Can't spell "meme" without "me"

[sigma7]

I'm still trying to get my blog legs back -- and recovering from a rather grueling session of Oblivion having started over from scratch mutter mutter -- so why not fall back on the old staple of memetic content?

Funny, because robing pointed out an interesting publication to me a few weeks ago -- Userpicks: Cyber Folk Art in the Early 21st Century (Google cache if their MySQL issues aren't yet resolved). It touches on the propagation of "OMG racecar bling bling" as it filters from metaquotes over into userpicks and results in quite a few variations on the theme rendered in 100x100 format (with shaky transparency via yours truly). Also featured: Oolong the pancake-wearing bunny and iconized variations of the iPod silhouette ads. It's an interesting read, if only to see me get my gender misidentified yet again. *shrug* And yet again, I exist in my ideal state -- as a case study, a warning to others.

So I steal the MP3 first-lyric meme from daethkow, cutting it for your sanity.

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 15 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 out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING! (But feel free to do it anyway because I'm not optimistic about recognition or participation. --s7)

Note that this is with my master three-week MP3 collection, not my portable collection, so I have no idea what the hell this is going to look like. I occasionally add another lyric if I think this is going to be a toughie.

1. Did you ever think of me as your best friend? (Hooverphonic, "Eden")
2. Blowing around, turning over and out/Blood into dreams and a supersonic high Rob Zombie, "The One" ronwe
3. Sitting on a bench in the sunshine/Filling up my belly with some fine wine Apollo 440, "Heart Go Boom", kansel
4. Dark in the city night is a wire Duran Duran, "Hungry Like the Wolf" gloomchen
5. On my way up north/up on the Ventura (Tori Amos, "A Sorta Fairytale")
6. This was a triumph Jonathan Coulton, "Still Alive" gloomchen
7. Shame, such a shame/I think I kind of lost myself again (Massive Attack, "Dissolved Girl")
8. His world is under observation/we monitor his station (Rush, "Digital Man")
9. I'd rather be liberated, I find myself captivated (Catatonia, "Mulder and Scully")
10. I can see the Russian Army rolling through my head Liz Phair, "Headache" gloomchen
11. When you're asleep they may show you/aerial views of the ground (Genesis, "Entangled")
12. When comes the shaking man/a nation in his eyes David Bowie, "Jump They Say" ronwe
13. Into the distance/a ribbon of black Pink Floyd, "Learning to Fly" kateshort
14. Here today the red sky tells his tale/but the only listening eyes are mine (Genesis, "Stagnation")
15. Sha la la la la la my lady/In the sun with your hair undone (Jay Ferguson, "Thunder Island")

Actually, after weeding out the instrumentals, that didn't come out anywhere near as badly as I expected.