❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

[Bry1313]

No dispute about the +2 but, going forward, I do think that the band members should be named in the post if you are collecting points for them.

Let’s give these badass women their due!

Say their names……Wendy and Lisa

 

[hotoldrguy]

Day 14: A song that mentions a number

 

[Lady_Libra_]

Day 14: A song that mentions a number

 

[The_spirit_of_oz]

Day 14: A song that mentions a number

Lene Lovich - Lucky number

 

[Btq97]

Day 14 song that mentions a number
Kate Bush - There goes a tenner

 

[vagrantx]

Day 14: A song that mentions a number

I wrote the other day about my love for Power Metal, the ridiculous and bombastic lyrics... And while Tobias Sammet is a good musician and a great lyricist, Luca Turilli is the yang to Tobias' yin.

An italian guitarist and founder of the band Rhapsody, Luca writes music based on high fantasy. Elves and magic, rings and mystery, and I've never been sure if he's god-awful or deliberately the camp'iest man in metal.

Take this chorus, from The Last Winged Unicorn:

From the holy sea of golden flames
flies the last winged unicorn
With its magic breath of innocence
rising to the crystal throne

Music doesn't get more cliché than this! None of this is referenced in the rest of the song. Each verse is a disjointed mess, as the (incredibly talented) singer Fabio Leone muses in broken English about princesses and knights, prisons and mystical gates.

It's such a stark contrast - these incredible musicians against their terrible, pulp-fantasy inspired lyrics. This mix of violins and harpsichords, with wailing guitars and epic drums. I don't know if I love them or hate them, but I'm leaning towards the former.
Fuck, I wish he could write.

Rhapsody - The Last Winged Unicorn

The bridge, and backing vocals, are sung by the incredible Constanze Backes, a german baroque opera singer (because that's exactly what fantasy metal needs - opera!)
Not sure if this is enough for a +1. Some help with a verdict please, @morelikeasong?

 

[caitiff1969]

Day 14: A song that mentions a number

 

[MissLabelled]

Day 14: A song that mentions a number

I wrote the other day about my love for Power Metal, the ridiculous and bombastic lyrics... And while Tobias Sammet is a good musician and a great lyricist, Luca Turilli is the yang to Tobias' yin.

An italian guitarist and founder of the band Rhapsody, Luca writes music based on high fantasy. Elves and magic, rings and mystery, and I've never been sure if he's god-awful or deliberately the camp'iest man in metal.

Take this chorus, from The Last Winged Unicorn:

From the holy sea of golden flames
flies the last winged unicorn
With its magic breath of innocence
rising to the crystal throne

Music doesn't get more cliché than this! None of this is referenced in the rest of the song. Each verse is a disjointed mess, as the (incredibly talented) singer Fabio Leone muses in broken English about princesses and knights, prisons and mystical gates.

It's such a stark contrast - these incredible musicians against their terrible, pulp-fantasy inspired lyrics. This mix of violins and harpsichords, with wailing guitars and epic drums. I don't know if I love them or hate them, but I'm leaning towards the former.
Fuck, I wish he could write.

Rhapsody - The Last Winged Unicorn

The bridge, and backing vocals, are sung by the incredible Constanze Backes, a german baroque opera singer (because that's exactly what fantasy metal needs - opera!)
Not sure if this is enough for a +1. Some help with a verdict please, @morelikeasong?

Not to be all weird and shit but I'd just want to sit and listen to music with you based on your posts here. I LOVE Rhapsody!!

 

[PassionatePanther]

Day 14: A song that mentions a number

Two Hearts by Terra Lightfoot (+1 for 15)

 

[ZfrkS62]

Mentions number

Eleuvitie "Thousandfold"

+2 for 22

 

[Deleted member 1498366]

Day 13: A song you've seen performed live
What about us? - P!nk (+1)

Day 14: A song that mentions a number
34 + 35 Remix - Ariana Grande, Doja Cat, and Megan Thee Stallion (+2)
And also, @morelikeasong this one is for you. because yes I could stay up all night. (+5)

(total: 21)

 

[Deleted member 6607120]

Day 14: A song that mentions a number

 

[Shady_nz]

Day 14: A song that mentions a number

One Love- Bob Marley

 

[UnquietDreams]

No dispute about the +2 but, going forward, I do think that the band members should be named in the post if you are collecting points for them.

Let’s give these badass women their due!

In my defense, I did name Wendy & Lisa, Sheila E, and Apollonia 6 in the post. And Wendy (kick ass guitar and songwriter) & Lisa (kick ass keyboardist and songwriter) were members of The Revolution, and played in the video I linked. Other than Apollonia 6, I thought the others were famous enough to not have to describe what they play, but I can.

On the other hand, I am willing to take a spanking to reinforce the lesson. Or give one...

 

[CarlyAnn]

Day 14: A song that mentions a number

 

[BodieOhl]

Happy Pi Day everyone!

Day 14: A song that mentions a number

"Well I woke to the sound of screaming sirens
Screamin' "the worlds on fire!"
And the neighbor's baby's cryin' cause they're out of formula
So I hide under the blankets for 5 minutes more..."

 

[vagrantx]

Not to be all weird and shit but I'd just want to sit and listen to music with you based on your posts here. I LOVE Rhapsody!!

Hahaha not weird at all! I'm just happy I can help people discover music they haven't heard before (well, not in this particular case, but still).

Rhapsody are.... great when you're in the mood! I like Luca Turilli's solo albums more, they're a bit more coherent and he was a little bit more mature. But when you just want a dose of "wtf did he just say" intermixed with guitar solos that sends goosebumps down your spine, Rhapsody is perfect

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 14: A song that mentions a number

I almost went with one that was really obvious for me. So obvious, I thought I had already posted it. Hadn't, but by the time I realized, I had moved on to here.

Soo...k.flay. Kristine Flaherty, who goes by the stage name k.flay, is a painfully underappreciated artist, even with a Grammy nomination. She is a multi-genre artist, and her unique voice isn't everyone's cuppa, but it is evocative for what she sings. And she sings pain. "The boy I love has another girl. He might be fucking her right now," is the start to "Blood in the Cut," as song about trying to drown out everything with the noise, anything, even pain --like the crack of a whip and blood in the cut. It is dark, it is real, it is raw. And l lot of her music is this way, especially early on. She is powerful, smart, and can make you feel what she feels. It is dark and beautiful music.

And she used to be a fucking goofball.

Flaherty was at Stanford, and had an abiding love for hip hop, but thought the stuff on the radio was insipid and misogynistic. She connected with another Stanford student, Andrew Nielsen, AKA MC Lars, a nerdcore rapper, producer, and pioneer of Lithop (I have already posted his "Mr. Raven," here. He has songs about Hamlet, Moby-Dick, and the brilliant Edgar Allen Poe EP.) They collaborated on a fun little EP in 2009 called Single and Famous, which is where this song comes from. The whole record is just fun, silly, and a complete different feel, but you can still see her skill. (He had a crush on her, and wrote a song called "Rapgirl" about her and getting over the crush. She has pretty much erased him from her bio. Not a happy ending there...)

Altered States is a goofy little song about touring. The references are silly, yet clever. And it is incredibly jarring when you are listing to k.flay on Spotify, and it switches to this. But yeah, if you don't know her work, it is worth finding.

So here we go --50 states, 64 bars, presented by Ms. Flay and Lars...

"Altered States," k.flay and MC Lars (+1)

(23+1=24)

 

[curious_slut]

Day 14: A song that mentions a number

There's mention of a particularly well known Beverly Hills zip code right off the bat.

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 14: A song that mentions a number

There's mention of a particularly well known Beverly Hills zip code right off the bat.

No Hozier?

 

[---E---]

Day 14: A song that mentions a number
3 Is A Magic Number - School House Rock

Yes there are many to chose, but this one is just fun lol!

 

[curious_slut]

No Hozier?

I'm giving him time off for good behavior.

 

[lifeisgood3976]

Day 14: A song that mentions a number

Bryan Adams was born in 1959, which meant that he was 10 years old in 1969, a little young, maybe, to be experiencing what is described in the lyrics.

That always made me wonder if "Summer of 69" has another meaning.

 

[MissLabelled]

Hahaha not weird at all! I'm just happy I can help people discover music they haven't heard before (well, not in this particular case, but still).

Rhapsody are.... great when you're in the mood! I like Luca Turilli's solo albums more, they're a bit more coherent and he was a little bit more mature. But when you just want a dose of "wtf did he just say" intermixed with guitar solos that sends goosebumps down your spine, Rhapsody is perfect

Right? I mean a lot of power metal to me is just D&D nerds who know how to play music and that’s my brand of people (despite having never played D&D lol). So I do give them a lot of grace in the lyrical department and just get into the groove of the music.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 14: A song that mentions a number

Bryan Adams was born in 1959, which meant that he was 10 years old in 1969, a little young, maybe, to be experiencing what is described in the lyrics.

That always made me wonder if "Summer of 69" has another meaning.

Per Adams, yes it does.