Just for fun.
Which songs do these lyrics come from?
1. I´ll be your clown or your puppet or your April Fool / If you´ll be my sunshine daisy from L.A
2. Each time I remember the day you went away / and how I would listen to the things you had to say
3. Smiles in the sunshine and tears in the rain / Still take me back to where my memories remain
4. How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?
5. At party time and Christmas too / We know that she’ll be there
6. Now five years later on youve got the world at your feet / Success has been so easy for you
7. Wonder if you’ll understand / It’s just the touch of your hand / Behind the closed door
8. (Here’s to you) raise a glass for everyone / (Here’s to them) underneath that burning sun
9. Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasnt died / Give me one more chance to keep you satisfied
10. A time for living, a time for believing / A time for trusting, not deceiving
11. Bittersweet memories / That is all I’m taking with me
12. Now I don’t know where we are / Although I know we’ve drifted far
13. Time to get busy / Such a lot to do / Building and fixing / ‘Til it’s good as new
14. The dreams in which I’m dying / Are the best I’ve ever had
15. Everything changes, but beauty remains / Something so tender I can’t explain
That’s enough, I think. Special bonus: what do these songs have in common?
{ 5 comments… read them below or add one }
Olive Morgan 12.16.08 at 8:13 am
What do these songs have in common? I’ve never heard a single one of them!
Paul Martin 12.16.08 at 8:50 am
All No 1 hits?
tortoise 12.16.08 at 9:11 am
I’ve got 6, 8, 9, 10, a strong hunch on 13, and 3 is on the tip of my brain.
And I reckon Paul Martin is *half*-right…
Wood 12.16.08 at 9:59 am
They’re all Christmas number 1s.
1. Jimmy Osmond — “Long-Haired Lover from Liverpool”
2. Mud — “Lonely This Christmas”
3. Paul McCartney — “Mull of Kintyre”. Bastard.
4. Pink Floyd — “Another Brick in the Wall”. This was never a Christmas number 1, was it? Wait, Wikipedia says so, so it must be true.
5. I think this is the St. Winifred’s Choir with “There’s No One Quite Like Grandma”.
6. Human League with don’t, “Don’t You Want Me?”
7. Flying Pickets — “Only You”. Ba ba ba ba. Ba ba ba ba. Ba ba ba ba. Ba ba ba ba.
8. “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” which has been number 1 at least 3 times with three different incarnations of Band Aid, of varying quality.
9. “Always on My Mind”. Wasn’t it the Pet Shop Boys’ version that was a Christmas Number 1? It wees all over Elvis’ version. And it has a really demented video (”I am going there, but I like it here. Wherever it is”). This is the single best thing on your list by some distance.
10. Cliff Richard’s “Mistletoe and Wine”.
11. Whitney Houston, “I Will Always Love You”, a favourite of American Psycho Patrick Bateman.
12. Is this “Earth Song”? By Michael Jackson?
13. the Bob the Builder theme
14 is “Mad World”, which, in the anaemic version by Gary Jules, topped the Christmas charts a few years ago. Number 2 that year was the Darkness with the hilarious and vastly superior “Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End)”. I remember being in my sister-in-law’s rather charismatic church the week after that Christmas, and some guy standing up saying how glad he was that “Darkness wasn’t number 1 this Christmas” and thinking, “wanker.”
15. I confess. I had to Google this one, since I have never even heard of it - It’s Leona Lewis (an X Factor winner?) with “A Moment Like This”.
Could have been worse. You didn’t quote East 17 or the Spice Girls (who had three in a row). But, what no Girls Aloud?
Anyway, I think this proves that Christmas number 1s are rarely any good.
Richard 12.16.08 at 10:26 am
Full marks to Wood. They are all indeed UK Christmas no 1’s (though many are also steaming piles of no 2’s
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