Okay. The subject line was just a ruse. This post has nothing to do with That '70s Show. Nor does it have to do with current events. I'm going to take a break from current events tonight... But before I do -- check this out: Is my Blog HOT or NOT?

Instead, I'm gonna give props to dreamforme who had this idea posted on her blog. Check out her's -- it's great fun as well.

Here's the deal: I have about 850 songs on my hard-drive that I've been streaming as a mini-radio station to work. (We don't have access to CD drives at work, so broadcasting from home is the only option.) On it are oodles of songs from my collection of 70s songs, 80s songs, and early 90s songs. I especially have a soft place in my heart for cover songs and one-hit wonders.

But I digress... when I got home from work, I listened to 22 songs chosen at random. What follows are, in order, selected lyrics from each of the songs.

Your mission: Identify the artist and title of each. I'm not keeping score or anything -- but see if you can figure them out without seeing anyone else's replies or without searching for lyrics on the internet.

Ready? Here we go...

1. She musters a smile for his nostalgic tale -- never coming near what he wanted to say, only to realize it never really was.
   
   



2. Yeah, I’m working; making money. I’m just starting to build a name. I can feel it around the corner I could make it any day.
   
   



3. Hear the Salvation Army Band down by the river side; it's bound to be a better ride than what you've got planed.
   
   



4. Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand...
   
   



5. Remember how you made me crazy? Remember how I made you scream...
   
   



6. You kick my foot under the table -- I kick you back. I can't say I'm able to stand for you or fall for you ever again.
   
   



7. Elephants and acrobats,lions snakes monkeys. Pele speaks “righteous,” Sister Zina says “funky.”
   
   



8. What I told her on the telephone was that I'd been so bad, I wouldn't blame her if she mowed down these wild oats I'd sown.
   
   



9. All my friends are Indians / All my friends are brown and red.
   
   



10. Oh girl, you've got to know what my head overlooks - the senses will show to my heart.
    
    



11. I don't know where to go, I don't know what to do. And i don't even know the time of day; I guess it doesn't matter anyway.
    
    



12. We live in a wheel where everyone steals, but when we rise it's like strawberry fields.
    
    



13. Rick's an accountant and he likes tattoos. He keeps them all hidden so his boss approves. It's the suburb of the week...
    
    



14. I never had a head for solitare; it's so unfair that I'd should have my chance and lose.
    
    



15. I know that I must do what’s right, sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.
    
    



16. I can’t let go / Threadbare tapestry unwinding slow...
    
    



17. Rubbin' sticks and stones together makes the sparks ingite, and the thought of rubbin' you is getting so exciting.
    
    



18. I know times are changing; It's time we all reached out for something new -- that means you, too.
    
    



19. We turn the tables with our unity / They're neither moral nor majority.
    
    



20. I told the priest: Don’t count on any second coming. God got his ass kicked the first time he came down here slumming. He had the balls to come, the gall to die and then forgive us. No, I don’t wonder why -- I wonder what he thought it would get us.
    
    



21. It's alive, afraid, a lie, a sin. It's magic, it's tragic, it's a loss, it's a win.
    
    



22. Feathered -- look, they're covered with a bright elation. Stolen, in the sight of love.
    
    

Good luck!