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Songs About Shakespeare
Feb. 14, 2013
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Writer: barbryn

A List

Song

Artist

Recommended by

1

Romeo and Juliet

Toby Twirl

BeltwayBandit

2

Waiting (O Mistress Mine)

Nitin Sawhney

oggaman

3

Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair

Babes in Toyland

Pairubu

4

Prince Hal's Dirge

 Loudon Wainwright III

miserlyoldgit

5

Sonnet 29

Rufus Wainwright

magicman

6

Up and Down, Up and Down

Duke Ellington

lonniej

7

To Be or Not to Be

B.A. Robertson

vastariner

8

Comedy Tragedy History

Akala

Mark68

9

Full Fathom Five

Robert Vaughn Williams

BeltwayBandit

10

Rich and Strange

Cud

Mark68

11

Iago's Demise

Faith and the Muse

Stardust58

12

Shakespeare's Got a Gun

Dan Bern

lambretinha

B List

Song

Artist

Recommended by

1

Homecoming Queen

Sparklehorse

exiledMan

2

Fear No More

Lonelady

seeoou

3

The Play's the Thing

Peter Hammill

TatankaYotanka

4

It Was a Lover and his Lass

Cleo Laine

Mnemonic

5

Like As the Waves Make Towards the Pebbled Shore

Doublemono

tincanman

6

Act III Scene II

Saul Williams

RANTaGHOST

7

Romeo and Juliet Overture

Tchaikovsky

BeltwayBandit

8

Coriolanus

Blyth Power

ShivSidecar

9

Exit Music (For a Film)

Radiohead

exiledMan

10

The Wind and the Rain

Ben Kingsley/Shaun Davey

BeltwayBandit

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