🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[curious_slut]

Day 5: A song that uses a sample

Heavy on the sample but I kinda like that

David Guetta and Bebe Rexha - I'm Good (Blue)

 

[curious_slut]

I unironically love this song.

I'd have no choice but to judge you if you loved it ironically

Day 5: A song with a sample in it.

Before there was EDM, there was Techno. This is Apotheosis, a pair of Belgium producers who had a couple hits in the early 90s. They sampled one of the original recordings of Carl Orff's famous Carmina Burana from 1935, and got sued by Orff's family for it.

I accidentally ended up dating a stripper back after college. Long story. But she introduced me to this song, and it is still in my playlist. So this is for Heather, who danced as Ophelia, because I am a sucker for a good Shakespeare reference. Among other things.

"O Fortuna," Apotheosis.

I'm in love I didn't know I needed a danceable O Fortuna but I really did

 

[PassionatePanther]

Day 5: a song with sampling in it.

Can I Kick It? - A Tribe Called Quest

 

[MindYaBitness]

Day 5: a song with sampling in it.

 Groove is in the Heart-Deee-Lite
Samples from Bring Down the Birds by Herbie Hancock

 

[MissLabelled]

Day 5: A song that uses a sample

This song is always on my Pride playlists. Probably because Young M.A can do all the gay things with me, yes please!!

Young M.A - OOOUUU

 

[Wand3rlust]

Day 5

Sugerhill Gang - Rapper's Delight

Samples Chic - Good Times.

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Day 5; A song with sampling in it
Samples The clash straight to hell

Oop- totally missed yours earlier. #greatminds

 

[The_spirit_of_oz]

Wait...isn't that two songs?

 

[The_spirit_of_oz]

Day 5; A song with sampling in it

I’ll be doing a countdown later as I am a bit behind…but here’s the 5th

Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice baby sampling David Bowie/Freddie Mercury Under pressure

 

[Mo_Bandy]

Day 5; A song with sampling in it

Really the Beastie Boys were probably the best to ever sample. Here they use Curtic Mayfields Superfly.

 

[orangecurious]

Day 6: A Song Your Family Played Around the House

Stevie Wonder - For Once In My Life

not sure it was played around the house, per se, but it must have been played a lot as, apparently, as a child i could sing every word. It was a time when Motown ruled in my growing world and this one just stuck. Still waiting for the lyrics to come true

 

[Amanda330]

Day 6: A Song Your Family Played Around the House

I grew up in a very musical home. We all had music lessons, played instruments, and I had singing lessons... Les Mis and Phantom were on all the time as I grew up. I still listen to them both on a regular basis. This is one of my favorites.

 

[XShadynzX]

Day 6:A song your family played around the house

Heintje -Oma so lieb
My parents were Swiss( Dad) and German (Mum) so we had a lot of songs by Heintje playing all the time. This is my favourite.

 

[RosewoodTulip]

Day 6
Bonnie Tyler - It's A Heartache

I have many not so fond memories of being ill off school and trying to recuperate in my room while contending with my partially deaf mother blasting her favourite songs while cleaning up downstairs. The stereo was directly below my room too so the walls vibrated with the noise. This one was my least favourite and so fairly appropriate for today's prompt.
We didn't really have "family" songs as my parents have very different musical tastes. For example, my dad has some

 

[JKL123]

Day 6:A song your family played around the house

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 6:A song your family played around the house
I loved this song and it was my first single, luckily my Mom loved it too and we played it all the time

 

[lingus60]

Day 6: A Song Your Family Played Around the House

There was always Jazz playing when I grew up so it's in my blood.
This is an all time classic...
Miles Davis: So What

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 6: A song your family played around the house
"Snowfall" by Banjo Dan and the Mid-Nite Plowboys
They were a local bluegrass band when I was a kid. Banjo Dan was also our piano-tuner.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 6: A song your family played around the house

My mom was pretty political and I grew up with a lot of hippie and/or second wave feminist music on the record player. But I’m choosing a song I think she took a little more personally. It never fails to make me cry a little. Even in stupid Napoleon Dynamite.

 

[MissLabelled]

Day 6: A song your family played around and the house

This post is about my chosen family, those who took me in after I came out. I initially came out as gay in 1992 which made my familial relationships come to an end. In 1993 I left home and moved to the city to go to university. I was alone, confused, and just trying to get by, making money however I could to allow me to pay for school.

After frequent visits to the same gay bars (thank goodness for lax ID verification, and for gay bars existing) I started getting familiar with the staff and patrons. Some of those relationships grew to chosen family, people who adopted me into the fold and saw me as one of their own. It was still an immense struggle but I'm thankful I had them during this really difficult time in my life.

This one couple had me over for dinner every Sunday evening, which was my best meal all week. I felt so safe in their apartment and they had a lot of vinyl records. This was one of the records they had and I played it every time I went over.

This song spoke to me on so many levels but in their presence, this lyric went straight to my heart.

"And I-I, had a feeling that I belonged
I-I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone"

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 6: A song your family played around and the house

This post is about my chosen family, those who took me in after I came out. I initially came out as gay in 1992 which made my familial relationships come to an end. In 1993 I left home and moved to the city to go to university. I was alone, confused, and just trying to get by, making money however I could to allow me to pay for school.

After frequent visits to the same gay bars (thank goodness for lax ID verification, and for gay bars existing) I started getting familiar with the staff and patrons. Some of those relationships grew to chosen family, people who adopted me into the fold and saw me as one of their own. It was still an immense struggle but I'm thankful I had them during this really difficult time in my life.

This one couple had me over for dinner every Sunday evening, which was my best meal all week. I felt so safe in their apartment and they had a lot of vinyl records. This was one of the records they had and I played it every time I went over.

This song spoke to me on so many levels but in their presence, this lyric went straight to my heart.

"And I-I, had a feeling that I belonged
I-I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone"

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

"Family" has so many connotations, on both sides of the coin, including families who turn their back on what they are supposed to do as well as those who embrace us as they should. We are built to love and be loved, and finding that is finding family, and recognizing that is a beautiful thing. Thank you for your wonderful stories.

And this song is beautiful bliss.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 6: A song your family played around and the house
Family. My father took off when I was six, married the woman he was cheating on my mom with, who had two kids. Kind of messed me up on that relationship, cross the board. A decent amount of therapy under that bridge, but I admit I sill have father issues, heh. I don't plan it this way, but I have found in my novels, fathers are rarely the good guy.

Ah, but my Mom. My mother, on the other hand, was and is an amazing person. She was an adopter -- if she loved you, she loved who you loved, even if she didn't always like them, heh. Our house was always full with our friends. Fighting with a parent and need someplace to sleep? Sure. Need an adult to talk to? Absolutly. Need a hug? Come here. We didn't have a lot of money, but no one went hungry at our house. No one got turned away. I talk about the differences between my ex an me a lot, as that is still raw in my mind. We were talking to my daughter, well before the divorce, and her mother said "as long as you are working or in college, you will always have a place to live here." And I turned and said to The Kid "as long as I am alive, you have a place to live." That was my mother in me.

Music was part of our life, as were stories. She was a singer, and pianist, and guitar player. And we had books everywhere. Sometimes they came together. The Jims: Jimmy Buffett was always playing, as was Jim Croce, both consummate storytellers. Today, it is Croce. One of Mom's favorite albums was Photographs & Memories, Jim Croce's first greatest hits album. It says something of his talent that with two albums he had a Greatest Hits, and every track is a banger. His dying at 30 cut an astonishing story so short. This is one of my favorites, though I had to grow into understanding it.

"But that's not the way it feels," hits so much harder later in life than in does as a kid. And with my dad leaving, I think this song was very personal to her. But I learned from my Mom, who still opens the house to the neighbors, that you roll with it and still keep loving. That is what family is supposed to be.

"Operator," Jim Croce

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 6: A song your family played around and the house

Growing up there wasn't much in the way of a regularly played song in our home. It was a musical household; my parents sang in church choir, we had a Steinway piano that my sister played, and we had a console hi-fi stereo with an assortment of records -- this is where I gained my love of Tom Lehrer, the Dubliners, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass (as well as developing my comic and storytelling skills with vintage Bill Cosby, but that's another story.)

But as far as a soundtrack song, I really can't think of anything from my youth.

On the other hand, if you consider my family as me, my wife, and my kids, then there was always music playing. We shied away from overly kiddie kid music, preferring artists that we already loved who released family oriented albums. Topping that list is John McCutcheon, a prolific folk artist who released some of my favorite music, both for adults and children. I can think of many songs that bring great memories, but this one was a favorite of my wife's, and got played a lot. and we all liked to sing along.

I've forgotten how much we loved this song; listening to it this morning for the first time in forever, I got goosebumps on my arms.

 

[curious_slut]

Day 6: A Song Your Family Played Around the House

This cartoon version is really fun but I also have to link this version for the sparkling polka dotted serve. Cher is such an icon. Finally something all three generations of my family always agree on

Cher - Dark Lady

 

[CarlyAnn]

Day 6: A Song Your Family Played Around the House

I remember singing this with my Dad when I was about 5 years old. I may have thought it was about coppers.