I’ve been good and not uploaded a meme FAIL.

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Originally published at Electric Quaker II. Please leave any comments there.

But, y’know. I figure this will interest / infuriate at least, er, three of you. So there we go.

It’s one of those memes that has Rules, which I’ll chuck up for your benefit at the start, so you can work out what you’re doing, even if that turns out to be “thumping PgDn good and hard.”

1. Put your music player on random. (having first loaded all your MP3s into it, I assume)
2. Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song. (Unless it’s spoken word, or entirely instrumental, or has a first line which consists entirely of the title of the song, in which case I’ve skipped it, as it’d be unfair on yez.)
3. Let everyone guess what song and artist (or musical) the lines come from. (Comments enabled. Knock yourselves out.)
4. Embolden the songs when someone guesses correctly. (Uhm. Kay.)

Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING! (In capitals, an’ everything. Must be serious…)

I’d just like to point out that 20 doesn’t seem like very many. I mean that’s, what, 1 song opening per 3 Gb of MP3s? [62Gb/20=3.1; please correct me if that doesn't make sense.]

Still, let’s see what kind of a mood the RNG’s in, shall we? (& nuts to Popular Culture.)

1. I heard Woodrow Wilson’s guns / I heard Maria cryin’
2. A cadillac stood by the house, and the Yanks they were within
3. What was that bang? It was the next big thing / exploding over our heads


4. They passed me by / all of those great romances

-One of us / ABBA

5. I’m dancing on the White House lawn / sipping tea by the Taj Mahal at dawn

-Life is a minestrone / 10cc

6. My mind keeps on telling me that this is no good / and my heart is aching, and tells me I should
7. [large quantities of saying "Woah"] You’re going round the circle / through another phase
8. Dusk, is dawn, is day / where did it go?
9. She had a bad childhood while she was young / so don’t judge her too badly.


10. Turn away / if you could get me a drink of water / ’cause my lips are chapped and faded

-Cancer : My chemical romance My chemical romance

11. Everything has a beginning / everything comes to an end / Take it or leave it, you’d better believe it / be my lover, be my friend

-Hero (Sweden ; Eurovision, 2008) / Charlotte Perrelli

12. O is this the way they say the future’s meant to feel? / Ah, just twenty thousand people standing in a field?

-Sorted out for E’s and whizz / Pulp.

13. Michael wears his tan like a flasher wears his coat / he’s full of mad adventures, he’s full of anecdotes

-Dangerous / Fairport Convention

14. Isaac, nice chap / died of cancer / I gigged with him / many times

-Death song / PBH

15. I tried to come down from you / tried with your voice in my head, knocking me back, every inch I moved

-Curve of the Earth / Matt Nathanson

16. I still hear your voice when you sleep next to me / I still feel your touch in my dreams

-Every time we touch / Cascada

17. Papers in the morning / bowler hat on head

-Cardiac arrest / Madness.

18. A malady / has taken him over

-London lives / Blur

19. It was eyes down at the bingo / on that lucky Friday night

-Tux on / Marillion

20. Ron and Nancy got the house, but Sid and Nancy rule / I died eight years ago, I’m still a legend at my high school

-Alleluia / Dar Williams

… Hm. I’ve erred on the side of verbosity there, because I think the RNG is in an Obscure mood. Well, I say obscure. What I mean is “Things I don’t expect you people to know.”