Lyric Game - I Can't Believe The News Today

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Good Evening, Gentlefolk!
It's time for another Lyric Game. For those of you who aren't familiar, this is a game testing of the bounds of your musical memory. I will list a series of the first lines of various songs, and you, dear readers, will attempt to identify them. Using search engines is cheating, although going to your own music collections to listen to the beginning of a track to see if that's actually the one I'm looking for is entirely fair, and even encouraged.

Comments are screened, though I'll unscreen them after I have a chance to look at people's answers. Each correctly identified song title is worth half a point. Each correctly identified artist is also worth half a point. In some cases, I'm actually looking for a cover performance instead of the original; correctly identifying that is worth half a point, and correctly identifying the cover performer is worth another half point. Incorrectly identifying something as a cover when it wasn't what I was after is a quarter point penalty. Points will be awarded to everyone who identifies a song or song element in a screened comment; once I've unscreened an identification, further identifications of the same song will not receive points.

And now, the lyrics. Ready, Steady, Go!

1. Why'd you run away? Don't you like my style?
   
2. The deception with tact, just what are you trying to say?
   
3. I met a boy, his name was Jay, he was so fine
   
4. Every day my metal friend, shakes my bed at 6am
   
5. I can't believe the news today
   
6. Watching girls, passin' by, it ain't the latest thing
   
7. Hey, little girl, is your daddy home?
   
8. In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway american dream
   
9. Oh, Baby, don't it feel like heaven right now
   
10. In the afterlife, you could be headed for the serious strife
    
11. It was a slow day, and the sun was beating
    
12. Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
    
13. Madman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat
    
14. Hold on tight to your dream
    
15. Never know how much i love you
    
16. You're a rich girl, and you've gone too far
    
17. The night I laid my eyes on you
    
18. I've got a bad boy and that's alright with me
    
19. The daylight, cried for a cure
    
20. Hold your breath, make a wish, count to three

And finally, a hat tip to ariyanakylstram for introducing me to tracks 17 and 18. Oh, and an extra full point to anyone who can hand me a good transcription of the intro to track 8 in the performance I have in mind.

Comments

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While I was looking for the Mannfred Man performance, which is solid mid-seventies Pop, the original Bruce Springsteen feels to me to be more of a piece with Dylan's Folk-Rock style and sensibilities, before Springsteen became a pop mega-star with Born in the USA.

Aside: When I made the list, I hadn't realized that I'd included quite so much Springsteen on it. That only became clear when I went fact-checking my artist list to make sure I had the attributions correct.

(Also, because the ordering I have sounds good on the mixed CD)