because Name That Tune aids my procrastination...

[minkhollow]

1) I’ll hang on for my dear life/Hawaii, here I come
2) Mama’s little baby likes fear and torture (ouch!)
3) You didn’t have to make me feel like a fool/As I try to say I feel the way that I do
4) Tell it like it is/You don’t have to die before you live
5) Well, I’m never gonna be the same again/Now I see the way it’s got to end
6) And if I find peace of mind, I’ll be back again
7) But you don’t understand my point of view/I suppose there’s nothing I can do
8) I need to find a new job every week or so/’Cause no one needs a man who’s always fast or slow
9) You smile, mention something that you like/Or how you’d have a happy life if you did the things you like corialis
10) I can’t stand to wait in line long, so I built a new machine/It just measures up the distance and then eliminates the folks between pagingdrfreud
11) Each one captures the various subtleties of black
12) I know you don’t like weak women, you get bored too quick/And you don’t like strong women ‘cause they’re hip to your tricks
13) There’s a two-for-one sale on our three-piece suits amicitia6
14) He’s the keeper of the keys, he’ll put your mind at ease/He’s guaranteed to please, back by popular demand
15) I work in an ‘otel, all gilt and flash!/Remember the gap where the doors we smashed?
16) All you do is slow me down/When I’m trying to get on the other side of town
17) At the latter I was informal, but at the former I wore my suit
18) I am not the actor, and this can’t be the scene/But I am in the water as far as I can see
19) Fighting with microphones, freezing down to my bones, and to top it all off, I’m with you quinby, by way of headvoice. XD
20) We don’t know how to mind our own business ‘cause the whole world’s got to be just like us
21) Don’t understand how the roles reversed, and it’s me that’s freaked out by the chase
22) Was I a suicidal psychopath? aberranteyes
23) You gotta have your way, there’s nothing left to say/There’s nothing left to do
24) Why not spend a week on a star?
25) And so we pass the time, and occupy our minds/And close our eyes and hope that we’ll be fine inaudiblyfree_ (band guessed by pagingdrfreud)
26) Your time has come to shine/All your dreams are on their way amicitia6
27) Don’t leave me standing here/I can’t get used to this lifestyle roz_mcclure
28) In and around the lake/Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there jaded_dreamaway
29) But guiltily, I thought you had it coming
30) Stick around if you enjoy disaster/’Cause if you can’t see what I’m after, you must be blind corialis (band guessed by pagingdrfreud)

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[aberrantangels]

22) The Who, "Athena"
(My heart melts like a shattered glass in an acid bath
Felt like one've those flattened ants you'd find on a crazy path
I'd've topped myself to give her time, she didn't need to ask)
Was I a suicidal psychopath?
She's just a girl
She's a bomb!

[minkhollow]

If memory serves, you got that one last time as well. iTunes seems to like it, when I do these things. XD

[amicitia6.livejournal.com]

13) There’s a two-for-one sale on our three-piece suits

Is that Weird Al's "King of Suede"? (Try on our suede pajamas and our suede rubber boots)

26) Your time has come to shine/All your dreams are on their way

"Bridge Over Troubled Waters"?

[minkhollow]

Yes and yes.

[bohemian-mark.livejournal.com]

*ahem*

Why are you listening to me sing? Horror of horrors.

#19: Tango: Maureen, RENT disk 1.

[minkhollow]

Why not? It's a fun little song (though it's only on iTunes so I could put it on my MP3 player).

[pagingdrfreud.livejournal.com]

10. "Some Fantastic" - Barenaked Ladies
25. It's Guster, I can tell you that much.
30. "Blame It On Me"? - Barenaked Ladies. I love that quote, but I can't remember which song it's from.

[minkhollow]

Yes, yes, and not "Blame it on Me."

[http://users.livejournal.com/inaudiblyfree_/]

25. "Diane" Guster

I think I got that one last time too.

[minkhollow]

Yeah, probably. And it's been so long that I prolly used the same line.
...I really need to start changing out some songs, when I do these things. XD

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Ooh! 27 is "Nothing but Flowers" by the Talking Heads. (You got it, you got it.)

[minkhollow]

Actually, I've got Guster's version on iTunes, but close enough. ::grins::

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

*boggles at the concept of a Talking Heads cover* This I will have to hear.

[minkhollow]

Ask and ye shall receive. The thing is mad spastic.

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

*sputter* whiskey-tango...

BLASPHEMY!

[minkhollow]

...?

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Guster may be all well and good, madam, but they are no Talking Heads. *sniff*

[minkhollow]

Es verdad.
But I like it anyway.

[corialis.livejournal.com]

9. In The Dark Of The Matinee - Franz Ferdinand
30. Intermittently - BNL

[minkhollow]

Yes and yes.

[corialis.livejournal.com]

*dance*

You always have the hardest versions of these of anyone on my flist.

[minkhollow]

Like I said in the cut text - gob o' rarities right at the beginning. Three of the first six I had to pull off of records, and two more of the same six I got from the iTunes store. Makes life interesting, it does. XD

[corialis.livejournal.com]

That is impressive.

I've been googling the ones I didn't get to see if I knew them and just didn't get it, which usually happens, but I didn't get any more. *g* I bow to your obscure music collection.

[minkhollow]

The... second one, I think it is? Is also where I got my LJ's title from. And that's prolly my favorite line in the song, but using it would've just given the whole game away then and there.
Will prolly run a few of these through Yousendit before the wossname's out. Share the fun, style of thing.

[jaded-dreamaway.livejournal.com]

Number 28 is definitely Yes, "Roundabout." Saw them in concert about 5 years ago with Kansas...they rocked.

[minkhollow]

And that brings it to a third of 'em guessed. That's gotta be a record. XD