20 first lines from 20 songs....

[poltr1]

I went through my extensive CD, casette, LP, and MP3 collection to find 20 songs from 20 different artists. Some of them may be easy, some of them may be hard. I know they'd be hard for me; I know the first few seconds of many tunes, but I don't often know the first lines of songs. There's only one rule: no internet searching, regardless of search engine. Have at it!

If an item has been guessed correctly, the name of the guesser(s) will be posted beside the line.


1) We could be the last two on earth
2) Yesterday, just a photograph of yesterday
3) When I think of Lorelei, my head turns all around (billroper)
4) She's a wizard with her shears (thepolishviking)
5) In the darkness I arise, long before the dawn
6) High vibration go on
7) We were working secretly for the military (filkerdave)
8) Change your heart, look around you
9) When footlights dim in reverence
10) He had white horses and ladies by the score (filkerdave)
11) These things that I've been told can rearrange my world
12) The fishing boats go out across the evening water (billroper and redaxe)
13) The actors and jesters are here
14) They tell us that we've lost our tails (filkerdave)
15) When I hear this melody a strange illusion takes over me
16) A boy is born in hard time Mississippi
17) And I could easily fall from grace
18) I knew when I first saw you on the showroom floor
19) Bluegirls come in every size (redaxe)
20) She was born in '37

Comments

[daisy-knotwise.livejournal.com]

Sure was hermetically sealed. I had to ask it three times for it to let me read behind the cut.

GHR

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

7) Kate Bush, "Experiment IV"
10) ELP, "Lucky Man"
14) Devo, "Jocko Homo"
16) Stevie Wonder, "For the City" (I think that's the name of the song)

I know at least a few of the others, must wrack my brains to remember them!

[poltr1]

7, 10, and 14 are correct. Close on 16.

[billroper]

5) "Lorelei", Styx (I think that's the title)
12) "On the Border", Al Stewart
16) "In the City", Stevie Wonder (leeching off filkerdave's Close But No Cigar

[poltr1]

3 and 12 are correct. (Figures that a Chicago guy would get #3.) Still not quite right on 16.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Right, I've done gone and LOOKED at my iPod for that Stevie Wonder title, but I won't post it here 'cos that sort of counts as "using the computer to look it up"

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Two easy ones:

12. On the Border - Al Stewart
19. Ripples - Genesis (Steve Hackett)

Will think harder when I get home from work.

[poltr1]

12 and 19 are correct.

Late to the party, but...

[thepolishviking.livejournal.com]

...with so many yet unanswered (and almost as many with no guesses hazarded!), I may as well do my part to put this quiz one step closer to bed, by noting that my comparatively non-musically-inclined self actually managed to scrape a title and artist out of the recesses of my brain for #4: "Modern-Day Delilah" by Van Stephenson.

(Flattering that I actually got one! Not so flattering that I got only one...)

Re: Late to the party, but...

[poltr1]

4 is correct. This was one I thought no one would guess.