🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[Whiskeyjack]

Time to be a smart-ass. The prompt clearly says you can do all three decades. The mistress with the whip says one song.

1968 - "All Along the Watchtower" - Jimi Hendrix
1974 - "All Along the Watchtower" - Bob Dylan
1988 - "All Along the Watchtower" - U2

 

[morelikeasong]

Time to be a smart-ass. The prompt clearly says you can do all three decades. The mistress with the whip says one song.

1968 - "All Along the Watchtower" - Jimi Hendrix
1974 - "All Along the Watchtower" - Bob Dylan
1988 - "All Along the Watchtower" - U2

I went back, read the prompt and changed my mind. My bad. No whippings!
This is quite clever.

 

[Mr_bogey]

Day 13: A song you like from the 60's/70's/80's

60s

70s

80s

 

[crazychemgirl]

Day 13: A song you like from the 60s/70s/80s

60s

70s

80s

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 11: A song that makes you cry

So many songs to choose from here but to me, there is one song that rises above the rest. The man was given a death sentence (fuck cancer) and somehow, with his body failing him, managed to write and record this song.

This was on my short list, and I love this one, but I had a feeling you were going to pick this, so I didn't.

The whole album is sublime, and this one still stands out. Incredible song.

 

[MissLabelled]

Day 13: A song you like from the 60s/70s/80s

An absolute queer icon who has been at it for decades and given us so much. And I have been fortunate enough to see him perform live one time.

60s: Elton John - Val-Hala

70s: Elton John - Your Song

80s: Elton John - I'm Still Standing

 

[onanismaddict]

Day 13: A song you like from the 60s/70s/80s

An absolute queer icon who has been at it for decades and given us so much and I have been fortunate enough to see him perform live one time.

60s: Elton John - Val-Hala

70s: Elton John - Your Song

80s: Elton John - I'm Still Standing

Luv the progression of 'one' artist through the decades!
Great choice of artist, too! Fantastic stuff...

 

[BreukelenAnima]

The 60s

The 70s

The 80s

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 13: A song you like from the 60s/70s/80s

60s

70s

80s

I love "I Want to Break Free," but that video is one of the reasons why Queen never toured North America after the Hot Spaces tour. MTV played it, and US audiences who had no sense of humor, had a fear of men in drag, had never heard of Coronation Street, and seeing just how fucking drop-dead sexy Roger Taylor looked, bitched and MTV caved and banned the video. Freddie, who saw that the US tours didn't do as well as the European ones, just said "well, they can fuck right off." Fuck you, MTV.

But it also means I saw them on one of the last handful of concerts they did in the US, nine rows from the stage.

 

[onanismaddict]

Day 13: A song you like from the 60s/70s/80s

1960s:
The Doors - Five to One

1970s:
Parliament - The Motor-Booty Affair

1980s:
R.E.M. - I Remember California

 

[RosewoodTulip]

I love "I Want to Break Free," but that video is one of the reasons why Queen never toured North America after the Hot Spaces tour. MTV played it, and US audiences who had no sense of humor, had a fear of men in drag, had never heard of Coronation Street, and seeing just how fucking drop-dead sexy Roger Taylor looked, bitched and MTV caved and banned the video. Freddie, who saw that the US tours didn't do as well as the European ones, just said "well, they can fuck right off." Fuck you, MTV.

But it also means I saw them on one of the last handful of concerts they did in the US, nine rows from the stage.

Loving the Coronation Street name drop here. And yes Roger Taylor was a total babe in that video

 

[hotoldrguy]

Day 13: A song you like from the 60s/70s/80s

Gimme Some Lovin' Spencer Davis group​

The Kinks - Lola​

Paradise City - Guns N' Roses​

 

[CarlyAnn]

Day 13: A song you like from the 60s/70s/80s

(60’s)

(70’s)

(80’s)

 

[Booboobear84]

Day 13: A song you like from the 60s/70s/80s

60s

70s

80s

I stumbled on Rasputin a couple of years ago. Really works for me.

 

[WizzyWig00]

Day 13: A song you like from the 60s/70s/80s

60s

70s

80s

 

[orangecurious]

Day 13: A song you like from the 60s/70s/80s

I thought about doing the triple, but i also thought about these decades... ones that shaped music forever. Most think the 80's were synth-pop and big hair rock, but no, to some of us it was a time f incredible innovation, there the 60's and 70's combined, guitars, melodies, experimentation. I was going to see band that were opening as i liked them better than the main act, hanging out is strange venues all over London seeing bands.

And most of it came from THIS

R.E.M. - So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)

Nothing was ever the same after I heard this. Guitars, melodies, words that sang of lands far away "eastern to mountain, third party call" i had never known such distance, such yearning. s much as I liked the previous decades, this was it, this was the real start.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 13: A song you like from the 60s/70s/80s

Just "a song you like?" THREE OF THEM? I feel so dirty...

1960s

Bruce Springsteen said that Roy Orbison sang of the dark side of romance. Of all the 60s singers, he stood out with his complex songwriting and vulnerable sadness.

"I was alright for a while, I could smile for a while."

He is my favorite of the era.

"Crying," Roy Orbison

1970s

I remember this song coming on the radio when I was a kid and not paying any attention to it. It sounded sweet and happy. It is not. It is about pain, agony, suicide, and doubting the existence of God, all to a soft rock melody. How this made it to the top of the Billboard Charts is just another 70s Music Mystery.

"Leaving me to doubt
All about God in His mercy
For if He really does exist
Why did He desert me?"

"Alone Again (Naturally)" Gilbert O'Sullivan

1980s

There was a wonderful Australian band called The Angels. Because there already was a band of that name, in the US they recorded as Angel City. They were never huge in most of the States, but there was a program director in Portland who absolutely loved them, and so the biggest rock station, KGON, played the ever living fuck out of their albums and they were very popular in the PNW. They were the first concert I ever attended. And they had a lovely little song called "Am I Ever Going to See Your Face Again?" It is another upbeat but plaintive little song about love and loss.

"I've got to stop these tears, that's falling from my eye
Go walk out in the rain, so no one sees me cry"

But, in the most Australian thing ever, audiences created a sing back to the band after the question in the chorus. So here is the 1988 liver version. Sing along, the updated lyrics are on Doc's tee shirt...

"Am I Ever Going to See Your Face Again?" The Angels.

Now I feel bad for posting three songs, so I am going to spank myself...

 

[curious_slut]

Day 13: 60s, 70s, AND 80s

And it's been approved!

You Don't Own Me - Lesley Gore

The Bitch Is Back - Elton John

What Have I Done To Deserve This - Pet Shop Boys

 

[XShadynzX]

Day 13: 60s, 70s, AND 80s

And it's been approved!

You Don't Own Me - Lesley Gore

The Bitch Is Back - Elton John

What Have I Done To Deserve This - Pet Shop Boys

Lesley Gore You Don't Own Me =

 

[MisterChillax]

Day 13: A song you like from the 60s/70s/80s

60s

70s

80s

 

[Kittycity]

Day 13: A song you like from the 60s/70s/80s

I'm not a major fan of these periods, despite having been born in the 80s. However, I do love this song, has a tendency to make me dance like an eejit though!

 

[MisterChillax]

Day 12: A song you like to sing at karaoke

 

[KarenB59]

Day 13- A song that you like from the 60's 70's 80's

 

[lingus60]

Day 14: A song that uses an unconventional instrument

David Gilmour: shine on you crazy diamond

Wine glasses intro

 

[orangecurious]

Day 14: A song that uses an unconventional instrument

Neutral Milk Hotel -Ghost
It all goes a bit bonkers at the end!... Who can resist a singing saw on a record? Not me. The end of this track goes into another on the album (as you know as you all own this, right? RIGHT?) and that carries on with the saw and other odd instruments (i have no idea what they are playing)

I posted this in another thread recently as it was Anne Frank's birthday recently. Her ghost wanders through the whole album. "she was born in a bottle rocket, 1929" indeed.