As the Cardinal Flies

By way of icepixie, slightly modified to accommodate my particular playlist:

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line (or first and second line if it's completely impossible) from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike out the songs when someone guesses the song, performer, and/or source correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like the game post your own!

A couple of notes first:

My musical range is odd and eclectic even by fannish standards.  I will be extremely surprised if more than about a third of these are actually guessed.  I'll also note that my actual first 30 entries would have been stacked very heavily with about three performers, which would have made the game either very easy (for a select few) or completely impossible (for a wide audience).  I've therefore limited the selections, with one partial exception, to one song from any given performer or source.

As an additional aid, some statistics and trivia: 13 of the 30 can be classified as television theme songs (this probably won't help as much as you think!), although in at least two cases related feature films can be cited.  Three each are from theatrical films and from stage musicals, although one of these six actually has both a film and a stage version.  Of the remaining eleven songs, only three were released by major commercial labels; one of these three was subsequently adapted into a movie.  The other eight have all been recorded and released independently (see, I told you they were obscure!).   
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