Musical Monday #122

Welcome to the 122th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

There are two sets of songs today, 1-17 and 18-33, which represent two opposing sub-themes of today's overall theme. As a clue (for those who know me well!), I once would have been neutral - if liking neither side is indeed neutrality - but for the last few years would favor the former of the two sub-themes. In fact, for that reason I made a bit more effort to make sure the first group of songs outnumbered the second!

One additional note: The last few songs in each group meet that sub-theme in different ways than the rest.

1) "A big legged woman ain't got no soul"
2) "Well they said you was high-classed"
3) "She roll back down to the warm soft ground"
4) "Will power made that old car go"
5) "When the party was nice, the party was jumpin'"
6) "And I'll never go to Texas anymore"
7) "She broke a needle and she can't sew!"
8) "Johnny kissed the teacher"
9) "Our currency is flesh and bone"
10) "I must take a trip to California, and leave my poor sweetheart alone"
11) "Help me please, is the answer up above?"
12) "I'm feeling drunk, juiced up and sloppy"
13) "Stone cold sober as a matter of fact"
14) "I'd throw away the cars and the bars and the war"
15) "I'm intelligent and clean, know what I mean?"
16) "I met him in a cell in New Orleans, I was down and out"
17) "Was your father as bold as a sergeant major?"

18) "By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls"
19) "So much like a man I just had to say"
20) "The first time that I got it, I was just ten years old"
21) "It's like trying to find gold in a silver mine"
22) "I wish I could be as carefree and wild"
23) "But it's no hanging matter, it's no capital crime"
24) "She lets loose all the horses when the Corporal is asleep
25) "Talking on about how sharp they are"
26) "I've got flowers and lots of hours to spend with you"
27) "I can stare for a thousand years, colder than the moon"
28) "Well, there's thirteen hundred and fifty two guitar pickers"
29) "I'd love to glide to a rainbow, off where the clouds go dancing by"
30) "He can set music back to the caveman days"
31) "And them tin cans are explodin' out in the 90-degree heat"
32) "Sweet the rain's new fall"
33) "She rules her life like a fine skylark"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #120

Welcome to the 120th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

There's just a single theme today, though I will say that the last three songs belong to a different genre than the rest.

1) "I never said I was a victim of circumstance"
2) "All these places had their moments"
3) "This is for the ones who stood their ground"
4) "I'm breakin' loose, it ain't no use"
5) "Do you wanna be somebody else?"
6) "I'm changing, arranging"
7) "And if I do, I know the way there"
8) "Gave into love and watched all the bitterness burn"
9) "The shadows of misty yesteryears"
10) "Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial"
11) "Exhibition is your habit, emotion second hand"
12) "And I was born with a jealous mind"
13) "You can sell your soul, but don’t you sell it too cheap"
14) "Pop me down jack me up shoot me out flyin' down the highway"
15) "I have something I know won't desert me, I'm not alone anymore"
16) "Made the bus in seconds flat"
17) "You'll come back and you'll look around you"
18) "Who am I without you by my side?"
19) "Heard about Pittsburgh, PA"
20) "They paid heavenly bills"
21) "So don't be surprised to see me, back in that bright part of town"
22) "You stare politely right on through"
23) "The curtains drawn in the little room downstairs"
24) "Two doors remain before your others and your own"
25) "Oh, how nature loves her little surprises!"
26) "Please don't talk about sweet love"
27) "You boiled me over, now you're cold as ice"
28) "I have a limo, ride in the back"
29) "This is a tricky situation, I've only got myself to blame"
30) "So you bought the best selling novel, knowing that you couldn't miss"
31) "Each breath that we breathe, with love we must weave"
32) "Sometimes you turn your head to the wind"
33) "Take a look at the Lawman, beating up the wrong guy"
34) "Here come Johnny with the power and the glory"
35) "Never again to be all alone"
36) "How could so much love be inside of you?"
37) "Where were you when I was burned and broken?"
38) "But all are agreed as they join the stampede"
39) "When you're feeling in the dumps, don't be silly chumps!"
40) "Here's to whatever comes"

Good luck and enjoy!

Birthday Boy Blue

Today I turn 48, which, as my blog-friend TRN just pointed out, is a number with quite a few factors. But there's been basically a single factor in the moribund status of my blogging - not to mention my overall mood - lately... namely, my continued state of unemployment after being laid off just over two months ago. Even Mondays haven't been as musical lately for me as they used to be - either as a player or a host. It seems like blogging, once a welcome distraction from the sometimes-drudgery of work, now feels like yet another unpleasant reminder of how much I actually miss that drudgery, and that I have far too much time on my hands.

That said, I do have today's MM (#120) almost ready to go, and should be posting it later tonight, along with the long-overdue solutions to my previous three MM quizzes. A bit more ambitiously, I am planning to take TRN's advice (soon!!) and post more directly about my experiences and feelings these past two months. Maybe this blog can even become again somewhat of what it once was for me, an outlet for sharing, exploring, and connection. I do believe it's at least worth a try. As the job coaches tell you, leave no avenue unexplored, since you never know where your next success is coming from.

Meanwhile, happy "birthday that shall live in infamy" (posthumously as the case may be) to Johnny Bench, Terrell Owens, Larry Bird, Gregg Allman, Harry Chapin, Ellen Burstyn, Aaron Carter, Eli Wallach, Ted Knight... and of course, to me!

Musical Monday #118

Welcome to the 118th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

Sorry I've been late in providing the solutions to my previous two MMs - I'll try to get to them today. Meanwhile, here's this week's:

1) "It shakes all over like a jelly fish"
2) "Hanging out shirts in the dirty breeze"
3) "Don't run and hide, just come on, come on"
4) "Now why ain't you playin' outside?"
5) "All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning me"
6) "Anyway, it only really hurts you when you laugh"
7) "She belonged to that man, José"
8) "She left me with a broken heart and won her victory"
9) "And I want you to be my acrobat"
10) "And now you come collapsin' back"
11) "Somewhere we lost the key, so little left for you and me"
12) "See the man with the lonely eyes, oh take his hand, you'll be surprised"
13) "Talked out, let's have it talked out"
14) "Stars fading but I linger on, dear"
15) "And she purrs like a kitten till the lake pipes roar"
16) "But it was Saturday night, I guess that makes it all right"
17) "Put on a ragged sweatshirt, I'll take you where you want me to"
18) "And lookin' in the mirror there were fools at either hand"
19) "I'm all confused, you must've put a thing on me"
20) "I remember the first time, I was lonely without her"
21) "But it's always me that ends up getting wet"
22) "The bigger the dog, well the harder the bite"
23) "I run for the bus dear, while riding I think of us dear"
24) "Our lives are made in these small hours"
25) "If I could turn the page, in time then I'd rearrange"
26) "Life without your Maserati is grounds for suicide"
27) "My love-a, I was wrong-a, to try to love two"
28) "Yes, I'm certain that it happens all the time"
29) "Cooking fresh food for a husband's just a drag"
30) "Young girls they do get weary, wearing that same old shaggy dress"
31) "It didn't have much of a plot"
32) "The willow turns his back on inclement weather"
33) "Think that you know what to do, impossible, yes, but it's true"
34) "I'm gonna' keep my sheep suit on"
35) "Her wallet's filled with pictures, she gets 'em one by one"
36) "The pool's in but the patio ain't dry"
37) "Out of sight in the night out of sight in the day"
38) "Why leave the life I love here in the great state of Maine?"
39) "Another day goes by, and still the children cry"
40) "Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales"
41) "He's the king around town, dancing, glancing"
42) "Along came Jim Dandy, and they snuck right out of the door"=
43) "One told a lie about another's best friend"
44) "I'm like a helpless child left in a cradle"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #116

Welcome to the 116th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

I could say much more about the timeliness of the theme, but I'll hold off for now. Just to note that the second group of songs (24-32) go with a somewhat lesser version/variation of the theme, with the very last song just barely making it (which is sort of its point!)

1) "He said, kill it before it grows"
2) "I'm goin' way down south, way down to Mexico way"
3) "Get high and watch the tube"
4) "Don't touch me I'm a real live wire"
5) "What reason do you need to be shown?"
6) "Don't ever ride on the devil's knee, Mama said"
7) "And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head"
8) "So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye"
9) "And now MacHeath spends just like a sailor"
10) "Wrapped up in a black cat cloak"
11) "Yeah, she could drag me, over the rainbow"
12) "You just do it with a little more finesse"
13) "That equipment you got's so outdated"
14) "I bet there's rich folk eatin' in a fancy dining car"
15) "Right through the hardwood door"
16) "The night was clear and the moon was yellow"
17) "And slapped the sheriff on the back with a smile"
18) "He jacked the little bitty baby"
19) "Well sir, I guess there's just a meanness in this world"
20) "Two feets they come a creepin', like a black cat do"
21) "In the land of the dollar bill"
22) "He took in the four a.m. show at the Clark"
23) "Painting testimonial pictures"

24) "A scene badly written in which I must play"
25) "Well he never had a sweetheart"
26) "I crossed my old man back in Oregon"
27) "I miss my baby and the, good fun"
28) "So I might as well begin to put some action in my life"
29) "Not a Gatlin boy was standing"
30) "You got problems in your life of love"
31) "And remember, just don't smile"
32) "And that's not to mention the aerial photography"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #114

Welcome to the 114th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

This week I'm revisiting a theme that was used for one of the earliest MM's (extra credit to the first player who finds it!). Since Soccer Dad and I were a lot less experienced, not to mention less ambitious, back then, I thought this was well worth a second go-round. However, I was careful not to repeat any of the songs used in that original theme, so even long time players should view this as essentially all-new.

Each pair (or triad in some cases) of songs below goes together, and collectively all these sub-groups relate to a single overall theme.

1a) "We smoked the last one an hour ago"
1b) "We huddle close, hang on to a dream"

2a) "I work till I ache my bones"
2b) "And your friends baby, they treat you like a guest"

3a) "In the stillness of remembering what you had"
3b) "Pictures in an empty room"

4a) "Making vows that just can't work right"
4b) "Despite all the computations"

5a) "What you need you have to borrow"
5b) "I can catch the moon in my hands"

6a) "If I had those golden dreams, of my yesterdays"
6b) "Strollin' in the park, watchin' winter turn to spring"

7a) "Leave this heart of clay"
7b) "I know your game, what you're about"

8a) "Worry, why do I let myself worry?"
8b) "That kinda lovin' turns a man to a slave"

9a) "When your day is done, and you wanna' ride on"
9b) "You look like you could be forty-five!"

10a) "Fiery gems for you, only for you"
10b) "Mother has to iron his shirt"

11a) "It's just a cakewalk, twisting baby"
11b) "Fat man sitting on a little stool"

12a) "And the rocks might melt, and the sea may burn"
12b) "Can't keep my mind from the circling skies"

13a) "Now we go steady to the pictures"
13b) "They don't bark and they don't bite"

14a) "Heaven knows it wasn't you who set me free"
14b) "Once I had a dream, I could lean upon"

15a) "How was I to know you would upset me?"
15b) "Used to bow our heads then, wonder why"

16a) "All the servants in your new hotel"
16b) "It's a pocket full of misery, and trouble on the wind"

18a) "I've seen what I could not recognize"
18b) "Don't end your faith in love because of what he's done"

18a) "It's a long road, when you face the world alone"
18b) "I'm not gonna stand here and wait"

19a) "Haven't I the right to make it up girl?"
19b) "When your world has been shattered, ain't nothin' else matters"

20a) "Have you come to raise the dead?"
20b) "Yes, it's the saddest experience you'll ever know"

21a) "After all this time I don't know why"
21b) "Look what you've done to me, me and my whole world"

22a) "Easy then to tell weak from strong"
22b) "Once there were trenches and walls"

23a) "...have your passports ready....Rome..."
23b) "You're up in the sky, make everyone cry"

24a) "The coolerator was jammed with TV dinners and ginger ale"
24b) "Do the ashes of desire for you remain like the sea?"

25a) "Both my feet's too long"
25b) "I got a wink and a smile from a flashy filly"

26a) "We were young and we were improvin'"
26b) "Stone age love and strange sounds too"

27a) "Nothing else to do but close my mind"
27b) "I'm tired of making out on the telephone"

28a) "Your gall is never-ending"
28b) "Hey hung up old Mr. Normal"

29a) "Gotta new fool, ha! I like it like that!"
29b) "And your mind, your tiny mind"
29c) "Romeo and Juliet, Samson and Delilah"

30a) "Show me, all your charms"
30b) "I'm weak and I've gone hazy yeah"
30c) "Feel for the winter, but don't have a cold heart"

31a) "Drowning me in your promises, better left unsaid"
31b) "Her style is new but the face is the same"
31c) "Get to the morning and you never call"

32a) "Without your love - a dog without a bone"
32b) "Like a charmed hour and a haunted song"
32c) "Memory seeps from my veins, let me be empty"

33a) "If the puppet makes you smile"
33b) "Hear the dogs howling out of key"
33c) "Don't bother to pack your bags, or your map"

34a) "Racing around to come up behind you again"
34b) "Goodbye my love, the tide waits for me"
34c) "Children killing in the street, dying for the color of red"

35a) "Insisting that the world be turnin' our way"
35b) "And my dear mother left me when I was quite young"
35c) "Your grandpa's cane, it turns into a sword"

These last few sets require bending the rules a bit:

36a) "And the saviors who are fast asleep"
36b) "But half a love is all I feel"
36c) "It’s driving me mad, it’s driving me mad"

37a) "The man in the dark will bring another attack"
37b) "Pack his raincoat, show him out"

38a) "Your mood is like a circus wheel"
39b) "With eight seconds left in overtime"

39a) "With his maps and his medals laid out on the floor"
39b) "How can there be such a sinister plan?"

40a) "Music, high and sweet, then she just blew away"
40b) "She was hung in the student gallery"
40c) "She's the same little girl who used to hang around my door"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #112

Welcome to the 112th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs. Sorry to both players and co-host for missing my turn last week! Between the Jewish holidays and my non-voluntary work "holiday", I just didn't have the time or energy for it!

This week's MM has three sub-groups of songs, which all contribute to a single overall theme, though in somewhat different ways.

1) "Grease monkey, ex-junky, winner of the fight"
2) "It seems to me I could live my life, a lot better than I think I am"
3) "Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts"
4) "Rain pourin' down, I swing my hammer"
5) "If it ain't no pencil pusher, then it got to be a honky-tonk queen"
6) "Thought I could have my cake and eat it too"
7) "They hurt you at home and they hit you at school"
8) "Like the castle in its corner in a medieval game"
9) "You lazy mother, your hands are clean"
10) "Twenty five years have come and gone, and she's seen a lot of tears"
11) "You can get it wrong and still you think that it's all right"

12) "How many people do I help, just by sitting on the shelf?"
13) "To any port or foreign shore"
14) "I lived the life of a drifter, waiting for the day"
15) "Breakfast where the news is read, television children fed"
16) "Tons of gold for which they'd kill"
17) "Sing any so song that you want me to sing to you"
18) "From F.L.A. to Frisco Bay, and everywhere in between"
19) "I've been waiting to awaken from these dreams"
20) "Take a drink from his special cup"
21) "All night long, we would sing that stupid song"
22) "And even though I'm full of sin"
23) "Eating from TV trays, tuned into to Happy Days"
24) "How was I to know, she was with the Russians too?"
25) "He mumbles a prayer and it ends with a smile"
26) "Through a glass eye your throne, is the one danger zone"
27) "In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler"
28) "A-through the back yard we'd go walkin'"
29) "Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me"
30) "Put out your problems with the cat"
31) "Don't ask me what I want it for"
32) "I won't toe your line today"
33) "Long shot at that jumping sign, invisible shivers running down my spine"
34) "Why's it takin' such a long time, for me to hear from that boy of mine?"
35) "A lifetime spent preparing for the journey"
36) "Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain"
37) "Alimony, alimony payin' your bills"
38) "And all this science I don't understand"
39) "Who never had time for a wife"
40) "A thousand miles can lead so many ways"
41) "Pretty eyed, pirate smile"

42) "Every morning about this time she get me out of my bed"
43) "My woman done left and took all of the reasons"
44) "Keeping my eye on the keyhole"
45) "Met our mothers at the USO"
46) "He came home too drunk from mixin' tanqueray and wine"
47) "Well, he hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime"
48) "Grandma's on the front porch swing with a bible in her hand"
49) "The man in the silk suit hurries by"
50) "The place that I was born, on the lakeside"

Good luck and enjoy!

Downsized And Heading Back Up

Wanted to let my blog friends know that I've been laid off from my job, effective this past Friday - after 24 years at the same company! Loyalty and experience count for absolutely nothing in today's corporate world - or likely, count against you.

I have much more to say about this, but for the immediate future things will be a bit crazy and disorganized here on Elie's Expositions as they are in Elie's larger life. I know I'm late for this week's Musical Monday, which may end up becoming next week's Musical Monday. But on the bright side, I'll likely have more time - and hopefully more inclination - to get back into more regular blogging again. Meanwhile, happy Sukkos! May the holiday continue to bring with it pleasant weather... and pleasanter tidings.

Happy 5770!

A gebenchte New Year to all my readers! May we all be incribed in the book of life for 5770, and may we be blessed with a year of good health, prosperity, and happiness.

Musical Monday #110

Welcome to the 110th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

It's a somewhat super-sized edition this week, one of those themes that grew in the researching. Thought there is a single theme, the breaks between groups of songs will become clear once it is ID'ed. A couple of additional guidelines: In every case, I'm looking for one particular version of the song, usually but not necessarily the most well-known. Also, you may ignore the definite article in all cases.

1) "Then she did a dip, almost broke my hip"
2) "The boy whose name is Nicorino"

3) "Glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife"
4) "And not some puppet on a string"
5) "Thunder is your night light, magic is your dream"
6) "You say you're love is bona fide"
7) "Until happiness is just an illusion"
8) "That don't matter, he said, 'cause it's all the same"
9) "These four walls are closing in, think of the fix you put me in"
10) "And I always carry a purse"
11) "Well I'll be damned, here comes your ghost again"
12) "I can see a new horizon underneath the blazing sky"
13) "Over silbury hill, through the solar field"
14) "Take my tears and that's not nearly all"
15) "It was the same old song, with a melancholy sound"

16) "In a world of persecution, that is burning in its greed"
17) "To see the total eclipse of the sun"
18) "You are the reason I've been waiting so long"
19) "We were young and wild and free"
20) "And I should've been gone, after all your words of steel"
21) "He misses a step and cuts his hand"
22) "Mommy served in the WACS in the Philippines"
23) "It's an enemy to all mankind"
24) "Love is a banquet on which we feed"
25) "You don't know what you been a-missin'"
26) "A Cadillac a-rollin' on an open road"
27) "Bing bang, I saw the whole gang"
28) "Why can't he see, how blind can he be?"
29) "Like sugar and spice, so nice, so nice"
30) "You'll never be mine, I'm wasting my time"
31) "Forget about the past and all your sorrows"
32) "It controls me, makes me do all the things I do for you"
33) "It suits me fine that you treat me like a child"
34) "In the shape of an 'L' on her forehead"
35) "She said I was the tiger she wanted to tame"
36) "There's no way they could have made two"
37) "We've known each other since we're nine or ten"
38) "...can do the boogaloo like I do"
39) "Steam in the subway, earth is afire"
40) "I see us on the shore beneath the bright sunshine"
41) "Could it be finally I'm turning for home?"
42) "Without you, there'd be no sun in my sky"
43) "Worry, why do I let myself worry?"
44) "It's a long way down, and it's a leap of faith"
45) "If you want my future forget my past"
46) "Remember dancing at the high school hop?"
47) "You can stretch right up and touch the sky"
48) "Get hung up feed the ducks with a bun"
49) "I know you've been taken, afraid to hurt again"
50) "You like the movies, and I like T.V."
51) "You have won all my money, and my brand new Stetson hat"
52) "We were cruisin' home from the Beatles concert"
53) "I got no natural rhythm"
54) "Is this Nutsy land so good?"
55) "White sugar don't touch my lips"
56) "And there I stood with a arrow in my back"

57) "Thirteen month old baby"
58) "I should have changed that stupid lock"
59) "You like to think that you're immune to the stuff"
60) "If you're not into yoga"
61) "Your mama and daddy say it's a shame, it's a downright disgrace"
62) "Sitting on the doorstep of the house I can't afford"
63) "Maybe I'm an open book because I know you're mine"
64) "Maybe I didn't hold you all those lonely, lonely times"
65) "I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay"
66) "I'll love you 'till the clover has lost its perfume"
67) "My one and only prayer is that someday you'll care"
68) "At first she's gonna come on strong"

69) "The fire's in their eyes and their words are really clear"
70) "But I had to do some breakin' through"
71) "She wants to return those things I bought her"
72) "Walking fast, faces pass, and I'm home bound"

73) "And my soul has been psychedelicized"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #108

Welcome to the 108th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

This week's edition is a collaborative effort, from an idea originally by Soccer Dad. It was fun working on this together, though I will miss one of my best players this week!

No sub-groups, though the last half-dozen stretch the rules just a bit!

1) "Do I what? Will I what?"
2) "We take all kinds of pills, that give us all kind of thrills"
3) "Cause the boy she loves is a Romeo"
4) "You say your Mom ain't at home, you can't let me in"
5) "But he stronger than a country hoss"
6) "He works in the saddle and he sleeps in the canyons"
7) "You change your passion for glory"
8) "Your mom busted in and said, 'What's that noise?'"
9) "He gets me my drinks for free"
10) "True love means planning a life for two"
11) "And in your voice I hear a choir of carousels"
12) "It was raining hard in 'Frisco"
13) "Dynamite with a laser beam"
14) "And take a long ride on my motor bike"
15) "It's been a year now and it's getting so much better"
16) "I felt a little like a dying clown"
17) "I tell you man he's living there still"
18) "Sunday morning you don't look right"
19) "Two spirits dancing so strange"
20) "Sending Roses And Your Silly Dreams"
21) "A Mexican cutie" (Note: Not the original!)
22) "So if you're feeling low, turn up your radio"
23) "And I've been in the Washington Zoo"
24) "I threw a rockabilly party on my last birthday"
25) "Planned to go to Swarthmore"
26) "Chose a gun and threw away the sword"
27) "We're just tryin' to be friendly"
28) "Feel the rhythm, check the ride"
29) "In Houston we just started a new dance"
30) "But on the 7th day he made me"
31) "When you gonna play 'Smokin' In The ...'?"
32) "And become a bad piano playing man"
33) "I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert"
34) "Cuban army surplus or refusing all third lights"
35) "He smoked a big cigar, drove a Cadillac car"
36) "I wait outside the pilgrims door, with insufficient schemes"
37) "He doesn't dig poetry"
38) "And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?"
39) "I'm flat broke but I don't care"
40) "I eat more chicken, any man ever seen"
41) "East and west of the Rio Grande"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #106

Welcome to the 106th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

If it were a couple of days ago, the obvious theme for this edition would be the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, but I'd guess by now, practically everyone has heard their share of Woodstock tunes and recollections on the radio and TV. So I went elsewhere, to a relevant, but quite a bit less obvious theme. Extra credit to whomever guesses my reason (or comes up with a better one again!) for using the theme this week.

1) "After all I'm forever in your debt"
2) "And you're afraid to let your eyes meet mine"
3) "But it's wisdom born of pain"
4) "Be back before it melts in the pan"
5) "I can sense your needs, like rain on to the seeds"
6) "Over night scenes, dinner and wine, Saturday girls"
7) "It's not so much your pretty face I see"
8) "You'd be weak as a lamb"
9) "She don't give the boys the eye"
10) "Is throw shadows at you"
11) "This is the only way that we should fly"
12) "Temptation falls in your path, no hesitation why you ask"
13) "Oh shucks, I'm just an average guy"
14) "You didn't have to leave me with that beer in my face"
15) "Yes, don't turn your back on me, baby"
16) "There's a hole in my head where the rain comes in"
17) "I can see me a tall dark stranger, giving you what you hadn't planned"
18) "Crazy laughter in another room"
19) "Pick up the pieces and go home"
20) "Sparkle someone else’s eyes"
21) "I don't want much, the good Lord's earth beneath my feet"
22) "Let’s change the mood from glad to sadness"
23) "Rising from the neon gloom, shining like a crazy moon"
24) "I look in your eyes, just like the rain"
25) "Like a country mornin', all snuggled in dew"
26) "I've been livin' on a dead-end street"
27) "Are you lonely just like me?"
28) "Sitting in a nest of bad men"
29) "When your conscience hits, you knock it back with pills"
30) "Time goes by and you're sharing an apartment"
31) "I know many fine feathered friends"
32) "Rags, the sailor's only daughter, a child of the water"
33) "There was a time when you needed someone to count on"
34) "But if they get a chance they'll end it for sure"
35) "I turn away from the wall, I stumble and fall"
36) "There's a band of gold that shines waiting"
37) "He'd give up all his comfort, sleep out in the rain"
38) "And every time it happens, it just convinces me more"
39) "Hear every thought, see every dream"
40) "With her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls"
41) "I ain't gonna act politically correct"
42) "When my soul was in the lost-and-found"
43) "Never runnin' in the streets, leavin' me alone"
44) "She can make the birds sing harmony"
45) "In the government yard in trenchtown"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #104

Welcome to the 104th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

It's been a hectic last couple of weeks for me, so this edition is a bit trimmer than usual, but hopefully still a challenge! There are three groups of songs (1-19, 20-24, 25-30), each relating to the same overall theme, though in slightly different ways. Various songs in the third group also connect with the first or the second group (and in one case, with both!)

1) "I wanna lock you up in my closet"
2) "What to do on a night like this, music sweet I can't resist"
3) "We took the vows of man and wife"
4) "Can we make a secret rendezvous?"
5) "For all the dreams and schemes, people are as they seem"
6) "Danger in the shape of something wild"
7) "Just get yourself untied, are you gonna do it?"
8) "New York was cold and damp, TV is just a blank"
9) "She took the Greyhound at the general store"
10) "Almost rang the phone off the wall"
11) "Should I get in touch with the FBI?"
12) "It's got to be a quarter to 4"
13) "Well she's my woman of gold, and she's not very old"
14) "She likes her tapes on 10"
15) "Oh man, I think the clock is slow!"
16) "First of the fall and then she goes back"
17) "I was dying just to ask for a taste"
18) "How do you like the way he rocks and the way he rolls?"
19) "That Model A Vitimix makes it look like a pup"

20) "Has high blood pressure got a hold on me?"
21) "And that would wipe this smile right from my face"
22) "The pressure's high, just to stay alive"
23) "But nothing is real, and no one can feel like you"
24) "The land here is strong, strong beneath my feet"

25) "Blame the caffeine for all the 5 am phone calls"
26) "She sees my good deeds"
27) "Why'd you slip around secretly?"
28) "Doing all the things that makes my heart sing"
29) "Where the water tastes like wine"
30) "Ain't no doubt, we are here to party"

Good luck and enjoy!

PS: I know I still owe the answers for MM #102 - hope to add them sometime today.

Musical Monday #103 - For Soccer Dad

It's Soccer Dad's turn this week, and while he did post MM #103 on schedule, his blog site has not be able to receive comments. So he asked me to post it here as well, so you can play as usual and enter your guesses on this post.

As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs:

1) This big dollar town can drag you right down, if you go it alone
2) Yeah there's a storm on the loose sirens in my head
3) Oh and in the heat of rapture when I feel the cold winds blow
4) And the colors in my rainbow turn blue
5) weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye
6) And there's whiskers on my chin
7) There's a mirror moving inside my mind
8) Bad boy knows where to find her, Runs the light, sneaks up behind her
9) Foolin' around, hitting the town, growing my hair
10) Stella sits in Rio
11) Hollywood ain't paved with gold, it's just a trick of light
12) Wanna have a simple moonshine, Wanna sing along on a song or two
13) Look at me, Gotta load on my back
14) You whisper something softly, I'm not meant to hear
15) So if you want to get to where you let the feeling roll
16) Once I dreamed in a dream I would find you, never thought that the dream would come true
17) Time is the essence, time is the season
18) Frame me and hang me on the wall
19) and talk about the teachers that you hate
20) You can't say you're in it, no, until you reach the limit
21) I would surely buy you a Cadillac
22) Dont be so circumscribed, are you gonna do it
23) Man, my head was spinning when I saw your feat
24) Untouchable memories seem to keep haunting me
25) Wasted days, and sleepless nights, and I cant wait to see you again
26) Don't you know you're sleeping in the spotlight
27) Standing in the cold rain, Feeling like a clown.
28) It's getting late they're waiting outside you're gonna run away
29) We live in a world, of carnivals and clowns, and buildings to the sky, that make us want to fly
30) Her hair so brilliant that it hurt my eyes
31) I will wash the dishes while you go have a beer

Musical Monday #102

Welcome to the 102nd edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

The obvious theme for this edition would have been the moon, in honor of today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. However - with what was clearly a "lunatic" lack of foresight - I already used up that theme a bit over over a year ago, for MM #48. Oh well, no use mooning over lost opportunities.

Getting back to today's MM, there are three groups of songs (1-28, 29-37, 38-53) with separate sub-themes, each of which contributes to the overall theme (which does have some timeliness, though much less directly than the moon landing!) I'll also note although the three sub-themes are distinct, there is:
- One song in the second group which would also fit the first group
- One song in the third group which would also fit the second group
- And another song in the third group which would fit all three groups!

1) "You don't need a penny just to hang around"
2) "In the pool halls, the hustlers and the losers"
3) "It was always cold, no sun shine"
4) "And if you'd care to take a dare"
5) "You want to stay out with your fancy friends"
6) "It's a love that had no past"
7) "The sun ain't nearly on the rise"
8) "But your love is a common occurrence"
9) "I can't find, oh the right romantic line"
10) "If I should doubt myself, if I'm losing ground"
11) "Cop on the corner, look he's starting to write"
12) "Ford's about to drop, she won't do no more"
13) "Though your hurt is gone, mine's hanging on inside"
14) "Believe in your brother, have faith in man"
15) "You got to hidey-hidey-hide"
16) "She could drag me over the rainbow"
17) "The queen of Corona"
18) "I'm blushing brighter than a Valentine"
19) "I’m sick and tired of you setting me up, yeah"
20) "You could stand me up at the gates of hell"
21) "Here comes the banker and the lawyer and the cop"
22) "Nightime's flyers feel their pains"
23) "Three hundred sixty five degrees"
24) "Make a little love"
25) "That it looks like up to me"
26) "Sweet surrender on the quayside"
27) "And I've tasted the bitterness of my own tears"
28) "Anybody here see the noise, see the fear"

29) "The squirming dog who's just had her day"
30) "People walking above"
31) "Lonely as I am, together we cry"
32) "A big bad woman's gonna carry me to my grave"
33) "Watching some good friends screaming let me out"
34) "When I was young people spoke of immorality"
35) "The telephone is ringing, you got me on the run"
36) "And the wild man, he laid the thunder down"
37) "One day when the boss get hungry"

38) "She had sightless eyes, telling me no lies"
39) "I can still feel the breeze that rustles through the trees"
40) "He was six-foot-four and full of muscles"
41) "He don't show what goes on in his head"
42) "Reach for a star and I'll show you a plan"
43) "But the point is probably moot"
44) "You can hear your five selections for a quarter"
45) "You can bend but never break me"
46) "Even my old man looks good"
47) "Why do all the boys just pass you by?"
48) "Words as weapons sharper than knives"
49) "To pay the rent, to pay our share"
50) "But you turn right over to the T.V. page"
51) "Lower the curtain down in Memphis"
52) "A winter palace from the Arabian Nights"
53) "You're the sun who makes me shine"

Good luck and enjoy!