🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[onanismaddict]

Day 20: A song everyone loves that you can't stand

I’m going to get kicked out of Canada for this but I fucking hate RUSH.

Tom Sawyer - RUSH

I hit 'love' because I always respect your choices, and your reasoning, and your delightfully hilarious comments!
But that's not to say that I agree with you. I really like Rush, as well as this song. They're not gonna kick me out... haha.

 

[vagrantx]

I see your “wow” on my post. Which leads me to ask, how angry is a little bit angry? Like getting tied up and spanked or …

More like a stern talking to and then sitting down with some AKG cans and forced musical education!

And then maybe a bit of spanking.

 

[MindYaBitness]

Day 20: A song everyone loves that you can't stand
My Humps-Black Eyed Peas

 

[Pad_Foot]

Just about any Taylor Swift song

 

[LeBaronSamedi]

Day 20: A song everyone loves that you can't stand
My Humps-Black Eyed Peas

Let me quote the German band Kraftklub (translation by me): This isn't music, this is the Black Eyed Peas.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 20: A song everyone loves that you can't stand
My Humps-Black Eyed Peas

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Day 21. A song you like with a person's name in the title

I'm going deep today.
This song captures so well something I've always had a hard time articulating. I was institutionalized in my early twenties in no small part because of auditory hallucinations and psychosis. My brain was short circuiting and I was hearing voices I shouldn't have been. It was a dark time in my life and although I'm definitely towards the hope end of the spectrum these days, there are still times where it's hard to trust my thoughts. My head injury last year caused fractures that brought a lot of that stuff back up and it's been hard moving through the fear and confusion.

Hearing this song for the first time affected me in a way that only art can. Ren captures so eloquently the human experience and by wrapping these experiences in language he's helping us all understand each other a little better. He's also helping us heal.

It's art brute

Hi Ren - Ren

 

[LeBaronSamedi]

Day 21. A song you like with a person's name in the title

Just to make sure people don't forget there's an original version.

 

[lingus60]

Day 21. A song you like with a person's name in the title

Kaiser Chiefs: Ruby

 

[curious_slut]

Day 21. A song you like with a person's name in the title

I'm going deep today.
This song captures so well something I've always had a hard time articulating. I was institutionalized in my early twenties in no small part because of auditory hallucinations and psychosis. My brain was short circuiting and I was hearing voices I shouldn't have been. It was a dark time in my life and although I'm definitely towards the hope end of the spectrum these days, there are still times where it's hard to trust my thoughts. My head injury last year caused fractures that brought a lot of that stuff back up and it's been hard moving through the fear and confusion.

Hearing this song for the first time affected me in a way that only art can. Ren captures so eloquently the human experience and by wrapping these experiences in language he's helping us all understand each other a little better. He's also helping us heal.

It's art brute

Hi Ren - Ren

Thank you so much for sharing this song and sharing why you chose it. Sending you positive energy

I have to listen to it again in the morning to digest it properly but wow, that was powerful.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 21. A song you like with a person's name in the title

I'm going deep today.
This song captures so well something I've always had a hard time articulating. I was institutionalized in my early twenties in no small part because of auditory hallucinations and psychosis. My brain was short circuiting and I was hearing voices I shouldn't have been. It was a dark time in my life and although I'm definitely towards the hope end of the spectrum these days, there are still times where it's hard to trust my thoughts. My head injury last year caused fractures that brought a lot of that stuff back up and it's been hard moving through the fear and confusion.

Hearing this song for the first time affected me in a way that only art can. Ren captures so eloquently the human experience and by wrapping these experiences in language he's helping us all understand each other a little better. He's also helping us heal.

It's art brute

Hi Ren - Ren

This is a hard one, and I love it. I have read and listened to some of your stories, and thank you for the bravery of sharing all you have. I had a brain injury about 25 years ago. It isn't at all to the level of what you are going through, but I remember that terror -- that the one thing you have depended on, the one instrument that defines who you are, isn't trustworthy. That terror still pops up.

My nephew is fighting paranoid schizophrenia, and wanted me to understand what he was wrestling every day. He sent me this song a couple of years ago, at one of his lucid points, as music was always our bridge. He is back home, on proper med load, and doing...better. Not great, but better. And part of what helped that was this song, because it gave his family a way to understand in a way he couldn't articulate to us, no matter how much he wanted to. I can't fully understand what he is dealing with, in the same way I cannot understand what you are going through either. But this helps. It is a remarkable song, and a tool. Thank you, for sharing all that you do, including this.

 

[Wand3rlust]

Day 21

Luka - Suzanne Vega

 

[curious_slut]

Day 21. A song you like with a person's name in the title

I think this works?

Lady Marmalade - Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, and Pink

 

[curious_slut]

I can see how bit might grate on someone, but can i ask why you don't like it? I remember first hearing it and thinking wow.

I actually really liked it the first few times I heard it. Then I made the mistake of paying attention to the lyrics and was so annoyed that I couldn't enjoy the song anymore That's on me.

 

[LeBaronSamedi]

Day 21. A song you like with a person's name in the title

I think this works?

Lady Marmalade - Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, and Pink

I'd say it's a bit of a stretch. But there's nothing wrong with stretching.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 21: A song you like with a name in the title.

I discovered Kingfishr in this thread, (thank you @morelikeasong) and they absolutely sing to me. The album version is beautiful and lush, but I really love the stripped down acoustic version from their EP Live From Doonan. It doesn't get more bare bones: all the songs were recorded in the kitchen of Eoghan “McGoo” McGrath's family home in Doonan, outside Donegal. Three musicians, three instruments, no tricks, just the song. And "Caroline" is an outstanding song.

"Walking out on ecstasy
Heartache to the west of me"

"Caroline (Acoustic)," Kingfishr

 

[onanismaddict]

Day 21. A song you like with a person's name in the title

Hall & Oates - Sara Smile

 

[orangecurious]

Day 21. A song you like with a person's name in the title

Ben Folds Five - Kate
just an amazingly fun song... this provided the name for a character in one of my stories and some lyrical references were in there too - the main character was looking for a rainbow when she smiled at him in the rain, etc.

 

[Biggalute]

A song you like with a person's name in the title

Managed to get first and surname into it
Levi Stubbs was the wonderful lead singer of the Four Tops

 

[morelikeasong]

I'm going deep today.
This song captures so well something I've always had a hard time articulating.

Thank you for sharing this

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 21: A song you like with a person's name in the title

“The mad hatter he waits for Alice
To come to tea again
He waits forever for his old lover
And always wonderin'
Will I see stars falling all around your head,
When you return?
Sherry Fraser what have you learned?”

Marcy Playground - Sherry Fraser

 

[English_Oak]

Day 21. A song you like with a person's name in the title

Matchbox 20 - Kody

The lyrics to this have always hit hard with me from 'please hand me the bottle I think I'm lonley now' through 'If you've never heard the silence, it's a God awful sound' such a brilliantly crafted song

 

[orangecurious]

Day 21: A song you like with a person's name in the title

“The mad hatter he waits for Alice
To come to tea again
He waits forever for his old lover
And always wonderin'
Will I see stars falling all around your head,
When you return?
Sherry Fraser what have you learned?”

Marcy Playground - Sherry Fraser

egads, i had forgotten about this band! thanks for the reminder

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 21. A song you like with a person's name in the title

Hall & Oates - Sara Smile

I sing this song for my cat, but change the name to Stella for her.

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 21

Luka - Suzanne Vega

My dad changed the lyrics to this song to be about me and my brother when it came out.