🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[Wonderer67]

Day 26: A song from the 90s
(just realized I was supposed to be doing a Halloween scary and candy theme… ooops, day late and a dollar short)

Sticking with the theme of British subcultures and associated music… Acid House was huge, but more of a late 80s thing. Mods, Teddy Boys and Soul Boys, Ravers, punks and skinheads were all back in fashion.

BritPop was flourishing, acid house, drums n bass, techno, psych were the big underground things. Indie music was taking off too.

I tried the acid house scene, but it wasn’t for me. It didn’t resonate at all, and I felt like an outsider. (20 years later, I’d find that the music was pretty fucking amazing and that maybe I missed out.)

Football casuals became the new look for the troublemaking hooligans going to games. in the 60s and 70s, it was pretty easy for authorities to identify the mods, suedes and skinheads who were looking for trouble.

In the late 70s, the football casual look to prominence. To most every day people people wearing designer, clothes and hats, might not look like troublemakers. The look morphed in the 80s, 90s and into the 00s and today.

The 90s look was characterized by Stome Island (hats, sweaters, track jackets and shirts), but any designer look was very in. Aquascutum, adidas and Lacoste. This sounds like a bunch of dandies, but you would not want to meet these guys in all likelihood.

Their choice of music range from standard pop to indie and Britpop songs.

Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught The Train

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 26: A song from the 90s-1997

 

[curious_slut]

Day 26: A song from the 90s +4

The Cult - The Witch

 

[orangecurious]

Day 26: A song from the 90s

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
"What a curious life
We have found here tonight
There is music that sounds from the street
There are lights in the clouds
Anna's ghost all around
Hear her voice as it's rolling and ringing through me
Soft and sweet
How the notes all bend and reach above the trees"

Anna being Anne Frank
I use NMH a lot for the 90's as they sum up that era for me, when bands from the Elephant 6 made amazing records that were overlooked as other things were happening in the world of "music". So many good bands lost out at that time.
Anyway... think that gets a point.

 

[TXRafe]

Day 26: A song from the 90s

so many options for the music from my teen years...nothing feels more like the 90s than this song and video...

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Day 26: A song from the 90s

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 26: A song from the 90s

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
"What a curious life
We have found here tonight
There is music that sounds from the street
There are lights in the clouds
Anna's ghost all around
Hear her voice as it's rolling and ringing through me
Soft and sweet
How the notes all bend and reach above the trees"

Anna being Anne Frank
I use NMH a lot for the 90's as they sum up that era for me, when bands from the Elephant 6 made amazing records that were overlooked as other things were happening in the world of "music". So many good bands lost out at that time.
Anyway... think that gets a point.

I really love this whole album

 

[orangecurious]

I really love this whole album

it's hard to listen to one track alone!

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 26: A song from the 90s

Oasis - Magic Pie

+1 for magic
Total: 4

 

[DannieB]

Day 26: A song from the 90s
Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)

90s me had posters of them covering my bedroom walls! Totally geeked out when they showed up in This Is The End!!!

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 26: A song from the 90s

Oasis - Magic Pie

+1 for magic
Total: 4

Mmmmm I love magic…pie…

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

I really love this whole album

If someone asked me to guess a band you liked that I didn’t already know you liked Neutral Milk Hotel woulda been high on the list

 

[morelikeasong]

If someone asked me to guess a band you liked that I didn’t already know you liked Neutral Milk Hotel woulda been high on the list

Well now I wanna know what else would be on the list!

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Well now I wanna know what else would be on the list!

You’re not supposed to call my bluff!

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 26: A song from the 90s
Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)

90s me had posters of them covering my bedroom walls! Totally geeked out when they showed up in This Is The End!!!

Did you put the CD in your computer and take turns with your friends kissing your favorite one the screen?
Orrrrrrr was that just me?

 

[DannieB]

Did you put the CD in your computer and take turns with your friends kissing your favorite one the screen?
Orrrrrrr was that just me?

Perhaps I did have that one though! Told you all kinds of things about them like their favorite food and color

 

[vagrantx]

Day 27: A song from the 00s

Fun fact! Before Tegan and Sara signed with their label and chose their eponymous band name, they were known as Plunk! Light Punk. They played something akin to post-punk but didn't have either a drummer nor a bassist, just two gals with guitars and their voices.

The punk crusade continues!

Tegan and Sara - Walking with the Ghost

Total points: 5

 

[lavendersilk]

Fun fact! Before Tegan and Sara signed with their label and chose their eponymous band name, they were known as Plunk! Light Punk. They played something akin to post-punk but didn't have either a drummer nor a bassist, just two gals with guitars and their voices.

The punk crusade continues!

Tegan and Sara - Walking with the Ghost

Total points: 5

I really wanted to be the one to post this song but if it had to be someone else, I'm glad it was you.

I first heard this song by The White Stripes but when I heard the original, I liked it much better.

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 26: A song from the 90s

Doll - Foo Fighters

+ 1 for scared

Total so far: 4

 

[lingus60]

Day 27: A song from the 00s

The Specials: Ghost Town

 

[orangecurious]

Day 27: A song from the 00s

Guillemots - Sao Paulo
Their traditional gig closer, a sprawling, (sometimes messy) epic that would feature the audience on handed out percussion instruments in the early days. This version features a massive string and horn section because, well, why not?
Not many songs mention duffel coats, but this is one... which doesn't help this month's challenge, but it does have the lines...
"Have you ever been thrown across the water
Until there's no skin left on your bones"

that deserves a point

 

[Mo_Bandy]

Day 27: A song from the 00s

When I Go Deaf - Low

 

[baise]

Day 27: A Song iFrom the 2000.

Not sure if she’s known outside of Australia…

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 27: A song from the 00s

Lil’ Kim ft. 50 Cent - Magic Stick

+1 for magic
Total: 5

 

[Grant55]

Day 27: Tosca

In January 1900, Tosca premiered.