A while ago I presented you with 25 lines selected at random from tracks residing on my computer, omitting non-verbal, non-English and songs where the first line is or acts as first line.
Just to tidy up:
1. You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life: Dancing Queen - Abba.
Magpie got the artist; Rullsenberg added the track
2. After all these years after all these tears between us: All I really need is you - Neil Diamond. Answered by Alice
3. From the very first time I rest my eyes on you, boy. Daisy said Annie Lennox: I don't wanna wait in vain for your love (actually, Waiting in Vain, but why nit-pick?)
4. Back in '68 in a sweaty club: Geno - Dexys Midnight Runners Robin
5. 1.2.3.4 Heaven loves ya The clouds part for ya: Boys Keep Swingin - David Bowie. Robin, again.
6. She said it was just a figment of speech: Walk Away Renee -Billy Bragg. Daisy got the artist, Alice,
7. There you go Flashing fever from your eyes: Show Me Heaven - Maria McKee. Alice got the song, but guessed a couple of alternative artists.
8. Only you, you're the only thing I'll see forever: Tonight from West Side Story said Alan. It's been recorded by so many people it would have been unfair to expect you to guess the artists that happened to appear on this random play. But only a bit of effort would actually have been required - Plácido Domingo and Renée Fleming
9. I love you from the bottom of my pencil case: Song for Whoever - Beautiful South - Rullsenberg
10. The telephone is ringin' in the middle of the night I pull the bed clothes higher: Nanci Griffith - It's just another morning here: Alice
11. My breath smells of a thousand fags And when I'm drunk I dance like me Dad. Robbie Williams's Strong - artist guessed by Skuds, song by Will
12. I blame you for the moonlit sky and the dream that died: sleeping Satellite, Tasmin Archer: Alan
13. If you take me straight to heaven I could never fall: In All the Right Places - Lisa Stansfield - Alice
14. Last night you talked about leaving - Too Many Broken Hearts - Jason Donovan. Will
15. Baby I've been here before I know this room, I walked this floor. Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen. Daisy (well, loads of artists to choose from...)
16. Don't you think it's funny that nothing's what it seems when you're not looking forward? - snagged by JonnyB
17. Coyote, oh coyote can you tell me why: Full Moon full of Love - kd lang , thanks Lyle
18. Punctured bicycle On a hillside desolate. This Charming Man - the Smiths, guessed by Rullsenberg
19. the wind's whistling my mind's twisting: Not so manic now - Dubstar (Rullsenberg)
20. My baby drives a car he calls me when he wants: Some Girls Rachel Stevens - artist guessed by Gordon, song by Alice.
21. I want you to be the strong one: You do -McAlmont and Butler. I'm really shocked no one got it because it is such a wonderful OTT song - now uploaded to my yahoo group - non-members can apply for membership here (you won't be refused
22. I'm flying high on something beautiful and aimless: Sense - Lightning Seeds - identified by Carol
23. With the heartbreak open So much you cant hide: Goody Two Shoes, Adam Ant identified by Daisy
24. Hey, little girl, comb your hair, fix your make-up, soon he will open the door - Wives and Lovers Dionne Warwick. Rullsenberg guessed the song; it's been recorded by very many.
25. I'm nothing special in fact I'm a bit of a bore: Abba's glorious Thank You for the Music. Rullsenberg, again...
It's been fun. And it might be fun to stick the occasional '10 First Lines' in another time when I'm proscrastinating...!
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