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November 8, 2010
Musical monday #164
Elie and I alternate hosting Musical Monday. We give you the lyrics and you guess the theme tying the lyrics together. There are still unidentified lyrics at last week's Musical Monday #163. What ties the groups of songs - mostly pairs - together? 29 and 30 don't 100% fit the theme, but if you know a little history it might seem that way.
1) You lit the fuse I stand accused, you were the first for me
2) By Telling Me a Lie, without a Reason Why
3) I would be wishing today on a four leaf clover, and leaving you with the last thing on my mind
4) walk a mile to drink your water.
5) So don't delay act now supplies are running out
6) and a freight train running through the middle of my head
7) Three hundred sixty five degrees
8) Just like a wildfire, you're running all over town
9) You ask me for a contribution
10) So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies
11) I tell you now, they don't mean a thing
12) Over the seas in all degrees
13) The teacher told me I should stay after school
14) I heard your number ringin', I went cold inside
15) Like a worn-out recording, of a favorite song.
16) But you've been told many times before Messiahs pointed to the door
17) But when it come to being lucky she's cursed
18) Step outside but not to brawl
19) I looked at the clock and it was half past four
20) Now next Friday come I didn't get the rent, and out the door I went
21) You wanna kick them blues
22) I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine
23) This waiting 'round's killing me
24) those nice young men in their clean white coats
25) I left my baby and I feel so bad
26) What hijacked my world that night
27) See the boys and me we mean business
28) I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride
29) We knee-skinned it you and me, we knee-skinned that river red
30) On the Lake Geneva shoreline
Yitz implicitly identified the theme of Musical Monday #162 as book related and TRN more specifically that it was about the elements of a book coming together.
1) It's a thousand pages, give or take a few,
Paperback Writer - The Beatles
2) She had all her brains and the beauty
Lady Writer - Dire Straits
3) I'm young again, even though I'm very old.
I write the songs - Barry Manilow
4) Been alone on a desert island, and I've been a guru too
Don't you write her off - McGuinn, Clark and Hillman
5) Mail it today if it's only to say, that you're leaving me.
Why don't you write me? - Simon and Garfunkel
6) And then the band slowed the tempo, and the music gets you down.
The breakup song (They don't write them like that anymore) - Greg Kihn Band
7) I'm younger than that now
My back pages - Bob Dylan, the Byrds
8) You pretend it doesn't bother you, but you just want to explode
Turn the page - Bob Seger
9) Combed my hair in a thousand ways
Every picture tells a story - Rod Stewart
10) Listen to the tide slowly turning, wash all our heartaches away
The Story in your eyes - The Moody Blues
11) The younger girls so easy to trick
That's my story and I'm sticking to it - Jimmy Buffett
12) Outside's the rain, the driving snow
Cover me - Bruce Springsteen
13) You're looking so good, everything's in place
Cover Girl - New Kids on the Block
14) $10,000 a show
Cover of the Rolling Stone - Dr. Hook and his Medicine show
15) You can't judge a fish by lookin' in the pond
You can't judge a book by its cover - Bo Diddley
16) From your daddy to the prettiest bride he's ever seen
Book of Dreams - Bruce Springsteen
17) There's a chapter of secrets, and words to confess
The book of my life - Sting/ Th Police
18) And the simple secret of the plot;
I could write a book - Frank Sinatra, Harry Connick Jr. et al.
19) I'm in the drawer by your bed
The book you never read - Tracy Lawrence
20) I took out every pretty girl in town
My little red book - Burt Bachrach et al.
21) I heard your voice, I had no choice, I hang up on you
Little black book - Belinda Carlisle
22) Tore a page of my heart
Book of Love - Fleetwood Mac
Not a good 90 day bet
Making the political personal
Recent jewish blogging 111510
Oh, that historic compromise
Bibi: tom's frequent non-flier
Just like tom friedman greens
Happier times for Happy Meals?
Mediterranean conference cancelled on account of cooties
The day the anniversary died
9) Revolution, The Beatles
Posted by: trn at November 8, 2010 8:19 AM17. The First Cut is the Deepest - Sheryl Crow
Posted by: Gail at November 8, 2010 8:27 AM28) I'm wanted, dead or alive?
Posted by: trn at November 8, 2010 8:55 AM5. Walking on the Sun � Smash Mouth
11. Leaving on a Jet Plane
17. The First Cut is the Deepest � Sheryl Crow
22. Rehab
11. Leaving on a Jet Plane
Is by Peter, Paul, and Mary.
If I'm right about 28, maybe it's by Bon Jovi?
Posted by: trn at November 8, 2010 9:15 AM6 - I'm On Fire - Bruce Springsteen
13 - Bang the Drum All Day - Todd Rundgren
15 - Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes
20 - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer - George Thorogood
24 - They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha! - Napoleon XIV
25 - I Fought the Law - The Bobby Fuller Four
30 - Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
If we don't figure out the theme soon, might we have to call 911?
Posted by: trn at November 8, 2010 9:58 AM16. I'm Free - The Who
Posted by: Yitzchak at November 8, 2010 11:45 AMMy bonus from MM 162:
"Picture yourself when you're getting old"--"Picture Book" by the Kinks
Posted by: Yitzchak Goodman at November 8, 2010 12:12 PM2. sky high - jigsaw
Posted by: benjie at November 8, 2010 12:29 PM7 - Burning Down the House - Talking Heads
Posted by: Clayton at November 8, 2010 1:55 PMI am still unsure of the theme. There seems to be a common thread of escaping or needing to escape or being in danger, but there are a number of "running from the law" songs that appeared in previous MMs and which are not here although "Wanted" by Bon Jovi is here--and that's just about being "wanted dead or alive" metaphorically, I think. And why is "Revolution" (or "Revolution 1") by the Beatles here?
Posted by: Yitzchak Goodman at November 8, 2010 2:14 PMAnd why is "Revolution" (or "Revolution 1") by the Beatles here?
Just to make it hard?
Posted by: trn at November 8, 2010 7:40 PMThe progressive pairing of Walking on the Sun and I'm on Fire is just so clever.
Posted by: trn at November 8, 2010 7:47 PM6.I'm On Fire-Bruce Springsteen
16.I'm Free-The Who
17. The First Cut is the Deepest-Rod Stewart, Sheryl Crow
20. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer-George Thorogood
25.I Fought the Law-The Clash
26. Back on the Chain Gang-The Pretenders
28. Wanted Dead or Alive-Bon Jovi
30. Smoke on the Water-Deep Purple
Perhaps the theme regards in some way consequences? If one walks on the sun, one will be on fire; if one fights the law, one might find oneself back on the chain gang.
Posted by: trn at November 9, 2010 8:33 AM22. Rehab
Is this that Amy Winehouse song?
Perhaps the theme regards in some way consequences? If one walks on the sun, one will be on fire; if one fights the law, one might find oneself back on the chain gang.
The best I can do is that this MM is about escape and things one might want or need to escape from. "Walking on the sun" contains the line "your neighborhood is under attack." In Revolution the would-be Revolutionary is told he should "free his mind instead." Like the speaker of "I'm free," who escaped from a different sort of brainwashing?
Posted by: Yitzchak Goodman at November 10, 2010 11:00 PMHere's what's what so far:
1) You lit the fuse I stand accused, you were the first for me
2) "Sky High" - Jigsaw
3) I would be wishing today on a four leaf clover, and leaving you with the last thing on my mind
4) walk a mile to drink your water.
5) "Walking on the Sun" - Smash Mouth
6) "I'm On Fire" - Bruce Springsteen
7) "Burning Down the House" - Talking Heads
8) Just like a wildfire, you're running all over town
9) "Revolution" - The Beatles
10) So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies
11) "Leaving on a Jet Plane" - Peter, Paul & Mary
12) Over the seas in all degrees
13) "Bang the Drum All Day" - Todd Rundgren
14) I heard your number ringin', I went cold inside
15) "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" - Rupert Holmes
16) "I'm Free" - The Who
17) "The First Cut is the Deepest" - Rod Stewart, Sheryl Crow
18) Step outside but not to brawl
19) I looked at the clock and it was half past four
20) "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" - George Thorogood
21) You wanna kick them blues
22) "Rehab" - Amy Winehouse
23) This waiting 'round's killing me
24) "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha!" - Napoleon XIV
25) "I Fought the Law" - The Bobby Fuller Four, the Clash
26) "Back on the Chain Gang" - The Pretenders
27) See the boys and me we mean business
28) "Wanted Dead or Alive" - Bon Jovi
29) We knee-skinned it you and me, we knee-skinned that river red
30) "Smoke on the Water" - Deep Purple
With the assistance of the hints:
10 - America - Simon & Garfunkel
21 - Cocaine - Eric Clapton
29 - Cuyahoga - R.E.M.
As for #27... Every time I looked at it, I kept thinking of "The Boys are Back in Town" by Thin Lizzy but I knew that wasn't right. Then it finally occurred to me that they also did "Jailbreak", which fits nicely. So that's my guess, though I'm not sure of it.
Posted by: Clayton at November 16, 2010 9:55 AM