Last week, I asked you for songs you love but have no idea what the words are. You’ve come up with some really great music! I especially love the Eartha Kitt one, but all of these are wonderful.
I’m enjoying this series immensely. Thank you!
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Saturday Song: Dunno the Words, But Love the Tune
We’re moving our singsongs to Saturdays, as I’ve got other things planned for the next several Sundays. You’ll love it, I hope.
This week’s theme is Songs We Don’t Understand the Words To, but Love Anyway. I’ve got so many of these. This is one of my particular favorites, but the only thing I’ve translated so far is the title: Continue reading “Saturday Song: Dunno the Words, But Love the Tune”
Your Sunday Playlist: Bit o’ Fun Part I
Last week, I asked you for funny songs, and we have now got one of the oddest playlists I have ever created. Enjoy!
Sunday Song: A Bit o’ Fun
This is a theme that will recur with some regularity, methinks! There are a great many songs and music videos out there that are just plain fun. Such as this one: watch closely! You don’t want to miss the awesome bit of physical humor near the end.
Your mission for this week, should you choose to accept it, is to share one of your favorite funny songs. Nothing mean-spirited or very problematic, though, please. Humor that punches up rather than down, or humor that doesn’t punch at all, is always welcome! I can’t wait to see what you all come up with.
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Special Bonus Saturday Song Pet Shop Extravaganza
Poor little Roosh V and his rapetastic fanboys. All they wanted was to have a worldwide meetup of like-minded dudebros, to discuss how awful women are and share tips on coercing reluctant feeemales into unwanted sex. But the poor dears had to cancel due to negative publicity, police and political condemnation, and awesome people planning protests.
They were supposed to be meeting today, and their code phrase was about pet shops, so I have decided to honor mock their disappointment by posting a Pet Shop Boys video that is basically the perfect Nice Guy™ lament. Continue reading “Special Bonus Saturday Song Pet Shop Extravaganza”
Your Highly Irregular Playlist
Last Sunday, I asked you for beloved songs that were completely out of your usual wheelhouse. You came through handsomely! We have a good long playlist for our Sunday listening pleasure.
I’ll have a new topic up next Sunday. Until then, enjoy the beautiful music we’ve made!
Sunday Songs: Highly Irregular!
Everyone seemed to enjoy our last music post quite a lot, so I figured we’ll start making this a regular feature and see what happens. Like last time, I’ll give you a theme, you give me a song (or a couple), and I’ll make a playlist from our results.
Most of us have a particular genre or general style we love most. For me, it’s symphonic, black and death metal with a bit of old-school power metal on the side. I was that person running around in high school wearing the ripped-up jeans and studded jackets. I adore corpse paint and death grunts accompanying ethereal sopranos. That’s the stuff!
I’m not much of an alternative music fan, really. And I wasn’t much in to the alt music scene of the 90s. Most of that stuff leaves me shuddering and reaching for Emperor or Epica. But every once in a while, the right song will hit at the right time in just the right way, and I’ll end up adoring something you’d never expect to hear in my rotation.
That’s what happened with 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up?”. This is so not my type of song. And yet, when it came up in Sense8 and worked so perfectly, I fell deeply and forever in love with it. Now it makes me happy right down to my toes whenever I hear it.
You can see the scene it was in here.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: what’s one of your favorite songs that’s completely out of character for you?
A Magnificent Acapella Version of Hotel California
January 2016 continued its wholesale slaughter of famous musicians and actors by claiming the Eagles’ Glen Frey. January 2016, what are you doing? January 2016, stahp.
Anyway. One of my friends posted this absolutely incredible video of a group called Cubanos Acapella singing Hotel California. And if you haven’t heard this, you need to set aside some time and a quiet space and listen. I was impressed when Jimmy and the Wazoo Peach Pitters managed to do Helter Skelter acapella,* but damn.
Took me a while to collect my jaw from the floor after that.
I have a particular fondness for this song. I have memories of my dad trying to explain it to me. I was probably about 9 or 10, and he was introducing me to his generation’s music, and we were discovering we had a mutual fondness for much of it. But of course, I was super-young, and had no idea what the 70s even were, much less what young adults had done with them, so most of this song went wooshing right over my head despite his patient explanations. And I never asked him to clear up some of the lingering mysteries for me: I had no idea why ghosts had anything to do with wine, or why a spirit might have left the hotel in 1969, never to return. Dad did a reasonable job trying to explain what “of our own device” meant, but it was still a pretty vague concept. I am only just now finding out he fibbed when he said colitas was a type of flower (buds, Dad, very funny). But we both had fun singing it together, and ultimately that was the only thing that mattered. Continue reading “A Magnificent Acapella Version of Hotel California”
The Super-Eclectic Reader Faves Playlist
A couple days ago, I asked you for just one song – and my, did you ever respond! Some of you couldn’t stop at just one song. (I get it, I do, it’s really hard to pick a single one.)
I’ve made a playlist of your songs. For those who recommended more than one, I chose your first song. It makes for a charmingly eclectic music mix!
Hit Me With Your Best Song
We’ve all got a special song that we love, yeah? That song that always gets you right in the feels, or makes your feet tap, or that you would shout to the world if you could. Let’s share a song, then! One of my Facebook friends posted this, and it struck me as completely awesome: Give me one song that means a lot to you, and I’ll listen to it. It can be anything. It can be serious or corny or musically complex or dead simple. It can be uplifting or despairing or anything in between. It can be absolutely any genre at all. It doesn’t even have to be your favorite song of all time (like that’s so easy to pick!). Just a song that you love.
So here’s mine:
There you go. Now you know a song that I love, the first that springs to mind when someone asks me for just one song. What’s yours?
