Think I’ll try this here this month (I’m not active enough on social media to do it elsewhere). Here’s a list, because I can’t possibly pick one. All of these songs are available for listening on YouTube or most of your favorite online music sources. Do you have a favorite song–or MANY–with colors in the title?
Baby Blue–Beach Boys
Behind Blue Eyes–The Who
Big Yellow Taxi–Joni Mitchell
Black Magic Woman–Santana
Blackbird–Beatles
Blue Bayou–Roy Orbison
Brown Eyed Girl–Van Morrison
Deacon Blue–Steely Dan
Gold Dust Woman–Fleetwood Mac
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road–Elton John
Heart of Gold–Neil Young
Little Red Corvette–Prince
Li’l Red Ridin’ Hood–Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress–Hollies
Mellow Yellow–Donovan
Nights In White Satin–Moody Blues
Orange Crush–REM
Pacific Ocean Blue–Dennis Wilson
Paint It Black–Rolling Stones
Purple Rain–Prince
Sister Golden Hair–America
Tangled Up in Blue–Bob Dylan
Yellow–Coldplay
Yellow Submarine–Beatles
Arn’t you supposed to pick a (one) song? 😉
(… I see your true colours shining through …)
Orange Crush – REM, for the ADHD in me
Yep, pretty much why I confessed at the outset, Here’s a list, because I can’t possibly pick one.
Other categories will hopefully be easier.
I don’t think this is a fair challenge; it’s more like revenge of the ear worms part infinity minus half (the A sides), but, at the same time, people get to spend the next 30 days singing songs that keep their soul moving, good or bad, better or worse.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to them.
I wish you kept a blog/LJ. I’d happily read it. =)
I did have an LJ; that’s how our paths crossed, but, alas, I lost interest in writing in one. Also, there was no real way to undo untold damage to moving my photos around that were URL linked. LJ’s userbase faded, and then Russia took over LJ. I closed that book. Maybe someday I might try a new journal, but I would have to live somewhere just as interesting as that ol’ college town of that past that started the whole LJ thing for me.
I remember–did you delete your LJ account completely? Now and again, I’ll have reason to look back at those days and think of all the people I met through LJ. We had a lot of fun there, but some crazy stuff went down, too. That’s pretty much happened historically since I first started using the Internet. First it was AOL chat rooms, then AOL message boards, very little time spent on other social media platforms, but then Facebook, and finally Twitter–craziness seems to always take over in one way or another.
It’s new level now, and I’m SO GLAD I’M NOT A PRE-TEEN OR TEENAGER trying to navigate this. I read a terrible article a few days back that made me think a lot of parents have really lost their perspective of even adequate parenting. Everything in search of the almighty dollar.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road for me. Which is probably obvious, but hey.
I can still remember the first time I heard that song and that album. Where I was. Who the album belonged to. Where she got it. That’s the tour when I got to see him perform. Amazing album, music, time.