❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

[UnquietDreams]

Day 21: A song from the 00s
(Woman + Alcohol + Luck = 37)

Last decades-week, I brought up Emilie Autumn and her electric violin for the 00's.
Instrumental, emotional, chaotic.

This time around I'd like to show her lyrical skill; she has an incredible voice ranging from a deep contralto to a high soprano, and her feminist themes should speak to any woman who's stepped foot outside, ever.

Still featuring her signature viloin, and her harpsichord of course. Gah, it's such a fantastic instrument!

Emilie Autumn - Thank God I'm Pretty

You have amazing musical taste. Do you know how I know that? You agree with me a lot (except about Amy Winehouse, from your disapproving emoji). I love Emillie Autumn, and her live show is jaw dropping. Fight Like A Girl is one of the greatest concept albums ever, and "One Foot in Front of the Other" got me through some dark times.

 

[vagrantx]

You have amazing musical taste. Do you know how I know that? You agree with me a lot (except about Amy Winehouse, from your disapproving emoji). I love Emillie Autumn, and her live show is jaw dropping. Fight Like A Girl is one of the greatest concept albums ever, and "One Foot in Front of the Other" got me through some dark times.

Hahahah as much as I love this, that's some epic low key narcissism! I do not mean that in a bad way, I just don't have a better word for it. "You're good because you're like me". Confidence, maybe? Self assuredness? Sorry, ESL getting in my way again. But I do agree! We click on just about every song choice in here!

I didn't really disagree on your opinion of Amy, but rather your disregard of the alt-60s vibe. I'm going to change your mind, just, give me a little bit... I'll send you something, since I don't wish to be DQ'ed. I have a band in mind, but, not a particular song. Need to pick one.

 

[lingus60]

Richard Thompson...

 

[UnquietDreams]

Hahahah as much as I love this, that's some epic low key narcissism! I do not mean that in a bad way, I just don't have a better word for it. "You're good because you're like me". Confidence, maybe? Self assuredness? Sorry, ESL getting in my way again. But I do agree! We click on just about every song choice in here!

I didn't really disagree on your opinion of Amy, but rather your disregard of the alt-60s vibe. I'm going to change your mind, just, give me a little bit... I'll send you something, since I don't wish to be DQ'ed. I have a band in mind, but, not a particular song. Need to pick one.

Oh, no, that was absolutely how I meant it. There was no "low key" about it.

My username is a literary allusion. Of fucking course I am pretentious.

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 21: A song from the 00s
+1 ️

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion

 

[vagrantx]

Day 21: A song from the 00s
+1 ️

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion

Unavailable in europe. But I fixed the link in the quote to one we eurotrash can watch! And that was great!

 

[Girly_girl]

Day 21- A song from the 00’s

2006 SexyBack Justin Timberlake

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 21: A song from the 00s
+1 ️

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion

One of my favorite Yeah Yeah Yeah songs. This is what I mean by I love songs with simple sounding but yet fun to play drum parts.

 

[Acktion]

Day 21: A song from the 00s

 

[ctarrantella]

Day 20: A song from the 90s
Great Drum intro (Thirty Seconds to Mars)

 

[onanismaddict]

Day 21: A song from the 00s

I was surprised enough when one of my all-time favourite actors put out a brilliant album... but I was really blown away when she gave a shout-out to the middle-of-nowhere part of the world that I am from during this song. Thanks, Charlotte!

Charlotte Gainsbourg - AF607105

 

[onanismaddict]

Day 21
Snow Patrol & Martha Wainwright - Set The Fire To The Third Bar
+1 for female artist
+1 for guitarist being Irish
(=38)

Oh, I luv Martha Wainwright...
Thank you for this great song choice, Rosie!

 

[onanismaddict]

Day 21: A song from the 00s

Succexy by Metric (+1 for 25)

Sweet. Awesome choice!
I'm a huge Metric fan... and I've been waiting for someone to post them!
(Why didn't I just do it myself? Hmmm... I guess I never thought of that... lol.)

I luv Emily Haines! She's the last thing I see before bed every night.
That not a grandiose characterization of some weird stalker shit (lol)...
I've got some pics from the 'Live at Metropolis' DVD on my bookshelf, beside an Al Pacino box set...
So when I turn out the light to go to sleep, Emily and Al are usually the last thing I see. Luv Metric! Great choice!

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 21: A song from the 00s

Succexy by Metric (+1 for 25)

Last time I saw Garbage I didn’t even realize metric was opening for them until we arrived partway through Help I’m Alive. I was very upset at the slow shuttle bus.

 

[onanismaddict]

Day 21- A song from the 2000's

Destiny's Child - Bootylicious

+2 if the artists are multiple women

Total so far: 37

Very nice! Great song choice! I haven't heard this one in a really long time.
I used to luv to dance to this song back when it first came out, and really camp it up to exaggerated effect...
But my "humour" was just a cover for the secret truth... which was that I genuinely enjoyed the hell out of this song!

 

[LustfulIntentions2]

Day 21- A song from the 2000's

Took my sorry ass until almost midnight on the east coast to get this in, but it's so very reflective of what this decade meant to me. It's the perfect blend of sober reflection and at-the-top-of-your-lungs-belting-in-a-crowded-bar that represents my 20s really fucking well.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 21: A song from the 00s

"Oh," I hear you say, "Unquiet Dreams, what about Irish heavy metal?" Just kidding, no one is asking that. Crap, these are getting long. I promise, I didn't mean for them to be. I will try to be shorter tomorrow. Sorry.

Regardless, here we go. Celtic Metal was a melding of heavy metal, usually death metal, with folk music and wrapping them around the rich mythology of Ireland. Oddly, many of the Celtic Metal bands were from places far from Ireland. Cruachan was Irish, so good. I love my points. They came together in 1992 in Dublin, and are one of the first and most ardent in their love for Celtic music and myth. Especially myth. They are named after Ráth Cruachan, or the Fort of Cruachan, a major archeological site. Karen Gilligan is one of the two vocalists, and this album, The Morrigan's Call, features Áine O'Dwyer on Irish lap harp. Áine is a wholly remarkable experimental musician, and she fits in with the rest of this group's guitars, tin whistle, bouzouki, mandolin, banjo, bodhrán, fiddle, violin, mandocello, and an instrument I not only never heard of, but neither has Google, the aldotrube.

This song is Cúchulainn, based on Ireland's epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, also known as the Cattle Raid of Cooly. Cattle were a big deal in older societies, and Irish rulers loved a good cattle raid. This is a touchpoint for me because in college I decided to translate Táin Bó Cúailnge into English. For fun. Yes, I was a joy at parties. But if I had known Cruachan were going to make this, I wouldn't have bothered. The story is about Queen Medb the queen of Connacht. (They Anglicize her name to Maeve) She is also a queen bitch. I do not use that word lightly, but she would have embraced it. Medb was married to the King of Connact, Ailill, who is completely overshadowed by his wife. Ancient Ireland was very egalitarian, and women rose to positions of power and strength by battle as well as men did. In Medb's case, far better. She wanted a bull of a man from Ulster, Dáire mac Fiachna. She had a deal set with him, but one of her men got drunk and said that if Dáire hadn't agreed, Medb would have just taken the bull. That kills the deal, and Madb takes the only logical course: she declares war on Ulster. She raises an army, a huge army.

A curse hits Ulster. I love this part. Every warrior from their famous army, The Red Branch, is suddenly stricken and completely unable to fight. What happened to them? They all had menstrual cramps. Knocked out the whole army for months. The only one who wasn't debilitated was a 17-year-old called Cú Chulainn, or "the Hound of the Smith." He got the name when he was even younger. Cullen, the smith, had a badass war hound who could take out scores of men. This kid, Setanta, was invited to his house but was late, and Cullen had released his hound. Setanta, still a child, killed it. The men praised him, but Cullen bitched it would take time to raise a new dog, so he offered to be the guard dog until then. Thus, the Hound of Cullen.

While he was supposed to be watching the border, our boy went off to get laid, and so wasn't in Ulster at the time. No cramps for Cu. But Cu is John Wick, Rambo, and Chuck Norris wrapped in one, with a side order of The Hulk. He, on his own, starts killing the invading army one at a time and disappearing again. After killing a bunch of the army, he eventually sets up a deal where they will send out on warrior a day to fight him. He wins. Medb cheats. He wins. She cheats some more, sending his foster brother to fight him. They fight for three days, and Cu wins, but is crushed in body and spirit, and wanders off to heal. Then the Ulstermen start on Midol or something, and get better. They go fight. By this time, Medb grabs the bull and heads home. Cu and the Red Branch show up, Cu finds Medb and allows her to retreat if she goes home. She takes the bull, who then kills Ulster's prize bull and takes off. The end. Sort of. It is a longer poem. They sing several songs about it. Many, even.

"Cúchulainn," Cruachan (+2 two women, +1 Irish band, +1 talks about Ireland=4 pts)

(45+4=49)

 

[Acktion]

Day 22: A song from the 10s

 

[lingus60]

Imelda May: Jonny got a boom boom

 

[Shady_nz]

Day 22: Song from the 10's

Memories-Maroon 5

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 22: A song from the 10's

From 2014.
+1 for the delightful Lindsey Stirling
0 points for lyrics, but this song is worth taking the bagel.

 

[KarenB59]

Day 22- A song from the 10's.

 

[Biggalute]

Imelda May: Jonny got a boom boom

Love it!

 

[Biggalute]

Not female but as Irish as it gets and an amazing unaccompanied voice, his voice is the rhythm and the beat.
And if you just want to have a good, literotica style snigger, then this is hilarious!

 

[vagrantx]

Day 22- A song from the 10's.
Woman + Green = 39.

Of Monsters and Men; in 2011 they took the world by storm with their debut album My Head is an Animal.
Then Nanna took my heart.
And then she took my nose.
She gave me the confidence to get my septum piercing!

A constant reminder of a wonderful year with some wonderful music

Dirty Paws