❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

[hotcpu]

Day 16: A song you would play at 3am
This song was always the cutoff for a TV station I use to watch late at night growing up and it always brings me back home to my roots everytime I hear it .. And of course noone does it like Mr. Charles

 

[onanismaddict]

Day 16: A song you would play at 3am

The KLF - 3 a.m. Eternal

 

[vagrantx]

Day 16: A song you would play at 3am

As some of you know, I suffer from rather severe insomnia. Some times I don't sleep for days. After a while, day becomes night, and life becomes dreamlike. A cover, a fog, a veil spread across my mind, as I drift in and out of lucidity.

Oddly enough, nights are better than days. The little hours are when I can relax, because I know the world is asleep. The stress fades away, as there's nothing else I should be doing. Still wide awake, but at least I can think.

The world goes quiet
A calm falls over me
Real life fades away

Dire Straits - Fade to Black

 

[RosewoodTulip]

Cool Rider

If I am awake these days at 3am and am able to play music then it's probably because I'm drunk. And when I'm drunk I get nostalgic and start convincing myself I'm super cool with all the best moves - like the amazing Michelle Pfeiffer strutting her stuff as Stephanie Zinone in the far superior Grease movie

 

[The_spirit_of_oz]

Day 16: A song you would play at 3am
If I’m up at three on the weekend, there will be booze etc involved I’m often watching a free to air overnight nonstop music show on our national broadcaster (and has done so every Friday and Saturday since early 1987!) hosted by bands or artists that play songs they love and their own, it runs from around 11:30 pm to 7 am and I have attached a link to last Saturday nights playlist just too give you an idea (not to name a second song etc. song haha) https://www.abc.net.au/rage/playlist/saturday-night-13-april-2024-on-abc-tv/103702802 ..if I’m not into the hosts music..I’ll play my own stuff..and at this hour, it’s going to be loud and nostalgic to start and maybe fade into something mellow.

Stuff like:

I’m the one- The Descendents (a great video clip too!)

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Oh, I absolutely LOVE this song. Found in by way of Pump Up the Volume, which is an unappreciated film and soundtrack.

Filmed in scenic Santa Clarita CA, at Saugus High School.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Cool Rider

If I am awake these days at 3am and am able to play music then it's probably because I'm drunk. And when I'm drunk I get nostalgic and start convincing myself I'm super cool with all the best moves - like the amazing Michelle Pfeiffer strutting her stuff as Stephanie Zinone in the far superior Grease movie

I LOVE this movie so much. She was my second film crush. And unlike Andromeda from Clash of the Titans, she remains one to this day.

 

[Mo_Bandy]

Day 16: A song you would play at 3am

I often play this in the middle of the night when the struggles come. Hits home too.

I've been living with a curse
Combing through the pages of my youth
There's a million soggy miles
Soaking through the soles of my shoes

And I've been staying up all night
I don't give a damn to sleep anymore
My eyelids are heavy
But my dreams don't sing like before

3:59 - John Moreland

 

[UnquietDreams]

One of the things I really love about this thread, beyond the music, is the everything else. Histories, or stories, or just little bits of info. For this one, I love that we all have different views at three AM. MoreLikeASong is trying to sleep again. LavenderSilk is waiting for magic. So am I, but in a different way. Whiskeyjack is watching TV. Monkey-boy is trying to get bail. Onanismaddict is deep into The Illuminati. V is thinking. And several of us are drunk, and either listening or playing music. And as Mo_Bandy points out, it is often when the struggles, all of them, come out to fight.

In the long dark night of the soul, it may always be three AM, but every 3 AM is different.

 

[Acktion]

Day 16: A song you would play at 3am
Well, I worked the overnights for over a decade. Sometimes it seems forever. Long enough anyway that my circadian rhythm is whacky.

The other insomniacs have pretty well covered the "I need to sleep, damn it" vibe, or "the clubs are closed, I wonder where we can get breakfast" vibe. So, here's a little something for the night workers that have hit the wall and need to stay awake a couple more hours to finish the shift.

 

[MissLabelled]

Day 16: A song you would play at 3am

Johnny Cash - Hurt

 

[curious_slut]

Day 16: A song you would play at 3am

The only reason I'd voluntarily be awake at 3am is for the witching hour so pagan vibes only for me

Heilung - Anoana

 

[CarlyAnn]

Day 16: A song you would play at 3am

I try and get a break at around 3:00 AM so I need a song that’s longer than most other songs…..I choose this.

 

[lingus60]

Day 16: A song you would play at 3am

In the wee small hours of the morning: Saje featuring Jacob Collier

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 16: A song you would play at 3am

In the wee small hours of the morning: Saje featuring Jacob Collier

Never heard this before...this is so soothing.....

 

[Shady_nz]

Day 16: A song you would play at 3am

Need you now -Lady Antebellum
I've listened to this at 1.15am (several times) and also at 3am when thoughts go round and round...

 

[Wand3rlust]

Day 16: A song you would play at 3am

Need you now -Lady Antebellum
I've listened to this at 1.15am (several times) and also at 3am when thoughts go round and round...

I love this. I thought of posting this..

 

[Mr_bogey]

Day 16: A song you would play at 3am

Such a great choice for this prompt.

 

[lavendersilk]

One of the things I really love about this thread, beyond the music, is the everything else. Histories, or stories, or just little bits of info. For this one, I love that we all have different views at three AM. MoreLikeASong is trying to sleep again. LavenderSilk is waiting for magic. So am I, but in a different way. Whiskeyjack is watching TV. Monkey-boy is trying to get bail. Onanismaddict is deep into The Illuminati. V is thinking. And several of us are drunk, and either listening or playing music. And as Mo_Bandy points out, it is often when the struggles, all of them, come out to fight.

In the long dark night of the soul, it may always be three AM, but every 3 AM is different.

Thank you for that. I love your words. I agree the little inside everyone's is the best part about this thread.

 

[Mr_bogey]

Day 16: A song you would play at 3am

As some of you know, I suffer from rather severe insomnia. Some times I don't sleep for days. After a while, day becomes night, and life becomes dreamlike. A cover, a fog, a veil spread across my mind, as I drift in and out of lucidity.

Oddly enough, nights are better than days. The little hours are when I can relax, because I know the world is asleep. The stress fades away, as there's nothing else I should be doing. Still wide awake, but at least I can think.

The world goes quiet
A calm falls over me
Real life fades away

Dire Straits - Fade to Black

Great song from a great band ....so bluesy

 

[Mr_bogey]

day 16

Absolutely the first song that popped into my brain.

 

[crazychemgirl]

Absolutely the first song that popped into my brain.

Mine too!

 

[Wand3rlust]

Day 16

Insomnia - faithless

 

[Justabaldguy70]

Day 16: A song you would play at 3am

I don’t function at 3AM

 

[Mr_bogey]

Day 16: A song you would play at 3am

I often play this in the middle of the night when the struggles come. Hits home too.

I've been living with a curse
Combing through the pages of my youth
There's a million soggy miles
Soaking through the soles of my shoes

And I've been staying up all night
I don't give a damn to sleep anymore
My eyelids are heavy
But my dreams don't sing like before

3:59 - John Moreland

Absolutely love this song. Never heard it before. TY