Musical Monday #100!

Welcome to the 100th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. Our usual challenge is for you to identify the title and artist of each song quote, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs. However, your MM co-authors are running a special, two-part theme in honor of MM's centennial, and thus, those who have been participating in MM #99 at Soccer Dad's blog already know today's theme (and if you haven't been participating, there's still a few songs left to get on #99, so get over there pronto, then come back!). So as an extra-credit assignment today, please share your favorite couple of past MMs from each of the two host blogs!

Before getting to today's quotes, I'd like to add my thanks to Soccer Dad's for our regular players - Clayton, Laura, TRN, Yitzchak, Gail, ral315, Benjie, and SJ - and for all of the occasional participants as well. It's always fun putting these puzzles together, but a lot more fun watching you solve them each week! And of course, my most heartfelt gratitude to my friend of now 30+ years, David aka Soccer Dad, who offered me the chance to share the weekly hosting of this terrific game, starting way back with MM#6!

Just a quick note on the song groups below: My implementation of the theme is just slightly different than David's: the first song in each set will be the one which connects to each of the others.

Without further ado!

1) "Rejoice, rejoice, we have no choice"
2) "I was soaring ever higher"

3) "And a monkey kinda' digs bananas"
4) "What will become of the restless kind?"

5) "Mr. MD"
6) "Cuz I'm a man, I got my pride"

7) "If I were you, I'd realize that I"
8) "Look at me, you never look at me"

9) "Forget your lust for the rich man's gold"
10) "Well maybe I'd kill you, or maybe I'd be true"

11) "You're so like the lady with the mystic smile"
12) "Subway's no way for a good man to go down"

13) "Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray"
14) "Because she's got her own obligations"

15) "I am broken like an arrow, forgive me"
16) "Iridescent socks with the same color shirt"

17) "Hot ashes for trees"
18) "Same old show in a different town on another time"

19) "I know that she's no peasant"
20) "She can take you or leave you"

21) "I can't sleep, I keep dreaming of losing you"
22) "We would stay there 'till her sister rang the evening bell"

23) "You could have been anyone to me"
24) "My cat is purring, and scratches my skin"

25) "Remember when we lost the keys?"
26) "There's a very strange vibration, piercing me right to the core"

27) "I remember the first time I was lonely without her"
28) "It's a big enough umbrella"

29) "See, don't ever set me free"
30) "You treat me badly, I love you madly"

31) "She loves to move, she loves to groove"
32) "Your words are weak and they don't mean a thing"

(This next pair bends the rules just a bit, but it was too good to pass up!)
33) "I guess nobody ever really done me"
34) "Frozen here on the ladder of my life"

35) "We're gonna' stimulate some action"
36) "I come alive in the neon light"
37) "There's not a soul out there"

38) "To hold me, to scold me"
39) "But she grew up tall and she grew up right"
40) "But don't forget who's taking you home"

41) "Till the heavens stop the rain"
42) "And oh, the joy that floods my soul!"
43) "We used to laugh at the wind behind us"

44) "There's no point escaping, I don't worry anymore"
45) "Let's find the key and turn this engine on"
46) "Miner's lady, stranger to blue water"

47) "Live for today, gone tomorrow, that's me, HaHaHaaaaaa!"
48) "Well, the undertaker drew a heavy sigh"
49) "And talk is cheap when the story is good"

50) "I never meant any harm to you"
51) "Born and raised in South Detroit"
52) "Like a tiger, defying the laws of gravity"
53) "Keep on with the force" (no, this isn't by Yoda... or Obi-Wan!)

54) "The drunken politician leaps"
55) "Then someone picked you from the bunch"
56) "It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad"
57) "Put on a brand new shirt"

58) "But I'm not one of them, you know I'm not!"
59) "So send me a salami, and try to smile somehow"
60) "I said, warden, warden, warden"
61) "All of the nights we’d harmonize till dawn"

62) "Dancing to the rhythm in our heart and soul"
63) "A cat named Frankenstein"
64) "And I know that motor wagon is ready to fly"
65) "But put a man six feet in a hole"
66) "A handful of grease in her hair"

67) "And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers"
68) "Ah-huh Ah-huh"
69) "Hearts of fire creates love desire"
70) "My mother reads her magazines"
71) "I've overcome the blow"

(This last group could probably have been expanded into a full theme all it's own!)
72) "I was playin' around, feeling down, hittin' the beer"
73) "Treasure these few words 'till we're together"
74) "Sidewalk crouches at her feet"
75) "I hold my pillow to my head"
76) "When it feels like sorrow is your only friend"
77) "Moon appears to shine and light the sky"
78) "No first of spring, no song to sing"
79) "Ease my troubles, that's what you do"
80) "The words just came out wrong"

Enjoy, good luck, and thanks again for being part of our weekly fun and games!

Musical Son Day #2

Some videos of the now AWARD-Winning act, and soon to be musical sensation, The Flip. Shalom and his bandmates took 2nd place (out of ~10 performers) in our town street fair this past Thursday evening! Watch the videos below, and note the lead singer's channeling of Mick Jagger on Ed Sullivan as he resignedly - and, well, Flip-pantly - alters a lyric to avoid offending a key demographic (read: a certain bandmate's parents (no, not me for heaven's sake!))

Let it Be



Encore: Knocking On Heaven's Door

Musical Monday #98

Welcome to the 98th 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.

All fifty songs relate to a single theme today, but it is worth noting that the last five on the list belong to a different musical genre than the rest.

And yes, I know I'm very late with the answers to last week's MM; hopefully you'll see them later today.

1) "In the stillness of remembering what you had"
2) "Pull myself together, put on a new face"
3) "Reach for the golden ring, reach for the sky"
4) "Half my life is in books' written pages"
5) "You're a princess, chains around you"
6) "Two spirits dancing so strange"
7) "Someday I don't know how, I hope you'll hear my plea"
8) "Only trouble is, gee whiz"
9) "There must be peace and understanding sometime"
10) "A candy-colored clown they call the sandman"
11) "Well, I can't tell lies, cause they're listening to me"
12) "Check my vital signs to know I'm still alive"
13) "What a day, a year, a laugh it is!"
14) "Wondering if Mother Earth will survive"
15) "Help me to forget today's pain"
16) "You know the preacher likes the cold"
17) "Here am I, I'm taking a chance"
18) "How to put it together, how to say it right"
19) "We've walked along St. Thomas beach a million times"
20) "You could tell I was no debutante"
21) "I feel like I'm heading up to a cardiac arrest"
22) "And fall on my face on somebody's new-mowed lawn"
23) "Without dollar one to spend"
24) "And when he's lonesome and feeling loved starved"
25) "Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup"
26) "Stars fading but I linger on, dear"
27) "Moving sidewalks, I don't see under my feet"
28) "The room was empty as I staggered from my bed"
29) "We couldn't tear ourselves away"
30) "I walk without a cut through a stained glass wall"
31) "When you're so downhearted and misunderstood"
32) "I must be looking for something, something sacred I lost"
33) "Travel the world and the seven seas"
34) "And I know you've got the ashes to prove it"
35) "Deep water all around me, circle sharks all about"
36) "Concerning myself and the first few friends I had"
37) "First night so long, a state of mind, what can go wrong"
38) "I hit cruise control and rubbed my eyes"
39) "She took my new sunglasses and my old jean jacket"
40) "I wonder if these heavy eyes can face the unknown?"
41) "Here to share with one another, father, brother, sister, mother"
42) "Rain pourin' down, I swing my hammer"
43) "They may laugh at you and call you green"
44) "And my destination makes it worth the while"
45) "And I will lose myself in palaces of sand"
46) "The gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam"
47) "No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing"
48) "A crash of drums, a flash of light"
49) "To run... where the brave dare not go"
50) "There was a time, when love was blind, and the world was a song"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #96

Welcome to the 96th 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 two groups of songs today (1-10, 11-42) are distinct sub-themes, but both relate to an overall theme.

1) "And when the sun comes up, I'll be on top"
2) "Time can bend your knee"
3) "I want to hear the children sing"
4) "All we can offer them is a page in some magazine"
5) "A stairway to darkness in the blink of an eye"
6) "But he turned out to be like every other man"
7) "Outside I'm masquerading"
8) "It's only there trying to fool the public"
9) "If we could start anew, I wouldn't hesitate"
10) "Seems like overnight, we see the world in a different light"

11) "I can't talk to people that I meet"
12) "She sits alone by a lamppost"
13) "I put my daughter on my knee, and she say, 'Daddy what's wrong?'"
14) "I need your smile, child like the one I once knew"
15) "Who'll take all your pain, honey your heartache, too?"
16) "Playing piano for the children of the king"
17) "How can I explain the fear you feel inside?"
18) "Shame on you, you told me lies"
19) "Well, it hurt me so to see them dance together"
20) "In the government yard in trenchtown"
21) "I've said too much, been too unkind"
22) "Dream if you can a courtyard"
23) "Don't the moon look good, mama?"
24) "Well, I saw your sign and I missed you there"
25) "You are living a reality I left years ago"
26) "Talk to me softly, there is something in your eyes"
27) "You girl, you've always been mistreated, cheated"
28) "They left behind her dreams among the litter"
29) "Couldn't stay all my life down at heel"
30) "The night-time shadows disappear"
31) "You know that I'll wait, as long as it takes"
32) "Break a heart, break a heart of stone"
33) "Neither could change their headstrong ways"
34) "She saw the look in his eyes, 'n she knew better"
35) "Love wasn't much of a friend of mine"
36) "I could smile for a while"
37) "I pray the Lord that I'll grow stronger"
38) "I've got my pride and I know how to hide"
39) "And then before you know where you are, you're sayin' goodbye"
40) "I'm in the middle of nowhere, near the end of the line"
41) "She'll take your money, she'll wreck your world"
42) "And emeralds from mountains thrust toward the sky"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #94

Welcome to the 94th 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.

Couple of notes/ground rules for today's edition:
- There are three sub-groups of songs - 1-10, 11-29, and 30-50. These all relate to the same theme, but in a different manner, or perhaps to a different extent.
- Although I often select topics with a particular relevance to either current events or the number of the MM edition, there is no such (intended) connection this time.
- For each song below, I'm intending a particular version - generally, but not necessarily, the most famous/well known.
- There is an extra credit item to identify, besides title and artist, for each song below. Once the theme is guessed, the extra credit assignment should be clear, though getting the answers will definitely be easier for some of them, harder for others.

1) "If it's a mirror you want, just look into my eyes"
2) "I got my rock moves and I don't need you"
3) "With orders to identify"
4) "I'm crying icicles instead of tears"
5) "I been running trying to get hung up in my mind"
6) "Real loose like a long necked goose"
7) "Won't you do your sister's will?"
8) "By the garden of the willow tree"
9) "It's a rainy afternoon in 1990"
10) "We don't follow fashion; that would be a joke"

11) "And they made you change your name"
12) "And we got no innocence"
13) "You don't have to shout or leap about"
14) "All my teeth, North and South"
15) "At those who shout her name and steal her clothes"
16) "So I look for the light in the pouring rain"
17) "Birds singing in the sycamore tree"
18) "Tell me no secrets, tell me some lies"
19) "Summertime will be a love-in there"
20) "As I walk along, I wonder what went wrong"
21) "Tied up in sorrow, lost in my soul"
22) "Let me see the lines on your hand"
23) "Thinkin' 'bout a life of crime"
24) "Give him two arms to cling to"
25) "I can cast a spell with secrets you can't tell"
26) "That's when Billy would take me walkin'"
27) "You should see my, my little Sis"
28) "There's beauty up above, and things we never take notice of"
29) "It's really you, but no one ever discovers"

30) "They never did like Mama's homemade dress"
31) "Soy capitan"
32) "Preachers, keep on preachin'"
33) "Just like Ronnie sang: Be my little baby!"
34) "Still in the dress she used to wear"
35) "And now MacHeath spends just like a sailor"
36) "Don't tell them to grow up and out of it"
37) "He was born in the summer of his 27th year"
38) "I was born the son of a lawless man"
39) "Beware that hooded old man at the rudder"
40) "But your empty eyes seem to pass me by"
41) "And take a band like the Church Street Five"
42) "Is it in your kiss or just because you're sweet?"
43) "Inventing lovers on the phone"
44) "Mellow as the month of May"
45) "He smiled so I got up and asked for his name"
46) "And so you're back, from outer space"
47) "It ain't nothing but a heartbreaker"
48) "It was a warm spring night at the old town hall"
49) "I play along with the charade"
50) "I can only receive, I can listen to you"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Son Day #1

Let it be... the first rough cut demo from The Flip, a soon-to-be-famous band featuring, on keyboards, one Shalom Rosenfeld! The Flip is available for weddings and bar mitzvahs - at least until they start selling out Madison Square Garden. Meanwhile, you can tell everyone you heard them first here!

Musical Monday #92

Welcome to the 92nd 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. However, this week's MM is a bit off the beaten path, so here a a few additional rules/clues:
- The are five groups of songs separated by spaces: 1-30, 31-41, 42-47, 48-57, and 58-60. Find the sub-theme of each group, which all relate to the overall theme of the MM, but in different ways. Note also that although an apparent solution for the overall theme might quickly emerge, the correct answer is more specific. There is an additional clue to the exact theme below, but it is not in any individual item.
- For all the song groups (except possible the 3rd), I'm looking for a particular version of the song in question, usually the most well-know.
- For the first group only, in addition to the artist/title, try to identify the album on which the song first appeared. You'll soon see why this extra requirement is relevant!

All that said, here goes:
1) "But I have to laugh when she reveals me"
2) "Between you and me and the Staten Island ferry"
3) "Who never had time for a wife"
4) "Well he never had a sweetheart"
5) "But you just can't wait for that call"
6) "Electric babies, blue-jeaned and jaded"
7) "Like another can of beans"
8) "Some will just be now and then"
9) "And he's proud of his scars"
10) "They all bought Cadillacs and left there long ago"
11) "Though you drown in good intentions"
12) "And a couple of paintings from Sears"
13) "Some say it's better but I say it ain't"
14) "Go on and cry in your coffee"
15) "Melodrama's so much fun"
16) "Hardly anyone has seen how good I am"
17) "I've been stranded in the combat zone"
18) "Should I get a set of white wall tires?"
19) "So the graduations hang on the wall"
20) "Sesame Street, what does it mean?"
21) "I'm that voice you're hearing in the hall"
22) "And there's only one good way to reassure"
23) "And I'll walk away a fool or a king"
24) "With her high top sneakers of Italian design"
25) "There are giants out there in the canyons"
26) "Maybe I've set myself up for the kill"
27) "Raise up a multiplex and we will make a sacrifice"
28) "I go walking in my sleep, through the valley of fear"
29) "So I could catch my breath and face the world again"
30) "But I got street savoir faire"

31) "Hey little sister shot gun"
32) "I'm not tryin' to be your highness"
33) "She dashed by me in painted on jeans"
34) "Holding hands, making all kinds of plans"
35) "You can burn my clothes when I'm gone"
36) "Freezin' a moment, leave me paralyzed"
37) "But I don't fit in her society"
38) "It would sure do me good, to do you good"
39) "The birds in the sky would be sad and lonely"
40) "Turn your radio on, and find a slow grooving song"
41) "Did you think I could hate you, or raise my hands to you?"

42) "Who will dance on the floor in the round?"
43) "I heard his fiancee got a letter"
44) "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge"
45) "On the mountain was a treasure"
46) "He's got evil in his eyes, got a reason to despise"
47) "And Circus Boy dances like a monkey on barbed wire"

48) "And all this science I don't understand"
49) "You're the meanest old woman that I've ever seen"
50) "When some sad old dream reminds you"
51) "Well they passed a law in '64"
52) "Thirteen month old baby broke the looking glass"
53) "You broke my will, but what a thrill!"
54) "She almost drives me crazy"
55) "But all of those vows you made were never to be"
56) "A shadow of a man, a face through a window"
57) "Now you look so unhappy, and I feel like a fool"

58) "So when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong"
59) "40,000 men and women everyday"
60) "I wish I could be as carefree and wild"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #90

Welcome to the 90th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. Speaking of which, if you haven't already, please check out last week's MM #89 at Soccer Dad - it's one of the best ones either of us has done so far, and there are still a good few song clues to guess!

Back to this week's, somewhat more workaday MM. 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. Note that there are three groups of songs today, 1-24, 25-27, and 28-30. Each group has its own separate sub-theme, which together represent clues to the overall theme of this week's MM, as well as - hopefully - illuminating the reason/timing for its selection.

1) "Alone in your electric chair"
2) "Look, what's your game baby?"
3) "You've done all the taking, it's your turn to give"
4) "I wanna tell you a story every man oughta know"
5) "They drove you or you drove them crazy"
6) "But I must admit it got the best of me"
7) "It ain't no use in calling out my name, gal"
8) "You've been as constant as a Northern Star"
9) "Make future plans, don't dream about yesterday"
10) "My head was in a bad place"
11) "Quarter moon walking through the Milky Way"
12) "Far too many sins to mention"
13) "Comes to a fix, not afraid to fight"
14) "We were lying together in a silver lining"
15) "I need a little heart and affection, cause love needs a little romance"
16) "So you think your schooling's phoney"
17) "Whisper to me softly, breathe words upon my skin"
18) "And I was in crazy motion till you calmed me down"
19) "You missed two classes and no homework"
20) "When you're alone and in a corner"
21) "I never was much good at coming on real strong"
22) "Think about the love that burns within my heart for you"
23) "When I come home baby, now (night and day)"
24) "Your friends tell you there's no future in loving a married man"

25) "Blinky thumps the gut bass, and solos for a while"
26) "He sees everything and nothing at all"
27) "Count all the bees in the hive"

28) "I don't know why my heart flips, I only know it does"
29) "Now I'm playing it real straight, and yes I cut my hair"
30) "I wandered the highways from Dublin to Berkeley"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #88

Welcome to the 88th 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. Extra credit this time to the first to identify the reason I chose this theme!

There's just one theme today, though there is somewhat of an order to subsets of songs that fit it in slightly different ways.

1) "The smiles returning to the faces"
2) "A suitcase and trunk"
3) "Can you feel it now that spring has come?"
4) "But you misread my meaning when I met you"
5) "Looking at the barrel of an Armalite"
6) "But don't forget that love's a game"
7) "I cried when she said, 'I don't feel the same way'"
8) "Loneliness is a coat you wear"
9) "And though I lose a friend, in the end you will know"
10) "Too much wine and too much song"
11) "My girl and me, we will stay right by the sea"
12) "Like an old dusty road, I get weary from the load"
13) "When you're on a holiday, you can't find the words to say"
14) "So I'm stuck here watching TV"
15) "Afraid of what you'd find if you took a look inside"
16) "In my eyes indisposed, in disguise as no one knows"
17) "Everybody's laughing, everybody's happy"
18) "Want you to know, I'm a rainbow too now"
19) "Where is my spirit? I'm nowhere near it"
20) "A gigantic nuclear furnace"
21) "Took the high dive into your brain"
22) "So I can watch you live and breathe your storylines"
23) "Thank you for that smile upon your face"
24) "And I can't sail my yacht, he's taken everything I've got" (no, this isn't by Bernie Madoff)
25) "No more falsehoods or derisions"
26) "Now don't want you back for the weekend"
27) "It's the morning and just we two"
28) "I'm so proud to know that she is mine"
29) "And this house just ain't no home anytime she goes away"
30) "I'd give to you a day just like today"
31) "Everybody's hustlin' just to have a little scene"
32) "Because you came to my rescue"
33) "When I awoke, dear, I was mistaken"
34) "We'll walk barefoot on life's gravel together"
35) "Make me feel fine when I'm feelin' wrongly down"
36) "He was just a hired hand"
37) "Only change will bring you out of the darkness"
38) "Laden with happiness and tears"
39) "Dirty old river, must you keep rolling?"
40) "I can't believe our warlord's dead"
41) "Oh, carry my loved one home safely to me"
42) "She's been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream"

Good luck and enjoy!

Steeling from the Rich

Though I'm a lifelong Redskins fan, I couldn't help feeling bad for the Steelers after reading this. And as a Yankees fan, I'm outraged at the last paragraph! "Rest assured I was on the internet within minutes, registering my disgust throughout the world..." (can you ID this quote?)

Pittsburgh, PA.

The Super Bowl XLIII Champion Pittsburgh Steelers, the only team to win six titles, will soon be losing half of those trophies. After a meeting between NFL Commissioner Rodger Gadel and President Barack Obama, Obama decided to redistribute half of their Steeler Super Bowl victories and trophies to less fortunate teams in the league.

“We live everyday in the country that invented the Super Bowl.” said Obama “We are not about to lose this Great American tradition in the wake of these difficult times.” Obama’s plan calls for the Steelers, who are a successful NFL team, to give half of their Super Bowl trophies to teams that are not successful or have not been as successful as the Steelers. “The Detroit Lions are just as much a part of the same fiber of the NFL as the Steelers and they should, no rather will, be entitled to a Super Bowl Trophy as well.” Obama explains in his plan that he has imposed on Godel and the NFL.

The Pittsburgh Steelers, who by virtue of hard work, excellent team play, stellar draft choices, responsible investing of free agents, careful hiring of coaches and excellent community service and commitment to their fans, has prospered greatly during the past 30 years and have won six Super Bowl Trophies. But President Barack Obama’s plan calls for the Pittsburgh Steelers to carry the larger burden of the NFL’s less successful teams. Obama went on to further proclaim, “In these difficult times we are all in this to work together. We must reclaim the NFL Championship Dream for every team, for every city and for every fan.”

“My plan will not affect 31 of the 32 teams in the league.” Obama assures. That’s over 95 percent of the teams in the NFL will not have to worry about loosing any Super Bowl Trophies. “The worst teams in the NFL and the teams that can’t seem to get a break and win a championship will no longer have to worry about going without a title.” Obama promises. “We are a country and league of hope. We all need to make a change. It does not matter the color of the teams uniforms, the personal decisions that the teams make or their performance but rather if they are a member of this great American league.”

The Super Bowl XLIII trophy will be redistributed to the 0-16 Detroit Lions. Through no fault of their own incompetence, the Lions could not manage a victory all season and this trophy will help ease the pain of their lack of performance and give them hope once again. The redistribution of Super Bowl XL trophy will go directly to the Steeler’s division rival the Cincinnati Bengals. The Bengals who also have fallen on hard times have never won a Super Bowl. This victory will bring a smile to hundreds of Bengal fans all over the world as they can now celebrate. Finally, one of the Steeler’s two Super Bowl victories over the Dallas Cowboys will go back to the Cowboys since the league needs to provide hope in the face of difficulty and provide hope in the face of uncertainty. This is a heavy burden for the Steelers but together we can all prosper.

All hope is not lost for Pittsburgh fans, Barack Obama has another plan in place. Obama has meet with MLB and commissioner Bud Selig on a similar plan. The New York Yankees will redistribute two of their world series trophies to the Pittsburgh Pirates as a supplement to their loosing 16 straight seasons and counting. This plan will help stimulate the Pirates and enable them to regain the American Dream. Barack Obama will be meeting with the NHL and Michael Phelps in the upcoming weeks as this issue is high on his agenda for “Hope and Change.”

PS: April Fool! (I hope!) H/T Snopes

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Musical Monday #86

Welcome to the 86th 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 there are three groups of songs, demarcated by spaces. Each group has a separate theme of its own, which, when taken together, will point to the overall theme of this week's Musical Monday. Yes, I know the middle group contains just one song (#33), but I'm quite sure you clever folks do still have a good chance of solving the puzzle!

1) "We were liberated from the fold, that's all"
2) "But she gets it while she can"
3) "Gonna' hang me up in the doorway"
4) "Yeah, the bad guys know us"
5) "I ain't got time for true confessions"
6) "And if I do I know the way there"
7) "I pound on the windows like a bee inside a jar"
8) "My favorite flavor, cherry red"
9) "Sometimes you keep busy reaching out for something"
10) "Ivanhoe and Lancelot, they don't envy me"
11) "And pocket full of keys that have no bounds"
12) "We are but a moment's sunlight, fading in the grass"
13) "I'm thinking about the fireworks that go off when you smile"
14) "And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her"
15) "I love too hard my friends sometimes say"
16) "How white my shirts could be"
17) "I've got no time for trivialities"
18) "Will you walk away from a fool and his money?"
19) "I nearly died from hospitality"
20) "If you wanna play hide and seek with love"
21) "She throws the want ads right my way"
22) "You wave it like a flag, you wear it like a crown"
23) "Where we can get together, and ease up our mind"
24) "In my mind you have taken up permanent space"
25) "Lovely is fhe feelin' now, fever, temperatures risin' now"
26) "I can build a castle from a single grain of sand"
27) "We're all sensitive people with so much to give"
28) "The one that made me shiver, made my knees start to quiver"
29) "He says, it's three a.m., there's too much noise"
30) "Watched his hair been turnin' grey"
31) "You say you hungry, I give you meat"
32) "So bar maid bring a pitcher, another round o' brew"

33) "But I say, please listen when I say" OR "And not me but the people they say"

34) "Makes you give in and cry"
35) "There's some kind of magic inside you"
36) "Maybe I'm an open book because I know you're mine"
37) "That fatal kiss is all we need"
38) "See him surface in every shadow"
39) "You play with words, you play with love"
40) "A pretty face can hide an evil mind"

Good luck and enjoy!

Blasts From Purim Past

Sorry folks! I had this brilliant, erudite, hilarious Purim spiel all written and set to post last night. We went out to megillah reading, and Sandy, insulted at being left behind, ate my entire post! I think I may be taking that Korean restaurant up on their offer after all...

Above you see Sandy, pleading for clemency after finishing off all those delicious electrons! :-)

So now that I've found a scape-dog for my laziness, here are some links to my past Purim posts for you to enjoy again. They might be leftovers, but hopefully still tasty!

5766: You Might Be Yeshivish

5767: Dear Abby (Abie?), Boro Park Style

5768: Ain't It a Shem

5768: Maseches Grynegznham

And for good measure, yesterday's Purim-themed Musical Monday!

HAPPY PURIM 5769!!

Musical Monday #84

Welcome to the 84th 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.

Couple of notes. Today in particular, I'm especially looking for the singer as well as the name of each song- the former will often be more difficult. As a bit of help, I'll state that I included no more than two songs by any given artist, and that any such pairs are consecutive. Otherwise, the songs are in no particular order. I also kept the total to 50, simply as a nice round number. That said, I especially encourage folks to add their additional fitting songs for the rest to guess, once the theme is IDed - which I suspect won't take long! :-)

Let the fun begin!!

1) "As long as you don't let 'em in your school"
2) "The last time I needed twenty stitches"
3) "There was junk all over the floor"
4) "Don't you know that other kids are starving in Japan?"
5) "He made my lapels an inch too wide!"
6) "And also crepe suzettes and steak"
7) "Cause we can't find reverse"
8) "Colonel Sanders wants to cook his goose"
9) "To complicate the matter, though it really brought me joy"
10) "I light a match to see the dash"
11) "Sell it to the circus, what the heck"
12) "They can't play baseball, they don't wear sweaters"
13) "No need explaining the one leg remaining"
14) "They don't chase squirrels at all"
15) "You can dice, you can slice and fillet them"
16) "And basket weavers who sit and smile"
17) "Hey man, dig that was that a red stop sign"
18) "It was right outside the Frontier Deli"
19) "The guy who does the voice for Scooby Doo"
20) "Once while swimming cross turtle creek"
21) "One day I looked into my kit"
22) "We shared a seat and we shared our tales"
23) "They has a fit while I commit my social suicide"
24) "Don't be a naughty eskimo"
25) "He took in the four am show at the Clark"
26) "It's just a jump to the left"
27) "To get a jolt from my electrodes"
28) "As a gift they left a blue silk ribbon tied into a bow"
29) "And his fate is still unlearned"
30) "I hollered...Don't look Ethel!"
31) "Well, he brought that camel to a screechin' halt"
32) "Our country's got a feeling, really hit the ceiling"
33) "I got a John Keats autographed Grecian urn"
34) "Did you do the monkey?"
35) "Don't touch that, for goodness sake; you'll release the parking brake"
36) "And then he swung from the tree and lit on the ground"
37) "Vould would leave it if you could?"
38) "How in the world could I keep my seat?"
39) "And the pudding made of fig"
40) "You been keeping love from me just like you were a miser"
41) "Doctor, to relieve this belly ache?"
42) "Oh no, Mitzi's head just did the splits"
43) "My basketball coach, he done kicked me off the team"
44) "With telltale traces of hippie on his chin"
45) "Come one come all who walk or crawl; price just two lids a head"
46) "On Wednesdays I go shopping"
47) "We do routines and chorus scenes"
48) "My natural exuberance spills out all over the place"
49) "Your face is ok, but your purse is too tight"
50) "Bible punching heavyweight, evangelistic boxing kangaroo"

Good luck, enjoy, and Happy Purim!!