Name these two dozen tunes!

[pseydtonne]

Most of you know this meme already (I got it from chaiya, who totally stumped me):

Step 1: Get your playlist together, put it on random, and play!
Step 2: Pick your favorite lines from the first 25 songs that play!
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song the lines come from!
Step 4: Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly! No cheating and pasting the lyrics into a search engine!

I have about 5000 songs on my iPod. It kept getting stuck with tunes with, like, four lines. I had to carve a lot. Still, let's start where the Winchester read-head started its hover... err, where the needle dropped:

1) Soul Coughing - "Suzy Snowflake"
If you wanna build a snowman, I'll help you make one 1-2-3.

2) Simon & Garfunkel - "Blessed"
Blessed are the sat upon, spat upon, ratted on.

3) The Who - "Pictures of Lilly"
I used to wake up in the morning, I used to feel so bad.
I got so sick of having sleepless nights. I went and told my dad.

4) Where pelagra makes you scrawny

5) All I wanna do is to tune in, radio L.A. New York.

Then I hit a bunch more songs I don't like. Screw the rules.

6)
Well you were the one that made me feel so natural
Right between your teeth just like a piece of toast.
And you treated me as more than just an animal
Cuz you knew that I could only be your ghost.
And you were the one that understood the tennis ball
And you were the one that came to me in flames
Cuz you wanted to be stuffed with something magical
And the cucumber was growing in my frame.

(Same song, amazing line): A police car with its tongue out in the dark.

7) Wilco - "I am trying to break your heart."
I am an American aquarium drinker
I assassin down the avenue.
I'm hidin' out in the big city blinkin'.
What was I thinkin' when I let go of you?


8)
We will import a token jock and we will kick his token ass
and there will never ever be a physical education class.
Think about it. You'll agree: it's the biddly-biddly-bomb.

9) Squirrel Nut Zippers - "Hell"
I used to think the idea was obsolete until I heard the old man tapping his feet.

Then I hit a track that was so obscure that the person that gave it to me procured it illegally. No fair for that. Great song, though.

10) Aerosmith - "Walk This Way"
Said "y'ain't seen nuthin' till you're down on a muffin". (Hey, they can't all be hard.)

11) Joni Mitchell - "California"
Reading the news and it sure looks bad.
They won't give peace a chance.
It was just a dream some of us had.

12) Ben Folds Five - "Alice Childress"
I think about my friends
Sometimes I wish they lived out here
But they wouldn't dig this town.

13) Ren & Stimpy - "It's Log!"
It's big, it's heavy, it's wood.

Next came "Dueling Banjos". Make up your own words, eh?

14)
I'm the king without a crown.
I get loose in a big town.

15) They Might Be Giants - "Alienation's For The Rich"
I got to get a job, I got to get some pay.
My son's gotta go to art school. He's leavin' in three days.
And the TV is in Esperanto. You know that that's a bitch.

Then came some Squarepusher. Amazing background music but no lyrics.

16) Moxy Fruvous - "The Lazy Boy"
I put my feet on the Ottoman Empire.

17) AC/DC - "Big Balls"
Well I'm ever upper class, high society
God's gift to ballroom notoriety.
(medievalsweetie, you'd better get that one)

18)
The world is trying to make us go against our will.
There's too many mountains grown up from a hill.
Just take nothing less than the something best.
Do not obey rumors people say cuz you can pass the test.

19)
One day you'll know how nice it is
To get laid while you're gettin' paid.

20) Liz Phair - "Stratford-on-Guy"
In 27D I was behind the wing
Watching landscape roll out like credits on a screen.
The earth looked like it was lighted from within
Like a poorly assembled electrical ball
As we moved out of the farmlands, into the grid.
The plan of a city was all that you saw.

21)
If a woman tells you she's 20 and looks 16, she's twelve.
If she tells you she's 26 and looks 26, she's damn near forty.
Take off that silly-ass hat.

Next came terrulen reading from the D section of the Canonical List of Band Names. Imagine a British man Reading such lines as "The Dancing French Liberals of 1840" and "Dick Delicious and the Tasty Testicles". In fact, more than 100 tracks from various seasons of the Mad Trivia Party (one the great radio shows I worked on during college) popped in. It wouldn't be fair to make you guess "Must've been a hell of a vacuum" (a panelist's reply to "What world leader died of a nose bleed on his wedding night?").

22) Barenaked Ladies - "Helicopters"
A world that loves its irony must hate the protest singer.

23) Sarah McLachlan - "Possession"
Into a sea of waking dreams I follow without pride
Cuz nothing stands between us here and I won't be denied.

24)
Caught with an Amway salesman in a broken elevator
Baby back ribs on a cheese bun served up at a ceder

Next was a Double-Dee Steinski cut. He samples obscure stuff and does it so well that you want to dance. Then Came XTC's "Generals & Majors", which has the title almost every other line so it was impossible to get a good line.

25)
It's crazy but I'm frightened by the sound of telephone.
I'm worried that the caller might have awful news.

(Damn, one of my favorites would be after the stack.)

26) Dismemberment Plan - "What do you want me to say?"
I lost my membership card to the human race
So don't forget the face
Cuz I know that I do belong here.
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I was going to skip this meme but I'm glad I didn't. This was fun!

-anyone know the world leader?

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