(You should also try David's quiz. And Richard and Maribeth's. And Mark's.)
Okay, I lied. Here are 25 more. Presented to you in iTunes "Party Shuffle" order, with instrumentals, obscure album tracks (except 25), and dupes removed at my discretion. As usual, if you websearch anything, don't bother commenting on it.
On covers:
#1 is the original (as far as I know). #15 is a cover by an industrial band; since you'd never get the band (nor would I), let's pretend it's the original. #20 is a cover, with a track length of about 90 seconds.
1. "He'll spend his very last dime trying to hold on to what he needs. He'd give up all his comforts, sleep out in the rain." (Allyson)
2. "You should've been gone knowing how I made you feel and I should've been gone after all your words of steel." (Greg)
3. "What else should I say? Everyone is gay. What else should I write? I don't have the right." (Greg)
4. "I'm pulling your strings, twisting your mind and smashing your dreams. Blinded by me, you can't see a thing." (John)
5. "She said it's lonely here tonight. She's always sad when she's alone. She said I need you here tonight; she couldn't wait til I get home." (band by Joshua, song by Maribeth)
6. "Summer came and left without a warning. All at once I looked you were gone. Now you're looking back at me searching for a way that we can be like we were before." (Allyson)
7. "The same people, the same tricks and the same music, the same quicksand. I think this harbor town is wasted and sinking fast." (Mark)
8. "I saw sparks fly from the corner of my eye, and when I turned it was love at first sight." (ZD)
9. "I closed my eyes, began to pray, then tears of joy streamed down my face." (Cooch)
10. "Stuttering, cold and damp, steal the warm and tired friend. Times are gone for honest men and sometimes far too long for snakes."
11. "I know we're just like old friends, we just can't pretend that lovers make amends." (David)
12. "The first mate he got drunk, broke in the captain's trunk. The constable had to come take him away." (Miggy)
13. "Yes I'm Siskel, yes I'm Ebert, and you're getting two thumbs up." (Miggy)
14. "We are the children, the last generation. We are the ones they left behind, and I wonder when we are ever gonna change, living under the fear til nothing else remains." (Greg)
15. "I got black sensations rolling down my spine. When you're into evil you're a friend of mine." (Corwyn)
16. "There seems no justice when you fall in love. It gives you blindness when you are the one, the one that's hurting cause they've got the gun."
17. "A constant wave of tension on top of broken trust. The lessons that you taught me, I learned were never true."
18. "When I look into your eyes I can see a love restrained, but darling when I hold you, don't you know I feel the same." (Allyson)
19. "No navigator to find my way home; unladen, empty, turn to stone." (Richard)
20. "Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone. Suzanne the plans they made put an end to you." (Greg)
21. "Wake up in the morning and I raise my weary head. Got an old coat for a pillow and the Earth was last night's bed." (band by Corwyn, song by ZD)
22. "When we sleep, would you shelter me in your warm and dark embrace?"
23. "My name's Tim and I'm a criminal. In the eyes of society I need to be in jail for the herbs I inhale." (Miggy)
24. "Love, soft as an easy chair; love, fresh as the morning air." (Greg)
25. "When I was five I took a dive. When I was ten I walked again. When I was 15 I kept my motor clean."
2. Steve Perry, Oh Sherrie (didn't recognize it at first because the Cinnamon Gum mondegreen is burned into my skull)
3. Nirvana, All Apologies
14. Tina Turner, We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)
20. I'll guess Me First does the Fire & Rain cover.
24. Barbra Streisand, Evergreen
12. Sloop Jon B -- Beach Boys
13. The Bad Touch -- Bloodhound Gang
23. The Irony of It All -- The Streets
1. Percy Sledge, When a Man Loves a Woman (and I believe the lyric is he'll spend his very last dime, not time)
6. Richard Marx, Endless Summer Nights
18. Guns 'N Roses, November Rain (someone I once knew would be so proud)
Posted by: Allyson at January 8, 2005 01:11 PMI wrote one of these last night, and not only did mine also include this song, but you used the very same line:
11 - Smashing Pumpkins, "Perfect".
I also recognized already identified tracks 1, 3, 13, and 18.
Posted by: David at January 8, 2005 02:59 PM4. Metallica - Master of Puppets
And... I've gotta let myself mull over some of the rest of these... especially after seeing the answers to the last one. I'd be embarassed if I hadn't already accepted that recall is not my strong suit.
Posted by: John at January 8, 2005 04:42 PMNo. 9 is Creed, "With Arms Wide Open"
Posted by: Cooch at January 8, 2005 04:51 PM5. Chicago, "Stay the Night"
Posted by: Joshua at January 8, 2005 09:55 PMI still think #5 is Chicago, but I'm withdrawing my selection of the song title because as far as I know, it's wrong.
Posted by: Joshua at January 8, 2005 09:58 PM19 -- Pink Floyd, Learning to Fly
Posted by: Richard Mason at January 9, 2005 03:26 AM5. Love Me Tomorrow (yep, by Chicago)
Posted by: maribeth at January 9, 2005 03:43 AM7 is Hello City by BNL! I got one! Woo!
Posted by: Mark at January 9, 2005 06:02 PM#15 is AC/DC. Or, at least, the original was. Hells Bells, I think.
#21 Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi?