"So Take This Night and Wrap it Around Me like a Sheet..."
Stolen from by Alexi_Lupin
Rules:
1. Write down every letter of your name.
2. Then type a song that pops up in your mind in each letter of your name as the first letter.
3. Count the letters of your name, and tag that many people.
I was going to do Alexi_Lupin's version, but I don't have that many instrumental songs, at least not for the right letters, so instead I'm cheating and using my first and middle names to make it longer. *laughs*
Remember When It Rained - Josh Groban: I love this song. It's utterly gorgeous and his voice just makes me fall in love with it over and over again.
U nderwear - The Magnetic Fields: There are no words for this song, it's smoky and popish and never fails to make me smile.
B etween the Bars - Madeleine Peyroux: Soft and Bluesy like a doomed waltz. This was the first song I ever got inspired enough from that I made a fanvid to it, the fact that I still like it after having had to listen to it over and over and over again to do so should tell you something. *laughs*
Y our New Twin-Sized Bed - Death Cab for Cutie: Omg, I love this song. It's rather upbeat musically, but the lyrics are about someone watching a friend giving up on love and it's sad, but brilliant.
R uby's Arms - Tom Waits: This was the first song I ever found with my name in it. It is softer than the other songs I've heard by him, sweet even in a really rough way, you can just feel the pain of it.
U nfeeling Kiss, The - Gabriel Yared (From 'The City of Angels'): Beautiful instrumental piece that is so sweet and gentle it could break your heart.
T here's a Fine Line - Avenue Q (Original Broadway Cast): Oof-ta, I need more 'T's in my name, it was so hard to pick just one song for this letter! Ultimately I choose this one because out of all of them this is the one I've listened to the most and it still gets me the same now as it did the first time. Warning: it is a little squeaky at points due to being sung by a puppet. *laughs*
H alleujah - Rufus Wainwright: The 'Shrek' soundtrack is the only CD I've ever bought because of one song; this song. Years later it's still the best version I've ever heard, almost mournful and so beautiful that if I'm in the right mood it can literally cause me to weep.
A valanche - Leonard Cohen: The music of this is rather simple being mostly a strummed guitar, but the lyrics are gorgeously poetic ("Well, I stepped into an avalanche/it covered up my soul") and he has a voice on this kind of like Tom Waits: it's deep and gravely and sends shivers down my spine every single time I heard it.
N eighbourhood - Space: A British song with lyrics guaranteed to get stuck in your head and a beat that makes you either want to fight or dance.
N ice - Lucky Stiff (Original Broadway Cast): Got this song from a fanmix so I have no idea what goes on in the play and still I love this song, it's funny, yet sweet and rather pretty all at the same time.
D on't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News - Mabel King (From 'The Wiz'): I dare you to try and listen to this without dancing or at the very least tapping your toes. It's impossible, I swear. This song (along with 'Be Prepared' from 'The Lion King') is also one of the big reasons I tend to think fictional villains are better (or at least more interesting/fun) than the heroes. :D
A pple Candy - Ben Lee: This song is so soft and hypnotic. The lyrics make me think of a man with a crush on a nun and I just love the whole thing.
I Am What I Am - John Barrowman: Slightly cheesy, over-the-top and utter fabulous.
S he Could Be You - Shawn Hlookoff (from 'Kyle XY'): This is meant to sound like a song you'd hear come out of an old diner jukebox and, while I'm not sure they hit that quite right, it is pretty and very catchy/addicting.
Y eah! Oh, Yeah! - The Magnetic Fields: *giggles* Divorce as done by the king of witty/hysterical macabre.
L ove, Love, Love - The Mountain Goats: Soft and almost sweet sounding with rather... creepy(?) lyrics ("Raskalnikov felt sick/But he couldn't say why/When he saw his face reflected/In his victim's twinkling eye"). Listen to it before you turn it down though as it's one of those songs people tend to love without being able to really explain why, I should know: I've listen to it 139 times according to Itunes and I'm still not sure how to explain it. :)
E 18 - Detektivbyrån: An instrumental song that I think is play mostly on an accordion (I could be completely and totally wrong), it's very Circus-y sounding and always makes me think of childhood fairs and music boxes.
V ampire Waltz, The - Hannah Fury: If you've ever listened to her you know what to expect: beautiful piano playing and a breathy, ethereal voice which works brilliantly in this song. I love, love, love the lyrics to this (listening to this on headphone is recommended as the words are a little hard to heard otherwise). It is a bit long at 8.5 minutes long and I will find myself growing... not bored, but almost tired in a way, longing for it to end which fits with the feelings of the girl in the song who's been basically tricked into becoming a vampire that after it ends, despite having wished for it to do so, I tend to start it all over again.
I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt: A true classic that everyone, I think, needs to hear at least once.
N obody Knows Me at All - The Weepies: Got this off a James Wilson fanmix and it fits him so well, so if you like him there you go, if not it's still a upbeat song that pretty much begs you to sing along. Truthfully I love every song I've heard by them so far.
A wake O'Sleeper - Nicholas Kirk: A rough and dusty song with an almost religious tilt to it and a pounding beat like the thud of sledgehammers that I can see being sung by poor railroad workers/miners or slaves.
L et It Be - Carol Wood (from 'Across The Universe'): A cover of a Beatles song that I actually like much better than the original (I know, please don't stone me). It starts with a boy singing A Capella before fading into a woman singing it like gospel and it's possibly the most gorgeous thing I've ever heard, there are literally times during it where I forget to breathe.
E Bay - Weird Al Yankavic: As with many of his songs this makes everyone I've ever had listen to it laugh and gets stuck in their head to the point where it often makes them giggle every time they surf the internet for the rest of their life.
N ot Ready to Make Nice - Dixie Chicks: This is such a soft song and you can tell that they're slightly broken, but they're also still standing and still willing to fight. It's a very... inspiring song, if rather sad.
O nline - Brad Paisley: I had a real hard time choosing a song for this one, ultimately I choose the fun non-musical one that always make me smile and sing along, though everyone else wishes I wouldn't. *laughs* The offcial music video should really be watched too so as to insure maximum enjoyment. :D
R unning Up That Hill - Placebo: Got this off a Merlin/Arthur fanmix. It's actually a cover, but I love this version much better (mainly as the lead singer can, you know, sing). It's soft in a almost gritty way like he's fighting against a storm that he is never actually going to win and it's... not beautiful, but very... sincere-feeling.
E xplosive - Bond: High energy instrumental song with some fantastic string playing that is guaranteed to make you feel like James Bond if you're in the car when it comes on.
Please give the songs a go and tell me what you think! I'm eager to know! :D
Rules:
1. Write down every letter of your name.
2. Then type a song that pops up in your mind in each letter of your name as the first letter.
3. Count the letters of your name, and tag that many people.
I was going to do Alexi_Lupin's version, but I don't have that many instrumental songs, at least not for the right letters, so instead I'm cheating and using my first and middle names to make it longer. *laughs*
Remember When It Rained - Josh Groban: I love this song. It's utterly gorgeous and his voice just makes me fall in love with it over and over again.
U nderwear - The Magnetic Fields: There are no words for this song, it's smoky and popish and never fails to make me smile.
B etween the Bars - Madeleine Peyroux: Soft and Bluesy like a doomed waltz. This was the first song I ever got inspired enough from that I made a fanvid to it, the fact that I still like it after having had to listen to it over and over and over again to do so should tell you something. *laughs*
Y our New Twin-Sized Bed - Death Cab for Cutie: Omg, I love this song. It's rather upbeat musically, but the lyrics are about someone watching a friend giving up on love and it's sad, but brilliant.
R uby's Arms - Tom Waits: This was the first song I ever found with my name in it. It is softer than the other songs I've heard by him, sweet even in a really rough way, you can just feel the pain of it.
U nfeeling Kiss, The - Gabriel Yared (From 'The City of Angels'): Beautiful instrumental piece that is so sweet and gentle it could break your heart.
T here's a Fine Line - Avenue Q (Original Broadway Cast): Oof-ta, I need more 'T's in my name, it was so hard to pick just one song for this letter! Ultimately I choose this one because out of all of them this is the one I've listened to the most and it still gets me the same now as it did the first time. Warning: it is a little squeaky at points due to being sung by a puppet. *laughs*
H alleujah - Rufus Wainwright: The 'Shrek' soundtrack is the only CD I've ever bought because of one song; this song. Years later it's still the best version I've ever heard, almost mournful and so beautiful that if I'm in the right mood it can literally cause me to weep.
A valanche - Leonard Cohen: The music of this is rather simple being mostly a strummed guitar, but the lyrics are gorgeously poetic ("Well, I stepped into an avalanche/it covered up my soul") and he has a voice on this kind of like Tom Waits: it's deep and gravely and sends shivers down my spine every single time I heard it.
N eighbourhood - Space: A British song with lyrics guaranteed to get stuck in your head and a beat that makes you either want to fight or dance.
N ice - Lucky Stiff (Original Broadway Cast): Got this song from a fanmix so I have no idea what goes on in the play and still I love this song, it's funny, yet sweet and rather pretty all at the same time.
D on't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News - Mabel King (From 'The Wiz'): I dare you to try and listen to this without dancing or at the very least tapping your toes. It's impossible, I swear. This song (along with 'Be Prepared' from 'The Lion King') is also one of the big reasons I tend to think fictional villains are better (or at least more interesting/fun) than the heroes. :D
A pple Candy - Ben Lee: This song is so soft and hypnotic. The lyrics make me think of a man with a crush on a nun and I just love the whole thing.
I Am What I Am - John Barrowman: Slightly cheesy, over-the-top and utter fabulous.
S he Could Be You - Shawn Hlookoff (from 'Kyle XY'): This is meant to sound like a song you'd hear come out of an old diner jukebox and, while I'm not sure they hit that quite right, it is pretty and very catchy/addicting.
Y eah! Oh, Yeah! - The Magnetic Fields: *giggles* Divorce as done by the king of witty/hysterical macabre.
L ove, Love, Love - The Mountain Goats: Soft and almost sweet sounding with rather... creepy(?) lyrics ("Raskalnikov felt sick/But he couldn't say why/When he saw his face reflected/In his victim's twinkling eye"). Listen to it before you turn it down though as it's one of those songs people tend to love without being able to really explain why, I should know: I've listen to it 139 times according to Itunes and I'm still not sure how to explain it. :)
E 18 - Detektivbyrån: An instrumental song that I think is play mostly on an accordion (I could be completely and totally wrong), it's very Circus-y sounding and always makes me think of childhood fairs and music boxes.
V ampire Waltz, The - Hannah Fury: If you've ever listened to her you know what to expect: beautiful piano playing and a breathy, ethereal voice which works brilliantly in this song. I love, love, love the lyrics to this (listening to this on headphone is recommended as the words are a little hard to heard otherwise). It is a bit long at 8.5 minutes long and I will find myself growing... not bored, but almost tired in a way, longing for it to end which fits with the feelings of the girl in the song who's been basically tricked into becoming a vampire that after it ends, despite having wished for it to do so, I tend to start it all over again.
I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt: A true classic that everyone, I think, needs to hear at least once.
N obody Knows Me at All - The Weepies: Got this off a James Wilson fanmix and it fits him so well, so if you like him there you go, if not it's still a upbeat song that pretty much begs you to sing along. Truthfully I love every song I've heard by them so far.
A wake O'Sleeper - Nicholas Kirk: A rough and dusty song with an almost religious tilt to it and a pounding beat like the thud of sledgehammers that I can see being sung by poor railroad workers/miners or slaves.
L et It Be - Carol Wood (from 'Across The Universe'): A cover of a Beatles song that I actually like much better than the original (I know, please don't stone me). It starts with a boy singing A Capella before fading into a woman singing it like gospel and it's possibly the most gorgeous thing I've ever heard, there are literally times during it where I forget to breathe.
E Bay - Weird Al Yankavic: As with many of his songs this makes everyone I've ever had listen to it laugh and gets stuck in their head to the point where it often makes them giggle every time they surf the internet for the rest of their life.
N ot Ready to Make Nice - Dixie Chicks: This is such a soft song and you can tell that they're slightly broken, but they're also still standing and still willing to fight. It's a very... inspiring song, if rather sad.
O nline - Brad Paisley: I had a real hard time choosing a song for this one, ultimately I choose the fun non-musical one that always make me smile and sing along, though everyone else wishes I wouldn't. *laughs* The offcial music video should really be watched too so as to insure maximum enjoyment. :D
R unning Up That Hill - Placebo: Got this off a Merlin/Arthur fanmix. It's actually a cover, but I love this version much better (mainly as the lead singer can, you know, sing). It's soft in a almost gritty way like he's fighting against a storm that he is never actually going to win and it's... not beautiful, but very... sincere-feeling.
E xplosive - Bond: High energy instrumental song with some fantastic string playing that is guaranteed to make you feel like James Bond if you're in the car when it comes on.
Please give the songs a go and tell me what you think! I'm eager to know! :D