🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[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

 

[Wonderer67]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio
So many to pick from. The radio was always on. My dad controlled it so we listened to a lot of oldies. My mom let us listen to our music but didn’t understand it. Damn kids and their music.

With my daughter we’re always trading music and songs. But not on the radio.

My wife and I listen to Sirius a lot. We both thigh this was the best indie song of last year. Spoon is the best band of the 21st century IMO.

Spoon - My Babe

 

[ctarrantella]

I missed yesterday, work has been rough as everyone is getting ready to shut down before the Christmas and New Years break plus I’m a little under the weather.

Day 12: A song you wish you wrote:
Metallica: For Whom The Bell Tolls

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio
Luke Combs: Fast Car

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio

Very broad prompt. Lots of songs on the radio at one time or another. I’m going with the first song that I remember becoming obsessed with from the radio. I was maybe like 8? My mom usually listened to talk radio or soft rock stations and at home I listened to my cassettes and CDs. But my summer babysitter listened to the pop hit music station, KISS 108. I remember this song being played so much that summer and it was my jam.

Pearl Jam - Last Kiss

 

[Deleted member 6592667]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio

I remember hearing this and seeing the video as a kid. I was like "Is that a guitar? Guitars can do that?" I think I was 7 or 8. Lol

 

[CarlyAnn]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio

A friend played this for me and I thought he wrote it until I heard Springsteen on the radio one night.

 

[NC_Coastal]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio

I was stunned once I realized what this song was about.

 

[---E---]

Day 13 - on the radio (pretty much all of them up till the early 2000's) Beatie Boys - Fight For Your Right

 

[hopeful_wife]

I was stunned once I realized what this song was about.

When I made my post, I mentioned that my dad always had trivia to share about the songs we listened to on the radio. For this one: it won Song of the Year (CMAs) two years in a row.

 

[Mr_bogey]

Could you pick a broader prompt. The designer must have been really hungover when coming up with this. Tell us you don't give a fuck w/o telling us.

Newsflash: Hearing music on the radio still happens.

I had a great block of "Radio" songs to unload but I will comply with the Despot today while I plot her overthrow.

So the first song I heard today on the radio was a Lit appropriate group The Breeders with Cannonball. I thought about just using that until this song, which I had not heard followed.

 

[curious_slut]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio

I don't listen to the radio very often anymore unless it's classical but my go to station back in the day was indie 103.1 where I first heard a lot of great bands. I'm tempted to post The Killers again but I'll go with a song from Jet that I haven't heard in years.

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio

As a teen, I had decidedly non-mainstream musical tastes, which meant that my music did NOT get played on the radio. In 1984, the Ramones did their best to record a pop hit. While it may have blipped on the top 100 for a week or two, it did get airplay, at least in the New York market where I grew up. This was the first time MY music played on the radio.

 

[MedicalMuse]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio

 

[JKL123]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio

Takes me way back to my first transistor radio

 

[Pad_Foot]

On the radio ? No clue why this was playing in 1968 so long after it had been in "Hard Day's Night," but it's the first Beatles song I can remember.

 

[RosewoodTulip]

Weak - Skunk Anansie

Teenage me was absolutely blown away by the power of her voice

 

[Mo_Bandy]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio

Strange Currencies - R.E.M.

 

[Wand3rlust]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 11: A song from your favorite album

I’ll tell you something…

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 12: A song you wish you wrote

I got no particular desire to be a rock star songwriter. But if I did I’d want to be one like this.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 13: A song you heard on the radio

I mean…I grew up with radio as a constant companion so like…all of them…but some I have more vivid memories of than others. This one I recall clearly hearing on my commute home and thinking “this band is going places”