Music meme.

[offbalance]

Step 1: Put your MP3 player (or itunes) on random.
Step 2: Post the first lines of the first 25 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: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: NO CHEATING.

Special Note: A LOT of covers appear on here. You get credit for the original artist, and super extra credit if you name the correct cover. Also, if anyone gets #24, I will faint from shock.
quodlibetic got it!! ::faints::

1. I could feel at the time, there was no way of knowing More than This (orig by roxy music, cover by 10,000 maniacs) squiddeh
2. you can dance, every dance with the guy who gives you the eye let him hold you tight
3. John and Mitchy were gettin' kind of itchy just to leave the folk music behind Creeque Alley by the Mamas and the Papas quasisonic
4. Andy would bicycle across town in the rain to bring you candy
5. Walking down Division Street, I happened on to meet, a stranger with a package in his hand
6. the world is spinning too fast I'm buying lead nike shoes
7. doo doo doo doo (mahna mahna) Mahna Mahna - The Muppets quodlibetic
8. As he came into the window was a sound of a crescendo Smooth Criminal (original by Michael Jackson, cover by Alien Ant Farm) - squiddeh
9. For once in my life, I have someone who needs me, someone I've needed so long
10. Hot summer streets, and the pavement is burning, I sit around.
11. I thought love was only true in fairy tales.
12. Sometimes I get the feeling that I won't be on this planet for very long
13. Ah, look at all the lonely people. "Eleanor Rigby" - The Beatles. theater_pixie
14. Drop ya glasses, shake ya asses, face rude up like ya havin' hot flashes.
15. Saturday night at 8 o'clock I know where I'm gonna go
16. It's gonna take some time this time, to get myself in shape
17. Hello Mr. Zebra, can I have your sweater cause it's cold cold cold... Mr. Zebra - Tori Amos quodlibetic
18. Ain't no sunshine when she's gone...it's not warm when she's away Ain't no sunshine - Bill withers quodlibetic
19. Some folks like to get away, take a holiday from the neighborhood. New York State of Mind - Billy Joel missgyder
20. walking to the bus stop, couldn't wait to get on
21. you are a splendid butterfly, it is your wings that make you beautiful.
22. Oooo baby, I hear how you spend night time wrapped like candy in a blue, blue neon glow
23. When I talk about it, It carries on,Reasons only knew
24. Go now, don't look back, we've drawn the line Sarah - Starship quodlibetic
25. The more you see, the less you know, the more you find out as you go City of Blinding Lights - U2 pizanite

Comments

[theatre-pixie.livejournal.com]

2.) "Save the Last Dance (for me)" covered by Michael Buble

11.) "I'm a Believer" covered by SmashMouth

13.) "Elanor Rigby" by the Beatles

I have the sneaking suspicion that I know numbers 8 and 14, but the names and artists escape me and I refuse to cheat by looking them up. I wish I were certain that number 13 was correct, but I'm not.

[offbalance.livejournal.com]

You're correct about the songs for #2 and 11, but those are NOT the covers I mentioned. Those are the original songs.

#13 is correct, though.

[quodlibetic.livejournal.com]

7. The MUnuh Munuh song from Sesame Street. :)
17. Tori Amos - Hello Mr Zebra
18. Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
24. SAAAAAAAA-RAH! SAAAAAAAAAA-RAH! STARS ARE BURNING IN YOR EYES! (Sarah - Starship (or was it Jefferson Starship then?))

[offbalance.livejournal.com]

All correct!! Good on you!

No, it was Starship!! I seriously love that song. More than I should admit publicly.

[squiddeh.livejournal.com]

1. Roxy Music - More than This
9. Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson (or it could be the cover by Alien Ant Farm)

[offbalance.livejournal.com]

1. Actually it's the 10,000 maniacs cover, but since you named the original artist, you get credit for this one.

9. Correct! (and it is the cover)

[quasisonic.livejournal.com]

3. is Creeque Alley!!!

[offbalance.livejournal.com]

Yup!

[pizanite.livejournal.com]

#25 City of Blinding Lights / U2 :)

Do you have U2 by U2 yet, btw?

[offbalance.livejournal.com]

Of course it is!

I do, indeed. Bought it yesterday. It's huge, heavy, goregous and FULL of some really amazing pictures. Although a large chunk of Bono's background essay is a total retread from a 1985 Rolling Stone interview (which can easily be found in Bono: The Rolling Stone file), but I'm not sure if that was just Bono repeating himself, he may have just. I'll have to check the credits of the book. But the essays by Adam and Edge and Larry were great - and I'm only a little bit in!

[missgyder.livejournal.com]

#19 is too easy -- New York State of Mind by Billy Joel. Is this a cover version?

[offbalance.livejournal.com]

Nope, not a cover! The randomness of the meme ensures both easy and hard ones. I'm really surprised Laura didn't get it.