🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

Day 3: A song you love that most people haven’t heard from a popular band/artist
Prince’s guitar work on While my guitar gently weeps at a memorial for George Harrison (it’s a supergroup and Prince steps in towards the end
Day 4: A cover song that you heard before the original
I put a spell on you
Day 5: An instrumental song
Chicken dance
Day 6: A song about fucking up
Too drunk to fuck - Dead Kennedys
Day 7: A song you found in a commercial
Blitzkrieg Bop (known it for years but it’s on a supermarket jiggle!!)
Day 8: A song that reminds you of childhood
Happy birthday
Day 9: A song that’s on a movie soundtrack

Saturday night (Bay city rollers on So I Married an Axe Murderer)
Day 10: A break-up song
Wish you were here
Day 11: A cover that you like more than the original
Little red rooster - The doors version (on Alive she cried)
Day 12: A song that features one or more brass instruments
Love Sick - Gangstarr
Day 13: A song for waking up next to a lover
Come together (primal scream)
Day 14: A song for when you’re feeling grumpy
Bummer- Monster magnet
Day 15: A song about dreams
Imagine - John Lennon
Day 16: A song for a rainy day
Itchy coo park
 
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Grateful for the 19 day catch up post, because I didn’t recognize the prompt for day 14, and realize that I missed it entirely. 😞. So, here it is:

Day 14: A song for when you’re feeling grumpy
 
Day 19: A song for getting ready to go out

(I'm going to paint from a slightly darker palette on this one... hopefully that's alright.)
There was a time in my life where "getting ready to go out", or 'going out', was an innocuous code for a more dangerous brand of partying. And as I started heading down a substance abusing side street, my friends were not willing to accompany me on that detour... precisely because they actually were good friends. But I remember that I used to play this song while doing whatever it was that I was planning to do, 'before' going to meet my disapproving but largely unaware friends... and I really thought the lyrics took on a gleefully sinister bent, to capably mirror my situation. I can laugh at it all now that I've been able to maintain a healthy lifestyle, and I can just enjoy this classic song as good clean fun again! But it makes me appreciate how we can do almost "anything" with lyrics if we look hard enough, because I don't think that my hard-partying experience was exactly what the songwriter had in mind... but it's all a part of what makes music so endlessly fascinating.
Thank you for another great theme! It made me navel-gaze much more self-indulgently than I was initially anticipating... lol.
(Now could this be a dialogue between a 'substance' and a person? You be the judge.)

"We can dance if we want to/ We can leave your friends behind/
'Cause your friends don't dance/ And if they don't dance/ Well, they're no friends of mine/
Say, we can go where we want to/ A place where they will never find/
And we can act like we come/ From out of this world/ Leave the real one far behind"...

Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance

 
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