❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

[Wonderer67]

Day 19: A song that inspires you

It’s Monday morning. I think this is the best I can do.

Isaac Hayes - Theme from Shaft

 

[Awaywego]

Day 19: A song that inspires you
This stops me, takes me to place a long while ago, makes me smile, and I don't know why. It just does..

Los Lonely Boys, 'Heaven"

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 19 - A song that inspires you
"Do you Hear the People Sing?" - Les Miserables

 

[vagrantx]

I had no idea there was a video for that.

I just adore that 1970s Moog sound. Distinctive and perfect. And that snare.

Damn, now I am going to be digging out my Jean-Michel Jarre albums...

...but I knew I needed a "click", so we put a click on the 24-track,
which then was synced to the Moog modular.
I knew that could be a sound of the future,
but I didn't realize how much the impact would be.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 19 - A song that inspires you
"Do you Hear the People Sing?" - Les Miserables

"Dammit, tell administration @Whiskeyjack is raising a barrier in the main hallway again..."

 

[Whiskeyjack]

"Dammit, tell administration @Whiskeyjack is raising a barrier in the main hallway again..."

that's the dream right there

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 19 - A song that inspires you

 

[curious_slut]

Day 19: A song that inspires you

Lilith - Kiki Rockwell

 

[vagrantx]

Day 19: A song that inspires you

Inspires me to do... what, exactly...? Hmm... Oh!

Misfits - Mommy, can I go out and Kill Tonight?

 

[MisterChillax]

Day 19: A song that inspires you

 

[QuietCanadian]

Day 19: A song that inspires you

Explode and tear this whole town apart;
take a knife and cut this pain from my heart;
find somebody itching for something to start;

The dogs on Main Street howl 'cause they understand;
if I could reach one moment into my hands;
Mister, I ain't a boy, no, I'm a man, I believe in a promised land.

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 19: A song that inspires you
Inspires me... or just makes me smile warmly --which is a good thing in this modern world.
"So let that feelin' grab you deep inside
And send you reelin' where your love can't hide"

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 19: A song that inspires you

Cat Stevens - If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out

 

[DannieB]

Day 19: A song that inspires you

I changed my pick for this way too much today. So here

special - Shinedown

 

[CarlyAnn]

Day 19: A song that inspires you

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 19: A song that inspires you
There are things about this that I react to. But at the end of the day… just get better resonates with me a lot

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 19: A song that inspires you

This one inspires me not as much with what it is, as the effect it had. Ben Haggerty records as Macklemore, alongside producer Ryan Lewis. He is not the most lyrical rapper, nor the fastest, nor does he have an incredible flow. He is very good, just not amazing, at least not to me. But he is very transparent about the struggles he has gone through, and very introspective and...honest. He is brutally fucking honest. And I love that. The first song of his to get attention was called "Otherside," based on the beat of the song of the same name by The Red Hot Chili Peppers, no strangers to songs about the downside of drugs. He said he originally had no idea where this song would go. He loved the beat, and wanted to put something down about his struggles with drugs, specifically "lean" or "purple drank," a vile mixture of codeine cough syrup, promethazine, Jolly Ranchers, and Sprite, lauded by some rappers including Lil' Wayne, who was Haggerty's idol. And wanting to be like his idol, Haggerty got hooked. "Otherside" is the result. This is the version remixed with Seattle band Fences (who you should also look up) from The VS. REDUX.

So what is so inspiring about this song is how many people it connected to, people in the gaps. This is a big issue, but it never got the attention of other drug issues. It just wasn't on the radar. This song changed that for a lot of people. Haggerty talks in a follow-up to this song, where her wrestles with failing when he relapses, about how many people say their lives were changed by "Otherside," that it gave them the strength to get help for the first time, it allowed them to know they weren't alone, and there was another side. There are many testimonials to this. In short, this song saved people's lives. Music has that power.

And that is inspiring.

"Otherside," Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, featuring Fences.

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Day 19: A song that inspires you

I'm a simple woman who likes to play dress up

Cyber Sex - Doja Cat

 

[lingus60]

Day 20: A song from the 00s

Elbow: Grounds for divorce

 

[Sexy_Singer]

Day 19" A song that inspires you.

Song of the Vagabonds

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 20: A song from the 00s-2001

 

[CarlyAnn]

Day 20: A song from the 00s

 

[The_Quiet_Man]

Day 20: A song from the 00s

"The Real Slim Shady" (2000) -- Eminem

 

[lilmissdarling]

Day 20: A song from the 00s
All American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret (2005)

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 20: A song from the 00s
2006 - "Knights of Cydonia" - Muse