🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

Day 27: a song from the 2010s about friendship.
French band? Check. Named after a Goonies quote? Check. Too much punctuation in their name? Check. Greatest opening line in pop-punk history? Oh, fucking check!

"Hey dudes, are you ready to..."

I like their later stuff, but there was something about this debut that I just love.

"Hey dudes are ready to
Defend your mates in case they need you?
These ones that never pretend
And trust you until the end
These are my eternal friends"


"In Friends We Trust," Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!



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Day 27: A song about Friendship, or is it love, from the 10s


R.E.M. - We All Go Back To Where We Belong
The final single and many friendships made along the way of following this band. Always ambiguous, this could easily be a love song, or an ode to a dear friend, or just Stipe making stuff up. "I can taste the ocean on your skin" has made its way into several of my stories.
 
Day 27: A song from the 10s

Another one of those songs I loved before I noticed the lyrics and got kind of annoyed 😭 Girl, if she "stole" your man, he was no longer yours to begin with and she did you a favor by pointing it out...But it's still a fucking banger.

ZZ Ward - Put the Gun Down
Oh! New rabbit hole!
 
Day 26: A song from the 2000s - friendship

My ex wife sent me a lot of CDs to play in my discman during my first deployment (2004/5). She was a good egg. She sent me stuff from my friends and she found stuff herself. It was the days when people burned CDs.

This was and still is one of my favorites from that time. She heard this song on NPR and bought the CD. She was good like that.

Later on I got an MP3 player and it too was a game changer. But I still have a lot of homemade CDs.

This whole CD was amazing. A bit like the Clash and a bit like good old rock with a lil bitta punk in there too.

My wife loved it, both my kids loved it. I loved it. It was a good bond.

And it made the little downtime we had a lot more bearable. An aptly titled song.

Hard Fi - Middle Eastern Holiday
 
Day 27: A song from the 10s

I can’t think of anything clever about family or friends or much else.

So here’s a good song from the teens. Cut outta work early on a Wednesday and saw em w my current wife at The Bowery Ballroom. I felt like I was seeing The Rolling Stones in 1963. Except it was 2015.

A Bo Diddley classic

The Strypes - Can’t Judge Book by Looking At Its Cover
 
Day 28: Miscellany (not the official prompt)

Going my own way today.
I've Got Plenty To Be Thankful For

Happy Thanksgivng!!!



 
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