🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[UnquietDreams]

Day 21: A song from the 90's

Life is a Highway -Tom Cochrane

I love this original version. This song needs a bit of grit.

 

[vagrantx]

Day 21: A song from the 90s

It seems like I start a lot of these with "this band should have been more popular." And here is another one. The Judybats (or just Judybats. Or The Judy Bats. Or The JudyBats. The band itself was never consistent) had a couple of songs make it onto Billboards Modern Rock 100, but they never really got out of the ghetto of College Radio. Which is too bad, because they mixed some great hooky, quirky, pop sensibilities with some deep melancholy and bittersweet songwriting. Upbeat and downbeat. Sweetly wistful and sweetly sardonic, and it really hits a note with me.

This if from their debut album, which I still listen to regularly. It is fast, upbeat, quirky (with the repeated "wooo" yells) and has several fadeout fake outs. It is sweet, but also bitter. The singer has had his heart broken and went to Spain to heal. And I really love this part:

"But all I want to do is
Break away from them
And write you another letter
That I'll never send
I fold them into boats
Set them afloat in the
Neighborhood pool
The children love them till they
Sink and say, 'Hagame uno mas!
Esos son muy cool!'"

I love that image so much -- writing out things you need to say but you are honestly afraid to let the other person see. I've done that here, writing out long PMs to someone, then deleting them instead, folding them into ethereal paper airplanes and casting them out my window since they get mad if I float paper in the swimming pool, and I don't particularly like my neighborhood kids enough to amuse them. But yes, I really connect with that verse, that sentiment, that feeling.

"Convalescing in Spain," The Judybats (1990)

(+1 for Spain, 4 total)

(I can almost forget that forgetting is the hardest part...)

Really wish Lit would let us react with any emoji at all. Because this deserves a

This song had the strangest mixing I've heard in ages. And the.... I want to say xylophone? The tempo changes. Experimental as fuck, I love the feeling it gives me but I'm not sure I love the music. Odd. Kinda like durian fruit. Conflicting. I love it but I don't.

Top marks.

 

[snexxer]

Day 21: A song from the 90s

 

[UnquietDreams]

Really wish Lit would let us react with any emoji at all. Because this deserves a

This song had the strangest mixing I've heard in ages. And the.... I want to say xylophone? The tempo changes. Experimental as fuck, I love the feeling it gives me but I'm not sure I love the music. Odd. Kinda like durian fruit. Conflicting. I love it but I don't.

Top marks.

Which may be why they didn't hit too hard. The first album, Native Son, is a lot more experimental and playful, but "Convalescing" is the most so. I utterly love the tempo changes and that driving bass line for it. Try the rest of the album.

Their second, Down in the Shacks Where the Satellite Dishes Grow, is still playful, but digs into the conflict of the lead singer, Jeff Heiskell, not just as a gay man in the US South, but as a gay man with an almost redneck sensibility, which in hindsight is pretty fascinating. He didn't really write directly about that until his solo stuff, but you can read the undercurrent. The third, Pain Makes You Beautiful, cut down the quirky for more smoothed out pop, and it is good, but lacks the originality and energy of Native Son.

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 21: A song from the 90s

Excuse me while I dust off my one hit wonder collection. The album this is taken from blew my tiny teenager mind.. but the rest of the album was much less hooky.
Definitely will be spinning it today.

+10 flirtpoints if you knew who this song was by.
-10 flirtpoints if you thought you did, but got it wrong.

'Flagpole Sitta'

Gimme 10 flirtpoints... I love this song and know who sings it

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 21: A song from the 90s

Excuse me while I dust off my one hit wonder collection. The album this is taken from blew my tiny teenager mind.. but the rest of the album was much less hooky.
Definitely will be spinning it today.

+10 flirtpoints if you knew who this song was by.
-10 flirtpoints if you thought you did, but got it wrong.

'Flagpole Sitta'

So I have 4 Challenge Points, and 10 Flirtpoints right now.

 

[SluttyShannon]

Day 21: A song from the 90s

 

[Mr_bogey]

Day 21: A song from the 90s

Someone had to do it.

Milan, New York and Japan still only got me 1 pt

Total pts: 4

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Day 21-A song from the 90's

This prompt with the additional challenge (and the fact that the only song I could recall with a location was the FIRST ONE picked... lol) really stumped me.

It was my lit signature that actually helped me think of a song that mentioned a place/location (New York, Northern California)

Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen - Baz Luhrman (1997)

+1 location; +4 total

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 21-A song from the 90's - 1993

Every hour of every day, I'm learning more
The more I learn, the less I know about before
The less I know, the more I want to look around
Digging deep for clues on higher ground

 

[Silver_Arrow]

Day 21 - A song from the 90's

 

[Amanda330]

Day 21- A song from the 90's - 1999

This version is the second studio album release in 2001 but the song was originally released in 1999. I remember hearing it for the first time - I loved it then and I still love it now.

Don't tell my mom.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 21- A song from the 90's - 1999

This version is the second studio album release in 2001 but the song was originally released in 1999. I remember hearing it for the first time - I loved it then and I still love it now.

Don't tell my mom.

Such a rebel you were.

 

[Exploring72]

Day 21-A song from the 90’s; 1991

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Day 22: A song from the 00s

This month we’re doing locations

+1 for a song that includes a location (country, city, county, province, etc)

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 21: A song from the 90s

This puts me at + 4

 

[vagrantx]

Day 22: A song from the 00's

Justin Hawkins is a god. Ironically.
We need more modern glam rock, and the more use of cowbells the better!

The Darkness - One Way Ticket

Location: Hell (and also Bolivia for some reason)
total: 5

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 22: A song from the 00's-2004

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 22: A song from the 00's
Originally from the 2002 Broadway musical, "Good Morning Baltimore" from Hairspray (and no, this wasn't in the original 1988 John Waters film), this is the 2007 film version with Nikki Blonsky.
Another +1!

 

[vagrantx]

Day 22: A song from the 00's-2004

Don't think I've ever heard another Prodigy song than... err. You know the one. About the man who enjoys combustion.

This was so much better

 

[Broken_paladin]

Day 21

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 22: A song from the 00's

Munich - Editors (2005)

+1 for a song that includes a location (country, city, county, province, etc)

Total so far: 5

 

[Broken_paladin]

day 22

 

[gemarkiv]

Day 22: A song from the 00's

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 22: A song from the 00's

+5 so far