.livejournal.com]

Somebody's always giving me guns.

I don't know! But I like it.

[tree_and_leaf]

It's a good film. The plot makes no sense whatsoever, but it's a good film.

[eagles-rock.livejournal.com]

19. “There’s a man I meet, walks up our street, he’s been working for the council these twenty years”

'Dignity' or 'A ship called Dignity' by Deacon Blue.

[tree_and_leaf]

Quite right.

[harriet-wimsey.livejournal.com]

Is v from Sabrina?

[tree_and_leaf]

Yes, it is. The script's brilliant - I'm not entirely convinced that it's a romantic story, but it hardly seems to matter!

[snorkackcatcher]

15 -- 'The Air That I Breathe' by the Hollies (or Albert Hammond?)

19 -- 'Dignity' by Deacon Blue

[tree_and_leaf]

Quite correct. And while I have both on my computer, in this case 15 was Albert Hammond.

[ms-wanderlust.livejournal.com]

I had to listen to the start of most songs in the album, but (6) is "I Will Be Your Friend" by Sade.

[tree_and_leaf]

Yes, it is indeed.

[rosemary-green.livejournal.com]

13 sounds like "Who'll Stop the Rain" by Creedence Clearwater Revival...

[tree_and_leaf]

Quite right!