Today’s challenge: A song that reminds you of your Mom.
Going to have to go with this one, because she tells a story of a being at a Catholic school dance wearing a blue dress, and the band playing this:
30 Day Song Challenge, Day 11
Today’s challenge: “A Guilty Pleasure.”
First of all, I’m not a fan of that phrase. Like the things you like, and screw being guilty about it. I mean, hell — my greatest joys are basically trash-entertainment media of the last century: Hammer movies, horror paperbacks, potboiler thrillers, kung-fu flicks, comic books, pulp magazines, etc. I’m not going to point at anybody else’s interests and say “GUILTY!”
That said, I’ll take the term as “something which I like, which is incongruous for me to like, which I recognize is not perhaps deserving.”
And with that, I give you: Spice Girls.
As I said to a friend at the time: “Sure, it’s sugar-pop bubblegum crap. But it’s REALLY WELL-CRAFTED sugar-pop bubblegum crap.”
30 Day Song Challenge, Day 10
Today’s challenge: Your favorite Motown song.
Personally, I’m more of a Chess or Stax guy — and a lot of the Motown I really like was the stuff from my childhood in the 70s. But assuming that they mean the 60s heyday of the label, here’s one of my favorites from that period: