Mix Tape
Ok, to make this question slightly more interesting, and because I'm amazingly bored, I'm setting a game of First Lines.

Here are some first lines to songs that were definately on a mix tape that I didn't just make up. Guess them. Don't use the internet or you're gay. First person to get each one right wins the prize of being The Best.

1). Out of bed at 8am, out my head by half past ten...
2). In this dirty old part of the city, where the sun refused to shine...
3). All you trekkies and tv addicts, don't mean to dis don't mean to break static...
4). You spurn my natural emotions, you make me feel like dirt...
5). My friend and me, looking through her red box of memories...
6). I'm just mad about saffron, saffron's mad about me...
7). Under blue moon i saw you, so soon you'll take me...
8). We've come a long, long way together...
9). I had visions I was in them I was looking into the mirror...
10). I'm not content to be with you in the day time...
11). Oh we were born within an hour of each other...
12). I can feel the earth begin to move, I hear my needle hit the groove...
13). Look who's crawling up my wall, black and hairy very small...
14). Rising up, back on the street, did my time took my chances...
15). Teenage dreams so hard to beat...
16). Some might say that sunshine follows thunder...
17). Libraries gave us power, then work came and made us free...
18). It's coming up, it's coming up, it's coming up, it's coming up....
19). He's a 20th century boy, with his hands on the rails...
20). Billy Ray was a preacher's son, and when his daddy would visit he'd come along....

WARNING: taste in music may go down as well as up, past songs are not an indication of future enjoyability.
(Hippo_of_Doom, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 17:15, 13 replies)

7
is Pavement! Pavement, hurrah!
Now I'll check the rest.

[Edited to add: shit, it's a cover, isn't it? Originally Echo and the Bunnymen. Pavement did it better.]
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 17:16, closed)

...
1. Friday Night, Saturday Morning - The Specials (one of my favourite tracks ever)
4. Ever Fallen In Love - The Buzzcocks
6. Mellow Yellow ???
8. Praise You - Fatboy Slim
11. Disco 2000 - Pulp
15. Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
18. Dare - Gorillaz
20. Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
(irv made you eat your parents in a chilli on, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 17:19, closed)

I know some of them.
2) We Gotta Get Out of This Place

4) Ever Fallen In Love With Someone

6) Mellow Yellow

7) The Killing Moon

11) Disco 2000

14) Eye of the Tiger

15) Teenage Kicks

20) Son of a Preacher Man.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 17:19, closed)

I got 8 of them...

Buzzcocks
The Verve
Fatboy Slim
Pulp
undertones
oasis
manics
blur

Then I gave up
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 7 Feb 2008, 17:21, closed)

5) Sonnet, The Verve
( le brian, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 17:22, closed)

13.
Boris The Spider - The Who?
14. Eye of the Tiger - Survivor

Good idea :) might have to put one of my own together!
( Maladicta, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 17:28, closed)

erm,
3 is the Beastie boys, 10 is the kinks
12 is the stone roses.

Is that all of them?
(sparks , oh, I don't know., Thu 7 Feb 2008, 17:47, closed)

answer...
quick work, I tried not to make them obscure but I was hoping it would last slightly longer :p

9). Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta

...it's the theme toon to peep show as well if anybody watches it

and please please make one of your own. anything to stave off the boredom of teh internets (i'm actually systematically reading through bash.org as we speak)
(Hippo_of_Doom, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 18:20, closed)

.
also @ irv, yeah it's one of mine as well, it describes so well bad drunken nights out and I always find myself singing it on the way home. It does make me feel slightly guilty about being an occasional drunken fool though...
(Hippo_of_Doom, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 18:24, closed)

..
"I'll eat it in the taxi queue,
Stand in someone elses spew,
Wish I had lipstick on my shirt,
Instead of piss-stains on my shoe.."

Yup, that about sums up a Friday night in the UK. Quality organ solo in the middle too.
(irv made you eat your parents in a chilli on, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 18:39, closed)

2) Animals- We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Fri 8 Feb 2008, 2:27, closed)

.I'm not saying you're a bit late
but to compare this to a RL situation... this is like you shutting some kind of hinged wooden swinging object that blocks the way into a kind of rural warehouse after the object being stored in said warehouse which happens to be a large beast of burden has already fucked off.
(Hippo_of_Doom, Fri 8 Feb 2008, 11:33, closed)

16
Some Might Say by Oasis

Listened to the Morning Glory album a million times as a teenager knew it would come in handy one day!
(KangerooFlapjack, Fri 8 Feb 2008, 17:11, closed)