❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

[ZfrkS62]

12 the one I wish I wrote

Green Day "The Words In Might Have Ate"

 

[RosewoodTulip]

Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush

It speaks to my weird little bookish heart

I was gonna post Running The World by Jarvis Cocker but it wouldn't post due to repeated use of Cunt. Would recommend a listen anyway.

 

[Acktion]

Day 12: A song you wish you wrote

 

[RideFl71]

Day 12: A song you wish you wrote

Don't fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

 

[onanismaddict]

Day 12: A song you wish you wrote

As I've grown older I've really learned to embrace and appreciate the "music" part of music, in addition to the words... but for most of my younger years the lyrics were the only thing I gave a shit about... and I liked songwriters who treated the 'words' as the gods. Instead of choosing words to fit the framework and structure of a song, I like how Dylan seems to choose the words that he wants and then forces the structure to fit them. Genius.

Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna

 

[Deleted member 6592667]

As I've grown older I've really learned to embrace and appreciate the "music" part of music, in addition to the words... but for most of my younger years the lyrics were the only thing I gave a shit about... and I liked songwriters who treated the 'words' as the gods. Instead of choosing words to fit the framework and structure of a song, I like how Dylan seems to choose the words that he wants and then forces the structure to fit them. Genius.

Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna

Great choice and great album. Dylan has got so many amazing songs. Blood on the Tracks and Freewheelin immediately come to mind as favorites, but his whole catalog is filled with treasure.

 

[---E---]

Day 12 - Song u wish u wrote (this one was tough so I'm going strictly monetary - highest grossed single of all time (googled)
White Christmas - Bing Crosby (+ tis the season)

 

[morelikeasong]

(If they are in the same post, does that count as 2?)

Ugh, BOGEY . Yes it counts and you know that smartass. I’m not spanking you this time. You’re enjoying it too much.

I was between this one and something by another favorite lyricist, Todd Snider.

I remember loving this song as a kid and the video had Chevy Chase being funny and all that. Once I hit middle age I gave this song another listen and it's an entirely different experience. It's about crisis that comes with getting older. Just amazing writing.

Oddly enough I’ve listened to this song at least once the last like 4 days in a row! It keeps coming up on my shuffle and I love it so I listen again.

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 12: A song you wish you wrote

I wish I could write such a beautiful tribute to my kids

Brandi Carlile - The Mother

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio

 

[AuntieDisco]

Tough one this. Of course so many good songs. So I thought I'd just plump for this:

War Pigs, Black Sabbath (1970) - Geezer really was a great lyricist!

I was going to go with this one too, what a timeless but a significant anthem.

 

[onanismaddict]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio

 

[Bry1313]

This song is such a banger

 

[PassionatePanther]

I wish I could write such a beautiful tribute to my kids

Brandi Carlile - The Mother

I love this song so much

 

[PassionatePanther]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio

 

[MindYaBitness]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio

I was 4 or 5, and it was playing on the radio of our red VW Bug. I turned to my mom & asked, "what's a virgin?".

 

[Bry1313]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio

Day 12 I gave you no bass, today one of the best bass hooks to kick off a song

 

[Urcumnmywife]

Day 1

Thankyou so much i needed this

 

[ZfrkS62]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio

Bloodhound Gang "Fire, Water, Burn"

Heard this on the radio when it was new. It shot to the top of The People's Choice Countdown on 107.7 The End within days and essentially launched them. Then, no one got out of 1999 without hearing "The Bad Touch"

 

[Acktion]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio

 

[Cogan]

Day 12: A song you wish you wrote

 

[Cogan]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio

This was played a lot in the 80's at our local station.

 

[Saltfountain]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio

One of our radio stations over here (the imaginatively titled Radio 2) invites artists in for sessions on a regular basis, and they always ask them to do a cover of someone else's song.

The piano in question was donated by Elton John...

 

[hopeful_wife]

Going somewhere with my dad always meant a lesson in music. He knew artists, years of release, interesting facts... And he didn't think he was much of a singer, but I thought he was something special.

Probably ten years before he passed, this song came on the radio when it was just the two of us.

And he told me that when the time came, it was my job to make sure it played at his funeral, so Mom would know he'd spent his whole life loving her.

 

[Wonderer67]

Day 12: A song you wish you wrote

I dunno why about this one, reminds me a time long ago and far away.

Westbound Train - Check Your Time