Wow, I’ve really fallen off the wagon with this….as Bryan Adams once said, “Please forgive me?”In honor of tomorrow’s exciting concert event, today’s entry in the 30 Day Song Challenge – a song that you listen to while angry – features the awesome power of the Pixies’ classic rant against vacuous college kids, “U-Mass.” It’s Frank Black at his most straightforwardly snide. It’s got the biggest brassiest power chords ever. It’s got the use of the c-word. Nothing about this song is small and that’s the best part about it. Best paired with air-punching, kicking, whiskey and a good
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30 Day Song Challenge: A Song That Reminds You of Somewhere
I completely forget where I left off with the 30 Day Song Challenge, but I think it was something like #6. So! A song that reminds me of somewhere? There’s no big story about this one. When you grow up in southern Ontario, it’s hot and shitty all the time, but if you have nice friends they’ll let you stay at their cottage. My friend Mike, who was this rad weirdo who now travels the world and teaches and holds “Cotton Candy Days” at my old high school, had a great cottage somewhere on some lake in Ontario. I
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30 Day Song Challenge: A Song That Reminds You of Someone
SCREAMS WITH LUST Today’s entry in the 30 Day Song Challenge: a song that reminds you of someone. This Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds epic will forever remind me of my friend, the lovely Shelley Scoger (nee Goldschlager, and yes that used to be her actual last name) who introduced me to Mr. Cave’s […]
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30 Day Song Challenge: A Sad Song
Coast Listings Editor, music aficionado and fellow Tall Woman Allison Saunders has kindly chimed in with her own personal entry for today’s 30 Day Song Challenge posting; a song that makes you sad. She picked Feist – “Let It Die.”She explains: This was the theme song to a very sad August in a shitty, dark […]
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30 Day Song Challenge: A Happy Song
Today’s entry in the 30 Day Song Challenge is “A Song That Makes You Happy.” And this one does it. It makes me feel happy and crazy and alive in spite of everything. Not much else to say other that. Why ask why?
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30 Day Song Challenge: My Least Favorite Song
I hate you. Hello Wednesday friends. Here’s entry #2 on the 30 Day Song Challenge – your least favorite song.This was actually almost as tricky as picking a “favorite song.” I hate a lot of music. However, I also sometimes have really shitty taste. And I love my guilty pleasures. While some participants can easily reach for “Muskrat Love” or some Ke$ha song where she yells about brushing her teeth with Jack Daniels, I can’t do that in good conscience because I actually secretly really like a lot of music like that. My choice, therefore, is a song that made