❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

[Apisto42]

Day 12: A song you have a funny story to

Not sure if this counts as a funny story, but I was a freshman in college, getting wasted in the frat house and someone had a bootleg cassette of the outlaw country album.

When this song came on, we laughed and laughed and laughed.

https://soundcloud.com/joe-day-17%2Ffuckin-in-the-butt

The rest of the album is completely full of racial bullshit and is really horrid, but this song is funny.

 

[Awaywego]

Day 12: A song you have a funny story to
My welcome to California...during training went to Mountainaire 80 at Angels Camp, CA. All day event with airplanes, horses, and firsts. There were folks openly using, drinking, and sexing (first same sex (both genders) and MFM for me. We stood and watched, I mean I was new to all of it. This new band hit the stage with "I Want You" we laughed and watched more before going back to the music
To this day, I laugh when any

Huey Lewis and the News 1st Album comes on and for years mister would tingle lol at the memory. Alas it's been a bit. Here for your pleasure

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 12: A song you have a funny story to.
I watched The Terminator for the first time ever with my wife a few days ago. I pissed her off because every time the "duhdun-dun-duhdun" theme played during all the suspenseful moments, the rhythm just made me think of "Up on Cripple Creek." So every time something was about to happen in the movie, "Duhdun-Dun-Duhdun!" "She sends me!" "Duhdun-Dun-Duhdun!" "She mends me!" "Duhdun-Dun-Duhdun!" "She defends me, a drunkard's dream if I ever did see one..." followed by a not-very good attempt to do the yodeling part. My wife did not agree that The Terminator needs more yodeling.

"Up on Cripple Creek" - The Band

(strictly for reference and NOT a second song selection):

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 12: A song you have a funny story to.
I watched The Terminator for the first time ever with my wife a few days ago.

Wow, that somewhat surprises me. Now you should watch Terminator II: Judgement Day. It builds well on the original, and is an outstanding film.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Wow, that somewhat surprises me. Now you should watch Terminator II: Judgement Day. It builds well on the original, and is an outstanding film.

I'm sure I will eventually. For me, it just struck me as one of those movies that, if I'd seen it when I was younger, I'd have been absolutely enthralled by it. But seeing it for the first time now... it was just kind of meh.

Probably because of the lack of yodeling.

 

[UnquietDreams]

I'm sure I will eventually. For me, it just struck me as one of those movies that, if I'd seen it when I was younger, I'd have been absolutely enthralled by it. But seeing it for the first time now... it was just kind of meh.

Probably because of the lack of yodeling.

I get that -- I have never seen The Shawshank Redemption, and don't plan on it because I don't think it can hold up to the hype. The Terminator for me holds up well for a 40-year old film, especially considering it was low budget (less than $7 million, IIRC), and we have seen a lot of improvement in film technology.

But yes, they all have a criminal dearth of yodeling.

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 12: A song you have a funny story to

More of a fond memory than a funny story... When my son was 7 years old, I introduced him to the music of The Beach Boys... A couple of times a week, we might stop at the local doughnut shop for a doughnut before school. i remember one such ride, early in the morning, and playing this song for him as an introduction... and that was it, he was completely hooked on the music.

Six months later, I took my son to see Brian Wilson and Al Jardine at the San Francisco Jazz Fest. By then, he knew every song by the Beach Boys and their entire discography. After the show, we were walking across the mezzanine of the theatre and an old time rock n roller / concertgoer who was walking past us, suddenly stopped me. He looked at my son and then at me and said, "I don't know what you're doing, but whatever it is, keep it up." A compliment that I'll ways remember.

 

[vagrantx]

Day 13: A song you liked about a year ago

Well, here's the song I posted exactly one year ago, under the prompt A song you’d request at a wedding:

It is, like I explained back then, a mix of folk metal, polka, and... yeah. If you're wondering how it ended up at a wedding; metal people be metalling! I don't expect this to be much more popular today than it was back then

Not quite a song I requested, but definitely one I would if I ever get the chance in the future.

Some years ago, I was at the wedding of two very dear friends. They're goth, the wedding was goth, the music was dark, brooding, and everyone was clad in black with red details, including the bride. It was eerie, and beautiful. One of the bride's siblings had gotten ordained since they couldn't find a priest to officiate.

Well, the ceremony came and went, and the after-party was kicking up a gear. Music? Death metal, black metal, symphonic metal, metal metal metal.

Time for first dance. I didn't know what I'd expected, but, it sure as hell wasn't a wedding-mosh-pit. Wanting something a bit more dance-able, they'd opted for finnish-swedish band Finntroll.

If you've never heard black/folk metal with polka influences, with accordions and a half-step rhythm... Do yourself a favor and experience something new.


Full med hat
Präst blir mat
Han läggs på fat

Full of hate
Priest becomes food
As he's put on the platter

@MissLabelled I bet you'll enjoy this one

Finntroll - Kitteldags! (Time for the Cauldron!)

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Day 12: A song you have a funny story to

A few years ago I needed to have surgery to remove some unwanted extra baggage growing on my ovaries. The anesthesiologist I had for this one asked if I wanted to pick the music I fell asleep to. Mind you, I was already on the table and didn't really have time to prepare an answer. I slightly panicked and blurted out "Metallica! No!! SYMPHONY and Metallica"

This was the song.
I doubt I heard much before I was knocked out but post op he came to see me and took a moment to tell me he was delighted that was my choice. Noone was expecting it and apparently they listened to the album as they worked that day and loved it.

I bought him a vinyl recording of this concert as a thank you gift for taking such good care of me and keeping me alive.

Enter Sandman - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Metallica

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 13: A song you liked about a year ago

Well, here's the song I posted exactly one year ago, under the prompt A song you’d request at a wedding:

It is, like I explained back then, a mix of folk metal, polka, and... yeah. If you're wondering how it ended up at a wedding; metal people be metalling! I don't expect this to be much more popular today than it was back then




Finntroll - Kitteldags! (Time for the Cauldron!)

There is such an intense whimsy to that.

 

[lingus60]

Day 13: A song you liked about a year ago

Beck: Think I'm in love
First heard this about a year ago (thanks @Cjbdd !)...stll love it btw

 

[The_Quiet_Man]

Day 13: A song you liked about a year ago

"Barbaras Rhabarberbar" -- Bodo Wartke & Marti Fischer

 

[Wonderer67]

Day 13: A song you liked about a year ago

Lighthearted, easy on the ears and just a damn fine indie pop song.

(Also - same station wagon that my wife and I own and that I’ve restored, except this is a 72/73 ford country squire. Ours is a 1970 and red)

Real Estate - Water Underground

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 13: A song you liked about a year ago
To be fair, I still like it.
About this time a year ago I saw the Broadway revival of Cabaret, so there was a solid few weeks there I was singing songs from that musical over and over.
"Maybe This Time" - Liza Minnelli

 

[Awaywego]

Day 13: A song you liked about a year ago

Just a fun one

Hozier, "Too Sweet"

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 13: A song you liked about a year ago
Never knew this band existed until about a year ago when @lingus60 introduced me to them. This is one of my favorites …it’s mellow and beautiful

 

[LustfulIntentions2]

Day 11: A song that comforts your soul.

I'm almost sure that I've used this song for other prompts before, because it's one of my favorite songs in the world. It has that perfect sort of up high, then soft chill energy that mimics feeling great and uplifted, then calm and content, like the love of good friends can do for you.

 

[LustfulIntentions2]

Day 12: A song about which you have a funny story

Okay, so, this song came out around 2000 or so, when I was in undergrad with a bunch of my still dear friends. I worked at the college radio station, so we would get all kinds of advance copies of albums, singles, etc. And for whatever stupid reason, the package for this one caught my eye. We listened to it in the office of the radio station and could not stop laughing. I took the CD and played it for friends at their apartment, and they could not stop laughing.

We were friendly with the DJ at the one bar we went to, and between advance copies of stuff and Napster, which was still a file sharing (pirating) site back then, I would occasionally slip him something to throw on. So I made him a copy of this, and he was skeptical, but he listened to it on the monitor for a second and was like 'okay, it's a weeknight, whatever' and put it on, and I swear I thought by the end that he was going to come out of the booth and smack me

 

[PrettyLilPussy19]

Day 13: A song you liked about a year ago

Nothing Breaks Like a Heart - Mark Ronson and Miley Cyrus

I am obsessed with Miley's voice on this track.

 

[lilmissdarling]

Day 13: A song you liked about a year ago

 

[QuietCanadian]

Day 13: A song you liked about a year ago

This came out just over a year ago and was top played for me for a while. Still in heavy rotation, great track.

 

[MisterChillax]

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 13: A song you liked about a year ago

A year ago seems forever ago and just yesterday at the same time. This is a song I was introduced to here last year, and I fell in love with the sound. Strong, simple trad, done extraordinarily well.

"Summered words and lessons learned
An eternity's walking you home
Feels like forever ago that I left you there, bleeding
Wish I'd known it was more than a game
Oh, Lord, feels like love just can't hit me the same"

I posted the stripped down live recording from Dublin last year, but this is the version that got my attention. Edmond Keogh's vocals are just so evocative, and that bridge? Damn...

"Your Eyes Don't Lie," Kingfishr

 

[curious_slut]

Day 13: A song you liked about a year ago

I still like it, love it even.

Dove Cameron - Lethal Woman

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 13: A song you liked about a year ago
It was literally a year ago this week that I discovered Chappell

ETA because I know she’s gonna say it, because I wasn’t paying enough attention to @morelikeasong when she was posting her earlier.