Musical Monday #161

Welcome to the 161st 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 theme this week, but I cheated just slightly to make the last two songs qualify!

1) "To forget about life for awhile"
2) "In fact, it’s cold as hell"
3) "Knows not where he's going to"
4) "When will you pay them back?"
5) "Them delta women think the world of me"
6) "Played inside the months of moon"
7) "'fore I can talk to the boss"
8) "Has he thoughts within his head?"
9) "Forget your lust for the rich man's gold"
10) "White lace and feathers, they made up his bed"
11) "Cause never was the reason for the evening"
12) "Me and Sue, but that died too"
13) "I was educated from good stock"
14) "Like a coin that won't get tossed"
15) "Yes, I'm a sack of broken eggs"
16) "And I take myself out a nice cold beer"
17) "Call him Mister Eagle, dig his chains"
18) "Up with the sun, gone with the wind"
19) "Roll us both down a mountain"
20) "She dreams in color, she dreams in red"
21) "A beam of light will fill your head"
22) "Strapped to the wing with the engine running"
23) "But if you push me too far I just might"
24) "I took the prize last night for complicatedness"
25) "I went to night school for the blues"
26) "I got a lady in Cincinnati, a woman in San Anton'"
27) "You gonna run to the sea, but the sea will be boiling"
28) "In the customs hall the officer takes you to one side"
29) "And stamped a number over my face"
30) "Dip it in a dream"
31) "I was so surprised, I was hypnotized"

Good luck and enjoy!

Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Haftorah Question

It's been a long time since I've posted one of these liturgical quizzes - or for that matter much of anything besides my bi-weekly editions of Musical Monday. But here's an interesting question I thought up yesterday, relating to the special haftorah which was read for Shabbos Rosh Chodesh:

As it happens, this haftorah is actually ever read on just five out of the twelve months of a standard Jewish year. For which five months can it be read, and why is it never read on each of the other seven? Post your answers in the comments; a special Elie's Expositions no-prize to whoever gets the complete solution first!

Musical Monday #159

Welcome to the 159th 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 theme this week, but the last four songs relate to it in a significantly different way than the rest. And again, sorry for being a day late, not to mention probably a few songs short, but here goes!

1) "And my LP records and they're all scratched"
2) "Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show"
3) "Left standing in the lurch, at a church"
4) "He freely gave to charity"
5) "That's what Mrs. Riordan said"
6) "Frameless heads on nameless walls"
7) "Lemon yellow sun, arms raised in a V"
8) "The worm he licks my bone"
9) "Through early morning fog I see, visions of the things to be"
10) "I don't care to know the hour, 'cause it's passing anyway"
11) "Hard to save money, when you're twenty years in debt"
12) "And the clocks waits so patiently on your song"
13) "Wine is fine but whiskey's quicker"
14) "Like the burning end of a midnight cigarette"
15) "Getting lost within myself, nothing matters no one else"
16) "Drying up in conversation, you will be the one who cannot talk"
17) "You could cut ties with all the lies"
18) "So take your lies, get off my case"
19) "I felt the earth on Monday, it moved beneath my feet"
20) "And my last ditch, was my last brick"
21) "I started a landslide in my ego"
22) "A rift in my family, I can't use the car"
23) "She has trouble acting normal when she's nervous"
24) "Now she's a swinger, dating a singer"
25) "I need a lawyer for my medical bills"
26) "Get your carpetbaggers off my back"

27) "Wait in your corner until that breeze blows in"
28) "Don't throw your hand, oh no, don't throw your hand"
29) "But we all bleed the same way as you do"
30) "Need some affection - you got it!"

Good luck and enjoy!