❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

[PearlyDewdrops]

Latest on the playlist is

Nico - Fairest of the Seasons

My workmate is Ukrainian. On the radio today they played that Nico song and I turned it up. She listened and asked if it was ABBA. I get reference point was the accent and the orchestration.

So I asked if she knew about The Velvet Underground or Lou Reed, John Cale or even Jackson Browne.

"Well you know about Andy Warhol?"

That also drew a blank.

So I asked if she knew of a modern Russian film called Summer (I think) where people start singing Perfect Day on a bus in St. Petersburg. She had seen the scene but not the film.

It's been fun working with her because her cultural reference points are so weird and she is lovely. Her seasonal work ends soon, so I'm making her a playlist of songs she has liked but never heard before and burning them to CD. Nico's the latest to go on the list. I'll make the CD cover by using Warhol pop art.

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Day 16: A song that you recently added to a playlist

This is my latest addition to my playlist. I hadn't heard it before and it caught my attention. It's such an interesting sound. I love me some syncopation

Don't Say - Benjalu

 

[LustfulIntentions2]

Day 16: A song that you recently added to a playlist

You guys have way more interesting taste than I do. But I really do like this band and have started sprinkling them into playlists.

 

[PassionatePanther]

Day 16: A song that you recently added to a playlist

Foolin’ - Devendra Banhart

 

[MisterChillax]

Day 16: A song that you recently added to a playlist

 

[HoosierPapi]

Day 16: A song that you recently added to a playlist

 

[Baseballcoach43]

Day 16: A song that you recently added to a playlist

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 16: A song that you recently added to a playlist

“I like order, I like answers
Wrapped in ribbon and twine
I grab hold of unknown outcomes
'Til my knuckles are white
I am trying to be kinder
To this body of mine
'Cause it keeps me alive
Like it's supposed to
I rush the future, I cling to the past
I'm terrified the present will not last
I see the irony, I get the fact
It's already gone
By the time that the thought
Has passed
I am working on it
Give me some grace
I like empty pages
I like Mondays”

Taylor Bickett - I Like Mondays

 

[aussiegeekygal]

This has been my favorite prompt to date I think

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 17: A song with a state in the name.

 

[MindYaBitness]

Day 17: A song with a state in the name

Hotel California-The Eagles

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 17: A song with a state (or county for non US?) in the name or lyrics

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Day 17: A song with a state (or county for non US?) in the name or lyrics

The only song that came to mind...

I love belting this song out on my road trips to Cali

California - Phantom Planet

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 17: A song with a state in the name

Hotel California-The Eagles

i used to work with a guy who was in a band with the daughter of the Eagles bassist (i think). Anyway none of this matters but it’s wierd that I made a Hotel California joke that I don’t think landed just two days ago.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 17: A song with a state (or county for non US?) in the name or lyrics
I am very happy with my move, but you’re never ever gonna convince me that California is not the best place for humans to exist. Economics aside.

 

[Baseballcoach43]

Day 17: A song with a state (or county for non US?) in the name or lyrics

 

[Shady_nz]

Day 17: A song with a state in the name

Massachusetts -BeeGees
C'mon...

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 17: A song with a state (or county for non US?) in the name or lyrics
I am very happy with my move, but you’re never ever gonna convince me that California is not the best place for humans to exist. Economics aside.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 16: A song that you recently added to a playlist

“I like order, I like answers
Wrapped in ribbon and twine
I grab hold of unknown outcomes
'Til my knuckles are white
I am trying to be kinder
To this body of mine
'Cause it keeps me alive
Like it's supposed to
I rush the future, I cling to the past
I'm terrified the present will not last
I see the irony, I get the fact
It's already gone
By the time that the thought
Has passed
I am working on it
Give me some grace
I like empty pages
I like Mondays”

Taylor Bickett - I Like Mondays

Listened to this a few times through. I lived with a perfectionist, so I understand this way too well. Unfortunately, I lived with a perfectionist who never learned this part:

"I like New Year's, I like Mondays, I like firsts of the month
Notebook paper, wet cement, the moment's never been touched
I like knowing that there's something that I haven't messed up
'Cause I will, and I do, and I'm supposed to"

It is the last four words that elevates this. Not knowing that screwing up is inevitable, but rather that it is required. That is where growth comes from.

Thank you, Princess. I like this.

 

[vagrantx]

Day 17: A song with a state in the name

So along comes this prompt asking me to name a specific state and I'm like yeah, whatever https://openseauserdata.com/files/ab1a76acd03bb1a484218d4a36868a1b.png

Liam Lynch - United States of Whatever

 

[lingus60]

Day 17: A song with a state (or county for non US?) in the name or lyrics

Be bop deluxe: Adventures in a Yorkshire landscape

My home county: I've posted this before but different version here; cool video too

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 17: A song with a state (or county for non US?) in the name or lyrics

This song is based on a legend, and one that happens to be verifiable. On February 13th, 2000, a coyote hopped onto an airport bound Max Light Rail train and took his seat. He didn't pay, but that made him just like about 70% of the people on MAX.

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This ended up in the local newspaper, and another Stumptown legend was born.

Enter Sleater-Kinney. Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein, and Janet Weiss were one of the Northwest's premiere punk bands, and one of the originators of the Riot Grrrl movement. One Beat, their sixth album, was the first they recorded in Portland, and their first post-9/11 output. It is a remarkable album, and is stridently political and deeply feminist, as is most of Sleater-Kinney's music. But right in the middle of it is this dark, somewhat bitter love song to the city and the coyote, framed with some kids taking their parents' car to the city.

"Water, building, and sin
Big Oregon city draws you in
A promise fulfilled or not
Just hang on until the summer, it’s hot"

(Apropos of nothing, it is hot -- currently 85 degrees at 10 PM as I work on this.)

I love this song so much. Corin's riff is huge, the lyrics are sharp, and I can tell you just about what every lyric is about, from Powell's books, to Quality Pie, Satyericon, Pine Street Theater, Mary's Club, and every grimy treasure along Burnside that made Portland what it was. Hell, Laurelhurst's statue of Joan of Arc even gets a shout-out. I grew up in this mess, a Southwest suburban kid spending weekends hanging around and getting into trouble. This song feels like being a teenager again, "thankful for the things I left behind." Oh, dirty river, take us all in -- you, me, and Coyote.

"Light Rail Coyote," Sleater-Kinney

(I have a lot in common with Coyote...)

 

[Deleted member 6808749]

Day 17: A song with a state in the name or lyrics.

It's all about the South
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Carolina
Don't you wanna get down and dirty? 'Cause, Florida I'm thirsty
Hit me with your Tennessee whiskey and crank it up loud
Laid back, crazy old timer, sweet magnolia, dive bars and diners, oh yeah
Oh, and even if you're up North, c'mon down, c'mon down
Oh, it's all about the South
All about the South

 

[onanismaddict]

Day 17: A song with a state in the name or lyrics

The Nightwatchman - California's Dark

 

[orangecurious]

Day 17: A song with a state in the name or lyrics

Dressed Up Like Nebraska - Josh Rouse
An unknown singer was coming to the UK and the record company sent a sampler of their artists, this was on it. Been a fan ever since.