🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[Saltfountain]

Day 17: A protest song

No war to fight against, or no great cause to push. But this song is how Bon Jovi severed their ties with their record label after 30 years.

The whole album (which is by no means their worst) and was their contractual fulfillment is filled with tracks that didn't make previous albums. And this song tells it all. Bitter? You betcha!

 

[Biggalute]

Day 17: A protest song

Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
one of the greatest covers ever? Wyatt made this his own.

"diving for dear life when we could be diving for pearls"

This is fabulous

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 17: A protest song - Billie Holiday - 1939

"Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze"

 

[NeonSubtlety]

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Day 16: A song you didn’t like when it first came out but has grown on you

GO BILLS!!!!

 

[PassionatePanther]

Day 17: A protest song

I didn’t post yesterday because once I decide I hate a song, it’s for life

But today, I bring to you “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” by Gil Scott-Heron

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Day 17: A protest song

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 17: A protest song

As applicable in the coming year as it was when it was written.

 

[DannieB]

Day 17: A protest song

Glad To Be Gay - Tom Robinson

I’m not gay, although being best friends with a lesbian in high school got me called one and bullied for it. High school in a small town was hell on her, but we were still happy. “Cause fuck them bitches!”

 

[MindYaBitness]

Day 17: A protest song

What's Going On-Marvin Gay

 

[morelikeasong]

I hate when I post a prompt I love and then don’t have time to listen to people’s choices! Hopefully I can get back around today and go through. I love a good protest song!

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 18: An upbeat song you danced to at a school dance

I've never gone to a school dance, but I imagine this song would have been fun to dance to back in the year 1996.

Beautiful Life - Ace of Base

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 18: An upbeat song you danced to at a school dance
Not my proudest moment.
"Cotton Eye Joe" - Rednex

 

[Saltfountain]

Day 18: An upbeat song you danced to at a school dance
@Whiskeyjack you may not be proud of yours, but I was at school in the 80s...

 

[lingus60]

Day 18: An upbeat song you danced to at a school dance

Average White Band: Pick up the pieces

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 18: An upbeat song you danced to at a school dance

Is there anything hornier than a middle school dance? Maybe a Lit Prom, if it existed.

Hip-hop/R&B was blasting in the school gym and the teachers were trying in vain to separate the grind trains

As I was picking my song, of course I had to test my dance skills. I can still “dip it low and pick it up slow” with the best of them. Okay, maybe not the best of them, but I can still “pop that thing”

Christina Milian - Dip It Low

 

[lingus60]

Day 18: An upbeat song you danced to at a school dance
@Whiskeyjack you may not be proud of yours, but I was at school in the 80s...

And I was there in the 70:....see above!

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 18: An upbeat song you danced to at a school dance

Is there anything hornier than a middle school dance? Maybe a Lit Prom, if it existed.

Hip-hop/R&B was blasting in the school gym and the teachers were trying in vain to separate the grind trains

As I was picking my song, of course I had to test my dance skills. I can still “dip it low and pick it up slow” with the best of them. Okay, maybe not the best of them, but I can still “pop that thing”

Christina Milian - Dip It Low

Video please?

 

[Anastasia1999]

Day 18: An upbeat song you danced to at a school dance

Showing my age with this one!!

 

[Bry1313]

day 18 - Upbeat song you danced to at a school dance
The theme of my prom

 

[orangecurious]

Day 18: An upbeat song you danced to at a school dance

New Order - Temptation (12" version)
ok, i never went to a high school dance... but, if i had done, i would have been the loner in the corner going ballistic as this played

their best song. I once walked miles to home after a gig of theirs ended late and sang this all the way, over and over.

up down, turn around, please don't let me hit the ground

 

[orangecurious]

Day 18: An upbeat song you danced to at a school dance

Showing my age with this one!!

spooky, i went there and then altered course slightly for my selection. Great choice

 

[Biggalute]

Day 18: An upbeat song you danced to at a school dance

This was definitely one of my go-to tunes and I'm still stomping around to it today.
The video is so bad, it's brilliant!

 

[Anastasia1999]

spooky, i went there and then altered course slightly for my selection. Great choice

You have excellent taste and similar to mine. I love New Order too.

 

[LustfulIntentions2]

Day 18: An Upbeat song you danced to at your school dance

Well there are a number of songs I could have used for this that would have also fit into the 'cheesy lyrics' prompt from last week because well, the 90s. But, honestly, I read the prompt and this song *immediately* hopped into the front of my mind. The album version is 11 minutes(!!) long, and well, no.