Bands Beginning With Q #MewsicMovesMe

Happy Mewsic Monday! 

 As always, I let Mum pick some tunes to listen to on Mewsic Monday. She has some good taste and she's getting me into bands I've never heard before (she is old, after all) 😻

It's pick-your-own songs today, so we are continuing with our own A-Z theme. Can't believe we're on Q already!!

There are not many bands or artists that Mum has heard songs from that she likes under Q, unfortunately, so here are two Q bands and one Q soundtrack. 

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QUEEN 

Of course, first up it's QUEEN! 

Isn't that who most people think of under bands beginning with the letter Q?

Somebody To Love

Who Wants To Live Forever

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THE Q TIPS

Mum hadn't really heard of The Q-TIPS until she became a fan of their former singer PAUL YOUNG during his solo career in the Eighties. 

SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL

A MAN

QUADROPHENIA

Not a band but an album by The WHO which was turned into a film about Mods and Rockers 

in the late 70s.

 The Real Me 

Love Reign O'er Me

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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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Angels in song titles or lyrics Mewsic Moves Me

Happy Mewsic Monday!

We hope you are well.

Our good friends Binky and Granny are co-hosts of Mewsic Moves Me this April and we're loving their themes. This week it's songs with Angel in the title. That's an easy one as there are so many to choose from.

Here's some that Mum has chosen. She's chosen only three as she's late with this post! We've gone with 3 that we think most of you will not have heard before.

DURAN DURAN - Like An Angel

One of Mum's favourite Duran Duran songs. Yeah, she was a Duranie back in the day she tells me. The first band she ever saw live in concert - and that was in the last century, in 1983, at Wembley Arena.

NIGHTWISH - Angels Fall First

This beautiful track is from Nightwish's first album Angels Fall First (1997). Tarja Turunen was the original singer from 1996 until 2005.

 

WITHIN TEMPTATION - Angels

A beautiful song from this Dutch symphonic metal band.

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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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Symphonic Metal Day

We had no idea that there was a Symphonic Metal Day,  so here we are, posting some Symphonic Metal music. This is Mum's favourite genre, and as she has been feeling quite sad lately, I thought I'd let her indulge herself. Music always makes her feel better. Not as better as I can make her feel, but she always calms down a bit after she's listened to some tunes.

Symphonic Metal has been Mum's favourite music genre since she discovered the Finnish metal band Nightwish 11 years ago. She finds the music so inspiring - it's a mixture of classical music with metal. Mum has always loved classical music and she's always loved rock and metal.

The music of Nightwish, and indeed other bands of the same genre, has inspired Mum's writing. It's what she listened to while writing her fantasy novels.

I like a lot of what Mum listens to and I quite like Nightwish. She has almost everything they have released so that means instrumental versions of their albums and orchestral ones. I favour the orchestral versions as cats do tend to love classical and instrumental music. Metal is a bit too loud for my liking.

I love soundtracks too - Outlander is one of my faves. But let's get back to Symphonic, shall we?

Here are some of Mum's favourites.

I like the first one the best because it's a nice song to nap to. I like it when Mum does her singing and she performs this song. Only in her bedroom, mind you.


The next song is Mum's favourite.