First lines, 20 songs

[zdashamber]

For me, this meme, enduring entertainment. The rules: I put all my music on shuffle, write out the first lines of the first 20 songs that play. You guess them. If the actual title is in the first line, I replace it with "blah blah blah"... NB, the number of blahs does not necessarily correlate to the number of words replaced. Yeah, sorry for

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[scarywhitegirl]

6. "Mexican Radio" by Wall of Voodoo
8. "Eleanor Rigby" by The Beatles
11. "Nothing Else Matters" by Metalica
15. "Sowing the Seeds of Love" by Tears for Fears
16. "Whip It" by Devo

Wow, that's the most I've known in anyone's list so far! Except mine. :)

[zdashamber]

Yep, I got a pretty good mix of songs that people know when I shook WinAmp this time... And I threw out the songs that even I couldn't ID without looking at the play listing. :D

[corwin77]

8. Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
11. Nothing Else Matters - Mettalica
16. Whip It - Devo

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[zdashamber]

You got it. :)

[tlatoani]

2: People are People
4: Goodbye Stranger

[zdashamber]

First to see through a blah blah blah! Correct for both.

[tlatoani]

I also knew 6, 8, and 16, but they were already gotten.

[rikibeth]

6. Mexican Radio, Wall of Voodoo
7. I'm Going To Go Back There Someday, Gonzo the Magnificent (Muppet Movie)
8. Eleanor Rigby, the Beatles
9. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John
13. Come Out You Black And Tans, you tell ME who you've got doing it, I have a recording by Six Mile Bridge, for all I know it could be shadowflyer singing it on yours
16. Whip It, Devo
18. Box of Rain, the Grateful Dead

[zdashamber]

Actually, I do have the shadowflyer version... :) It's interesting, when I was reading up on the Arab Revolt I realized that's what the lyrics were referring to. Just from the song there's enough data to place its conception in history.

Also, you are right about everything. I'm glad someone else out there knows obscure Greatful Dead!

[rikibeth]

"Box of Rain" is hardly obscure! "China Cat Sunflower," now there's obscure for you.

[zdashamber]

Hm. Ok, fair enough. I just can't find people who know the Greatful Dead at all. And for my part, I'm just someone who lucked into a random passel of songs of theirs back in the days of Napster.

[cyranocyrano]

Why has nobody mentioned Worlds Apart by Journey for 10 yet?

[zdashamber]

Maybe they think about it as Separate Ways instead? Maybe they think "surely there cannot be THAT MUCH 80s in this playlist"? Maybe they bad some bad acid once during a power ballad and blocked the entire genre from their minds?

[cyranocyrano]

This is one of the gaping holes in the Rock Band catalogue.

[cyranocyrano]

Bah. The added phrase on 3 is tickling my brain.
I can now blame you for my being up this late.