When I was tiny and my siblings were even tinier, our grandma (the one who's currently doing fine for her age, not the one I posted about in March) used to sing to us, and her repertoire featured some dramatic, maudlin love songs.

"Miglā asaro logs" (the official name of the poem was "Atzīšanās" ('Confession'), but the song is known by the first ( Read more... )

Mainly because I already posted Queen and I've been listening to U2 a lot in the past year, so I feel like I should throw them in somewhere.

Love Is All We Have Left by U2



There are other people singing here besides Bono, but I'm good with all of their voices. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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*I already posted my choice of heartbreaking song on day 10, so this might be more on the pleasantly melancholy side? YMMV.

a-ha - Forever Not Yours



Oh, the nostalgia. :) There's an a-ha CD somewhere in my parents' possession, and I used to listen to it constantly one summer in my late teens. I can also recommend this song for quoting angstily on ( Read more... )

Or a love song that I enjoy, at any rate. Can't Help Falling in Love (uh, written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss, who knew) -- as sung by...

...one guy almost whispering to his piano.

...two pretty men. ;)

...three friends having fun in an elevator.

...an artist and a choir of fans.

Do you have a favorite cover of this?

This ( Read more... )

I skipped day 24 ("a song by a band you wish were still together") because I don't really pay enough attention to bands to know if they're still together or not, even if I like some of their songs.

For prompt 25, I know some of the people who contributed to the below song are still alive, but some are not, so I'm going to count it.

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I don't like this prompt, so I'm going to go in the opposite direction and get extra niche with this post and link some odd German hiphop.

Alligatoah - Trauerfeier Lied (Funeral Song)


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For getting things done jauntily.

"Final Countdown" by Europe - "swing metal" cover by Connor Engstrom, Joey Elrose, Anthony Nuccio, Terence Penk, Jon Quesenberry



Skippity pa pa dee pa pow.
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"I Want You Bach" - The Piano Guys (being a mashup between "I Want You Back" by Jackson 5 and some Bach)


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The Antlers - Palace



If my blog had a custom title, that title would be "wake inside a secret place that everyone can see".

( lyrics )

Dar Williams - "When I Was a Boy" I mean, mostly it makes me think, 'kill gender stereotypes with fire,' and that's something I think anyway, so I guess it only kind of fits the prompt. But I like the song.
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