🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[lavendersilk]

Day 16: A song you have put on a mixtape for someone

Those were the days...

You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) - Dead or Alive

(I really wanted to post the Paul Rudd version of this and see who noticed...)

 

[Wonderer67]

Day 16: A song you have put on a mixtape for someone

When I was dating my wife I burned her CDs. This was on one of them.

I had been deployed and then going through a divorce. I was ready to fuck everything on two legs with tits. But somehow she fell into my lap. And it took! She is the absolute love of my life.

And my heart still races.

(I like this version a lot more than the original…)

Dr Dog - Heart it Races

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 16: A song you have put on a mixtape for someone
I must've been about 13 or 14 when I made my first mixtape for someone. I went straight for the big guns.
"To Be With You" - Mr. Big

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 15: A song or jingle heard in a TV commercial

Me when Hulu makes me endure a 90 second ad break:

Me when vintage commercials are on tap:

Zoom zoom

So relatable

Hulu does get very cheap on Black Friday as @UnquietDreams mentioned so I'll use a different email to sign up every year I'm old enough to remember when Hulu was free with ads but now it's just a lot cheaper than ad free.

I do the same thing! 99c forever! I bounce back and forth between 2 emails

 

[bonnietaylor200a]

that you're rude? that you didn't know that was a lyric in a song and made an assumption about a stranger you've never spoken to but chose to open your mouth and make a comment anyway? not sure what your problem is but i think its clear to everyone who the rude person is in this exchange. i hope your day gets better and you chose not to take it out on other people.

whoever or whatever it's still rude. I had a friend die from an overdose in a BK bathroom and that's sad.

 

[bonnietaylor200a]

Day 15: A song or jingle heard in a TV commercial ad for a motorcycle.

Going Up the Country by Canned Heat

 

[bonnietaylor200a]

Did a tape for my son who used it to work out to ll instrumentals, here's one song

Wipeout by the Ventures

 

[TXRafe]

Day 16: A song you have put on a mixtape for someone

we we're all young once...held on to that romanticized outlook of love for so long...

 

[~Elizabeth~]

whoever or whatever it's still rude. I had a friend die from an overdose in a BK bathroom and that's sad.

I'm sorry that happened but you need to get over his post. It was just some damn song lyrics and you are disturbing the flow of this thread by repeatedly posting about them.

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 16: A song you have put on a mixtape for someone
This one

 

[curious_slut]

Day 16: A song you have put on a mixtape for someone

I never had the patience to make literal mixtapes or burn specific songs on a CD but I have made plenty of playlists. But only for myself and for friends. I'm waaaaay too pessimistic to make a playlist for someone I'm involved with I refuse to associate a brilliant song with an ex.

This one's going on any playlist for someone who needs a boost, a reminder that you've got this.

Bishop Briggs - Champion

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 16: A song you have put on a mixtape for someone

The mixtape. Not a playlist -- anyone can toss a playlist together. No, a mixtape took dedication. It was recorded from songs you owned, songs you had a stake in. You could make a tape of just a bunch of songs, and that was technically a mixtape, but it wasn't a mixtape. A mixtape is communication -- a letter from you to one other person. It could say a lot of different things, but the best, for me, was the "oh God, I hope this isn't entirely unrequited" letter. In music. It says a lot.

First, you are dedicated. A good mixtape should take a lot of thought, a lot of preparation. And then recording it, physically. Then listening to it to make sure it was right. Then rerecording half of it over again, because the second song on the second side skipped while you were making coffee. Dammit.

Then there was the title. Had to catch the eye. Show you cared.

Third, and most important, was the songs. You are not only writing a letter, you are being vulnerable. This is music you like--even love--well enough to buy it. It was letting someone see who you are by what you love. And it let them see what you saw in them. The order was important. The first was the curtain jerker. It had to get attention, either being quirky or an absolute bop. Better if it was an absolute bop they didn’t know-- stir the imagination. The second song allowed them to catch their breath. Good music, but lower stakes. Now there was an argument over the third song. Most people thought that was where you put your main punch. Not me – I thought that was too predictable. Pick a song that is really good, but builds up to you central thesis.

That was your fourth song. This is what you want to say to her. It can be obvious, a topic sentence. Or it can be an enthymeme - subtle, with a hidden premise. Both were useful. And if she didn’t get it, well, maybe you missed, or maybe she just didn’t get you. But if she did? Oh, that was a joy forever.

I used this as my fourth song on a mixtape I titled “...and I thought of you.” It was high school. She told me she had never heard of Joni Mitchel. And I had been waiting for the right person to give this song to.

"All I Want, " Joni Mitchel.

She was the right person...

 

[Bry1313]

Day 15 - Song from a jingle or ad
Thank you Apple for inspiring this ear worm

Day 16 - Songs from a mixtape

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 16: A song you have put on a mixtape for someone

In the days before streaming but during Napster I made a dope ass mix cd for the drive to Vegas with my two best friends,

 

[MisterChillax]

@UnquietDreams very well said.

Day 16: A song you have put on a mixtape for someone

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 16: A song you have put on a mixtape for someone

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 16: A song you have put on a mixtape for someone

Before the age of playlists, I used to love making mixtapes and mix cds for people. I remember when I was a senior in high school I made personalized mixes for each of my closest friends. I named them and everything.
And I still have all the mixes that I’ve been given. By exes, by friends. I love them all and still listen to a lot of them. There’s a magic to sharing music.

Made this mixtape a few years ago. It was technically a playlist sent digitally, but I’m calling it a mixtape—sorrynotsorry mixtape purists. It was a curated selection, the length and design of a mixtape.
Anyway, a friend of mine said he didn’t like rap but also didn’t know any artists or any variations in the genre. So I made him a mix with some different styles of rap artists and songs I dig.

Gym Class Heroes - Shoot Down The Stars

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 16: A song you have put on a mixtape for someone

sorrynotsorry mixtape purists.

Fine, I will do my best not to take that personally.


Also, apropos of nothing:

 

[sister jenny]

Day 17: A song for listening to around a campfire/fire pit

I have never liked the acoustic guitar around the campfire thing.
Not my thing.
Not my guy.
So I will assume someone brought a good Bluetooth speaker.

What I do love is Nico.
Nico was a gorgeous, sexy German blonde singer/model/actress who was a heroin addict and fucked Jim Morrison, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed and Jimi Hendrix.
I could not love her more.

This song is perfect around a campfire with some good company, good drugs, lots of wine and out of relationship sex.
It is also one of my all-time favorite songs and the lyrics are beautiful and deeply important to me.

“I've stopped my dreaming
I won't do too much scheming these days
These days
These days I sit on cornerstones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten
Please don't confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them”

 

[Grant55]

Day 17: Country Road

 

[37_ttej]

Day 17: A song for listening to around a campfire/fire pit

It has to be done.

Kumbaya - The Seekers

 

[vagrantx]

Day 16: A song you have put on a mixtape for someone

Before the age of playlists, I used to love making mixtapes and mix cds for people. I remember when I was a senior in high school I made personalized mixes for each of my closest friends. I named them and everything.
And I still have all the mixes that I’ve been given. By exes, by friends. I love them all and still listen to a lot of them. There’s a magic to sharing music.

Made this mixtape a few years ago. It was technically a playlist sent digitally, but I’m calling it a mixtape—sorrynotsorry mixtape purists. It was a curated selection, the length and design of a mixtape.
Anyway, a friend of mine said he didn’t like rap but also didn’t know any artists or any variations in the genre. So I made him a mix with some different styles of rap artists and songs I dig.

Gym Class Heroes - Shoot Down The Stars

OMG I haven't heard Gym Class Heroes in.... decades??
They had a hit in like 2005 or something that was absolutely everywhere. Such smooth jams

 

[morelikeasong]

OMG I haven't heard Gym Class Heroes in.... decades??
They had a hit in like 2005 or something that was absolutely everywhere. Such smooth jams

“I know I’m young, but if I had to choose her or the sun, I’d be one nocturnal son of a gun”

Way back, after meeting him after a show, I added the guitarist on fb and he accepted my friend request. He didn’t have a crazy amount of friends either. Just like a normal amount for a normal person. Not gonna lie, I felt cool as shit.

 

[ZfrkS62]

Song for the camp fire (horror story):

CKy "Escape From Hellview"

 

[vagrantx]

“I know I’m young, but if I had to choose her or the sun, I’d be one nocturnal son of a gun”

LITERALLY the line I wanted to quote but I feared a spanking!! it's such an incredibly fire line!!

Way back, after meeting him after a show, I added the guitarist on fb and he accepted my friend request. He didn’t have a crazy amount of friends either. Just like a normal amount for a normal person. Not gonna lie, I felt cool as shit.

You are cool as shit! That's awesome! Are they still playing? Are you still friends?