Musical Monday #165

Welcome to the 165th edition of Musical Monday, the (sometimes) weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I (had) alternate(d) hosting. As Soccer Dad has suspended his blogging for the present, the future schedule of MM is somewhat in question. But meanwhile, the challenge today, as always, is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

This is a theme I've wanted to do for a long while, but hesitated because there are so many songs that are borderline matches for the theme, making my selections perhaps more subjective than I usually like. Hopefully my criteria won't seem too arbirtrary!

1) "Can't trust that day"
2) "I go back to the top of the slide"
3) "Mr. M.D."
4) "They long to persuade you from my side"
5) "But now I'm tired and I don't want to walk anymore"
6) "I swear it's not too late!"
7) "Knock down the old brick wall, and be a part of it all"
8) "And love so distant and obscure"
9) "In a world of persecution, that is burning in its greed"
10) "Here we go again, asking where I've been"
11) "You say why, and I say I don't know"
12) "On the wind that lifts her perfume through the air"
13) "Dance to the Eurobeat"
14) "Mary, have you seen better days?"
15) "And we're on our way, no we can't turn back"
16) "Mercy woman, plays a song and no one listens"
17) "Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist"
18) "We were just young and restless and bored"
19) "The purple piper plays his tune, the choir softly sing"
20) "The devil he told me to roll-oll-oll-oll"
21) "Always know sometimes think it's me"
22) "I don't wanna be a candidate for Vietnam or Watergate"
23) "She's a juvenile scam, never was a quitter"
24) "Some of them cries about it, some of them dies"
25) "Use your mentality, wake up to reality"
26) "Dinosaur Victrola"
27) "And they've chained him to a chair"
28) "When mountains crumble to the sea"
29) "And she gave Tchaikovsky back"
30) "The drummer relaxes and waits between shows"
31) "A requiem was never sung, no elegy was read"
32) "Don't let them say your hair's too long"
33) "Keep on doin' the jerk"
34) "All the right words but still you run away"
35) "…the baggage retrieval system they've got at Heathrow"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #163

Welcome to the 163rd 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.

This week's theme is a joint effort of the two hosts, based on an idea first suggested by my co-host. Two quick notes:
- #36-37 have no lyrics quoted, hopefully by now you know what that means!
- #38-40 meet the theme in a different way than the rest.

1) "Some are satin, some are steel"
2) "I left my home in Georgia"
3) "All the school kids so sick of books"
4) "We’ll take your car and drive it"
5) "Said woman take it slow, it'll work itself out fine"
6) "But I'm trapped by your love and I'm chained to your side"
7) "But the press let the story leak"
8) "A pie in the face for being a sleepy bull toad"
9) "An August summer night, soldiers passing by"
10) "You and me chasing paper, getting nowhere"
11) "I was swallowing my pain"
12) "And I had a cup of tea and butter pie"
13) "I brought you a crate of papaya"
14) "Say the devil is my savior"
15) "Now it all seems light years away"
16) "You're always window shopping but never stopping to buy"
17) "He may have to litigate"
18) "I heard she threw the letter away"
19) "Once I'm begging you save her little soul"
20) "Willi is happy again"
21) "But tomorrow might not be here for you"
22) "Oh with an aching feeling inside, cutting me up, deeper and deeper"
23) "Vernon'll meet me when the Boac lands"
24) "She gives me a smile, and cuddles her cheek to my chest"
25) "And stories of old to be rolled out like carpets"
26) "She's passed out on the floor"
27) "Gore blimey, hello Mrs. Jones!"
28) "Oh arm and arm we are the harmless sociopaths"
29) "Wake up, there's a new kid in the town"
30) "If you knew my story word for word, had all of my history"
31) "From the corner of my girlfriend's four-post bed"
32) "You know I’m sorry, I’ll prove it with just one kiss"
33) "When you're feeling in the dumps, don't be silly chumps!"
34) "Try to be just like a cheerful chick-a-dee"
35) "Take the straight and narrow path, and if you start to slide..."
36) "" (1971) (Magic)
37) "" (1960) (TV theme, great fit for this MM)

38) "I'll watch the people go shuffling downtown"
39) "Keep pushin' for the fortune and fame"
40) "You were my thrills, you were my pills"

Good luck and enjoy!