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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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September 24, 2024 at 6:55am

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Start Again

OneRepublic released Start Again, the fourth track on my list, in 2018 as part of the soundtrack for Season 2 of the Netflix exclusive show 13 Reasons Why.

When I first learned of the song, I was shaken to find it was connected to the show. The Christian educators I was studying under decried the series as a glorification and glamorization of suicide. And when I examined the Wikipedia plotlines, I saw how it portrayed high school as "a zoo" and decided it was highly exaggerated and an unhealthy subject.

Start Again, however, despite having ominous electronic production with echos of a ticking clock, is ultimately an optimistic song; though it describes the darkness which comes from one's wrong decisions, it also expresses the desire for redemption and renewal.

Perhaps the most interesting feature of Start Again is the second verse, where 1R brings in Logic to do a rap session. I don't care for rap as a genre (mostly due to content and culture—plus rappers always seem to be angry about something, but that's another story…) Logic, however, is a good guy who uses his platform to discuss serious issues of mental health and such. I remember swapping excited emails with my Genius pen-pal and editor, Max (@TossingDice, from the Netherlands) saying how much I liked the song and appreciated Logic's contribution.

I must've watched all the different iterations of Start Again about a million times, because OneRepublic released two movie style videos for it: one with lyrics, and a proper music video. With each one, they drew further from the themes of the Netflix series and instead crafted a gripping storyline of nuclear annihilation and post-apocalyptic wreckage.

This coincided with Ryan Tedder's exploration of more socially aware songwriting during the years between 2016 and 2021, where he dealt subtly with themes of the environment, world peace and human connection.

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