It occurred to me, while I was driving to Birmingham for a meeting, recently (because let\u2019s face it, driving to Birmingham is a harrowing enough experience, so you’re going to fill your head with lots of randomly pleasant, music-related thoughts, right?), that there are a number of ways that this particular cat (challenge) could get skinned.<\/p>\n
I could, for example, choose to focus many of my responses to these daily challenges on my all-time favourite album, couldn’t I?<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s not the point, really, is it?<\/p>\n
As much as I would like to share the entire contents of ‘Now That’s What I Call Music #714 (The Vocal Synthesiser Wars)’, it goes against the spirit of this little challenge to be so narrowly focussed.<\/p>\n
Against the spirit?<\/p>\n
Well in that case, what is the spirit?<\/p>\n
For me, this is all about the goodness of music, balanced with a desire to breathe new life in to my blogging.<\/p>\n
On the music front, it’s about attempting to share Faithless’ stunning track ‘Insomnia’ can wring from me similar feelings to ‘You Don’t Know Me At All’ by Don Henley.<\/p>\n
Two stunningly different musical works.<\/p>\n
And both evoke similar feelings as ‘Swords of a Thousand Men’ by Tenpole Tudor.<\/p>\n
Or attempting to explain how ‘Erase\/Rewind’ by The Cardigans can almost make me feel the same as ‘Irish Blood, English Heart’ by Morrissey.<\/p>\n
Or trying to explain the depth of raw feeling that occurred the first time I heard Eminem’s ‘Stan’, that I had to pull over to the side of the road, because it was like an injected hit of musicaine straight in to my heart.<\/p>\n
It’s not so much about the similarities.<\/p>\n
It’s about the differences, and how those differences can make me feel the same things.<\/p>\n
And to add the icing to the cake of musical goodness, this list will be compiled on separate days.<\/p>\n
This means that my moods are influencers on the list.<\/p>\n
The track that makes me laugh today might not be the track that made me laugh yesterday.<\/p>\n
And so on.<\/p>\n
So hi there!<\/p>\n
Welcome to my version of the 30-day music challenge.<\/p>\n
If nothing else, I hope you click on a link and listen to something, and that you (un\/expectedly) enjoy it.<\/p>\n
And if you are joining in this music blogging challenge, then let me know, so I can look at what moves you.<\/p>\n
OK?<\/p>\n
Dave’s joining in<\/a>! So too is young Masher<\/a> (probably).<\/p>\n Anyway, here’s the full (updated) list that I’m going to be working to:<\/p>\n A song that makes me happy It occurred to me, while I was driving to Birmingham for a meeting, recently (because let\u2019s face it, driving to Birmingham is a harrowing enough<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA song that makes me sad
\nA song that reminds me of someone
\nA song that reminds me of somewhere
\nA song that reminds me of an event
\nA song that I know all the words to
\nA song that I can dance to
\nA song that makes me fall asleep
\nA song\u00a0that fits my personality
\nA song from a band that I hate
\nA song that is a guilty pleasure
\nA song that no-one would expect me to love
\nA song that I used to love but now hate
\nA song that I hear too often on the radio
\nA song that I wish I heard more often on the radio
\nA song from a favourite album
\nA song that I listen to when I\u2019m angry
\nA song that I listen to when I\u2019m happy
\nA song that I listen to when I\u2019m sad
\nA song that I want played at my wedding
\nA song that I want played at my funeral
\nA song that makes me laugh
\nA song that I can play on an instrument
\nA song that I wish I could play on an instrument
\nA song from my childhood
\nA song I would give to my offspring
\nA song to listen to at the end of a tough day
\nMy favourite song from the last decade
\nMy all-time favourite song
\nA song I’ve heard from someone else, that I like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"