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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

 
onanismaddict said:
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

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

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My heart! ❤️
 
lavendersilk said:
Day 5: A song to cheer a friend up

Aqua - Happy Boys and Girls
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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?
vagrantx said:
Day 5: A song to cheer a friend up

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

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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! 😜
 
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.

 
MissLabelled said:
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.
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Oh I would loveee to dance it out with you at a bar to this song 💃
 
MissLabelled said:
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.

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A girl after my own heart
 
MissLabelled said:
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.

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Oh I am dancing now. Fuck the downstairs neighbors. And I am playing along on my bodhran...
 
morelikeasong said:
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! 😜
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Likewise!! I can recite Two Beds and a Coffe Machine in my sleep! 🥰 Had the fortune of catching Darren Hayes live solo a few years back, and his voice is still as incredible as it always was.

And, to paraphrase Rammstein:
Bitte bitte, gib mir GIF! ♥️
 
vagrantx said:
Day 5: A song to cheer a friend up

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

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I'm the kind of person who endorses a deep commitment... love them!! 😍
RosewoodTulip said:
Ooh a gold star 😍😍
I'm going to choose the gif please ❤️
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SAME!!!
onanismaddict said:
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

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I adore this sketch. I need to rewatch all of KITH again for the umpteenth time....
Bry1313 said:
@OrdinaryPerson wants activity here when she gets back
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Yes.
curious_slut said:
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 🤩

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I love this whole album. 😍
 
morelikeasong said:
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?
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GIF please!!! 😁😁😁 There may be another thread that I can put an extra song at if I so choose... maybe.

And... where shall I put my ⭐️🤔
 
UnquietDreams said:
View attachment 2335250I'll just play and watch...

I love Canadian folk bands! Great Big Sea is a huge favorite of mine, and my friend's da played bass for them.
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Typical musician, doing it to get the ladies 🤣

I saw Spirit Of The West as well as Great Big Sea numerous times and both put on incredible shows. Anecdotally, during one of the Spirit Of The West shows, John Mann, the lead singer (who sadly has passed away due to illness) stopped in the middle of the song, pointed out two dudes who were about to fight and told them to stop or he would go down there and personally kick them in the balls. The crowd cheered, the two dudes looked like idiots, and, as they say, the show went on.
 
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