30 Day Song Challenge: Day One - Favourite Song
Naming my favourite ever song is pretty much an impossible task, but this is a thirty day challenge and I didn't want to fail on the first day! If someone held a gun to my head and insisted either I name a favourite song or die, then this would be it. I can't describe my love affair with the music of MSP, there are no words for it except those within their lyrics. It's the musical content, the lyrical content, the passion and belief behind what they preach and sing about which makes their music enchanting. This track in particular has these feelings in abundance.
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Two - Least Favourite Song
I actually do love this song, but this version is so unutterably bad that it makes me feel physically sick. All the beauty and true feeling is lost in this over produced, over forced version which they Mariah-Careyed the arse off. There are many songs out there that are truly awful, but this has to be my least favourite based on how cringeworthy Alex and Simon Cowell have made a quality song sound.
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Three - A Song That Makes Me Happy
This actually proved to be a much more difficult choice than I'd thought. I over thought it and couldn't find a song that made me feel 'happy' in the way I wanted. So, I cleared my mind, and then went back to it and went with my first thought. My love affair with The Who is as old as I am - I swear my Dad was playing me Face Dances in the womb! I can't really explain why this song makes me happy, but it's one of those songs that I love having blaring through my car stereo on a sunny day when I'm road-tripping somewhere - it just makes me smile, simple as.
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Four - A Song That Makes Me Sad
I tried the organised religion thing. I wanted to make sense of my life, and hoped to feel wanted and have a sense of belonging at the same time. I found none of these things. I found confusion, pain and despair. For whatever reason, I wasn't wanted as a sunbeam and at the time that broke my heart. This song completely encapsulates that for me.
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Five - A Song That Reminds Me Of Someone
I could pretty easily put a song to every person who means something to me - music so much maps the path of my life; every major event and every significant person (no matter how briefly they were part of my life) has a soundtrack. In uni we had an eighties night (80p a pint - genius), and every week without fail this song would be played. And every week without fail Laura would sing along with what can only be described as 'gusto'! Completely unforgettable!
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Six - A Song That Reminds Me Of Somewhere
This song reminds me of my first car. Or more specifically, this song reminds me of the countless journeys to and from college with me and Jenn singing this together - both of us singing specific bits at the end (yes, we were that sad!). Happy days & happy memories.
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Seven - A Song That Reminds Me Of A Certain Event
This is s a song called Darling by The Tiny Eyes. It's a beautiful song that I've heard in many different versions before it's come to settle in its present state The Tiny Eyes is an awesome band from Scarborough, and I have the honour of saying one of my closest friends is their lead singer. The event this song reminds me of is the gig night I put on last month. The Great Sojourn and A.dam A.sun.der played too, but the reason I picked The Tiny Eyes as the song that reminds me of it is because it's the only time I've ever seen them play.
Listen to it, love them and spread the word!
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Eight - A Song I Know All The Words To
I completely adored Ixnay On The Hombre from the first moment I listened to it, I know pretty much every word to every track. This is a completely class song from one of the best punk bands to ever come out of America.
I don't dance. Ever. It's very doubtful I ever will. This song was played a whole lot at Fun Factory at uni though, and I was always VERY drunk when there. So, it's probably the closest I've ever gotten to anything like dancing, and it's still one I dance around (very different to dancing!) when I'm cleaning and stuff.
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Nine - A Song I Dance To
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Ten - A Song I Fall Asleep To
This is a beautiful piece of music that I'm indebted to Omar for introducing to me. It's soothing, peaceful and gently uplifting, and I love it.
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Eleven: A Song From My Favourite Band
I can't name my favourite band, because I honestly don't think I could ever pick my favourite band. It's not the same as naming my favourite song - that's relatively easy in comparison. iTunes told me that the band I've most listened to recently is The Funeral Party, and in particular City In Silhouettes. They don't get to wear the crown of 'favourite band', but they are the band of the moment for me, and that's as close as I can get.
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Twelve - A Song From A Band I Hate
Technically she's not a band, but she's still my answer for day 12. I just can't bear her music, it's fake, over produced and generally makes my skin crawl.
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Thirteen - A Song That's A Guilty Pleasure
I love this song, I've no idea why but I do. Although, to be fair, it may well be because of the accompanying video!
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Fourteen - A Day Nobody Would Expect Me To Love
I love the lyrics to this song - the idea of coming out of the darkness of depression and finding you can smile again and look forward and into life without fear or the expectation of things getting worse... it's beautiful & when I'm feeling in a bad place, it reminds me I've got the ability to get on that peace train and find my happiness again.
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Fifteen - A Song That Describes Me
I am nothing more than a line in your book...
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Sixteen - A Song I Used To Love But Now Hate
I'm a day late doing this one, which is largely due to the fact that I couldn't find a song for it. Any songs I could say I actually 'hate' are ones I've never even liked, let alone loved. And ones I used to love, I can't hate because it still has attached to it whatever the reason was that made me love it in the first place. This song is as close as I could come up with really. I never loved it, but did like it definitely. Unfortunately it got so overused on television programmes that it now has become a parody of itself really.
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Seventeen - A Song I Hear A Lot On Radio
Every.Fucking.Day.
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Eighteen - A Song I Wish I Heard On The Radio
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Nineteen - A Song From My Favourite Album
This is probably the closest I have to a 'favourite album'. Awesome band. Awesome album. Awesome track. Enough said!
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Twenty - A Song I Listen To When I'm Angry
With the lyrics "why don't you get the fuck out of my face" what more could you need from a song to sing to when you're angry?!
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Twenty One - A Song I Listen To When I'm Happy
Can't help but smile when listening to this song :)
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Twenty Two - A Song I Listen To When I'm Sad
If I'm sad and I want to wallow in said sadness, then this is one of the songs I'll listen to. Partially because of the lyrics and the mournful nature of the music. But also because I can't hear it without thinking of someone who used to mean the world to me and I've lost (they're not dead - just not part of my life anymore - their choice, not mine). And that combination literally makes my heart ache.
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Twenty Three - A Song I Want To Play At My Wedding
I couldn't find a video for this one. It's Weezer's version of Happy Together by The Turtles. I love the simplicity of the lyrics in this song - we make love far more complicated than it is - take away all the bullshit we wrap it up in, and it's the most uncomplicated and pure thing imaginable. The original is a bit too twee for me though, which is why I have gone with Weezer's great cover version (minus the talk-y bit at the start and the end of this link).
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Twenty Four - A Song I Want To Play At My Funeral
I think maybe it would need to be a slightly edited version as I'm not sure the lines "And he came to a door...and he looked inside, Father, yes son, I want to kill you, Mother...I want to...fuck you" would be entirely appropriate...
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Twenty Five - A Song That Makes You Laugh
Yep it's crude, and yep, it makes me laugh!
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Twenty Six - A Song I Can Play On An Instrument
Along with about 98% of the world's population of guitar owners, one of the first things I ever learnt was the intro to this song. That's as close as I get to playing a song on an instrument, since I've forgotten everything I learnt... really need to get those lessons started again...
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Thirty - My Favourite Song This Time Last Year
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Twenty Seven - A Song I Wish I Could Play
Ritchie Blackmore is IMO one of the greatest guitar players to walk this earth. His solo from around 4 minutes to 6 minutes on this track is mind blowing. It's an impossible dream to ever get to a stage where I could do justice to this incredible piece of music, but why not reach for the moon?!
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Twenty Eight - A Song That Makes You Feel Guilty
I was lying in bed with someone (argh, embarrassed & guilty!), this song was playing & he told me he was engaged...
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Twenty Nine - A Song From My Childhood
What can I say?! I was a big Quo fan as a kid!
30 Day Song Challenge: Day Thirty - My Favourite Song This Time Last Year
I was going through a real Metallica phase around this time last year - Death Magnetic being my album de jour. Great great song.
