We've had fantasy festival lineup.
We've had fantasy dinner party guests.
We've had replace one word in a song title with 'cock'.

Now, beloved b3tans, I give you: First Line of a Song, Championship Edition.

You know the rules and so do I - quote the first line of a song, and the first person to get it sets the next one.
Googlers will be trouted.

I'll start: I met my love by the gasworks wall
( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:35, Reply)

Dirty Old Town

( clendrix Bring on the Jazz Chickens!, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:37, Reply)

WINRAR.
Your go, Clenders.
( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:40, Reply)

OK!
See below...
( clendrix Bring on the Jazz Chickens!, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:41, Reply)

Dirty old town - The pouges
Am I right?
(Fredz should learn to walk before he crawls, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:39, Reply)

You are indeed :)

( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:40, Reply)

Yes and no.
It was actually written by Ewan MacColl and is a song about Salford.
( crackhouseceilidhband - "refreshing and logical", Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:41, Reply)

Ah, he was wonderful.
As was his daughter. Cried when I heard she'd died.
( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:41, Reply)

V's version of motorboating is a lot more fun than hers was.

( clendrix Bring on the Jazz Chickens!, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:44, Reply)

I can quite imagine!
How does V go about such things?
( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:45, Reply)

With great vigour.

( clendrix Bring on the Jazz Chickens!, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:46, Reply)

The only right way
to do it!
( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:47, Reply)

Realy?
Huh. I didn't know that. I'll track down the origonal.. I love the Pouges version.
(Fredz should learn to walk before he crawls, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:42, Reply)

Got it stuck
in my head at work today. Which was good because it replaced Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins.
( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:44, Reply)

Danger Zone
FUCKING ROCKS
( crackhouseceilidhband - "refreshing and logical", Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:50, Reply)

My downloaded version
is only a minute and a half long because the torrent spacked out. Need to reacquire it!
( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:54, Reply)

Well, I see him on the TV preaching about the promised land.

( clendrix Bring on the Jazz Chickens!, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:40, Reply)

er....

( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:43, Reply)

This is a Poison song,
can't remember which though
( crackhouseceilidhband - "refreshing and logical", Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:44, Reply)

Something to Believe In?
(had to sing it to myself)
( crackhouseceilidhband - "refreshing and logical", Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:44, Reply)

D'oh! I so knew that.
your turn, CHCB.
( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:45, Reply)

Nice!
Something to Believe In
I just happened to be listening to it at the time.
( clendrix Bring on the Jazz Chickens!, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:44, Reply)

I've got iTunes open
for my next one. I'm terrible at thinking of songs ad hoc.
( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:46, Reply)

every rose has it's thorn

( Kristine, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:44, Reply)

So close!

( clendrix Bring on the Jazz Chickens!, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:44, Reply)

cripes

( Kristine, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:47, Reply)

There's a man going round taking names

( crackhouseceilidhband - "refreshing and logical", Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:47, Reply)

When the man comes around?
I think.....
(Fredz should learn to walk before he crawls, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:49, Reply)

Aye!

( crackhouseceilidhband - "refreshing and logical", Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:49, Reply)

Awesomes!
I shall think of one now....
(Fredz should learn to walk before he crawls, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:50, Reply)

Well aint it just like the night, to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet?
:)
(Fredz should learn to walk before he crawls, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:52, Reply)

I suck at this game :(
suspect it's a Dylan song.
( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:56, Reply)

It is Dylan, yeah
Want a clue?
(Fredz should learn to walk before he crawls, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:56, Reply)

Try me :)
*google fingers itching*
( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:00, Reply)

We sit here stranded, though we're doing our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain tempting you to defy it.....

Think Blonde on Blonde
(Fredz should learn to walk before he crawls, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:01, Reply)

visions of johanna...
i think...well actually know...
( blaireau69 Capitalising emotions since, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:04, Reply)

Spot on!
Congrats. Your turn now
(Fredz should learn to walk before he crawls, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:05, Reply)

that was SO easy... let's have a wee think...
see below in 5 mins!
( blaireau69 Capitalising emotions since, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:06, Reply)

Hellava song though
The line that goes "Ghosts of electricity howl in the bones of her face...." Looking forward to your one.
(Fredz should learn to walk before he crawls, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:07, Reply)

my fave dylan track from that year is "like a rolling stone"...
so many nuggets of wisdom in that song!
( blaireau69 Capitalising emotions since, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:15, Reply)

Oh cock,
I knew that too!
( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:07, Reply)

Hmm.
Second place?
(Fredz should learn to walk before he crawls, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:10, Reply)

I can run with that.

( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:14, Reply)

It does come with a shiny shiny medal
:D
(Fredz should learn to walk before he crawls, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:17, Reply)

Woo yay!
*yoink*
( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:22, Reply)

Medal theif!
:( There was going to be a ceremony as well. Speeches and everything
(Fredz should learn to walk before he crawls, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:37, Reply)

I knew yours
but the rest are missing me, google is my friend hence not answering
(Halfy Shit Tesco petrol broke my car apparently, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 21:56, Reply)

Same here.
I can't very well trout myself, either :(
( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:07, Reply)

"lately, lately, i find i rush...
can't piece together the sun and the sky and the spots on my face..."
( blaireau69 Capitalising emotions since, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:10, Reply)

first 2 lines actually...
dunno if that helps?
1992...

edit: did i just kill that with obscurity???
( blaireau69 Capitalising emotions since, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:13, Reply)

I think I head it... I think.
No idea who did it, or the name of the song though.
(Fredz should learn to walk before he crawls, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:18, Reply)

I may have to give in
and google. An exceptional gesture.
( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:22, Reply)

It rings a bell
It's a fine line between obscure and impossible though.

Is it someone like new fast automatic daffodils?
( The Light In Giftwrap won't play poker with the Skull Spark Joker, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:22, Reply)

*hits spotify*
Thats not cheating, you said Google. And besides, I need to know the band for Spotify to be any use.

It's "Stockholm" isn't it.
( The Light In Giftwrap won't play poker with the Skull Spark Joker, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:25, Reply)

*strokes trout menacingly
and wishes Pot was here since his is bigger*
( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:27, Reply)

if indeed that were from memory...
(and i trust thee) then...1,2,3...

BANG ON THE MONEY!!!

"stockholm", track 2 off "body exit mind"

"and our travels take us further north,
where there's fish in the sea and food on the shelves..."

well done sir!

your turn...
( blaireau69 Capitalising emotions since, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:26, Reply)

A winrar is you!

( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:27, Reply)

Wahey!
I knew who it was just not the song. I had to trawl through a few before I spotted the intro that went with my mental fragment of song.
( The Light In Giftwrap won't play poker with the Skull Spark Joker, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:28, Reply)

cool work, dude!
do you know their album "Love it all"? if not then get it. right now!
( blaireau69 Capitalising emotions since, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:30, Reply)

I actually keep hearing them
in pursuit of other things and think I ought to get some but never do.
( The Light In Giftwrap won't play poker with the Skull Spark Joker, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:43, Reply)

get thyself "love it all"...
darken the lights and turn it up to 9.5.
( blaireau69 Capitalising emotions since, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:52, Reply)

Not quite as obscure
"Pretty teeth scrapy clean with a wind-up machine"
( The Light In Giftwrap won't play poker with the Skull Spark Joker, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:29, Reply)

"I'm feeling very striking, It's taken to my liking"?
Cardiacs?
thinks???
er?
( blaireau69 Capitalising emotions since, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:32, Reply)

You're so close
come on. It's quite the notable song.
( The Light In Giftwrap won't play poker with the Skull Spark Joker, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:42, Reply)

the sea, the sea!
Big ship?
( blaireau69 Capitalising emotions since, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:47, Reply)

YES!
Here it comes again, god bless her!
( The Light In Giftwrap won't play poker with the Skull Spark Joker, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:51, Reply)

okay, my turn?
"his wicked sense of humour suggests exciting sex..."
( blaireau69 Capitalising emotions since, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 22:54, Reply)

Hmmmm
Venus as a boy I think....
(Fredz should learn to walk before he crawls, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 23:03, Reply)

"i think" has become a by-word for "i know"...
i think...

bob-on matey! have a point...
your go now!
( blaireau69 Capitalising emotions since, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 23:05, Reply)

Okay....
You work in the village shop, putting a poster up, dreaming of anything, dreaming of the time you are free from the trouble you are in.
(Fredz should learn to walk before he crawls, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 23:08, Reply)

belle and sebastian?
bugger me, the song...
( blaireau69 Capitalising emotions since, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 23:14, Reply)

Yep. It's belle and sebastian
Good one too....
(Fredz should learn to walk before he crawls, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 23:16, Reply)

GRRRRRRRRRR!
cannae get it...
clue for half a point?
( blaireau69 Capitalising emotions since, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 23:38, Reply)

OKay.
In the mud, on your knees, trying hard not to please anyone all the time. In a rebels fight you go all the way to being brutal.

You will have a boy tonight, you will have a boy tonight on the first bus out of town.

Ummmm - Appears on Push Barman to open old wounds.
(Fredz should learn to walk before he crawls, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 23:41, Reply)

i want to say "Hazey Jane"...
but that's Nick Drake so...
"Cra..."

no...

"Lazey Jane"

painting lines..?
( blaireau69 Capitalising emotions since, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 23:45, Reply)

Lazy line painter Jane!
Close enough... One half point and your go.
(Fredz should learn to walk before he crawls, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 23:46, Reply)

Fuck! my brain's all done in now...
okay folks, how about...
first line only...
listened to it this afternoon, from "compact-cassette" tape found in an old box of mine...


"this government had an idea and parliament made it law..."
( blaireau69 Capitalising emotions since, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 23:52, Reply)

Face down in the gutter won't admit defeat though his clothes are soiled and black,
He's a big, strong man with a childs mind, don't you take his booze away!
( Mrs Liveinabin is the only person left who uses indicators, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 23:05, Reply)

sorry
didn't really read the rules.

Feel free to ignore.
( Mrs Liveinabin is the only person left who uses indicators, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 23:06, Reply)

Noooo.... Not ignoring..
I just have no idea who it is!
(Fredz should learn to walk before he crawls, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 23:08, Reply)

Nor do I :(
Apparently I live in a musical cave!
( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 23:13, Reply)

Okays Mrs Liveinabin...
Clue?
(Fredz should learn to walk before he crawls, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 23:41, Reply)

Bar room Hero - Dropkick Murphys
Cracking tune!

My turn! - "A chill runs up your spine, It crawls into your brain"
( Agnostic Antichristmas why isn't fingering a girl known as digital sex?, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 23:48, Reply)

i have not the faintest idea...
no mental bells ringing at all...
( blaireau69 Capitalising emotions since, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 23:55, Reply)