Songs! 30 challenges, 30 weeks, 30 songs.

40 thoughts on “Songs! 30 challenges, 30 weeks, 30 songs.”

1. This is such a fun series….. eeeeeeee.

   Good song, too.

   This is the first one that sprang to mind for me:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWmCbEbMmeUReport

   1. LOVE this song.Report

2. The second AC/DC song I ever listened to, and what really hooked me as a fan (The first was Shook Me All Night Long).

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAgnJDJN4VAReport

   1. And for the Prog Rock fans…

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAvQSkK8Z8UReport

3. One of my favorites: Donald Fagin of Steely Dan:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANA5MGMKyBUReport

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQaehcfXvK0Report

5. Seems like an obvious choice:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4irXQhgMqgReport

6. Thanks Mike I started following your post on twitter and then lost the thread. I look forward to seeing all the posts.Report

7. I’m not sure if this is my favorite song-with-a-color-in-the-title — as my brain is very bad at that sort of information recall. In any case, I like it, and it’s the first such song I could think of.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSXjodikougReport

8. One of the ideas I’ve kicked around is a thread that explores why all songs with the word blue in the title are so good. There are so many good blue songs it’s ridiculous, including the one you chose, “Tangled Up In Blue”. Has one of my fave lines of any song “I felt a little uneasy when she bent down and tied the laces of my shoe”. Love it.

   But all that having been said, blue songs, while great, are not my favorite color mentioned in song. That honor goes to Kermit the Frog singing “It’s Not Easy Being Green”.

   https://youtu.be/rRZ-IxZ46ngReport

   1. And that is one of my favorites!Report

   2. Lots of great lines in this songz;

      I helped her out of a jam I guess
      But I used a little too much force

      (Losing his job in the woods)
      one day the axe just fellReport

      1. Yeah I was really appreciating those lines when I listened to it this time. Thanks again for posting.Report

   3. I had some difficulty with this; a quick search of my personal music has a lot of songs with the title “*** blues,” such as Folsom Prison Blues. Is that blues as a color, or blues as a music styling, or is there something ‘tween? Since the word barely appears, it seems more to refer to the musical style. OTOH, “tangled up in blue,” seems to be a description of an emotion, similar to “loving him was red,” or “black is how I feel on the inside.”Report

9. A favorite

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT4d1LQy4es

   which I can’t seem to get to embed right, so I’ll just leave the linkReport

10. Wait, does Rainbow Connection count as a color song?Report

    1. sure, why not???Report

11. This is another very colorful one Report

12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT4d1LQy4esReport

13. Of course for real classics there’s always “We All Live in a yellow Submarine”Report

14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHdlSolwktUReport

    1. Mainly picked this version for the quality of visuals, but there are two bonuses: (1) Hendrix sings “scuse me while I kiss this guy,” gesturing at Noel Redding (0:54), and (2) the audience appears to be the Young Republicans for Nixon (3:03)Report

15. A beautiful song, both lyrically and musically, in 3/4 time, done by my favorite group.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjLD2048-TQReport

16. “Black” by Pearl Jam. The song that convinced me that maybe–just maybe–this grunge stuff wasn’t so bad after all:

    https://youtu.be/4q9UafsiQ6kReport

17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roKTiPLQ9v0Report

18. Had to choose between Linda or Billie Holiday. Went with Linda because that’s the one I remember from when my wife and I were taking ballroom lessons.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YBG7lPsQ-sReport

19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Paj0eZumYcReport

    1. This guy is easily the most charismatic musical performer I’ve ever seen.Report

20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKS-4ItHYH8Report

21. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hs8y3kneqrs

    Sorry. Can’t figure out how to find the right link.

    Pearl Jam, Yellow Ledbetter Report

    1. Cut and paste the URL after you go there.

       https: //www.youtube.com /watch ?v=hs8y3kneqrs

       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs8y3kneqrsReport

    2. That’s the mobile version of YouTube, as indicated by the “m” at the beginning of the address. You’d need to replace it with www. Don’t bother, though, because I just tried to do that, and it’s blocked from embedding.Report

    3. love this songReport

22. Any excuse to break out Stax music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bpS-cOBK6Q

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bpS-cOBK6QReport

    1. Apparently, the URL has to appear on a line by itself.Report

       1. Correct. That’s a WordPress restriction for embedding stuff in comments.Report

23. Another Japanese one because it’s my comparative advantage: Eris in Blue Eyes, by Anzen Chitai (Safe Zone), a band that had a string of hits in the 80s and a lead singer (Tamaki Kouji) who has a voice that manages to sound simultaneously strained and smooth as silk.

    https://youtu.be/LDiX4QJL-8UReport

    1. Just missed the cutoff to fix the link:

       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsa907lT9u4Report

       1. This is “The Raindrops Play a Chopin Melody” by Asami Kobayashi, and not the one I described above (that’s below).Report

24. Screwed up the link again, with the wrong video, and I can’t edit because it’s in moderation or something:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDiX4QJL-8UReport

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