Haven't done this in a while...

[gridlore]

20 first lines. All drawn from placing my Top Rated iTunes folder on random. Some editing to remove repeats of bands or genres has occurred.

1. Finished with my woman 'cause she couldn't help me with my mind (dalen_talas)


2. Don't go looking for snakes, you might find them (dalen_talas)


3. How can you just walk away from me when all I can do is watch you leave? (slrose)


4. I used to be such a sweet, sweet thing (fragbert)


5. Foot on the pedal - never ever false metal (rickvs)


6. Blame it all on my roots (pbrim)


7. The grey of evening fills the room


8. I've been looking so long for you now you won't get away from my grasp.


9. Gather 'round, ye lads and lasses, and sit ye for a while (dalen_talas)


10. Pounding the world like a battering ram (dalen_talas)


11. When you were here before


12. Radios of the world are tuning in tonight (capplor)


13. I eat filet mignon seven times a day (seawasp)


14. You love her but she loves him (fragbert)


15. You get a shiver in the dark (robertprior)


16. Mother was an incubator (capplor)


17. She grew up in an Indiana town (fragbert)


18. Well, they put six strings on a maple stick (capplor)


19. Out here in the fields I fight for my meals (kath8562)


20. The Flying Scot he hit the shot

That last one is going to be a killer, I think.

Comments

[pbrim.livejournal.com]

6 is Garth Brooks Friends in Low Places, I believe.

[dalen-talas.livejournal.com]

1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2. Metallica - Slither
9. Da Vinci's Notebook - Another Irish Drinking Song
10. Judas Priest - Rapid Fire

[slrose.livejournal.com]

3 is Phil Collins - Against All Odds

[seawasp]

13 is the only one I know -- "This is the Life" by Weird Al Yankovic.

"... my bathtub's filled with Perrier -- what can I say, this is the life!"

[kath8562.livejournal.com]

19: Baba O'Riley - The Who (funny, was just listening to the Who on the way home from work!)

Edited for spelling - went on my Itunes, and realized I spelled it wrong!

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

15 is Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits.

[fragbert.livejournal.com]

4. No More Mr. Nice Guy - Alice Cooper 17. Last Dance With Mary Jane - Tom Petty

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Can you rephrase your second answer?

[fragbert.livejournal.com]

*looks at mp3 folder*

DOH!

Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty

I Missed It Yesterday

[fragbert.livejournal.com]

14. Love Stinks - J. Geils Band

[rickvs.livejournal.com]

5 is the Beastie Boys, "No Sleep Till Brooklyn"

[capplor.livejournal.com]

Can't find a song for #20, but I did find this: http://www.goldenagebaseballcards.com/showcase/bobby-thomson.htm

#16 is 905 - Incubator mother.

#18 is Bill Kirchen - Hammer Of The Honky-Tonk Gods.

I'll poke around for the rest later.

[capplor.livejournal.com]

Oh #12 Kinks - Around The Dial