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I've been really abnormally sleepy the past three days. I mean, abnormally sleepy compared to how I've been the past, eh, four months? Which was abnormally sleepy compared to how I'd been a year before that. But the past three days it's like I hit first-trimester-sleepy again. Still, when vovat posted variations of TWO of my most favorite LiveJournal games, I had to find the energy to post them myself!

The first I know you've ALL been waiting for me to resurrect again... Yes, it's the amazing Guess the Lyric Game!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here are the instructions for this variation:
Step 1: Put your iTunes or equivalent on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Bold out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!

I WILL bold when someone guesses correctly, but I HATE when y'all use the excuse that somebody already guessed the one you know, so GUESS ANYWAY. I will score like so: 2 points for each correct title; 1 point for each correct artist; 1/2 a point for if you correctly guess the genre or describe the song in some other way (ie, like if you're like "I know this, it's that fast 80's dance song, uh...")
So far, this is the best game yet-- half the songs have been guessed! I'll go add decade clues, as well as commonality ratings, to the rest, just so you can narrow your brains down a bit...

1. All the waiters in your grand cafe leave their tables when you blink.
2. [Title, which is actually the entire first line or two] Give me life, give me life, keep me free from birth...
3. Desert loving in your eyes all the way; if I listen to your lies would you say (I had to look up that first line and it STILL doesn't sound familiar, so I added the second line too)(extremely '80s. Like, a song somebody would put on a CD of the Top Hits of the '80s. In fact I think that's where I got it. So, you know this song, you just might not know the words).
4. I went down to the [title], fell down on my knees ('60s, though based on an old blues number. Easy if you know your classic rock, moderately difficult otherwise)
5. I know just how to whisper, and I know just how to cry (cheesy '80s. Depends how well you know your cheesy 80s)
6. Johnny, take a walk with your sister the moon; Let her pale light in to fill up your room.
7. I want my, I want my MTV...
8. All I wanna do when I wake up in the morning is see your eyes ('80s. Why is it nobody can get the 80s songs? Well, Nathan got #7. Anyway this is moderate. Easier than #5)
8.5 (because I'm pretty sure no one knows it, but I'll leave it in anyway just in case). The river flows, it flows to the sea; wherever that river goes that's where I want to be ('60s I'm pretty sure, though it MIGHT be early '70s. No, think it's '60s. It's just hard. That's why it's a .5)
9.[title], I think it was the Fourth of July
10. I realize you're seeing someone new; I don't believe she knows you like I do (either the late 80s or early 90s. Moderately big)
11. Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you...
12. In the shuffling madness of the [title], runs the all-time loser headlong to his death.
13. Just a small-town girl living in a lonely world, took a midnight train going anywhere.
14. I'd like to be under the sea in an [title] in the shade.
15. [title] I can hardly express my mixed emotions and my thoughtlessness. (very early 80s. I say VERY on purpose, because otherwise it might confuse you to the artist. You've probably heard it).
16. I don't know how I'm gonna tell you I can't play with you no more (early 70s. You probably don't know it unless you are really familiar with this band or somewhat familiar with the soundtrack of a particular movie)
17. A winter's day, in a deep and dark December...
18. Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream/I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been (that one I put two lines just because it's hard) (70s, very big song by this artist so it depends on what music you listen to. Also, this song was sampled by a rap song in the 90s. No, it is NOT "Under Pressure")
19. What'll you do when you get lonely, nobody's waiting by your side? (70s, although it was remade in an entirely different style by the songwriter in the '90s. You definitely have heard the 90s version at least, though the original is extremely big in classic rock history)
20. I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together (and if you don't know this one from that line, you don't know this one at all, sucks to be you)
21. [title], do what you wanna do. I can't tell you who to sock it to.
22. [title], we got fun and games, we got everything you want...
22.5 (also, think there's a slight chance some people know it but probably don't know what it's called) Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends; we're so glad you could attend, come inside... (70s. The song itself isn't that obscure, but I doubt anyone but a progressive rock fanatic or a deejay knows the title)
23. (this is harder too, but at least the title is the refrain) Beat is getting stronger, music's getting longer too... (70s. On the harder side. Other songs by this group are more familiar)
24. When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.
25. Every night I say a prayer in the hopes that there's a heaven. (80s. I sang this in chorus in high school so it seems really easy to me, but maybe it's not)
26. All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray
26.5 (there's no way you know this unless you're really cool) Oh where are you now, pussywillow that smiled on this leaf? (early 70s. like I said, I'd be BEYOND impressed if you got this. Definitely the hardest song on the list... maybe Maggie can take a decent stab at the ARTIST, but that's about it)
27. If you said goodbye to me tonight, there would still be music left to write
28. [title] had green eyes like yours, lady, like yours. (late 60s. Somewhat hard. The title is a character from folklore/legend-- there's your clue)
29. My baby said she's travellin' on the [title]
30. What goes up must come down. [title] got to go 'round.

And because I always give the duplicate artist hint: 1 and 27 are the same artist; 11, 14, 20, 29 are the same artist and 2 and 15 are by former members of such; 16 and 18 are the same artist; 24 is by a former member of 17; groups 4 and 19 share a very key member (in fact they're both off the same CD which is a Best Of that person), as do groups 8.5 and 28.

Okay, that game sums up the first part of my username, so on to the second part:

This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. Bold the ones you've read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put an asterisk beside the ones you loved.
( The list is under the cut. Don't forget not to read the comments until after you guess on the music game! )