Thank Fintan it’s Friday.
As May beckons, it’s a great time to have another music competition.
This week I want to know what’s your favourite song that mentions a specific month and the reason why you like it?
Here’s mine.
Reply below to be in with a chance of bagging yourself a €20 Currys PC World voucher redeemable in any Currys store.
The winner will be chosen by my personal organiser.
Please include a video link if possible, thanks.
Lines MUST close on Saturday 11am.
Nick says: Good luck!
Last week’s winner here
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Just brilliant from the opening riff till the end!
https://youtu.be/BNKSs1J38EA
Big Star at their best!
Enjoy!
Happy weekend!
Nice one Andy.
And as sure as night follows day, Teenage Fanclub shall follow Big Star:
“December” from the brilliant Bandwagonesque:
https://youtu.be/JgyRa_7yd3I
February Stars – Foo Fighters
https://youtu.be/9wG1xEHij08
Channel your inner teenage angst with this one. Grohl said “Just a song about hanging on by the tips of your fingers and hoping you don’t slip and fall.”
Dark and moody from the off, to the uplifting chorus. Brilliant stuff from the Jesus & Mary Chain – April Skies.
https://youtu.be/OPPP3BXurHk
Enjoy!
a wedgie to the first to suggest raglan road or that mundy abomination.
anyway, here’s mine – september by earth, wind and fire:
https://youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk
April Come She Will by Simon & Garfunkel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITXBjDTXS90
I love the guitar tune and the subtle harmonies of their two voices.
Perfection
One of the soundtracks too my youth, every time I hear it I’m immediately transported back to my teenage years.
Still fresh today and brilliant video!
Green Day – Wake Me Up When September Ends.
https://youtu.be/NU9JoFKlaZ0
Enjoy!
A month ! Hah, I scoff at your request and propose not just one month but a lock of them via Low’s lovely “July” from – cries, holds-self, commences rocking motion – 20 years ago.
In typical Low fashion, the song is darkly melodic.
I’ll be honest, I don’t know what the song is about apart from taking it at face value and assuming it relates to missing an appointment and laconically shrugging it off. Anyway, lyrics aren’t everything, all the time (Band of Horses reference entirely accidental).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnNxP-MuJ_4
Plenty of ideas on this page :p
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2019/09/27/win-nicks-voucher/
Or maybe a new topic could be chosen? – it’s not too late!
ha!
o the ingratitude, Flawless! You only won the competition a few weeks ago. You’re going back over a year and a half ago!
Ah sorry Nick, I can appreciate it’s not easy to keep coming up with new topics without getting too niche. I’ll try and think of a suggestion
Grand.
also, would you care to suggest a topic for next week?
How about songs that launched a performer/group to super stardom (or not)?
I tried to brainstorm a few ideas. I don’t know if these would be of any use – maybe some have already been done. It’s hard to think! Maybe someone else has some good ideas?
-Favourite song by an artist who passed away before their time
-Best adaptation/ or cover version better than the original
-Songs that ‘put you in the zone’, confidence boosters, motivational, good for strutting your stuff to
-Powerful vocal deliveries
-Best song with heartbreak as a theme
-Best song with redemption as a theme
-Best song with frustration as a theme
-Best vocal harmonies
-Songs to exercise to
-Hall of Shame – Great tunes by questionable individuals
Great suggestions! Also maybe
-Favourite Jools Holland appearance
-Muppets cover (for V)
-One that you skip over on a favourite album
-Alphabet. No “The”,” “A” or “An”, start with A, you know the rest.
Trying to think of these shows me how hard it is to have had these competitions going this long, big ups to Nick!
Some good ideas here. Watch this space!
Or what about slaying some sacred cows? Artists whose appeal that you just don’t get. That’d be fun.
I’ll throw the ball in.
Joni Mitchell.
Otis, I actually ran a competition for most overrated artsists on 13 October 2020. Headlined ‘I’d Rather Listen To The Budget’ if you stick that into the search bar. It was won by Brother Barnabas, and well deserved too.
one hit wonders?
Or as hinted at earlier, most eagerly anticipated album and its first single released from it.
Hiya Nick, you’ve done guitar, and drums, I’d love to hear suggestions of favourite piano tracks or tracks that feature a piano or have the piano drive the melody / song :)
I like it!
Deadly :)
Retro Futuristic… Favorite songs that sound like they could be from the future… Bonus points if it includes ‘Vocoder’ type vocals (aka.., robotic sounding… aka, singing into a pringles tube)…
Unmutual, that’s a brilliant suggestion.
Mazzy Star – Flowers in December
The gorgeous Hope Sandoval with her haunting voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrgtUUG_rp8
Morrissey – November Spawned a Monster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv8LdKp2Y-8
Frightened Rabbit – Late March, Death March
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt65IjzKI3w
Lou Reed -Xmas in February-
A powerful protest song with the warm and dry Lou Reed’s delivery. Like a gloomy nam movie ( the steel mill is reminiscent of The deer hunter) with a lovely guitar tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zTKnwwJAfU
Frightened Rabbit – December’s Traditions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYf1L7Bakgs&ab_channel=Eli0T1
RIP Scott Hutchinson – coming up on the third anniversary of his death now, very sad.
Bob Dylan Forever young.
PAT METHENY & LYLE MAYS ~ SEPTEMBER FIFTEENTH.
Homage to their idol Bill Evans who died September 15th.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cWl_qu1-04
Stephen Donnelly – June 31st
Video link not available
heeheehee!
For anyone who has lost someone close to them…
Harry Belafonte and “Try To Remember”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-tvG3kPAos
Try to remember the kind of September
When life was slow and oh, so mellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When grass was green and grain so yellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When you were a young and callow fellow,
Try to remember and if you remember then follow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
That no one wept except the willow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
That dreams were kept beside your pillow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
That love was an ember about to billow.
Try to remember and if you remember then follow.
Another great 80s/90s band: Inspiral Carpets with Dragging Me Down from 1992s Revenge of the Goldfish:
“I never can quite
Remember
Was it June July or September
That you sold your soul to me”
https://youtu.be/Nt4SNfcd72s
How about either of these classics.
Ode to Billie Joe- Bobbie Gentry.
“It was the third of June, another sleepy dusty Delta day”.
https://youtu.be/HaRacIzZSPo
Or
July-Mundy
But it has to be the live version.
https://youtu.be/xQ7C2xJTitc
i am SO giving you the stink eye right now.
Love Ode to Billie Joe. What do you reckon they were throwing off the Tallahatchie bridge?
Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld, so I can sigh eternally.
“It’s four in the morning, the end of December, I’m writing you now just to see if you’re better…”
Famous Blue Raincoat- https://youtu.be/H2VJhd-i1QE
King Billy’s March by the Millrow Loyalist Flute Band
Music for men of a certain age.
Mark Kozelek – November
https://youtu.be/36PyMooA02o
How about Sufjan Stevens and some classic anime?
Fourth of July – https://youtu.be/vq5NvJvr55Q
“I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October…”
Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen – October in the Railroad Earth
https://youtu.be/-hjPZpaXNsw
here is one from a man who shares his name with a month……………..
augustus pablo
Meditation Dub
https://youtu.be/4yl6MnO_des
I realise it is non compliant with the parameters, i an a bit stumped really otherwise.
happy friday
Well, if we can do that,
https://youtu.be/ZMqhCiJ5L_s
June Carter, goddamnit. I saw her with Johnny in the opera house in Cork with my mother, and I’ll never forget the entrance.
thanks mum, would love to have seen the two jc’s
January by Pilot, December Will Be Magic by Kate Bush or of course September by Erath Wind & Fire
but what is the point as the prize is a fiction. Thinking of reporting this sham to the Ombudsman for false advertising or at least let Curry’s know their name is being misused. A former “winner” who never got his voucher.
Stephen, we’ve just sent you an email and will get you a voucher asap. Sorry.
You bastards
+1
November, November – Auto da Fé
https://youtu.be/-x3ZSUr9aJU
One of Ireland’s most underrated bands. This song is wonderful, haunting with the voice of the magnificent Gaye Woods. She has never got the recognition she deserved.
For added celebrity this track was produced by the late, great Phil Lynott.
Enjoyed that :)
Never heard of them to be honest. Thanks for posting… (enjoyed the comments on it too)
Al Stewart – Night of the 4th May
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eRhjjXkOWY
A tale of partner swapping gone wrong – let this be a terrible warning to ye all
One of our own and something to look forward to when this is all over, festivals and sunshine
https://youtu.be/xQ7C2xJTitc
November rain, guns -n-roses
Shut up you fools!
https://youtu.be/ZMqhCiJ5L_s
Patti Smith.
Bow down!
Or, to the Queen, you may be bowing
https://youtu.be/fCsNg6XB3dg
Ella Fitzgerald, baby.
Hi! I was told by this gorgeous guy here right next to me with his microphone hairdo and Santa beard, that you were looking for songs with a month. I naturally think of this one, as the combo Ella and Louis I have grown up with, played again and again with my dad. And even though we were geekholing up all year with our duo all year, putting on shows ( for basically mostly ourselves ), April hit hard because my dad’s birthday is in last day of April. Which obviously meant, growing up , we had to interrupt the first barbecue of the year with this song on repeat. Every year. To everyone’s delight. So it being last April yesterday, it came just naturally to me. So, not this year, but next year, we will bother the crap out of neighborhoods with this. Out of tune. Obviously.
And it was international jazz day yesterday
Clear winner here
Bella has chosen
https://youtu.be/PYD-DIggB2k
And also from Bella
https://youtu.be/ikZgBhSMSUM
Always marry a gypsy.
Robert Plant’s The May Queen – doesn’t actually mention the M word, but…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OPKSZyRPFQ
a sunglasses-indoors kind of collaboration.
where Courtney Love and Hope Sandova meet.
lyrics, when audible through the fuzz and din, are dark and speak of psychedelic experiences.
Jesus roaring into town on a Harley is how Anton Newcombe’s vocals have been described,if your into hypnotic and repetitive chord sequences,languid and hazy grooves then start your,Sunday with…
Tess Parks and Anton Newcombe October 2nd
https://youtu.be/0UtFAvviMdk