The random lyrics meme

[polyfrog]

Set your music player on random.

List out the first line of each song. Skip instrumental songs (duh) and songs whose first line is in fact the title. Friends guess the songs.

I've included the entire first sentence even if it's more than a bar, and the whole first bar if the first line is short.

Comments

[polyfrog]

A few of these are likely to be known only to one or two of you (and not the same one or two in each case). At least one I will be shocked if anyone guesses correctly.

[ivymcallister]

"Well we know where we're going, but we don't know where we've been."--Road to Nowhere, Talking Heads

"When I was just a little girl, I asked my mother, 'What will I be?'"--Que Sera, Sera

"The Salvation Army band played, and the children drunk lemonade, and the morning lasted all day."--Life In a Northern Town, Dream Academy

[polyfrog]

All correct! Mine's Doris Day.

I'll take The 80s for $200, Alex

[daev]

Jenny, Jenny, who can I turn to? Tommy Tutone, "867-5309"

They crossed over the border the hour before dawn, moving in lines through the day. Al Stewart, "Roads To Moscow"

Well we know where we're going, but we don't know where we've been. Talking Heads, "Road To Nowhere"

Oonka chucka! Oonka oonka oonka chucka! Oonka oonka oonka chucka! Somebody-on-the-Reservoir-Dogs-soundtrack, "Hooked On A Feeling"

Well you're a real tough cookie with a long history of breaking little hearts like the one in me. Pat Benatar, "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"

I was 21 years when I wrote this song. Billy Bragg, "A New England"

Re: I'll take The 80s for $200, Alex

[polyfrog]

Interesting!
I was 21 years when I wrote this song. Billy Bragg, "A New England"
This is not the song I was listening to. But even the next line is the same. You have to to the third sentence to find the difference:
I was 21 years when I wrote this song. I'm 22 now but I won't be for long. Time hurries on.

The rest are correct; The Oonka chuckas are by Blue Swede.

[robling_t]

Yeah I'm sitting on this bar stool, talking like a damn fool, got the twelve o'clock news blues
-- Styx, "too much time on my hands"

Talking away...I don't know what to say
-- a-ha, "take on me"

Riding on the range; I've got my hat: on. I've got my boots: dusty.
-- Boys Don't Cry, "I wanna be a cowboy"

[polyfrog]

All correct.

Just one not already guessed

[tlunquist]

In a fleeting moment of a restless day, driven to distraction I was captured by the game

Alison Moyet, "Is This Love?"

Re: Just one not already guessed

[polyfrog]

Aww! I was counting on you to get "You're banging from below, the ice is frozen above"

Re: Just one not already guessed

[tlunquist]

Oh! Oops. Wait - why did Daev not get that one?

Last Gentlemen - When the Fire Breaks the Chill.

I had to go listen to half their stuff to remember which title, but I had the band instantly.

Re: Just one not already guessed

[polyfrog]

I have no idea why daev didn't get it. BLuR didn't guess at all, and I was figuring him to get that one, too.