I know it's out of fashion, and a trifle uncool

In fact, that could almost be the title for this site. Or, translated into Latin, it could go under my coat of arms. Um ... "Cogito non trendus et poco non frigidarius est"?

Anyway, we'll be off for a few days, so to ease the withdrawal symptoms from Ben's Words of Wisdom, here (shamelessly pinched from elsewhere in the blogosphere) is the great opening lines quiz. You can even make up your own. Get your iPod (or whatever; in my case, Windows Media Player), set it to shuffle and note down the opening lines of an arbitrary number of tracks. In this case, 40. Exclude the ones that are too obvious (i.e. have the name of the track in the first line) and, well duh, the instrumentals. And don't be afraid to admit that some of these tracks, okay, you're a little embarrassed to have them in downloaded, easily erasable form.

And no sneaky Googling answers, right?

Here we go ...

1. I get high on a buzz then a rush when I'm plugged in you
2. See the little nuclei, bursting full of information / There's a need to regulate / bring it down to cells and plasma
3. Stuck inside these four walls, sent inside forever
4. I love the colourful clothes she wears
5. Well she got her daddy's car and she drove through the hamburger stands now
6. Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation / Little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotations
7. What's up with my heart when it skips a beat? (skips a beat)
8. I've been waiting for so long to come here now and sing this song (One of the ones I'll admit to being a bit embarrassed by ...)
9. Where it began, I can't begin to knowin'
10. Life isn't always easy / This we know my friends / I thought you knew where to go / But you were following me
11. All I wanna do when I wake up in the morning is see your eyes
12. Hot town, summer in the city / back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
13. Well did I tell you before, when I was up, anxiety was bringing me down
14. When are you going to come down? When are you going to land?
15. Every day I recognise what's deceased and what's alive
16. Sleep like a baby / my little lady / dream till the sunrise / creeps into your eyes
17. Winters cityside / Crystal bits of snowflakes all around my head and in the wind / I had no illusions that I'd ever find a glimpse of summers heatwaves in your eyes
18. Oh, the night is my world / city light painted girl / in the day nothing matters / it's the night time that flatters
19. In the beginning was the word, man said: Let there be more light. Electric scenes and laser beams, neon lights to light the boring nights
20. I never used to cry 'cos I was all alone / For me, myself and I is all I've ever known / I never felt the need to have a hand to hold / In everything I do I take complete control
21. I am the one who guided you this far / All you know and all you feel (just to confuse, the 'first line' comes 10 minutes into the song)
22. Out on the street I was talking to a man / He said "there's so much of this life of mine that I don't understand"
23. Here comes Johnny Yen again / With the liquor and drugs and the flesh machine
24. I'm your only friend / I'm not your only friend / But I'm a little glowing friend / But really I'm not actually your friend / But I am
25. Love is a burnin' thing and it makes a fiery ring
26. What's the matter with the clothes I'm wearing? Can't you tell that your tie's too wide? Maybe I should buy some old tab collars? Welcome back to the age of jive.
27. Vodka intimate, an affair with isolation in a blackheath cell
28. My daddy had a 68 Camero / When I was sixteen he went out of town (and another)
    
29. Are you really going out with Adolf? Ooh yeah!
30. I pictured a rainbow / You held it in your hands / I had flashes / But you saw the plan
31. When I was a little girl I had a ragdoll / only doll I've ever owned
32. You'll say that we've got nothing in common / No common ground to start from and we're falling apart
33. I once met a man with a sense of adventure / He was dressed to thrill wherever he went
34. Marie has set up home with a man who's half my age / A halfwit in a leotard stands on my stage
35. When I die and they lay me to rest / gonna go to the place that's the best
36. It was a slow day and the sun was beating on the soldiers by the side of the road
37. I'll protect you from the hooded claw / Keep the vampires from your door
38. I've got sunshine in my stomach, like I just rocked my baby to sleep
39. Your cruel device / Your blood, like ice / One look could kill / My pain, your thrill
40. That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane ...
    

And a bonus point for anyone who gets the title of this post.