Great_Scot
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Day 12: A song about change
Angsty grumpy change
Angsty grumpy change
🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵
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PassionatePanther
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Day 12: A song about change
Change by Blind Melon (one of my most favourite songs EVER)
When life is hard,
You have to change
Change by Blind Melon (one of my most favourite songs EVER)
When life is hard,
You have to change
UnquietDreams
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Day 12: A song about change
I've made my share of poor choices. Hell, I've probably made your share of poor choices. When I was younger, in anger and pain, I got involved in some things I should not have. And when you are young and stupid, you think you have everything under control. And it is, until it isn't. Then you look at what you are, and what you've done, and the devastation you have caused not only in your life, but in the lives of others. And sometimes, "devastation" is the only accurate word. When you hit the bottom, or what you think is the bottom, you have choices to make.
But here is the really fucked up thing: you can make those choices, and mean them, and still self-sabotage and cut yourself off at the knees. You can look to change, but change is fear. And all too often, fear wins. That is what lifts this song up from your usual "I was down, but I am looking up" song.
This song is raw, and painful, and too goddamned true to the end.
"Cocaine and Abel," Amigo the Devil
I've made my share of poor choices. Hell, I've probably made your share of poor choices. When I was younger, in anger and pain, I got involved in some things I should not have. And when you are young and stupid, you think you have everything under control. And it is, until it isn't. Then you look at what you are, and what you've done, and the devastation you have caused not only in your life, but in the lives of others. And sometimes, "devastation" is the only accurate word. When you hit the bottom, or what you think is the bottom, you have choices to make.
But here is the really fucked up thing: you can make those choices, and mean them, and still self-sabotage and cut yourself off at the knees. You can look to change, but change is fear. And all too often, fear wins. That is what lifts this song up from your usual "I was down, but I am looking up" song.
Listen to his energy, his passion up to this point, then listen to the last two lines.
That is the sound of a man shutting down.
This song is raw, and painful, and too goddamned true to the end.
"Cocaine and Abel," Amigo the Devil
lavendersilk
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Day 12: A song about change
We'll dream about somewhere
Our smoke will fill the air
As I lay awake and wait
For you to walk out that door
I can change, I can change, I can change
But who do you want me to be?
I'm the same, I'm the same, I'm the same
Oh, do you want me to be?
Stranger Things Have Happened - Foo Fighters
We'll dream about somewhere
Our smoke will fill the air
As I lay awake and wait
For you to walk out that door
I can change, I can change, I can change
But who do you want me to be?
I'm the same, I'm the same, I'm the same
Oh, do you want me to be?
Stranger Things Have Happened - Foo Fighters
UnquietDreams
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I am not a Foo Fighter's fan. I am not sure why. I should love them. I want to love them. Dave Grohl is one of the coolest humans on earth, and one of my big regrets is that he joined Nirvana after they left Portland, so I never got to see him play, much less meet him. But for some reason, Foo Fighter songs just .... I am not sure. Creep me out? Something like it. It is like an allergic reaction. There is no faster way to have me change the station on my car radio than to have a Foo Fighters song come on. And it pisses me off that I don't know why.
But this song? I like this one. A lot. I love the two acoustic guitar lines. I love the metronome. I love his voice here, and the lyrics are intensely personal. Because I can't stand them, I have never heard it before now. Thank you for this.
Great_Scot
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lavendersilk
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You should listen to this whole album: Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. Quite a few more intimate numbers on that album. Grohl has seen his fair share of shit. I'm a bigger fan of Foo than Nirvana...
RosewoodTulip
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Actually same. I saw the Foos the other week and I loved them even from way up in the nosebleed seats.You should listen to this whole album: Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. Quite a few more intimate numbers on that album. Grohl has seen his fair share of shit. I'm a bigger fan of Foo than Nirvana...
Nirvana were very special of course but the Foos have always been favourites of mine
LeBaronSamedi
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Day 12: A song about change
The Lightning Seeds - Change
Actually a song about not changing just because people expect you to. To me, the melody does more than the lyrics though. The Lightning Seeds just had a talent for crafting perfect earworms.
The Lightning Seeds - Change
Actually a song about not changing just because people expect you to. To me, the melody does more than the lyrics though. The Lightning Seeds just had a talent for crafting perfect earworms.
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RosewoodTulip
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Haven't heard this for ages!
And yeah Broudie can write a catchy tune. He'll be living off a certain football songs royalties (not naming due to the one rule) for ever
lavendersilk
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I saw them in 2018. It was a dream.
LeBaronSamedi
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Yeah, like the heirs of George Michael and a certain (unbearable) Christmas song.
GretaX
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Of course!! The anxiety in posting this was palpable because I wanted to post it and was afraid someone would beat me to the punch. LolAnd it was probably the first song to think of for this prompt, hm?
PassionatePanther
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I saw them in 2000 when they opened for the RHCPI saw them in 2018. It was a dream.
curious_slut
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Day 12: A song about change
Always looking for an excuse to post a song from my favorite album.
The Killers - Change Your Mind
Always looking for an excuse to post a song from my favorite album.
hotoldrguy
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Day 12 - Song about change
The Times They Are A-Changin' Bob Dylan
PassionatePanther
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Why are you like this?
__Nathan1968
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Day 12: A song about change
You need to make the change you want in life.
You need to make the change you want in life.
UnquietDreams
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I enjoyed working Nirvana shows, and Kurt was incredibly shy and nice with the crew (though he screamed at the band), but I was never a huge fan. Honestly, I never thought they would take off. (Mother Love Bone should have been the "face of Grunge," but that was not to be.) I was more into The Dharma Bums, Screaming Trees, Heatmeiser and a few others in the Grunge era.You should listen to this whole album: Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. Quite a few more intimate numbers on that album. Grohl has seen his fair share of shit. I'm a bigger fan of Foo than Nirvana...
MisterChillax
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Day 12: A song about change
Never liked the song, but it's in the history books as soundtrack to the breathtaking, world changing events of the late eighties.
Never liked the song, but it's in the history books as soundtrack to the breathtaking, world changing events of the late eighties.
