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.