🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

A George Michael song without a love react from @MindYaBitness ?

Thank you for bringing this to my attention, as I hope my dead-gay-husband can feel my deep love & devotion beyond the grave. Freedom '90 is indeed a pop masterpiece, and I would give it 1000 heart eye reacts if allowed. I have rectified this mistake and look forward to sharing my deep, deep love in future posts. For now, please enjoy the dulcet tones of my George and Mary J


 
Day 24: A song from the 20s

Closing out my self-imposed theme of The Band. This one surprised me, because I knew the song but not the connection. Leveon Helm was the drummer and one of the three primary vocalists for The Band. Amy Helm is Levon Helm's daughter, and a remarkably talented singer-songwriter and multiinstrumentalist, both on her own as well as with several different bands. I first heard her in the alt-folk band Ollabelle, which is well worth chasing down.

This is from her latest solo album, released this year, Silver City. It is lovely, and sad, and hopeful.

"4 a.m., I'm trembling, 5 a.m., I'm torn
6 a.m., I'm terrified I'll always be alone
'Til morning at 7 and the sun comes back in"

"Money on 7," Amy Helm


And with that, I completed a theme I wasn't sure I could. We take the wins we get.

I've got my money on 7 as well...
 
Day 24: A song from the 20s

I’m still in Boston for the decades week. The Nervous Eaters have been around since the late 70s, spanning five decades. In that time they turned out punky rock n roll. Their song “Loretta” is an early punk classic.

They started out with DMZ and The Cars… and they just sorta hung around… for a really long time!!

I like this song from their most recent record.

Nervous Eaters - Vampire
 
Day 24, a song from the 20’s

I love music that’s no secret, and I also like music that means something, that puts life’s struggles into words and song. I find all of that in this one where lead singer Danny Worsnop and Guitarist Ben Bruce find themselves singing the perspective of two dear friends that time and life choices have separated and yet the love for one another that the friends feel is starkly there in the word choice of the verses. I find this song particularly powerful since Bruce’s departure from the band.

 
Day 25: a song that makes you think of good times.
An entire album played on repeat during the first road trip my ex husband and I took together. We drove through a thunderstorm and the stereo became louder with each lightning strike, an odd occurrence that started a discussion during an awkward pause in conversation. So here's the song that most reminds me of that day.
Feel Good Inc - Gorillaz
 
Day 25: A song that makes you think of good times
"Smash" may have been the first album with a parental advisory sticker I ever got. I just remember a group of us teenagers playing pool in my friend's basement, listening to this song, and all of us shouting "You stupid dumbshit Goddamn MOTHERFUCKER!" as loud as we could, then collapsing into hysterics... then sheepishly offering up a "Sorry, Mrs. R!" when his mom opened the basement door to yell at us. Then we put it on repeat and did it again.

"Bad Habit" - The Offspring

 
Day 25: A song that makes you think of good times

Hairspray came out about a month after high school graduation. I think it was the last movie my high school friend group went to together. We've all lost touch more or less but we always had a lot of good times singing showtunes as a group. Good memories.

You Can't Stop The Beat - Hairspray Cast
 
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