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Yay! I celebrate! This number is significant, for two reasons. One is because people don't typically think in hexadecimal (if we did, I'd have to wait for entry #226), and the other is that people like the number 100. Even in octal, but I missed 64. So, yes. 100. Rejoice!

In memory of this special occasion, I'm going to do two things. The first will be my fourth ever music!quiz. The second will be my first ever use of tags, which I may just feel the need to add to all my previous posts, if only for my own convenience when looking for entries. But that's not the interesting bit, for I have said music!quiz.

The idea behind this one? Simple, really. In all the other ones, I've had to carefully avoid lines that have the song title in them. Enough!, I says. What we have here is lines snipped from songs, that include the title cunningly replaced with some number of underscores. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to tell me the title and the artist (or where the song's been snipped from).

And now:

Let's start off fairly easily. The title is hintede at yay.

One: Bennie and the Jets - Elton John (captainsblog, fireyfox)
Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet?
Oh! But they're so spaced out, buh-buh-buh-buh ________

Two: Rasputin - Boney M (fireyfox, half points riverchild)
Ra Ra ________, lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
Ra Ra ________, Russia's greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on

Three: So Long and Thanks For All the Fish - from the Hitchhiker's Guide... (riverchild)
So long, so long, so long, so long, so long
So long, so long, so long, so long, so long,
So long, ________

Four: Welcome to the Jungle - Guns n' Roses (fireyfox)
In the jungle
________
Watch it bring you to your shu-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-knees, knees

See? It's fun. And now for something completely different: Repetitive use of the title.

Five: Poison - Alice Cooper (riverchild, the_reader)
I want to taste you but your lips are venomous ________
You're ________ running through my veins
You're ________, I don't wanna break these chains
_______

Six: Peaches - Presidents of the United States of America (daphyn, amyrose2021)
Millions of ________
________ for me
Millions of ________
________ for free

Seven:
________, ________
I don’t need ________
I can’t see dark night
Maybe I’ll find on the way down the line
That I’m free, free to be me
________ is a long way from home

Eight: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Monty Python (riverchild, the_reader, amyrose2021, 1/2 points captainsblog)
If you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best
And...
________
________

Randomnessness!

Nine: Don't Speak - No Doubt (daphyn, fireyfox, riverchild, the_reader)
________
I know just what you're thinking
And I don't need your reasons
Don't tell me, 'cause it hurts

Ten: Beautiful Day - U2 (the_reader)
It was a ________
Don't let it get away
________

Eleven: Underneath it All - No Doubt (bananrama, riverchild)
You're really lovely ________
And you want to love me ________
I'm really lucky ________
And you're really lovely

Twelve: Fly Like an Eagle - Steve Miller (captainsblog, 1/2 points to fireyfox)
So I wanna ________
To the sea
________
let the spirit carry me
I wanna fly...

Hee! I think a few first lines are in order, just to show that last quiz.

Thirteen: Cold as Ice - Foreigner (riverchild)
You're as ________, you're willing to sacrifice our love
You never take advice, someday you’ll pay the price, I know

Fourteen: Seven - Prince (salzara_tirwen)
All ________ and we’ll watch them fall
They stand in the way of love
And we will smoke them all
With an intellect and a savoir-faire

Fifteen: Money - Pink floyd (mrpyro)
________, get away.
Get a good job with good pay and you’re okay.
________, it’s a gas.
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.

Sixteen: Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics (daphyn, captainsblog, fireyfox, riverchild, the_reader)
________ are made of this
Who am I to disagree?

And that's enough of that for now. We're halfway through. One-word titles, perhaps?

Seventeen: One - U2 (bananrama, fireyfox, riverchild, the_reader)
We're ________, but we're not the same
We've got to
Carry each other
Carry each other

Eighteen: Hero - Chad Kroeger and Josey Scott (fireyfox, riverchild, 1/2 points bananrama) [Also accepting Nickelback]
Now that the world isn't ending, it's love that I'm sending to you.
It isn't the love of a ________, and thats why I fear it wont do.

Nineteen: Smooth - Santana feat. Rob Thomas (The typo-spotting daphyn, fireyfox, riverchild [who seems rather obssessed with Rob])
I could change my life to better suit your mood
'Cause you're so ________

Twenty: Daughter - Pearl Jam (salzara_tirwen)
Don’t call me ________, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me

Violence?

Twenty-one: Blow Up the Pokies - The Whitlams (liadlaith)
And I wish I, wish I knew the right words
To _______ and drag them away
'Cause they're taking the food off the table
So they can say that the trains run on time

Twenty-two: You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi (riverchild, 1/2 points to captainsblog)
Shot through the heart
And you’re to blame
________

Twenty-three: Break Me, Shake Me - Savage Garden (fireyfox, half points for: bananrama, riverchild, the_reader)
So ________, hate me, take me over
When the madness stops then you will be alone
Just ________, hate me, take me over
When the madness stops then you will be alone

Twenty-four: Killer Queen - Queen (captainsblog)
She’s a ________
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime

randomness another touch A of

Twenty-five: Pinball Wizard - The Who (captainsblog) [Would've also paid Elton John, who performs it in Tommy]
He's a ________, there has to be a twist
A ________'s got such a supple wrist

Twenty-six: Raspberry Beret - Prince (captainsblog)
She wore a ________
The kind you find in a second hand store
________
And if it was warm she wouldn’t wear much more

Twenty-seven: Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers (the_reader)
________ downtown
Forgot about my love
________ downtown
I gave my life away

Twenty-eight: A Thousand Words - Savage Garden (fireyfox)
You can resurrect ________ to deceive me, more and more
________ will give the reason why I don't need you anymore

And ones with their title at the end...

Twenty-nine: Walk of Life - Dire Straits (the_reader)
And after all the violence and double talk
There's just a song in all the trouble and the strife
You do the walk, you do the ________

Thirty: Holiday - Green Day (theshadowlurker)
This is our lives on ________

Thirty-one: Wild Wild West - Escape Club (deepfishy)
Heading for the nineties,
Living in the ________
The ________
The ________

Thirty-two: Bat Out of Hell - Meatloaf (captainsblog)
And the last thing I see is my heart
Still beating, still beating,
Bursting out of my body and flying away
Like a ________

Today's LJ headline? Book released. Two ships found safe in sheltered harbour of canon. Some ships tossed about on stormy seas in the teacups of fandom. Other ships report tossing, no storms.

And now I'm off to bed. Play nice.