"A song that makes you want to fall in love", says the prompt. Err. I'm not sure a song can do that. In fact, I'm not sure that's a desire that even exists for me. I mean, yes, I want to meet people, have relationships, etc., but the desire is not "fall in love". Also, even if we say it is for the purposes of having something to here, that's not ( Read more... )

Day 25's prompt is "A song by an artist no longer living", which was always going to be a rock and roll piece because it's about the only major part of music that I really like I've not dropped in on yet. By "rock and roll" I am referring to the culuturally fusionist blending of boogie-woogie, country, and rhythm and blues which first appeared in ( Read more... )

Today's prompt is "A Song by a Band you wish were still together". This raises interesting questions about "by", namely whether it means "written by" or "performed by" (which is very important in the case of Bellowhead, who did not perform entirely original material), and also "together" (are the Stone Roses together? Cryptic comments by Ian Brown ( Read more... )

Today's prompt is "A song you think everybody should listen to". That's a bit pretentious; I'm not sure I think there even is such a thing. Different people like different styles of music and different types of voices; I have fairly demographically predictable tastes and so my list of songs here mostly contains artists who look like I do (or like I ( Read more... )

Today's prompt is "a song that moves you forward". I only ever had one song in mind for this:

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Obstacles is the credits track, and, to some extent, Chloe's theme (or at least, it plays over her ending) from Life is Strange. Both the song and its use in the game are about how you can't always have what you want, and it was pretty cathartic for me ( Read more... )

This time I don't have an excuse for missing a day, except that this morning's choice of song is better than last night's would have been. I think everyone who knows a lot about my musical tastes must have expected at least one Jess Morgan song and might be surprised that I've not done one already, so here we are:

I have a bit of a "no repeating ( Read more... )

Apparently I forgot to do yesterday's meme, I blame Games Evening. The prompt is "a song that has many different meanings for you". This is quite difficult for me, that's not particularly how I usually think about songs. Ones I remember tend to have one strong association rather than several. After a bit of thought (and getting partway through a ( Read more... )

Today was Folk by the Oak (it was also the Evans Cycles Wimpole Hall cyclo-sportive, and at various points I was wondering if it was even possible to try both, but a side strain contracted by walking into a pillar and then going for a run earlier in the week put paid to that plan). Like most festivals, it was fun but exhausting; I saw Leveret (meh ( Read more... )

Today's prompt is "a song from the year of your birth", which was rather tricky, because while there's quite a lot of 80s music which I like, I have no idea when any of it was released. OK, not quite true, I know that Do They Know It's Christmas? was a 1984 release because I've got one of those "the year of your birth" things so I know what the ( Read more... )

Day 17's prompt was "A song that you would sing as a duet on karaoke". This is not a thing I have actually done all that much, even if you count playing games like Singstar, but it is a thing which I do find fun so it's certainly not the case that I wouldn't sing anything as a duet on karaoke. It took me a while to think of a duet I might want to ( Read more... )