Musical Monday #122

Welcome to the 122th 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.

There are two sets of songs today, 1-17 and 18-33, which represent two opposing sub-themes of today's overall theme. As a clue (for those who know me well!), I once would have been neutral - if liking neither side is indeed neutrality - but for the last few years would favor the former of the two sub-themes. In fact, for that reason I made a bit more effort to make sure the first group of songs outnumbered the second!

One additional note: The last few songs in each group meet that sub-theme in different ways than the rest.

1) "A big legged woman ain't got no soul"
2) "Well they said you was high-classed"
3) "She roll back down to the warm soft ground"
4) "Will power made that old car go"
5) "When the party was nice, the party was jumpin'"
6) "And I'll never go to Texas anymore"
7) "She broke a needle and she can't sew!"
8) "Johnny kissed the teacher"
9) "Our currency is flesh and bone"
10) "I must take a trip to California, and leave my poor sweetheart alone"
11) "Help me please, is the answer up above?"
12) "I'm feeling drunk, juiced up and sloppy"
13) "Stone cold sober as a matter of fact"
14) "I'd throw away the cars and the bars and the war"
15) "I'm intelligent and clean, know what I mean?"
16) "I met him in a cell in New Orleans, I was down and out"
17) "Was your father as bold as a sergeant major?"

18) "By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls"
19) "So much like a man I just had to say"
20) "The first time that I got it, I was just ten years old"
21) "It's like trying to find gold in a silver mine"
22) "I wish I could be as carefree and wild"
23) "But it's no hanging matter, it's no capital crime"
24) "She lets loose all the horses when the Corporal is asleep
25) "Talking on about how sharp they are"
26) "I've got flowers and lots of hours to spend with you"
27) "I can stare for a thousand years, colder than the moon"
28) "Well, there's thirteen hundred and fifty two guitar pickers"
29) "I'd love to glide to a rainbow, off where the clouds go dancing by"
30) "He can set music back to the caveman days"
31) "And them tin cans are explodin' out in the 90-degree heat"
32) "Sweet the rain's new fall"
33) "She rules her life like a fine skylark"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #120

Welcome to the 120th 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.

There's just a single theme today, though I will say that the last three songs belong to a different genre than the rest.

1) "I never said I was a victim of circumstance"
2) "All these places had their moments"
3) "This is for the ones who stood their ground"
4) "I'm breakin' loose, it ain't no use"
5) "Do you wanna be somebody else?"
6) "I'm changing, arranging"
7) "And if I do, I know the way there"
8) "Gave into love and watched all the bitterness burn"
9) "The shadows of misty yesteryears"
10) "Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial"
11) "Exhibition is your habit, emotion second hand"
12) "And I was born with a jealous mind"
13) "You can sell your soul, but don’t you sell it too cheap"
14) "Pop me down jack me up shoot me out flyin' down the highway"
15) "I have something I know won't desert me, I'm not alone anymore"
16) "Made the bus in seconds flat"
17) "You'll come back and you'll look around you"
18) "Who am I without you by my side?"
19) "Heard about Pittsburgh, PA"
20) "They paid heavenly bills"
21) "So don't be surprised to see me, back in that bright part of town"
22) "You stare politely right on through"
23) "The curtains drawn in the little room downstairs"
24) "Two doors remain before your others and your own"
25) "Oh, how nature loves her little surprises!"
26) "Please don't talk about sweet love"
27) "You boiled me over, now you're cold as ice"
28) "I have a limo, ride in the back"
29) "This is a tricky situation, I've only got myself to blame"
30) "So you bought the best selling novel, knowing that you couldn't miss"
31) "Each breath that we breathe, with love we must weave"
32) "Sometimes you turn your head to the wind"
33) "Take a look at the Lawman, beating up the wrong guy"
34) "Here come Johnny with the power and the glory"
35) "Never again to be all alone"
36) "How could so much love be inside of you?"
37) "Where were you when I was burned and broken?"
38) "But all are agreed as they join the stampede"
39) "When you're feeling in the dumps, don't be silly chumps!"
40) "Here's to whatever comes"

Good luck and enjoy!

Birthday Boy Blue

Today I turn 48, which, as my blog-friend TRN just pointed out, is a number with quite a few factors. But there's been basically a single factor in the moribund status of my blogging - not to mention my overall mood - lately... namely, my continued state of unemployment after being laid off just over two months ago. Even Mondays haven't been as musical lately for me as they used to be - either as a player or a host. It seems like blogging, once a welcome distraction from the sometimes-drudgery of work, now feels like yet another unpleasant reminder of how much I actually miss that drudgery, and that I have far too much time on my hands.

That said, I do have today's MM (#120) almost ready to go, and should be posting it later tonight, along with the long-overdue solutions to my previous three MM quizzes. A bit more ambitiously, I am planning to take TRN's advice (soon!!) and post more directly about my experiences and feelings these past two months. Maybe this blog can even become again somewhat of what it once was for me, an outlet for sharing, exploring, and connection. I do believe it's at least worth a try. As the job coaches tell you, leave no avenue unexplored, since you never know where your next success is coming from.

Meanwhile, happy "birthday that shall live in infamy" (posthumously as the case may be) to Johnny Bench, Terrell Owens, Larry Bird, Gregg Allman, Harry Chapin, Ellen Burstyn, Aaron Carter, Eli Wallach, Ted Knight... and of course, to me!