Music Meme

Surreptitiously stolen from r_scribbles:

- Put your music player on random;
- Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song;
- Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from;
- Bold the songs when someone guesses correctly;
- Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is cheating.


1. Down, down, down, down; down, down, down down… - Down and Out, Bugsy Malone
2. Starry, starry night, paint your palate blue and grey… - Vincent, Don Maclean
3. Inside, outside, this old world change with the time…
4. Oh, give me land, lots of land, under starry skies above… - Don't Fence Me In, Bing Crosby
5. A kiss on the hand may be quite continental… - Diamonds are a girl's best friend, Marilyn Monroe
6. Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand… - Firefly theme
7. Super nights and gorgeous dreams, autumn nights aren’t what they seem…
8. Well, if you ever plan to motor west…
9. How many sorrows, do you try to hide… - Miracle of Love, Eurythmics
10. Virgil Caine is my name, and I served on the Danville train…
11. Early one morning while making the rounds, I took a shot of cocaine…
12. Your love for me is not debatable, your sexual appetite’s insatiable… - Inflatable You, Tim Minchin
13. [title] It’s clear to see that you’ve become obsessed…
14. Oh, I must say it’s the most extraordinary experience… - I went to a marvellous party, Divine Comedy
15. Joseph’s coat annoyed his brothers, ‘But what makes us mad…’ - Joseph's Dream[s], Joseph
16. Oh, you get me ready in your ’56 chevy, why don’t we go sit down in the shade… - Where have all the cowboys gone, Paula Cole
17. Strike a pose… - Vogue, Madonna
18. Well I heard there was a secret chord, that David played and it pleased the Lord… - Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley
19. Tell me now, if you came sneaking up behind, would you know me…
20. I hitched a ride with a vending machine repair man… - Every day is a winding road, Sheryl Crow
21. Woke up this morning with my head so heavy, thought about leaving on the next train coming…
22. I was looking back on my life, and all the things I’ve done…
23. Valjean, at last, we see each other plain… - Confrontation, Les Miserables
24. So you’re gonna live in paradise, with a [title]… - Ten Foot Cock and a Few Hundred Virgins, Tim Minchin
25. Dear, I feel we’re facing a problem, you love me no longer I know… - Lovefool, The Cardigans

Music Meme #2

Oh, you know I'm a sucker for these things...

1. Another hero, another mindless crime behind the pantomime…
2. Rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling… - Rawhide, The Blues Brothers
3. Tell-tale signs of life behind those late-night bedsit eyes…
4. She wears a wedding ring, her sister lent to throw them off the scent…
5. I am [title], and I know just where I stand…
6. [title], singing the blues all day, right outside of my door…
7. Don’t know why I’m still afraid, if you weren’t real I would make you up…
8. Well, my heart knows me better than I know myself, so I’m going to let it do all the talking… - Black Horse and a Cherry Tree, KT Tunstall
9. No more secret rendez-vous, I’m going to miss all the things we’ll never do… - Turn Back Time, Grease 2
10. He was a famous trumpet man from down Chicago way… - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, The Puppini Sisters
11. I overheard all the people just the other day saying where we going Friday…
12. You are subject to inspections, those are not your lips, have you been kissed by a computer…
13. Our romance won’t end on a sorrowful note, though by tomorrow you’re gone
14. What did I do wrong? Oh, you nearly drove me cuckoo… - Ballad of Tom Jones, Space
15. I was quiet as a mouse when I stuck into your house and took roofies with your spouse…
16. You can dance every dance with the guy who gives you the eye… - Save the last dance for me, The Drifters
17. A lonely street lamp, a man on the street walking home, a small pale blur…
18. Yes, I know it worked just dandy with that Indian, Mr Gandhi…
19. I lock the door and lock my head and dream of [title] instead…
20. Slapping leather, was devised during a wild streak in her life…
21. [title] I gave a letter to the postman, he put it in his sack… - Return to Sender, Elvis Presley
22. Bonsoir, et bienvenue a le disco Dracula, lumiere, s’il vous plait…
23. I was thinking, that I might fly today, just to disprove, all the things that you say…
24. Go jump in the lake, go ride up the hill, [title]…
25. I’ve got someone else’s baggage and I’m hauling it around…