Fear and loathing in Century City

As threatened, here is another selection of 30 first lines from the first 30 songs to come up on my digital player.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to put titles and artists to the following using only your wits and cunning (no internet searches).

The challenge: My music collection makes most people cringe in fear. At this time, approximately 25% of my cds have been scanned into digital formats. I own a lot of compilations, soundtracks, cover tunes, odd singles and b/sides. The odds are high that the songs below may indeed contain re-mixes and samplings of other songs.Alternately, some compositions are over 70 years old. I will accept any correct combination of song and artist for a given lyric, as long as I can verify at as recognizably the same song.

The reward: Points, points , points. Not only have the answers been carefully scored by the wizards here at bhagwanx.com, but bonus points are available for especially correct answers, and the judges have certain criteria which can reward even more.

The catch(es): You now have 9 days, ending June 22nd, 2006. Every correct guess reduces the number of remaining days by one. There is a 50 point song amongst the choices. There is a 1 point song amongst the choices. There is no limit on bonus points.

The payoff: Every correct guess earns a pithy saying or story from the great and powerful Bhagwan. They say that every picture tells a story; well for me, every song has an encyclopedia.

Besides, it’s fun.

Mad Props to kistha, who started the game (though she had no idea what I’d do with it). Also, to teh number 696, and realPlayer. Word

1. The World is a Vampire Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Smashing Pumpkins (Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 1995 Chrysalis/BMI) 2 points, .
2. No Woman, No Cry. The King (Gravelands, 1999 Ark 21 records. Words and Music by Bob Marley and the wailers)3 points,

3. Didn’t have the money round to buy a Morry Thou.

4. I’d invite you back to my place. Man in a Suitcase, The Police (Zenyetta Mondatta, 1980, A&M records) 8 points, 5 bonus points to Michael Bachelor.
5. I have dreamed thee too long.Dulsinea, Richard Kiley, chorus (Don Quixote and the Muleteers, The Man of la Mancha, original 1965 broadway cast recording) 10 points, 5 bonus points, 3 style points for inkslinger

6. It’s snowing outside the rumbling sound of engines roar in the night, The mission is near the confident men are waiting to drop from the sky.

7. Whereabouts folks go when they die? Lake of Fire, Nirvana(MTV Unplugged in New York, 1994 Geffen records. Originally recorded by the Meat Puppets)
6 points, 5 bonus points ; 5 bonus points, Delaina Dancey
8. I’ve got your picture Turning Japanese, the Vapors (Living in Oblivion: the 80’s greatest hits, vol 1 1993, BMG Music Club) 7 points, Delaina Dancey
9. Tied to the tracks and the train starts coming. Demolition Man, the Police (Ghost In The Machine, 1981 A&M records) 6 points for inkslinger

10. Here’s the story, of what I’d like to see.

11. Okay, so, tell me again about the hash bars? Royale with Cheese, Jules Winfield and Vincent Vega (Pulp Fiction: Music From The Motion Picture, 1994 MCA records) 5 points, 3 bonus points to Delaina Dancey

12. When you were a little girl you were stung by a wasp. Burrow your way to my heart, the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets (Cthulhu Strikes Back, 1995 Divine Industries) 8 points, Melanie Fulgham

13. Do you feel that?
14. One, two, three, four, five six.
15. What do you say when it’s over?
16. For clear space and soundness of mind.

17. restless soul, enjoy your youth.Not for You, Pearl Jam (Vitalogy,1994 Sony records) 10 points, Delaina Dancey

18. Hey, Heeeeeeeey!
19. It crawls on his back, won’t ever let him be.
20. I see the world, feel the chill.

21. So much drama in the l-b-c. Gin and Juice, The Gourds (Go Gitcher Shinebox, Watermelon records) 8 points 2 style points for inkslinger

22. Driving slowly, watching the headlights in the rain.
23. I am so in love with you.

24. I love my mustard gas. Mustard Gas, The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets (The Great Old Ones, 19XX Divine Industries) 10 points, Melanie Fulgham

25. Oh my God, Becky! Baby Got Back, Richard Cheese. Words and music by Sir Mixalot. Arranged by Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine (Lounge Against the Machine, 2000) 2 points,

26. Check, check.

27. High, higher than the sun. Elevation, U2 (All that you can’t leave behind, 2000 Interscope records.)4 points, 5 bonus points , and 5 more bonus points; Michael Bachelor
28. Some will strut and some will fret. Virginia Woolf, Indigo Girls (Rites of Passage, 1992 Sony records) 15 points, Michael Bachelor

29. Now I lay me down not to sleep.

30. I think it’s getting to the point where I can be myself again Call and Answer, Barenaked Ladies (Stunt, 1998 reprise/WEA) 7 points, Michael Bachelor