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charliesmumFirstly, thanks to everyone who responded to my post from yesterday. I didn't write it for the compliments, it was more of a self-mock, really, but it is nice to be told nice things. So thanks.
Last night just reminded me what the expression "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions" really means. Like Terry Pratchett wrote, we all say we want to do something like reach enlightenment, but we don't want to do all the steps between here and there. He wrote that the road to hell is probably paved with first steps.
Anyway...
I gakked this meme from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
agatha_s, and it's kind of fun, so here it is: Name 3 songs/pieces of music that:
a) make you happy
Stand and Deliver – Adam Ant
Six Months in a leaky Boat Split Enz
Who can it be now – Men at Work
b) make you cry
Winter – Tori Amos - I could probably list almost every song on Little Earthquakes here, but I'll settle for this one because the line "When you gonna love you as much as I do" gets me every time.
Nights in White Satin Moody blues Because this was my friend Jay's favorite song, and Jay died when he was 20, so naturally every time I hear this song I think of him.
Blind Man in the bleachers This one is just embarassing. This is the glurgiest song that ever glurged - manapulative and sickly sweet, an audio 'Chicken Soup for the Soul, and it makes me cry like an idiot.
The song is about a high school football player who never got into the game, but his blind father would come to every game and sit under the speakers so he would hear his son's name called. Finally one day the boy is able to play, and plays an excellent game "And when the game was over the coach asked him to tell/What was it he was thinkin' of that made him play so well/"Well, you knew my Dad was blind", he said, "Tonight he passed away"/"It's the first time that my father's seen me play" Tears me up every time. Damn song.
g) make you nostalgic
Pretty much every song on this list does, but in the interest of the meme:
Fashion – David BowieEarly days of MTV - Alan Hunter, one of the first VJs had a part in the video.
Lady in Red- Chris DeBurgh Reminds me of a really nice night in Curaco with my college roommate and these two Dutch boys who took us out.
867-5309 – Tommy Tune Everyone tried to hold up fingers corrosponding to the 'digits' in the song. Big part of my Freshman year in High School.
c) make you tap your foot/want to dance
Rock Lobster – B52s You try listening to this song without writhing on the floor at the 'down, doooown doooooown part. Go on. Try.
Eat to the Beat – Blondie Fun song. Used to dance in my bedroom to it, singing into the hairbrush.
d) you associate with sex
Lips like Sugar Echo and the Bunnymen Why? Not telling.
Reach for my Revolver – Mission of Burma This song was covered by the band of The Boy I Loved in College. Makes me think of him.
Babe - Styx First song I ever made out to.
e) calm you down
This was tough, because I really couldn't think of a song that actually 'calmed' me. So this is my best guess.
Tangled up in Blue – Bob Dylan Could also go into the nostalgia and sex catagory.
Forever Young Alphaville
Time after Time – Cindi Lauper
f) knot your stomach
Silent all these years Tori Amos About a girl who is dumped by her boyfriend and then finds out she's pregnant. Tori Amos is awesome.
Never coming Home Sting Hits close to home sometimes. Excellent song, off his Sacred Music album. Sample lyric: "But the part of you that knows that you can't take it any more/There's the promise of the future in the creaking of the floor" and "too many of his promises got broken on the way"
Total Eclipse of the Heart – Bonnie TylerJust a very evocative song, I guess.
I don’t like Mondays – Boomtown RatsPeople who think students shooting other students is a new thing should listen to this song.
And that's it. Yes I'm stuck in the 80's,(more or less) but this whole thing is about songs that mean something to you, and let's face it, with some exceptions, the time when music matters most is the time between childhood and adulthood. When you are a teenager music serves as the soundtrack to your life, and when you are older it serves to remind you who you were and who you've become. Plus it gives you the chance to say things like 'is that what they call music nowadays? It's not a patch on the music we had when I was young." and so forth.
Last night just reminded me what the expression "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions" really means. Like Terry Pratchett wrote, we all say we want to do something like reach enlightenment, but we don't want to do all the steps between here and there. He wrote that the road to hell is probably paved with first steps.
Anyway...
I gakked this meme from
agatha_s, and it's kind of fun, so here it is: Name 3 songs/pieces of music that:a) make you happy
Stand and Deliver – Adam Ant
Six Months in a leaky Boat Split Enz
Who can it be now – Men at Work
b) make you cry
Winter – Tori Amos - I could probably list almost every song on Little Earthquakes here, but I'll settle for this one because the line "When you gonna love you as much as I do" gets me every time.
Nights in White Satin Moody blues Because this was my friend Jay's favorite song, and Jay died when he was 20, so naturally every time I hear this song I think of him.
Blind Man in the bleachers This one is just embarassing. This is the glurgiest song that ever glurged - manapulative and sickly sweet, an audio 'Chicken Soup for the Soul, and it makes me cry like an idiot.
The song is about a high school football player who never got into the game, but his blind father would come to every game and sit under the speakers so he would hear his son's name called. Finally one day the boy is able to play, and plays an excellent game "And when the game was over the coach asked him to tell/What was it he was thinkin' of that made him play so well/"Well, you knew my Dad was blind", he said, "Tonight he passed away"/"It's the first time that my father's seen me play" Tears me up every time. Damn song.
g) make you nostalgic
Pretty much every song on this list does, but in the interest of the meme:
Fashion – David BowieEarly days of MTV - Alan Hunter, one of the first VJs had a part in the video.
Lady in Red- Chris DeBurgh Reminds me of a really nice night in Curaco with my college roommate and these two Dutch boys who took us out.
867-5309 – Tommy Tune Everyone tried to hold up fingers corrosponding to the 'digits' in the song. Big part of my Freshman year in High School.
c) make you tap your foot/want to dance
Rock Lobster – B52s You try listening to this song without writhing on the floor at the 'down, doooown doooooown part. Go on. Try.
Eat to the Beat – Blondie Fun song. Used to dance in my bedroom to it, singing into the hairbrush.
d) you associate with sex
Lips like Sugar Echo and the Bunnymen Why? Not telling.
Reach for my Revolver – Mission of Burma This song was covered by the band of The Boy I Loved in College. Makes me think of him.
Babe - Styx First song I ever made out to.
e) calm you down
This was tough, because I really couldn't think of a song that actually 'calmed' me. So this is my best guess.
Tangled up in Blue – Bob Dylan Could also go into the nostalgia and sex catagory.
Forever Young Alphaville
Time after Time – Cindi Lauper
f) knot your stomach
Silent all these years Tori Amos About a girl who is dumped by her boyfriend and then finds out she's pregnant. Tori Amos is awesome.
Never coming Home Sting Hits close to home sometimes. Excellent song, off his Sacred Music album. Sample lyric: "But the part of you that knows that you can't take it any more/There's the promise of the future in the creaking of the floor" and "too many of his promises got broken on the way"
Total Eclipse of the Heart – Bonnie TylerJust a very evocative song, I guess.
I don’t like Mondays – Boomtown RatsPeople who think students shooting other students is a new thing should listen to this song.
And that's it. Yes I'm stuck in the 80's,(more or less) but this whole thing is about songs that mean something to you, and let's face it, with some exceptions, the time when music matters most is the time between childhood and adulthood. When you are a teenager music serves as the soundtrack to your life, and when you are older it serves to remind you who you were and who you've become. Plus it gives you the chance to say things like 'is that what they call music nowadays? It's not a patch on the music we had when I was young." and so forth.
