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Music Notes

A simple music themed blog for Jeff’s "Invalid Item"

challenge, and also to dump my thoughts about the 48 Hour Media Challenges when I don’t feel like creating a story or poem from the provided material. I may also add random poetry in here if I feel like it doesn’t qualify for a separate item.

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NaNotatoGo!

Oct 15, 2024 at 12:09pm
In response to "500 Miles (I'm Gonna Be) (ID cover)"

That was an amazing performance. Dan certainly has a sense of showmanship..

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QPdoll is Grateful

Oct 12, 2024 at 8:00am
In response to "I Heard It Through the Grapevine (CCR)"

I've only known the Marvin Gaye version. I have to say that CCR did it justice. The drums and that bass. So cool.

Excellent choice!

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♥noVember tHiNg♥

Oct 12, 2024 at 7:45am
In response to "I Heard It Through the Grapevine (CCR)"

Great song choice! There is also a version with Gladys Knight and the Pips that may or may not have been the first one. It was the first one that I heard.

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Dave Ryan

Oct 11, 2024 at 8:19am
In response to "If I Had a Hammer"

Puff the Magic Dragon is a great song for traumatising the kids. There's nothing like a happy ending, and that one is definitely nothing like a happy ending.

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QPdoll is Grateful

Oct 10, 2024 at 7:57am
In response to "Fast Car (Jonas Blue cover)"

This is great! I love this song and have heard a couple of different versions, but I've never heard this one. Thank you for sharing.

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♥noVember tHiNg♥

Oct 9, 2024 at 9:07am
In response to "Fortunate Son"

Love Centerfield and Have You Ever Seen the Rain, also!

So many wonderful songs!

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♥noVember tHiNg♥

Oct 8, 2024 at 9:00am
In response to "I Won't Back Down"

Great song choice!

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QPdoll is Grateful

Oct 8, 2024 at 6:15am
In response to "I Won't Back Down"

I like Tom Petty, too. My favorite song is Mary Jane's Last Dance. However, I like the message of I Won't Back Down. It's a fine choice.

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tracker

Oct 7, 2024 at 12:23pm
In response to "Creeque Alley"

This is when I like AI. The song is a story about when the group was formed. It was released when I had first started college. Where? In California! Good choice of song.

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QPdoll is Grateful

Oct 6, 2024 at 7:58am
In response to "Three Little Birds"

It's been a long time since I've heard this song. I don't know if I've heard it from beginning to end. I think it's just been in pieces in different instances. Thank you for sharing. I don't have a playlist, but the song is fun.

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February 7, 2024 at 10:07pm

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Daylight, by Harry Styles

This is a quick post about the Harry Styles song Daylight, for "Note: 48-HOUR CHALLENGE : Media Prompt Deadl...". I’m spread thin this month with creative writing projects, and since I finally opened a blog and it’s all about music anyway, I might as well write a paragraph about the song rather than trying to come up with something creative.

I always look at the lyrics of a song before I listen to it, always. Unless it’s either a Christian song or a Coldplay song, and even then I prefer to know what I’m getting into; lyrics precede anything else. As for these… they didn’t pass my fussbudget tastes. The artist, a former member of the early oughts boy band One Direction, is someone who I consider to be a very untalented songwriter. He makes reference to an addictive and illegal drug in this song, and the described relationship is altogether bleh.

If we’re going to talk about members of 1D, I do sort of like Niall Horan. He seems to be the most decent one of the bunch, with a heartfelt innocence to his lyrics that appeals to me in a comfortable sort of way. I wouldn’t bother looking into him, but if I had to name a good guy from 1D I’d know who.

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February 7, 2024 at 4:54am

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Wire, by U2

This begins a trio of U2 songs that I discovered because the Walmart Radio DJ played them when I happened to be in the store.

I haven't gotten into Bono and his gang at all, since they were before my time, but I do appreciate the influence they've had on current artists like Ryan Tedder, and at this point I'm familiar enough with their sound and style to almost spot them in a crowd.

It was early in 2022, and I was busy doing a weekly market research study at a local Walmart, which required me to go around taking pictures and tallying up shelf stock. This particular store had ginormous bass speakers hanging from the ceiling, and I was standing right underneath one for most of the job, which was incredibly distracting and annoying.

As my brain irrepressibly analyzed the opening notes of Wire blasting down over me, my first impression was that it sounded like Duran Duran's Rio. But it became obvious in a few seconds that it wasn't, so I Shazamed it.

In the store, I laughed at Wire, because I recognized the grunge aspect of it from what I'd learned when analyzing Imagine Dragons 2021 album Mercury Act 1. I thought it was exaggerated and overdramatized. Being busy, I saved a screenshot of the Shazam so I could check it out later.

At home, I found that Wire is no laughing matter, as the lyrics appear to be about suicide; according to Genius,

Bono most likely wrote it with an addicted friend in mind. But since my curiosity was piqued and I hadn't paid proper attention to it in the store, I downloaded it for a listen... And haven't let go of it since.

I don't have a lot of edgy/grungy/angry music on my playlist, but the few tracks I do, I'm attached to. Wire is something I'll avoid unless I'm in a particular mood, but I'm glad to have it in my collection.

It's a stressful, unnerving song; basically, we hear Bono fighting with something, and the outcome is unclear. But there's a certain catharsis that comes with it... Or is that a relief when it's over?

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