Mewsic Monday Christmas #musicmovesme

 

We are joining the Music Moves Me blog hop today with a Christmas music special.

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Christmas Songs #MewsicMonday 🎄

Happy Mewsic Monday 🎵

 

Hope you are all doing well. Here's an eclectic Christmas music list to get you feeling festive.

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 WHAM! - Last Christmas

BAND AID - Do They Know It's Christmas

CELTIC WOMAN - O Holy Night

TARJA TURUNEN - O Come, O Come Emmanuel 

FLOOR JANSEN AND MARKO HIETALA (of NIGHTWISH) - Ave Maria 

BLACKMORE'S NIGHT - Ding Dong Merrily on High

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Bands Beginning With Letter M #MewsicMonday

Happy Mewsic Monday!

This week it's pick-your-own so we've chosen songs by bands/artists beginning with the letter M.

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 MADNESS - Our House

METALLICA - Nothing Else Matters

PAUL McCARTNEY & GEORGE MICHAEL - Heal the Pain

PAUL McCARTNEY & GEORGE MICHAEL - Drive My Car

PAUL McCARTNEY - Live and Let Die

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Songs About Family/Siblings #MewsicMonday

Happy Mewsic Monday!

Today's theme is chosen by Mewsic Moves Me honorary co-hostess  Stacy Uncorked  

and it's songs about family and/or siblings.

So here is our tracklist referring to family and siblings. 

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GEORGE MICHAEL - Father Figure

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NIGHTWISH - Our Decades In The Sun (with lyrics)

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SISTER SLEDGE - We Are Family

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BLACKMORE'S NIGHT - Sister Gypsy

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FLEETWOOD MAC - Oh Daddy

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ELVIS PRESLEY - Little Sister

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GEORGE MICHAEL - My Mother Had a Brother

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THE BEATLES - In My Life

ELVIS PRESLEY - Don't Cry, Daddy

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Songs That Start With Letter J #MewsicMonday

Happy Monday! 

Today we are looking at songs beginning with the letter J, which is the theme for Mewsic Moves Me as chosen by this month's 4M honorary co-hostess Michelle from Musings & Merriment 

We've picked 4 amazing tracks for you all - most are oldies but goodies!

ELVIS PRESLEY - Jailhouse Rock

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GEORGE MICHAEL - Jesus to a Child

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JOHN LENNON - Jealous Guy

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THE ROLLING STONES - Jumping Jack Flash

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Songs with Fool in the Title #MewsicMovesMe

We hope you had a nice weekend.


For Mewsic Moves Me today the theme is Songs with Fool in the Title, and it was chosen by our good friends Binky and her Granny!

Great theme choice, Binky and Granny 😻

So let's get down to it right away!

THE BEATLES - Fool On The Hill

 GEORGE MICHAEL - Kissing A Fool 

 ARETHA FRANKLIN - Chain of Fools

 

 THE DOORS - Ship of Fools

 

 BELINDA CARLISLE - Fool For Love

 

 THE ROLLING STONES - Fool To Cry

 

 ELVIS PRESLEY - A Fool Such As I

 

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Mewsic Moves Me Valentine Special💘

It's almost Valentine's Day so let's celebrate the theme of love with these beautiful tracks 💕

A favourite LOVE photo of me and Mum taken a few years back.

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Here are four beautiful LOVE SONGS picked by Mum. Sit back and enjoy!

ELVIS PRESLEY - CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE

 This is beautiful. And it's from one of  Mum's fave Elvis movies, Blue Hawaii

 

 THE BEATLES - SOMETHING

Mum found it hard to choose a love song from this band. She is a big Beatles fan and they have so many great tracks about love in all its forms.

 

GEORGE MICHAEL - I CAN'T MAKE YOU LOVE ME

Originally recorded by Bonnie Rait, this version by George Michael truly moves us. We miss this lovely honest man and his amazing talent 💔


 

STEVIE NICKS - HAS ANYONE EVER WRITTEN ANYTHING FOR YOU?

This deeply sad song was written by Stevie for Joe Walsh about the death of his daughter, Emma.

 

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Mewsic Moves Me

I suggested to Mum that since she loves music so much and I quite love it too (when it's not loud and heavy) we should participate in the Monday Mewsic Moves Me blog hop, which is hosted by Curious as a Cathy

We have already done so a couple of times but maybe we should try to make it a regular thing.

Tentative is the theme today, and so here are 4 songs that popped into Mum's head this morning she feels relate to being uncertain.

Is There Something I Should Know by Duran Duran

This is a blast from Mum's teenage years.





If I Can Dream by Elvis Presley 
The first singer that Mum ever heard because my granddad was a fan. This one has always moved her and made her cry. Just hearing the intro makes her teary.

 


Dead Boy's Poem by Nightwish 
This is Mum's favourite band. Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band and she has been a fan since 2007. She discovered them on YouTube and every track of theirs moves her in some way. This one certainly does. When feeling uncertain, worried, or sad, she finds it a very cathartic song.

 


Faith by George Michael 

I love George Michael and Mum does too.
His voice is so velvety smooth and warm and always calms this kitty down!

His slower ballady songs are the ones I enjoy the most, but Mum has picked this one because if you are being tentative, and unsure of things - in Mum's case, she really fears the future. Well, Mum, please, in the words of George, you "Gotta Have Faith!"

 

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Christmas Throwback the Music for Throwback Thursday and Flashback Friday

Nostalgia with Athena and Marie 

First, here is a photo throwback to July 2013

My, what a big paw I have 😸

And now for a special Throwback the Music post. We haven't done one of these for quite a while!

Now, many of you who have been reading our blog for a long time know that Mum struggles with depression and anxiety. She is also an introvert. But burning deep within her is a creative spirit who won't settle which makes her even more depressed. She worries about getting on as she is in her early 50s now and is crazily worried that none of her dreams have come true. Her anxiety has restricted her for so many years.

Being a cat mum is her proudest achievement and she would love to do that forever. But she tells me that to live in the human materialistic world she has to do things other humans find so easy to do.

Talking is not her thing. Especially participating in small talk. That's why she became a writer. It's so much easier for her to communicate her thoughts that way. She does find it hard to talk to people and has gotten worse over the last few years. She is like a cat really as it takes her a while to trust people. 

What I'm leading up to is this:

I believe inside my mother is an extrovert trying to get out. There is nothing wrong with her being an introvert. In fact, it's a gift because it's what makes her HER.

So, to CHALLENGE herself she has made the choice to take the next step up from blogging to become a VLOGGER.

Don't worry. She is not giving up blogging, but she wants to try to build up her YouTube Channel (which she has had for years).

She will also try to build mine up too, but for now, she is concentrating on my Instagram, which is where I seem to be the most popular. I'm popular here in the blogoshere too, which is all thanks to you great guys 💚 We both love Instagram and I have so many more followers than Mum, which she is cool with and says she wouldn't have it any other way. We've started TikTok too, but she's a little confused with that one. It seems to be more for the younger generation.

Have you guys heard of REACTION videos? They are so popular on YouTube it seems.

Mum has become addicted to watching them (mainly reactions to music videos). The vocal coach ones are the best as you gain super tips if you are interested in singing.

Anyway, Mum sings (she says she will record more singing videos) though for the moment she has decided to react to music and we might do reaction to some cats too. You must watch because I'm in some of her reaction videos.

Here I am in two CHRISTMAS ones.

We are reacting to two Christmas songs from 1984. A year that was truly one of Mum's favourites from her teens. She says she went to a lot of concerts that year and most of her favourite musicians from that weird hairstyle decade are in the Band Aid video.

WHAM! LAST CHRISTMAS REACTION 

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MY CAT AND I REACT TO BAND AID'S "DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS" 1984

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Little Kitten in Autumn Garden Flashback

Mum was looking through some old photos of me and saw the one below from 2011.

She used to take me out for a walk around our back garden. That didn't last long because one day I managed to escape the harness as
 I wanted to chase after this intruder cat. This was back at our old house in London. Infuriated by that stupid tom, I took out all my frustrations on Mum as she tried to pick me up and unfortunately, I scratched her arms. This really shocked Mum and made her cry. 

Luckily, even with her bleeding arms, she managed to grab me before I'd jumped over the fence. Once we were indoors I'm pleased to report that Mum was OK - her cuts weren't that deep so she didn't need medical attention - but the tears were streaming down her face due to the shock of how close she was to losing me. Because I'm an indoor cat, she thought I might not want to come home once I got the taste for outdoors. Did she not realize that I needed her just as much as she needed me?

I think Mum and I got closer than ever after that incident, but what makes me really mad is that the inane cat really thought he'd won because he continued to harass me from that day onwards. He would pass by the patio door to annoy me while I was behind it enjoying Birdie TV. He would stick his ugly face in front of me. Idiot!

I'm glad we finally left the nasty bully when we moved to Essex last year. But it took a while and so I had to endure many years of harassment from the idiot :(

The quality of this photo is not so great but the autumn colours look pawmazing.

 

Athena in the autumn of 2011

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1. October is the perfect month for __________________.

2. The most recent purchase I made online was __________________.

3. If I turned invisible for a day, _________.

4.  _________ has gotten me in trouble in the past.

MARIE

1. October is the perfect month to enjoy my favourite season - autumn!

2. The most recent purchase I made online was Andrew Ridgley's memoir Wham! George & Me. 

3. If I turned invisible for a day, I would go for a long walk through the local woods on my own. 

4.  My short-temper has gotten me in trouble in the past. Not real trouble - I'm not a violent person and I'm certainly not violent towards others when I lose it - but I've said things I shouldn't have said to people I care about. 

ATHENA

1. October is the perfect month for extra snuggles with Mum in bed. I need to warm my furs after all!

2. The most recent purchase I made online was nothing! Mum does it all for me.

3. If I turned invisible for a day I would really freak Mum out as she wouldn't be able to find me. As a cat, I have been known to disappear around the house often, thus causing Mum to race around the house calling my name, panic in her voice, only for me to suddenly appear behind her.

4. Nothing has gotten me in trouble in the past. Not that I know of!

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Music Monday Throwback Christmas Special

Some of the best memories for Mum music-wise are from the year 1984. Well, she was 18, ambitious and full of hope for the future, and totally music-mad. It was before she got into rock and metal so she was into the top pop acts of the day. 

Music was great in those days. I particularly enjoy listening to George Michael and Wham with Mum when gets nostalgic. Mum also loved Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran and Paul Young at the time too. 

So today we're sharing some of Mum's music memories from Christmas 1984.

In December of that year, Mum went to 3 live concerts. Spandau Ballet (twice!) earlier in the month and Wham! on Boxing Day. She couldn't get tickets for their Christmas Eve gig, unfortunately. In the previous year, she'd seen Duran Duran at the same venue - Wembley Arena. That was her first ever concert! She tells me the screaming girls ruined it for her because for Mum it's always been about the music. She was never a crazy fangirl, screaming at her idols. No. She wanted to join them on stage, be part of the gang because she dreamed of being a singer.

So here are some songs from December 1984. We hope you enjoy the memories (if you're old enough!)



  Last Christmas by Wham!





Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid 




Round and Round by Spandau Ballet 




Everything She Wants by Wham! (Mum's fave Wham song) 




Love of the Common People by Paul Young (Top of the Pops Christmas Special 1984)




The Reflex by Duran Duran (Top of the Pops Christmas Special1984)


 

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