🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 2: A song that has multiple meanings
I'll just go with this classic power ballad that was originally penned as a vampire love song in a musical about Nosferatu.
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" - Bonnie Tyler

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 2: A song that has many meanings
My favorite Beatles tune, multiple meaning cause no one knows what the fuck this song means. Stole this idea from @lingus60 ...but he doesn't mind

 

[MindYaBitness]

Day 2: A song that has many meanings

It's about closing time at a bar, but it's actually inspired/about labor & delivery of his child

Closing Time-Semisonic

 

[vagrantx]

Day 2: A song that has many meanings
My favorite Beatles tune, multiple meaning cause no one knows what the fuck this song means. Stole this idea from @lingus60 ...but he doesn't mind

Two magical mystery tour songs in the same day? Oh today is a blessed day, oh yes indeed, a brilliant day indeed.

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 2: A song that has many meanings

A great song that has been interpreted two ways: It's about struggling to create music all night and the musician / narrator of the song is wondering if he should continue at such a late hour, or it's a song about doing more drugs... As a struggling artist, I have always leaned towards the former explanation because the wondering of what to do now (25 or 6 to 4 refers to the time) -- that alone became the impetus for such a classic song and it ultimately became a great work of art. ...And I love that.

 

[Bry1313]

Day 2 - a song with many meanings

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 2: A song that has many meanings

A great song that has been interpreted two ways: It's about struggling to create music all night and the musician / narrator of the song is wondering if he should continue at such a late hour, or it's a song about doing more drugs... As a struggling artist, I have always leaned towards the former explanation because the wondering of what to do now -- that alone became the impetus for such a classic song and it ultimately became great art. ...And I love that.

I remember the conversations on the deep meaning of the title. For years. Then I heard Robert Lamm explain it: he was writing it and looked up to see it was "25 or 26 minutes until 4 AM." The banality was brilliant.

 

[bonnietaylor200a]

Day 2 - a song with many meanings

Day 2 - a song with many meanings

Second best R&Rer after Chuck

 

[hotoldrguy]

Day 2 - a song with many meanings
Paul McCartney's song "Blackbird" by The Beatles is a political commentary about the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1960s. McCartney's inspiration for the song came from reading about riots in the southern United States and the civil rights movement

 

[summer_reine]

Day 2 - a song with many meanings

People have very different reactions to hearing this song. Some find it haunting and uncomfortable, some peaceful, optimistic, or despairing. I find that it makes me feel hopeful and a little reassured; possibly because I associate it with the movie Amelie.

 

[Deleted member 6808749]

Day 2 - a song with many meanings

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[lavendersilk]

Day 2: A song that has multiple meanings

You know how you listen to a song in your 20's and you get one meaning from it, then you listen again in your 40's and get a completely different take?

That's all I'm going to write because I haven't started drinking yet and it's Labor Day... I don't want to think too much. But yes... I hadn't listened to FF for about 20 years and just decided to start again and my brain is like... wtf?

Dark Of The Matinée - Franz Ferdinand

 

[ctarrantella]

Day 2: A song that has many meanings
Shinedown, Monters

Day 2 - a song with many meanings

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Great minds. Great band. As soon as I read the theme I went to Monsters and For My Sake by them. Two heavily played songs by me. I didn’t even see yours until I scrolled down a bit.

 

[curious_slut]

Day 2: A song that has many meanings

It's a beautiful, sad, transcendent love song on the face of it but it's also about a historical doomed love affair (Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta).

Hozier - Francesca

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Day 2 - a song with many meanings

I feel like our songs go together.

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 2: A song that has many meanings

A song originally written as an angry breakup song, now used for summer camps, proms, and graduations

Green Day - Good Riddance(Time of Your Life)

 

[Grant55]

Day 2: Send in the Clowns

 

[vagrantx]

Day 3: A song that is an album title track

Marc Bolan... I often wonder where rock and glam would be at today, had he not died way too young. One of those brilliant once-in-a-generation musicians, he birthed an entire genre on his own. He was very close with David Bowie, who was his funeral singer, and I firmly believe Ziggy would have sounded a lot different if the two hadn't pushed each other to greatness.

I hope you're being your most fabulous self, where ever you are, you beautiful beautiful man

Marc Bolan's T.Rex - Dandy in the Underworld
Title track of his last ever album back in '77.

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 2: A song that has many meanings

 

[Wonderer67]

Day 2: A song that has many meanings

Most punk rock and hardcore songs are pretty straightforward so there’s not much room for interpretation.

So I immediately thought of Guided by Voices. I have no fucking idea what any of their songs mean. They tend to all sound good, have catchy hooks but they lyrics are 100% meaningless or meaningful. I’m really not sure.

This is one of my favorite songs by them. I wish I could tell you what this song means or is about.

Your Name is Wild

 

[BrendaBear]

Day 2: A song that has many meanings

One of my favorite albums growing up... was Ram. I love every song on that album.

Imagine my sadness when, as an adult, I saw something alluding to the actual hidden meaning of these songs I love. I was a bit crushed... but can so plainly see it now, as an adult. And while I still love the song... now? It kind of makes me sad.

Paul and Linda McCartney - 3 Legs

 

[Exploring72]

Day 2: A song that has many meanings

 

[curious_slut]

Day 3: A song that is an album title track

Marc Bolan... I often wonder where rock and glam would be at today, had he not died way too young. One of those brilliant once-in-a-generation musicians, he birthed an entire genre on his own. He was very close with David Bowie, who was his funeral singer, and I firmly believe Ziggy would have sounded a lot different if the two hadn't pushed each other to greatness.

I hope you're being your most fabulous self, where ever you are, you beautiful beautiful man

Marc Bolan's T.Rex - Dandy in the Underworld
Title track of his last ever album back in '77.

Ooh a great choice I don't really know much T. Rex music but now I'm inspired to listen to more. I fell in love with that song relatively recently in The Pursuit of Love. Andrew Scott dancing in a silk robe is one of the most wonderful scenes in a period show imo.

 

[vagrantx]

Ooh a great choice I don't really know much T. Rex music but now I'm inspired to listen to more. I fell in love with that song relatively recently in The Pursuit of Love.

I very much recommend watching Billy Elliot if you've never seen it! A coming of age drama set in the 80s working class britain. It's a beautiful story of rebellion and about finding yourself, set to a soundtrack primarily of T.Rex songs It's how I first fell in love!

Andrew Scott dancing in a silk robe is one of the most wonderful scenes in a period show imo.

Hot Priest will always be a treat to watch

 

[ctarrantella]

Day 3: A song that is an album title track
Motley Crue, Dr. Feelgood