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UnquietDreams said:
Day 22: A song you would play at your wedding.

I was going to skip this one. I've done the wedding once, and that was enough. And I'm not of a mind for this. But I remember working a wedding where the bride walked down the aisle to an instrumental version of this song. I asked and the bride hadn't listened to it much but thought it was "pretty." Which it is, no question. I think wonder what happened to them.

There is a version where the added Christina Aguilera to the chorus. It is pretty, but not only unnecessary ,it undercuts the song. This isn't two voices trying to find meaning together, it is a solitary voice screaming in a whisper.

"Say Something," A Great Big World

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Sometimes people (I'm guilty of this) don't listen to the lyrics. I tend to fall in love with the beat and melody then slowly understand the lyrics.

I hope that couple is going strong.

I do enjoy the Christina addition to the song simply because she sings harmony. I love hearing a man and a woman harmonize in a song. But, you are right, the lyrics are spoken from a single point of view.
 
lavendersilk said:
Sometimes people (I'm guilty of this) don't listen to the lyrics. I tend to fall in love with the beat and melody then slowly understand the lyrics.

I hope that couple is going strong.

I do enjoy the Christina addition to the song simply because she sings harmony. I love hearing a man and a woman harmonize in a song. But, you are right, the lyrics are spoken from a single point of view.
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Maybe it is the writer in me, but I always Google the lyrics if I can't hear them clearly. I love music so much, and the words matter. I know not everyone does the same, and it has punched me in the throat before when I forget that.
 
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BreukelenAnima said:
Greetings.

I love the daily music challenge and I'm a big believer in posting one song in response to answering that day's challenge.

That said, please allow me to post a 2nd song just for today. It's a fun summer song and while posting it, I can wish a Happy Birthday to one of my musical heroes, Brian Wilson, born on this day 84 years ago. Absolute legend.

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Personally, I think it's not a bad reason to break the rule, but let's not do it again 🙂
lavendersilk said:
I've never wanted to get married. Will never be married. But, I have thought about it... so let's do this.

Day 22: The song you'd play at your wedding

Take My Hand - Dido
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Ditto. And also I love this song. Dido's first album has been one of my unexpected faves since I was a girl.
 
Day 23: A song you love that's an opening track of an album
(It's 2AM here!)

We were just kids, me and my brother, when we arrived in Sweden.

Our lives had been turned upside down, we didn't speak Swedish, we barely understood English, and SFI (Svenska för invandrare, Swedish for immigrants) classes didn't have a Lao translator. We retreated into ourselves, formed a co-dependence that weren't exactly healthy. We still had to attend school, even though we couldn't understand a word being said, and the curriculum being far more advanced than we were used to.

But eventually we made friends. Kids don't need words to communicate... It's a wonder, really. We were invited over to their houses, and with that we were introduced to levels of luxury and culture we couldn't fathom. One of our friends had an older brother; he liked rap and hip hop, and played some for us.

It's like something exploded inside of us. The beats, the emotions, the absolute alien tunes blasting from the speakers. We were transfixed. It was incredible. It made you want to scream, to move, to dance. One of the albums he played was a double-feature, Book One and Book Two.

The album was 2Pac's All Eyez On Me. He was gracious enough to let us borrow one of the tapes, Book Two, and a Walkman. We played that tape until it wore out, learning English, learning to love music...
(Pencil's at the ready. If you know, you know.)

2Pac - Can't C Me
(Opening track of Book Two)

 
vagrantx said:
Day 23: A song you love that's an opening track of an album
(It's 2AM here!)

We were just kids, me and my brother, when we arrived in Sweden.

Our lives had been turned upside down, we didn't speak Swedish, we barely understood English, and SFI (Svenska för invandrare, Swedish for immigrants) classes didn't have a Lao translator. We retreated into ourselves, formed a co-dependence that weren't exactly healthy. We still had to attend school, even though we couldn't understand a word being said, and the curriculum being far more advanced than we were used to.

But eventually we made friends. Kids don't need words to communicate... It's a wonder, really. We were invited over to their houses, and with that we were introduced to levels of luxury and culture we couldn't fathom. One of our friends had an older brother; he liked rap and hip hop, and played some for us.

It's like something exploded inside of us. The beats, the emotions, the absolute alien tunes blasting from the speakers. We were transfixed. It was incredible. It made you want to scream, to move, to dance. One of the albums he played was a double-feature, Book One and Book Two.

The album was 2Pac's All Eyez On Me. He was gracious enough to let us borrow one of the tapes, Book Two, and a Walkman. We played that tape until it wore out, learning English, learning to love music...
(Pencil's at the ready. If you know, you know.)

2Pac - Can't C Me
(Opening track of Book Two)

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Oh, I have missed your stories...
 
Day 23: A song you love that's an opening track of an album


Harborcoat - R.E.M.
this doesn't just open their 2nd album, Reckoning, it opens up dreams for me. I had heard a song on the radio a couple of weeks earlier, the first time i had actually heard this band... I bought the single (So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)) and then found another single a few days later... i knew they had an album, so went to buy that. So far I had only heard slowish songs... the store had a note saying that this was their 2nd album, it had been released that day, so i left Murmur and went home with Reckoning... I lowered the stylus and turned up the am and THIS came out. Life was never the same again.
I was lucky to see them do this live in '85 and later they said they'd never do it again, the lyrics were too weird (Mills is singing a completely different song to Stipe, essentially). In the early 2000s they did some "live rehearsal" gigs in Dublin and i went to one... they played this. My friend and I screamed with joy and hugged each other and then danced about.
It's about Anne Frank (apparently)
 
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