🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[LeBaronSamedi]

Day 30: A song you'd listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus

I. Just. Love. This.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 30: A song you'd listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus
I'm pretty sure this song was written just for this prompt.
"America" - Simon & Garfunkel

 

[kenbrack]

Day 30: A song you’d listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus

 

[ZfrkS62]

Day 30:

"Wasted Years" Iron Maiden

 

[PassionatePanther]

Day 30: A song you’d listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus

I immediately thought of this song, originally done with Billy Bragg for the album “Mermaid Avenue” but then I found this solo version that I may like even better…

Wilco - At My Window Sad and Lonely

 

[curious_slut]

Day 30: A song you’d listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus

It is the end of a favorite month of mine so wistfulness is appropriate. And what's more wistful than recalling a previous relationship

No one dies from love
Guess I'll be the first

No One Dies From Love - Tove Lo

 

[BrendaBear]

Day 30: A song you’d listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus

I can just lose myself listening to this song... so easily.

Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street

 

[hotoldrguy]

Day 30: A song you'd listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus
I'm pretty sure this song was written just for this prompt.
"America" - Simon & Garfunkel

beat me to it LOL

 

[hotoldrguy]

Day 30: A song you’d listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus

Harry Nilsson ~ Everybody's Talking​

 

[curious_slut]

Day 29: A song you genuinely believe is a good one-hit wonder.

Sometimes the question isn't why an artist didn't get a second hit, it is why did they get a hit in the first place. I am a fan of Loreena McKennitt, a Canadian Celtic and World artist. She writes complex, layered songs based in ancient melodies and stories, and plays them on accordion and harp, backing her ethereal vocals. Most one-hit-wonders had an album, maybe a couple. She has released 18 albums -- 10 studio and eight live recording. She has had an amazing career, but is as niche as you can get in a genre no one in the US pays any attention to--Word Music.

Then, in 1997 she released a song about medieval Mummers, the amateur actors who travel from town to town or even house to house. DNA put a drum track behind it, and it went to 14 on the Billboard Top 40. It charted at 17 on the freaking Billboard Rock charts, and almighty Number One on the Alternative chart. Nothing since then even sniffed the charts, and honestly, I think she is probably fine with that.

She is brilliant, an international treasure, and a one-hit wonder.

"Mummer's Dance," Loreena McKennitt

Such a good choice! Loreena McKennitt is a treasure Her music is transportative and I'm obsessed.

 

[Bry1313]

Day 30: A song you'd listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus

America by Simon and Garfunkel was taken so………

So I’ll imagine I’m on a train instead

 

[AuntieDisco]

Day 30: A song you'd listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus

 

[Pad_Foot]

Ok… busses and trains are done
Boats! The video was unneeded, but how many have never watched a Cousteau television show ?

RIP to John
And
To Jacques
We so need a new Cousteau to steer the world from the brink.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 30: A song you'd listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus

I love this entire album so much. And Roland’s voice? Oh baby.

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 30: A song you'd listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus

 

[Great_Scot]

Day 30

Admiral Fallow - Subbuteo

Very underrated band.

 

[vagrantx]

Day 30: A song you'd listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus

I love public transport. Love it. Some times, when I lived in the capital, I would get on the bus or the tube or the boat. Stockholm has a lot of water, and so we introduced shuttle boats to ferry people around. It's not very efficient, and it's very cheap; it's mainly a comfort, a luxury, and maybe a tourist draw.

Sorry, got sidetracked. So yeah, I'd get on my vehicle of choice, grab my headphones, and with no particular goal I'd just hop between end-stations and see where I end up. Exploration. Meditation. When I'm on the move like that, everything else fades away. I know that there's nothing else I should be doing now; I'm on my way somewhere and all I can do is enjoy the ride. It's relaxing, like a warm bath.

Drifting around the city, aimless, wistless, weightless.

Disneyland After Dark - I am a Little Cloud
colored pink and grey
I don't hello my neighbors
when I meet them on my way

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 30: A song you'd listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus

I love the Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies cover of this, but it is more for when the bus is rolling out of control down a mountain road after the brakes gave out...

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 30

Admiral Fallow - Subbuteo

Very underrated band.

Oooohhhh...they are new to me! Right in my wheelhouse right now. This is why I love this thread. Thank you!

 

[ctarrantella]

Day 30: A song you'd listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus
QueensRyche: Silent Lucidity
Been away for a bit. Going through some stuff. Glad to be back on this thread. Have a ton to catch up on.

 

[__Nathan1968]

With my interstate move, I’ve been out of the game for a couple weeks, but I’ll play today, and be back for July.

I looked to make sure this was still in play. Hard to believe it is available. Seems like low hanging fruit, no?

Day 30: A song you'd listen to while wistfully looking out the window of a bus

Harry Nilsson - Everybody’s Talkin’

 

[morelikeasong]

Thread Update

Hope everyone enjoyed the month! Thank you to those dolling out the vigilante justice.

Not sure if any newbies have popped in this month but if so, welcome!

For July I’ll be getting back to writing the prompts myself and updating here in the thread and/or the first page.

If you have a new prompt suggestion, a repeat prompt request, or a suggestion that you’ve made and I haven’t done yet, please send them to me! You can either PM them or post them here.

 

[curious_slut]

Thread Update

Hope everyone enjoyed the month! Thank you to those dolling out the vigilante justice.

Not sure if any newbies have popped in this month but if so, welcome!

For July I’ll be getting back to writing the prompts myself and updating here in the thread and/or the first page.

If you have a new prompt suggestion, a repeat prompt request, or a suggestion that you’ve made and I haven’t done yet, please send them to me! You can either PM them or post them here.

Hope all went well with your break!

 

[UnquietDreams]

Thread Update

Hope everyone enjoyed the month! Thank you to those dolling out the vigilante justice.

 

[morelikeasong]

Happy July!

Day 1: A song for a morning walk