Okay, I'll play...

[falcongrrl]

Grab the first 30 songs (w/ lyrics) from random play through your collection, post the first line(s) of each, cross them out as people guess.

1. Now that I've found peace at last/tell me Jesus, will it last? birdbard
2. Om Govinda Jaya Jaya Govinda Jaya Jaya gleefulfreak
3. Well, I like taking off, don't like burning out.
4. Summer days are gone too soon. virtualcourtney
5. Can you feel it, see it, hear it today? lupinekassidy
6. Don't want nothin' fancy, don't need nothin' new. monkeyman
7. You better make your face up in your favorite disguise. ineffabelle
8. In a field of corn is a master's shoe.
9. Il arrive parfois quand meme dans les eaux troubles...
10. Meeting you with a view to a kill... shaterri and nukewolf
11. If you leave, don't leave now; please don't take my heart away. gleefulfreak
12. Watch the sunrise, say your goodbyes, off we go.
13. It's like the ocean, baby.
14. I'm your only friend; I'm not your only friend. shaterri and nukewolf
15. I got my first real six-string, bought it at the five and dime. gleefulfreak
16. I get my thing in action - to be to see to feel to live. shaterri
17. Jaya Durga Jaya Durga Jaya Mata Jaya Mata gleefulfreak
18. Starry starry night, paint your palette blue and gray. shaterri
19. I'm all out of hope; one more bad break could bring a fall. ineffabelle
20. If somebody up there likes me, if somebody up there cares/deliver me from evil...
21. I wear my sunglasses at night so I can so I can gleefulfreak
22. All around the room your things are placed, and next to you he fills the space
23. Show me show me show me how you do that trick, the one that makes me scream shaterri
24. Je veux plus rester, je veux m'en aller
25. It is a gift, I know, a moment of bliss that we hold. lazarusrat
26. Lumina, come and wrap around me. mehndi_chick
27. Here comes the helicopter, second time today. momentrabbit
28. Girl, you really got me now, you got me so I don't know what I'm doin' lupinekassidy
29. You shall cross the barren desert but you shall not die of thirst. lazarusrat
30. Bones sinking like stones, all that we fought for... virtualcourtney

Comments

[gleefulfreak.livejournal.com]

2. Wah! - Govinda Jaya Jaya
11. OMD - If You Leave
15. Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
21. Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night

[lupinekassidy.livejournal.com]

#5: Faith No More: Epic
Aanndd #28: Van Halen: You Really Got Me (?)

[shaterri.livejournal.com]

I feel like I know 4), but I'm drawing a blank. Luckily, I can peg several of the other easy ones... :-)

10) "View to a Kill", Duran Duran -- the title track for the movie. I still remember the video for this one.
14) "Birdhouse In Your Soul", They Might Be Giants. I never got deeply into them, but I still love this song! "Not to put too fine a point on it..."
16) "Verb", and I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is the Moby cover I sent you, since I don't know if you have any other version recorded. :-)
18) "Vincent", Don McLean. I used to have this album somewhere; like Harry Chapin, it hasn't held up perfectly over time, but it's still good stuff.
23) "Just Like Heaven", The Cure. Another band I never really got into, but pretty good stuff!
28) is "You Really Got Me", like lupinekassidy says, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's the Kinks version, not the Van Halen cover. :-)

[lupinekassidy.livejournal.com]

Huh. I'd never realized that it *was* a cover. >.>

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

#23 reminds me of you (see above). 16 is the version you sent me, and I prefer the Kinks version of "You Really Got Me" but the iTunes God gave me the Van Halen one (and I do like both).

I'm really surprised you didn't get #8. ;-)

[nukewolf.livejournal.com]

10. Duran Duran, "A View To A Kill"
14. They Might Be Giants, "Birdhouse In Your Soul"

[lazarusrat.livejournal.com]

25. 311 - "Beyond the Gray Sky" ♥ (I don't know why but I always get happy when someone appreciates 311 without me having to introduce them. :D)
29. I know it from "Be Not Afraid," which is a gospel song and I have no idea who wrote it. If someone's co-opted that for another song... I have no idea. :)

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

I have a version by John Michael Talbot that my mom gave me. I like some Christian music, believe it or not, and the words of that song especially are very soothing and comforting.

[ineffabelle]

7. Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd
19. Eyes Without A Face - Billy Idol

Two of my favorite songs :)

[mehndi-chick.livejournal.com]

26. "Lumina", by Joan Osborn.

[monkeyman.livejournal.com]

I'm relatively certain that #6 is Timbuk 3, "A Sinful Life" -- and I'm also relatively certain that you got it from me at some point. :P

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

Yes, and yes. :-)

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

27 If I had a rocket launcher, Bruce Cockburn

[rowyn]

Is #17 by Krishna Das? It's not one of the songs I have, in any case. :)

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

No, actually it's recorded by Swaha, but that's a good guess. :-)

[virtualcourtney.livejournal.com]

4. is Norah Jones - Shoot the Moon. The last one is Coldplay - Don't Panic. I know I should know 13, but I can't place it!

[gleefulfreak.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, and 17 is Swaha's "Jaya Maa". :)

[birdbard.livejournal.com]

1. The Blue Nile - Happiness
23. The Cure! Good one...
27. Bruce!
28. He he...

I know a few more but others got them already...

[birdbard.livejournal.com]

Oh, Oh, 13 is Santana with Macy Gray, right? I need to get one of her albums...