A. put your mp3 player or computer music player on random.
B. post the first three or four lines from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song (skip instrumentals and/or any song that gives away the title in the opening lines).
C. post, and let your friends guess which song and artist the lines come from.
D. NO googling!
1. Let’s have bizarre celebrations... let’s forget who forget what forget where... we’ll have bizarre celebrations... I’ll play the Satyr in Cypris, you the bride being stripped bare...
2. Tonight it's very clear... as we're both lying here... there's so many things I want to say... I will always love you... I would never leave you alone...
3. I used to think maybe you loved me, now baby I'm sure... and I just can't wait till the day when you knock on my door... Yep, this is "Walking on Sunshine" alright, by Katrina and the Waves.
4. Baby, look at me... and tell me what you see... you ain't seen the best of me yet... give me time, I'll make you forget the rest...
5. Where are those happy days, they seem so hard to find... I tried to reach for you, but you have closed your mind...
6. I was driving on the freeway in the fast lane with a rabid wolverine in my underwear when suddenly a guy behind me in the back seat popped right up and cupped his hands across my eyes... Identified as Weird Al's "Everything You Know Is Wrong".
7. Well, I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday... parking by the lake and there was not another car in sight... This is indeed Meat Loaf's "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights".
8. I don't mind you comin' here... and wastin' all my time... 'cause when youre standin' oh so near... I kinda lose my mind... I guess this is "Just What I Needed" by the Cars.
9. Finished with my woman 'cause she couldn't help me with my mind... people think I'm insane because I am frowning all the time... This is "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath.
10. White man came... across the sea... he brought us pain... and misery... he killed our tribes... he killed our creed... he took our game... for his own need... This is Iron Maiden and "Run To The Hills".
11. Woke up this mornin' feelin' fine... there's somethin' special on my mind... last night I met a new girl in the neighborhood... This is "I'm Into Something Good" by Herman's Hermits.
12. Well me and Homer Jones and Big John Talley had a big crap game goin' back in the alley... and I kept rollin' them sevens... and winnin' all them pots... Well, "When You're Hot, You're Hot". (Yep, this is the Jerry Reed song.)
13. Someday mother will die and I'll get the money... Mom leans down and says "My sentiments exactly"... "I Palindrome I" here (They Might Be Giants.)
14. I took her out... it was a Friday night... I wore cologne... to get the feeling right... we started making out... and she took off my pants... but then I turned on the TV... "What's My Age Again?" by blink-182.
15. Your lights are on... but you're not home... your mind... is not your own... your heart sweats... your body shakes... another kiss... is what it takes...
16. It ain't no joke, I'd like to buy the world a toke, and teach the world to sing in perfect harmony... "Walking On The Sun" by Smash Mouth.
17. You know I never... I never seen you look so good... you never act the way you should... but I like it... Yep, this is "Talk Dirty To Me" by Poison.
18. In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream... at night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines... And this is Bruce Springsteen's "Born To Run".
19. Your everlasting summer, you can see it fading fast... so you grab a piece of something that you think is gonna last...
20. It could be ten, but then again, I can't remember half an hour since a quarter to four... throw on your clothes, the second side of Surfer Rosa, and you leave me with my jaw on the floor...
21. Where I come from isn't all that great... my automobile is a piece of crap... my fashion sense is a little whack, and my friends are just as screwy as me...
22. I plopped down in my easy chair and turned on Channel Two... a bad gunslinger called Salty Sam was chasin' poor Sweet Sue...
23. It's poetry in motion... and when she turned her eyes to me... as deep as any ocean... as sweet as any harmony... "She Blinded Me With Science" by Thomas Dolby.
24. I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known... don't know where it goes, but it's home to me and I walk alone... And this is "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day.
25. I am just a poor boy and my story's seldom told, I've squandered my resistance... for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises... Simon and Garfunkel's "The Boxer".