Answers to the lyrics meme quiz.

It might have been fairer if I'd mentioned that, due to my music streaming habits, nearly everything on the playlist ended up being either a live-in-concert recording or a cover version (or a live-in-concert recording of a cover version), and that consequently a few of these aren't exactly the standard lyrics. Mostly, though, I figured that anybody who was going to recognise the song at all would still recognise a slight variation. We'll see if I was right...

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Here are the answers to the lyrics meme from last month, a bit later than I originally intended to post them:

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This is a fairly representative sample of my music collection, although once again the Charlie Daniels entry is a song I don't like from the album I bought solely for "The Devil Went Down to Georgia".

I'm amused to note that this time round the list includes both the Tom Lehrer patter song "The Elements" and one of its inspirations, the Danny Kaye patter song "Tchaikovsky (and other Russians)" -- although the latter was harder to spot, because the recording I have includes the two-and-half-minute recitative lead-in from the stage show, and I gave the opening lines of the recitative instead of the opening lines of the patter song ("There's Maliszewski, Rubinstein, Arensky, and Tchaikovsky..."). Though I don't know if anybody now would have recognised it even if I had started there.

Here are the answers to the lyrics quiz meme:
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Here are the answers to the lyrics meme, including several I'm astonished my friendslist didn't get:

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Here are the answers to the lyrics meme bonus round:

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Tracks that were left out of the lyrics meme on account of being spoken-word, not songs.

For multi-track works, I've taken the first track to come up from each work. Quotation marks indicate a character speaking. In one case, I've resisted the temptation to count "Chapter Ten" as the first line.

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Update: Answers here.

Memed from justice_turtle:

1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few lines of the first thirty pieces of music that come up that do not give away the name. Skip instrumentals, but don't skip the embarrassing ones.
3. Make hapless internet denizens guess the song names and artists. Google is cheating. For musical songs, the name of the musical is acceptable in place of the artist.
4. Least hapless internet denizen wins admiration. That's right, just like a computer when you don't have power, the points don't matter.

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Update: Answers here.

It's been nearly a week since I posted the lyrics meme, and there's still 13 left to guess.

Anybody else want to have a go? Would it help if I offered hints?