Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

This week for the ongoing Song Challenge we have A song that makes me happy. Here’s one of my all-time go-to songs for getting out of a bad mood, “Dreams” by Van Halen!

If my records are correct, this week our Song Challenge is for A song about drugs or alcohol. Well, this one isn’t directly about those things, but it does reference them in describing the various denizens of a particular bar. … Continue reading →

So this week in our ongoing Music Challenge brings us to Entry Seven: A song to drive to. There’s a lot of great driving music out there, but I always find that the James Bond movies provide a virtual encyclopedia … Continue reading →

Another week, another song in the challenge! This week it’s A Song That Makes You Want To Dance, and while I almost went with Donna Summer and “Last Dance”, I’ll go instead with the always-wonderful Sam Cooke. We’re “Twistin’ the … Continue reading →

It is Thursday, isn’t it? Once the Holidays start, I always find it takes until the first full week in January that doesn’t have a holiday in it before I start to know what day it is again with any … Continue reading →

How about leavening the crystalline beauty of all the Christmas music in the air with an ominous operatic overture? Here’s the overture from the first great opera of the Romantic era, Der Freischutz, composed by Carl Maria von Weber.

So this is weird. I didn’t forget yesterday. I drew a blank. Remember, I’m getting each week’s selection via a music challenge that is the kind of thing you find on Twitter occasionally. So far so good for the first … Continue reading →

It’s the third installment of our music challenge! This one is apropos, given that today is the coldest day in Buffalo Niagara since February. Our high today is to top out at 21 degrees, and when we roused ourselves from … Continue reading →

It’s Week Two of the challenge-thing I launched last week! This time we need a song with a number in the title, so here’s one!