Let's do the 30 Day Song Challenge. For everyone who does every day with me, I'll Paypal a dollar.

[Helena330]

I love these threads because I like finding new music and hate these threads because I spend so much time on them!

My tastes are all over the place with not a lot of depth, but I do always come back to classic rock. This is an old song by REO Speedwagon that has gotten me through some bad, bad crap. Excuse the extreme close-ups.

Roll With The Changes

(That guitarist and guitar, OMG. The good old days before Cronin started writing for 12-year-old girls and forced Richrath out of the group )

[Sahirrnee]

How can I pick a favorite?

So much good music out there, however this has been my current ear worm and I have no idea why. It’s not my current mood.
I think I was in 5th or 6th grade when it came out and a classmate suggested I listen to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79NiN7ISW7E

Be prepared if I continue to participate - I have some weird ass taste in music.

[Esox_Lucius]

A 30-day obligation will be tough to fulfill but I’ll do my part as much as possible. To start, the swingy syncopation of ragtime has made me giddy at times, so here’s an orchestral version of Maple Leaf Rag by Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks that was used in Boardwalk Empire.

[journeyman_southpaw]

My favorite song of all time is Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand. It was not a song that stood out for me all that much in the Zep discography until I did some traveling and came to understand the whole “travel as a journey of self-discovery” thing. Jimmy Page’s lonely-sounding guitar solo is probably my favorite of his, and this song also has my favorite drumming performance of all time - Bonzo does various fills at unpredictable times to keep things interesting over all 10 minutes while never overplaying.

[Philliam]

Dang, hard to pick a favorite from hundreds of ‘absolute favorites’ so perhaps it’s best to pick ones that should be heard (and appreciated) by a wider audience. I’m already learning - never heard a Nick Cave song till minutes ago. ‘Tupelo’ - just wow!

So here’s one among equals for your predilection - - YouTube

[Mean_Mr.Mustard]

@Jack_Batty

My favorite song changes by the hour sometimes, but if I had to pin one down, I consistently come back to Elvis Costello and I there’s something about Brilliant Mistake that always grabs me. I like the clever lyrics, the way the choruses are slightly different from the sentiment to the drum fills leading into them.

I wish I could write songs like Elvis.

Elvis is my favorite songwriter, so I’ll be dipping into that well too. Brilliant Mistake = great choice.

Day 2: I’m going to offer up a lesser-known Bob Dylan song that has so many nooks & crannies that I never tire of it: Thunder on the Mountain

(you are better off closing your eyes and just listening. I hate when the video posted is just random concert footage that has nothing to do with the accompanying song).

Also…I thought there would be a new thread started each day for the challenge?
mmm

[casdave]

OK, I will submit a few, I will not get through it all though.

This is one to make you think about your own future - don’t forget, you’ll get old too and you’ll appreciate a kind word when that day comes, so do it for someone today.

I'll put something up a bit more lively later on.

[dada2fish]

Haven’t figured out how to set up a link on an I-pad…sorry, but if I have to pick one song as my all time favorite, for many reasons, it’s Bowie’s All The Young Dudes beautifully performed by Mott the Hoople.

[Mahaloth]

@dada2fish

Haven’t figured out how to set up a link on an I-pad…sorry, but if I have to pick one song as my all time favorite, for many reasons, it’s Bowie’s All The Young Dudes beautifully performed by Mott the Hoople.

Here.

[Cazzle]

4 April, 7:08pm my time.
Learn To Fly (Foo Fighters cover) performed by 1,000 musicians.

[kayaker]

@Mean_Mr.Mustard

I have long considered this song to be the ultimate Rock N Roll tune.

Not bad, but I’d pick Gary Moore doing Still Got The Blues For You.

[Dale_Sams]

@Idle_Thoughts

Here’s my idea.
Being bored a few minutes ago–and listening to a favorite song of mine–I thought about how it might be interesting to do the 30 Day Song Challenge.
Only it’s not half as interesting doing it alone. I thought “You know, it might be cool to try out on the SDMB, and see the stories behind posters’ choices daily” Not only that, but to also get exposed to new music and genres and songs I wouldn’t normally listen to or even know about. So I figured not only would I do this on here, but I’d even add an incentive. For every poster who gets all the way to June 2nd with me, having done/posted/participated in every day of the challenge, I will Paypal a dollar.* I know…whoa nellie, right? Just don’t go off and spend it all in one place, you hear?

The requirement here, though, is you must do every day, you can’t miss any and you must also share/post the answer to any question I put forth about the daily song we’re posting about. Also, note the asterisk above… this means…
*100 person limit. I’m willing to Paypal a dollar up to one hundred people (all of that being 100 dollars total), but if over a hundred participate, every day, in the very first thread…then I will have to declare the Paypal offer null and void. I’m sure you’ll all live, though. : p
If less than 100 people take part in this, I will split up 100 dollars among however many posters did wind up doing every day (since I am/was willing to spend 100 dollars on it any way).

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This is the first day, I’ll post one every two days…so, really, it will take 60 days to do–but that’s just so I don’t have twenty or thirty topics all on the first page all at once. Hopefully two days is enough for them to drop off the page. But for all I know, these might not garner much interest or just get, like, one or two others doing it. If that’s the case, though, then I’m sure the other two or three will be happy since it will mean 35 dollars for each of them.
Anyway…Day 1: Your favorite song.
I realize you might have a lot of favorites, but just choose one out of them…although posting at least one other is fine if it’s a close one between two and/or you want to share a song that used to be number one, but was knocked out by another song.

This has been my favorite song ever since I first heard it 20 years ago. Before that, this was my favorite song for 23 years or so (and now it’s my second favorite song).

I also like This version of Born to Run.

[stillownedbysetters]

It was Christmas 1967 and I was 9 years old. Best Christmas ever. I received two life-changing gifts that year - the Tolkien trilogy and a copy of “Rubber Soul” (Beatles). During Christmas vacay, I enjoyed both simultaneously, nearly non-stop. So to me, Rubber Soul will always be the soundtrack for Middle Earth. And it was this song that wrapped the whole experience up for me. Still love it, and although I listen to it with a wider perspective these days, it speaks to me just as it did then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suuU3mliNo8

[casdave]

Possibly the heaviest heavy rock song of all time, play very loud

Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein

[RTFirefly]

My favorite new song of 2015 was Florence + the Machine’s “Ship to Wreck”. Enjoy.

[Gatopescado]

Ace

The Big Sleep

[Drunky_Smurf]

Son of a Bitch

[Idle_Thoughts]

@Eliahna

I’ll give it a go. My favorite song came out in 1994.
Interstate Love Song by Stone Temple Pilots.

Made on 3 April, 4:01pm

I’ve edited in the date and time, like you asked.

[joyfool]

@Idle_Thoughts

I’ve edited in the date and time, like you asked.

When’s the next thread?

[Cazzle]

@Idle_Thoughts

I’ve edited in the date and time, like you asked.

Thanks! And since it’s tomorrow here, I’m offering up #3: Elephant by Tame Impala.
Linky.

5 April, 9:25am