❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

[Apisto42]

Day 2: A song about war
This song will always remind me of the losses in war:

 

[Awaywego]

Day 2: A song about war
Edwin Start, "War'

Tough to be young tween during unpopular times with a parent a part of it. Might post the flip side of this one later...I know not 2 but such a defining topic for many.

 

[FreckledSprite]

Day 2: A song about war
This song will always remind me of the losses in war:

I haven’t listened to this score before. It’s beautiful

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 2: A song about war

Okay, okay. I won’t make the whole month about Epic. It is tempting though. And this probably isn’t the last.

EPIC: The Musical - The Horse and the Infant

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 3: A song tied to a memory
Perhaps a little bit on-the-nose, but I have a lot of very fond memories about a particular brown-eyed girl wrapped up in this song.
"Brown-Eyed Girl" - Van Morrison

 

[FreckledSprite]

Day 3: A song tied to a memory

 

[Biggalute]

Day 3: A song tied to a memory

This was the first that came to my head. A very good friend told me years ago how she'd been serenaded by a biker singing 'lay lady laying, lay across my BSA'
I giggled then and I'm smiling now.
(BSA were a British built motorbike, for those who've never heard of it)

 

[lingus60]

Day 3: A song tied to a memory

Yes: Yours is no disgrace

Opening song at my first gig when my big brother took me along...

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 3: A song tied to a memory

This song came out late 1998 but it was played a lot late 1999 when we all thought the world was going to end (did it?) with the Y2K bug. So, whenever I hear it I remember 19 year old me singing along to the lyrics...

Health insurance, rip off lying
FDA, big bankers buying
Fake computer crashes dining
Cloning while they're multiplying
Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson
Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson
You're all fakes
Run to your mansions
Come around, we'll kick your asses

You Get What You Give - New Radicals

 

[Bry1313]

Day 3 - a song that evokes a memory
When I was a kid my grandfather made a mix tape for me. The first song was a Tom Lehrer song that I’ve posted recently, the second song was this song.

I wish I could find that cassette

 

[kenbrack]

Day 3: A song tied to a memory
Every time I hear this I think of her. Was a great summer romance and a long distance relationship that didn’t work out.

California - Manfred Mann’s Earth Band

 

[curious_slut]

Day 3: A song tied to a memory

So many memories. Not a 100% accurate recreation but close enough.

Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 3: A song tied to a memory

So many memories. Not a 100% accurate recreation but close enough.

Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead

OMG I was gonna pick this too but for very different memories. What are the odds

 

[AmberLGreen]

Day 3: A song tied to a memory

One of my eldest son’s favourites and whenever I heat it, it brings back memories of him at his happiest

Suede - Beautiful ones

 

[Wand3rlust]

Day 2: A song about war

Through the Barricades - Spandau Ballet

It's hard to imagine and seems distant memory now. But The Troubles hit hard and fast in London. And directly affected our daily lives. Not as much as in Northern Ireland and the ROI. But it did.
I am so glad things have improved so much. And hopefully they will keep doing so in the face of an ever divisive world.

 

[curious_slut]

This song came out late 1998 but it was played a lot late 1999 when we all thought the world was going to end (did it?) with the Y2K bug.

People were losing their minds And maybe they were right to do so. Maybe y2k was when the vibe shifted irrevocably? Are we all in the matrix now??

OMG I was gonna pick this too but for very different memories. What are the odds

I've been up since 4.30 or you would've gotten to it first. Sleep deprivation came in clutch for me today!

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 3: A song tied to a memory

This song hit my freshman year of college. I have a vivid memory of coming home for Thanksgiving and driving around in the chilly November night with my best friend picking up our other HS friends while a bootleg tape of my CD was playing because he didn’t have a CD player in his car.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

People were losing their minds And maybe they were right to do so. Maybe y2k was when the vibe shifted irrevocably? Are we all in the matrix now??

I've been up since 4.30 or you would've gotten to it first. Sleep deprivation came in clutch for me today!

Silver linings! I’ve only been up since 5:30!

 

[curious_slut]

Silver linings! I’ve only been up since 5:30!

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[SalaciousMonkey22]

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I’m very weak though. Ask anyone!

 

[Kraken_96]

Day 3: A song tied to a memory

So, 10 years ago this was the song for myself and an ex. The relationship was not healthy, and I ended up physically and emotionally abused for a time through it.

Now usually that tends to pollute the song, and for a few years...yes, it was painful to listen to. But then it ended up on a wedding playlist, and my best friend who helped me to get out and through the other side of that relationship, took me by the hand and danced the whole night away.

He was utterly wonderful, distracting me from that pain by power sliding on his knees and pulling the attention away while I was welling up.

Nowadays, the painful memories from my time with her have been replaced by that lovely doofus chaos dancing with the bride's mum.

Enjoy

 

[CarlyAnn]

Day 3: A song tied to a memory

Still my favorite song of all time

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 3: A song tied to a memory

So many memories. Not a 100% accurate recreation but close enough.

Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead

When that bat did a keg stand I was

 

[TXRafe]

Day 3: A song tied to a memory

growing up with divorced parents and a single mom in the 80s and 90s meant that activities had to be family friendly and most likely free...every year there is a balloon festival in the neighboring suburb to where i grew up at a local park...i remember it being a frequent event of my childhood. we would play on the playground and feed the ducks, check out the arts and crafts, and in the evening there would be fireworks. one year, there was a concert...which became my first ever live concert. we spread out a blanket and watched under the stars. that free concert...was Alabama...

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If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)​

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 3 - a song that evokes a memory
When I was a kid my grandfather made a mix tape for me. The first song was a Tom Lehrer song that I’ve posted recently, the second song was this song.

I wish I could find that cassette

Explains a lot really.