Musical Monday #148

Welcome to the 148th 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 songs this week are broken into three sub-themes, 1-19, 20-26, and 27-30. Each sub-theme contributes to the overall theme, but in slightly different ways. The 2nd of the three may also spark a bit of deja vu. :-)

1) "You play with words, you play with love"
2) "Don't go on the patio, beware of the pool"
3) "You don't think of them as human"
4) "It's OK on TV 'cause you can turn it off, but don't try me"
5) "Every darkest sky has a shining ray"
6) "I don't really like to stop the show"
7) "In orange, red, and blue, he found it in the zoo"
8) "You've got your tape deck and your brand new Chevrolet"
9) "And it's tightening 'round my throat"
10) "Be amazed at the friends you have here on your trip"
11) "Make me feel fine when I'm feeling wrongly down"
12) "Very clearly a case for corn flakes and classics"
13) "He died about a month ago while winter filled the air"
14) "Starting to collect requested data"
15) "You tell me that your superfine mind has come undone"
16) "I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical"
17) "He grew a beard as soon as he could to cover the scars on his face"
18) "But we haven't done a bloody thing all day"
19) "It was on the old Calcutta in eighteen fifty-three"

20) "Let me be that one girl, for I'll be true to you"
21) "Echo in the distance like the sound, of a windmill going 'round"
22) "Breakfast where the news is read, television, children fed"
23) "Now the valley cried in anger"
24) "I just got to make you my occupation"
25) "Perhaps I'll come to a great success, or possible a dreadful mess"
26) "Often frightened, unenlightened"

27) "Play in sports and skin dive"
28) "But it's no laughing party, when you've been on the murder mile"
29) "The tune don't have to be clever"
30) "They've got to be protected, all their rights respected"

Good luck and enjoy!