R IS FOR RAIN

For each letter of the A to Z, I'm going to give you a KEYWORD. You post in the comments a song with that word in the title. I will give you one to start (along with a video). If you like, you can go to YouTube and embed your video in the comments, so that readers can also listen to your song. No repeats and only post one song so that everyone can participate. If you're just brimming with songs, come back in a few days and lay it on me! If you want to see who else is participating in the A to Z click here.

I think yesterday's word (Queen) was on the tough side. Even so, you guys did great with it. Here are the songs you thought of with Queen in the title:

Mike: Killer Queen by Queen

Mary (then Robyn, then Susan): Dancing Queen by Abba

Michele: Sign of the Gypsy Queen by April Wine

Ericka: Captain Crash and the Beauty Queen from Mars by Bon Jovi

Rosey: Caribbean Queen by Billy Ocean

Andrea: Queen of Hearts by Juice Newton

Stephen T. McCarthy: Queen of the Slipstream by Van Morrison

Jeffrey: Roller Derby Queen by Jim Croce

Pinku-Sensei: Queen of the Highway by The Doors

Holli: God Save The Queen by The Sex Pistols

Mich: Burger Queen by Placebo

Debbie the Doglady: Little Queen by Heart

Arlee: The Queen of Love by The Incredible String Band

JEN Garrett: Queens are Never Wrong by The Backyardigans

D.G. Hudson: Acid Queen by Tina Turner

LC: Queen of the Roller Derby by Leon Russell

CW: Katie Queen of Tennessee by The Apache Relay

If you can think of more songs from previous letters and WANT to post them now, feel free to go back and add them:)

It's a new day and a new letter!

What is the KEYWORD?

You can use variations. In this case, rains, rained, raining, raindrops, rainy. Or anything with a base of rain. See my song, which uses rainfall. I think this will be SUPER DUPER EASY, so I'll give you three songs right from Go. For the sake of loading, only post one of them from YouTube and list the others. But, have fun, go crazy, and come back tomorrow to add more. I think there'll still be plenty out there.

I present to you.... Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall by Simon and Garfunkel.



You can comment with a song or embed the video by copy/pasting the code in the search bar. Thanks for playing along!


Special thanks to Arlee Bird and the A to Z team who make this possible!

Arlee Bird @ Tossing it Out
Ninja Captain Alex J. Cavanaugh
Jeremy Hawkins @ Hollywood Nuts
Damyanti Biswas @ Daily Write
Heather M. Gardner @ The Waiting is the Hardest Part
Author AJ Lauer
Pam Brown Margolis @ An Unconventional Librarian
Zalka Csenge Virág @ The Multicolored Diary
Joy Campbell @ The Character Depot
John Holton @The Sound of One Hand Typing

The Soundtrack Of My Life, Me, Myself, and I

Welcome to another post from The Soundtrack of My Life.

At last post, things are looking good in high school, no?

All of the things I knew I wanted (and had specific ideas on how to achieve them) happened.

Did you see the movie Constantine? (I really like this movie if you haven't watched it!) One of the (many) things I loved: There's always a catch.




So, what's the catch?

I really wanted a boyfriend. In fact, I felt tremendous pressure about the whole thing. My dad's mother quizzed me on it every visit. And if it wasn't a quiz, it was the comments thrown out as hooks, "I bet you're beating the boys off the porch."

Nope. No boys. No porch incidents. (Unpretty remember? Oh, the things we think we leave behind, want to leave behind, and Look! There they are!)

There was, in point of fact, one cute boy my senior year. When the reality of dating collided with the theory of dating, I panicked and broke up with him. Real mature I know. (I'm laughing to myself right now.) There were several truths at work here. The false truth that I wasn't really pretty, kind, or good enough to have a boyfriend. The actual truth that I had NO CLUE what to do with a boyfriend. (And that has somehow remained true... hmm.)

Anyway, for all of the amazing, excellent, wonderful things manifesting in my life... I felt very alone. It was an aloneness that actually extended beyond my lack of a boyfriend. There is aloneness that exists in which you feel like no one will ever really understand you. That kind of alone. I didn't even have words to express that feeling until THIS SONG.

Some friends of mine loved this duo and gave me a mix tape of their songs. As a child of the 80s, it was NEW to me. And wonderful. I have no words for how much I loved them then (and now). I bought their record (yes, I said record) Sounds of Silence and listened to it constantly. But, it was the last song on Side B that stabbed me where I stood. Or in my case, at least most of the time, laid. The song before it was We've Got A Groovy Thing Goin'. That song made me dance around my room singing into my hairbrush (if you've not done this, you are so missing out!). But then THIS SONG came on and I just dropped onto my bed. When it was over, I would pick up the needle and play it again. And again. And again. I can still remember my mother yelling from another room in our house, "Robin, please play something else. I can't stand it any longer."

It was like a mix tape wherein all of Side A was THIS SONG. (Yeah, I'm looking at you, Stephen T. McCarthy.)



Have you ever felt that no one would ever really get you?  


If you're enjoying these posts, feel free to share your own Soundtrack. This isn't a hop. No requirements at all, but a suggestion to do it one song at a time. (If you participated in the hop several years ago, you can still do this. Just post them one song at a time, with the freedom to add more songs if you'd like.) I'll link to all participants at the bottom of each of these posts:

StMcC Presents BATTLE OF THE BANDS

Cherdo on the flipside

I don't know this place.

Simon & Garfunkel started looking for America back in the '60s.  They woke up and it felt different, smelled different, looked different, and they got on the bus to find it.  There was something in the air.  They didn't know this place.  And they had this revelation that they weren't the only ones.  A cultural shift was happening.  Their America was disappearing.  And now it is totally gone.  I'm with these guys.  I don't know this place.  But, I am beginning to see how it happened.   Do you see the puzzle pieces?  This is a gradual breakdown decades in the making.  But, I repeat: I don't know this place. This isn't MY America.  I only wish I could hop a bus, buy a ticket, and get to where I want to go.  My America.


"As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society." ~Henry David Thoreau