🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[morelikeasong]

Day 22: A song from the 00s

The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight

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

Total so far: 5

 

[justanotherguy80]

Day 22: A song from the 00's

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 22: A song from the 00's

Lucero fucking rules. Just a wee bit more somber than most of my picks though.

 

[positiveflirt]

Day 22: A song from the 00s

Did The Avalanches ever make it to America? I loved this when it came out, still do now. There's something like 28 samples in here and they all weave together to make a few minutes of bonkers. Give it a whirl.

'Frontier Psychiatrist'

"Sometimes, a parrot talks!"

 

[lavendersilk]

Did The Avalanches ever make it to America?

Yes.

 

[positiveflirt]

Yes.

GOOD.

 

[Mr_bogey]

Day 22: A song from the 00s

Going w/a one hit wonder today

+1 NYC

Total pts = 5

 

[PearlyDewdrops]

A Song from the 1990s.

The Herbaliser - The Sensual Woman

Love a bit of teasing downtempo.

 

[PearlyDewdrops]

Nice and flirty in the 2000s

Koop - Come To Me

 

[SluttyShannon]

Day 22: A song from the 00s

 

[Wand3rlust]

Day 22: A song from the 00s

Going w/a one hit wonder today

+1 NYC

Total pts = 5

Love that tune

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 22: A song from the 2000s

Aimee Mann is probably best known as the lead singer and bassist for Til Tuesday, which had one song that everyone still plays, a beautiful piece of psudo-New Wave pop. The record company wanted more of that. They got her continuing evolution as a songwriter, focusing more on acoustic guitars and intelligent lyrics for two more albums. Til Tuesday broke up in 1990, but Epic Records got pissy and refused to release her from her contract, so she was unable to put out anything new for three more years. Then the next company, Geffen, fucked around with her as well. This colored her view of the record company system, to say the least. In 1999 she was able to leave her contract with Geffen and formed a collective of artists outside that system and formed her own label, and she has been producing the music she wants to since then. The immediate result was 2000's Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo, released to critical acclaim and considered one of the best indie albums of the decade.

And what she wanted was great indie pop with Beatlesque vocals and a dark, cynical view of the human condition. "Ghost World" was based on the outstanding graphic novel by Daniel Clowes, the story of two pseudo-intellectual young women, wandering their town making sardonic observations as they try to decide what to do with themselves after high school as their relationship begins to fray. It was as if it were written for Mann, and the fact they did not tap her for a song for the soundtrack of the movie adaptation the next year is a shame and a missed opportunity.

Want every teen outsider story distilled into a verse? Here you are:

"Everyone I know is acting weird
Or way too cool
They hang out by the pool
So I just read a lot and ride my bike
Around the school"

I just saved you hundreds of novels, poems, and blog posts. The chorus nails the feeling of the source material:

Cause I'm bailing this town
Or tearing it down
Or probably more like hanging around
Hanging around

This song encompasses that lost feeling when you are done with one thing and not on to the next, something you can't even see yet.

"Ghost World," Aimee Mann (2000)

(+1 for Myrtle Beach, for 5 total (and 10 Flirtpoints))

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 21: A song from the 90s

Someone had to do it.

And you were the man for the job! Well done, sir.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 22: A song from the 00s

Hi. You're my new best friend.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 22: A song from the 00s

The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight

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

Total so far: 5

My experience with The Postal Service has been one song. This one I like much, much better. Thank you!

 

[curious_slut]

Day 22: A song from the 00's

She's got so many bops but this one is probably still my favorite Kylie song. I think she's the disco queen of today

Your Disco Needs You - Kylie Minogue

 

[curious_slut]

Day 22: A song from the 00s

Did The Avalanches ever make it to America? I loved this when it came out, still do now. There's something like 28 samples in here and they all weave together to make a few minutes of bonkers. Give it a whirl.

'Frontier Psychiatrist'

"Sometimes, a parrot talks!"

I was slightly obsessed with this mad (pardon the pun) song so I guess they did.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 22: A song from the 00's

She's got so many bops but this one is probably still my favorite Kylie song. I think she's the disco queen of today

Your Disco Needs You - Kylie Minogue

Have you seen her collab with Orville Peck?

 

[curious_slut]

Have you seen her collab with Orville Peck?

Yes, it's grown on me a lot. Male twangy voices will never be my favorite but Kylie won me over until I appreciated it in its entirety

 

[lingus60]

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

Ahem.... I'm wondering how on earth you got to know about The Prodigy?

 

[Cjbdd]

Ahem.... I'm wondering how on earth you got to know about The Prodigy?

You know full well....

 

[lingus60]

Day 22: A song from the 00's

Kaiser Chiefs: Ruby

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Day 22: A song from the 00's

I have been waiting all week to post this one
If I were going for the most places mentioned in my collective songs I'd be over 55

Global A Go-Go - Joe Strummer And The Mescaleros (2001)

+1 for location; +5 total

 

[Wonderer67]

Day 21: the song from the 90s

I thought they would give the mid-seventies stones a run for their money….

Quite a memorable night, seeing Prisonshake and Knifedance at some eating club and my bud, Dan who was roadie-ing for both.

Prisonshake - Kick Up Yer Heels

 

[Wonderer67]

Day 22: A song from the 00's
A lot of songs come to mind while I was deployed. We used to listen to stuff to pump us up before operations, listen to other stuff to mellow us out after operations.

Never got a chance to see them live.

Supergrass - Pumping On Your Stereo