🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[curious_slut]

Day 1: A song by a band you wish was still together (not broken up by death)

I have mixed feelings about this but their music is so good. Morrissey is highly offensive more often than he's not and yet, The Smiths in concert would be incredible. Nostalgia is a helluva a drug

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - The Smiths

 

[PrettyLilPussy19]

Day 1: A song by a band you wish was still together (not broken up by death)

Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine

(they just broke up again so idk how long this will be relevant)

 

[curious_slut]

Day 1: A song by a band you wish was still together (not broken up by death)

Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine

(they just broke up again so idk how long this will be relevant)

God, I love this song. I like to check in on the comment section for this video every so often. Never disappointed

 

[Bry1313]

Day 1: A song by a band you wish was still together (not broken up by death)

Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine

(they just broke up again so idk how long this will be relevant)

We have similar bands in their stability today.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

God, I love this song. I like to check in on the comment section for this video every so often. Never disappointed

Thanks for the tip, I never read comments but these are solid.

 

[LustfulIntentions2]

Day 1: A song by a band you wish was still together (not broken up by death)

Okay. @morelikeasong I'm a Gen Xer. Do you know HOW MANY of the bands of my youth have been touched by death? Nirvana, STP, Alice in Chains. Beastie Boys. Sublime. Soundgarden. Linkin Park.

Blink 182 got back together for the money last year. Oasis did it this year. Pearl Jam just keeps kicking out drummers. Something Corporate is even playing some shows this fall, for crying out loud! Eddie Van Halen is dead, so that's a no go. Jesus.

So fine. I'll go a little more punk, a little more underground. The Thermals - Now We Can See

 

[orangecurious]

Day 1: A song by a band you wish was still together (not broken up by death)

Guillemots - Made Up Lovesong #43
not the band most (who know my music taste) would think... but, man, i miss the 'Mots. Always inventive, always amazing live, always pushing things, but always incredibly melodic. The first time i saw them, they handed out percussion instruments to the crowd for the last song. They even gave away egg shakers at one gig so everyone could play along. So many good times at their shows and not many bands have a typewrite and theremin on stage.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Welcome to OCTOBER!
This is the 12th month of the challenge. We’ve made it almost a full year! Wild.

A year! That is impressive. This is an important place, not just for me, but for a lot of others as well.

The Challenge was the first place I posted on the "fun" side of the Lit Forums, outside of the Author hangouts. I don't remember the prompt, but the song was "Portland Rain," thus starting my obsession with posting local PNW bands. It is where I started, and always consider a home. When I left for a bit, it was also one of the reasons I came back, and the first place I posted again (so I guess it is to blame for me as well...) It is a special, important place.

And much of that is you, Princess. You make this what it is. Not just the care you take in choosing and curating the prompts --though that is part of it-- but mostly because your personality infuses this thread. Your intelligence, your sexiness, your sweetness, and mostly your warmth as a hostess, keeping things running smoothly with grace and charm. I have been in a lot of musical threads in several different places where there is a lot of "I'm cool because I know about this and you are not because you don't" vibe going on. Not here. I am old enough to remember hanging out in record stores, and the best were "I love this song, and I hope you will love this song too." That is what this place is -- sharing what we love and hoping others will enjoy it and add it to what they love. And that? Squarely because of you. You may not see it like that, but that doesn't make it less true.

Which is a long way around to say, "thank you for all you do, Princess. It is important." Thank you.

 

[bonnietaylor200a]

Day 1: A song by a band you wish was still together (not broken up by death)

[TD]DEDICATED TO THE SONGS I LOVE
The 3 friends [/TD]

or this version

Mommas and Poppas

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 1: A song by a band you wish was still together (not broken up by death)
This one

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Day 1: A song by a band you wish was still together (not broken up by death)

Johnny Appleseed - Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros

 

[positiveflirt]

Day 1: A song by a band you wish was still together (not broken up by death)

I got sent a CD in the old days from some PR company who mistook me for someone else(?). But I fell in love with the album. I don't know what happened to the band, where they're from or what they're doing now but it seems like they evaporated, leaving me with this weird piece of round plastic in my house.
This is my favourite from the CD, it's about a road trip and falling just short of where you'd like to be. If the link doesn't work it's totally intentional to add mystique.

No-one called you a failure

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 1: A song by a band you wish was still together (not broken up by death)
This one

The world’s most perfect rock song.

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Hang on- were we supposed to pick bands that broke up for reasons other than death??

I totally misunderstood the assignment

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

Day 1: A song by a band you wish was still together (not broken up by death)
I know they technically keep getting back together but I’m going to assume they’ve broken up again after Perry Farrell just punched Dave Navarro on stage but their energy never was the same after their first break up in 1991.

I LOVE this song

 

[Cjbdd]

The world’s most perfect rock song.

Isn't it just??

 

[vagrantx]

Day 1: A song by a band you wish was still together

Right after Kent released their first album, they made it big. They'd been playing together for a couple of years in the early 90's but it wasn't until '96 that they had their break through with their eponymous debut. They were so new on the scene that this host introduced them by the wrong name (Kräm, cream), but they laughed it off and played their hearts out

26 years later they called it quits. They'd said all they wanted to say, played all they wanted to play, and frontman Jocke wanted to retire from the stage. Good on you, Jocke. Love you forever.

Kent - Halka (Slippery)
Live right after their debut.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 1: A song by a band you wish was still together
They just broke up last year.
"Seashore" - The Regrettes

 

[JustDave478]

Day 1: A song by a band you wish was still together (not broken up by death)

Johnny Appleseed - Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros

Yessss!

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Isn't it just??

I said it once before but it bears repeating

 

[MandaPandaa]

Day 1: A song by a band you wish was still together (not broken up by death)

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 1: A song by a band you wish was still together (not broken up by death)

Oh man, remind me to tell you of my story seeing Roger Waters at the Hollywood Bowl!

Also, based on the “new” stuff he performed…I dunno.

 

[Wonderer67]

Day 1: A song by a band you wish was still together (not broken up by death)

They got along long enough to make five amazing records until they could no longer stand each other. “A reunion will never happen.” -Paul Weller

The Jam - In The City

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Day 1: A song by a band you wish was still together (not broken up by death)

The Police - Synchronicity II

They are all still alive. I plan on seeing Sting when he comes to town with Billy Joel.

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Day 1: A song by a band you wish was still together (not broken up by death)