🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[SalaciousMonkey22]

I always thought it has to be the decade around when you graduate high school

Lot of overlap but don’t think they’re subsets of each other.

 

[OrdinaryPerson]

I wanted to go Smash Mouth here but this song...
1997

This song choice really suits you

 

[Wonderer67]

I have a theory that the best decade of music is the decade when you were doing the most things that the music was the soundtrack to. So in my case, yeah the 90’s. But it’s not a thing I’d argue hard.

I always thought it has to be the decade around when you graduate high school

It’s a tough argument!

I graduate high school in 85 but actually don’t think music of the 80s was all that good. It was ok, but there was a lot of crap, imo.

I was barely alive in the 60s, but that seemed to be the best decade. Maybe the 90s a close second????

 

[SirConradPeckereye]

This song choice really suits you

How so?

 

[OrdinaryPerson]

How so?

Catchy one hit wonder just like how your jokes are maybe funny the first time. Sort of silly.

 

[SirConradPeckereye]

Catchy one hit wonder just like how your jokes are maybe funny the first time. Sort of silly.

You know you still laugh at my seal humor!

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

It’s a tough argument!

I graduate high school in 85 but actually don’t think music of the 80s was all that good. It was ok, but there was a lot of crap, imo.

I was barely alive in the 60s, but that seemed to be the best decade. Maybe the 90s a close second????

Yeah, I mean, part of why I won’t argue strongly is that while I agree there are objective technical skills to art, arts “goodness” to me is entirely about it’s subjective impact on my world and existence. You can tell me all you want that the Beatles musicianship is the best ever and I may or may not agree on that but don’t care either way cause they weren’t on the radio when anything I cared about was happening. So my appreciation or lack there of is very cold and impersonal. While I love the fuck outta you know the Go-Gos because they were always on the radio during good times.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, you can’t go wrong with Jim.

I totally forgot I had this on my phone but it makes me laugh every time I come across it

 

[Wonderer67]

Yeah, I mean, part of why I won’t argue strongly is that while I agree there are objective technical skills to art, arts “goodness” to me is entirely about it’s subjective impact on my world and existence. You can tell me all you want that the Beatles musicianship is the best ever and I may or may not agree on that but don’t care either way cause they weren’t on the radio when anything I cared about was happening. So my appreciation or lack there of is very cold and impersonal. While I love the fuck outta you know the Go-Gos because they were always on the radio during good times.

agreed. It’s a ridiculously subjective and impossible.

I wonder what was the worst decade for music??? 70s? 80s?

 

[TANSTAAFL58]

Day 24: A song from the 90s

Neil Young is more than screaming guitar solos and grunge.

 

[TANSTAAFL58]

After getting out of the army in 93 my musical tastes had changed. Music had changed and so had I. I started college and had to start my life.

Hardcore was out (except for NYC HC: vision and madball), the next gen of punk was getting started, but I wasn’t feeling it. Grunge was still there but dying. I got into britpop in a big way. Blur, Pulp, Manic Street Preachers.

And some of the punk/indie rock was good too: Thomas Jefferson Slave Apts, Guided by Voices, Prisonshake.

Garage rock came back: hellacopters, the hives, Demonics, Riverboat Gamblers.

And Oi! and working class punk restarted - the Dropkicks, Cockney Rejects reformed.

It was another great decade in music - maybe the best!! How to choose??

St. Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Speaking of Neil Young. Great version.

 

[Wonderer67]

Speaking of Neil Young. Great version.

I never knew this was a Neil young song till a few years ago.

 

[SluttyShannon]

Day 24: A song from the 90s

 

[Daisy_Love]

Day 24: A song from the 90s

Hopefully the link works today.
Portishead ~ Glory Box

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Talk about low hanging fruit my man . Not even sure this top 5 Cake. Probably Top 10….but close

 

[barefootgirl69]

Day 24: A song from the 90s

The Mavericks - There Goes My Heart

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 24: A song from the 90s

What a loss.

 

[Deleted member 1498366]

Day 24: A song from the 90s

This was so so so difficult to pick. We could have done a song from each year of the 90s and I'd still struggle each time. But I decided to go with a song that I definitely had no business scream singing at the time but did anyways (to my entire families detriment)

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 24: A song from the 90s
Unlike the 80s day, I had this one in the bag. I was 23 when it came out, and my first thought was "how do these guys know me?"

"And though I ought to be learning I feel like a veteran/ Of 'oh, I like your poetry but I hate your poems'"

 

[barefootgirl69]

I definitely had no business scream singing at the time but did anyways (to my entire families detriment)

Isn't that what all teens do?!
I still annoy MY teens!!

 

[OrdinaryPerson]

Day 24: A song from the 90s

 

[Deleted member 1498366]

Isn't that what all teens do?!
I still annoy MY teens!!

Hahaha you should get a Bluetooth karaoke microphone. Perfect for car singalongs. (They are a thing, got one for Christmas this year )

 

[Cogan]

Connection - Elastica

Never heard them or the song, but I like it a lot!

 

[onanismaddict]

Connection - Elastica

When it was apparent where we were headed a couple of days ago when we embarked on decades week, I thought of 'Connection' as the song that I wanted for the nineties... but somewhere in there I spaced, and completely forgot about it.
So I'm thrilled to see that you didn't drop the ball like I did (lol), because this one 'needed' to be in here. Thank you.
Great song selection!

 

[Lord Pmann]

So some of you may remember when this prompt came up last year and I posted a song for each year of the 1980s. This is a new year and I am a reformed man.

Did you mean from each of the 80s decades for which you were alive?? Because that would be a long ass list.