That music meme

[sholio]

I've done this one before, but it's always fun, and I see it's making the rounds again in various forms.

Instructions:
Put your music playlist on shuffle or random. Take the first twenty [or fifteen] songs, no matter how embarrassing, and post the first line or two of the lyrics. Cross them off as people guess the song title and artist.


1. Climbing up on Solsbury Hill, I could see the city light "Solsbury Hill" by Peter Gabrial, guessed by bironic
2. Beneath the moonlit sky, shadows walk beside the water California Promises by Jimmy Buffett, guessed by susnn
3. This ol' highway's getting longer, seems there ain't no end in sight "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" by Garth Brooks, guessed by katriel1987
4. Hey, little sister, what have you done "White Wedding" by Billy Idol, guessed by kristen999
5. Finally I figured out, but it took a long long time "All For You" by Sister Hazel, guessed by bironic
6. You love her but she loves him, and he loves somebody else "Love Stinks" by J. Geils Band - susnn got the title but not the artist, but I went ahead and gave it to her anyway. :D
7. I spent twenty years trying to get out of this place, I was looking for something I couldn't replace "Who Says You Can't Go Home" by Bon Jovi, guessed by greyias
8. Ride, ride my see-saw, take this place on this trip just for me "Ride My See-Saw" by the Moody Blues, guessed by trishkafibble
9. I never thought I'd change my opinion again, but you moved me in a way I'd never known "Break Me Shake Me" by Savage Garden, guessed by xparrot
10. Came in from a rainy Thursday, on the avenue "Ordinary World" by Duran Duran, guessed by kristen999
11. Driving home this evening, could have sworn we had it all worked out "Cuts Like a Knife" by Bryan Adams
12. And she was lying in the grass, and she could hear the highway breathing "And She Was" by the Talking Heads, guessed by kyuuketsukirui
13. Where it began, I can't begin to know, but then I know it's growing strong "Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond
14. Here I stand, head in hand, turn my face to the wall "Hide Your Love Away", originally by the Beatles but covered here by Pearl Jam, guessed by roga
15. Holiday quiet on these streets, except for some stubborn leaves "What About Everything by Carbon Leaf, guessed by xparrot
16. I hate the world today, you're so good to me I know but I can't change "Bitch" by Meredith Brooks, guessed by bironic
17. I enjoy this life as a drifter, seems to keep me moving around "Stranded on a Sandbar" by Jimmy Buffett
18. See the world through your cynical eyes, you're a troubled young man I can tell "Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)" by Styx, guessed by susnn and trishkafibble
19. Well, we're fighting in the streets, with our children at our feet "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who, guessed by susnn
20. Twenty, twenty, twenty-four hours to go, I wanna be sedated "I Wanna Be Sedated" by the Ramones, guessed by kristen999 and kyuuketsukirui


Okay, these are insanely easy this time. I swear there are some very obscure songs in my playlist, but they didn't seem to float to the surface on this particular go-round, for the most part. :D

EDIT: Just over half of them guessed at this point. I can't believe no one's gotten #19; I figured that one was well-known enough to be a total gimme.

ETA2: Most have been guessed; I added the others.

Comments

[sholio]

Er ... oops. It's jester? Really? I've had the album for 15 years and always thought of that line ending in "drifter" -- although, now that you mention it, the other way sounds familiar too. Maybe it's one of those cases of having heard the song the wrong way at first and never quite being able to get the other way to stick in my head.

And thanks for the comment on Cold Comfort. :D That line was how the story began -- I mean, I suppose that's fairly obvious for an opening line (heh) but I wanted to use that line and then kinda built the story around it.