❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

He's my hero. Still miss him.
Wavering between :love: and :(

I've never been a huge Audioslave fan. I love his voice but the music itself is a bit too bleak for me. His solo stuff is great though. But yeah. Pipes. How someone can belt like that while expending so little effort.. Legend.
 
Wavering between :love: and :(

I've never been a huge Audioslave fan. I love his voice but the music itself is a bit too bleak for me. His solo stuff is great though. But yeah. Pipes. How someone can belt like that while expending so little effort.. Legend.
Do you ever watch the charismatic voice on YouTube? She studies him as a vocal coach, really interesting.
 
Day 10: A song to sing in the shower

Usually, it is a song you can just belt, but for me today it was one where the acoustics in my bathroom almost made the high notes palatable on this part:

"No, I don't wanna fall in love (this world is only gonna break your heart)
No, I don't wanna fall in love (this world is only gonna break your heart)
With you
With you ..."

Almost.

"Wicked Game," Chris Isaak

Whilst I concede this song is best enjoyed nude, I'm not sure I'm inclined to pick the shower as the first option for location 🤭
 
Day 10: A song to sing in the shower

I have a speaker in my shower because I nearly always listen to music.

This is my go to song for when I need a slippery pick me up karaoke dance session.


Downtown - Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
I can't believe Eric Nally of Foxy Shazam (who sings the hook) didn't get credited in the title for this!! He's got the voice of an angel!
 
Day 11: A song about waiting

I've lived a pretty active life. I've traveled, I've tasted wondrous things, met the strangest of people and lived in ratty hostels. But as I've grown older, time has slowed down. I moved away from the big city. I left my friends behind. I couldn't do it anymore; some kept up the partying lifestyle and some settled down and started families. I couldn't relate to either.

I've lost contact with so many people. Forgotten names, faces. Texted less and less, didn't call, didn't try. I'm not overly sad about it. I'm happy where I'm at, but some times I wonder what life had been like, had we all kept in touch.

Stratovarius - Father Time

 
Day 11: A song about waiting

I worked concerts and shows when I was younger. Occasionally at the Colosseum, for big bands, usually running a follow spot biger than my car, but most often smaller shows. I was a light tech, and sound reinforcement engineer (aka The Sound Guy), but most often I was a roadie. Running cable, micing drums, fixing lights, adjusting monitor positions. It is hard work, no one thanks you (well, Kurt Cobain was very polite to us), and if it goes wrong it is your fault and if it doesn't no one notices. But honestly? I got paid to watch a lot of bands, and it was an amazing time to be working clubs in the PNW.

One of my favorites to work with was Mookie Blaylock, named after the Seattle Supersonics point guard. They came out of the ashes of Mother Love Bone, which fell apart when Andrew Wood died of an OD. The resulting band was a lot darker and more intense than what they were before, probably dealing with Wood's death. When they signed a major label contract, they realized that Mookie had trademarked his name, so they became Pearl Jam. You may have heard of them. And they made some brilliant music as well.

This is "I Got Id," also known by its original title, "I Got Shit." (The label didn't like that one.) It is a wistful song of longing and waiting for someone the writer doesn't think will come back since he hit rock bottom.

"An empty shell seems so easy to crack
Got all these questions, don't know who I could even ask
So I'll just lie alone and wait for a dream
Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me"

"I Got Id," Pearl Jam

 
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