Musical Son Day #2

Some videos of the now AWARD-Winning act, and soon to be musical sensation, The Flip. Shalom and his bandmates took 2nd place (out of ~10 performers) in our town street fair this past Thursday evening! Watch the videos below, and note the lead singer's channeling of Mick Jagger on Ed Sullivan as he resignedly - and, well, Flip-pantly - alters a lyric to avoid offending a key demographic (read: a certain bandmate's parents (no, not me for heaven's sake!))

Let it Be



Encore: Knocking On Heaven's Door

Musical Monday #98

Welcome to the 98th 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.

All fifty songs relate to a single theme today, but it is worth noting that the last five on the list belong to a different musical genre than the rest.

And yes, I know I'm very late with the answers to last week's MM; hopefully you'll see them later today.

1) "In the stillness of remembering what you had"
2) "Pull myself together, put on a new face"
3) "Reach for the golden ring, reach for the sky"
4) "Half my life is in books' written pages"
5) "You're a princess, chains around you"
6) "Two spirits dancing so strange"
7) "Someday I don't know how, I hope you'll hear my plea"
8) "Only trouble is, gee whiz"
9) "There must be peace and understanding sometime"
10) "A candy-colored clown they call the sandman"
11) "Well, I can't tell lies, cause they're listening to me"
12) "Check my vital signs to know I'm still alive"
13) "What a day, a year, a laugh it is!"
14) "Wondering if Mother Earth will survive"
15) "Help me to forget today's pain"
16) "You know the preacher likes the cold"
17) "Here am I, I'm taking a chance"
18) "How to put it together, how to say it right"
19) "We've walked along St. Thomas beach a million times"
20) "You could tell I was no debutante"
21) "I feel like I'm heading up to a cardiac arrest"
22) "And fall on my face on somebody's new-mowed lawn"
23) "Without dollar one to spend"
24) "And when he's lonesome and feeling loved starved"
25) "Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup"
26) "Stars fading but I linger on, dear"
27) "Moving sidewalks, I don't see under my feet"
28) "The room was empty as I staggered from my bed"
29) "We couldn't tear ourselves away"
30) "I walk without a cut through a stained glass wall"
31) "When you're so downhearted and misunderstood"
32) "I must be looking for something, something sacred I lost"
33) "Travel the world and the seven seas"
34) "And I know you've got the ashes to prove it"
35) "Deep water all around me, circle sharks all about"
36) "Concerning myself and the first few friends I had"
37) "First night so long, a state of mind, what can go wrong"
38) "I hit cruise control and rubbed my eyes"
39) "She took my new sunglasses and my old jean jacket"
40) "I wonder if these heavy eyes can face the unknown?"
41) "Here to share with one another, father, brother, sister, mother"
42) "Rain pourin' down, I swing my hammer"
43) "They may laugh at you and call you green"
44) "And my destination makes it worth the while"
45) "And I will lose myself in palaces of sand"
46) "The gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam"
47) "No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing"
48) "A crash of drums, a flash of light"
49) "To run... where the brave dare not go"
50) "There was a time, when love was blind, and the world was a song"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #96

Welcome to the 96th 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 two groups of songs today (1-10, 11-42) are distinct sub-themes, but both relate to an overall theme.

1) "And when the sun comes up, I'll be on top"
2) "Time can bend your knee"
3) "I want to hear the children sing"
4) "All we can offer them is a page in some magazine"
5) "A stairway to darkness in the blink of an eye"
6) "But he turned out to be like every other man"
7) "Outside I'm masquerading"
8) "It's only there trying to fool the public"
9) "If we could start anew, I wouldn't hesitate"
10) "Seems like overnight, we see the world in a different light"

11) "I can't talk to people that I meet"
12) "She sits alone by a lamppost"
13) "I put my daughter on my knee, and she say, 'Daddy what's wrong?'"
14) "I need your smile, child like the one I once knew"
15) "Who'll take all your pain, honey your heartache, too?"
16) "Playing piano for the children of the king"
17) "How can I explain the fear you feel inside?"
18) "Shame on you, you told me lies"
19) "Well, it hurt me so to see them dance together"
20) "In the government yard in trenchtown"
21) "I've said too much, been too unkind"
22) "Dream if you can a courtyard"
23) "Don't the moon look good, mama?"
24) "Well, I saw your sign and I missed you there"
25) "You are living a reality I left years ago"
26) "Talk to me softly, there is something in your eyes"
27) "You girl, you've always been mistreated, cheated"
28) "They left behind her dreams among the litter"
29) "Couldn't stay all my life down at heel"
30) "The night-time shadows disappear"
31) "You know that I'll wait, as long as it takes"
32) "Break a heart, break a heart of stone"
33) "Neither could change their headstrong ways"
34) "She saw the look in his eyes, 'n she knew better"
35) "Love wasn't much of a friend of mine"
36) "I could smile for a while"
37) "I pray the Lord that I'll grow stronger"
38) "I've got my pride and I know how to hide"
39) "And then before you know where you are, you're sayin' goodbye"
40) "I'm in the middle of nowhere, near the end of the line"
41) "She'll take your money, she'll wreck your world"
42) "And emeralds from mountains thrust toward the sky"

Good luck and enjoy!