iTunes meme

[sarahmichelef]

Step 1: Put your iTunes or equivalent on random.
Step 2: Post the first line [or two or three] from the first 50 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Bold/Strike out the songs when someone guesses title and artist correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING.

I culled ones that there was no way anybody was going to know (local bands from high school days, electronica by fellow academics). And a lot of them I had to look up to make sure I wasn't giving you bad information. And I went with the first REAL lyrics, not filler stuff... Oh, and for bonus points, there are two songs on here for which I have reproduced the complete lyrics. Which ones are they?

1. make your money with a suit and tie / make your money with a chain tonight - R.E.M. King of Comedy (nicepersonality)
   
2. O'Hare is nice this time of year / I check my bags and find my seat and buy a beer
3. I talk to you / you walk away
4. I am a man / as a man I've been told - Alanis Morissette (evilnicola ID'd the artist)
   
5. As he came into the window / it was the sound of a crescendo - Michael Jackson, Smooth Criminal (xayide79)
   
6. When the ship runs out of ocean and the vessel runs aground / Land's where we know the boat is found - They Might Be Giants, Women and Men (chargirlgenius)
   
7. We walked the loneliest mile / we smiled without any style
8. Stop / You'd better save it /  Stop
   
9. I stand there and kiss you / and promise to be your one and only
10. And here's to you Mrs. Robinson / Jesus loves you more than you will know - Simon & Garfunkel, Mrs. Robinson (mermaidlady)
    
11. I admit it / what's to say / I relive it without pain - Pearl Jam, Once (laurakc)
    
12. september 75 I was 47 inches high / my mom said by christmas I would have... - Ben Folds Five, One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces (evilnicola, of course - I giggled when that came up because i knew you would get it right away)
    
13. if i ever write this letter / all the pages I could write
14. I could feel at the time / there was no way of knowing
15. six o clock in the morning / you're the last to hear the warning - U2, Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World (nicepersonality)
    
16. temperature's rising / fever is high - John Lennon, Cold Turkey (amuntari)
    
17. I'll give you countless amounts of outright acceptance if you want it / i will give you encouragement to choose the path that you want if you need it - Alanis Morissette, You Owe Me Nothing in Return (evilnicola)
    
18. Minimum wage / hyah - TMBG, Minimum wage (nicepersonality)
    
19. is there an army on the dance floor / its a fashion with a gun my love
20. finished with my woman 'cause she she couldn't help me with my mind - Black Sabbath, Paranoid (nicepersonality)
    
21. I am just a lousy bum searching for the unknown crumb... the crumb
22. one saturday I took a walk to zipperhead / I met a girl there and she almost knocked me dead - Dead Milkmen, Punk Rock Girl (nicepersonality)
    
23. something wrongs going on today / people with nothing getting thrown away
24. speak to me in a language i can hear / humor me before I have to go
25. My latest sun is sinkin' fast / my race is nearly run
26. she's a beauty queen / hey my sweet thing
27. I see the world / feel the chill / which way to go / windowsill
28. feeling tired / by the fire / the long day is over
29. Lewis is probably 30 years old / but he looks like a solid 45
30. Turn off your mind / relax and float downstream - The Beatles, Tomorrow Never Knows (nicepersonality)
    
31. I let you in on how I'm feelin / you've got a lot of nerve
32. she's addicted to nicotine patches / she's addicted to nicotine patches / she's afraid of a light in the dark - Tori Amos (kaslaania gets credit for the artist ID), Spark (nenie)
    
33. on six, six, sixty-six / I was little, I didn't know shit / about 7, 7, 77 - Morphine, French Fries with Pepper (nicepersonality)
    
34. mid-level manager / says he heard about / some mulatto girl / shot him in the mouth - Soul Coughing (laurakc), Collapse (nenie)
    
35. I wish I had not woke up today / every one mistakes the things you say
36. sometimes I feel I've got to run away / I've got to get away - Soft Cell, Tainted Love (nicepersonality)
    
37. Sorry / Is all that you can say / years gone by and still / words don't come easily
38. Busted flat in baton rouge / waitin' for a train - Janis Joplin, Me & Bobby McGee (meneleth)
    
39. Love / Love is strange / a lot of people / take it for a game - Mickey & Sylvia, Love is Strange (chargirlgenius)
    
40. when the world is on your shoulder / gotta straighten up your act and boogie down - Michael Jackson, Off the Wall (xayide79)
    
41. I wore the clothes you wanted / I took your name - R.E.M., I Took Your Name (nicepersonality)
    
42. They got the mustard out / they got the mustard out - Once More with Feeling (the Buffy Musical) (nicepersonality)
    
43. Paulina / she's on the cover of a magazine / paulina / a woman in my nightly dreams
44. come on girl / let's sneak out of this party / it's getting boring
45. The land of race car ya-yas / the land where you can't change lanes - Cake, Race Car Ya-Yas (nicepersonality)
    
46. well I see him every night in tight blue jeans / in the pages of the blue boy magazine - Cyndi Lauper, SheBop (erinwrites)
    
47. you walked into the room / i just had to laugh / the face you wore was cool / you were a photograph - Tears for Fears, Change (laurakc)
    
48. so you wanted / to take a break / slow it down some / and have some space - Ben Folds Five, Song for the Dumped (nenie)
    
49. All brawn and no brains /And all those nice things
50. Not the red baron / not charlie brown / think I've got the message figured / another pilot down