🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[BrendaBear]

Day 3: Post break up song

There are so many great lines in this song.... (I didn't bother with the yeah, yeahs )

I know we really tried
Together we had love inside
So now the time has come
For both of us to live on the run

Knowing that you would have wanted it this way
I do believe I'm feeling stronger every day

After what you've meant to me
Ooh, baby now, I can't make it easily
I know that we both agree
The best thing to happen to you
The best thing to happen to me

To me, this song screams about finding the strength inside to move on and find a better life.

Chicago - Feelin' Stronger Every Day

 

[Mo_Bandy]

Day 3: Post break up song

Cavalier Eternal - Against Me

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Day 3: Post break up song

Tainted Love Soft cell​

The extended version with "Where did our love go" is incredible

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Day 3: Post break up song

This was the song I blasted with my roommate after we were both dumped in the same week by our long term boyfriends.

It helped.

Hearts A Mess - Gotye

 

[Amanda330]

Day 2 - song with a number in the title

I was too busy wanking yesterday - I apologize.

Day 3 - Post break up song

 

[hotoldrguy]

Day 2 - song with a number in the title

I was too busy wanking yesterday - I apologize.

Day 3 - Post break up song

Priorities

 

[curious_slut]

Day 3: Your favorite post-breakup song

Alex Newell - Basically Over You (B.O.Y.)

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 3: Your favorite post break up song.

I mean, tbh, I don’t have a lot of experience here, but my love of Shirley is well documented and this Album is highly underrated in general.

 

[curious_slut]

Day 2: A song with a number in the title

Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm)

I know the reference, it's a great song, but it doesn't change the way I feel about the title. It hurts my brain every time I hear it in the chorus lol.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 2 a song with a number in it

This is the amount of time I spent wanking yesterday

Also this is one of the first songs I remember hearing and thinking “I don’t know that I ‘get’ this but I know it’s cool af”

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 2 a song with a number in it

This is the amount of time I spent wanking yesterday

Also this is one of the firsts one I remember hearing and thinking “I don’t know that I ‘get’ this but I know it’s cool af”

Also how fucking cool is Kim Gordon in this video? Has anyone ever been cooler?

 

[LustfulIntentions2]

Well, I'm fat lazy and slow, so I guess I'll try to catch up here.

Day 2: A Song with a number in it:

Brandi Carlile (cover of an Elton John classic) Sixty Years On

Day 3: A post break up song

New Found Glory- Forget My Name

 

[Lord Pmann]

Day 3- Post Breakup Song

I may have posted this before, but it's one of the most realistic breakup songs I know.

Ryan Adams- Shiver and Shake

 

[CarlyAnn]

Day 3: A post break up song

 

[Lord Pmann]

Also how fucking cool is Kim Gordon in this video? Has anyone ever been cooler?

Did you just quote yourself?

I like it.

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 3: A post break up song

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Did you just quote yourself?

I like it.

I simply expanded upon my original thought.

 

[Lord Pmann]

I simply expanded upon my original thought.

Oh, I get it. Sometimes my thoughts are so clever I feel like I need to quote them. But of course I would never want anyone to think I'm arrogant. But now that there's precedence...

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 3: Your favorite post break-up songs

My favorite I posted previously for another prompt, and I try not to reuse since there are so many great post-break-up songs. And there are almost as many different flavors: angry, sad, happy, vindicated, resolute, hopeful, broken, so many others.

This is Blind Pilot. They are originally from a tiny town at the tip of the Oregon Coast called Astoria. If you saw The Goonies, that took place in Astoria, though a lot of scenes were in Cannon Beach. (Just last month I was in the State Park where they built the restaurant, which is just a beautiful place.) In Astoria, you can find The Goonie House, but usually the owners don't want people traipsing all around their house for some reason. Dude, you don't want Goonie Tourists, don't buy the Goondocks. And I'm sorry to break it to you, there is no underground Astoria, no wishing well, and no pirates either. (I like the movie in concept better than the movie itself). Yes, that was a long aside, but I love Astoria.

Blind Pilot is an indie pop folk band, but they are not in the "Stomp/Clap/Hey!" side of that genre. Aside two: I have tried very hard, but I cannot connect with Noah Kahan. I have several friends who love his work, musically and lyrically, so I have tried, but it doesn't sing to me. One of them said it was because I wasn't a New Englander. But the reaction they had to the title song from his latest album was very similar to the reaction I had to "Umpqua Rushing," so maybe it is because I am a child of the PNW, and it is a regional vocabulary. We don't have a "season of the sticks," but we do get forest fires and river floods. Umpqua is the name of both a river and the forest it runs through, and both are part of the metaphor that sings through this. Fire runs all directions, changes everything, and floods wash over you. And it works.

This is a song about confusion, and pain, and the feelings of inadequacy you get when someone leaves you. It is also about the fear they have moved on to someone else. It is about a lot, all at once, and I have been listening to it almost non-stop for a while. It's a bit stream of consciousness, and a bit dreamy, and I love Israel Nebeker's vocals in here. But the part that sings to my soul isn't a lyric, or a note. Just as the track starts, before the music, there is a very small sigh. I read into it, of course, but we all read into art. In that exhalation, I hear resignation -- the knowledge that this isn't going to change anything. It is the sound of a lacking words, but still needing to speak.

I feel that breath so fucking much.

"Umpqua Rushing," Blind Pilot

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 3
Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever

I am not a fan of Billie Eillish in general. Her "whispery, breathy, spoken word" style doesn't work for me, even though she can write a hell of a hook at times. But I love this one. The second half pays off for me.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Oh, I get it. Sometimes my thoughts are so clever I feel like I need to quote them. But of course I would never want anyone to think I'm arrogant. But now that there's precedence...

Not sure I’m a precedent or that I could shield you from that particular accusation even if I was, but you’re welcome to try

I refer you to the case of Monkey spanking Monkey.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Also how fucking cool is Kim Gordon in this video? Has anyone ever been cooler?

No. Kim Gordon was, is, and always shall be kick ass on two legs.

 

[RosewoodTulip]

I am not a fan of Billie Eillish in general. Her "whispery, breathy, spoken word" style doesn't work for me, even though she can write a hell of a hook at times. But I love this one. The second half pays off for me.

I agree. I haven't really been able to connect with her stuff at all although she's undeniably very talented. This one feels like when you've been trying to be calm and hold it in despite the crap you've had to go through until finally you break down/through and start moving beyond it all

 

[Yesok1]

I agree. I haven't really been able to connect with her stuff at all although she's undeniably very talented. This one feels like when you've been trying to be calm and hold it in despite the crap you've had to go through until finally you break down/through and start moving beyond it all

I can't remember the song I heard, I thought it was quite good, still sung in the vein but a bit better than normal. Other than that one of those artist you try to enjoy, but just can't.

Florence and the machine was another I tried with.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 3 - Post break up song

I love Chappell Roan -- she is one of the artists I just fell into when I first heard her here. And I love "Good Luck, Babe!" even though it is a very different feel for her. Unlike most of her work, it is straight ahead, with the drum machine, and lacking the complex, vibrant, layered vocals she usually uses. This isn't a sing along song. But it has a mature, vulnerable balance. There have been "I know you are scared to come out," songs, and "I am mad you say you love me but you can't admit you are in love with me" songs, but she balances between the two, with pain, but reserve. At least until the third "I told you so," which is a scream of pain. It is perfectly built and beautify paid off. And that extro is fucking brilliant. I have so much respect for her as a songwriter here.