Today’s category is…
A Relaxing Song.
Here are the staff picks:
Dan Milliken: “Can’t Go Back Now” – The Weepies
This husband-wife duo’s sound is mega-soothing, the perfect match for a song which gently nudges the listener to persevere through reality’s burdens and chores. When I need relaxation, it’s usually because I’ve stopped feeling like I can. This one helps me realign.
Today’s category is…
A Song That Makes You Want to Dance.
Here are the staff picks:
Leeann Ward: “Cotton Eye Joe” – Rednex
Just as I don’t sing, I also don’t do much dancing. A song that makes me want to dance, however, should also double as my guilty pleasure choice. Chalk it up to association with childhood memories.
Today’s category is…
A Song That You Know All the Words To.
Staff Picks:
Kevin Coyne: “My Way” – Frank Sinatra
There’s gotta be a thousand songs I know all of the words to, but I’ll pick this one because it took me a while to anticipate all of the odd rhymes with “my way”, most especially the line about “each careful step along the byway.” Plus I’m just going through a big Sinatra phase these days.
Today’s category is…
A Song That Reminds You of a Certain Event.
The staff picks are:
Tara Seetharam: “I Will…But” – SHeDaisy
My freshmen girls choir performed this song at our high school spring show ten years ago. The photos of me in a tacky red bandana halter top are painful, but the memories of my first taste of high school choir are precious.
Today’s category is…
A Song That Reminds You of Somewhere.
Here are the staff picks:
Leeann Ward: “American Pie” – Don McLean
This song and the song from which it comes remind me of my childhood living room. My dad was almost as much of a music fan as me, but my mom was much more limited in the music that she could tolerate without considering it needless noise. Perhaps having so many children does that to a mother.
Today’s category is… A Song You Hate.
Here are the staff picks:
Dan Milliken: Travie McCoy featuring Bruno Mars
I usually don’t hate music if it’s blatantly awful. That usually makes me love it. (I have especially great affection for the universally maligned “We Built This City” thanks to the efforts of Twitter queen Megan Amram.) What grates on me is the technically listenable stuff that is still, slyly, really bland and stupid. Travie McCoy has some decent verses here, but it all goes to wash in the Bruno Mars chorus, which earned extra hate-points for always tricking me into thinking “Santeria” was coming on the radio last year.
Inspired by a recent trend on Facebook, the staff of Country Universe is launching our tweaked version of The 30 Day Song Challenge.
Every day, the staff will share our picks in a different category. We hope that all of our readers will do the same in the comments!
We’re not limiting ourselves to the country genre. All of us are primarily country fans, but our tastes run wider and deeper than that.
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