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Musical monday #149

Every week Elie and I alternate hosting Musical Monday.
1) That's dangerous driving baby, The policeman said.
2) She put on dark glasses and long sleeved blouses
3) It's only when your poison spreads
4) He's tearin' you apart, oh every every day
5) You're gonna choke on it too
6) They found him underneath a train
7) She said "Home, James," and he hit the gas
8) sit down I got some bad news that's gonna hurt
9) When I first found out I hurt all over
10) Johnny jumped up and he hit him,
11) It's time for a few small repairs she said
12) Everything you own in the box to the left
13) Right now, he's probably buying her some fruity little drink
14) Patty Hearst heard the burst
15) I've got two miles till, he makes bail
16) Ha! I just found me a brand new box of matches yeah
17) A Siamese cat of a girl
18) With the wife of a jealous man
19) As she spells out regret in perfect time
20) The doctor came in stinking of gin

Here are the answers (botched numbering and all) for Musical Monday #147 which Yitz correctly identified as being Shakespearean. I figured that someone would solve due to the Romeo and Juliet songs, but Yitz solved it from "Cruel to be Kind." The research and observations below are from Clayton. We got the idea for this after discussing "Let's kill all the lawyers" in the legal Musical Monday a few weeks ago.

Shakespeare generally
1) I ain't a lookin' for a smart guy school guy
Buckaroo - Lee Ann Womack
2) I try to think about hair-do's, tattoos
try to think about Elvis - Patty Loveless
3) "And if my hands are stained forever, and the altar should refuse me"
The King Must Die - Elton John
4) "And he just smoked my eyelids and punched my cigarette"
Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again - Bob Dylan

Romeo and Juliet

5)"Bring me southern kisses from your room"
Romeo's Tune - Steve Forbert
6)"You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold"
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
7) "You say you wanna stay, I say I wanna be alone"
Fire - The Pointer Sisters
8) And it was clear she couldn't go on"
Don't fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
9) "Lonely days turn to lonely nights"
Take the Long Way Home - Suptertramp
10) "...'Hey man, gimme a cigarette' and they all reach for their pack"
Romeo is Bleeding - Tom Waits
11) "And if you never hear from me, that just means I would rather not"
Domino - Van Morrison
12) "I think, yeah I guess we can, say I"
No Myth - Michael Penn
13) "And maybe he sings off key, but that's all right by me"
Let's Hear It For the Boy - Denise Williams
14) "I'm going to listen to my 45's, ain't it wonderful to be alive"
Keeping the Faith - Billy Joel
15) "You are my destiny, I can't let go baby can't you see"
Cherish - Madonna
16) "Yeah, yeah, my heart's in a whirl"
Calendar Girl - Neil Sedaka
17) "What comes around goes around, I'll tell you why"
Round and Round - Ratt
18) "She leads them on a wild goose chase now"
Fun, Fun, Fun - The Beach Boys

All Henrys (all parts)

19) "But the big, bad world doesn't owe you a thing"
Get Over It - The Eagles
20) "Fire flew from his fingertips"
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - The Charlie Daniels Band
21) "I've been in my mind, it's such a fine line"
Heart of Gold - Neil Young
22) "...beckons you to enter his web of sin"
Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey
23) "She's been married seven times before"
I'm Henry the Eighth, I Am - Herman's Hermits

Julius Caesar
24) The brightest light that shines
Right Down the Line - Gerry Rafferty ("constant as the northern star" - phrase from Julius Caesar)
25) Invisible transfers, long distance calls,
Dogs of War - Pink Floyd (Julius Caesar - "cry 'Havoc'! and let slip the dogs of war")

Merchant of Venice
These 3 use the phrase "all that glitters is gold", though it's originally "all that glitters is NOT gold" from The Merchant of Venice.
26) Rings of smoke through the trees
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
27) I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed
All Star - Smash Mouth
28) You can fool some people sometimes,but you can't fool all the people all the time.
Get Up, Stand Up - Bob Marley

Merry Wives of Windsor
29) Show with everything but Yul Brynner
One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head ("...and the world's your oyster" - originally "the world's mine oyster" from The Merry Wives of Windsor)
30) I got a fever of a hundred and three
Hot Blooded - Foreigner (title phrase is from The Merry Wives of Windsor)

As you like it
31) Living in a fisheye lens
Limelight - Rush
32) You are the antibody
Then The Morning Comes - Smash Mouth ("and the world's a stage, and the world's a faze")

Assorted
33) But you still mystify, and I want to know why.
Cruel to be Kind - Nick Lowe (title phrase is from Hamlet)
"Love is blind" was used in several plays.
34) I kinda hope we get stuck
Love in an Elevator - Aerosmith ("but where am I gonna look, they tell me that love is blind")
35) Leaves behind a tragic world
Listen to What the Man Said - Paul McCartney - ("love is blind, well I don't know but I say love is kind")
36) I set out to get you with a fine tooth comb
Islands in the Stream - Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton - ("tender love is blind, it requires a dedication")
37) Try a new translation
The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of - Carly Simon (phrase "such stuff as dreams are made on" originally from The Tempest)
38) Corporation t-shirts, stupid bloody Tuesday.
"I am the Walrus" uses a recording of a BBC radio play of King Lear at the end.

Some useful websites:

This has been pretty educational. I didn't realize so many common phrases originally came from Shakespeare. ("Knock knock, who's there?" comes from Macbeth, believe it or not.)

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/phrases-sayings-shakespeare.html
http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes
http://www.pathguy.com/shakeswo.htm