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Time for another exciting edition of Match Game Monday. The following songs can be broken up into 6 pairs based on some common theme.

1 point for the title, 1 point for the artist, and 1 point for each correct match....



1. Moses went walking with the staff of wood. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Newton got beaned by the apple good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

2. I was dreamin' when I wrote this
So sue me if I go too fast
But life is just a party
And parties weren't meant to last

3. Ain't no use in complainin'
When you got a job to do
Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in
And that's when I met you

4. Anybody here seen my old friend John?
Can you tell me where he's gone?

5. Well, send 'em your heart
So they know that someone cares
And their lives will be stronger and free

6. Hypnotizing, mesmerizing me
She was everything I dreamed she'd be
Sweet surrender

7. Double cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in the store
Morphine city slippin' dues, down to see that

8. All you want to do is ride around Sally
Ride, Sally, ride.

9. She was gonna be an actress
She was gonna be a star
She was gonna shake her ass
On the hood of Whitesnake's car

10. If I could go back in time
Well, I know somehow you'd still be mine
I wouldn't be so blind
To that wonderful

11. A cloud appears above your head.
A beam of light comes shining down on you.
Shining down on you.

12. We've got stars directing our fate
and we're praying it's not too late
'cause we know we're falling from grace

Here I go again...(which is not one of today's songs)

Spoiler

1.
REM- Man on the Moon

2. Prince- 1999

3. Bryan Adams- Summer of 69

5. We Are the World- USA for Africa. Our high school choir was conscripted to sing this constantly. I hate this damn song.

6. That awful "Oh What A Night" song, don't remember the artist

8. Mustang Sally, but the only artist I can think of is the Commitments, which isn't right, although they did cover it.

9. She was gonna be an actress
She was gonna be a star
She was gonna shake her ass
On the hood of Whitesnake's car

This one is going to bug the crap out of me all day, because I know I've heard it.

Spoiler

1. Moses went walking with the staff of wood. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Newton got beaned by the apple good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Man On the Moon - R.E.M.

2. I was dreamin' when I wrote this
So sue me if I go too fast
But life is just a party
And parties weren't meant to last
1999 - Prince

3. Ain't no use in complainin'
When you got a job to do
Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in
And that's when I met you
Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams

4. Anybody here seen my old friend John?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
Abraham, Martin and John - Dion

5. Well, send 'em your heart
So they know that someone cares
And their lives will be stronger and free
We are the World - USA for Africa

6. Hypnotizing, mesmerizing me
She was everything I dreamed she'd be
Sweet surrender
December 1963 (Oh What a Night) - The Four Seasons

7. Double cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in the store
Morphine city slippin' dues, down to see that
?

8. All you want to do is ride around Sally
Ride, Sally, ride.
Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett

9. She was gonna be an actress
She was gonna be a star
She was gonna shake her ass
On the hood of Whitesnake's car
?

10. If I could go back in time
Well, I know somehow you'd still be mine
I wouldn't be so blind
To that wonderful
'65 Love Affair - Paul Davis

11. A cloud appears above your head.
A beam of light comes shining down on you.
Shining down on you.
I Ran - A Flock of Seagulls

12. We've got stars directing our fate
and we're praying it's not too late
'cause we know we're falling from grace
?

Matchups.
#10 and #3 both mention years in 2-digit form in the titles
#5 and #11 are both awful 80s songs by awful bands
#4 and #6 both talk about stuff that happened in the '60s
So I'm left with 3 songs I know (#1, #2, #8) and 3 I don't (#7, #9, #12)
#1 matches up with #9
#2 matches up with #7
#3 matches up with #12

Edited to add spoiler

Spoiler

4. Abraham, Martin and John -- Donovan

9. Taxi -- Dan Fogelberg

1-8, 2-4, 3-12, 5-9, 6-10, 7-11

--Bob

Spoiler

1. Man on the Moon - R.E.M.
2. 1999 - Prince
3. Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams
4. Abraham, Martin and John - Dion
5. We are the World - USA for Africa
6. December 1963 - Four Seasons
7. 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
8. Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett?
9. 1985 - Bowling For Soup
10. '65 Love Affair - Paul Davis
11. I Ran - Flock of Seagulls
12. Nope

Matches
Ugh. Six year songs
1999 - nothing from that year I see
1969 - Abraham Martin and John?
1963 - Mustang Sally?
1979 - I got nothin'
1985 - We are the World. Definitely.
1965 - nothing

So, we are left with Man on the Moon (early 90s), I Ran (1982ish), and #12 (I'm guessing the one from 1999)

So...

either I have some of these songs wrong or this isn't the theme, although it seems to fit.

Wait! Big time revelation!

1-3 (Man on the moon in 1969)
4-6 (JFK killed in 1963)
7-11 (Iranian hostage crisis began in 1979)
9-5 (We are the World occurred in 1985)
10-8 (1965 Mustang? It's a guess)
2-12 (since Mustang Sally doesn't seem to have anything to do with the year 1999)

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Time for another exciting edition of Match Game Monday. The following songs can be broken up into 6 pairs based on some common theme.

1 point for the title, 1 point for the artist, and 1 point for each correct match....

Spoiler

1. Man on the Moon - R.E.M.

2. 1999 - Prince

3. Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams (Not to be confused with the MUCH better Ryan Adams)

4. Abraham, Martin & John - Dion

5. Yikes! This song sucks

6. Oh What a Night (December '63) - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons

7. 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins (Their best song)

8. Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett also The Rascals

9. 1985 - Bowling For Soup

10. Go back in time and don't come back until you have better lyrics!

11. I Ran - A Flock of Seagulls

12. I don't know, but the lyrics stink.

1-3
4-6 (a month off, hope it's correct)
7-11 (very clever beast)
8-10 (WAG)
2-5 (WAG)
9-12 (WAG)

Very good beast, an interesting one

I'm blaming my poor performance today on the chest congestion - wracking cough - body aches - clogged sinuses - watery eyes (etc., etc.)

Sympathy is greatly appreciated, and I've already put in for a Sub tomorrow. Probably should have done it today, but I was gonna be "tough"! Yeah, right.

Spoiler

1.
2. 1999 - Prince
3. Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams
4. Abraham, Martin and John - Dion
5.
6. Dec. '63 (Oh What a Night) - Four Seasons
7.
8. Ride, Sally, Ride - Wilson Pickett
9. I'll guess Whitesnake, in case they were being precious with the song
10.
11.
12.

1. Moses went walking with the staff of wood. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Newton got beaned by the apple good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Man on the Moon - REM

2. I was dreamin' when I wrote this
So sue me if I go too fast
But life is just a party
And parties weren't meant to last
1999 - Prince

3. Ain't no use in complainin'
When you got a job to do
Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in
And that's when I met you
Summer of '69

4. Anybody here seen my old friend John?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
Abraham Martin and John - Dion

5. Well, send 'em your heart
So they know that someone cares
And their lives will be stronger and free
We Are the World - USA for Africa

6. Hypnotizing, mesmerizing me
She was everything I dreamed she'd be
Sweet surrender
December 1963 (Oh What a Night) - The Four Seasons

7. Double cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in the store
Morphine city slippin' dues, down to see that
1979 - Smashing Pumpkins

8. All you want to do is ride around Sally
Ride, Sally, ride.
Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett

9. She was gonna be an actress
She was gonna be a star
She was gonna shake her ass
On the hood of Whitesnake's car
1985 - Bowling for Soup (This song really bugs me, because it's the kind of stuff you'd get if you tried to write a song about someone who lived in an era you were too young to remember or not even born in, and all you had to work with was historical references. Pretty much every 80's cliche appears somewhere in this song, and it spans almost the entire calendar decade [Someone who listened to Blondie is more likely to have wanted to shake their ass on the disco floor with John Travolta a couple years before rather than take Tawny Kitaen's place a full 7 years later]. Then there's the line about "Who's that other guy in Van Halen". Huh!?!?!? This certainly isn't a reference to the 3 minute long Gary Cherone era... it's gotta be about Sammy Hagar.... who only joined Van Halen and had several big hits with Van Halen a year before Whitesnake ever hit it big. Curse mini for ever introducing me to this song... and curse her even more because I always think this song is done by one of her favorite bands, Cake )....

10. If I could go back in time
Well, I know somehow you'd still be mine
I wouldn't be so blind
To that wonderful
'65 Love Affair - Paul Davis

11. A cloud appears above your head.
A beam of light comes shining down on you.
Shining down on you.
I Ran - A Flock of Seagulls

12. We've got stars directing our fate
and we're praying it's not too late
'cause we know we're falling from grace
Millennium - Robbie Williams


The theme was songs containing years in them matching up with events that occured in those years.


1-3 - This was the most obvious match since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the Summer of '69, and not surprisingly the one I thought of that inspired this particular game.

2-12 - 1999 and the turn of the millennium. Thank God I will never have to listen to any of that Y2K garbage again....

4-6 - JFK, whose line I referenced in the song, was assassinated in late November 1963 (Almost perfect, but the year was all that mattered)

5-9 - While We Are the World was recorded in January 1985, TBone was right on that this was more in reference tothat July's Live Aid (which kicked off on my 10th birthday) and the increasing awareness in the music community of the starving kids in Africa.

7-11 - Iran (Obviously a play on the title I Ran) very much dominated the news in 1979.

8-10 - 1965 is generally considered to be the year of the Ford Mustang's debut, though obviously in the car business, the models are released early. Then there's the oddity of the '64 1/2, but since 1964 wasn't in any of the songs, it still pointed to this particular match.



Points:

mntetn 5
mikehardware 4
Nelly 18
Eyegor 21
fanny 22
melly 18
ladysoleil 9
TLITF 19
ghost 4
vails 21
mrkelley 25
Bob 3
TBone 30 (Our third perfect score of the season, and not surprisingly, all three perfect scores have occured on Mondays, when the matches can help determine unknown songs, as it did for TBone and 1979)
KT 21
Confessor 8
starfish 28
etaoin 4
TiV 22
hermillion 9

I have my answers in my back pocket--I came to print this out and had no chance to come back and play. I wouldn't have had ANY correct matches except by accident, but I had most of the songs.

So, curse you right back! And Cake is nothing like BFS. Right now, I think I will dedicate "Nugget" to you....

I didn't do too badly, considering I completely botched the theme. I thought that you were matching based on the year that each of the non-numbered sings was released.

Vails wrote:I didn't do too badly, considering I completely botched the theme. I thought that you were matching based on the year that each of the non-numbered sings was released.

I forgot to mention it in my answers post, but I do not feel fortunate for losing out on the post where you made your commentary. Reading the comments and written-out thought processes in people's answers are sometimes the best part of games like this. Heck, Marley used to give "Sonny & Jennifer" points for extraneous comments when he ran Timeline....

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