❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

[lavendersilk]

Day 25, A song from the 2010s, with flowers!
I have never seen Game of Thrones or, as I called it Boobs and Dragons. Not that I don't have a deep abiding love for each of those. But I read the first books of the George RR Martin's novels, and I enjoyed them, but found that any character I liked would --if they were lucky-- only die horribly, and it could get much, much worse for them than that. So about halfway through the fourth novel, I decided Westeros and I had an abusive relationship, and I walked away. (I had friends who loved and lived it, and I remember waiting gleefully for the day after the Red Wedding episode...I am evil.) So I never watched the show either, and with the ending being as it was, I am okay with that. But one of my favorite "Stomp Clap Hey!" indie folk bands, The Lumineers, did a song for an album of music inspired by the show. I was scouring my music collection for a flower that was a little more off the beaten path, as it were, and rediscovered it after several years. It is a repurposing of an early version of a song from their album III, and interesting to see how it goes in a different direction. To be honest, I like it much more than the other version it became. Mournful, macabre, and haunting, but charming, like the flower of the song's namesake. And no "Stomp Clap Hey!" here.

"Nightshade, won't you take me away?"

"Nightshade," The Lumineers.

How? How did I not know this existed?

 

[Bry1313]

Day 25 - Song from the 00’s - I can’t believe this movie is 16 years old, Paper Planes by MIA

Day 26 - songs from 10’s - since @UnquietDreams posted a GOT inspired song, here’s one from Florence and the Machine

Jenny of Oldstones

 

[ctarrantella]

Day 25, A song from the 2010s
Uncle Kracker/Kid Rock, Good to be Me

 

[PearlyDewdrops]

Lost Horizons and Ghostpoet - Reckless

In the 2010s I tried to be normal. It would have been better to have been reckless.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 26: A song from the 10s
Once again, the sole criteria for this selection is "songs that have been stuck in my head lately." So be forewarned if you click, it's a bit of a earworm.
2015 - "Alien Blues" - Vundabar

 

[MisterChillax]

Day 26: A song from the 10s

 

[lingus60]

Day 27: A song from the 2020s

Corinne Bailey Rae: He will follow you with his eyes

 

[likitisplit]

 

[Deleted member 6808749]

Day (had to check) 27: A song from the 2020s.

Now. I know what you are thinking but look past their 'look' and you'll find a very accomplished band. Great cover too.

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 27: A song from the 2020s

Shirley can sing anything and I will listen. This is a cover but I had never heard it before.

Song to the Siren - Garbage 2024

 

[vagrantx]

Day 27: A song from the 2020s

Shirley can sing anything and I will listen. This is a cover but I had never heard it before.

Song to the Siren - Garbage 2024

Oh damn I didn't know they still made new music. This was great! And quite psychedelic

 

[lavendersilk]

Oh damn I didn't know they still made new music. This was great! And quite psychedelic

I hope they put out a full album soon. Been living off of this EP for a while now. Lol

I just went down a Tim Buckley(father of Jeff Buckley) original artist to sing/write this song rabbit hole btw. 🕳

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 27: A song from the 2020s with flowers!
Roses was an album of duets between the Australian band The Paper Kites and various artists they love. Mariana Brito da Cruz Forjaz Secca, who records as MARO, is a Portuguese artist. She has a beautiful, warm voice -- I say this a lot, but go listen to her NPR Tiny Desk Concert. NPR does a wonderful job of showcasing artists in a way you don't see anymore. Together, you get a lovely, quiet, introspective song.

"Flowers underneath us now
Towers underneath us now
We walk above the city
You and I"

"Walk Above the City," The Paper Kites and MARO

Closing out this theme, I found we sang less about flowers as we went along. I am not sure if the metaphors got too shallow, or the image was seen as trite and sentimental, or we just moved away from looking out and spent more time looking in. It was an interesting experiment.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 27: A song from the 2020's
Keeping with my personal theme of "songs that have been stuck in my head lately."
"Welcome to the Internet" - Bo Burnham

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 27: A song from the 2020s with flowers!
Roses was an album of duets between the Australian band The Paper Kites and various artists they love. Mariana Brito da Cruz Forjaz Secca, who records as MARO, is a Portuguese artist. She has a beautiful, warm voice -- I say this a lot, but go listen to her NPR Tiny Desk Concert. NPR does a wonderful job of showcasing artists in a way you don't see anymore. Together, you get a lovely, quiet, introspective song.

"Flowers underneath us now
Towers underneath us now
We walk above the city
You and I"

"Walk Above the City," The Paper Kites and MARO

Closing out this theme, I found we sang less about flowers as we went along. I am not sure if the metaphors got too shallow, or the image was seen as trite and sentimental, or we just moved away from looking out and spent more time looking in. It was an interesting experiment.

Sometimes I appreciate the bonus challenges and sometimes I just go with what feels comfortable. Lately I've been waiting until the morning of the prompt to find a song. Decades week starts out reminding me of past artists I have stopped listening to and by the end of the week I have found new ones.

Decades week is my favorite with or without the bonus challenges. Thank you @morelikeasong

 

[vagrantx]

Day 27: A song from the 2020's
Keeping with my personal theme of "songs that have been stuck in my head lately."
"Welcome to the Internet" - Bo Burnham

I think this one takes the cake on which song have I sung most in the shower. The evil laughter is FANTASTIC! It's so much fun trying to invent variations on it that still fits the song. Outdoing myself again and again until my SO threatens to call the men in white jackets..

Inside is one of the best things to be released, ever.

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 27: A song from the 20s

Here’s a song that reminds me of our hostess, @morelikeasong every time it pops up on my play list. A fitting 2020 song alluding to flowers to complete decades week.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Sometimes I appreciate the bonus challenges and sometimes I just go with what feels comfortable. Lately I've been waiting until the morning of the prompt to find a song. Decades week starts out reminding me of past artists I have stopped listening to and by the end of the week I have found new ones.

Decades week is my favorite with or without the bonus challenges. Thank you @morelikeasong

I enjoy the extra challenge, even when boobs aren't involved, and I am very boob motivated. But especially challenges like this make me dig through my LPs and CDs and occasionally cassettes that I haven't converted to digital, or even thought of in years. (It is possible I take this thread too seriously...)

Because of the time zone issue, I am usually on when mlas posts the theme at night. She used to post when she got a chance in the morning for her, but she has been posting in time for midnight in Australia, because she is a kind and benevolent monarch.

Quite beautiful as well...

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 27: A song from the 20s-2022 Jack White

 

[vagrantx]

Day 27: A song from the 20s

Aurora dropped a new album last month and it's.... perfection. She is just incredible.
She's an alien, a mystery, and the music she makes is singular, unique. I can't get enough.

I'm in love.

Aurora - Starvation

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 27: A song from the 20s

Aurora dropped a new album last month and it's.... perfection. She is just incredible.
She's an alien, a mystery, and the music she makes is singular, unique. I can't get enough.

I'm in love.

Aurora - Starvation

Oh, that's a good one.

 

[curious_slut]

Day 27: A song from the 20s

I find 1920s music to be soothing and cozy. The vocals are frequently a bit odd to modern standards but I like that.

Here I am, lonely
Tired and lonely
Crying for home in vain
Just like a butterfly that's caught in the rain

Longing for flowers
Dreaming of hours
Back in the sun-kissed lane
Just like a butterfly that's caught in the rain

Annette Hanshaw - Just Like A Butterfly

 

[Wonderer67]

Seeing Fontaines DC in October.

New singles are good and full album coming out in a few weeks.

 

[ctarrantella]

Day 27: A song from the 2020s
Thomas Rhett (ft. Jon Pardi), Beer Can't Fix

 

[MisterChillax]

Day 27: A song from the 2020s