And If You Want To Find Me I'll Be Out In The Sandbox, Just Wondering Where The Hell All The Love Has Gone

So it has been well over a week since I posted anything and there is a very simple reason. I got stuck. For whatever reason I was incapable of finding a song for posts 6 and 7 for the song challenge. Thankfully my best female friend reminded me that they didn't have to be good memories so I now present the song that reminds me of somewhere as well as a certain event.

So the place is my high school and elementary school gyms and the events are of course the dances that some people might have enjoyed. I was never a big fan of school dances but I also didn't dislike them. If I was forced to take an official stance it would be neutral. The only reason I ever went to these things is because I really didn't go out much in elementary school so these were rare occasions to do something besides sit in my house on a Friday night. The first time I went to one of these I was over joyed it was fun there was junk food and people and music. I was having a grand time until this song came on and ever since that moment dances in general have gone downhill from there. What was everyone just mingling and jumping around became everyone scrambling to find a partner. As luck would have it there happened to be an almost perfect ratio of boys to girls unfortunately there was an uneven number of participants. This was the first of many times I was the odd man out and it seems that ever since then 9 out f 10 times whenever the number of people doesn't work out I end up on the short end of the stick. As well at this dance and even still today I have an aversion to asking people to be my partner in anything so really the reason I'm the odd man out is my own fault.

So the first dance and the first time I heard this song at a dance was a hint of things to come. The same applies to the second dance and playing of the song except it was a new lesson this time. Having learned from past mistakes I now knew that I would have to go outside my comfort zone put myself out there and take a chance unless I wanted to watch from the walls again. However I was shocked to find out that nobody wanted to dance with the weirdest kid in class and I was promptly sent to the wall feeling worse than I did at the previous dance. The same cycle of hesitating and hoping for the best a few times then taking a chance and failing more or less continues to this day and I now find a reason to use the bathroom when this and any other Aerosmith song plays at various types of dances.

But You Can Travel On Ten Thousand Miles and Still Stay Where You Are

So I finally figured out what I could use for post #5 "A Song That Reminds You Of Someone" This is a song I discovered a few years ago and like many songs I first heard it when I was driving home to Christopher Lake from P.A. At the time I was only a few months away from going to broadcasting college and just thought it was a neat song but now after completing school and meeting many different people in the industry I know now people this song could be about and I think none more fitting than the head teacher at WABC

I've been trying for months to learn how to play this song but as of yet no progress has been made.

This song could also be used to describe The Man Child or various other Jocks who managed to make it to the big time and then manage to find themselves back in a small market again due to various trials and tribulations along the way. I know of quite a few people who are married to the job and their wife/girlfriend is the other woman in the relationship. A small part of me is afraid that this may happen to me, I doubt it but only time will tell. Until then this ones for you Don Scott.

Your Future Fades And Your Minutes Are Few

I wasn't really looking forward to doing this post but I know that some better ones are on the way so I should be able to handle it. It is now time for post 4 "A Song That Makes You Sad". I had two candidates for this one. They are the only two songs to ever make me tear up when I heard them, the fact that one of them only accomplished this feat due to it's timing made it much easier to make this decision even though I much prefer the alternate song to the actual song I ended up choosing

Oddly enough I've heard this one 10 times tops but it has stuck with me

I have no clue as to why this song got to me since when I first heard it I was 10 and there really isn't anything in this song I can relate to. I am the oldest of two children and both my parents are alive and well. Despite the previous points when the final verse of this song ended I was sniffling in the back seat of the car. I am going to guess it had something to do with the fact that even when I was 10 I was paranoid and worried about everything and this song brought a certain set of worries to my mind all at once. After that occasion whenever I hear The Baby I will turn the radio off or change stations since that is the only place I ever hear it. It's not that this is a bad song it is quite good I just don't like what it does to me. That being said I haven't heard this song in years and am curious to see what happens next time I come across it.

I have a feeling the only way I am going to be able to select the next song is by listening to copious amounts of music and waiting for someone to pop into my head. It is also the first song that I haven't already decided on and I have a feeling it won't be a last. I hope it's happy I could go for another happy song. Also I decided again to not use lyrics from the chosen song seeing as how none of them really seemed to stand out for me.

Don't You Ever Feel Sad, Lean On Me When Times Get Bad.

Well how fortunate is this, I am in a slightly foul mood today and I get to talk about a song that makes me happy. If I was so inclined and believed that people would be interested in it I could make a list of the 25 songs that make me happy however it is possible to have too much of a good thing so I will try and stick to one. The song I have decided to go with comes from one of my favorite movies of all time The Blues Brothers and pretty much any song performed in the film could have been used. Interestingly enough the song I'm going with is only heard in the background on the radio but nonetheless it stood out and sent me online to find the details on what I was hearing.

The more innuendo the better!

Hold On I'm Comin' is just one of the many hits Sam & Dave had, their most famous work is Soul Man which has been covered by every blues and soul singer over the last 40 years. One of the reasons this song is so great is because and Sam & Dave were recording with Stax records at the time. Most times the label an artist is recording with doesn't make a difference but Stax is the exception due to the fact that they had Booker T and the MG's as their in house band meaning that almost every artist at Stax got some help from the MG's.

Last post I talked about how I usually love a song with some good piano in it but there is one thing better than someone tickling the ivories and that my friends is a horn section. It may have something to do with the band classes I took back in high school but if a song has some horns I'm sold. How can this song not make a person happy it's upbeat it has some horns and is chock full if innuendo. This is one of those songs that can dictate what kind of day you will have if you get the privilege of hearing it first thing in the A.M. 

Come On Take A Little Walk With Me Baby, And Tell Me Who Do You Love?

Day 02 - Your least favorite song.

There are many songs I want to put in here. Working in radio I hear tons of bad music however there is one song that goes above and beyond all other songs in making me want to jump in front of a bus. It's not that this is the worst song ever either I will admit that worse songs exist however I did not have to listen to them every day for an entire summer. Without further ado

The strange thing is this has the potential to be a song that I could love however it does everything wrong. I will admit I am not a big Paramore fan so automatically points get deducted for having Haley Williams. Most times I enjoy hearing piano in a song however I prefer it when they piano is driving the song and isn't just twinkling notes added as an afterthought and then hidden for the majority of the song. I could write a novel on the flaws in this song but I will stop now since no matter how much I rant on how much this song displeases me it won't make the song any better and it won't make me un-hear it. I also couldn't bring myself to use anything from this song as the title.

Things will surely be brighter next time with a song that makes me happy so the future optimism and praise should make up for all the haterade I just drank

Everything Is Bleak It's The Middle Of The Night You're All Alone And The Dummies Might Be Right

I keep seeing "The 30 Day Song Challenge" on Facebook and seeing as I am a music person I want to give it a try but at the same time I don't want to spam my Facebook however I have no problems spamming my blog plus it would be probably be a good idea for me to quit talking about myself for awhile since it's not that exciting of a topic plus I could talk about music all day everyday. I will make one slight change though, it will be called The 30 Post Song Challenge to make it more feasible. Here's a look at what the next 30 posts will include.

Day 01 - Your favorite song
Day 02 - Your least favorite song
Day 03 - A song that makes you happy
Day 04 - A song that makes you sad
Day 05 - A song that reminds you of someone
Day 06 - A song that reminds you of somewhere
Day 07 - A song that reminds you of a certain event
Day 08 - A song that you know all the words to
Day 09 - A song that you can dance to
Day 10 - A song that makes you fall asleep
Day 11 - A song from your favorite band
Day 12 - A song from a band you hate
Day 13 - A song that is a guilty pleasure
Day 14 - A song that no one would expect you to love
Day 15 - A song that describes you
Day 16 - A song that you used to love but now hate
Day 17 - A song that you hear often on the radio
Day 18 - A song that you wish you heard on the radio
Day 19 - A song from your favorite album
Day 20 - A song that you listen to when you’re angry
Day 21 - A song that you listen to when you’re happy
Day 22 - A song that you listen to when you’re sad
Day 23 - A song that you want to play at your wedding
Day 24 - A song that you want to play at your funeral
Day 25 - A song that makes you laugh
Day 26 - A song that you can play on an instrument
Day 27 - A song that you wish you could play
Day 28 - A song that makes you feel guilty
Day 29 - A song from your childhood
Day 30 - Your favorite song at this time last year


Kicking everything off my favorite song not surprisingly coming from one of my favorite artists is My Music at Work by The Tragically Hip. I know my best female friend is also a big fan of this one. I first heard this song driving home in the middle of the night. I had just dropped my sister off at some party and when the song started I turned it up since I had never heard it before but the intro sounded interesting and when the lyrics started I was hooked.

of course I will now be using hip lyrics as a title again but it's totally worth it

I will also make sure the future posts contain more than just a song so that you actually have something to read and possibly even look forward to. Also I'm always looking for things to talk about so if there is anything that you want to have me do a sub-par job on let me know!