updated: October 18, 2009
Yep, you’ve figured out that I steal music titles or lyrics for my ‘musings’ post titles.
At first, I included the artists in the tags, but then, ehhhn, I stopped.
Still, credit:
- Television man: Talking Heads
- Whip it: Devo
- Oops, I did it again: Britney Spears
- Baby it’s cold outside
- Clocks: Coldplay
- One thing leads to another: The Fixx
- Jane says: Jane’s Addiction
- The sweetness follows: REM
- Bury me deep: Poi Dog Pondering
- Shattered: Rolling Stones
- Hukilau: Jack Owens
- My Antonia: Emmylou Harris
- The pearl: Emmylou Harris
- Money, money, money: ABBA
- I know it’s true but I’m sorry to say: Violent Femmes
- Sittin’ on the dock of the bay: Otis Redding
- Santa Claus is coming to town
- Pass in time: Beth Orton
- Driving sideways: Aimee Mann
- If you love somebody set them free: Sting
- Paper in fire: John Mellencamp
- Running on empty: Jackson Brown (curses! the second time I’ve used this! shoulda checked. . .)
- In my room: Beach Boys
- Under my thumb: Rolling Stones
- Way down now: World Party
- One big love: Emmylou Harris (Patty Griffin & Angelo)
- No more words: Berlin
- Prologue: Into the woods: Stephen Sondheim
- spoken prelude to Stay with me: Stephen Sondheim, Into the Woods
- Ya got trouble: Meredith Wilson, Music Man
- She came in through the bathroom window: Beatles
- Complicated: Poi Dog Pondering
- Playmate, come out and play with me: childhood rhyme
- Power to the people: John Lennon
- Comfortably numb: Pink Floyd
- Talkin’ at the Texaco: James McMurtry
- A girl in trouble (is a temporary thing): Romeo Void
- Sisters are doing it for themselves: Eurythmics
- School: Supertramp
- Don’t get your back up: Sarah Harmer
- Falling down: Tom Waits
- Won’t get fooled again: The Who
- Ghost in the machine: Police
- No one is alone: Stephen Sondheim, Into the Woods
- This is the sea: the Waterboys
- Lately: David Gray
- Running to stand still: U2
- Lion sleeps tonight: folk song
- Slow motion: David Gray
- Same time tomorrow: Laurie Anderson
- The last day of our acquaintance: Sinead O’Connor
- Walking in your footsteps: Police
- Time of inconvenience: Nancy Griffith
- Strange Angels: Laurie Anderson
- Wrong: Everything But the Girl
- Kiss off: Violent Femmes
- The planners dream goes wrong: The Jam
- So far away: Carole King
- Summertime blues:
- Watermelon song: Poi Dog Pondering (nb: the lyric is actually wishing like a mountain/thinking like the sea)
- Karma police: Radiohead
- This city never sleeps: Eurythmics
- Ain’t nobody’s business: Billie Holiday’s version
- Janey’s got a gun: Aerosmith
- Teach the children well: CSNY
- Let it snow:
- Unhappy birthday: Smiths (nb: the lyric is actually I’ve come to wish you. . . )
- Bird on a wire: Leonard Cohen
- Some cats know: Jeanie Bryson version
- Stupid girl: Garbage
- Wise up: Aimee Mann
- You don’t send me flowers: Neil Diamond & Barbra Streisand
- Do the right thing
- She’s got a new spell: Billy Bragg
- The Flesh Failures: soundtrack from Hair
- Beautiful: Carole King
- Rawhide
- You can’t always get what you want: Rolling Stones
- Falling Down: Tom Waits
- Sing Sing Sing:
- Theme song to The Jeffersons
- Fifty-fifty chance: Suzanne Vega
- And you will know us by the trail of dead (band)
- School: Supertramp
- Ainadamar: Hwang/Golijov
- Respect Yourself: Mitch Rice and Luther Ingram (sung by The Staple Singers)
- Alive and kicking: Simple Minds
- Ainadamar, various: David Hwang/Osvaldo Golijov
- Get off of my cloud: Rolling Stones
- Sing a song: Carpenters
- Java Jive: Manhattan Transfer
- Stay Awake: Suzanne Vega (from a cd of Disney cover tunes)
- U li la lu lau: Poi Dog Pondering
- Once in a lifetime: Talking Heads
- Everything in its right place:
- My father’s waltz: hem
- Johnny, are you queer?: Josie Cotton
- Please mr. postman:
- There must be a passion in the language: Suzanne Vega
- Sandra at the beach: Poi Dog Pondering
- At last: Etta James
- Dead can dance (the band Dead Can Dance)
- Is there anybody out there: somewhere in Pink Floyd’s The Wall
- Bomp beep bomp bmml: phonetic approximation of a Rickie Lee Jones rift
- Waiting for the great leap forward: Billy Bragg
- I fall to pieces: Patsy Cline
- The fire thief: Hem
- Talk talk: Talk Talk
- Why I sing the blues: Aretha Franklin (BB King)
- Devil song: Beth Orton
- Indirection:
- Judas my heart: belly
- Stories for boys: Cure
- Stories from the city, stories from the sea: PJ Harvey
- On a rooftop in Brooklyn: PJ Harvey
- Get me on: Poi Dog Pondering
- Yesterday, once more: Carpenters
- I want your sex: George Michael (?)
- Young Americans: David Bowie
- Complicated: Poi Dog Pondering
- Bitter pill: Annie Lennox
- Similar promises: Pigeon-Hole
- All blue: Cherie Knight
- This woman’s work: Kate Bush
- Karma Police: Radiohead
- Ain’t no love: David Gray
- Gravel: Exene Cervenka
- Sorrow floats: Voice of the Beehive
- Some cats know: version by Jeanie Bryson
- Running on empty: Jackson Brown
Note 1: I’m listing the band or performance, not the songwriter. At some point guilt will overcome me and I’ll add the person who actually wrote the damned lyrics I’m stealing. But right now laziness rules my conscience.
