(I was going to go back and mark ones no one had gotten yet to encourage guesses, but that was my plan if I got around to it. Yeah, we're short on round tuits here and the square ones are just not the same, so...here are the answers instead.)
Answers to the music meme. Includes the first person to get the ones that were solved (regardless of correct artist, although as it happened every first named the same artist that was performing in my list).
1. We are young; heartache to heartache we stand, no promises, no demands.
Pat Benatar - Love is a BattleField
First:
angelamermaid
2. Express yourself, don't repress yourself. [repeats]
Madonna - Human Nature
First:
bayushi
3. There is a tale that the island people tell, don't care if it is true 'cause I love it so well.
Jimmy Buffet - Jolly Mon Sing
First:
cipherpunk
4. You know our love was meant to be the kind of love that lasts forever.
Chicago - You're the Inspiration
First:
cipherpunk
5. Baby, look at me, and tell me what you see. You ain't seen the best of me yet.
Irene Cara - Fame
First:
bayushi
6. Victor was born in the spring of '44, and never saw his father anymore.
Billy Joel - Leningrad
First:
cipherpunk
7. Love is the only thing that matters; love is the only thing that's real.
Suzanne Vega - Ludlow Street
8. It's of a bold young sailor, from fortune he did run.
Great Big Sea - French Perfume
9. Met my old lover at the grocery store as snow was falling Christmas Eve.
Dan Fogelberg - Same Old Lang Syne
First:
bayushi
10. It's been years since they told her about it, the darkness her body possessed.
Melissa Etheridge - I Run for Life
11. Candles on the table in a darkened room, a long-forgotten voice that sings a half-familiar tune
Seanan McGuire - River Lies
12. She said we're much too different, we're from two separate worlds.
Collin Raye - Not That Different
13. You can dance, you can dance, having the time of your life.
ABBA - Dancing Queen
First:
cipherpunk
14. At night, when you turn off all the lights, there's no place that you can hide.
Gloria Estefan - Rhythm Is Gonna Get You
15. Hush, close your eyes, and I'll keep you safe, allow you to weep and sing you to sleep.
October Project - Eyes of Mercy
16. There was a man back in '95 whose heart ran out of summers
Five for Fighting - The Riddle
17. Six o'clock already, I was just in the middle of a dream.
The Bangles - Manic Monday
First:
bayushi
18. Under blue and silver sky, far from the sea, snow-laden breezes wild and free
S.J. Tucker - Cold Sunshine
19. Life is a long road, everyone knows it. Nothing is ever the way that you suppose it.
Christopher Cross - Curled Around the World
20. Only one shadow on the wall, just one candle burning bright.
Belinda Carlisle - Half the World
Answers to the music meme. Includes the first person to get the ones that were solved (regardless of correct artist, although as it happened every first named the same artist that was performing in my list).
1. We are young; heartache to heartache we stand, no promises, no demands.
Pat Benatar - Love is a BattleField
First:
2. Express yourself, don't repress yourself. [repeats]
Madonna - Human Nature
First:
3. There is a tale that the island people tell, don't care if it is true 'cause I love it so well.
Jimmy Buffet - Jolly Mon Sing
First:
4. You know our love was meant to be the kind of love that lasts forever.
Chicago - You're the Inspiration
First:
5. Baby, look at me, and tell me what you see. You ain't seen the best of me yet.
Irene Cara - Fame
First:
6. Victor was born in the spring of '44, and never saw his father anymore.
Billy Joel - Leningrad
First:
7. Love is the only thing that matters; love is the only thing that's real.
Suzanne Vega - Ludlow Street
8. It's of a bold young sailor, from fortune he did run.
Great Big Sea - French Perfume
9. Met my old lover at the grocery store as snow was falling Christmas Eve.
Dan Fogelberg - Same Old Lang Syne
First:
10. It's been years since they told her about it, the darkness her body possessed.
Melissa Etheridge - I Run for Life
11. Candles on the table in a darkened room, a long-forgotten voice that sings a half-familiar tune
Seanan McGuire - River Lies
12. She said we're much too different, we're from two separate worlds.
Collin Raye - Not That Different
13. You can dance, you can dance, having the time of your life.
ABBA - Dancing Queen
First:
14. At night, when you turn off all the lights, there's no place that you can hide.
Gloria Estefan - Rhythm Is Gonna Get You
15. Hush, close your eyes, and I'll keep you safe, allow you to weep and sing you to sleep.
October Project - Eyes of Mercy
16. There was a man back in '95 whose heart ran out of summers
Five for Fighting - The Riddle
17. Six o'clock already, I was just in the middle of a dream.
The Bangles - Manic Monday
First:
18. Under blue and silver sky, far from the sea, snow-laden breezes wild and free
S.J. Tucker - Cold Sunshine
19. Life is a long road, everyone knows it. Nothing is ever the way that you suppose it.
Christopher Cross - Curled Around the World
20. Only one shadow on the wall, just one candle burning bright.
Belinda Carlisle - Half the World