❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

Day 12: A song for or about the person you cannot get out of your head

Maybe I'm reading into this the wrong way but I don't know that there is anyone I can't get out of my head. There are people from my past that pop up in my thoughts from time to time but if it's in an unpleasant way, they're evicted expeditiously.

I was recently thinking back to my bestie from middle school. We weren't just boy-crazy, more boy-certifiably-insane. When we weren't obsessing over boys and teachers at school, there was Adam Levine who we both agreed was absolutely dreamy. And that first Maroon 5 album holds up surprisingly well so I think I'll finish listening to it now because I'm not into much of their newer stuff.

Maroon 5 - Harder To Breathe
 
Day 12: A song for or about the person you cannot get out of your head

Maybe I'm reading into this the wrong way but I don't know that there is anyone I can't get out of my head. There are people from my past that pop up in my thoughts from time to time but if it's in an unpleasant way, they're evicted expeditiously.

I was recently thinking back to my bestie from middle school. We weren't just boy-crazy, more boy-certifiably-insane. When we weren't obsessing over boys and teachers at school, there was Adam Levine who we both agreed was absolutely dreamy. And that first Maroon 5 album holds up surprisingly well so I think I'll finish listening to it now because I'm not into much of their newer stuff.

Maroon 5 - Harder To Breathe
Boy-sane. Tracks.
 
Day 12: A song for or about the person you cannot get out of your head

I'm kinda with Curious_slut on this one. I don't think about her all that much anymore. But funny enough, I did send her a cross country email yesterday just to catch up and attach a pic of my newborn granddaughter. But this is as close as it comes to the one that got away and this is the song that broke the ice. An oldie...

 
Day 12: A song for or about the person you cannot get out of your head

Beautiful and Damned - Drag the River

Somebody should have said sorry
Know it don't come easy
Been alone a lot lately
Sometimes this house feels so lonely
Then when you’re right next to me
Overheard someone leaving

Sad little girl

Your eyes red like a rose
Your hands bleeding and broke
I believe in time
Time can heel your wounds
You can’t
You’re beautiful and damned

Daylight saves what the nighttime brings
Can’t forget our wedding rings
Know you’re writing how strong
Youmust be
To be with me

Sad little girl

Your eyes red like a rose
Your hands bleeding and broke
I believe in time
Time to heel your wounds
You can’t
You're beautiful and damned
You’re beautiful and damned
You’re beautiful and damned

Sad little girl


 
“I've got a brand-new pair of roller skates…”

You are 13-years-old, you are at the skating rink (or whatever culturally appropriate event supplies anticipation, yearning, attraction, and absolute fucking terror in equal portions), it is last “couples' skate,” and you got up enough courage to ask someone to skate with you, and they said "okay." What song do you want played?

Day 13: A song 13-year-old you would have wanted to be played for the last “Couples' Skate” of the night.
 
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UDPW Day 10: So, for their fiftieth anniversary, pick a song you like that was played on Saturday Night Live.

Yeah, somehow I whiffed on this, probably owing some to wanting to find a video of an actual performance of one of the songs, which can be a bit scarce the further back you go, even into the 90s, which I wouldn't think would be the case. Someone at NBC should work on that.

But, I found the audio, even if it's a little meh. But I fucking love this record, and this song, and so here you go. (Foo Fighters, Stacked Actors)

 
Day 13: A song 13-year-old you would have wanted to be played for the last “Couples' Skate” of the night.

Collide - Howie Day

While this song came out before I was 13 (barely) it was still wildly popular. It also would have been the perfect cutesy song to be what 13yo me would have wanted for a Couple's Skate at Skateville (the name of our roller rink).

 
Day 13: A song 13-year-old you would have wanted to be played for the last “Couples' Skate” of the night.

Haddaway - What Is Love (1993)​



the roller rink i went to as a kid is still open...insane...its like a time warp

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipP1ywwiFPtS1IZm4ke4165f42Qb4nEabu6dXI_i=s1360-w1360-h1020
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipP6_cXp-9TEer3kb6dWAVrhxA3Qf7Eu8y26R6Vh=s1360-w1360-h1020
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipNnVs6LVDOv4H0t3fVd68iGurIun65QDCo0pLoC=s1360-w1360-h1020
 
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Day 13: A song 13-year-old you would have wanted to be played for the last “Couples' Skate” of the night

At Palisade Gardens, the finest roller rink in San Diego history.

Some Kind of Wonderful - Grand Funk Railroad

 

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Day 13: A song 13-year-old you would have wanted to be played for the last “Couples' Skate” of the night.

I was confused by the prompt until I saw @TXRafe's photos! I've never been to a skate rink like that, I don't even know if we have those?? They look so fun though...

What we do have is an abundance of skate parks, and 13 year old me spent a looot of time there! I was never great on a board, but it was fun, there was a real, supportive community, and everyone was just so chill. Many of the people who I met there carried on to go to Fryshuset Skating High School! You know like some schools have a focus on basketball or football? I wanted to go but mom put her foot down 😅 In hindsight, I'm thankful. As are my knees.

Anyway, I'm rambling. Haven't thought about those places in so long... Thanks for digging that up.

EDIT:
Okay, it's still the same song, but I changed the link to a different version. I just found out that Tony Hawk himself joined Goldfinger on stage to sing Superman in 2023!! This is the coolest thing ever 😍

Goldfinger ft Tony Hawk(!!) - Superman

 
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Day 13: A song 13-year-old you would have wanted to be played for the last “Couples' Skate” of the night.

This is the cheesy song 13 yr old me would have picked while skating with my crush, but it would’ve been ice skating. I didn’t try rollerskating until I was an adult and I thought I was going to die.

Not gonna lie. Keanu Reeves plays a major part of this choice 😍

Rush, Rush - Paula Abdul

 
Day 13: A song 13-year-old you would have wanted to be played for the last “Couples' Skate” of the night.

I was confused by the prompt until I saw @TXRafe's photos! I've never been to a skate rink like that, I don't even know if we have those?? They look so fun though...

What we do have is an abundance of skate parks, and 13 year old me spent a looot of time there! I was never great on a board, but it was fun, there was a real, supportive community, and everyone was just so chill. Many of the people who I met there carried on to go to Fryshuset Skating High School! You know like some schools have a focus on basketball or football? I wanted to go but mom put her foot down 😅 In hindsight, I'm thankful. As are my knees.

Anyway, I'm rambling. Haven't thought about those places in so long... Thanks for digging that up.

EDIT:
Okay, it's still the same song, but I changed the link to a different version. I just found out that Tony Hawk himself joined Goldfinger on stage to sing Superman in 2023!! This is the coolest thing ever 😍

Goldfinger ft Tony Hawk(!!) - Superman

Sounds familiar. I don’t know if you saw the Tony Hawk doc, Until The Wheels Come Off, but it is phenomenal. Not only an unbelievable human and story, but the music kicks ass.
 
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