Musical Monday #166

Welcome to the 166th edition of Musical Monday, with the challenge, as always, to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs. Sorry it's been a while since I've posted one of these! I hope to be getting to them out, if not weekly, then at least a bit more often than monthly. Meanwhile, here's today's! (The solutions to the last several MMs have finally been posted as well.)

Songs 31-35 this week form a separate sub-theme, similar but not quite the same as the main theme. Note also, song #30 bends the rules a bit.

1) "Hardly anyone has seen how good I am"
2) "But the point is probably moot"
3) "The National Guard stands around his door"
4) "Like a storm in the desert, like a sleepy blue ocean"
5) "Pisces, Virgo rising is a very good sign"
6) "With words that tear and strain to rhyme"
7) "Even though he could have smashed through any bank"
8) "Shreds of news and afterthoughts and complicated scenes"
9) "Suddenly the heavens rolled, suddenly the rain came down"
10) "There was a Checkpoint Charlie"
11) "I wanted to be the all American kid from New York"
12) "I open up the paper, there's a story of an actor"
13) "Conscience was related, man he was created"
14) "There was just enough room to cram the drums"
15) "I could tell she liked me from the way she stared"
16) "And the operator says, 40 cents more"
17) "I've gotta stand tall, you know a man can't crawl"
18) "There's a sadness hidden in that pretty face"
19) "Out on the train yard, nursin' penitentiary"
20) "Ohhh, to the hand that takes your dreamless soul"
21) "Wishing to avoid an unpleasant scene"
22) "Well, it hurt me so to see them dance together"
23) "But she grew up tall and she grew up right"
24) "I went to get some help, I walked by a Guernsey cow"
25) "Never mind the weather"
26) "I live in a silver mine and I call it Beggar's Tomb"
27) "Soldier on; only you can do what must be done"
28) "You're such a lovely audience"
29) "Laughing about the way they want him to be"
30) "Across from the medical center"

31) "But she knows what that'll get her"
32) "Her dog day's just begun"
33) "Cat somehow lost his baby down on Bleecker Street"
34) "I look in the poolhall. Is he here?"
35) "I walked to Apollo by the bay"

Good luck and enjoy!

MM #166 Coming Soon!

Yes, it's been a very long break since the last Musical Monday. I haven't quit, just been very busy. I do have #166 almost done and should be posting it this Monday 12/27. Others will hopefully follow, though I can't say at what intervals. Stay tuned for the tunes!