30 Day Song Challenge Podcast - Days 6, 7 & 8

Day 6- A song that makes you want to Dance 

I wanna dance with somebody - Whitney Houston  

Bust a move - Young MC

Call on Me - Eric Prydz 

Thought about “Call your girlfriend” to go head to head with "Dancing on my own today"

Rosco’s Pick - “Don’t Leave me this way” by Thelma Houston - Disco pick - nice. 

Day 7 - A song to drive to 

Running Down a Dream - Tom Petty

La Grange - ZZ Top (Sharp dressed man, She’s got Legs, Gimme All your Lovin’)

Knocked up - Kings of Leon (they’ve got a ton of these)

Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi

Hells Bells - AC/DC 

The Heat is On - Glenn Frey (Beverly Hills Cop ) - opening scene 

Born to be Wild -  Steppen Wolf 

Low Rider -which until today I didn’t realize was by the band War ( I also didn’t know until today that War sang "Why can’t we be Friends?"

Regulators - Nate Dogg and Warren G 

We Didn’t Start the Fire - Billy Joel 

Turn the Page - Seger 

Day 8 - Song about drugs or alcohol 

OT Genasis - Cut it, CoCo 

311 - who’s got the herb 

Sublime - smoke two joints, 40oz to Freedom, Let’s go get stoned   

Snoop Dogg - Gin & Juice 

Cheers (Drink to that) Rhianna) 

Bob Marley - Reggae 

One Bourbon One Scotch and One Beer - George Thorogood & the Destroyers 

Cypress Hill - Hits from the Bong 

Friends in Low places (Garth Brooks)

Country Music times a million 

Mr. Brownstone - GNR 

Night Train - GNR 

Dr. Feelgood 

Blame It - Jamie Foxx & T-Pain

Tequila Makes her Clothes Fall Off

It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere 

Love is the Drug - Roxy Music

I took a Pill In Ibiza - Mike Posner 

Not and Addict - K’s Choice 

Lit Up - Buck Cherry 

Eric Caption - Cocaine 

Mary Jane - Rick James - might be about a lady named that, but I’m not sure if it’s not a metaphor 

Swimming Pools - Kendrick Lamar 

Cold Gin - Kiss 

Brass Monkey - Beastie Boys

Rosco’s Brainstorm - Sweat Leaf (Black Sabbath), Lucy in the Sky w Diamonds, Juice (Lizzo), Purple Haze, Puff the magic dragon, Under the Bridge, Trippin’ on a hole in a paper heart, Bad & Boujee 

30 Day Song Challenge Podcast - Day 1 & 2

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 1& 2 podcast 

Places listening - France, USA, UK, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, Swaziland (first time for this African Nation) 

Top cities listening Paris, Waxhaw, NC, Wellesley Hills, MA - the city in Swaziland is Mbabane. It’s the capital city. Population around 95,000 people and the country is surrounded by South Africa and a little bit Mozambique to the northeast. 

Swaziland is now listed on Google Maps as Eswatini. Renamed in 2018 — thanks for listening 

Day 1 song with a color in the title 

Cindy - Greenlight by Lourde 

Gavin - Purple Rain (live version) by Prince

Day 2 song with a number in it

Cindy 17 by Kings of Leon

Gavin Mambo No. 5 by Lou Bega 

Off the bat - Cindy is strategic and Gavin is literal  

Day 3 - song that reminds you of summertime - if you pick that “Summer Lovin’ song” from Grease — that ain’t it chief 

Pretty much every song from Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers (Scar Tissue for starters)

By the way also by RHCP

Soul to Squeeze by RHCP

Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince

Anything by Rusted Root

Get Lucky - Daft Punk 

One More Time - Daft Punk

Pour Some Sugar on me - Def Leppard 

You Could be Mine - GNR (Terminator Two)

Enter Sandman  

The Entire “Beats, Rhymes & Life” album from A Tribe Called Quest 

Anything off of Vampire Weekend’s self titled 2008 album 

Turn down for What - Lil Jon

Christmas Past Songs from 2009 Podcast

Christmas Past (2009 Pop Song Redux) 

The return to podcasting after surgery begins

Places listening - Heavy in France, especially Paris thanks to Deezer podcast service 

We’re also on Spotify now so subscribe 

Places listening France has been number 1 for 2 weeks. USA 2, UK 3, followed by Canada, Pakistan, Cayman Islands, Egypt, Kenya, Australia, Philippines, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Seychelles (Say Shells), Poland, Peru, Netherlands, East Timor aka Timor-Leste, South Africa, Brazil, Ivory Coast, Fiji, Tanzania, Lithuania, Sweden, Bahamas  

25 countries on 6 continents — tell your friends doing research on Antartica that we want to go 7 for 7 

Little know fact - New Zealand is part of a submerged continent and Italy is also part of a submerged continent that smashed into europe and was most buried beneath it. Welcome to Plate Tectonics 

Top Cities: Paris by a mile followed by Tampa, Karachi, Georgetown (cayman), LA, Miami, NYC, Nairobi, Cairo, London, Walpole Mass, and Las Vegas  

Lightning round: Only in Boston’s twitter feed had a list of Billboard’s 2009 top songs - immediate reaction to them

#19 Kiss me thru the phone (garbage from Usher, he’s better than that)

#18 Live your life (Fire)

#17 I know you want me (Our introduction to Mr Worldwide, Mr 305, Pitbull — aka Mr. 1234 uno dos tres quatro

They skipped 16

#15 knock you down (can’t remember it)

#14 Use somebody (KOL’s coming out party was def in 2009)

They skipped 13

#12 Dead and Gone (can’t remember it)

#11 You belong to me (taylor swift’s coming out party in 2009 as well)

They skipped 10

#9 Heartless - can’t remember it

#8 Single Ladies (FIRE - prob most popular song on this list)

They Skipped 7

#6 Right Round (can’t remember it)

#5 Love Story (T Swift Killing it)

#4 I got a Feeling (Looking back, Black Eyed Peas we jumping the shark soon after 2009)

#3 Just Dance (Lady Gaga blew up in 2009)

#2 Poker Face (Like I just said Lady Gaga blew up in 2009) - this song is fire still

#1 Boom Boom Pow — this song looking back, was the beginning of the end for Blacked Eyed Peas magical run

Take aways - Taylor Swift, Pitbull, Lady Gaga, Kings of Leon were the Big Pop Music winners in 2009 - and they all kept it rolling