Musical Monday #90

Welcome to the 90th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. Speaking of which, if you haven't already, please check out last week's MM #89 at Soccer Dad - it's one of the best ones either of us has done so far, and there are still a good few song clues to guess!

Back to this week's, somewhat more workaday MM. 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. Note that there are three groups of songs today, 1-24, 25-27, and 28-30. Each group has its own separate sub-theme, which together represent clues to the overall theme of this week's MM, as well as - hopefully - illuminating the reason/timing for its selection.

1) "Alone in your electric chair"
2) "Look, what's your game baby?"
3) "You've done all the taking, it's your turn to give"
4) "I wanna tell you a story every man oughta know"
5) "They drove you or you drove them crazy"
6) "But I must admit it got the best of me"
7) "It ain't no use in calling out my name, gal"
8) "You've been as constant as a Northern Star"
9) "Make future plans, don't dream about yesterday"
10) "My head was in a bad place"
11) "Quarter moon walking through the Milky Way"
12) "Far too many sins to mention"
13) "Comes to a fix, not afraid to fight"
14) "We were lying together in a silver lining"
15) "I need a little heart and affection, cause love needs a little romance"
16) "So you think your schooling's phoney"
17) "Whisper to me softly, breathe words upon my skin"
18) "And I was in crazy motion till you calmed me down"
19) "You missed two classes and no homework"
20) "When you're alone and in a corner"
21) "I never was much good at coming on real strong"
22) "Think about the love that burns within my heart for you"
23) "When I come home baby, now (night and day)"
24) "Your friends tell you there's no future in loving a married man"

25) "Blinky thumps the gut bass, and solos for a while"
26) "He sees everything and nothing at all"
27) "Count all the bees in the hive"

28) "I don't know why my heart flips, I only know it does"
29) "Now I'm playing it real straight, and yes I cut my hair"
30) "I wandered the highways from Dublin to Berkeley"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #88

Welcome to the 88th 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. Extra credit this time to the first to identify the reason I chose this theme!

There's just one theme today, though there is somewhat of an order to subsets of songs that fit it in slightly different ways.

1) "The smiles returning to the faces"
2) "A suitcase and trunk"
3) "Can you feel it now that spring has come?"
4) "But you misread my meaning when I met you"
5) "Looking at the barrel of an Armalite"
6) "But don't forget that love's a game"
7) "I cried when she said, 'I don't feel the same way'"
8) "Loneliness is a coat you wear"
9) "And though I lose a friend, in the end you will know"
10) "Too much wine and too much song"
11) "My girl and me, we will stay right by the sea"
12) "Like an old dusty road, I get weary from the load"
13) "When you're on a holiday, you can't find the words to say"
14) "So I'm stuck here watching TV"
15) "Afraid of what you'd find if you took a look inside"
16) "In my eyes indisposed, in disguise as no one knows"
17) "Everybody's laughing, everybody's happy"
18) "Want you to know, I'm a rainbow too now"
19) "Where is my spirit? I'm nowhere near it"
20) "A gigantic nuclear furnace"
21) "Took the high dive into your brain"
22) "So I can watch you live and breathe your storylines"
23) "Thank you for that smile upon your face"
24) "And I can't sail my yacht, he's taken everything I've got" (no, this isn't by Bernie Madoff)
25) "No more falsehoods or derisions"
26) "Now don't want you back for the weekend"
27) "It's the morning and just we two"
28) "I'm so proud to know that she is mine"
29) "And this house just ain't no home anytime she goes away"
30) "I'd give to you a day just like today"
31) "Everybody's hustlin' just to have a little scene"
32) "Because you came to my rescue"
33) "When I awoke, dear, I was mistaken"
34) "We'll walk barefoot on life's gravel together"
35) "Make me feel fine when I'm feelin' wrongly down"
36) "He was just a hired hand"
37) "Only change will bring you out of the darkness"
38) "Laden with happiness and tears"
39) "Dirty old river, must you keep rolling?"
40) "I can't believe our warlord's dead"
41) "Oh, carry my loved one home safely to me"
42) "She's been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream"

Good luck and enjoy!

Steeling from the Rich

Though I'm a lifelong Redskins fan, I couldn't help feeling bad for the Steelers after reading this. And as a Yankees fan, I'm outraged at the last paragraph! "Rest assured I was on the internet within minutes, registering my disgust throughout the world..." (can you ID this quote?)

Pittsburgh, PA.

The Super Bowl XLIII Champion Pittsburgh Steelers, the only team to win six titles, will soon be losing half of those trophies. After a meeting between NFL Commissioner Rodger Gadel and President Barack Obama, Obama decided to redistribute half of their Steeler Super Bowl victories and trophies to less fortunate teams in the league.

“We live everyday in the country that invented the Super Bowl.” said Obama “We are not about to lose this Great American tradition in the wake of these difficult times.” Obama’s plan calls for the Steelers, who are a successful NFL team, to give half of their Super Bowl trophies to teams that are not successful or have not been as successful as the Steelers. “The Detroit Lions are just as much a part of the same fiber of the NFL as the Steelers and they should, no rather will, be entitled to a Super Bowl Trophy as well.” Obama explains in his plan that he has imposed on Godel and the NFL.

The Pittsburgh Steelers, who by virtue of hard work, excellent team play, stellar draft choices, responsible investing of free agents, careful hiring of coaches and excellent community service and commitment to their fans, has prospered greatly during the past 30 years and have won six Super Bowl Trophies. But President Barack Obama’s plan calls for the Pittsburgh Steelers to carry the larger burden of the NFL’s less successful teams. Obama went on to further proclaim, “In these difficult times we are all in this to work together. We must reclaim the NFL Championship Dream for every team, for every city and for every fan.”

“My plan will not affect 31 of the 32 teams in the league.” Obama assures. That’s over 95 percent of the teams in the NFL will not have to worry about loosing any Super Bowl Trophies. “The worst teams in the NFL and the teams that can’t seem to get a break and win a championship will no longer have to worry about going without a title.” Obama promises. “We are a country and league of hope. We all need to make a change. It does not matter the color of the teams uniforms, the personal decisions that the teams make or their performance but rather if they are a member of this great American league.”

The Super Bowl XLIII trophy will be redistributed to the 0-16 Detroit Lions. Through no fault of their own incompetence, the Lions could not manage a victory all season and this trophy will help ease the pain of their lack of performance and give them hope once again. The redistribution of Super Bowl XL trophy will go directly to the Steeler’s division rival the Cincinnati Bengals. The Bengals who also have fallen on hard times have never won a Super Bowl. This victory will bring a smile to hundreds of Bengal fans all over the world as they can now celebrate. Finally, one of the Steeler’s two Super Bowl victories over the Dallas Cowboys will go back to the Cowboys since the league needs to provide hope in the face of difficulty and provide hope in the face of uncertainty. This is a heavy burden for the Steelers but together we can all prosper.

All hope is not lost for Pittsburgh fans, Barack Obama has another plan in place. Obama has meet with MLB and commissioner Bud Selig on a similar plan. The New York Yankees will redistribute two of their world series trophies to the Pittsburgh Pirates as a supplement to their loosing 16 straight seasons and counting. This plan will help stimulate the Pirates and enable them to regain the American Dream. Barack Obama will be meeting with the NHL and Michael Phelps in the upcoming weeks as this issue is high on his agenda for “Hope and Change.”

PS: April Fool! (I hope!) H/T Snopes