I can name that tune in four words

[cyrano]

In an effort to keep awake, I spent about fifteen minutes putting together another lyrics challenge. However, in an effort to leave fewer orphans, I did two things. Firstly, I took all tracks from the playlist containing my 2039 favorite songs. Secondly, I took down the *second* line as well, and will add those in a day or two for the ones left hanging.
Googling is still considered gauche, and if the title of the song comes up in the first two lines it is replace by the phrase [sigma over square root of N].
EDIT: I forgot LJ would eat carats. The title of the song parameters have now been replaced by brackets.


01. I'm standing here on the ground

02. Met [sigma over square root of N] at the Hotel Paradise

03. How can you say that you're not responsible

04. Don't know what colour your eyes are, baby
So Alive -- Love and Rockets (Jake Jr.)

05. You hold me like a puppet in your clammy hands

06. All Bound for Muu Muu Land (x4)
Stand by the Jams -- KLF with Tammy Wynette (roisnoir)

07. I lay my head on the railroad track
Poor Poor Pitiful Me -- Warren Zevon (ceruleanme)

08. Here is London, giddy London
Hairdresser on Fire -- Morrissey (pusifoot)

09. Gonna sell my car and go to [sigma over square root of N]
Vegas -- Sarah Bareilles (roseneko)

10. You turn me on, you lift me up
Alive and Kicking -- Simple Minds (ceruleanme)

Comments

[jakejr.livejournal.com]

I might know something else if I think about it harder, but for now I'll cherry-pick the one that started singing in my head the minute I saw it...

4. But your hair is long and brown. Your legs are strong and they're so so long and you don't come from this town. (So Alive, Love & Rockets)

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

This list wasn't as eighties heavy as it felt while I was making it, now that I look at it. But there's still plenty. (:

[roisnoir.livejournal.com]

#6 is KLF- Justified & Ancient (though I've got it listed as Stand By The Jams, as well.)

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I've got Stand by the Jams as well, but I feel certain that either the opening is used in multiple songs or the song was tagged with more than one name.

[cerulean-me.livejournal.com]

#7 Is it See The Constellation by TMBG? Or Poor Poor Pitiful Me?

#10 Alive and Kicking by Simply Minds

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

....Now I have to go listen to 'Constellation' to see how it starts. (:
Poor Poor Pitiful Me is, perhaps only second to Lawyers Guns and Money, my favorite of his.

[pusifoot.livejournal.com]

8 - Hairdresser on Fire by Morrissey (or possibly the Smiths, I can't remember if he was solo for it or not)

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Panic on the streets of London was the Smiths, but giddy London was solo. (:

Ha! I actually know this one!

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Gonna sell my car and go to Vegas/'Cos somebody told me that's where dreams would be

Sara Bareilles - Vegas

Re: Ha! I actually know this one!

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I was, in fact, thinking of you when this one came up. (:
Except I was singing "Gonna sell my car and go to Bisbee".

Re: Ha! I actually know this one!

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

I am most certainly *not* selling my car, thank you very much. :P

Re: Ha! I actually know this one!

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I would cry if you did. Perhaps I was thinking of the one in Alaska?