Musical Monday #94

Welcome to the 94th 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.

Couple of notes/ground rules for today's edition:
- There are three sub-groups of songs - 1-10, 11-29, and 30-50. These all relate to the same theme, but in a different manner, or perhaps to a different extent.
- Although I often select topics with a particular relevance to either current events or the number of the MM edition, there is no such (intended) connection this time.
- For each song below, I'm intending a particular version - generally, but not necessarily, the most famous/well known.
- There is an extra credit item to identify, besides title and artist, for each song below. Once the theme is guessed, the extra credit assignment should be clear, though getting the answers will definitely be easier for some of them, harder for others.

1) "If it's a mirror you want, just look into my eyes"
2) "I got my rock moves and I don't need you"
3) "With orders to identify"
4) "I'm crying icicles instead of tears"
5) "I been running trying to get hung up in my mind"
6) "Real loose like a long necked goose"
7) "Won't you do your sister's will?"
8) "By the garden of the willow tree"
9) "It's a rainy afternoon in 1990"
10) "We don't follow fashion; that would be a joke"

11) "And they made you change your name"
12) "And we got no innocence"
13) "You don't have to shout or leap about"
14) "All my teeth, North and South"
15) "At those who shout her name and steal her clothes"
16) "So I look for the light in the pouring rain"
17) "Birds singing in the sycamore tree"
18) "Tell me no secrets, tell me some lies"
19) "Summertime will be a love-in there"
20) "As I walk along, I wonder what went wrong"
21) "Tied up in sorrow, lost in my soul"
22) "Let me see the lines on your hand"
23) "Thinkin' 'bout a life of crime"
24) "Give him two arms to cling to"
25) "I can cast a spell with secrets you can't tell"
26) "That's when Billy would take me walkin'"
27) "You should see my, my little Sis"
28) "There's beauty up above, and things we never take notice of"
29) "It's really you, but no one ever discovers"

30) "They never did like Mama's homemade dress"
31) "Soy capitan"
32) "Preachers, keep on preachin'"
33) "Just like Ronnie sang: Be my little baby!"
34) "Still in the dress she used to wear"
35) "And now MacHeath spends just like a sailor"
36) "Don't tell them to grow up and out of it"
37) "He was born in the summer of his 27th year"
38) "I was born the son of a lawless man"
39) "Beware that hooded old man at the rudder"
40) "But your empty eyes seem to pass me by"
41) "And take a band like the Church Street Five"
42) "Is it in your kiss or just because you're sweet?"
43) "Inventing lovers on the phone"
44) "Mellow as the month of May"
45) "He smiled so I got up and asked for his name"
46) "And so you're back, from outer space"
47) "It ain't nothing but a heartbreaker"
48) "It was a warm spring night at the old town hall"
49) "I play along with the charade"
50) "I can only receive, I can listen to you"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Son Day #1

Let it be... the first rough cut demo from The Flip, a soon-to-be-famous band featuring, on keyboards, one Shalom Rosenfeld! The Flip is available for weddings and bar mitzvahs - at least until they start selling out Madison Square Garden. Meanwhile, you can tell everyone you heard them first here!

Musical Monday #92

Welcome to the 92nd 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. However, this week's MM is a bit off the beaten path, so here a a few additional rules/clues:
- The are five groups of songs separated by spaces: 1-30, 31-41, 42-47, 48-57, and 58-60. Find the sub-theme of each group, which all relate to the overall theme of the MM, but in different ways. Note also that although an apparent solution for the overall theme might quickly emerge, the correct answer is more specific. There is an additional clue to the exact theme below, but it is not in any individual item.
- For all the song groups (except possible the 3rd), I'm looking for a particular version of the song in question, usually the most well-know.
- For the first group only, in addition to the artist/title, try to identify the album on which the song first appeared. You'll soon see why this extra requirement is relevant!

All that said, here goes:
1) "But I have to laugh when she reveals me"
2) "Between you and me and the Staten Island ferry"
3) "Who never had time for a wife"
4) "Well he never had a sweetheart"
5) "But you just can't wait for that call"
6) "Electric babies, blue-jeaned and jaded"
7) "Like another can of beans"
8) "Some will just be now and then"
9) "And he's proud of his scars"
10) "They all bought Cadillacs and left there long ago"
11) "Though you drown in good intentions"
12) "And a couple of paintings from Sears"
13) "Some say it's better but I say it ain't"
14) "Go on and cry in your coffee"
15) "Melodrama's so much fun"
16) "Hardly anyone has seen how good I am"
17) "I've been stranded in the combat zone"
18) "Should I get a set of white wall tires?"
19) "So the graduations hang on the wall"
20) "Sesame Street, what does it mean?"
21) "I'm that voice you're hearing in the hall"
22) "And there's only one good way to reassure"
23) "And I'll walk away a fool or a king"
24) "With her high top sneakers of Italian design"
25) "There are giants out there in the canyons"
26) "Maybe I've set myself up for the kill"
27) "Raise up a multiplex and we will make a sacrifice"
28) "I go walking in my sleep, through the valley of fear"
29) "So I could catch my breath and face the world again"
30) "But I got street savoir faire"

31) "Hey little sister shot gun"
32) "I'm not tryin' to be your highness"
33) "She dashed by me in painted on jeans"
34) "Holding hands, making all kinds of plans"
35) "You can burn my clothes when I'm gone"
36) "Freezin' a moment, leave me paralyzed"
37) "But I don't fit in her society"
38) "It would sure do me good, to do you good"
39) "The birds in the sky would be sad and lonely"
40) "Turn your radio on, and find a slow grooving song"
41) "Did you think I could hate you, or raise my hands to you?"

42) "Who will dance on the floor in the round?"
43) "I heard his fiancee got a letter"
44) "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge"
45) "On the mountain was a treasure"
46) "He's got evil in his eyes, got a reason to despise"
47) "And Circus Boy dances like a monkey on barbed wire"

48) "And all this science I don't understand"
49) "You're the meanest old woman that I've ever seen"
50) "When some sad old dream reminds you"
51) "Well they passed a law in '64"
52) "Thirteen month old baby broke the looking glass"
53) "You broke my will, but what a thrill!"
54) "She almost drives me crazy"
55) "But all of those vows you made were never to be"
56) "A shadow of a man, a face through a window"
57) "Now you look so unhappy, and I feel like a fool"

58) "So when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong"
59) "40,000 men and women everyday"
60) "I wish I could be as carefree and wild"

Good luck and enjoy!