Music Advent 2022
Dec. 5th, 2022 02:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melliciousI'm not intending to do many Music Advent posts here like I have in past years. But it's still on Twitter for now, and it's certainly true that Twitter's future is uncertain, so I wanted to make sure I kept track.
This year we're riffing on the original theme - this is the 9th MA, unbelievably. I wouldn't say it was ever a gigantic hit or anything, but those of us doing it enjoy it, at least. So this time we're starting in 1998 and working up to the present day by day, and here's my contributions so far. I'll link to the music video I used, too.
1998: Tubthumping - Chumbawamba (I'm interested to see that the lyric is actually "pissing the night away" - I always wondered if I was hearing that right, and in 1998 it wasn't quite so easy to look up lyrics!)
1999 turns out to be the year the Hedwig off-Broadway soundtrack was released, and I have a real soft spot for Midnight Radio, so I used that. (I've probably used it before, but not this version, I'm pretty sure.)
I don't remember what I was listening to in 2000 (there's honestly no telling, I was busy having a midlife crisis around that time) but I saw Oasis' Go Let It Out, and I did the "hey, this is a good song that I've mostly ignored up til now" thing. (To tell you the truth, I think that I may have been snobby about Oasis back in the day. Didn't think they'd last, all that!)
For 2001, I poked around and found that Michelle Branch's first album was released that year, and I was really into Buffy around that time, so Goodbye To You is a song that I've always listened to regularly, and it really resonates with me, still. (If you don't understand the Buffy connection, look at that video. Michelle "performed at the Bronze" in a Buffy episode, the one where Willow and Tara break up. I really loved/had my heart torn out by that episode.)
(Some years I've worked ahead on Music Advent, but so far this year, no. Whatever I use next, it'll be a surprise to me, too!)
This year we're riffing on the original theme - this is the 9th MA, unbelievably. I wouldn't say it was ever a gigantic hit or anything, but those of us doing it enjoy it, at least. So this time we're starting in 1998 and working up to the present day by day, and here's my contributions so far. I'll link to the music video I used, too.
1998: Tubthumping - Chumbawamba (I'm interested to see that the lyric is actually "pissing the night away" - I always wondered if I was hearing that right, and in 1998 it wasn't quite so easy to look up lyrics!)
1999 turns out to be the year the Hedwig off-Broadway soundtrack was released, and I have a real soft spot for Midnight Radio, so I used that. (I've probably used it before, but not this version, I'm pretty sure.)
I don't remember what I was listening to in 2000 (there's honestly no telling, I was busy having a midlife crisis around that time) but I saw Oasis' Go Let It Out, and I did the "hey, this is a good song that I've mostly ignored up til now" thing. (To tell you the truth, I think that I may have been snobby about Oasis back in the day. Didn't think they'd last, all that!)
For 2001, I poked around and found that Michelle Branch's first album was released that year, and I was really into Buffy around that time, so Goodbye To You is a song that I've always listened to regularly, and it really resonates with me, still. (If you don't understand the Buffy connection, look at that video. Michelle "performed at the Bronze" in a Buffy episode, the one where Willow and Tara break up. I really loved/had my heart torn out by that episode.)
(Some years I've worked ahead on Music Advent, but so far this year, no. Whatever I use next, it'll be a surprise to me, too!)
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