Stolen from kyrielle, because it looked like fun.

[camwyn]

step 1: put your music player on shuffle.
step 2: post the first line from the first 15 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
step 2a: Skip any instrumentals and songs where the first line is or contains the title.
step 2b: Also where the song is in a foreign language which you can't actually understand well enough to transcribe.
step 3: strike out the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
step 4: looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
step 5: if you like the game, post your own.

1. I hate the Skydome and the CN tower, too "The Toronto Song", according to my copy of iTunes, by the Arrogant Worms. Several people got it, innerbrat first.

2. That old dog has chained you up alright - chanter_greenie has correctly identified the artist as Sophie B. Hawkins but we're waiting on the song title. ETA: mephron has it pegged: "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover".

3. I see myself in the pouring home "Southside", Moby with Gwen Stefani. mephron got it.

4. When in the springtime of the year "The Mummers' Dance" by Loreena McKennitt. mephron got it.

5. There is no option, there is no escape

6. Back in the not too distant past, when I would need a quick repast "Internet Porn" by Da Vinci's Notebook. crazedcrusader got it.

7. How many of you people out there

8. There's something wrong with the world today "Livin' On The Edge" by Aerosmith. mephron got it.

9. I'm feeling so confused today

10. (It starts with one) One thing, I don't know why "In The End" by Linkin Park. antepathy got it.

11. Sundown all around, walking through the summer's end "Circle In The Sand", by Belinda Carlisle. steamgenius got it.

12. There is something that I see in the way you look at me "It Is You (I Have Loved)", from the Shrek soundtrack. adiva_calandia got it.

13. I am not a prophet, I wouldn't be one if you paid me Chris Smithers, "Hey Hey Hey". leeshajoy identified it.

14. Oh, here it comes- that funny feeling again Van Halen, "Why Can't This Be Love". minkhollow got it.

15. When you're down and troubled and you need a helping hand... "You Got A Friend". James Taylor version. Several people got this; minkhollow was first.

Comments

[leeshajoy.livejournal.com]

13. Chris Smither - "Hey, Hey, Hey"

[camwyn]

Mmyep. Then again, I got it from you!

[minkhollow]

14) "Why Can't This Be Love," Van Halen (note to self, don't guess these things at god o'clock)
15) "You've Got a Friend," probably James Taylor but I think Carole King wrote it

8 sounds familiar but I can't place it.

[camwyn]

mephron got #8, so we're good there.

[mephron]

3. "South Side", Moby with Gwen Stefani

4. Loreena McKinnitt, "The Mummers Dance"

8. "Living On The Edge", Aerosmith

[camwyn]

Bingo.

[antepathy.livejournal.com]

10! In the End by Linkin Park! \o/

God it's so cliche that I'd know that, isn't it?

[camwyn]

Hey, if you hadn't guessed it, the other friend of mine most likely to get it would've been batyatoon. Glad you pegged it, though.

[derien.livejournal.com]

15. sounds like "Bridge Over Troubled Water."

[camwyn]

Not quite, it got pegged as 'You Got A Friend'. For my money, the best cover of that song ever was performed by Vincent Price on the Muppet Show when he was surrounded by all the monster puppets, but I haven't got that recording, alas.

[derien.livejournal.com]

I know I saw that episode! In fact I think we rewatched it a few years ago when we were visiting cyberquail.

[derien.livejournal.com]

I have this annoying feeling I should know #6! The pattern of it looks like something by Tom Lehr.

[camwyn]

Heh. No, not Tom Lehrer, although I have a few of his songs on my playlist. Not Alan Sherman, either. It's a more recent song than that.

[chanter1944]

Number two is Sophie B. Hawkins... but what the heck is the name of the song?

[camwyn]

Well, you definitely got the artist...

[mephron]

It's "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover". Once the artist was there, the mental connection happened.

Sophie B

[joyltom.livejournal.com]

Yes, number 2 is definately Damn, I wish I was your Lover :-)

[innerbrat]

Toronto Sucks! - Arrogant Worms, I believe.

[camwyn]

Yep!

[spiritdancer]

1) "The Toronto Song" by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie :) (although I seem to recall a version by the Arrogant Worms, the TDTiaB version is what's in my iTunes)

[camwyn]

Right song, but I have the Arrogant Worms version.

[steamgenius]

I think number 11 is Belinda Carlisle's Circle in the Sand!

[camwyn]

Got it in one!

[akawil]

Number 1 is Ontario Sucks, unless it's called Toronto Sucks, by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie, unless it's The Arrogant Worms.

[camwyn]

It's the Arrogant Worms one for me, and iTunes says it's 'The Toronto Song'. Not sure where I got my copy.

[adiva_calandia]

How has no one else guessed 12? :O "It Is You (I Have Loved)," by . . . Dana Glover? It's from the Shrek soundtrack, I know that much.

[camwyn]

Ayup!

[crazedcrusader.livejournal.com]

6. Da Vinci's Notebook - Internet Porn

[camwyn]

Bingo!