Posting a Blue Monday Moment.

Right then, first of all you have sign up and gain a profile. As usual on sites like this think of a user name and a password and away you go. As soon as you have done this you will able to post your Blue Monday Moment’s like the one below onto the site and you will be able to vote on other peoples. But have a serious think before you post and try & remember the stuff that’s really important to you. Make sure the song is over two years old so the memory really is a memory and not just something that happened last week or a song that will be important in the future. It’s all about what has gone before, not you think will be important in the future.

So anyway, here’s another one of mine that we can use as an example.

Let’s Go Crazy – Prince

And so after girls, we get onto cars. Everyone has a first car song and this one was mine. Not my own of course, I was still too skint but I had just passed my test so my new friend A took me out to look round east K for a car for yours truly. Now it was a lovely spring Sunday, he’d just got the Purple Rain soundtrack on cassette and his car was a green Triumph Spitfire so you can probably guess the rest. Its 1985 so no speed cameras, petrol’s cheap, no police around every corner, just the joy of motoring with the roof off. We even did a handbrake turn in a car park full of tourists. That’s right, a hand brake turn! And this song was playing as the rear of car came round as everyone stared at us, thinking “what a pair of pillocks”. We’d have got our number taken and six months inside for that now. Didn’t find a car for me but I do remember we spent most of the day laughing.

Once you have written a Moment like this you can then decide what different sub sections where you would like it appear in from the list below.

Sub sections:

Heartbeat, increasing heartbeat (the 1^st song you can really remember.)

Children (songs from your childhood)

Our House (family)

Baggy trousers (school)

This summer (holidays)

Last Christmas (err…Christmas)

Last day of June. (first love)

Cars. (er..cars)

Back on the chain gang (work)

Saturday night (going out)

No Sleep til Brooklyn! (gigs)

Delirious (health)

You’re my best friend (friends)

Nobody Takes Me Seriously (funny)

Play to win (sports)

Signed, sealed & delivered. (true love)

Going to the Chapel (marriage)

Keep it dark (creepy or weird)

Away down the river. (death)

Blue Monday Moment. (memories of only that song.)

So if it was the memory above you would definitely put it into the ‘Cars’ sub section. You might also want to put it into the ‘Friends’ section as well. Once you’ve decided where you want to put it, press the post button and on it goes (after a short delay for moderation.) It now appears in your profile and in the selected sub section. If you are also the newest post, it will automatically get placed on the home page for a fleeting moment of glory (yea!). As you may have noticed from having got this far, non members can view the front page, the sub sections and individual profiles. But of course they can’t post Blue Monday Moments or vote….

Now here comes the fun bit for when you sign up to be a member. The actual sub sections are in order of posting but you will see that there are also some charts listed on the home page. This means you get to vote on what you think the best Blue Monday Moments are. But remember don’t vote just because you like the song, if you have a Moment related to that song or if you work for the record company and want to promote that artist. You should vote on how much you enjoyed reading the Moment. The charts are;

Top voted today

Top voted this week

Top voted this month

Top voted this year

All time