Another Lyric Game

Been a while, I have two musical puzzlers for you today. I've turned on comment screening, since this is sort of a race (not to be confused with that other Race). Also, the two sets have a completely different character from each other.

The first one is a traditional lyric game. Here are the first two lines of sixteen non-randomly selected songs.
I'm looking for the title and the artist. Note: in some cases, the artist I am looking for is not the original performer of the song.

1. bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
     bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
   
2. Hey, what's the big idea?
     Yo, Mika
   
3. They want you
     And your mind
   
4. She buys a new dress for the party
     She always looks good in red
   
5. Let everyone go to his private shelter
     Empty the streets
   
6. I tell you of a girl, her husband was a soldier
     Gone to war in some strange country far away
   
7. Daniel, when I first saw you
     I knew that you had a flame in your heart
   
8. In a church by the face
     He talks about the people going under
   
9. Come drink my wine drink my wine
     If all that has passed your innocent lips is juice and tea and water
   
10. Four letter word just to get me along
      It's a difficulty and I'm biting on my tongue and uh
    
11. Whenever I look back
      On the best days of my life
    
12. I did my best to notice
      When the call came down the line
    
13. The lusty, decadent delights of Imperial Pompeii
      Notify ground crews
    
14. Sleep, Child, Sleep. Sleep, Child, Sleep.
      The daylight is waiting
    
15. Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh
      Caught in a bad romance
    
16. You are my angel
      Come from way above
    

And now, a slightly different game. Here are the first lines of twenty-four thematically related songs. Several of them are covers; your objective is to identify the theme, the songs, and which cover fits with the rest of the album. (Also, some of them are extremely easy, and some of them are misleading). Also, sorry, but ladykalessia and ariyanakylstram helped me put this list together, so they don't get to play.

1. I was twenty-one years when I wrote this song
     I'll be twenty-two soon, but I won't be for long
   
2. Little ditty about Jack and Diane
     Two American kids growin' up in the heartland
   
3. Well my baby and me went out late Saturday night
     I had my hair piled high and my baby just looks so right
   
4. Since you told me
     Yes, I'm out-a control
   
5. I can't stop
     The way I feel
   
6. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
     Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
   
7. I don't know what it is that makes me love you so
     I only know I never want to let you go
   
8. With the heartbreak open
     So much you can't hide
   
9. You've been around for such a long time now
     Oh maybe I could leave you but I don't know how
   
10. He been away, you hung around
      Botherin' me every night
    
11. Set me free, why don't cha babe
      Get out my life, why don't cha babe
    
12. Don't know much about history
      Don't know much biology
    
13. I need love, love
      ooh, ease my mind
    
14. Where are those happy days?
      They seem so hard to find.
    
15. When you're young and so and love as we
      And bewildered by the world we see
    
16. There are worse things I could do,
      than go with a boy or two
    
17. I saw her today
      I saw her face
    
18. Oh, where oh where can my baby be?
      The Lord took her away from me
    
19. When you're alone and life is making you lonely
      You can always go - downtown
    
20. A long, long time ago
      I can still remember how that music used to
    
21. Saturday night I was downtown
      Working for the FBI
    
22. Well, she got her daddy's car
      And she cruised through the hamburger stand now
    
23. I seen a girl on a one-way corridor
      Stealing down a wrong-way street
    
24. Wake up, little Susie, wake up
      Wake up, little Susie, wake up
    

Gentlefolk, Start Your Engines!
Ready, Steady, Go!