I stole this idea from someone else's blog and I am going to blatantly use it without credit. I encourage you to do the same.

Load all your songs into your music program of choice (WinAmp, iTunes, etc.) and then shuffle them up real good. For the first 10 songs, write down your favorite line from the lyrics and see if your friends can guess the songs. (Web stalkers, you're invited too!) If your music collection is still mainly CD's or 8-tracks, just devise a way to select 10 songs at random.

Wow ... luck of the draw. I got some great songs. (Just for the record, I threw out two of them. One was an instrumental, and I didn't even really like the other one. So you should all listen to "Egyptian Reggae" by Jonathan Richman, and apologies to the Cure, but I don't know why I have "More Than This" in my playlist.)

Here goes (note the entirely appropriate use of a colon here):

1. Everybody's feelin' it bad
   No new breaks, whatever it takes
   Not to have to sway it on a classified ad
   
   
2. I told her that I agreed
   But I didn't like it as a band name
   
   
3. I wish that we were stumbling fast
   Down on Irving and 14th Street
   
   
4. I'm going blind again
   And I haven't seen my girl
   In 15,000 miles
   
   
5. Thanks in part to Mother Nature
   It will never rain again
   It should do wonders for the GNP
   
   
6. Hide on the promenade, etch a postcard
   "How I Dearly Wish I Was Not Here"
   
   
7. One more sun comes sliding down the sky
   One more shadow leans against the wall
   
   
8. She gets mad, and she starts to cry
   She takes a swing, but she can't hit
   
   
9. You kicked and cried like a bullied child
   A grown man of twenty-five
   Oh, he said he’d cure your ills
   But he didn’t and he never will
   
   
10. I can feel the pressure building high.
    You should see you’re headed for a storm.
    Don’t you see it building in the sky?
    Don’t you think it’s time to swim to shore?
    

Here are some hints - all 10 songs are by different artists (no repeats), and they have all received some kind of national press, so you have a good chance of recognizing them. All the artists began their careers after 1980.

Post your answers in the comments and I'll grade them. You get 2 points for each correct answer - 1 per artist and song title. To use a modified version of Justin's theory, if you get them all completely wrong in a really funny way, I will award you full credit.

Remember, kids - we're on the honor system here. Google is cheating!