h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Here's a few selected lines from a random shuffling of the songs stored on my PC. Can you name the song and artist?

1. Goodbye is too good a word babe, so I'll just say faredywell.
2. I walk in the grass, and I feel some peace at last; I walk on the beach, and for once I feel some ease.
3. It's time to taste what you most fear, Right Guard will not help you here.
4. While you were sitting home at alone at age 13, your real daddy was dying - sorry you didn't see him.
5. Wine is fine, but whisky's quicker; suicide is slow with liquor.
6. Now I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord - but you don't really care for music, do you? (original artist)
7. Sittin' around feeling far away, so far away but I can feel the debris - can you feel it?
8. I just had a dream the other night, I was married to the Queen
and Madonna lived next door. I think she took a shine to me,
and the kids were all grown up, but I had to turn her down, cos I was still in love with you.
9. We got a thousand points of light for the homeless man, we got a kinder, gentler, machine gun hand.
10. Sweetness, I was only joking when I said by rights you should be bludgeoned in your bed.
11. You keep the young ones paralysed, educated by your lies, keep the old ones happy with the news.
12. Sing with me, sing for the year, sing for the laughter, sing for the tear.
13. Many moons passed and more the dream grew strong, until tomorrow he would sing his first war song and fight his first battle, but something went wrong, surprise attack killed him in his sleep that night.
14. Out upon the heather a shadow came onto me; her hair was hanging over a face I couldn't see.
15. Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis?
16. The Breakfast Creek Hotel is up for sale, the last square mile of terra firma gavelled in the mail. So farewell to those Norfolk Island pines, no amount of make-believe can help this heart of mine.
17. Every time I make a run, girl, you turn around and cry, I ask myself why, oh why. See, you must understand, I can't work a 9 to 5...
18. Greedy little people in a sea of distress, keep your more to receive your less, unimpressed by material excess, love is free love me say 'hell yes'.
19. I never wanted to kill, I am not naturally evil - such things I do just to make myself more attractive to you. Have I failed?
20. We hear them sayin, now first you must cure your temper, then you find a job in the paper - you need someone for a saviour.
21. Back on my planet, they laugh at my jokes, and everyone drinks, and everyone smokes.
22. Sunshine's been keeping me up for days, there is no lifetime, only a passing phase.
23. Stones taught to fly, love taught me to lie, life taught me to die, so it's not hard to fall...
24. Get up, stand up, come out with your hands up - if you get the feeling, jump across the ceiling.
25. So here I go, still scratching around in the same ole hole, my body feels young but my mind is very old.
26. We are the people that can find whatever you may need, if you got the money, honey, we got your disease.
27. When there's no future how can there be sin? We're the flowers in the dustbin, we're the poison in your human machine, we're the future - your future.
28. Sometimes a man gets carried away, when he feels like he should be having his fun, and much too blind to see the damage he's done. Sometimes a man must awake to find that really, he has no-one.
29. Smiling in the bright lights, coming through in stereo, when everybody loves you, you can never be lonely.
30. What you smell is what you get, Burger King and p*** and sweat, you roast to death in the boiling heat with tourists treading on your feet.

1. Dylan. But I can't think of the name of the song.
6. Hallelujah.
10. "... And now I know how Joan of Arc felt." But I've forgotten the name of the song.
23. Damien Rice. "Amy come sit on my wall, and read me 'The Story of O'." But what's the name of the song?

I'm not musical.

TRiG.

Ummm...i only know one...
14. White hare - Seth Lakeman

Venus scores one, and Trig four halves The Damien Rice song isn't that one, but it's from that album.

15. 'Not the Noel Coward Song' from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

>> 10. "... And now I know how Joan of Arc felt." But I've forgotten the name of the song.

Bigmouth Strikes Again

.... by The Smiths, obviously.

Which has just reminded me what 19 is:

Last of the Famous International Playboys - Morrissey

10, 14, 15 and 19 all correct!

Ooh, well, if people are going to do it in bits:

4. Alive - Pearl Jam
6. Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley?
18. Give it away - Red Hot Chili Peppers
25. Half the world away - Oasis (I think, although the second half of that line is in another song for which I can remember the tune but not the band or the song title)
29. Mr. Jones - Counting Crows

All correct Andy, though Buckley wasn't the original singer of Hallelujah. The song goes back much further than that.

27 looks decidedly like the Sex Pistols' God Save The Queen.

Guns and Roses 'Welcome to the Jungle' is number 26.

Bing! Correct!

We've Badly Drawn Boy at number 8, but I've NFI what the song title is.

Yeah... I was just trying that out. Was it originally by Leonard Cohen?

One more - 5 is Suicide Solution by Ozzy Osbourne, I think. Although it sounds like it's from Pure Morning by Placebo...

You can have half a bing for that. Bi!

Yes, it was, Andy. Bing! Bing!

>> One more - 5 is Suicide Solution by Ozzy Osbourne, I think. Although it sounds like it's from Pure Morning by Placebo.

Blimey, who'd have thought that Brian Molko's taste in men included the likes of Ozzy

30 - London Underground, Amateur Transplants (album: Fitness to Practice)