Rofflecopters! Peer pressure.

Also see Meagan, Billie, and so on down the line.

Below are first lines from 25 songs, obtained by putting the iPod on “shuffle.” If you know the song, leave a comment and I’ll strike through it on the post (if I get around to it). If you care to play along on your blog, see instructions at the bottom of the post.

Too bad nobody cares about the indie caterwauling and pretentious German artwank I’m likely to draw with this little exercise, so the comments might be sparse. But here goes. Rollin’ the dice for some CLASSIC RAWK!

1. Well, show me the way to the next whiskey bar
2. It’s raining in this room, and it’s so hot outside this room
3. Standing waiting for a man to show, wide-eyed, one eye fixed on the door
4. There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance
5. Down poured the heavens, down fell my love
6. People come, people go, sometimes without goodbye, sometimes without hello
7. Chilled to the bone and five miles to home
8. It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
9. If it’s love that you’re running from, there’s no hiding place
10. In the year of my decline, sucking freezies in the rain
11. I’ve watched her from the river banks, I knew her when she danced with dreams
12. She’s hiding from the yo-yo, it’s a real no-no
13. Here she comes, you better watch your step
14. Well, a goddess on a highway, a goddess in a car
15. If you, if you could return, don’t let it burn, don’t let it fade
16. Helplessly hoping her harlequin hovers nearby
17. I’m sailing away, set an open course for the virgin sea
18. I don’t know why I love you – your face is a hammer in my head
19. Siamese, Portuguese, dirty knees, look at these rookies around us – aren’t you glad you found us?
20. Rioja, Rioja, Reverend Al Green, deep blue Morocco, the water on stone
21. Yeah, number one MC in the world, AKA Dr. Dooom, straight out of solitary
22. One time a thing occurred to me: What’s real and what’s for sale?
23. Ladies, let me tell you about myself
24. No one has said what the truth should be
25. In the name of, and by the power of, the Holy Spirit

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike through when someone gets them right.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is ch-ch-cheating.