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!
Something for Thursday
Something for Thursday
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 of music that you can play while driving. Even moreso if you’re someplace where you’re able to drive fast.
Here’s one of the series’s two purely instrumental themes, and one of my absolute favorite movie themes of all time. And, I might add, incredibly fun to blast while driving. It’s the theme from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
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Something for Thursday
Something for Thursday
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 real sense of confidence. So I’m taking it on faith that it is Thursday today, and that I can get back to the song challenge I started a while back as a series of prompts for this feature. This week we’re up to Day Five (we took a breather in December for the Daily Dose), where we’re tasked with finding a song that needs to be played LOUD.
Here’s one of my favorites. I love blasting this, especially when I’m in the car. Ever since this album came out in 1994, I thought that there was quite frankly something special about its live setting, and I know that I’m not alone. There’s a particular energy to the performances from this concert as recorded, and the album has been a favorite of mine for every bit of its twenty-five years in release. So here is Yanni and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, from the album Live at the Acropolis, with “Santorini”.
And if you have good speakers or headphones, you turn that shit up, man!
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Something for Thursday (Friday edition)
Something for Thursday (Friday edition)
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 few weeks, but now we’re up to Number Four, which is:
of Someone You’d Rather Forget.
See, I got nothin’. I can literally think of no one in my life (or who was ever in my life) that I’d like to simply forget. I thought about going political (that “Money Money Money” song they used as the theme for The Apprentice, before that show’s host made a disastrous career change), but I wasn’t in the mood for that. So, for lack of anything else, here’s “Part of Your World” from The Little Mermaid. Why? Well…this friggin’ movie was the featured event in two different dates I went on when I was in college, and in both instances, those dates were followed the next day by the “It’s not you, it’s me” speech. So…yeah. (I did eventually watch the movie with The Girlfriend, but only after we’d been dating for a year and I could be reasonably confident that its jinx effect had worn off. Which it had…either that, or it’s just taking decades to work, but I really hope not.)
So yeah. “Part of Your World”. Whatevs, Ariel. Harumph!
(Oh, and obviously I feel no particular animus toward either of those young women from back in the day. One’s even a friend on Facebook! I’ve no idea whatever became of the other one, other than that I think she’s a school teacher in Iowa someplace.)
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Something for Thursday
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 our warm bed (such rousing coming via two dee-oh-gees who had to pee) was a nicely balmy 7 degrees. Today’s category, then, is “A Song that Makes Me Think of Summer”. Well, the very first song that leaped to mind is this oh-so-Seventies tune by Mungo Jerry. Enjoy! Summer is only mumble-mumble months away!
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Something for Thursday
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!
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Something for Thursday
OK, I’m going to try something new! Here’s a 30-Day Challenge of the type that often shows up on various social media thingies. The idea is quite simple: Each day you post according to that prompt.
Well, I’m going to use this not as a daily prompt, but a weekly one. Each Thursday for the next thirty Thursdays I’ll use the next prompt to select that week’s song or music choice. By my calculations, assuming I don’t miss any Thursdays, this will wrap up on the last Thursday in May, bringing us more than halfway around the calendar. Cool, huh?
No?
Well, I’m doing it anyway.
Day 1:
A song with a color in the title.
(It specifies “a song I like,” but I’ll just take that as a given.)
Here are the Lemon Pipers, with “Green Tambourine”.
