🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[RosewoodTulip]

Day 2
The Cure - Friday I'm In Love

Another massively influential band. This isn't my favourite of theirs now but it was the first one I heard.

It's a perfect pop song
It's quirky and gothy and simple and clever and so very catchy.

When I'd grown up with 80's mega stars and glitter and guitar riffs (which I still love as well) this was like someone opened a door to a whole new world of what music could be like.

 

[SluttyShannon]

Day 2: A song that was a gateway to a lot of the music you currently enjoy

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 2: A song that was a gateway to a lot of the music you currently enjoy

I still, to this day, remember how I felt when I dropped the needle on this album. I played side 2 first, so "Run to the Hills" was the second track I heard. (I played the first song about four or five times over first.)

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 2: A song that was a gateway to a lot of the music you currently enjoy

"When I was eighteen years old
I broke down and you know I cried..."

Though this is my 2nd B.B. King song this week, it was this song off this album and those opening lines got me hooked on the blues...

 

[lingus60]

Day 3: A song that reminds you of one of your closest friends in life

Free: My brother Jake

My brother's not called Jake but this song always reminds me of us growing up together. This is a nice live version

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 3: A song that reminds you of one of your closest friends in life

Meet Virginia - Train

 

[XShadynzX]

Day 3: A song that reminds you of one of your closest friends in life

Count On Me-Bruno Mars​

for Piglet- you can still count on me....always

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 3: A song that reminds you of one of your closest friends in life
There's only a couple friends from high school I still keep in touch with anymore. I had the great fortune to go on a student exchange trip to Germany with one of those friends. Both of our exchange partners were obsessed with this German punk band, Die Ärzte, so we all spent a lot of time listening to their music and just hanging out. This song, in particular, we listened to a lot, just to shout "ARSCHLOCH!" at each other.
"Schrei nach Liebe" - Die Ärzte

 

[Dalelaw2164]

A song that reminds me of one of my closest… lovers. And friend.
Amazing and considerate person, two years by each other’s side and in each other’s arms. I miss her to this day.
We were in different chapters of our lives- I was childless with an overwhelming urge to have one, she had two daughters that were almost out on their own… I’m so thankful for the child I helped bring into this crazy world, but damn, I still miss Beth.
I do know that she has had a warm and loving life, now with grown daughters and grandkids, so who knows, maybe next time around!
Two beers in and this song on and I’m one happily tearful motherf*cker.

 

[MedicalMuse]

Day 3: A song that reminds you of one of your closest friends in life
this fucking song.
We were older when it came out but for some reason it struck a chord and we played it all the time. So much so the kids now love it.

 

[kenbrack]

Day 3: A song that reminds you of one of your closest friends in life.
I remember singing this song in my friend’s house when we were in high school. Still friends at 57.

 

[gemarkiv]

Day 3: A song that reminds you of one of your closest friends in life

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 3: A song that reminds you of one of your closest friends in life

On paper, or in a story, we probably didn't belong together, but I thank Whoever Listens that the world is more interesting than that. My buddy Jerry I have already written about -- closeted, but we knew; big B-52s fan; theater kid; danced with strippers --Jer. Roger, who was solid, goofy, dependable, and as conservative a guy as I knew. After high school, he became a Marine pilot. Totally Gung-ho, man's man. And when Jer finally came out, Roger was the one who immediately walked over and hugged him, and I goddam loved him so much at that moment. Joey, who was clever and quick, and his mouth got us into so much trouble, and out of more. Daphnée, who had such a torch for me that every one knew it -- except me. You have people here who say they are oblivious? You've got nothing on me. One night, after coffee, she drove me home. I went in to hug her, like usual -- I'm a hugger. And instead, she kissed me, long and sweet. And I responded by thinking "okay, that was different," and never brought it up again. Because I had a crush on someone else, my mind elsewhere. And it honestly didn't connect until two years later, when I went "oh....oh!" And by then it was too late. There was Julie, a cheerleader with a 4.2 grade average (AP classes), and was everyone's mom. Bobby, the bass player for my band, class clown. Johnny, our guitarist, who was also on the football team with me. Paul, who loved his Baja and his best friend, Alison, who unfortunately didn't return the feelings. And me.

"I could talk
A mile a minute,
On this caffeine buzz I was on."

Yep, that was me. I know, a surprise. We didn't have a cool name. If this song had been out, we probably would have stolen "The Deadbeat Club." We would get together and drink coffee and talk. Music. Politics. Philosophy. Movies. Whatever came up, we all had opinions to share over caffeine and nicotine. It was the 80s, so everyone still smoked. Cigarettes, mostly, but I had taken up cigars like Clint Eastwood in a western, and Jer had his fucking cloves. Oh, and snuff. Not the chew, powdered tobacco that we sniffed like 18th Century French dandies. Yep, we were those people.

Coffee shops, all ages clubs, restaurants, our houses --- we were together everywhere. We drank coffee, we gave each other hell, and we had everyone's back, in every way. We loved each other. I have had a lot of friends over my life, but never anything like when I was 17. "Wild girls and boys going out for a big time." Yep, that was us.

"The Deadbeat Club," The B-52s.

Then life happened. I clean Jerry's tombstone every few months. Joey disappeared off the face of the earth after college. Paul did time, and I chose not to think about why or I will get sick. Daph is a grandmother, with John --didn't see that coming. Alison died in a car crash. Bobby took his own life. Roger and I still get together for beers when he's in town. Julie is in Europe somewhere, last I heard. But that is now. Then? We were invincible, unstoppable, in a cloud of smoke and gallons of coffee. And that is how we will always be.

I just wish we had a cool nickname...

 

[SluttyShannon]

Day 3: A song that reminds you of one of your closest friends in life

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 3: A song that reminds you of one of your closest friends in life
Snuck into a club to dance and this came on. We looked at each other like what the fuck is this? Then danced our asses off laughing for the entire song...and that memory always sticks with me

 

[ShowMeYourSmile]

Day 3: A song that reminds you of one of your closest friends in life
I have a friend that definitely saved my life when I was younger and made me see the daylight and I will never forget it...

 

[curious_slut]

Day 3: A song that reminds you of one of your closest friends in life

The song isn't super recent, but the association is and it doesn't just remind me of one, but a couple. Saltburn was great but the best thing about it was that it gave me the opportunity to turn my friends into Sophie fans I'm like a missionary, but for music.

Music Gets The Best of Me - Sophie Ellis-Bextor

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 3: A song that reminds you of one of your closest friends in life

This song (and especially these lyrics) reminds me of one of my closest friends who I haven't spoken to in over 15 years.

Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see
Trying to learn to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be

 

[RosewoodTulip]

Day 3: A song that reminds you of one of your closest friends in life

The song isn't super recent, but the association is and it doesn't just remind me of one, but a couple. Saltburn was great but the best thing about it was that it gave me the opportunity to turn my friends into Sophie fans I'm like a missionary, but for music.

Music Gets The Best of Me - Sophie Ellis-Bextor

That was a blast from the past!

 

[Great_Scot]

Day 3: A song that reminds you of one of your closest friends in life

 

[MindYaBitness]

Day 3: A song that reminds you of one of your closest friends in life

Not my favorite song or band, but it makes me think of my BFF every time I hear it. She loves them, but specifically this video, bdsm bunny that she is

Misery-Maroon 5

 

[RosewoodTulip]

Day 3
Strong Bad - Trogdor

About 20 years ago I was sharing a flat with a really good friend. We had an in joke for everything and most of our conversations would have been nonsense to anyone else.

We both got into Guitar Hero, specifically this little beauty of a song. Didn't know at the time it was an internet legend already.

Texts suddenly became full of "burninating" and "thatched roof cottages!" and we'd just randomly yell "Trogdor" completely out of nowhere, guaranteeing the other would fall about laughing

It was a really good time for me and looking back I think I loved her a little bit but that's hindsight for you.
We're still good friends but only really see each other once or twice a year these days so this always makes me smile

 

[vagrantx]

Day 3: A song that reminds you of one of your closest friends in life

Do you remember MSN Messenger? It was the chat application to use in the years between IRC and Facebook. You could set your screen name to whatever you wanted, and since your list of friends showed up in alphabetical order all the cool kids put a period or some special character in front of their name to appear at the very top, but then put their status to away. Had to make sure everyone thought about you, but you couldn't look like you were actually at the computer like some no-lifer. The intricacies of teen life... whew.

I had my emo-period back then. Wrote dark shitty poetry and listened to depressive music. I'd recently discovered melodic death metal, and one band in particular "spoke to me". So I made sure to quote their grimdark lyrics in my MSN screen name, of course, so everyone could see how brooding and mysterious I was.

~-.-~-.VagrantX.-~-.~ -:|FUCK YOU AND DIE LIVING IS SO DAMN PAINFUL|:- has come online.

This carried on for... weeks? Months? I forget. Anyway it all stopped abruptly when my BFF got sick and tired of my shitty attitude and just went "you know, you're being lame as fuck". And just like that, snap, I stopped with all that bullshit.

Thank fuck, she saved me

Norther - Death Unlimited

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 2: A song that was a gateway to a lot of the music you currently enjoy
“When everything is lonely
I can be my own best friend
I get a coffee and the paper
Have my own conversations
With the sidewalk and the pigeons
And my window reflection
The mask I polish in the evening
By the morning looks like shit”

Bright Eyes - Lua

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 3: A song that reminds you of one of your closest friends in life

There’s a sad story that goes with this that I don’t have it in me to tell right now.

“I haven't seen you in ages
Sometimes, I find myself wonderin' where you are
For me, you'll always be 18
And beautiful and dancin' away with my heart”

Lady A - Dancin’ Away With My Heart