30-Day Song Challenge
Been seeing this floating around Instagram and thought I’d just do it cause I love music and it’s cloudy out. And I think the music a person listens to provides an intimate look into that person. I’m always interested to know what others listen to and I’m sorry but I will judge you for it. Most of these songs are some of my favorites. Some songs I thought of immediately (day 15 was the first to come to me) and some took me searching through my itunes library.
Day 1: “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1” by The Flaming Lips
Day 2: “24K Magic” by Bruno Mars
Day 3: “The End of Love” by Florence + The Machine
Day 4: “I Want You” by Fiona Apple ft. Elvis Costello
Day 5: “Immigrant Song” by Led Zeppelin (I play everything loud tho)
Day 6: “Lose Control” by Missy Elliott & Fat Man Scoop ft. Ciara (if this comes on while driving I am compelled to pull over and get out and dance)
Day 7: “King of the Road” by Roger Miller
Day 8: “Drinkin’ Problem” by Midland
Day 9: “Pippi Longstocking theme”
Day 10: “Go Rest High on That Mountain” by Vince Gill (played at my grandfather’s funeral)
Day 11: “The Man” by Taylor Swift
Day 12: “I Want You to Want Me” by Letters to Cleo (10 Things I Hate About You soundtrack)
Day 13: “Bennie And The Jets” by Elton John
Day 14: “Unchained Melody” by Righteous Brothers
Day 15: “Disarm” by The Civil Wars. Original by Smashing Pumpkins
Day 16: “American Pie” by Don McClain
Day 17: “Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey (my go-to karaoke song)
Day 18: “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” by Whitney Houston (also applies to Day 6)
Day 19: “Mad World” by Michael Andrews & Gary Jules (Donnie Darko soundtrack)
Day 20: “No Ceiling” by Eddie Vedder (Into the Wild soundtrack-top 3 fave soundtracks)
Day 21: “Valerie” by Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse
Day 22: “Send Me on My Way” by Rusted Root
Day 23: “Organs” by Of Monsters and Men (just one of my faves)
Day 24: “Landslide” or any song by Fleetwood Mac
Day 25: “Unforgettable” or any song by Nat King Cole
Day 26: “Thinking Out Loud” by Ed Sheeran
Day 27: “Someone Like You” by Adele
Day 28: “Say It to Me Now” by Glen Hansard (Once soundtrack-top 3 fave soundtracks)
Day 29: “When You Say Nothing at All” by Alison Krauss (either my 1st or 2nd cd I ever bought)
Day 30: “Bossy” by Kelis (was my ringtone for awhile back in the day)
Honorable Mentions
It was soooo hard to narrow these down. I spent waaayyy longer doing this than I should have, but quarantine ammiright?
Day 1: “A Certain Shade of Green” by Incubus
Day 2: “1979” by Smashing Pumpkins
Day 3: “Just Like Heaven” by The Cure
Day 5: “Forbes” by Borgore & G-Eazy, “Dragula” by Rob Zombie, “Killing In the Name” by Rage Against the Machine
Day 6: “Ballroom Blitz” by Sweet, “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars
Day 7: “Soco Amaretto Lime” by Brand New (just cause I listened a lot to this when I was 18 driving around town)
Day 8: “Tipsy” by J-Kwon, “There’s A Tear In My Beer” by Hank Williams, Jr.
Day 11: “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back” by Shawn Mendes
Day 14: “Here Comes Your Man” by Pixies (ideally sung to me by said man) & “Everywhere” by Fleetwood Mac
Day 15: “Simply the Best” by Noah Reid (from Schitt’s Creek). Original by Tina Turner
Day 17: “Sweet Home Alabama” by Lynyrd Skynyrd (my only other go-to karaoke song)
Day 18: “The Promise” by When in Rome (heard this song on a show recently and am currently diggin it)
Day 19: “The Warmth” by Incubus
Day 22: “I Would Walk 500 Miles” by The Proclaimers (not only nostalgic from summer camp. I have walked thousands of miles so it feels close to home), “Don’t Stop Me Now” by Queen
Day 24: any song by The Civil Wars (really regret not seeing them perform when they were together)
Day 26: “The Way I Am” by Ingrid Michaelson
Day 30: “You Don’t Know Me” by Ben Folds ft. Regina Spektor, “Pork and Beans” by Weezer