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alipeeps did this ... so I thought I'd do it too. Looked like fun! Oh, this is going to be so embarrassing, though...Soundtrack of My Life - Meme
1. The first single you ever brought
2. Your favourite current song
3. The song that's been stuck in your head all day
4. The song that reminds you of old school friends
5. The song that makes you think of summer holidays
6. Your karaoke song (or the one you'd sing if you were drunk brave enough)
7. The song that reminds you of your significant other
8. Your favorite driving song
9. The artist who appears most in your record collection
10. The artist who makes you turn the radio off
11. The song that always makes you cry
12. The song you play when you need cheering up
1. The first single you ever brought
Oh God ... *hides under desk* I do remember this -- Richard Marx, "Right Here Waiting". You can all defriend me now.
2. Your favourite current song
Does current mean "new" music, or just what I'm listening to the most at the moment? Going off definition #2, this changes on an almost-daily basis, but at the moment *checks iTunes* I think it's a toss-up between Carbon Leaf's "What About Everything" and "Life in a Northern Town" by Dream Academy, with a side of "Daughter" by Pearl Jam.
3. The song that's been stuck in your head all day
Well, now that I've typed the above, "Life in a Northern Town" is stuck there. Dammit.
4. The song that reminds you of old school friends
Hmm! What seems to happen is that I'll hear a song I haven't heard in ages, and it'll knock loose that specific sense of nostalgia -- but I can't really say, "Oh, yes, THAT song!" ... it's usually the ones that I'd forgotten about until I hear them. Perhaps what comes closest is Meredith Brooks' self-titled album; it's a little difficult for me to listen to it, because a close friend of mine introduced me to it around the time that another friend of ours committed suicide, and it's closely tied up with those bad memories for me. But it always makes me think of that particular group of really good friends that I used to have, some of whom I'm still close to.
5. The song that makes you think of summer holidays
It's been almost 10 years since I was in college (oh God, that long? *feels old*), let alone high school, so this is a bit of a hard one to answer. *cheats by looking at iTunes playlist for inspiration* You know, I tend to think of "Morning Morgantown" (Joni Mitchell) in that context; it makes me think of summer, and sun, and holidays.
6. Your karaoke song (or the one you'd sing if you were drunk brave enough)
I don't do karaoke, but the one I can never resist singing along to, or just singing while I'm doing housework or whatnot, is "City of New Orleans" by Arlo Guthrie. My dad was a folk singer and he always used to sing that song with us when we were little kids.
7. The song that reminds you of your significant other
Ha, everyone is going to laugh at this, but it's "Friends in Low Places" by Garth Brooks. I realized awhile back, to my utter shock and a small amount of horror, that this is the closest thing we seem to have to "our song". There *is* a story behind that, but it's kind of a long one.
8. Your favorite driving song
"Life is a Highway" by Tom Cochrane. Definitely. And I vidded Supernatural to it! I couldn't help myself.
9. The artist who appears most in your record collection
It's probably the Moody Blues, because my sister and I both adored the Moodies when we were teenagers and between the two of us, had pretty much every album they ever produced, including the live ones. But most of the albums were actually hers ... So probably that or U2; I know I have quite a bit of U2 also, but I've never pursued them with the single-minded intensity that we devoted to the Moody Blues. I'm not really a person who tends to buy every album by a given singer; I'm more likely to buy one or two albums or cherry-pick songs on iTunes.
10. The artist who makes you turn the radio off
Right now Tim McGraw and Gwen Stefani are running neck-and-neck in Friendshipper's Personal Olympics of Musical Horribleness. I would like to set Tim's guitar on fire and beat Gwen Stefani to death with it.
11. The song that always makes you cry
I don't really cry at music -- usually it's the associations that I have with a song (like the Meredith Brooks album I mentioned above), not really the song itself. And sometimes it's extraordinarily silly things -- recently, for example, the song "Solsbury Hill" by Peter Gabriel always makes me feel like crying because of a well-made but depressing songvid I saw not too long ago. How sad is that?
12. The song you play when you need cheering up
"Soak up the Sun" by Sheryl Crow and "Vintage Wine" by the Moody Blues never fail to make me happy. And Weird Al is a lot of help as pick-me-up music, too.
Any more questions? There should be more...
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Oh God ... *hides under desk* I do remember this -- Richard Marx, "Right Here Waiting". You can all defriend me now.
Oh wow... I used to LOVE that song! And it's one of the first singles I ever bought too (yup, on 45" vinyl! :D). In fact.. *ahem* I have an odd feeling I may even have bought the album at some point... possibly on tape... *blushes*
*iz so old* :D
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