No idea whether this will work, but I figure it's worth a go. This time round I'm not putting them in any order, but once again no artist appears more than once.
1. "When YLOYS" YLTT - JB - ROE "When you look over your shoulder" Running on Empty - Jackson Browne - Running on Empty (Mozz/BigHead/lyndagb)
2. "Can YHTWITTF" NE - I - MAW "Can you hear the worlds I'm trying to find" No Emotion - Idlewild - Make Another World (Jamie/lyndagb)
3. "A GPWC" FPT - R - TB "A green plastic watering can" Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead - The Bends (edenspresence/Jamie)
4. "I DKIIT" A - MSP - EMG "I don't know if I'm tired" Australia - Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go (Mozz)
5. "As IWGOTCAKM" WITJ - M - GI "As I was going over the Cork and Kerry mountains" Whiskey in the Jar - Metallica - Garage, Inc. (BigHead)
6. "The KADUABNH" CFTC - E - ESB "The kids are digging up a brand new hole" Cancer for the Cure - Eels - Electro-Shock Blues (edenspresence)
7. "Crazy BI
8. "We SSAOI" NDL - S - ATW "We should stay and order in" No Deliveries List - Styrofoam - A Thousand Words (BigHead)
9. "Everybody HCFS" SS - R - A "Everybody here comes from somewhere" Supernatural Superserious - REM - Accelerate (Jamie)
10. "We NV (O)" V - BN - D "We need vices (oh)" Vices - Brand New - Daisy (James)
11. "I GSBI" U - RA&TC - I/I "I get some bad ideas" Users - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - III/IV (Mozz)
12. "I SMTS" SD - J - GM "I sing myself to sleep" Sit Down - James - Gold Mother (Mozz)
13. "I WALOAND" ISWM - B&S - DCW "I wrote a letter on a nothing day" If She Wants Me - Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (Mozz)
14. "You WLATB" SD - AT - AT "You were like a toilet bowl" Sundials - Alkaline Trio - Alkaline Trio (Mozz)
15. "Sail LOW" SK - TC - TC "Sail lightly on winds" Skeleton Key - The Coral - The Coral (James)
16. "Meet HBTR" SD - B - S "Meet him by the road" Slow Dog - Belly - Star (James)
17. "Elysium, IECAYC" E - M - W "Elysium, is everyone chipping at your cordiality?" Elysium - Madness - Wonderful (edenspresence)
18. "Woke UITT" PJ - THS - AKM "Woke up in the twenties" Positive Jam - The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me (edenspresence/Kirsty)
19. "Hey MYKIRO" BH - TO - S "Hey man you know I'm really okay" Bad Habit - The Offspring - Smash (BigHead)
20. "Listen HN" LPM - SS - DHM "Listen here, now" Last Po' Man - Seasick Steve - Dog House Music (James)
21. "You CMTYA" WAYF - TP - S "You consider me the young apprentice" Wrapped Around Your Finger - The Police - Sychronicity (edenspresence/Mozz)
22. "Someone TMW" TF - GBV - DTC "Someone tell me why" Teenage FBI - Guided By Voices - Do The Collapse (Mozz)
23. "Summer HCAP" WMUWSE - GD - AI "Summer has come and passed" Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day - American Idiot (edenspresence)
24. "I WSPTTW" IBTGTM - SP - EO "I wanted something that's purer than the water" It's Beginning To Get To Me - Snow Patrol - Eyes Open - Mozz
25. "I WAFTSSC" TU - TBS - WYWTB "I wait around for the still small center" The Union - Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want To Be (Kirsty)
We got fifteen American artists, five English, three (predominantly) Scottish, one Welsh, and one Belgian. Two solo artists (arguably three), the rest are at least nominally bands. One song is a cover.
Good luck!
Update: 38 down already! Much respect to edenspresence, Mozz and BigHead (who also gets an award for coolest comment). Just so everyone knows, it's more than fine to finish off a partial answer. It shouldn't be too hard I'd think, for example, for someone to work out which song from the Foo's In Your Honor #7 is, its two discs notwithstanding. Plenty of first lines from identified songs up there as well.
Update II: 49! One more to get halfway, with some low-hanging fruit still to be picked! No-one knows the track list from Eyes Open? Or Make Another World, now?
Update III: Up to 62 now, and thanks to BigHead, there's plenty more partial answers and (in the comments) possible hints and clues. There are at least seven more points that shouldn't be much of a problem.
Update IV: 75%. Boom.
3) Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead - The Bends
ReplyDelete6) Cancer for the cure - Eels - Electro-shock Blues
ReplyDelete17) Elysium - Madness - Wonderful
ReplyDeleteAs I was going over
ReplyDeleteThe Cork and Kerry mountains
I saw Metallica playin'
Their cover album they were toutin'
I first produced my Google
And then checked my Wiki link
I said "Whiskey in the Jar-O"
and the album is Garage Inc..
I don't know if I'm tired Australia Manic Street Preachers Everything Must Go
ReplyDelete21) Wrapped Around Your Finger - The Police - Synchronicity
ReplyDelete23) Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day - American Idiot
ReplyDeleteUsing the edenspresence approach, 7) is probably Foo Fighters---In Your Honor, but I can't give you the song.
ReplyDeleteAll correct, ladies and gentlemen. Good show!
ReplyDelete12. I sing myself to sleep - Sit Down - James - Gold Mother
ReplyDelete13. I wrote a letter on a nothing day - If She Wants Me - Belle & Sebatian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
ReplyDelete22. Someone tell me why - Teenage FBI - Guided by Voices - Do The Collapse
ReplyDeleteConfession time - had to look up the album as I only have the track on a Buffy the Vampire Slayer soundtrack album!
I shall allow it Mozz, since I had to look it up as well for the exact same reason.
ReplyDeleteI don't know any of the other details, by RA&TC has to be Ryan Adams & The Cardinals.
ReplyDeleteI've worked out a couple of acts/albums without knowing the tracks.
ReplyDelete1. Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
24. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
I'm sure someone else will fill in the gaps.
Yep yep yep.
ReplyDelete2. Idlewild - Make Another World
ReplyDelete3. 'A green plastic watering can'
9. 'Everybody here comes from somewhere' - 'Supernatural Superserious' - R.E.M. - Accelerate
All correct, Jamie.
ReplyDeleteI think 8 is from A Thousand Words by Styrofoam, but I don't have the album on my iPod and I can't quite remember the song (No Deliveries... something?)
ReplyDeleteWill take a stab that 19 is The Offspring but somebody who knows them better might be able to do better there.
Let's fire some guesses at things I don't know for a bit of fun:
ReplyDelete1) That line must be "When you look over your shoulder".
25) WYWTB is clearly going to be "...You Want To Be", but the starting W could be Who, Where, What... :-( I'm going for What.
Half right, BigHead. It isn't "What You Want To Be".
ReplyDelete1. You Love the Thunder
ReplyDelete2. "Can you hear hte words I'm trying to find" No emotion
21. You called me to your apartment? Something like that.
23. Summer has come and passed...
I'll look at the totally unsolved ones in a bit.
Three out of four, Lynda, and my apologies to all for slightly messing up the Idlewild line.
ReplyDeleteYou hace one word of five correct for number 21.
Ah.. whoops... I wasn't putting up thye first lines as I should, just the songs:
ReplyDelete6)The kids are digging up a brand new hole
17) Elysium, is everyone chipping at your cordiality?
23) Summer has come and past (is that right?)
Also...
is 18) The Hold Steady?
All correct (though a few minutes too late on 23). And yes, it's The Hold Steady.
ReplyDeleteoh god... strange typo there... "past"... eurgh.. also I see I missed out anyway.. :P
ReplyDelete25. "I walk away from this still small center" The Union - Taking Back Sunday - What You Want To Be
ReplyDeleteI considered mocking you about it, eden, but then realised that I was liable to open a can of wyrms.
ReplyDeleteAlmost entirely correct, Kirsty. The line isn't quite right.
I meant: Where You Want To Be...
ReplyDeleteAnd wait rather than walk...
ReplyDeleteI assumed you meant "where". And you're close enough to the TBS line, as well (it's "around for the", not "away from this").
ReplyDelete18. Album: Almost Killed Me
ReplyDeleteI felt my correction was rapid enough :P
ReplyDeleteBy all means, keep us updated regarding your feelings... :P ;)
ReplyDeleteTaking your taste into account Ric, I'm guessing band and album on 14 is Alkaline Trio
ReplyDeleteYeeup.
ReplyDelete15. Sail Lightly on Winds - Skeleton Key - The Coral - The Coral
ReplyDeleteIndeed.
ReplyDelete10. We Need Vices (Oh) - Vices - Brand New - Daisy
ReplyDelete16. Meet him by the road - Slow Dog - Belly - Star
ReplyDelete20. ?? - Last Po' Man - Seasick Steve - Dog House Music
ReplyDeleteA-ha! Your streak is at an end, James, for that line requires you have heard the track itself, not merely cribbed it from the interwebs.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, a clean sweep of what remains.
Didn't realise The Police lyric was still open. "You consider me the young apprentice" sung Sting. "You're fired!" replied the rest of humanity.
ReplyDeleteI do quite like that song, but the lyrics are terrible even by late Police standards. "Mephistopheles is not my name..." Fuck off, Gordon.
ReplyDelete