Musical Monday #146

Welcome to the 146th 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 are broken into three sub-themes, 1-18, 19-28, and 29-31. Each sub-theme contributes to the overall theme; or more exactly, the second and third sub-themes contribute to the first.

1) "And rest your head for just five minutes"
2) "Sister's sighing in her sleep"
3) "So when you need a little peace of mind, come on over boy, anytime"
4) "There's my chair, I put it there"
5) "And ghostly voices rose from the fields"
6) "How can she use, the things she use"
7) "I ain't been home to see my baby in ninety-nine and one half days"
8) "Why did you throw the Jack of Hearts away?"
9) "Well, I got one foot on the platform"
10) "Loneliness, the face of pilgrims eyes was known"
11) "Chase all the clouds from the sky"
12) "There's a silence here between us, I've never heard before"
13) "Hold tight, we're in for nasty weather"
14) "They studied under Attila the Hun"
15) "The chrome, the steel, the metal dream"
16) "Now we're spinning empty bottles"
17) "He's got a greasy hair, greasy smile"
18) "From the door comes Satan's daughter"

19) "No dark sarcasm in the classroom"
20) "Groove, let the madness in the music get to you"
21) "But he hesitates, then withdraws"
22) "She had hair like Jeannie Shipton back in 1965"
23) "Nobody's perfect, mister, nobody's clean"
24) "If I was walkin' in your shoes, I wouldn't worry none"
25) "I helped a young laddie called Ivan"
26) "Watch the greenbacks tumble"
27) "One more song for the radio station"
28) "Where I thought I heard Tiresias say"

29) "I found a Paradise that's trouble-proof"
30) "Come with me, and we shall run across the sky"
31) "I woke this morning found my hands were frozen"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #144

Welcome to the 144th 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.

A somewhat less ambitious theme than our special two-parter last time around, but hopefully still a fun diversion. In fact, it's sort of a follow-on to a previous jointly-developed theme, though with no songs in common to that one:

1) "In a cap she looked much older"
2) "How far will you go I say, just to bait a mouse?"
3) "However big you think you are"
4) "The jack-knife barber drops her off at school"
5) "The damn thing gone blind"
6) "Making the life that I had seem suddenly shiny and new"
7) "" (1972) (Mrs. Washington's childhood?) (c.f. MM #40)
8) "She'll be richer by far if her dreams come true"
9) "The wind is low, the birds will sing"
10) "Your servant am I, and will humbly remain"
11) "How can I hurt when holdin' you?"
12) "Oh, all the poet, they studied rules of verse"
13) "Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis"
14) "Her eyes like windows, trickling rain"
15) "Ask any fool that she ever knew"
16) "Have me a time with a poor man's lady"
17) "Taught him how to do the bop and it was grand"
18) "Guess I'll have to put your flat feet on the ground"
19) "Or is it just a game in my mind"
20) "So you stay out late at night, and you do your coke for free"
21) "He made my lapels an inch too wide"

Good luck and enjoy!