Showing posts with label song. Show all posts
Showing posts with label song. Show all posts

Monday, April 11, 2022

#MusicMonday: Radio Play Across the USA

#MusicMonday is dedicated to radio play, exploring a station a day, across the USA.

Listen to 1 song a day from each station below and add a comment with the name of the song you heard. If you catch talk radio or a commercial, keep listening until a song plays. Even if you don't like the song, try to listen through it!

image of small radio with antenna, speaker, dials, tuner

"It is our ability to listen that makes the difference."

    Monday, January 17, 2022

    Monday, November 15, 2021

    #MusicMonday - Aloe Blacc: "Other Side"

    #MusicMonday is dedicated to the song "Other Side" by Aloe Blacc: heartfelt, thought provoking, and timeless. I challenge you to close your eyes and listen with your heart. What "other side" do you need to, or can you help someone else to, push through to?


    Monday, September 24, 2018

    #MusicMonday - "Sail Up The Sun" by Dylan Owen

    #MusicMonday this week is dedicated to "Sail Up The Sun" by Dylan Owen. This song is well written musically with impressively vulnerable lyrics that are definitely worth reading along while you listen. Click here to see what inspired this song and to read the lyrics.


    Wednesday, May 16, 2018

    #MusicMondayMiXX Flashlight Follow-Up!

    There're more behind the song "Flashlight" that was written by Sam Smith, Sia Furler, Jason Moore and Christian Guzman.

    In the Pitch Perfect 2 movie, Hailee Steinfeld plays the character Emily who wrote and sings the song in the actual movie and on the soundtrack it is sung by Jessie J. Check out the Billboard article about this song and to hear Hailee singing this song, as posted on her Twitter account.

    Monday, April 16, 2018

    #MusicMonday - "Bennie And The Jets" by Elton John

    #MusicMonday this week focuses on music as an outlet for creative expression. Elton John has always truly embodied creative expression through his music, fashion and overall style. His song, "Bennie And The Jets" is an example of true musical excellence that is uniquely original and features a video that was created through The Cut, which is proudly supported by YouTube. See below for more info.
    • Fun fact about the title of this song:
    • Fun fact about the making of this video:
      • Jack Whiteley and Laura Brownhill tell the formation of “Bennie and the Jets” with their futuristic video of Elton’s hit song, which features breathtaking choreography and sci-fi fashion. The Cut, proudly supported by YouTube, invited filmmakers to create the first official music videos for three of Elton’s most famous songs: https://thecut.eltonjohn.com/
      • FULL CREDIT TO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo1OwRTRKRk
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    Monday, April 9, 2018

    Monday, January 22, 2018

    #MusicMonday - "Luck" and "Home" by American Authors

    #MusicMonday is dedicated to "Luck" and "Home" by American Authors. These songs have heartfelt lyrics, along with the rest of the songs on their "Oh, What A Life" album. This band has done a great job executing a well produced record that is genuine, catchy and musically robust. Give it a listen, the entire thing, or any song on their album and ride the wave of their musicianship. It's fun and if you enjoy it, you can hit repeat again and again!


    How can we make amends when we said all we said?
    I call and you don't pick up
    How can I say instead that I hope it's for the best?
    I won't, and I won't give up
    I'm sorry, Mother
    I know I let you down
    I'm sorry for how I up and left this town
    How can we push aside all the bad and make it right
    Now you got me all choked up
    I'm sorry, brother
    I know I let you down
    I'm sorry for how I up and left this town
    Please just listen 'cause I don't ask for much
    I am my own man, I make my own luck
    How can we both pick sides when we know nothing's right?
    Open up the door that's shut
    How can I have my pride and drink away my soul tonight?
    Sorrow's filling up my cup
    I'm sorry, father
    I know I let you down
    I'm sorry for how I up and left this town
    Please just listen 'cause I don't ask for much
    I am my own man, I make my own luck
    Well some birds aren't meant to be caged
    And I just can't see the light of day
    Please forgive me I can't remember
    Please forgive me, no one is calling
    Please forgive me, I can't believe it
    No
    Gonna pick myself up, so I don't let this ever grow
    Even if I mess up, I won't let this ever go
    It's hard to stay
    It's hard to stay
    'Cause some birds aren't meant to be caged
    How can I set us free?
    I'm what you taught me to be
    Shouldn't that be enough?
    It's time that we make amends
    Let's forget the things we said
    You know we were all just stuck
    I'm sorry, mother
    I know I let you down
    I'm sorry, father
    I didn't stick around
    Please just listen 'cause I don't ask for much
    I am my own man, I make my own luck
    Please just listen 'cause I don't ask for much
    Just like my old man, I make my own luck
    And some birds aren't meant to be caged
    And some just won't see the light of day
    Please forgive me I can't remember
    Please forgive me, no one is calling
    Please forgive me, I can't believe it
    No
    Gonna pick myself up, so I don't let this ever grow
    Even if I mess up, I won't let this ever go
    It's hard to stay
    It's hard to stay
    'Cause some birds aren't meant to be caged
    Please just listen 'cause I don't ask for much
    I am my own man, I make my own luck
    Please just listen 'cause I don't ask for much
    I am my own man, I make my own luck


    I've got these letters tattooed on my arm
    That remind me each second of where I come from
    And the long hard road to get me back home

    Back to my mama who raised me up right
    And back to my lady, I held every night
    It's a long hard road trying to get home

    I'd been gone now for too long

    I'm not trying to stop a hurricane
    I'm not trying to shake the ground below
    I'm just trying to find a way to make it back home

    I'm not trying to part the ocean waves
    I'm not trying to overthrow the throne
    I'm just trying to find a way to make it back home
    I'm just trying to get home

    I've got this image engraved in my mind
    Of a life that I had in a whole different time
    It still breathes and lives at the end of the road

    I've seen mountains and valleys through my missing days
    But I never once parted with how you begged me to stay
    I will run down that long hard and treacherous road to get home

    I'm not trying to stop a hurricane
    I'm not trying to shake the ground below
    I'm just trying to find a way to make it back home

    I'm not trying to part the ocean waves
    I'm not trying to overthrow the throne
    I'm just trying to find a way to make it back home
    I'm just trying to get home

    I've been gone for so long
    But my heart it carries on
    As it pounds like a drum
    On my journey back home

    I've been gone for so long
    But my heart it carries on
    I won't give up

    I'm not trying to stop a hurricane
    I'm not trying to shake the ground below
    I'm just trying to find a way to make it back home

    I'm not trying to part the ocean waves
    I'm not trying to overthrow the throne
    I'm just trying to find a way to make it back home
    I'm just trying to get home

    I'm just trying to get home

    Monday, December 11, 2017

    #MusicMonday - "Born To Be Wild" by Steppenwolf

    #MusicMonday this week is dedicated to the song "Born To Be Wild" by Steppenwolf. A nitty gritty, yet classic and timelessly badass song.

    VIDEO CREDIT: Retrospective Soundtrack

    Monday, December 4, 2017

    #MusicMonday - "Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica

    #MusicMonday is dedicated to "Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica. This video gives a behind the scenes look at a day in the life of the band and what it's like to to record a song.


    Monday, June 12, 2017

    #MusicMonday - "Nothing Else Matters" Metallica Cover by Steve'n'Seagulls

    #MusicMonday this week is dedicated to the cover that Steve'n'Seagulls did of "Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica. 
    Original "Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica
     So close no matter how far
    Couldn't be much more from the heart
    Forever trusting who we are
    And nothing else matters

    Never opened myself this way
    Life is ours, we live it our way
    All these words I don't just say
    And nothing else matters

    Trust I seek and I find in you
    Every day for us something new
    Open mind for a different view
    And nothing else matters

    Never cared for what they do
    Never cared for what they know
    But I know

    So close no matter how far
    Couldn't be much more from the heart
    Forever trusting who we are
    And nothing else matters

    Never cared for what they do
    Never cared for what they know
    But I know

    I never opened myself this way
    Life is ours, we live it our way
    All these words I don't just say
    And nothing else matters

    Trust I seek and I find in you
    Every day for us something new
    Open mind for a different view
    And nothing else matters

    Never cared for what they say
    Never cared for games they play
    Never cared for what they do
    Never cared for what they know
    And I know

    So close no matter how far
    Couldn't be much more from the heart
    Forever trusting who we are
    No nothing else matters

    Monday, December 12, 2016

    #MusicMonday - Lupe Fiasco - "The Show Goes On"

    #MusicMonday is dedicated to Lupe Fiasco and his song called, "The Show Goes On". 

    This song has a great message of inspiration and motivation for working hard no matter what. May it inspire you!
    "Alright, already the show goes on
    All night, till the morning we dream so long
    Anybody ever wonder,
    When they would see the sun up
    Just remember when you come up
    The show goes on!
    Alright, already the show goes on
    All night, till the morning we dream so long
    Anybody ever wonder,
    When they would see the sun up
    Just remember when you come up
    The show goes on!

    So no matter what you been through
    No matter what you into
    No matter what you see when you look outside your window
    Brown grass or green grass
    Picket fence or barbed wire
    Never ever put them down
    You just lift your arms higher
    Raise 'em 'til your arms tired
    Let em' know you're there
    That you struggling and survivin'
    That you gonna persevere
    Yeah, ain't no body leavin',
    No body goin' home
    Even if they turn the lights out the show is goin' on!"