philosopherking1887:

URL songs game

The rules are spell out your url with a song starting with each letter of your name.

I was tagged by @lucianalight (two weeks ago, sorry…) and it just looked like too much fun to resist! I may be cheating, though… I was having trouble coming up with song titles, so I opened my iTunes and sorted the songs alphabetically by title so I could find the ones I’m especially fond of. I’ve decided that articles (A, The) don’t count as starting letters. And yes, I’m going to do the numbers at the end of my URL, too.

Pirate Jenny from The Threepenny Opera, music by Kurt Weill, original German lyrics by Bertolt Brecht, English lyrics/translation by Marc Blitzstein. The recording I have is sung by Judy Collins.

The Highwayman by Loreena McKennitt, words from the poem by Alfred Noyes. (Guess I’m really into pseudo-folk ballads, huh?)

I Am a Rock, Simon & Garfunkel

The Lakes of Pontchartrain, a 19th-century American ballad of unknown origin (which I still have stuck in my head after hearing it on NPR last week). My recording is by a Celtic band called Deanta.

O, Valencia!, The Decemberists (more pseudo-folk ballads that get stuck in my head really easily)

Satan Is My Motor, CAKE (this is kind of my personal anthem)

Old Friends/Bookends, Simon & Garfunkel

Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, Tom Lehrer (look it up, really)

Hurt Before, The Corrs

Eleanor Rigby, The Beatles

Rockin’ the Suburbs, Ben Folds

“Kind captain, I’ve important information” from Gilbert & Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore (I have the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company recording). As with many operas, the “title” is actually just the first line of the song.  This might seem like a really weird thing to include, but I have very fond memories from when I was in 2nd grade and my sister was in 5th grade and the older kids in the elementary school choir put on a remarkably respectable production of Pinafore, and my sister’s classmate who played Dick Deadeye was especially hammy and wonderful. I even made a joke/reference to this song in the notes to a chapter of The Abyss Gazes Also: “The merry cat o’ nine tails, the merry cat o’ nine tails, the merry cat o’ nine tails and the tar!”

It’s a Hit, Rilo Kiley

Nightswimming, R.E.M.

Gollum’s Song from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, music by Howard Shore, lyrics by Fran Walsh, performed by Emiliana Torrini. (This is such a Loki song!)

1 By One All Day, The Shins

8 Days a Week, The Beatles

8 Miles High, The Byrds

7 Devils, Florence + The Machine (also a great Loki song)

Whew, that was a lot. Gonna tag some of the usual suspects whose URLs aren’t that long because I’m not completely sadistic: @acebakes, @darklittlestories, @foundlingmother (OK, yours is pretty long but none of the letters are too weird), @illwynd, @iscariotsss, @loxxxlay (sorry about the X’s, but I would like to see what you come up with), @pedeka, @seidrade

Thanks for the tag, @satanssyn-n-things ! As you can see, I already did this one, which is amazing because I’ve been really bad at keeping up with tag games lately. Here it is again, in case you were curious.