🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

Day 3: Song I hate to love

A complex song about infidelity and relationship troubles. It’s catchy AF.

I get bonus points because this is a song with women. Plus it’s woman positive. So I should get random bonus points.

 
Phil Collins in the Air Tonight
This song.. I love Phil Collins but this song gets so over played.. And the story that goes with it "He saw someone drowning" Phil Collins himself has gone on Record and said that is NOT TRUE..
One, the greatest drum break in music history.

Two, on being overplayed, I am not sure most people understand how ubiquitous Phil Collins was for a time. He played drums for a couple of Robert Plant's solo albums, played on Adam Ant's album, played on Eric Clapton's album, had a top-selling album with Genesis, a top-selling solo album, a duet with the guy from Earth Wind and Fire, the lead in a movie, an Academy Award nomination (for "Take a Look at Me Now," not his movie), played drums for the Band-Aid supergroup, and played Live Aid, which had simultaneous concerts in England and Philadelphia, both on the same day. This was all in a three or so year period. He was everywhere, in a move that only Taylor Swift has been able to pull off. And the results were everyone came to hate him. Honestly, he is really underappreciated as a drummer. Go back to the early Genesis stuff, he is scary good.

This has been your Useless Phil Collins Facts of the Day, from your Font of Useless Knowledge...
 
One, the greatest drum break in music history.

Two, on being overplayed, I am not sure most people understand how ubiquitous Phil Collins was for a time. He played drums for a couple of Robert Plant's solo albums, played on Adam Ant's album, played on Eric Clapton's album, had a top-selling album with Genesis, a top-selling solo album, a duet with the guy from Earth Wind and Fire, the lead in a movie, an Academy Award nomination (for "Take a Look at Me Now," not his movie), played drums for the Band-Aid supergroup, and played Live Aid, which had simultaneous concerts in England and Philadelphia, both on the same day. This was all in a three or so year period. He was everywhere, in a move that only Taylor Swift has been able to pull off. And the results were everyone came to hate him. Honestly, he is really underappreciated as a drummer. Go back to the early Genesis stuff, he is scary good.

This has been your Useless Phil Collins Facts of the Day, from your Font of Useless Knowledge...
You missed the most important part of this story and song:
 
Day 4: A song by a local artist

Doesn’t have to be where you currently live.
Multiple women, +2 (total of 7)

I am Lao. We are a people originating from the area around Laos, although a majority of us live in Thailand. It's been decades since I left my homeland to come and live in Sweden, but, nothing brings me back as much as the sound of the ແຄນ (khene, càn, kaen).

A wind instrument constructed by reeds of bamboo, producing a sound like a tiny chuch organ, its sound and traditions date back well over a thousand years. There is a very particular smell about it, earthy, tangy, lovely.

I miss it. It is family. It is home.

These girls popped up a while ago in the feeds of people from around Vientiane, and it makes me indescribably happy to see that even in today's modern society, the art of the ແຄນ lives on.

 
Day 4: A song by a local artist

Will Quinlan. Tampa. Been here forever. Should have been. Played plenty of shows with Wilco early on. Just did not get break or do what was needed.


 
Day 4: A song by a local artist

Doesn’t have to be where you currently live.

I assume we count since she was born here.

So, +1 for today's female artist and forgot to count Queen Kayla from the Metalachi mayhem from yesterday, so that's 2 pts so far.

Attendance 4/31
 
Day 4: A song by a local artist

+1 for a running total of 11

Mary Lou Lord got her start as a busker on the T in Boston. Her command of the acoustic guitar is unmatched, and she’s got a soulful voice that could melt the heart of even the grumpiest Boston commuter. She currently resides in Salem, Ma, and has an equally talented daughter, Annabelle.

 
Day 4: A song by a local artist

"Ich Dich Liebe," Pink Martini (+2)

I grew up (and returned to, after a big East Coast swing) Portland, so this had been a chore trying to cull down to one. And I am keeping it to bands I have seen myself, trying to make it easier on me. Indie darlings, like Blind Pilot? Lesser known gems, like The Crazy 8s or Killing Field? Does Sleater-Kenny count as local? Dead Moon? Elliot Smith, either in Heatmiser or on his own? In the end, I went with Pink Martini.

This is Ich Dich Liebe, which gets translated as "I love you," but it is more accurately "You are the One I Love," which fits it better. It is melancholy, and lush, the highest form of torch song. And while I love the version with China Forbes, but when it comes to a torch song, no one touches my girl Storm Large.


Note to self (+7, for reals, though I am more than happy to take a spanking...)
 
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