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!

Musical Monday #100!

Welcome to the 100th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. Our usual challenge is for you to identify the title and artist of each song quote, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs. However, your MM co-authors are running a special, two-part theme in honor of MM's centennial, and thus, those who have been participating in MM #99 at Soccer Dad's blog already know today's theme (and if you haven't been participating, there's still a few songs left to get on #99, so get over there pronto, then come back!). So as an extra-credit assignment today, please share your favorite couple of past MMs from each of the two host blogs!

Before getting to today's quotes, I'd like to add my thanks to Soccer Dad's for our regular players - Clayton, Laura, TRN, Yitzchak, Gail, ral315, Benjie, and SJ - and for all of the occasional participants as well. It's always fun putting these puzzles together, but a lot more fun watching you solve them each week! And of course, my most heartfelt gratitude to my friend of now 30+ years, David aka Soccer Dad, who offered me the chance to share the weekly hosting of this terrific game, starting way back with MM#6!

Just a quick note on the song groups below: My implementation of the theme is just slightly different than David's: the first song in each set will be the one which connects to each of the others.

Without further ado!

1) "Rejoice, rejoice, we have no choice"
2) "I was soaring ever higher"

3) "And a monkey kinda' digs bananas"
4) "What will become of the restless kind?"

5) "Mr. MD"
6) "Cuz I'm a man, I got my pride"

7) "If I were you, I'd realize that I"
8) "Look at me, you never look at me"

9) "Forget your lust for the rich man's gold"
10) "Well maybe I'd kill you, or maybe I'd be true"

11) "You're so like the lady with the mystic smile"
12) "Subway's no way for a good man to go down"

13) "Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray"
14) "Because she's got her own obligations"

15) "I am broken like an arrow, forgive me"
16) "Iridescent socks with the same color shirt"

17) "Hot ashes for trees"
18) "Same old show in a different town on another time"

19) "I know that she's no peasant"
20) "She can take you or leave you"

21) "I can't sleep, I keep dreaming of losing you"
22) "We would stay there 'till her sister rang the evening bell"

23) "You could have been anyone to me"
24) "My cat is purring, and scratches my skin"

25) "Remember when we lost the keys?"
26) "There's a very strange vibration, piercing me right to the core"

27) "I remember the first time I was lonely without her"
28) "It's a big enough umbrella"

29) "See, don't ever set me free"
30) "You treat me badly, I love you madly"

31) "She loves to move, she loves to groove"
32) "Your words are weak and they don't mean a thing"

(This next pair bends the rules just a bit, but it was too good to pass up!)
33) "I guess nobody ever really done me"
34) "Frozen here on the ladder of my life"

35) "We're gonna' stimulate some action"
36) "I come alive in the neon light"
37) "There's not a soul out there"

38) "To hold me, to scold me"
39) "But she grew up tall and she grew up right"
40) "But don't forget who's taking you home"

41) "Till the heavens stop the rain"
42) "And oh, the joy that floods my soul!"
43) "We used to laugh at the wind behind us"

44) "There's no point escaping, I don't worry anymore"
45) "Let's find the key and turn this engine on"
46) "Miner's lady, stranger to blue water"

47) "Live for today, gone tomorrow, that's me, HaHaHaaaaaa!"
48) "Well, the undertaker drew a heavy sigh"
49) "And talk is cheap when the story is good"

50) "I never meant any harm to you"
51) "Born and raised in South Detroit"
52) "Like a tiger, defying the laws of gravity"
53) "Keep on with the force" (no, this isn't by Yoda... or Obi-Wan!)

54) "The drunken politician leaps"
55) "Then someone picked you from the bunch"
56) "It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad"
57) "Put on a brand new shirt"

58) "But I'm not one of them, you know I'm not!"
59) "So send me a salami, and try to smile somehow"
60) "I said, warden, warden, warden"
61) "All of the nights we’d harmonize till dawn"

62) "Dancing to the rhythm in our heart and soul"
63) "A cat named Frankenstein"
64) "And I know that motor wagon is ready to fly"
65) "But put a man six feet in a hole"
66) "A handful of grease in her hair"

67) "And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers"
68) "Ah-huh Ah-huh"
69) "Hearts of fire creates love desire"
70) "My mother reads her magazines"
71) "I've overcome the blow"

(This last group could probably have been expanded into a full theme all it's own!)
72) "I was playin' around, feeling down, hittin' the beer"
73) "Treasure these few words 'till we're together"
74) "Sidewalk crouches at her feet"
75) "I hold my pillow to my head"
76) "When it feels like sorrow is your only friend"
77) "Moon appears to shine and light the sky"
78) "No first of spring, no song to sing"
79) "Ease my troubles, that's what you do"
80) "The words just came out wrong"

Enjoy, good luck, and thanks again for being part of our weekly fun and games!