Day 31: If you were to have a party for your birthday, this song has to be played.
Since this birthday I attended the Minicave festival in Münster and saw Urban Grey first time live, this song by them got to me and has been stuck in my head ever since. I am completely in love with this song, it is very chill out and romantic, you should totally check UG out, they´re going to release a 7" soon!
Urban Grey / Only In Me
Day 32: A song in the current charts you like the most.
You know how I like the current charts, so here you go:
Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj / Bang Bang
Day 33: A really short song.
Really short indeed, and one of my favorite The Horrors songs.
The Horrors / Death At The Chapel
Day 34: A song performed by an actor/actress.
I don´t think I know any actors who make music, not that I can think of any right now. The first that comes to mind is Jared Leto with his band which I dislike, so let´s try someone else:
Not much to say here, aside that this is my favorite album by The Cure.
The Cure / Three Imaginary Boys
Day 28: A really old song. (roughly what year?)
Isn´t this like the same as the 30th challenge? Anywho, back in my baroque music days I used to play a lot of renaissance music too, and I was lucky to play this song along a friend singer in middle school. She sang it beautifully and a lot better than this version below. The year is somewhere in the renaissance I suppose? (version below is bad because you don´t sing/ play renaissance music with vibrato! Nor baroque music! This is an optional Emilie Autumn shaming too, if you will. All her attempts in baroque music are laughable)
Anonymous / The Willow Song
Day 29: A Michael Jackson song.
Never cared for MJ as a singer. As dancer though.... plus he was a fucking pedophile, so what gives? The only song I can mention in the Earth Song, since it made me emotional whenever I saw it on TV as a little girl.
I thought I might continue this challenge for lack of free time for other posts.
Day 23: A song with no lyrics.
When Boris and I were approaching our 1 year anniversary, we were discovering a lot of progressive rock music together. One of my favorite bands till this day are King Crimson, who probably set quite a few prog. metal standards till this day (Opeth´s Michael Äkerfeldt confessed to steal a few melodies from them here and there), and though I haven´t been listening to them since I was 16, I still respect them beyond belief. This is a very cool instrumental song from an even cooler album:
King Crimson / Red
Day 24: A good 70's song.
Continuing the prog rock theme I have to mention Genesis here as well, since I was a huge fan of them at age 16. Though I´ve heard a total of 2 albums by the band, they were more than enough to rediscover each time. Plus all my geek friends at high school listened to prog rock, and it was hell of a good time discussing it with them, and I had a good friend who played the following song religiously on the piano to torment everyone else (that´s classical music faculty freaks for you!). Good high school memories!
Genesis / Firth of Fifth (1973)
Day 25: A song you would ask a DJ to play at a party.
Although I´ve mentioned another good 80s song in the 20th question, I can only think of songs from the 80s when it comes to a party. Though I still love dark electro and would love to attend an aggrotech party, when listening to this song by the Killing Joke it makes me want to dance like crazy! I´ve also made a stupid video about it, hehe.
Killing Joke / Eighties
Day 26: A good 60's song.
Here is another band that I´ve discovered along with Boris when we progressed chronologically with our musical taste. It is respectively fucked up that this kind of music was made/ produced in 1967, and it´s purely iconic nowadays and is on such a higher level than most modern musical pieces. One of those albums where you ask yourself, how the hell was this made at that time in history?? I have returned to listen to The Velvet Underground a few days ago and marvel at how intense they are!
The Velvet Underground / Venus In Furs (1967)
I am now resting this weekend after loads of wine and happy time with friends, but will treat myself for an 80s party today to dance the stress away!
You´re too kind. How can I possibly pick only one?
So this one song is absolutely incredible, I can listen to it non stop. A song about Haifa, where I grew up in Israel.
The year is 1981, and I feel that the song is a beautiful combination of dub, post punk and ska.
The Specials / Ghost Town extended version
Day 21: A song with a name in it
This is a kickass song, it is insane and sexy. I just love the shittiest guitar sound that sounds so perfect!!
The Stooges / Ann
Day 22: A song that is over 7 minutes long
A few Opeth favorites I would have named, but I would like to share you one of the musicians I used to listen to while in high school. Boris introduced me to them, and we were being dragged into the pit of depression and complications all thanks to good old Peter Hammil, which we were so lucky to see live solo in 11th grade! With a group of geek and equally enthusiastic friends, we were the youngest people in the audience! Listening to this song nowadays makes me question myself as to how come I hadn´t noticed how ridiculous and musical-like it sounds....
I love a couple of genres that Boris really dislikes, like Post Hardcore, Nu, Black and Doom Metal. All of mentioned I tend to explore per songs only, since albums are too much for me, but occasional hits from each genre are good to go. So here´s one that I really love:
Deftones / Bored
Day 17: A song from a movie (what is the movie?).
Have you not seem this film, which I idolize in every post possible??? Then talk to the hand, please...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / The Carny
Day 18: A song from the year you were born.
1991 wasn´t a blast in music, nor was the much anticipated end of the Soviet Union, and well everything was shitty back then, really. The only good song I found was this one:
The Clash / Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Day 19: A song you think most people would like.
You know, I think a lot of things, and I doubt most Opeth songs people could ever digest.... same goes for your ever so loved goth songs. I bet The Sisters Of Mercy thought that a lot of people would like their songs... but seriously this is just a stupid question.
So I´m just going to pick the most random song possible, coming straight from the most recent anime I am watching. So here, enjoy:
Sorry for lack of quality and quantity of posts lately, I´m having my exams this week and I am going nuts! O_O
Day 12: A song from any dead artist.
A hard pick, however Kurt Cobain came first to mind. I don´t know why him in particular, there are so many other famous dead artists! So I shall honor a different artist, which served me well throughout my high school years and inspired me so. I miss you, Jim Morrison!
The Doors / Break On Through
Day 13: A favourite cover song. (do you know who sang the original?)
Yet another cover came to mind, the first time I´ve read that question. Jolene is a very nice song, sang originally by Dolly Parton. But it´s a heartbreaking disaster sang by The White Stripes. I´m not a fan of the band, but the way they play that cover can tear everyone apart.
The White Stripes / Jolene
Day 14: A song with a good video.
I can already think of a whole lot of good songs with BAD videos, but this song by Radiohead (yet another band which accompanied my high school years) has the best video one can think of. I can watch this video for eternity, and cry with the song, wishing to make such a visual beauty myself one day...
Radiohead / Street Spirit
Day 15: A song you hate.
Anything by The Sisters Of Mercy/ Christian Death really.. just kidding ;) I suppose this one should be an honorable mention... As I don´t want to include here the obvious pop/ rap shit, let´s pic a goth related piece that I hate. I seriously hate this band and this song. Like really, just stop, and shut up.
Lying sick in bed for the past couple of days, not getting ready for finals as planned. Just the time to continue this challenge:
Day 8: A song you used to like but now hate
Back when we used to go to the only goth club in our area in Israel, I used to listen almost only to aggrotech, ebm and synthpop. As the time passed by I´ve realized that I adore the old school time of goth and dislike the cyber stuff. I´ve felt that especially since we´ve moved to Berlin with Boris, that was when all my emotional connection with the new so called synth goth music was over. I cannot stand anymore Diorama (even though seeing them live was pretty cool), Centhron, Noisuf-X and so on. I still like new wave and other electronic genres, but respectfully they have nothing to do with the whole cyber world. The worst part is to actually understand the "cool" lyrics, and realize how below the belt they are...
Centhron / Cunt
Day 9: A childhood memory T.V. theme tune
When I was a kid, I used to watch this lovely Russian TV show about animals, called "the animal world" (в мире животных). There is basically no Russian kid who hasn´t watched the show, hosted by the sweetest man on television (Николай Дроздов).
The opening theme was especially memorable:
Paul Mauriat / Alouette
You can also enjoy this dance remix of the tune:
Day 10: A song from one of your favorite albums (what is the album?)
Insert drastic change of moon here, as I cannot not include here one of my favorite bands for many years, and one of my favorite albums ever. Seeing this band twice was an amazing experience as well. Not enough words to express how I feel about this album. It was also my first step into more dark music, within the Metal genre as well, back when I was 15.
Opeth / Blackwater Park
Day 11: A song from an artist you are attracted to
Physically or mentally attracted? ;) I don´t think I am in the proper age anymore to be "attracted" to a musician, then again there´s Boris...
It will have to be Bret Anderson then, because he´s androgynous, and I like my men that way. This is one of those bands that I like by songs only, the albums just didn´t excite me as much. So here you go:
Day 4: A song you can remember your parents listening to.
This is hard, because my mother and father listened to different kids of music, not to mention my mother was blasting Russian classical music from time to time. But I guess this is where I start with the culturally diverse answers. Here we go, heavy Russian artillery:
Тонкий шрам на любимой попе / Андрей Макаревич + Максим Леонидов
God, where do I even begin to describe this? This song is called "a thin scar on a beloved butt" and is about how a man passionately, and in a somewhat intelligent humor describes his beloved woman´s behind, and it having a tempting little scar on the left cheek.
If this isn´t enough for you, and the fact that I as a little girl was forced to hear this song in the car almost all the time, then maybe the horrific video will make your day.
Funny enough, the two musicians who sing the song are actually well respected in Russia, one of them having a pretty good jazz-like band called The Time Machine, which always were a huge family favorite.
But this is just the tip of the great Russian iceberg, I assure you.
Day 5: A song a friend likes but you don´t.
Try and dig up something that Boris likes and I don´t. There is not a lot of music which we disagree on, except for the occasional unknown post punk bands that I like putting on a loop and Boris can´t determine their significance.
Jaques Brel - Amsterdam
Boris loves French chansons, he adores them! It´s not that I really dislike Brel or his songs, but I really don´t have a lot of patience for them, and sometimes they annoy me. Maybe it´s because this is another genre my mother used to blast in the kitchen, and it gets on my nerves ever since. I do love Brel´s emotional expression to each of his songs, it is really unforgettable.
Day 6: a novelty song.
Time to jump into the multi cultural pool again, and I can´t help but bring another Russian classic here. It was one of my favorite songs as a kid (still is) and probably plays the same role for many Russian people as well. This song was also a huge hit at the time, and has reached a cult height, if I do say so myself:
Ногу Свело - Хару Мамбуру
The band Nogu Svelo (sorry, can´t translate this...) is in its essence a novelty band, and mostly being regarded as one of many Russian "rock" bands that disguise pop music behind rock song arrangements (called Rockopops in Russian). Yet Boris and I´ve always believed otherwise, and although people don´t take the band seriously, we sometimes do.
This song has absolutely no meaning, it is a collection of syllables in Gibberish, which makes it so awesome. In terms of instrumental and (as always made by the incredible singer + bassist Max Pakrovsky) vocal performance I think this song is insane. Dear Nogu Svelo have a lot of good other novelty songs up their sleeve, yet they require knowledge in the Russian language/ culture :)
Day 7: One of your favorite songs.
I´ll just gonna pic one randomly, because I have a feeling I will meet similar questions along the way:
Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
Can listen to this song all the time, and watch the video all the time. I cannot process other Culture Club music, however. Got to love the style and the dub influences in this one, it is also a great chill out and dance song in my opinion!
Fun Fact: Boy George wears a white sweatshirt in this video which says "Human Culture" in Hebrew on it! Whether it is intentional or they´ve tried to translate the band´s name literally, the´ve failed either way.
Hope this was eye opening to you, and I hope to include more diverse and obscure multi culti stuff here. And as always, if you have your own answers to each question, pleas do share!
I saw this on FB not long ago and thought why not give it a try. Gotta keep blogging about music more often!
So this 100 Day Song Challenge is nothing too complicated, let´s see how it will go and if I´ll have the patience to proceed to the 200-400 challenges XD
I hope to include various cultural songs here as well as not only post punk/ goth related songs, as I do prefer some artists by songs and not by albums.
Day 1 - Day 01: A song you know all the lyrics to.
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
I actually covered this one in a small acoustic performance with 2 lovely people, back when I went to a jewish related summer camp in Boston right after finishing high school. That camp was an amazing experience, and singing the song was a blast!
I´ve first heard it as a Cruxshadows cover and disliked it a lot, but then was really satisfied by the original of course :)
Day 02: A song from the first album you ever bought. (what was the album?)
Me? Buying an album?
Just kidding. I really didn´t buy a lot of albums, not to mention that my first ever album was given to me as a birthday present.
Yet my first ever bought album was Green Day´s American Idiot, back when I used to hear classical and baroque music only due to my professional involvement with it, as a recorder player. I was sort of a classical music dork, you can say that. I knew nothing about modern punk rock music at the time (except for Jrock and Visual Kay, I was an anime freak) nor was I alternative, but I´ve really wanted to give it a try. I think I was like 14 or something...
Obviously, I cannot look this album in the eye anymore ;)
Day 03: A song that reminds you of a night out. (when was it and where?)
Back in Israel we had only one goth club where we lived - The Dmusic, which is no more. But when Boris and I went to it´s EBM and Dark Electro parties, which were the only goth parties we knew of, there was one night when the local DJ played a song by request, and the reaction of the crowd really impressed us, and so we liked the song from the first moment we´ve heard it.
And although many songs remind us about going out to the Dmusic, this one in particular stands out, because it had been our party song for a long time.
Grendel - Soilbleed
This sure was fun, I think that you´ll see a lot of this challenge´s posts.
Can you think of a song for the first 3 challenge questions? You are more than welcome to write them in the comments :)
Now I shall start making some delicious waffle, ice cream, whipped cream and melted chocolate desert for Boris and me!
