🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 7: A song that makes you feel energized
A bunch of my friends were in a not-terrible ska band in high school, and this is one of the first songs they covered. To this day it still puts a little extra pep in my step.

"The Bumble Bee Tuna Song" - Mephiskapheles

 

[BrendaBear]

Day 7: A song that makes you feel energized.

I have a lot of songs that qualify... this one just sounded like a fun one to share today.

Loggins & Messina - Your Mama Don't Dance

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 7: A song that makes you feel energized.

I have a lot of songs that qualify... this one just sounded like a fun one to share today.

Loggins & Messina - Your Mama Don't Dance

That hair on Loggins was a choice, wasn't it?

 

[curious_slut]

Day 7: A song that makes you feel energized

Oh, too many choices I'm struggling here, this is 90% of what I listen to But we're just less than two weeks from summer up here in the northern hemisphere so let's fucking go.

Hayley Kiyoko - for the girls

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 7: A song that makes you feel energized

Energized. That can go so many ways. And yes, I am going in a weird one. You can get energized with positivity. This is not that song. And you can get energized with darker energy. Songs of anger and pain, where someone or something has hurt you and you are going to explain why. I am a MCR fan, and this is their playground -- a lot. And there can be a lot of energy there. And while the opening lines ("The boy I love has another girl/he might be fucking her right now"), could look like this is going that direction, this is not that song either.

This song is about pain. There is a phrase bandied about, "I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all." And in that, they usually mean they would rather be with a person who causes emotional pain than not be with them. This is not that song either. It isn't that simple.

Meet Kristine Meredith Flaherty, who performs as K.Flay. I have spoken of her before, in a much more lighthearted song. She is a rapper, musician, and singer, and while her voice isn't everyone's cuppa, to me, she can sing pain unlike almost anyone. And this song is about pain. Not feeling pain -- it is beyond that. It is about feeling so much pain that you need to feel something else. Not love -- she is in love, so anything else would not be real. But she needs anything else, anything strong enough to fill the silence in the room. It can be performing ("I need noise/I need the buzz of a sub"), or something more...visceral. "Take my arm, break it in half," she begs. "Need the crack of a whip/Need some blood in the cut." Anything to fill the empty room. It isn't a healthy wish -- exactly the opposite. But art doesn't need to have healthy answers. And this one doesn't have a single answer.

Driving this is the bass line, ticking away like Time's metronome, like the merciless tick of the clock at three am when you wake up with all of your fears and pains and memories for company. It is relentless, and powers the song forward. It is unhealthy. It is dark, raw energy. It is "Blood in the Cut."

"Blood in the Cut," K.Flay.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 7: A song that makes you feel energized

So many choices for today but I've been trying to post songs that have either never been shared here, or only minimally shared.

This song always gets my booty shaking, and it's just so queer. For me it recalls simpler times. Not simpler as in easier but simpler as in we had nothing but the pals and the parties and we had so much fucking fun despite it all.

And the tea, and the shade, honey, we could go all night dragging a bitch. Simpler, maybe not kinder lol

Scissor Sister's - Let's Have A Kiki

I am getting "Video Unavailable," so I am posting one that is so I can see it. Because that is how I am.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 7: A song that makes you feel energized.
An infinity of choices but I’ve been on an MCR kick so here you go.

I was going to go with MCR, but you did, so I went a different way. So technically, my blathering is your fault.

 

[MissLabelled]

Day 7: A song that makes you feel energized

Energized. That can go so many ways. And yes, I am going in a weird one. You can get energized with positivity. This is not that song. And you can get energized with darker energy. Songs of anger and pain, where someone or something has hurt you and you are going to explain why. I am a MCR fan, and this is their playground -- a lot. And there can be a lot of energy there. And while the opening lines ("The boy I love has another girl/he could be fucking her right now"), could look like this is going that direction, this is not that song either.

This song is about pain. There is a phrase bandied about, "I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all." And in that, they usually mean they would rather be with a person who causes emotional pain than not be with them. This is not that song either. It isn't that simple.

Meet Kristine Meredith Flaherty, who performs as K.Flay. I have spoken of her before, in a much more lighthearted song. She is a rapper, musician, and singer, and while her voice isn't everyone's cuppa, to me, she can sing pain unlike almost anyone. And this song is about pain. Not feeling pain -- it is beyond that. It is about feeling so much pain that you need to feel something else. Not love -- she is in love, so anything else would not be real. But she needs anything else, anything strong enough to fill the silence in the room. It can be performing ("I need noise/I need the buzz of a sub"), or something more...visceral. "Take my arm, break it in half," she begs. "Need the crack of a whip/Need some blood in the cut." Anything to fill the empty room. It isn't a healthy wish -- exactly the opposite. But art doesn't need to have healthy answers. And this one doesn't have a single answer.

Driving this is the bass line, ticking away like Time's metronome, like the merciless tick of the clock at three am when you wake up with all of your fears and pains and memories for company. It is relentless, and powers the song forward. It is unhealthy. It is dark, raw energy. It is "Blood in the Cut."

"Blood in the Cut," K.Flay.

Oh I fucking love this song! Great post

 

[MissLabelled]

I know that I just finished saying there were so many good posts today that I would just express my gratitude as a catch-all "thank you"... but I have to comment on your deeply moving post. First of all, I luv this song! Luv, luv, luv, this song (which was definitely played in my house a lot)... luv the artist, album, and song! But I was really moved by that incredible lyrical excerpt 'after' reading your story... damn. Thank you!
And this 'thank you' extends far beyond today's post. I really love what you have been doing all month! Beautiful...

Thank you for this I really appreciate it

I'm having a ton of fun finding songs to match the prompts. It would be easy enough to just post songs by queer and/or trans artists but to match them to a theme has me digging in the archives and it's brought me so much queer joy just listening to songs I may have forgotten about.

 

[MisterChillax]

Day 7: A song that makes you feel energized

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

I was going to go with MCR, but you did, so I went a different way. So technically, my blathering is your fault.

I refuse to accept this responsibility

 

[RosewoodTulip]

Day 7
Republica - Ready To Go

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 7
Republica - Ready To Go

I was hoping someone would post this song.

 

[PlanetaryNebula]

Day 7 A Song That Makes You Feel Energized

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 7: A song that makes you feel energized

Becoming Insane - Infected Mushroom

That was...bracing, Purple.

I like it.

 

[TwoTaTango]

Blah Blah Blah ....An energizer Song ..Notorious

 

[XShadynzX]

Day 8: A song you like that's used in a movie

There are worse things I could do -Stockard Channing in Grease

 

[lingus60]

Day 8: A song you like that's used in a movie

Mark Knopfler: Going Home

Theme tune from the Movie Local Hero.....stunning scenery in this video

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 8: A song you like that's used in a movie

 

[orangecurious]

Day 8: A song you like that's used in a movie

Mark Knopfler: Going Home

Theme tune from the Movie Local Hero.....stunning scenery in this video

Amazing film and soundtrack... The two just fit so well together

 

[orangecurious]

Day 8: A song you like that's used in a movie

Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music For A Found Harmonium

sooooo many films have this, but most don't know who it is.. here we are, the Penguins, the original ones (Simon Jeffes' son Arthur now heads the Penguin Cafe).
One of the finest pieces of music ever written, as Jeffes wrote it, it's not a traditional tune.
The harmonium was found, on a street in Japan and the song was born.

 

[PassionatePanther]

Day 8: A song you like that's used in a movie

From Fight Club: Where is My Mind by The Pixies

 

[onanismaddict]

Day 8: A song you like that's used in a movie

From Fight Club: Where is My Mind by The Pixies

Brilliant choice!
I could lie and say, 'you stole my song'...
Because I wish that I thought of this one! But I didn't.
A fantastic song choice!

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 8: A song you like that is used in a movie.

My song from yesterday was dark, raw, ugly. This is not. It is light, lovely, sad. But no less real.

I needed this.

"I can't take my mind off of you..."

"The Blower's Daughter," Damien Rice (Used in The Closer)

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 8: A song you like that's used in a movie

Mark Knopfler: Going Home

Theme tune from the Movie Local Hero.....stunning scenery in this video

I love this movie, and I love this soundtrack. Bill Forsyth does such beautiful work. Add in a very young Peter Capaldi and a mermaid? One of my favorite little films ever.