🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[Whiskeyjack]

March Points Prizes!

<50pts = you get a ️
50-76 = you get ️, and your choice of a second song pass or a gif

@__Nathan1968 and @UnquietDreams tied for first at 77 get all three




Day 5: A song to cheer a friend up

Woo-hoo! I *just* snuck in there at 50 exactly! I'll take the gif!

 

[Justabaldguy70]

Day 5: A song to cheer a friend up
If they can make a song that captures @morelikeasong in bubbles that would be my #1 choice. Since there is not this is my number 2. I mean who doesn’t feel like dancing

 

[RosewoodTulip]

Day 5
Bon Jovi - It's My Life

Bon Jovi are my happy band. My go to for when I just can't find anything good that day. They have always made music that makes you feel like things aren't so bad really. So who better to help a friend in need. Play it loud and sing along and feel the weight of the world get a little easier to carry, even just for a little while.
Dedicated to @Saltfountain who is one of my closest friends here. Hope he sings along and feels a little brighter

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 5 a song to cheer up a friend

Tell your mom, tell your dad, we were super rad.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 5 a song to cheer up a friend

Tell your mom, tell your dad, we were super rad.

Aquabats! Yay! This is all.

 

[Biggalute]

Not a happy song as such, but his voice would cheer the dead. Enjoy.

 

[Bry1313]

Not a happy song as such, but his voice would cheer the dead. Enjoy.

Ok, I’m going with Cliff too but a happier one and one I’m hoping to sing on Monday (eclipse day)

Day 5 - song to cheer up a friend

 

[AmberLGreen]

Day 5: A song to cheer a friend up

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 5: A song to cheer a friend up

I was liking this, until the drum break. Then I loved it.

 

[hotoldrguy]

Day 5: A song to cheer a friend up
Let it Bleed Rolling Stones

 

[onanismaddict]

Day 5: A song to cheer a friend up

I know that I'm probably pushing the definition of "song" to its breaking point with this one, so I hope that it's alright.

'The Kids in the Hall' was my favourite show back in junior high, and was really important in my friend group, with a few of us annoying everyone by acting out all of the sketches at school the day after new episodes aired. My favourite member of the Kids was Dave... but my friends would usually only let me be Kevin, for some reason. I guess they saw me as more of a Kevin type. One of my best friends liked Bruce the best, and she is the person who I would like to dedicate this song to for today's prompt. A nice little two-hander from Kevin and Bruce to increase her good cheer!

"Aren't you all bass players?... They told me this was a bass players convention..."

Bruce McCulloch and Kevin McDonald - Bass Player

 

[PassionatePanther]

Day 5: A song to cheer a friend up

I know that I'm probably pushing the definition of "song" to its breaking point with this one, so I hope that it's alright.

'The Kids in the Hall' was my favourite show back in junior high, and was really important in my friend group, with a few of us annoying everyone by acting out all of the sketches at school the day after new episodes aired. My favourite member of the Kids was Dave... but my friends would usually only let me be Kevin, for some reason. I guess they saw me as more of a Kevin type. One of my best friends liked Bruce the best, and she is the person who I would like to dedicate this song to for today's prompt. A nice little two-hander from Kevin and Bruce to increase her good cheer!

"Aren't you all bass players?... They told me this was a bass players convention..."

Bruce McCulloch and Kevin McDonald - Bass Player

Love KITH! Bruce is my fave too but after seeing them live, I had a newfound love and respect for Kevin!

 

[Girly_girl]

Day 5: A song to cheer a friend up

 

[UnquietDreams]

This is a classic for a reason. Such a lovely song, and a lovely sentiment. I love Carole.

 

[curious_slut]

Day 5: A song to cheer a friend up

It's an upbeat song and you don't have to be a woman to be a free woman for about three minutes

 

[morelikeasong]

Hmmm.. That second song pass would come in handy for when I remember the better song 5 hours later...

But the gif.....

Did you decide?

 

[MissLabelled]

Day 5: A song to cheer a friend up

I said it before, I am a simple man. Yesterday I talked about how I received two new albums as a child, on my tenth birthday. One was Live Killers, by Queen, and that was yesterday. Today we are taking the other one, Out of the Blue, by The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO).

For once, I am not going to bore you with info on the band. This is about how to cheer up a friend. And the song I chose is a banger for that, but it really needs some lead up. Because there needs to be a storm before the clearing. So most of what I am describing comes before.

On vinyl, the third side of Out of the Blue is entitled Concerto for a Rainy Day. It is a four-song suite of almost 20 minutes. I thought of choosing all of it, but that was excessive, even for me. It starts with the sound of hard rain, and a tinny, almost nursery rhyme tune almost buried in it. A thunder crash and a vocoder announces "a concerto for a rainy day." The first song, "Standing in the Rain," is an energetic but mournful song about failure, loss, and disconnection. ("The good intentions and the pain/Lay drowned now in the pouring rain.") The singer is lost. No one sees him, and no matter what he does, nothing changes. Everything is in the pouring rain. The song builds up to a crescendo of pain. Another vocodor line, "Big wheels, keep turning, they turn forever and ever," transitions into the next song.

"Big Wheels" starts as a quiet post-breakup song, a sweet ballad, but with existential angst. That breaking up feels horrible, ("I tried my best, all I could do/But somehow, it was not enough for you"), but it is all part of the big wheels, which just keep rolling. Nothing matters, as it can't change.

The third song is "Summer and Lighting," and is one of my favorite ELO songs. It starts where the last left, with the singer in pain because of unrequited love ("I have waited for your love/For so long, how do I go on?") but in the middle, his feelings change as the storm starts to break. ("It's all around me/Summer and lightning/it must be magic.")

So, we have come through the storm. And that is what makes the day brighter. Here is the TMI section on why this hits me. We lost a child to fetal demise. Nothing we did, nothing we could do. And it was crushing. I deal with depression, and it hit hard. Fucking hard. But after the storm comes the sun. We had another child, and my daughter is now 18. She is the center of my world, and everything that I did right as a person, and worth every sacrifice I made. It doesn't change what I lost. It doesn't remove that pain, still. But after the storm comes blue skies.

"Mr. Blue Sky" is the last song, and the best known. On its own, it is a happy, genius piece of perfect pop, backed by a symphonic score. It is brilliant on its own. But it shines brightest as the closing of the four songs.

So I would tell my friend that while there is the rain, there comes the sun after. It may not feel like it, but this too will pass.

And I will be there for them, through the storm, playing this song.

And this song is a fucking banger!

"Mr. Blue Sky," ELO

My heart!

 

[CarlyAnn]

Day 5: A song to cheer a friend up

 

[ZfrkS62]

Did you decide?

Giftastic

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 5: A song to cheer a friend up

Aqua - Happy Boys and Girls

Oh my goodness, I had completely forgotten about this song. This brought a huge smile to my face. This is going to be stuck in my head now and I’m not mad about it.

Ps. Don’t forget to pick your points prize! You had over 50 right?

Day 5: A song to cheer a friend up

There has been much too little Savage Garden in this thread.
Let's amend that!

Totally agree. And also I had to send an instagram message to my childhood best friend about this because she and I used to listen to that album on REPEAT and we loved this one. I could hear it playing in my head as soon as I saw the title. Great memories. Thank you.

Also… same as above! Pick your prize!

 

[MissLabelled]

Day 5: A song to cheer a friend up

Spirit Of The West - Home For A Rest

It isn’t the lyrical content of the song that will cheer them up but rather the energy of the song. Play this in any Canadian bar and you’ll have everyone up and jumping around. And dancing it out, at least for me and pals, is such good remedy, even if it only momentarily lets you forget your problems. And if the song doesn’t do it, there is always the drink.

 

[morelikeasong]

Play this in any Canadian bar and you’ll have everyone up and jumping around. And dancing it out, at least for me and pals, is such good remedy, even if it only momentarily lets you forget your problems. And if the song doesn’t do it, there is always the drink.

Oh I would loveee to dance it out with you at a bar to this song

 

[crazychemgirl]

Day 5: A song to cheer a friend up

Spirit Of The West - Home For A Rest

It isn’t the lyrical content of the song that will cheer them up but rather the energy of the song. Play this in any Canadian bar and you’ll have everyone up and jumping around. And dancing it out, at least for me and pals, is such good remedy, even if it only momentarily lets you forget your problems. And if the song doesn’t do it, there is always the drink.

A girl after my own heart

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 5: A song to cheer a friend up

Spirit Of The West - Home For A Rest

It isn’t the lyrical content of the song that will cheer them up but rather the energy of the song. Play this in any Canadian bar and you’ll have everyone up and jumping around. And dancing it out, at least for me and pals, is such good remedy, even if it only momentarily lets you forget your problems. And if the song doesn’t do it, there is always the drink.

Oh I am dancing now. Fuck the downstairs neighbors. And I am playing along on my bodhran...

 

[crazychemgirl]

Day 5: A song to cheer a friend up

@OrdinaryPerson … I’m this kind of friend. Just sayin