I get so tired of my room

[Updated 19th May - all is revealed.]

Jim: I decide to go hunting for a musical blog meme.

Cheers, Jim - don't mind if I do.

Step 1: Put your media-player on random play.
Step 2: Write down the first line from the first 20 songs that play.
Step 3: Let everyone guess what song the lines come from.
Step 4: Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly.

Here goes. Like Jim, I've excluded instrumentals and songs with the title in the first line; I've also excluded tracks I didn't recognise myself and, arbitrarily, a version of "Auld Lang Syne". I haven't ripped very many CDs, so the list that follows is biased towards certain categories of music - primarily a) things I really like and b) things from freebie CDs that I wanted to throw away. (And no, of course I'm not saying which is which.)

1. I saw you in your wetsuit, you were watching from the shower
   - Orange Juice, "Salmon fishing in New York"


2. Belly up in a sea of love
   - Doves, "Rise" (Paulie)


3. An address to the golden door
   - the Shins, "So say I"


4. I come home in the morning light
   - Cyndi Lauper, "Girls just wanna have fun" (Paulie)


5. I saw a boy’s t-shirt today
   - the Earlies, "One of us is dead"


6. Put in your pocket for a rainy day, sing your song and you know you’re wrong now
   - the Beta Band, "the House Song" (Rob)


7. Clouds so swift, rain won’t lift
   - Bob Dylan, "You ain't going nowhere" (Jim)


8. All I wanted was your time
   - Espers (or Durutti Column), "Tomorrow"


9. One-way system, smooth and commendable
   - Half Man Half Biscuit, "For what is Chatteris" (Jim)


10. Well, she’s all you’d ever want
    - Tom Jones, "She's a lady"


11. You say that your love was just for me now
    - Toots and the Maytals, "True love is hard to find"


12. I’m just a common-or-garden guy
    - Peter Blegvad, "Magritte"


13. Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street
    - Joe Jackson, "Is she really going out with him?" (Paulie)


14. Hey, you - you wouldn’t make a phone call if it didn’t serve you
    - Hamell on Trial, "Go fuck yourself"


15. We pulled up with three miles to go
    - James Yorkston and the Athletes, "Banjo #2"


16. Waiting for the break of day
    - Chicago, "25 or 6 to 4"


17. Practice doesn’t make perfect when you’re interbreeding
    - Blur, "Villa Rosie" (Justin)


18. I could be pouring my heart out, I still don't think that you'd hear me
    - King Creosote, "Marguerita Red"


19. The lunch bell rang at one o’clock sharp
    - Barry Booth, "The hottest day of the year"


20. Oh, the towering feeling
    - Vic Damone (and doubtless others), "The street where you live" (Larry)