Meme!
Step 1: Put your iTunes or equivalent on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Bold out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
Edit: I put in the titles and artists of the songs nobody guessed.
My 30 First Lines:
01. Life’s like a road you travel on when there’s one day here and the next day gone - guessed by Marc
02. I remember you back in ’72 with your David Bowie hair and your platform shoes - "Same Old You" by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
03. Headed down south to the land of the pines, I’m thumbin’ my way to North Caroline - title and half the writing credits guessed by Dave
04. Cupid hath pulled back his sweetheart's bow to cast divine arrows into her soul - "Cupid de Locke" by Smashing Pumpkins
05. Wake up kids, we’ve got the dreamer’s disease - guessed by Marc
06. You dreamed he’d shine like the sun, now your son is set. - guessed by Alec
07. If you’re listening (woah-oh-oh-ohhh) sing it back (woah-oh-oh-ohhh) - guessed by Alec
08. Down the
09. It’s bitter, it tastes a lot like winter, and will it release me? - "Fortress" by Sister Hazel
10. Yeah, there was a funky singer playin' in a rock & roll band, and never had no problems yeah burnin' down one night stands - guessed by Marc
11. The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee - guessed by Meghan
12. Hey little girl is your daddy home, did he go and leave you all alone? - guessed by kite
13. You remind me of my jeep - guessed by Ellen
14. Time is never time at all, you can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth - guessed by Marc
15. I saw her today at the reception, a glass of wine in her hand - "Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Rolling Stones
16. If you ever change your mind, woah, ‘bout leaving, leaving me behind - "Bring It On Home" by Sister Hazel
17. Too alarming now to talk about, take your pictures down and shake them out - guessed by Alec
18. And so the story's told of a hearty group of men it's a tale of their triumphs and their woes. - "Heroes From Our Past" by the Dropkick Murphys
19. We’ve all seen a man at the liquor store begging for your change - guessed by Alec
20. And in the end we shall achieve in time the thing they call divine - guessed by Alec
21. When I was little someone pointed out to me some constellations but the Big Dipper was all I could see - "Big Dipper" by Built to Spill
22. We’ve got the afternoon, we’ve got this room for two - guessed by Elaine
23. This is the story of the boy who talked in shadows with his voice so softly - "Soft-Talking Boy" by DJ Dial-Tone (aka, Mike...this is a song he wrote!)
24. Here come old flattop he come grooving up slowly - guessed by Elaine
25. I met her in the club down in north
26. I wish I could tie you up in my shoes - guessed by kite
27. Moving forward using all my breath, making love to you was never second best - guessed by Marc
28. She likes to sleep with the radio on so she can dream of her favorite song - guessed by Marc
29. Must be your skin, I’m sinkin’ in - guessed by kite
30. How many of you people out there been hurt in some kind of love affair? - "Brand New Day" by Sting

11 Comments:
6--"Mr. Wilmington" by Lucky BOys Confusion
7--"The Sweetness" by Jimmy Eat World
8--"Mr. Jones" by Counting Crows
20--"In The Meantime" by Spacehog
25--"Lola"--by...the Kinks, I think.
That's all I've got now.
Oh! 19 is "What It's Like" by Everlast. I was wondering what that was!
Okay, I'll lay off and let others answer some now. =)
I am embarassed. I know A LOT of songs -- and I can't say I know a one.
I am, however, going to play the meme game.
Just as soon as I'm done basking in the SUN. ;)
#12 - I'm on Fire (I think!)The Boss
#26 - Unpretty TLC
#29 - Glycerine Bush
That's all I got, besides a few already guessed.
1. Life is a Highway - Tom Cochrane
5. Get What You Give - New Radicals
10. Play that Funky Music - Wild Cherry
14. Tonight, Tonight - The Smashing Pumpkins
27. Melt with You - Modern English
28. The War on Drugs - Barenaked Ladies
17--"My Hero" by the Foo Fighters. Man, that one drove me nuts! I had to listen to my iPod for a while. I even had the tune half-stuck in my head.
Elaine submits:
22--"Your Body is a Wonderland" by John Mayer
24--"Come Together" by the Beatles
oooo 11 is the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald... not sure why I know that though
13, You Remind Me of Something - R. Kelly?
3: Wagon Wheel by Bob Dylan?
I'll take half credit ;-) I have that one in a collection of what were supposed to be "Bob Dylan Bootlegs" I got in MP3 form in college, but admittedly, it's the one that sounds the least like Bob, since, well, it wasn't his song, save the chorus. II know better now, and it's properly attributed in my iTunes library.
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