Because I like to give you all things to do.

[pepper]

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line(s) from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song. (Skip the instrumentals, the remixes and the mashups)
Step 3: Let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.

I cheated a little and skipped a couple of artist repeats, 'cause it's just not as fun that way. This is from my little 2gb mp3 player, so it's a different sort of mix to the random selection I got before my proper-size iPod went kablooie. 

ETA: Answers now added.

1. Another lifetime lived in a long night / I'm watching the sunrise before I lay down to sleep 
Not guessed: Lonesome Blues - Shooter Jennings.

2. She was born in November 1963, the day Aldous Huxley died Run, Baby, Run - Sheryl Crow, guessed by annienau08.

3. I'm broke but I'm happy, I'm poor but I'm kind Hand In My Pocket - Alanis Morrissette, guessed by caladria.

4. Ride the wild wind (push the envelope, don't sit on the fence) 
Not guessed: Ride The Wild Wind - Queen.

5. Billy-Ray was a preacher's son Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield, guessed by fearless_leader.

6. She walked through the corn leading down to the river / Her hair shone like gold in the hot morning sun Fox On The Run - Manfred Mann, guessed by abyssinia4077.

7. Hey little sister, what have you done? White Wedding - Billy Idol, guessed by surreallis.

8. Every day I spend my time drinking wine, feeling fine 
Not guessed: In A Broken Dream - Python Lee Jackson

9. Try to tell me what I shouldn't do / You should know by now I won't listen to you 
Not guessed: Freak Out - Avril Lavigne

10. Lend me your ear while I call you a fool / You were kissed by a witch one night in a wood 
Not guessed: The Witch's Promise - Jethro Tull

11. When I die and they lay me to rest / Gonna go to the place that's best Spirit In The Sky - Doctor & The Medics, guessed by surreallis.

12. Prisoner of your love / Entangled in your web Better Be Good To Me - Tina Turner, guessed by beanpot.

13. Should've been different but it wasn't different was it / Same old story, dear John and so long There's Your Trouble - Dixie Chicks, guessed by geneeste.

14. It's over – you don't need to tell me / I hope you're with someone who makes you
feel safe in your sleeping tonight No Distance Left To Run - Blur, guessed by caladria.

15. She comes in colours everywhere, she combs her hair She's A Rainbow - Rolling Stones, guessed by supplyship.

16. Turn around, look at what you see / In her face the mirror of your dreams 
Not guessed: Never-Ending Story - Limahl

17. I'll light the fire, you place the flowers in the vase that you bought today Our House - Crosby, Stills & Nash, guessed by fearless_leader.

18. Let's take a ride to the seaside / We can go out swimming in the high tide
Not guessed: One Big Love - Emmylou Harris

19. Hoverin' by my suitcase, trying to find a warm place to spend the night 
Not guessed: Rainy Night In Georgia - Randy Crawford

20. Tell me baby, tell me / Are you still on the stoop, watching the windows close? 
Not guessed: Bird Stealing Bread - Iron & Wine

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I think I need a Marion Ravenswood icon. (Which has nothing to do with the song meme, it's just I've been thinking about it.)

 

Comments

[surreallis.livejournal.com]

Ooh, difficult. I'm bad with lyrics.

7- White Wedding by Billy Idol

11- Spirit in the Sky by Norman something or another. :P

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Yes, and sort-of yes - the version of Spirit In The Sky I have is by Doctor and the Medics, but it's exactly the same. They hardly changed the arrangement or anything.

I really thought you of all people would get #20...

[surreallis.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha! Okay, I hadn't a clue, so I had to Google it, thus I won't actually say the title, but YES. I could hear it once I knew what it was. I'm so bad with lyrics. I used to learn them all when I sang in the car on the way to work every morning, but now someone rides with me and I can't do that. Drat. :P

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

I'm obsessively precise about lyrics. I have an appallingly bad habit of correcting A on them, because he always sings approximately what he thinks he heard... Quite understandably, that drives him bananas.

That song sends me back to it every time I hear it. Which is a good thing. :)

[caladria.livejournal.com]

3 - Alanis Morrisette, One Hand in my Pocket

14 - No Distance Left to Run, Blur

and there's a few of those that are thingy...oh, you know, by that one with the...gah!

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

:) Yep to both.

I thought they were all incredibly obvious - but I guess I would, seeing as they're mine.

[caladria.livejournal.com]

Only if you know the song.

Or if, you know, you can actually remember lyrics. I tend to remember the backing music so much better than actual mere words.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

I tend to remember the backing music so much better than actual mere words.

Someday, someone should attempt a 'name that tune' meme. How impossible would it be to guess clues entirely like "Dah-du-du-deeeee..."? :)

[caladria.livejournal.com]

It would drive the entire internet mad within the month, like a more hopeless version of Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

What is that tune?!

*is futilely trying to work it out*

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

MORE hopeless than Buzzcocks? *mind boggles*

That tune is a collection of random humming, from no known song, so don't let it bug you. :)

[caladria.livejournal.com]

Gah!

That is, of course, the only reason why I didn't get it.

She says, deathly serious.

[fearless-leader.livejournal.com]

5 is Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield

17 is Our House - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (?)

[...is a very very very fine house (our house). Sorry, it's a compulsion.]

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Yes and yes! It's Crosby, Stills and Nash, but I suppoooooooose I can give you that one.

;)

[vickyocean.livejournal.com]

I could almost swear #8 was Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog, but I know that's not right. I think I'm just stuck on the wine part. ; ) I so do not have audio memory.

I may have some Marion Ravenwood (and Indy) icons soon. I've been working on some old and new Indy icons so I'll have some for when I get all giddy about the new movie. I like my icons to match my posts.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Ooh, cool - I'll keep an eye out for 'em.

I like my icons to match my posts.

Heh. Me too. Obsessively so. :)

And, as you knew, it's not Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog. But it is someone with a pretty croaky voice...

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

p.s. #1 is one I thought you might get...

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

6 is Fox on the Run! you posted it a while back and it's fun!

and...I'm really, really, really bad at these so that's all.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Hee! I didn't think anyone would know that one - I'd completely forgotten I posted it. It's such a pretty song.

[moonshayde.livejournal.com]

Wow, I so suck at stuff like this. I just want to say I am dying to know what song is #2 for the Huxley reference.

[geneeste.livejournal.com]

Ooh! #13 is "Here's Your Trouble" by the Dixie Chicks. And...that's all I know. :D

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Yep! And I'm doing about the same on your one. :)

[supplyship.livejournal.com]

#15 is The Rolling Stones, um "The Rainbow"? No, maybe "She's a Rainbow"?

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

At last! Someone who recognises the classics.

[supplyship.livejournal.com]

Me *luuuuvs* the classics - Stones, Beatles, Zeppelin... \o/

[annienau08.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I know one of these!

#2 is "Run, Baby, Run" by Sheryl Crow. I love that song.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Yep! And me too. :)

[beanpot.livejournal.com]

12 is better be good to me by Tina Turner.

It came in a flash as I've been humming it ALL morning.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get that one stuck on my mind a fair amount. But that's okay, 'cause I like the sentiment. :)