the first lines game

[bedlamsbard]

I succeeded in transferring all my music from my iPod (Regulus) to my new laptop (Arcturus), but none of the playlists transferred over. While I'm rebuilding these from the web and the iPod, I'm also having fun listening to a bunch of music I don't usually listen to. And let me tell you, since at one point in time I was getting a majority of my music from fanmix, I have really odd music. (Amusingly, at the moment, I also have playlists titled "Susan", "Peter", and "Edmund." "Peter", out of eight songs, has four Shawn Colvin songs. Um. I got nothin'. "Susan", on the other hand, has no artist repeats. "Edmund" only has two songs on it.)

So: first lines of twenty songs on shuffle, try and guess the title/artist. Some of these are probably covers. Instrumentals, foreign language, a-capella, anything completely obvious, and podfic dropped. Google is totally cheating.

1. everyone's looking, everyone hides, everyone's telling everyone lies
2. I heard you on the wireless back in fifty-two, lying awake intent at tuning in to you
3. don't look now, things just got worse, I'm drunk again I swear this crescent is just a curse
4. if you want this, if you want this, you're gonna have to ask nicely please
5. don't chase girls, don't get too close, don't get caught, don't get spent
6. her face is a map of the world, is a map of the world, you can see she's a beautiful girl
7. come on, come on, shed the skin that's held you for so long
8. my world is firmly compressed into the pocket of your front breast, we pass over cities and towns collapsed in the hopes that people find amusement among the depressed
9. there comes a time when you should see things clear, free from my innocence there is no circumstance too severe
10. I sit at my table and wage war on myself, it seems like it's all, it's all for nothing
11. I kissed your lips and I tasted blood, I asked you, "What happened?" and you said there'd been a fight
12. perhaps I am a miscreation, no one knows the truth here
13. another empty bottle in the hand, it helps to kill the things that we don't understand
14. denying the lying, a million children fighting
15. baby, life is like a ride on the freeway, dodging bullets while you're trying to find your way
16. oh perilous place, walk backwards toward you, blink disbelieving eyes chilled to the bone
17. when I went to your town on the wide open shore, oh I must confess, I was drawn, I was drawn to the ocean
18. when it doesn't rain it snows, yeah the cookie crumbles, but in whose hand?
19. grab your ticket and your suitcase, thunder's rolling down the tracks
20. I wanted to be like you, I wanted everything

*vaguely amused* Now I have playlists called "Lucy" and "Narnia." In the course of this, you see.

ETA: Answers will be posted tomorrow, and whoever gets a correct answer will get 100 words of fic. Because I am in A MOOD. Also, my knitting is pissing me off.

Comments

[sgriobadh.livejournal.com]

6. Suddenly I See, KT Tunstall.

[cupiscent.livejournal.com]

2. VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR! (Don't know which version you have. I have the Presidents cover, but the original was the Buggles. Just Buggles? Can't remember.)

...and that's all I know. :(

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

is #1 duncan sheik, reasons for living?