30 Day Song Challenge

[Heretic_Cata]

Day 07, Song that reminds you of a certain event


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Back from the days when i listened to a lot of symphonic metal - a very bad event ending.

 

[de Maistre]

Day 10, A song that makes you fall asleep
Midnight In The Desert by Crystal Gayle
Art Bell closed his late night radio show with this song, after which I would inevitably go to sleep. There might be some cause and effect there.

 

[LightSpectra]

Day 10, a song that makes you fall asleep

Theme of Love (piano collection) - Nobuo Uematsu


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Light piano music with ionian melodies helps me sleep, and I have a lot of it. I just picked this one at random to post.

 

[sophie]

Day 5 - A Song That Reminds You Of Someone

Freddie Scott - You Got What I Need


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I got really into this song for an entire summer a few years back, a summer which I spent entirely pining after a girl who did not return the affection. Because of that, I tend to associate the song with her.

 

[madviking]

Since it's the fourth, I'll do everything up to #4.

day 01 - your favorite song

An unorthodox pick, but you have to consider Dark Side of the Moon to be one very long track. Breaking it up denies justice to the album. And I can just listen to it forever. So my favorite song is the entire album.

day 02 - your least favorite song


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Watch the Gladstone video on why this song is the worst ever.

day 03 - a song that makes you happy


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This helps me get through the bad days.

day 04 - a song that makes you sad


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The theme of unredeemed love is one that hits home kinda close. So it's sad in the sense that it relates to me and is beautiful...

 

[Traitorfish]

Day 10, a song that makes you fall asleep



...Pardon?

 

[NiRv4n4]

Day 10, sleepy song -


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Great song, and very long and bluesy.

 

[azzaman333]

Day 10 - A Song That Makes You Fall Asleep

I'll take this opportunity to post another song from a band I mostly like, but the particular song just annoys and bores me.

Rise Against - Hero Of War

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Between this and Soldier's Poem, there's probably the makings of a pattern of songs that irritate me.

 

[LightSpectra]

Day 11, a song from your favorite band

The Art of Fugue: Contrapunctus I on strings (BWV 1080) - Johann Sebastian Bach


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I'm assuming "band" can mean "artist". I've already listed the piano version of "Jesus bleibet meine Freude" as my favorite song, so this is a runner-up of sorts. I thought baroque was a really boring genre until I heard this.

 

[madviking]

day 05 - a song that reminds you of someone


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My stupid ex.

 

[de Maistre]

Day 11, A song from your favourite band
Mirkwood by Summoning
I don't have a clear favourite, but I'm in a Summoning mood today, so there you go.

 

[sophie]

Day 6 - A Song That Reminds You of Somewhere

Grateful Dead - Dark Star

For this selection, I must refer specifically to the Dark Star from the album Live/Dead. This song brings back memories for me of driving through Wales with my dad. We had stopped in Hay on Wye earlier in the afternoon and bought the album and I was listening to it the first time while we were driving through the Powys countryside. It was definitely one of the highlights of the trip.


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[NiRv4n4]

Day 11 - song from favorite band


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[LightSpectra]

I vote "Tangerine" to be the most under-appreciated Led Zeppelin song. [/irrelevant]

 

[NiRv4n4]

I vote "Tangerine" to be the most under-appreciated Led Zeppelin song. [/irrelevant]

Indeed, the whole third album is really underrated. Especially the acoustic second part.

 

[madviking]

day 06 - a song that reminds you of somewhere


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This reminds me of a lot of vacations to lakes my family had. The slow and quiet nature of the song reminds me of the lake and the lyrics remind me of summer.

 

[azzaman333]

Day 11 - A Song From Your Favourite Band

Muse - Stockholm Syndrome

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My second favourite Muse song. I would've picked my favourite Muse song, but I'm saving that for day 19.

 

[SuperJay]

Day 3: A Song That Makes You Happy

Vince Guaraldi - Linus & Lucy (aka the theme song to the animated "Peanuts" shows)


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Vince Guaraldi was a jazz pianist and composer from San Francisco. This tune is of course most familiar to those who grew up America in the 70s and 80s and watched the Charlie Brown holiday specials. This one of those songs I can't listen to without smiling; while it of course inspires nostalgia for the simplicity of childhood, the composition itself and its upbeat, cheerful melody would lift my spirits even without the Peanuts association.

 

[sophie]

Day 7 - A Song that reminds you of a certain event

Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home


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This song reminds me of a certain night in Santa Cruz two years ago. We were coming back from a party downtown and walking back to the bus station. We were following behind a homeless man who was singing this song (and doing a damned fine job of it, at that). It was a great end to a great night.

 

[LightSpectra]

Day 12, a song from a band you hate

Lateralus - Tool


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I never thought Maynard James Keenan is as smart as people hype him to be, but this song is quite clever. The lyrics are about "spiraling out", and the syllables follow the Fibonacci sequence:

1 black
1 then
2 white are
3 all I see
5 in my infancy
8 red and yellow then came to be
13 as below so above and beyond I imagine
8 drawn beyond the lines of reason
5 push the envelope
3 watch it bend

The time signature for the main riff is 13/8 (if my memory is correct), and then the other riffs are something like descending from 8/4 to 7/4 to 6/4. Something like that. Haven't counted it out in awhile and I'm lazy. So yeah, this song is pretty excellent, even though I think the rest of Tool's corpus vacillates between being boring or ridiculous and pretentious.