A music quiz...

[mikekn]

...who's answers I don't know (yet). Name the title and artist from the following first lines of the song (punctuation placed randomly):

1 "Black bird claw, raven wing, under the red sun"
2 "Who's seen Jezebel?"
3 "Dangerous - thunder and lightning"
4 "Oh my nose froze"
5 ...umm... not sure...but not English - got it: "
6 "At the broken heart of the city where the hollow light of day never reaches..."
7 hmm...also not English. This may be harder then I thought.
8 "Only ever really one story"
9 "Oh you shouldn't have kissed me and got me so excited..."
10 "I'm stalking a fan."
11 "Here she comes in her palanquin, on the back of an elephant"
12 "There's a place your mother goes when everybody else is soundly sleeping"
13 "If language were liquid it would be rushing in"
14 "Sleep walking through the all night drugstore"
15 "Holiday quiet on these streets, except for some stubborn leaves that didn't fall with the fall"
16 "Live a life less ordinary"
17 "I'm not in love with the modern world"
18 "I got a hand, so I got a fist"
19 "Oo can you hear me?"

Using Google is cheating.
(complexated, you can email your answers :) )

Edit to add correct answers so far:
3 Trout Fishing in America - Dangerous - bobbinchick
4 Trout Fishing in America - Alberta Postcard - bobbinchick
5 QNTL - Ecce Gratum - complexated
7 QNTL - Stella Splendens - complexated
9 - Kirsty MacColl - Engalnd 2 Columbia 0 - hairness
10 - Kirsty MacColl - Treachery - hairness
13 Suzanne Vega - Language - metageek & notshakespeare
14 Ani Difranco - Superhero - danguyf
15 Carbon Leaf - What About Everything - woodwindy
16 Carbon Leaf - Life Less Ordinary - woodwindy

Comments

[notshakespeare.livejournal.com]

13. I'm singing the Suzanne Vega tune (from her second? album) but I'm not sure of the title. Is it "Gone"?

If Language Were Liquid

[metageek.livejournal.com]

I think it's just "Language"—and I think it's from her first album, Suzanne Vega. Let me go hit my music player (hey, it's not Google!...and I guessed first). OK, I'm half right: it's "Language", but it's on her second album, Solitude Standing.

Re: If Language Were Liquid

[notshakespeare.livejournal.com]

The arrangements were more complex on her second album, so I wasn't sure if it was Solitude Standing or the next one.