❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

[BrendaBear]

Day 19: A song for getting ready to go out

BFG for the win.

 

[onanismaddict]

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

 

[ZfrkS62]

Day 19: A song for getting ready to go out
Type O Negative "Black no. 1"

 

[ctarrantella]

Day 19: A song for getting ready to go out
Poison: Talk Dirty To Me

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 20: A song by an artist with multiple bands

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 20: A song by an artist with multiple bands
Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz

 

[Dalelaw2164]

Day 20: A song by an artist with multiple bands

Layne Staley

 

[Acktion]

Day 20: A song by an artist with multiple bands

 

[BrendaBear]

Day 20: A song by an artist with multiple bands

Steve Winwood... Spencer Davis Band, Traffic, Derek and the Dominos… solo artist…

Steve Winwood - Roll With It

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 20: A song by an artist with multiple bands

 

[Bry1313]

Day 20: A song by an artist with multiple bands

You get Prince again. (Rubs hands evilly)

 

[Mo_Bandy]

Day 20: A song by an artist with multiple bands

Break Your Heart - the Gaslight Anthem

Also Brian Fallon, Horrible Crowes, This Charming Man

 

[lavendersilk]

(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!

This part:

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

I am very glad you are safe and clean now.

Thank you for sharing. I love this song and will think a little differently about the lyrics now.

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 20: A song by an artist with multiple bands

Jack White

 

[The_spirit_of_oz]

Day 20: A song by an artist with multiple bands

Ian MacKaye was in Fugazi, Minor threat, the Rpteen Ides, Embrace and Pailhead​

 

[caitiff1969]

Day 20: A song by an artist with multiple bands
Lionel Richie

 

[Cogan]

Day 20: A song by an artist with multiple bands

Ritchie Blackmore. Here with Deep Purple - Speed King.

 

[Gamine67]

Day 20: A song by an artist with multiple bands

All of them

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 20: A song by an artist with multiple bands

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 20: A song by an artist with multiple bands

All of them

Does this count as multiple submissions?

 

[Gamine67]

Does this count as multiple submissions?

Shhh, I can’t afford to be banned from another Thread

 

[BrendaBear]

Does this count as multiple submissions?

Had to reread that… I saw “…as multiple submissives”

 

[---E---]

Day 20: A song by an artist with multiple bands
The Pretender - Foo Fighters (Dave Grohl - Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Scream I think there may be a few others too)

 

[Wonderer67]

Had to reread that… I saw “…as multiple submissives”

Well, everyone should have multiple submissives…

 

[Wonderer67]

Day 20: A song by an artist with multiple bands

Paul Weller was in the Jam (one of my all time favorite bands), The Style Council and a few other projects as well as amazing solo stuff.

Paul Weller - From the Floorboards Up