🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 2: A song that mentions an animal you'd see at the zoo
There are turtles at the zoo, right?
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" theme song

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 2: A song that mentions an animal you'd see at the zoo

 

[Great_Scot]

Day 2.

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 2: A song that mentions an animal you'd see at the zoo

 

[vagrantx]

Day 2: A song that mentions an animal you'd see at the zoo

They took the world by storm in the early 2000's, ushering in a new era of Glam Rock. There wasn't a kid in school who wouldn't scream along to Justin in a forced falsetto. Nobody, nobody, could hit those notes.

Justin had some issues though. He liked cocaine. Well, I say liked, but he loved it. So fucking much that they had to put the band on hold for him to hit rock bottom, go to rehab, and come back stronger than ever. He mentioned in some interview how much money he spent on cocaine during the worst years, and I remember doing the math - he was hitting up towards 4 grams per day! It's fucking astounding that he ain't dead.

I saw them on their comeback tour, 7 years after they first quit. Justin took a bit of a tumble, fell backwards off the stage, got caught in some sort of half-crowdsurfing position with his feet on the stage and his back across the fence, held up by the fans. Poetic.

He never missed a note. Legend!

The Darkness - Concrete

 

[curious_slut]

Day 2: A song that mentions an animal you’d see at a zoo

Butterflies - Gayle

 

[LeBaronSamedi]

Day 2: A song that mentions an animal you'd see at the zoo

They took the world by storm in the early 2000's, ushering in a new era of Glam Rock. There wasn't a kid in school who wouldn't scream along to Justin in a forced falsetto. Nobody, nobody, could hit those notes.

Justin had some issues though. He liked cocaine. Well, I say liked, but he loved it. So fucking much that they had to put the band on hold for him to hit rock bottom, go to rehab, and come back stronger than ever. He mentioned in some interview how much money he spent on cocaine during the worst years, and I remember doing the math - he was hitting up towards 4 grams per day! It's fucking astounding that he ain't dead.

I saw them on their comeback tour, 7 years after they first quit. Justin took a bit of a tumble, fell backwards off the stage, got caught in some sort of half-crowdsurfing position with his feet on the stage and his back across the fence, held up by the fans. Poetic.

He never missed a note. Legend!

The Darkness - Concrete

I love The Darkness so much! Justin is such a great guy, he has a really funny YT channel now.

 

[hotoldrguy]

Day 2: A song that mentions an animal you’d see at a zoo

Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey​

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 2: A song that mentions an animal you’d see at a zoo

Simon & Garfunkel - At The Zoo

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 2: A song that mentions an animal you’d see at a zoo

Simon & Garfunkel - At The Zoo

My kid and I would sing this on the way to the zoo. Love this choice.

 

[WizzyWig00]

Day 2: A song that mentions an animal you’d see at a (petting) zoo

 

[CX726577]

"Little Red Riding Hood" by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. (Big bad wolf)

 

[LeBaronSamedi]

Day 2: A song that mentions an animal you’d see at a zoo

Simon & Garfunkel - At The Zoo

Hey, that's the easy way out!

 

[morelikeasong]

Hey, that's the easy way out!

There’s nothing wrong with the easy way!

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 3: A song you like from a genre you don’t normally listen to

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 3: A song you like from a genre you don’t normally listen to

The only hard part about this is waiting until tomorrow.

 

[Amanda330]

Day 1: Song for a morning walk

 

[Amanda330]

Day 2: A song that mentions an animal you’d see at a zoo

 

[GretaX]

Day 2: A song that mentions an animal you’d see at a zoo

I couldn't decide between DMB's The Proudest Monkey or Beastie Boy's Brass Monkey, then I found this:

Still prefer the original:

Day 3: A song you like from a genre you don’t normally listen to

 

[Photog1rl]

Day 2: A song that mentions an animal you’d see at a zoo

Iggy and the Stooges
Search and Destroy

I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm

 

[onanismaddict]

Day 2: A song that mentions an animal you’d see at a zoo

Iggy and the Stooges
Search and Destroy

I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm

What an opening line! Great song choice!

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 3: A song you like from a genre you don’t normally listen to
Country ain’t my jam normally but my Orville Peck playlist gave me this gem.

 

[LeBaronSamedi]

Day 3: A song you like from a genre you don’t normally listen to

That's a really hard one. I listen to so many genres. If pushed, I'd probably go for hip hop:

Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard

 

[vagrantx]

Day 3: A song you like from a genre you don’t normally listen to

What I "don't normally listen to" isn't so much a genre, but, it's purely instrumental music. I love voices, singing, screaming, and the instrumentals are often just a filler, a background, support structure for the vocalist to build upon. That might be offensive to any musicians in here, but I'll stand by it!

But, and there's always a butt, there are some musicians that compose to give the instruments a "voice". I don't know how to describe it. Like when George wrote about his weeping guitar, there's something ethereal about it. As though the guitar no longer plays music, but sings to us in a wordless language that conveys nothing but emotion.

RATATAT is one of those musicians. Both his guitar and his keyboard sound like people, like they're singing. I'm sorry, I don't have the vocabulary to describe what I'm feeling.

Just listen, and you'll understand.

RATATAT - Abrasive

 

[onanismaddict]

Day 3: A song you like from a genre you don’t normally listen to

What I "don't normally listen to" isn't so much a genre, but, it's purely instrumental music. I love voices, singing, screaming, and the instrumentals are often just a filler, a background, support structure for the vocalist to build upon. That might be offensive to any musicians in here, but I'll stand by it!

But, and there's always a butt, there are some musicians that compose to give the instruments a "voice". I don't know how to describe it. Like when George wrote about his weeping guitar, there's something ethereal about it. As though the guitar no longer plays music, but sings to us in a wordless language that conveys nothing but emotion.

RATATAT is one of those musicians. Both his guitar and his keyboard sound like people, like they're singing. I'm sorry, I don't have the vocabulary to describe what I'm feeling.

Just listen, and you'll understand.

RATATAT - Abrasive

"As though the guitar no longer plays music, but sings to us in a wordless language that conveys nothing but emotion."
Damn... Luv that so much! Poetic. Beautiful. Thank you for your extremely interesting explanation. Great song choice, too!