The 300th Entry

[active_apathy]

Which, true to form, is somewhat quizzical, yey.

So! On account of lack of planning, we have three kinds of questions.

The first kind is made up of questions about a lyric, or rather what's contained in it. Answers will need the actual answer, and the artist and title because, well, because. Where answer and title are the same, you still need the title.

The second time is the normal identify-the-lyric kind. Artist and title, as per normal.

And, because maggiebloome posted some, the third type of question is made up of quotes from films, books, television, and anything else in the whole entire universe. No, it's not music, but it means questions and it means I post this* and it means that I can post things about stuff that happens.

So! On with the post.

Part the First - questions about lyrics.

1. Bustle. Hedgerow. Spring-clean.
   For whom? How shouldn't we be?
   
   It's for the May Queen, and we're advised not to be alarmed now. It's from Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven (tears_of_nienna, abberanteyes, matgb)
   
   
2. Assuming freedom within and without, in what kind of object might one try to catch a deluge?
   
   A paper cup, if Crowded House's Don't Dream It's Over is anything to go by. (deepfishy)
   
   
3. Let's just say that there was a place called Montreaux, kinda near a lake in Switzerland. If a casino were to be burnt down by an idiot with a flaregun, who would've been playing inside at the time?
   
   Frank Zappa and the Mothers (later known as the Mothers of Invention) were playing in the casino at the time; the song is, of course, Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water (silmaril)
   
   
4. What, exactly, did the dry cleaners get out?
   
   The Mustard, from the song The Mustard in BtVS episode Once More With Feeling (data_warrior
   
   
5. The jester sang for the king and queen. From whom did he borrow a coat?
   
   James Dean, as established in Don McLean's American Pie (mrpyro, closely followed by raptor_au)
   
   
6. Hush, little baby, don't say a word, and nevermind that noise you heard... what is it?
   
   The beast under your bead and/or in your closet and/or in your head, from Metallica's Enter Sandman (lesslikeyou and mrpyro)
   
   
7. So, what's the current market price for dirty deeds?
   
   Dirt cheap and that's cutting me own throat. From Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, by AC/DC. (lesslikeyou)
   
   
8. Old loves, they die hard. How do old lies die?
   
   Harder. I Wish I had an Angel, by Nightwish. (raptor_au)
   
   
9. Once upon a time was a backbeat. Once upon a time all the chords came to life. Prior to wings, what did the angels have?
   
   They had guitars, according to Meat Loaf in Rock and Roll Dreams Come True (shaysdays)
   
   
10. He robbed from the rich and he gave to the poor. What else did he do, and who is he?
    
    He also stood up to the man, and gave him what for. He's the Hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne; his deeds are described in The Hero of Canton, from Firefly episode Jaynestown. (raptor_au)

Part the Second - snippetybits of lyrics.

1. I'm made of atoms
   You're made of atoms
   
   
2. Take a litle walk to the edge of town
   Go across the tracks
   Where the viaduct looms
   Like a bird of doom
   As it shifts and cracks
   
   Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Red Right Hand (deepfishy)
   
   
3. Ma-ia-hii
   Ma-ia-huu
   Ma-ia-hoo
   Ma-ia-haha
   
   O-Zone, Dragostea Din Tei (selenitia)
   
   
4. My fall will be for you
   My love will be in you
   If you be the one to cut me
   I'll bleed forever
   
   
5. I wish I could trust
   That it was just this once but
   I must do what I must
   
   Under Your Spell/Standing (reprise), from BtVS episode Once More With Feeling (data_warrior)
   
   
6. And it doesn't matter how you feel now
   Anything at all
   Seems to be your only way, so vicious
   Heavenly apart
   
   Lacuna Coil, Unspoken (mrpyro)
   
   
7. Paint me a picture of eyes that never see
   Flashes of lightning that burn for only me
   Hey, hey, hey - there's only the devil to pay
   I'm ready to go, pull me down from below
   Give me a place I can lay
   
   
8. But as the scenery grows, I see in different lights
   The shades and shadows undulate in my perception
   My feelings swell and stretch; I see from greater heights
   I understand what I am still too proud to mention - to you
   
   Fiona Apple, Never is a Promise (lesslikeyou)
   
   
9. You can look but you can't touch
   I don't think I like you much
   Heaven knows what a girl can do
   Heaven knows what you've got to prove
   
   Garbage, I Think I'm Paranoid (abberanteyes, daphyn, xfunkydoryx)
   
   
10. Now, here is what separates Firefly
    From other shows you're likely to see
    It's meaningful and witty, and the setting's really gritty
    And the theme song's about Serenity
    It's a little like a western (hyah!)
    It's a little like X-Files
    It's better than Trek, and it's funnier than Shrek
    And it beats out Andromeda by miles!

Part the Third - quotes from things that aren't songs.

1. And there was a voice, a high clear, female voice, which said, 'Ow,' and then, very quietly, it said 'Fuck,' and then it said 'Ow,' once more.
   
   And then it said nothing at all, and there was silence in the glade.
   
   Stardust, by Neil Gaiman (data_warrior and deepfishy)
   
   
2. The imp gave a forlorn cry. 'O Brilliant Ray of Starlight, it grieves me, but I do not know! May I be toasted for my ignorance! I simply carry messages, worthless as I am. I go where I'm directed and bring replies by return, never deviating from my course and never pausing - unless I am so fortunate as to be waylaid by your good grace and squashed under a stone.'
   
   An imp to the djinni Bartimaeus in The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud (fireyfox)
   
   
3. I'm going to say "grar" again, only this time it is a happy grar. Grar!
   
   Faye from Questionable Content, after being given a quadruple espresso latte monstrosity. (mrpyro)
   
   
4. People loved those!
   
   Cap'n Tightpants, in the Firefly episode Trash. (lesslikeyou)
   
   
5. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It's unbelievably important. You should eat breakfast at least three times a day.
   
   Buffy to Dawn in BtVS episode 6.04, Flooded (matgb, shaysdays, daphyn, xfunkydoryx)
   
   
6. Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles.
   
   Captain Haddock, of Tintin fame (deepfishy)
   
   
7. Now - counter to the previous syllogism: tricky one, follow me carefully, it may prove a comfort. If we postulate, and we just have, that within un-, sub- or supernatural forces the probability is that the law of probability will not operate as a factor, then we must accept that the probability of the first part will not operate as a factor, in which case the law of probability will operate as a factor within un-, sub- or supernatural forces. And since it obviously hasn't been doing so, we can take it that we are not held within un-, sub- or supernatural forces after all; in all probability, that is. Which is a great relief to me personally.
   
   Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, by Tom Stoppard (deepfishy)
   
   
8. It's only a model
   
   King Arthur's loyal Patsy, speaking of Camelot in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. (raptor_au)
   
   
9. This show is awful!
   - Terrible!
   - Disgusting!
   - See you next week?
   - Of course.
   
   Statler and Waldorf from the Muppet Show (sarekofvulcan, silmaril, daphyn)
   
   
10. Best. Show. Ever.
    
    Joss Whedon, speaking of VM. (lesslikeyou)

And now it has been postede, yey. Also, this means a return to daily posting. Yay!

*Posted, actually, since you're quite obviously seeing this now.

Comments

[eighthcloud.livejournal.com]

Part 1:
6) "It's just a beast under your bed, in your closet, in your head." Enter Sandman - Metallica

7) Those dirty deeds are done dirt cheap - Dirty Deeds - AC/DC

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Six: Yes, yes, and yes some more.

Seven: Close, but I need the rest of the title.

[mrpyro.livejournal.com]

Part the First

5) He borrowed it from James Dean, according to Don McLean in American Pie

6) It's just the beast under your bed in your closet in your head, sayeth Metallica's Enter Sandman

Part the third

3) Faye from Questionable Content, after having been given coffee goodness

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

1, 5: That he did.

1, 6: And if you listen closely, the strikethrough is pronounced.

3, 3: Coffee goodness indeed, namely a quadruple-espresso latte monstrosity.

[eighthcloud.livejournal.com]

Part 2:
3) that goddamn internet song

8) Fiona Apple - Never is a Promise

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Eight: Yes!

[eighthcloud.livejournal.com]

Part 3:
4) wobbly headed geisha dolls! (Firefly)

10) Firefly or Veronica Mars. :)

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Four: Shiny

Ten: I need to know who said it...

[raptor-au.livejournal.com]

Part The First:
5.) The coat, he borrowed from James Dean.
American Pie by Mr Don McLean

8.) Old lies, they die harder *BUM BUM*
I Wish I Had An Angel by Nightwish (I love you for it, btw)

10.) He also stood up to the man and gave him what for. He's the Hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne.
The Hero of Canton by...well, Adam Baldwin, amoung others.

And the others...well, it's after midnight. What do you want? Lit class? :)

Congrats on making three hundred, my dear *bow*

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

5: I'll give you some points for it.

8: They surely do.

10: He did other things, too, but that's the one that comes next in the song.

[data-warrior.livejournal.com]

Part 1
4) The mustard, from episode Once More With Feeling, BtVS

Part 2
5) "Under Your Spell/Standing (Reprise)" from episode Once More With Feeling, BtVS

Part 3
1) Stardust by Neil Gaiman?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

1, 4: That they did. The line also appears later.

2, 5: Again, yes.

3, 1: Indeed it is. Yay Neil.

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

Fit the First:

#2: One might try to catch a deluge in a paper cup. Crowded House, Don't Dream It's Over.

Fit the Second:

#2: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Red Right Hand.

Fit the Third:

#1: Stardust by Neil Gaiman. Yay for the famously quiet fuck.

#6: Ten thousand thundering typhoons! That would be Captain Haddock from the Tintin comics by Herge.

#7: Guildenstern from Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Puppy-Jayne narrowly missed being named Rosencrantz. A lucky escape, I suspect :).

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Five points to yoooouuuu!

[selenitia.livejournal.com]

Part 2, #3:
"Dragostea Din Tei" by O-Zone

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

*nods* That it is. I was considering lines from further in, but then I realised I wouldn't be able to tell if it was written properly.

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that 1.3 is Casino Royale, and 3.9 is the Muppet Show?

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

(James Bond, to actually answer the question given)

[tears-of-nienna.livejournal.com]

Part one, question one: The May Queen. And Led Zeppelin tells us not to be alarmed now.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

That they do, but I need to see what architectural feature the song is named for.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Part the First, Question 3: That would be Frank Zappa and his group. That's the story of the song "Smoke on the Water": Deep Purple was watching the whole fire thing from a hotel nearby.

Part the Third, Question 9: I'm not sure about this one, but The Muppet Show? The two old dudes in their box?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

1-3: Yes, it is. Deep Purple were recording right next to the casino, then were moved along by Swiss authorities; they then went to record in an abandoned hotel.

3-9: It is indeed.

[aberrantangels]

I.1. The spring clean is for the May Queen, and the listener is advised "Don't be alarmed now" (Led Zeppelin, "Stairway to Heaven").

II.9. Garbage, "I Think I'm Paranoid" (and complicated)

(I knew III.6-8 inclusive, but was beaten to them by various and sundry.)

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

1-1: Correct.

2-9: Also right.

[herekittykitty.livejournal.com]

All the ones I knew were already done. :(

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Nathan will dance in penance. Dance, Nathan, dance.

[matgb]

First
1) The May Queen, Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven

10) Actually, only part right. Correct answer is Jesse James, who was, well, one of the inspirations for Jayne? So therefore proper answer should be: He was Jesse James, notorious outlaw and head of the James Gang, and inspiration to a number of fictional characters, including, in part, Jayne from Firefly. Song by Alan Lomax, called Jesse James. Not heard it (speakers not working, it's here), so can't say for sure that Joss used the music or that it was a tribute, but looks like it...

Part two; can never remember lyrics. Themes, daft facts, etc, yes. Could google, but that's cheating in this context...

Part three

5) Buffy to Dawn, Flooded.

The rest are done, 9 rings a bell but not one I can get...

[matgb]

And I just found the answer to two/10, because it came up in a search for the jesse james stuff...

Very silly.

[shaysdays.livejournal.com]

Once upon a time was a backbeat. Once upon a time all the chords came to life. Prior to wings, what did the angels have?

The angels had guitars even before they had wings.

Rock and Roll Dreams Come True, Meatloaf. I love that song so much.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It's unbelievably important. You should eat breakfast at least three times a day.

Xander said that on Buffy the Vampire Slayer! I can't believe I remember it.

[shaysdays.livejournal.com]

(Not Xander... Buffy said it...)

[daphyn.livejournal.com]

Part The Second:
9. Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid (the one Garbage song I know)

Part The Third:
5. Buffy, in Flooded
9. The two guys... Waldorf and the other one... at the end of The Muppet Show :)

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

There's a box of 'yes'es in the corner. Feel free to help yourself. :)

[yobadself.livejournal.com]

I would have totally gotten the Nick Cave and Garbage lyrics is someone else hadn't already.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Well... um... oops?

[theshadowlurker.livejournal.com]

All of the ones I know are done. :(!

Also, yay! I missed my daily apathypost.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Grar.

Also, yay! For it will be back!

[xfunkydoryx.livejournal.com]

Part Two

9. "I Think I'm Paranoid" - Garbage

10. "The Ballad of Joss"

Part Three

5. Buffy to Dawn in the BtVS episode "Flooded".

And 9 is very familiar but I can't think why.

[xfunkydoryx.livejournal.com]

Dammit, I posted before reading comments and the 9s are already got. *sigh*

[one-bullet-left.livejournal.com]

Heeeee Bartimaeus!!! *joy* Um. That would be part three question two. Yes.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

It would indeed. I thought you'd like that, O Ace One. :)