1993
“Who wants honey as long as theres some money?”
Cherub Rock, The Smashing Pumpkins
“I don’t sleep so I don’t dream
So I don’t wake up frightened.”
On The Wire, The Sisters Of Mercy
“Well we all know what makes the flowers grow -
but we don’t know why,
and we all have the knowledge of DNA -
but we still die.”
White Coats, New Model Army
“Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the lord my soul to keep
and if I die before I wake
- its got to be a mistake”
Take Me Back.
From Aloe Blacc’s Good Things
“If time is my vessel,
then learning to love
might be my way back to sea.”
Public Pervert.
From Interpol’s Antics
“I’m sick of being born again and again.”
Barriers.
From Aereogramme’s My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go
“I never meant to hurt you
or drive you away,
the barriers we’ve built;
looks like they’re here to stay.”
Barriers.
From Aereogramme’s My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go
“All the pain and the weight of the world -
there’s no way to look any other way.”
Leave It Like That.
From Motorpsycho’s Timothy’s Monster
“Seeing your soul on that butterfly day,
I saw myself with other eyes,
all those beautiful shades of grey
grew into colorful lies.”
Beautiful Sister.
From Motorpsycho’s Timothy’s Monster
“Take me out tonight,
take me anywhere, I don’t care
I don’t care, I don’t care.”
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out.
From The Smiths’ The Queen Is Dead
“Heute Nacht hab’ ich die Welt verstanden -
und sie mich.”
Ohne Worte.
From Captain Planet’s Wasser kommt, Wasser geht
“Ich les’ ein Buch, das ich schon gelesen hab,
und ich reiß’ all die Seiten raus auf denen steht,
dass wir die gleiche Sprache spreche.”
Ohne Worte.
From Captain Planet’s Wasser kommt, Wasser geht
“You can’t put your arms around a memory,
don’t try, don’t try.”
You Can’t Put Your Arms Round A Memory.
From Johnny Thunders’ So Alone
“Last night I dreamt
that somebody loved me,
no hope, but no harm,
just another false alarm.”
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me.
From The Smiths’ Strangeways, Here We Come
“If there’s one thing that I know:
You’ll never hear the song
the same way again.”
AM/FM
From !!!’s Strange Weather Isn’t It
“Destroy everything you touch today,
destroy me this way.”
Destroy Everything You Touch.
From Ladytron’s Witching Hour
“It’s always better on holiday,
so much better on holiday,
that’s why we only work when
we need the money.”
Jacqueline.
From Franz Ferdinand’s debut album.
“Love, peace and harmony?
Love, peace and harmony?
Oh, very nice
Very nice
Very nice
Very nice
… But maybe in the next world.”
Death Of A Disco Dancer.
From The Smiths’ Strangways, Here We Come
“People who are uglier than you and I
they take what they need.”
A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours.
From The Smiths’ Strangways, Here We Come
“There’s too much caffeine in your bloodstream
and a lack of real spice in your life.”
A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours.
From The Smiths’ Strangways, Here We Come
“There’s nothing better we could do
than live forever,
well that’s all we’ve got to do.”
New Sensation.
From INXS’ Kick
“Nobody cares somehow
when the loving that you’ve wasted
comes raining from a hapless cloud.”
Slow Hands.
From Interpol’s Antics
“We could stop the world
and let off all the fools,
and let them go live
with their guns in the sky.”
Guns In The Sky.
From INXS’ Kick
“Words are the worst way to say
what I have to say.”
This Day Next Year.
From Karate’s Unsolved
“We made the moon our mirrorball,
the streets an empty stage.”
Mirrorball.
From Elbow’s The Seldom Seen Kid
“We sit here stranded,
though we’re all doin’ our best to deny it.”
Visions Of Johanna.
From Bob Dylan’s Blonde On Blonde
“How much more can we stand to stay
before clouds complain,
soaked to that critical stage
with the overdressed words
of the well-meaning vague.”
The Lived-But-Yet-Named.
From Karate’s Unsolved
“Mothers, stop looking for your sons in the woods,
because you will find them on CNN.”
Small Fires.
From Karate’s Unsolved
“I always fall in love with an open door,
or the horizon on an endless sea,
as I look around the ones
who are standing right in front of me.”
My Mirror Speaks.
From Death Cab For Cutie’s Open Door EP
“My old clothes don’t fit like they once did,
so they hang like ghosts of the people I have been.”
You Can Do Better Than Me.
From Death Cab For Cutie’s Narrow Stairs
“To my surprise,
with half-closed eyes,
things looked even better,
than when they were opened.”
Waiting For The Night.
From Depeche Mode’s Violator
“I’m waiting for the night to fall,
when everything is bearable.”
Waiting For The Night.
From Depeche Mode’s Violator
“Pull up to my bumper baby,
in your long black limosine.”
Pull Up To The Bumper.
From Grace Jones’ Nightclubbing
“How I wish you could see the potential,
the potential of you and me,
it’s like a book elegantly bound,
but in a language you can’t read just yet.”
I Will Possess You Heart.
From Death Cab For Cutie’s Narrow Stairs
“You are the only thing in any room you’re ever in.”
Starlings.
From Elbow’s The Seldom Seen Kid
“I’ve got Blonde On Blonde on my portable stereo,
it’s a lullabye from a giant golden radio.”
Blonde On Blonde.
From Nada Surf’s Let Go
“I’m pledging my time to you,
Hopin’ you’ll come through too.”
Pledging My Time.
From Bob Dylan’s Blonde On Blonde
“You will find me in the valleys,
in the gullies of your mind.”
Trace Decay.
From Wintersleep’s New Inheritors
“Du musst weiter, Schmerzen sind egal,
und wenn du auseinander fällst
dann hoffentlich vor dem Baumarkt.”
Baumarkt.
From Matula’s Blinker
“I don’t believe in the sun,
how could it shine down on everyone,
and never shine on me?”
I Don’t Believe In The Sun.
From The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs
“Drunk girls -
drunk girls wait an hour to pee.”
Drunk Girls.
From LCD Soundsystem’s This Is Happening
“Sleep this off, sleep this off,
your mind is just a loaded gun.”
Titan Arum.
From the Foals’ 7″ Red Socks Pugie
“I’m sorry I missed you,
I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain,
it went the dull and wicked ordinary way.”
Secret Meeting.
From The National’s Alligator
“I didn’t care where I was going
’cause they’re all different names for the same place.”
Different Names For The Same Thing.
From Death Cab For Cutie’s Plans
“I wish we could open our eyes
to see in all directions at the same time.”
Marching Bands Of Manhattan.
From Death Cab For Cutie’s Plans
“I’ve got no time I wanna lose,
to people with something to prove.”
Blonde On Blonde.
From Nada Surf’s Let Go
“Was ich haben will das krieg’ ich nicht,
und was ich kriegen kann, das gefällt mir nicht.”
Paul ist tot.
From Fehlfarben’s Monarchie und Alltag
“I’m not leaving, I ain’t going,
you never asked me to!
So I’ll sit and smile here with you,
like I never thought I’d do.”
Go, Folks, Go.
From Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s The Wonder Show of the World
“Wenn es nicht Liebe ist,
wird es die Bombe,
beziehungsweise Kiste sein.”
Verstärker.
From Blumfeld’s L’Etat Et Moi
“Hey hey, my my,
stupid things will never die.”
Another One Bites The Dog.
From School Of Zuversicht’s Randnotizen From Idiot Town
“Hey hey, my my,
Rock’n'Roll can never die.”
My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue).
From Neil Young’s Rust Never Sleeps
“It’s better to burn out
than to fade away.”
My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue).
From Neil Young’s Rust Never Sleeps
“You look so good -
when you’re not on the dancefloor.”
A Night In Berlin.
From School Of Zuversicht’s Randnotizen From Idiot Town
“I bet you look good on the dancefloor -
but nowhere else.”
The Kids Are All Shite.
From Mikrofisch’s Masters Of The Universe.
“Well I bet that you look good on the dance floor,
dancing to electro-pop like a robot from 1984″
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor.
From Arctic Monkeys’ Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
“It’s not the way that you say it
when you do those things to me.
It’s more the way you really mean it
when you tell me what will be.”
Questions.
From The Moody Blues’ A Question Of Balance
“If this is the best of our world -
I wanna see the others.”
Die wunderliche Träume des Herrn Candidae.
From School Of Zuversicht’s Randnotizen From Idiot Town
“At last we have more room to play,
all systems go to kill the poor tonight.”
Kill The Poor.
From Dead Kennedys’ Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
“The law don’t mean shit if you’ve got the right friends,
that’s how the country’s run.
Twinkies are the best friend I’ve ever had,
I fought the law and I won.”
I Fought The Law.
From Dead Kennedys’ Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death
“I needed money ’cause I had none -
I fought the law and the law won.”
I Fought The Law.
From The Clash’s The Cost Of Living EP
“I’d always wait til we’re under the covers,
To say I’m sure glad we’re not lovers.”
So Nice So Smart.
From Kimya Dawson’s Knock-Knock Who?
“I’ve got the brains, you’ve got the looks,
let’s make lots of money.”
Opportunities.
From the Pet Shop Boys’ Please
“Lalala-life is a strange thing,
just when you think
you learned how to use it -
it’s gone.”
Hello.
From Shakespear’s Sister’s Hormonally Yours
“Boy, it’s tough getting on in the world
When the sun doesn’t shine…”
Love Etc.
From the Pet Shop Boys’ Yes
“What do you know about this world,
anyway.”
The American.
From the Simple Minds’ Sister Feelings Call
Just when I discovered the meaning of life,
they changed it.”
Everything Is Borrowed.
From The Streets’ Everything Is Borrowed
“Some girls are bigger than others.”
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others.
From The Smiths’ The Queen Is Dead
“Freedom is a possibility
only if you’re able to say no.”
1517.
From The Whitest Boys Alive’s Rules
“Forever is a long long time
when you lost your way.”
Lasso.
From Phoenix’ Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
“I wish I was one of your sheep,
only because I wouldn’t
have to kill to eat.”
Sheep.
From Gonjasufi’s A Sufi And A Killer
“If I had two lips,
I could give you that killer kiss.”
Love On Top Of Love.
From Grace Jones’ Bulletproof Heart
“Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter,
little darling, it feels like years since it’s been here,
here comes the sun, here comes the sun
and I say it’s all right.”
Here Comes The Sun.
From The Beatles’ Abbey Road
“Remember when you were young,
you shone like the sun.”
Shine On You Crazy Diamond.
From Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here
“See me comin’,
step aside -
or pay the price.”
Problem Child.
From AC/DC’s Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
“Oh, you’ve got green eyes,
Oh, you’ve got blue eyes,
Oh, you’ve got grey eyes,
And I’ve never seen anyone quite like you before.”
Temptation.
From New Order’s EP Everythings Gone Green
“And you run and you run
to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking.
Racing around
to come up behind you again.”
Time.
From Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon
“Blood runs through your veins,
that’s where our similarity ends.”
Blood.
From the Editors’ The Back Room
“Salads are only for murderers,
coleslaw’s a fascist regime.
Don’t think that they don’t have feelings,
just cause a radish can’t scream.”
Carrot Juice is Murder.
Written by The Arrogant Worms
“We will fight for bovine freedom,
and hold our large heads high,
we will run free with the Buffalo,
or die.”
Cows With Guns.
From Dana Lydons’ Cows With Guns
“Bisse richtig down,
brauchse wat zu kaun -
‘ne Currywurst.”
Currywurst.
From Herbert Grönemeyer’s Total Egal
“And the flesh you so fancifully fry,
is not succulent, tasty or kind,
It’s death for no reason
and death for no reason is murder.”
Meat Is Murder.
From The Smiths’ Meat Is Murder
“Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh,
Stop telephonin’ me,
eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh,
I’m busy!”
Telephone.
From Lady Gaga’s The Fame Monster
“Bring on the night,
I couldn’t stand another hour of daylight.”
Bring On The Night.
From The Police’s Regatta De Blanc
“Can’t you see we’re still in love?”
Think Twice (Its Not Alright).
From Everybody Was In The French Resistance… Now!’s Fixin’ the Charts
“We can’t change the past,
but we can ruin the present,
by scratching on our heads,
and threating on the future.”
I Love My Phone.
From The Streets’ Computers And Blues.
“I’ll not feel no fear,
cause I’m not really here”
The Escapist.
From The Streets’ Everything Is Borrowed.
“Today has been a sad ol’ lonesome day,
I’m just sittin’ here thinking,
with my mind a million miles away.”
Lonesome Day Blues.
From Bob Dylan’s Love And Theft
“You’ll be the rythm
and I’ll be the beat,
Then I’ll be the rythm
and you’ll be the beat.”
Melodies & Desires.
From Lykke Li’s Youth Novels
“I guess I should’ve known
by the way you parked your car sideways.”
Little Red Corvette.
From Prince’s 1999
“‘If you die’ you said, ’so do I’ you said
but it ends the day you understand
there is no if … just and.”
There Is No If.
From The Cure’s Bloodflowers.
“‘I said I love you’ I said…
You didn’t say a word.”
There Is No If.
From The Cure’s Bloodflowers.
“Remember the first time I told you I love you,
it was raining hard and you never heard,
you sneezed! And I had to say it over.”
There Is No If.
From The Cure’s Bloodflowers.
“Nothing’s gonna change my world,
Nothing’s gonna change my world,
Nothing’s gonna change my world,
Nothing’s gonna change my world.”
Across The Universe.
From The Beatles’ Let It Be
“So, no more apologies,
no more apologies,
I’m too tired,
I’m too sick and tired,
and I’m feeling very sick and ill today.”
What Difference Does It Make?.
From The Smiths’ untitled debut
“Es hat niemand behauptet,
du hättest eine Chance;
und wenn war es vielleicht gelogen.”
Du darfst nicht vergessen zu essen.
From Die Sterne’s In Echt.
“They’re only cheques I’ve left unsigned,
from the banks of chaos in my mind.”
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da.
From The Police’s Zenyatta Mondatta
“I got a poison headache,
But I feel all right.”
Pledging My Time.
From Bob Dylan’s Blonde On Blonde
“I never said I was frightened of dying.”
The Great Gig In The Sky.
From Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon.
“Don’t leave it all unsaid
somewhere in the wasteland of your mind.”
Sing Your Life.
From Morrissey’s Kill Uncle
“Chocoloate makes you happy,
and it keeps you awake.”
Chocolate Makes You Happy.
From Xiu Xiu’s Dear God, I Hate Myself
“I’ll believe in God -
when one and one make five.”"
Do What You Want.
From Bad Religion’s Suffer
“I wish the world was flat
like the old days,
so I could travel just
by folding the map.”
The New Year.
From Death Cab For Cutie’s Transatlanticism
“You will do what looks good on the paper -
we will do what we must.”
Reclamation.
From Fugazi’s Steady Diet Of Nothing
“The word is not the thing -
we say free when we really mean
our way of thinking.”
Sons & Daughters.
From Joe Lally’s There To Here
“My body is a cage that keeps me
from dancing with the one I love,
but my mind holds the key.”
My Body Is A Cage.
From Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible
“We want control of our bodies,
decision will be ours;
you carry out your noble actions,
we will carry our noble scars.”
Reclamation.
From Fugazi’s Steady Diet Of Nothing
“Above us lay the burdens,
below us lay the truth,
we’re somewhere in the middle,
and we’re all discontent too.”
Best For You.
From Bad Religion’s Suffer
“I ain’t too old to hurry
cause I ain’t too old to die.”
Ride On.
From AC/DC’s Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
“All the young people looked the same,
wearing their masks of cool and disinterest,
commerce dressed up as rebellion.”
Uniform.
From Bloc Party’s A Weekend In The City
“Cause in my head there’s a greyhound station
where I send my thoughts to far off destinations,
So they may have a chance of finding a place
where they’re far more suited than here.”
Soul Meets Body.
From Death Cab For Cuties’s Plans
“Well, I guess it would be nice
if I could touch your body.”
Faith.
From George Michael’s Faith
“Yesterday don’t matter if it’s gone.”
Ruby Tuesday.
From The Rolling Stones’ Compilation Flowers
“It could be war,
it also could be love.”
Milja And Dusan (Belgrade).
From Naked Lunch’s Universalove OST
“But don’t forget the songs
that made you smile,
and the songs that made you cry,
when you lay in awe
on the bedroom floor -
it’s a dull world.”
Rubber Ring.
From The Smiths’ 7″ The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
“There is another world,
there is a better world,
well, there must be.”
Asleep.
From The Smiths’ 7″ The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
“In 1985, my words they came alive,
friends were made for life,
Morrissey and Marr gave me choice.”
1985.
From Manic Street Preachers’ Lifeblood
“So God is dead,
like Nietzsche said,
superstition is all we have left.”
1985.
From Manic Street Preachers’ Lifeblood
“In the end
all you can hope for
is the love you felt
to equal the pain you’ve gone through.”
Bones.
From Editors’ An End Has A Start
“And in the end,
the love you take,
is equal to the love you make.”
The End.
From The Beatles’ Abbey Road
“Maybe I will never be
All the things that I want to be.”
Live Forever.
From Oasis’ Definitely Maybe
“You know I hate to ask,
but are friends electric?”
Are ‘Friends’ Electric?.
From Tubeway Army’s Replicas
“Insight comes so fast sometimes,
with confusion in it’s wake.”
Fools Gold.
From Motorpsycho’s Blissard
“I maintain that
chaos is the future,
and beyond it is freedom,
confusion is next
and next after that is the truth”
Confusion Is Next.
From Sonic Youth’s Confusion Is Sex
“Sonic Youth -
always told the truth.”
Let’s Kiss And Listen To Bis.
From Mikrofisch’s Masters Of The Universe
“Modulation is a state of mind,
drum machines will save mankind.”
Drum Machines Will Save Mankind.
From Mikrofisch’s Masters Of The Universe
“We would have a fine time
living in the night.”
Transmission.
From Joy Division’s 7″ Transmission
“Women once were worshipped
until Christians crashed the scene.”
Oh Men!.
From Aidan Moffat’s How To Get To Heaven From Scotland
“If I had the money to go to a record store -
I would “
Hustler.
From Simian Mobile Disco’s Attack Decay Sustain Release
“I’m sinking in the quicksand of my thought
And I ain’t got the power anymore”
Quicksand.
From David Bowie’s Hunky Dory
“Zwei Dinge sind unendlich:
Die Dummheit und das All.”
Was Ist Ist.
From Einstürzende Neubauten’s Ende Neu
“Everything counts in large amounts.”
Everything Counts.
From Depeche Mode’s Construction Time Again
“You should be stronger than me,
you been here 7 years longer than me.”
Stronger Than Me.
From Amy Winehouse’s Frank
“I want you,
did you mean to tell me but seem to forget.”
I Want You.
From Elvis Costello’s Blood & Chocolate
“When I stop breathing
and my poor old heart finally gives out
I will spend eternity
debriefing, debriefing, debriefing, debriefing.
When I deplete the funds
and am forced to pull the plug,
chisel on my tombstone
debriefing, debriefing, debriefing, debriefing.“
Debriefing.
From Vic Chesnutt’s North Star Deserter.
“It helps to write it down,
even when you then cross it out.”
Always Love.
From Nada Surf’s The Weight Is A Gift
“I dreamt about you last night
and I fell out of bed twice.”
Reel Around The Fountain.
From The Smiths’ self-titled Debut Album
“If you’ve got a blacklist I want to be on it.”
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.
From Billy Bragg’s Workers Playtime
“Everything’s alright except for how it seems”
Suicide Machine.
Unreleased song by Elliott Smith.
“And songs are never quite the answer,
just a soundtrack to a life,
that is over all too soon”
You Were Right.
From Badly Drawn Boy’s Have You Fed The Fish?
“Hold on to 16 as long as you can,
changes come around real soon,
make us women and men.”
Jack & Diane.
From John Cougar’s American Fool
“Your life is just a carrier bag,
they’ll fill it and the straps will snap.”
Further Complications.
From Jarvis Cocker’s Further Complications
“Y’all just don’t know what it’s like
being male, middle class and white.”
Rockin’ The Suburbs.
From Ben Folds’ Rockin’ The Suburbs
“Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose;
Nothin’ ain’t worth nothin’ but it’s free.”
Me And Bobby McGee.
From Kris Kristofferson’s Me And Bobby McGee
“Just because you’re paranoid
doesn’t mean their not after you.”
Territorial Pissings.
From Nirvana’s Nevermind
“Living is easy with eyes closed.”
Strawberry Fields Forever.
From The Beatles’ 7″ Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane
“So keep me in your bed all day,
Nothing heals me like you do.”
London Rain.
From Heather Nova’s Siren
“Jesus died for somebody’s sins
but not mine.”
Gloria: In Excelsis Deo.
From Patti Smith’s Horses
“The words of the prophets are written
on the subway walls and tenement halls.”
Sound Of Silence.
From Simon & Garfunkel’s Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
“You can’t start a fire without a spark
but there’s something that I guarantee;
You can’t hide when infection starts -
because love is a social disease.”
Social Disease.
From Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet.
“All you touch and all you see -
is all your life will ever be.”
Breathe.
From Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon
“Just give me moments – not hours or days.”
Waiting For The 7.18.
From Bloc Party’s A Weekend In The City
“We look around and change our pose
We are showroom dummies.”
Showroom Dummies.
From Kraftwerk’s Trans-Europe Express.
“Das Paar kalte Füße macht dich nicht satt, aber es lässt dich leben!”
Hans Dampf.
From Captain Planet’s Inselwissen
“If you say my dancing is effeminate,
I will never dance again;
If you say my logic is irreversible,
than things will always be the same.”
Master Of The Bump.
From Xiu Xiu’s Women As Lovers
“I found the fountain of youth – and I fell in.”
Oh Well, I’ll Never Learn.
From Morrisseys’ Suedehead