No, You still don't like to leave before the end of the show.

[cyrano]

Aaaand I finally surrender and do the random jukebox 'Name That Tune' meme...
Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line(s) from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Bold out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!

Note: List Modified to remove instrumental tracks, tracks that are just short dialogue snippets and repeated appearances of artists.

EDIT: Crap. I forgot that when I put 'song title' in carats LJ would read that as a crude HTML tag and remove it. Fixed now!


1
Romeo was restless, he was ready to kill
He jumped out the window 'cause he couldn't sit still
Mystery Dance(Honky Tonk Demo)--Elvis Costello (JakeJr)

2
Telegram force and ready; I knew this was a big mistake
There's a fine line drawing my senses together and I think it's about to break
Union of the Snake--Duran Duran (purchasemonkey)

3
Greed! Causing innocent blood to flow
Entire culture, lost in the overthrow
They came to seize and take whatever they please
Then all they gave back was death and disease

4
[song title] leading to the room where the paint doesn't want to dry
[song title] running down the road where the dirt reaches the sky
32 Footsteps--TMBG (purchasemonkey)

5
I sat within a valley green, sat there with my true love
And my fond heart strove to choose between the old love and the new love
The Wind that Shakes the Barley--DCD (Roisnoir)

6
Never know how much I love you
Never know how much I care
Fever--The Bobs (Carabosse)

7
I wish that I could fly into the sky
so very high just like the dragonfly

8
Echoes of reggae comin' through my bedroom wall
havin' a party up next door but i'm sittin here all alone

9
As I went down to Glasgow city just to see what I might spy
What should I see but a little twinkle in her eye

10
Good evening. I just want to say to you, before bed,
remember: brush your teeth, have a little tinkle, and sing this song

hrmmmm instrumental piece....

11
(yo yo yo come on come on)
Now every evening when all my day's work is through
I call my baby and ask her what we could do

12
Look at me, look at me, look at me and tell me what you see
You see a man forlorn, all meek and pale

13
(one two three four)
I am for you can enjoy I can give you
(Give me, give me, give me)
It's a time we love to hate, I can give you

14
You had plenty money nineteen forty-one
You lost it all and then away you run
Why Don't You Do Right?--Sinead O'Connor (Roisnoir first)

15
Can´t look out, can´t look in, you just might get yourself, get right.
Out of doors, in the light, we´ll make love

16
[song title] a putrid nightmare [song title] a putrid nightmare
[song title] a yellow dandelion [song title] a yellow dandelion
[song title] trite contrived and apallingly boring

17
Woken at nine o'clock by the postman.
Who turns out not to be the postman, but an itinerant seller of pigeons.

18
[song title] [song title]
One more buried nugget
Of the dark history of the darkest side of man
Sylvestre Matuschka--Lard (l2g)

19
Oh the politician says there's a new way coming to town
Oh but I ain't seen nothing, nothing to stop this frown

20
I can't get no satisfaction. I can't get no satisfaction. I can't get no satisfaction.
I'm trying to make some girl. Sock it to me, baby! Let's spend the night together, making love! Light my fire, gimme gimme what you got!
Negativland--Helter Stupid (l2g)

21
Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world.
She took the midnight train going anywhere.
Don't Stop Believing--Journey (Esmerel)

22
I don't think I can handle this; a cloudy day in Metropolis.
I think I'll talk to my analyst.
Jimmy Olsen Blues--Spin Doctors (Roisnoir)

23
[song title]
You go where you don't belong.
You've been digging in the rubble, getting bitches in trouble,
[song title]

24
Oh dear, what can I do?
[song title]
and I'm feeling blue
Baby's in Black--The Beatles (Carabosse)

25
Upon a [song title]
I met a holy man
His blindness was his wisdom
I'm such a lonely man

26
See the animal in his cage that you built
Are you sure what side you're on?
Better not look him too closely in the eye
Are you sure what side of the glass you are on?

27
Move me. Don't try.
Let the music reach me tonight.
Push me over into something new.
I've been riding all day on a bus
Just to listen to you.

28
What do you do when you know your relationship has failed?
Have you made any attempt to isolate the problem?
How did the communication break down to this extreme?
Do you have a basis of trust in the first place?
Dysfunctional Relationship--Consolidated (l2g)

29
This is what the KLF is about.
Also known as the Justified Ancients of Muu Muu.
Furthermore known as the JAMMS.
(All aboard! All aboard! Whoah!)
Last Train to Trance Central--KLF (purchasemonkey)

30
Ladies and Gentlemen, Mesdames and Monsiours, Damen und Herren:
From what was once an inarticulate mass of lifeless tissue,
may I now present a cultured, sophisticated Man About Town!
Hit it!
Puttin' on the Ritz--Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle (jalexius)

Comments

[roisnoir.livejournal.com]

5: The Wind that Shakes the Barley - (I know thw DCD verson, but there could be others)

6: I *should* know this. Aaagh. The melody just isn't popping into my brain, and I KNOW I know this.

14: Why Can't You Do Right - (Rasputina, but I don't belive it's an original)

22: Jimmy Olsen's Blues - Spin Doctors

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to be fussy about artists in most cases because I'm big on alternate versions and covers. (:

[carabosse.livejournal.com]

6
Never know how much I love you
Never know how much I care

Fever--Peggy Lee (or The Cramps)

14
You had plenty money nineteen forty-one
You lost it all and then away you run

Why Don't You Do Right--Peggy Lee again?

24
Oh dear, what can I do?

and I'm feeling blue

I think it's missing the song title line of "Baby's In Black" by The Beatles

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Awrk! Thank you for pointing out my code stupids! I have fixed the 'blank lines screwing up my formatting' thing now. (:

[esmerel.livejournal.com]

21 is Don't Stop Believing - Journey.

I'm not sure if I'm amused or disturbed that I don't know any of the others:)

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I think you should liberally mix both with a strong sense of shame. (:
And you probably beat Tersa to the one that she would know.

[jakejr.livejournal.com]

Too lazy to go through them all quite yet, but I'll start from the beginning.

1-Mystery Dance, Elvis Costello

Do I get bonus points for this? :)

"Juliet was waiting with a safety net
said don't bury me 'cause I'm not dead yet."

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

You'd get bonus points anyway. (:
I can't do it any more and I'm not satisfied.

[jalexius.livejournal.com]

30 Puttin on the Ritz
Gene Wilder & Peter Boyle?

More look familiar, but that's all I think I know.

[l2g.livejournal.com]

20. Negativland, "Helter Stupid" (louder, faster, louder, faster!)

28. Consolidated, "Dysfunctional Relationship"

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Just hearing #20 raised my morale.
(I suspect you may be able to tag at least one or two others--I just realized that I broke the rule about multiple artists without noticing.)

[l2g.livejournal.com]

Hint-dropper! :-P :-)

Re: My own entries

[l2g.livejournal.com]

I should be getting #18, shouldn't I? Dammit...

Re: My own entries

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Hrmmm. If anybody is going to get 18 I expect it to be you.
I also think you've at least heard 3 7 8 13 and 26. 11 I know you should get. I'm not sure about 19, it's from our radio days though.

Re: My own entries

[l2g.livejournal.com]

Well, to take a break from wracking my brains over those, I created a list of my own...

Re: My own entries

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

So I see... And I suck at them. (:

Re: My own entries

[l2g.livejournal.com]

That's all right. There is some very obscure stuff on there. I certainly wouldn't be able to get most of them if someone else had posted them. That's the wonderful thing about randomization, I guess. :-)

Re: My own entries

[l2g.livejournal.com]

Oh! Oh! 18 is Lard!

But which song? Arrrrghh.

Can I consult my collection?

Re: My own entries

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Of course you can--the rule was 'no googling'.

Re: My own entries

[l2g.livejournal.com]

Great!

[running off to check Lycos]

:-P

Re: My own entries

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Hey now! What's a dog got against the AltaVista? (Or Lexis-Nexis, I suppose, but I never worked for them.)

Re: My own entries

[l2g.livejournal.com]

Don't forget I used to work for a dog. ;-)

(I was gonna say AltaVista, but wasn't sure if you had any hard feelings.)

Re: My own entries

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Nah, no hard feelings. The product remains quality, it's just the morons who they brought on to try and make it a millionaire factory that I resent.

You can't throw ME to the lions... I'm Charleton Heston!

[l2g.livejournal.com]

Crap, crap, crap... whatever became of my copy of The Last Temptation of Reid?

Oh well. I'm going to put my money on "Sylvestre Matuschka". I can't remember any more of the lyrics than what you put down, but I'm dead sure it's that one.

(I swear I did not do a lyrics search. I had a strong hunch about the album and looked up the track listing. If you have to disqualify my entry... I shall accept your judgement gracefully.)

(Say, is that how "judgement" is spelled?)

(Yes, I know my subject line is from a different song.)

Re: You can't throw ME to the lions... I'm Charleton Heston!

[l2g.livejournal.com]

Wait. More of the lyrics are coming back to me now.

And I kinda wish they hadn't. :-)

Re: You can't throw ME to the lions... I'm Charleton Heston!

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

DINGDINGDINGDING!
We have a winner! Yes, the anthem to the German hero who liked to blow up train tracks and masturbate!

Re: You can't throw ME to the lions... I'm Charleton Heston!

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

So if you want to keep assailing these words, I'll lie low. Otherwise I'm considering posting the answers and moving on.

[9thmoon.livejournal.com]

This one:
You had plenty money nineteen forty-one
You lost it all and then away you run
Why Don't You Do Right?--Sinead O'Connor (Roisnoir first)

I know as
You had plenty money back in '42
You let other women make a fool of you
Why don't you do right
like some other men do?
as sung by the beautiful Kathleen of Dead Ringer.

The only song I know that hasn't already been guessed is # 28 but I don't know who does it. I am teh lamerz.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

You may recall my sparkling performance on your own music lyric guessing quiz. And to top it all off, I wasn't allowed to edit for 'Good Lord this one is obscure and even *I* don't know it unless I write it down.' (: (viz: 10, 12, 13, 15 and 16)
And yeah, 'Do Right' is a traditional, which means that people will tinker with it and often times also means there's no 'right' version.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

And it strikes me how very poorly I can identify either my choices or other people's lists without the accompanying musical cues. I stare at the words to songs I love, and they mean nothing to me because I fail to tie them to the bassline, the melody....

My own entries

[purchasemonkey.livejournal.com]

2
Telegram force and ready; I knew this was a big mistake
There's a fine line drawing my senses together and I think it's about to break

Duran Duran, "The Union of the Snake"

4
[song title] leading to the room where the paint doesn't want to dry
[song title] running down the road where the dirt reaches the sky

They Might Be Giants, "32 Footsteps"

I'd have got 6, 21, and 22, and 30, as well, and 14, except I would have said "Jessica Rabbit."

Is 29 "Last Train to Train Central?"

Re: My own entries

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Excellent work, sir!
I wasn't sure about #2--until I did this I had no idea what the opening lyrics were to that song.(:
And I'll give you 29 as it's Last Train to Trance Central.

Re: My own entries

[l2g.livejournal.com]

Arrrgh, I knew 29 but couldn't remember the name of it. :-)

17

[(Anonymous)]

Neil Gaiman, Cold Colors. From his Warning: Contains Language CD, unless I'm quite mistaken.

Re: 17

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Not mistaken at all. (:
Last answer, just before the gun sounds!