Shameless Ripoff Time: Song Lyric Recognition Meme

[rabidchild]

<----Officer Caffrey says, "Don't alert the RIAA."

Taking from the lovely elrhiarhodan , who borrowed from the similarly lovely deepbluemermaid ...

The rules are simple:

Step 1: Set your primary playlist to random and shuffle it (I cheated and just took some faves).
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play (or more, if you like!), no matter how embarrassing

Comments

[elrhiarhodan]

#4 - Gone, Daddy, Gone - Violent Femmes
#20 - I Gave You All - Mumford & Sons

These are only easy if you know the music...and I am sad to say, I only recognized two!

[rabidchild]

I think mine are pretty mainstream, but maybe not. Yours are hard - the only ones I recognized were already guessed!

[elrhiarhodan]

I know some of mine were hard...and I had actually eliminated most of the obscure Celtic and French Canadian folk music. The problem is, I don't listen to much mainstream music.

[loki_dip]

[rabidchild]

Not even #12? Well-known second-wave ska band...

[loki_dip]

[rabidchild]

They're British...

[doctor_fangeek]

Ooh! #9 is "Begin the Begin," by R.E.M.

#14 sounds really familiar. I want to say "Sex and Candy," but a) I'm not sure, and b) I can't for the life of me remember who sings that (if it's right).

[rabidchild]

Both right and I'll give it to you! The band is Marcy Playground. Man, I played the hell out of that when it came out!

One more!

[doctor_fangeek]

Grr. None of the others are ringing any bells at the moment. Goes back to take another look.

[rabidchild]

Hint: There's at least one repeat of a band already answered.
Hint 2: I included way too many 80's alternative bands I now realize...

[rabidchild]

Me too - that's where my screen name is from.

[rabidchild]

Love them so much - top ten band for me.