Year: 2011

For Day 02 I am supposed to talk about my least favorite song. I thought about this for a while, and I found that I couldn’t really thing of my least favorite song. Honestly, if I don’t like a song, I tend to put it out of my head. There are plenty of songs that I would change the radio station on, but I don’t feel passionate enough about the songs I dislike to keep them in my memory.

So I thought about genres that I don’t like. I wasn’t a big fan of 80’s metal bands, and was going to pick a song by Poison, because I really didn’t like Poison, but honestly, I just couldn’t work up enough ire toward Every Rose Has It’s Thorn or Talk Dirty To Me (although that one was pretty close).

Rap was the next genre that I really dislike, but the rap songs I don’t like, I don’t know, so I that didn’t work.

Then, yesterday morning as I was walking to work it hit me. I knew what my least favorite song is. It’s Ice, Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice. Besides the fact that it’s a stupid song, it adds insult to injury by taking a brilliant song and co-opting it into a really bad song. Therefore, since I don’t want to post the video for a song I don’t like, I’m going to post the video for Under Pressure (which also happens to be my and Scot’s big Karaoke number) by Queen and David Bowie, which is the brilliant song that Vanilla Ice bastardizes to get his big hit.

Why, hello there!  Bet the two of you who have been keeping track didn’t think you’d ever see anything new on here again!  And with Facebook and Tumblr and Twitter and all those other ways of socializing on the web, I honestly didn’t expect to spend anymore time on this page.  But I’ve still got a soft spot for blogs, and when this 30-Day Song Challenge intrigued me enough to try it, I thought I’d revisit our little Just Giblets page and give it a shot.

I’m really terrible with most memes, and I usually never do them, but I enjoy reading them, and have been particularly inspired by Howard’s answers to this challenge over at the Web Pen Blog, so I thought I’d give it a go.  I can’t promise that I will be consistent and post every day for the next thirty days, and I reserve the right to change my response to any particular day’s question five minutes after I’ve posted.  Still, let’s see how this works out, shall we?

So, day one is simultaneously the easiest and most difficult:  Your favorite song.  Everyone has a favorite song.  In fact, everyone probably has several favorite songs.  I have had many over the years, but as far as I can tell, my current favorite song has actually been locked in place for several years, and it’s the first song that pops into my mind when someone asks me what is my favorite song, so I’m going with it.

Kate Bush – Hounds of Love

Kate Bush is without question my favorite musical artist, so it’s appropriate that my favorite song be one of hers.  That said, Hounds of Love didn’t emerge as my favorite song until relatively recently even thought it was released as the title track of Kate’s fifth album in 1985. It was the album’s third single released in the UK on February 24, 1986 and climbed to #18 on the charts.

The driving drum beat and the rhythmic strings propel the song along musically and perfectly underscore the lyrics which use the analogy of a fox hunt to tell the story of a woman who is afraid of surrendering to love with elegance. The lyrics are elegant in their simplicity and their creativity. It’s a perfectly constructed song.