Musical Monday #134

Welcome to the 134th 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 division this week consists of two groups of songs as well as two individual songs each in their own "group". This arrangement is significant, as is the order of the sets and number of songs in each, as will become clear once the theme is fully solved.

1) "There is no one compares with you"
2) "Freeze all your expressions into words"
3) "Play in sports and skin dive"
4) "All I want for you to do is take my body home"
5) "It's all been a pack of lies"
6) "But you could've said it better"
7) "Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside"
8) "Desert rose, dreamed I saw a desert rose"
9) "Nothing grows and life ain't very pretty"
10) "Do my crying and my sighing, laugh at yesterday"
11) "And his hunger burns, so he starts to roam the streets at night"
12) "When there's no one else around, I'm gonna take you girl and hold you"
13) "Three lullabies in an ancient tongue"
14) "Life's for living, yeah, that's our philosophy"
15) "You won't find a thing to chew"
16) "And the grand facade, so soon will burn"
17) "Don't you know that I'll always be true?"
18) "I'm looking for a woman, but the girl don't come"
19) "But nothin' is real, and no one can feel like you"

20) "Near the village, the peaceful village"

21) "Broken ice still melts in the sun"
22) "I'm home, I'm out of my work clothes"
23) "You can't come back and think you are still mine"
24) "Light a candle, lay flowers at the door"
25) "You left me cold and I'm standin' here freezin"
26) "I've pulled the trigger right at you on billboards and movie screens"
27) "Before the sun is just a bright spot in the nighttime"
28) "Sometimes I feel like I am drunk behind the wheel"
29) "And a train that's passin' my way helps the rhythm move along"
30) "You got your high-heeled sneakers on, slip-in mules"

31) "The all-night watchmen have had their fun"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #132

Welcome to the 132nd 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.

Today's edition has four song groups separated by spaces: 1-8, 9-21, 22-26, and 27-36. These represent four entirely distinct sub-themes, which when combined form the overall theme.

Recall that in past years, the MM's that fell around Purim were special in some way. But Purim is over, isn't it? :-)

1) "You can burn my house, steal my car"
2) "I want a short haired girl who sometimes wears it twice as long"
3) "In the middle of the tall drinks and the drama"
4) "Girl, to be with you is my fav'rite thing, uh huh"
5) "Our love got fractured in the echo and sway"
6) "Empty as a pocket with nothing to lose"
7) "He was lyin’ on the ground, a bits and pieces all around"
8) "Before you abuse, criticize and accuse"

9) "Lay me on the ground, fly me in the sky"
10) "And lookin' in the mirror there were fools at either hand"
11) "Well you wore out your welcome with random precision"
12) "My friend the young magician had forbidden me to cry"
13) "Take the chip off of my shoulder, smooth out all the lines"
14) "Loneliness is a cloak you wear"
15) "Oh my dear, now this ship's too hard to steer"
16) "Surely not to live in pain and fear"
17) "Brothers and sisters in every little part"
18) " Hold together, in the worst conditions"
19) "Without that attention, a woman feels undone"
20) "January, February, June or July"
21) "We're in or out of the money"

22) "She'd hold me close and kiss me but her heart was full of lies"
23) "He was a credit to his gender"
24) "The silver in your pocket ain't no measure of a man"
25) "To him you were nothin' but a little plaything"
26) "His wife would cook his meal, as he would change the wheel"

27) "I know who left those smokes behind"
28) "You come and ask me, girl, to set you free, girl"
29) "I get so mean, around this scene"
30) "When he showed up Saturday, I said 'Bye bye baby!'"
31) "Why can't he see, how blind can he be?"
32) "There isn't an ocean too deep"
33) "He was greyhound-bound, but I'm still waiting here"
34) "Thick wavy hair, a little too long"
35) "He drives woman wild, then he drives off in a Mercedes Benz"
36) "And don't take my pictures off a' the wall"

Good luck and enjoy!