Musical Monday #155

Welcome to the 155th 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 couple of notes on this week's edition. For any song below that may have multiple cover versions, I'm looking for a specific one, usually, but not always, the most well-known such. Also, although the songs aren't broken into separate sub-groups, extra precision will be required in correctly identifying the last few on the list. Finally, though I confess this edition required somewhat more research than usual, I'm equally sure that I forgot some really obvious candidates! Well, that's what you guys are for, right? :-)

Without further ado:

1) "Damn your love, damn your lies!"
2) "One more look and I forget everything"
3) "Take me to New York right away"
4) "On a boat with billowed sail"
5) "A kiss for luck and we're on our way"
6) "And your mind is moving low"
7) "Suspended under a twilight canopy"
8) "A butcher, a banker, a drummer and then"
9) "Some of them want to be abused"
10) "The babies just come with the scenery"
11) "I just can't believe the loveliness of loving you"
12) "Some guy brought sad into your happy world"
13) "I hold my pillow to my head"
14) "It's not for lack of bread, like the Grateful Dead"
15) "Mount your horses, draw your sword!"
16) "But some are altogether mighty frightening"
17) "Started out this morning feeling so polite"
18) "Let me tell ya', you are no exception to the rule"
19) "True love means planning a life for two"
20) "Lot of people take it for a game"
21) "Hear with your heart and you won't hear a sound"
22) "And when I'm sad, you're a clown"
23) "Then I never lost a minute of speed"
24) "You didn’t bat an eye, when I made you cry"
25) "Like a flower in a fairy tale I blossomed out"
26) "So don't refuse to believe it, by reading too many meanings"
27) "If you could return, don't let it burn, don't let it fade"
28) "Her weapons were her crystal eyes"
29) "Well, here's some spare change you can count!"
30) "No right no wrong you're selling a song"
31) "Now I don't want you back for the weekend"
32) "I got three passports, a couple of visas"
33) "Double cross the vacant and the bored"
34) "I ain't saying you ain't pretty"
35) "He smiled so I got up and asked for his name"
36) "You know you got it if it makes you feel good"
37) "Fat man sitting on a little stool"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #153

Welcome to the 153rd edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. This week we have a special guest contributor, TRN, who - as of course you already know - is one of our most avid weekly players! Thanks TRN for pitching in this week! And the best part is, now I get an extra week to play the game!

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.

1) ". . . a cobra snake for a necktie"
2) "If you want to keep something precious"
3) "There's a girl right next to you"
4) "We sang every song that driver knew"
5) "Friend only to the undertaker"
6) "I can't seem to stand on my own two feet"
7) "You don't have to shout or leap about"
8) "Are the stars out tonight?"
9) "Nobody calling on the phone"
10) "When I'm drivin' in my car and a man comes on the radio"
11) "Don't you think you want someone to talk to?"
12) "I just love when you call me lady"
13) "But the press let the story leak"
14) "For my darlin' I love you, and I always will"
15) "Tell me you love me and don't let me cry"
16) "I'll do such things to ease your pain"
17) "You'll never know it hurt me so"
18) "Could you be falling for me?"
19) "Sunday's on the phone to Monday"
20) "See I'd have all the money in the world"
21) "It could happen to us any day"
22) "I have scaled these city walls"
23) "Each time the doorbell rings I still run"
24) "But after all it's what we've done that makes us what we are"
25) "Are you somewhere feeling lonely, or is someone loving you?"
26) "We meet every day at the same cafe"
27) "To give away the day that you were mine"
28) "I wake up feeling sorry I met you"
29) "Any time we have a date"
30) "You darken my door"
31) "Whatever colors you have in your mind"
32) "I'd thank my lucky stars to be living here today"
33) "And it wants to have a snow day that will turn its parents into kids"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #152

Welcome to the 152nd 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 a single group of songs this time representing a single overall theme, though I could have split it into several sub-themes.

1) "I don't know how someone controlled you"
2) "When you sing through the verse and you end in a scream"
3) "Catch as catch, catch as catch can"
4) "I hitchhiked all the way down to Memphis"
5) "Then he comes to town, and you see his face"
6) "Fortune of my ways, making of my days"
7) "It opened up her eyes and ears to me"
8) "Silently it waits for me; or someone else I suppose"
9) "He threw one down from the top of the stairs"
10) "Destiny, destiny, protect me from the world"
11) "And she's got everything that I have to live without"
12) "They call me dirty from the alley"
13) "As the smile ran away from his face"
14) "Your heart dissolves, while he tips you so gracefully"
15) "I've made fortunes, spent them fast enough"
16) "It's just that I am not in the market"
17) "I called upon my brother just the other day"
18) "I feel so frustrated; the boss is a jerk"
19) "So Mary marry me, let's not wait"
20) "Our finest gifts we bring"
21) "And my hands can't feel to grip"
22) "When you drop a coin you'll hear it sing"
23) "Listen to the tears roll, down my face as she turns to go"
24) "Through the coldest winter in almost fourteen years"
25) "The kids don't eat and the dog can't sleep"
26) "10 o'clock, nighttime in New York, it's weird"
27) "It really brought him down because he could not jam"
28) "You've got a hub cap diamond star halo"

Good luck and enjoy!