30 Day Song Challenge

Ozbenno · Aug 26, 2011

Well contributing to the 30 Greatest Songs thread made me think of a Facebook thang called the 30 Day Song Challenge. Basically every day for the next 30 days we nominate a song based on a certain criteria.

Spoiler :

Thought it might be interesting to get a gauge on fellow CFCers tastes (and dislikes).

Give as much info as to why you like/dislike the song in question and link to youtube if possible.

Don't get ahead of yourself and if you're coming to the thread late catch up at your own pace.

I'll grab the second post and collate everyone's songs as an easy reference.

Ozbenno · Aug 26, 2011

Here's what everyone has picked along the way

Ozbenno

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Catharsis

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Skwink

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Huayna Capac357

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de Maistre

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Dachs

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North King

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Light Spectra

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azzaman333

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Heretic Cata

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Owen Glydwr

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Yui 108

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Serutan

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Orange Seeds

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Ozbenno · Aug 26, 2011

Day 01 - Your Favorite Song

Well to kick things off, my favourite song is...

Communist Daughter by Neutral Milk Hotel

Why is this my favourite song??

I just think it is so beautiful, the lyrics are so enticing and sensual and the music just fits really well. It is a very short song but it really (for me) packs a punch. I just love putting the headphones on, lying back and letting this song wash over me.

Spoiler :

Like the whole album, it hints at something more than what it appears.

Would love to put up a youtube link but EMI took all the user created ones down (they never actually released any videos). There are five pages on youtube of people doing covers though and

Link to video.

this is someone just playing it on a record but the sound quality is awful.

SuperJay · Aug 26, 2011

Thought it might be interesting to get a gauge on fellow CFCers tastes (and dislikes).

Give as much info as to why you like/dislike the song in question and link to youtube if possible.

Don't get ahead of yourself and if you're coming to the thread late catch up at your own pace.

I'll grab the second post and collate everyone's songs as an easy reference.

Sounds like a cool idea. Just to be clear - anyone who participates fills out their own list in their own posts and they all just intermingle?

Ozbenno · Aug 26, 2011

SuperJay said:
Sounds like a cool idea. Just to be clear - anyone who participates fills out their own list in their own posts and they all just intermingle?

Yep. Just fill out your own songs day by day in this thread and I'll use the second post to gather it all together.

Catharsis · Aug 26, 2011

Alright, now bear in mind that I've only been listening to music for about six months, so I don't really have any tastes: just a whole bunch of songs that I kind of like.

My favourite song, inasmuch as one can make such a value judgment with so little experience of music as a concept, is Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits. I can't be doing with all YouTube searching, but I guess you've probably heard this song before anyway.

What I like about it is the twangy guitars. (This is essentially the level of musical appreciation I've managed to reach thus far.) However, I have not yet been able to figure out whether we're meant to be rooting for the Sultans, or deriding them.

Skwink · Aug 26, 2011

Day 1: My Body is a Cage.

Really interesting song.

Huayna Capac357 · Aug 26, 2011

Day 1: Your favorite song.

My taste in music changes frequently, but right now, my favorite song is Jóga by Björk. I love the lyrics, the strings, the beats, and the singing (basically everything about it). It is really a perfect song in my opinion.

Link to video.

de Maistre · Aug 26, 2011

Day 01, Favourite Song
Into The Infinity Of Thoughts by Emperor
I enjoy the contrast between the melodic keyboard, harsh singing, and dissonant guitar. The atmosphere also appeals to me greatly; I can't very well listen to it without being whisked away into In The Nightside Eclipse's elaborate fantasy world.

Dachs · Aug 27, 2011

Day 01, Favorite Song

All You Wanted - Michelle Branch

The first time I heard this song was in sixth grade and I instantly fell in love with it. Didn't learn the name of the artist until something like four years later, which happily coincided with my discovery of iTunes. Since then, I've listened to it something like five thousand times. (Checks.) 5,216 times.

What I like about it? Hard to say. Back in sixth grade, the lyrics really resonated with me because I was in the midst of one of those middle school crushes. That doesn't really fit too much nowadays, but it's not exactly as though I just like the song because of nostalgia. The guitar work is okay, nothing incredibly special; the music video is similarly above-average but not hugely notable. I guess it all comes together really really well.

Link to video.

North King · Aug 27, 2011

Day 01, Favorite Song

Favorite song? That... is a hard question. Honestly, I have trouble even figuring out my top five songs at times. Music is a huge part of my life, enough so that I'm quite likely to try getting into it professionally in one way or another, and what kind of music is most appealing to me at any one point, let along what song, can change from day to day.

But right now, I don't think I could nominate anything else:

Hoppípolla - Sigur Rós

Link to video.

I discovered Sigur Rós in a roundabout way late in high school. There was a joke about them in a webcomic I read, and having rarely been steered wrong by this artist's tastes before, I looked them up on Youtube. I found Saeglopur immediately, which was a nice song, and I listened to a few more, basically anything I found on the site. Oddly enough, Hoppípolla wasn't there, and I almost never heard the song until anther odd coincidence in college. A few months into freshman year I mentioned to a friend that I listened to Sigur Rós.

He freaked out.

And promptly, when it became clear I was a novice to their music, he gave me all their music, which I listened to.

You know that song which catches you from the very beginning and holds you to the very end, the very first time? This is that song. From the first notes of the piano, the mood is set perfectly; I'm absolutely transported, and then as you get into the song I can't help but grin. And then it just builds, and builds, and builds, and I love every single moment of it; right down to the somewhat wacky ending.

And after seeing the music video, you can't help but adore the whole enterprise.

I'd have a hard time starting off this thirty day thing in a better way.

LightSpectra · Aug 27, 2011

Day 01, Favorite Song

Jesu bleibet meine Freude (BWV 147/10) on piano - Johann Sebastian Bach

Link to video.

I've heard the chamber version plenty of times, and thought it one of Bach's best works, but I first heard it played on piano in End of Evangelion. It's, in my opinion, the crowning achievement of all baroque music, and it instantly cheers me up no matter my mood.

azzaman333 · Aug 27, 2011

Day 01. Favourite Song
Silversun Pickups - Panic Switch

Spoiler :

I'm pretty sure I first listened to this because of Heretic_Cata, and as soon as I heard this song I wanted everything they had released. I can't think of a single aspect of this song that I dislike, it just all just works perfectly.

Ozbenno · Aug 27, 2011

Have just spent a very fun hour checking out all of these songs, some absolute cracking tracks there. :goodjob:

Hugely enjoyed the Bach as it reminded me of my sister who used to play it on piano alot and who I'm seeing for the first time in 6 months tomorrow (she lives in Indonesia)

Edited the second post to show what everyone has picked, hopefully got everyone and the songs correct :crazyeye:

And I'm impressed that Dachs has listened to a song 5,216 times on itunes :scan:

Heretic_Cata · Aug 27, 2011

Day 01. Favourite Song

Not sure i have 1 favorite song that tops them all, but acording to my lastfm page at least, my favorite song is :
The Chameleons - Less than Human

Spoiler :

I love everything from this song; the crawling rhythm, the choked voice, the drum, the silent whispered voice behind the main vocals, the distant guitar etc.

Huayna Capac357 · Aug 27, 2011

Day 02: Your least favorite song.

Since this could be innumerable songs by artists I don't like, I will put my least favorite song by an artist I like. And for that, I'd say "Just Can't Get Enough" by Depeche Mode. I enjoy Depeche Mode; I have most of their albums. This song is from their first album, in which almost all the songs (including this one) are by Vince Clarke, not Martin Gore. As such, its style is remarkably different from later Depeche Mode songs. It's so poppy and bubbly and silly. Can't find a youtube link though.

Dachs · Aug 27, 2011

Day 02, Least favorite song

Who Let the Dogs Out - Baha Men

Most of the "worst songs ever" are ones that I really wasn't, you know, around for. For instance, "MacArthur Park" is a terrible song, but it wasn't constantly pumped into my brain from every media source, especially vile FM radio. "Sweet Caroline" sounds like I imagine raw sewage tastes, but you only hear that on cruises. "We Built This City" is, happily, never aired by anyone, ever. So that pretty much limits this to stuff recorded after the mid-nineties.

There've been plenty of terrible songs recorded since then, to be sure. I don't think anything that Lonely Island has recorded has any redeeming value except trolling and, if you're on a cruise, occasional ON A BOAT references. "Friday", of course, defines bad.

But I think "Who Let the Dogs Out?" eclipses them all. First off, it's repetitive. This is prima facie bad. It's repetitive enough to be an ear worm for idiots, which multiplies the agony because, well, you've got idiots humming/singing the damn song all the time, which increases its ubiquity (see "Fourth"). Second, the nonrepetitive bits suck, and even if they didn't suck, they're unintelligible. There is good unintelligible (see "Louie, Louie") and there is bad unintelligible; this is obviously the latter. Third, there is no musical value to the song whatsoever. It's just trite backing for the "singers". Fourth - and worst - it was frigging everywhere in the late nineties and early 2000s. NBA and NFL games were inundated with it (it was, if anything, worse in the MLB, which is why I'm glad I don't watch baseball), the radio had it on at least once an hour, and it showed up in roughly eighty gazillion movies.

Anyway, yeah. On the incredibly small off chance that you haven't heard this stupid ****ing song, here it is.

Link to video.

sophie · Aug 27, 2011

A little behind the ball so, here goes.

Day 1 - Favorite Song

Grateful Dead - Scarlet-Fire

Link to video.

As just about everyone in these forums knows by now, my favorite band is the Grateful Dead. This creates a bit of a conundrum as there are literally thousands of songs for me to choose from. When I first started out I was a fan of Bob Weir, but I have come to resent a very good portion of songs he does, favoring instead the soulful, bluesy lyrics of Jerry. Scarlet-Fire is one of those Grateful Dead songs that is actually composed of two individual songs (Scarlet Begonias, off of the 1972 Album From the Mars Hotel and Fire on the Mountain, off the 1978 Album Shakedown Street), however the Dead so commonly segued from one song to the other in their sets that the two songs became referred to as just one (much like China Cat Sunflower-I Know You Rider was called China Rider). I love Scarlet-Fire. The song starts out with a groovy guitar lick and a very pumping bass line in the background. I love the vocals on Scarlet Begonias. Any song in which Jerry is wailing is good, and the harmonies that Donna brings are tasteful and complimentary. The jam the connects the Scarlet and the Fire is definitely one of the best set (non-space) jams in the Dead repertoire. The transition is just so great too, you've hardly noticed that the song has changed and all of a sudden the tempo's slowed down, Jerry's turned on the wahwah, and your head is nodding to some funky dead. Again Jerry's style of singing works perfectly with this song. I can never help myself and I always find myself shouting out the first verse of this song. "Needs a full pail of water just to cool him down, yeah!" is one of those Dead lines, much like the lead up to Terrapin that is simply the dead at their best. This song is simply superb.

de Maistre · Aug 27, 2011

Day 02, Least Favourite Song
We Built This City by Starship
One person did "air" it: my eighth grade gym teacher; he had a small playlist of bad eighties music that he ran through the PA every class, and We Built This City was his favourite. :twitch:

rugbyLEAGUEfan · Aug 27, 2011

Dachs said:
Day 02, Least favorite song

Who Let the Dogs Out - Baha Men

Most of the "worst songs ever" are ones that I really wasn't, you know, around for. For instance, "MacArthur Park" is a terrible song, but it wasn't constantly pumped into my brain from every media source, especially vile FM radio. "Sweet Caroline" sounds like I imagine raw sewage tastes, but you only hear that on cruises. "We Built This City" is, happily, never aired by anyone, ever. So that pretty much limits this to stuff recorded after the mid-nineties.

There've been plenty of terrible songs recorded since then, to be sure. I don't think anything that Lonely Island has recorded has any redeeming value except trolling and, if you're on a cruise, occasional ON A BOAT references. "Friday", of course, defines bad.

But I think "Who Let the Dogs Out?" eclipses them all. First off, it's repetitive. This is prima facie bad. It's repetitive enough to be an ear worm for idiots, which multiplies the agony because, well, you've got idiots humming/singing the damn song all the time, which increases its ubiquity (see "Fourth"). Second, the nonrepetitive bits suck, and even if they didn't suck, they're unintelligible. There is good unintelligible (see "Louie, Louie") and there is bad unintelligible; this is obviously the latter. Third, there is no musical value to the song whatsoever. It's just trite backing for the "singers". Fourth - and worst - it was frigging everywhere in the late nineties and early 2000s. NBA and NFL games were inundated with it (it was, if anything, worse in the MLB, which is why I'm glad I don't watch baseball), the radio had it on at least once an hour, and it showed up in roughly eighty gazillion movies.

Anyway, yeah. On the incredibly small off chance that you haven't heard this stupid ****ing song, here it is.

Link to video.

I'm not in for this thread , but I 100% agree with this post in it's entirety .

30 Day Song Challenge

Fly Fly Away

Fly Fly Away

Fly Fly Away

Bending Space and Time

Fly Fly Away

catch u on the flip scythe

FRIIIIIIIIIITZ

Deity

Comte

Hero of the Soviet Union

blech

me autem minui

meh

Fly Fly Away

We're gonna live forever

Deity

Hero of the Soviet Union

Break My Heart

Comte

Deity

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