while I draft and load prom/club dresses on eBay
Stolen from kilter
Put your iTunes (iPod, mp3 player) on shuffle, and post the first 25 songs you hear. Include what each song reminds you of.
Me: I skipped songs I didn't know because I have tons of music on my computer and I haven't listened to all of it. Don't ask where I get it. *g*
"The Rock Will Wear Away" by Holly Near. nursedarry. Laying on her bed, discovering feminist and lesbian music, sixteen years old and realizing I was bisexual. Good times.
"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison. Hair Bands of the 1980s, MTV when it actually played videos. Now it makes me think of Rose Wilson, but every song with word rose in it does that.
"No Need To Argue" by the Cranberries. Ireland. Her voice is pure Ireland, haunting and deep and fascinating.
"Relax" by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Again, MTV, and my obsession with all things British New Wave and, look, gay men not looking like stereotypes.
"Walking On Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves. That video! The woman walking and the goofy band guys. Such early 1980s cheese. Me in highschool.
"Minnie the Moocher" covered by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. The rockabilly, swing revival that was some of the first music that drew me out of the classic rock phase I'd been in since 1986. Also, the Blues Brothers.
"Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon. "American Werewolf in London" oddly enough. *g* I always think of that movie when I hear this song, which reminds me of a night babysitting when I watched it and got all freaked out.
"And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" covered by Joan Baez. The movie Gallipoli and a young Mel Gibson before he went all weird. Also, it makes me think of Ireland for some reason even though it's about Australia.
"Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker, Jr. OMG, favorite movie ever! Bill Murray ruled this movie. Sigourney Weaver turned out to be something more than that bitch from Alien. Ghostly blowjobs. Slime. Giant marshmallow guy. Just perfect.
"All You Need Is Love" by the Beatles. One of the sweetest songs I've ever heard. Probably reminds me of happy endings.
"Only The Good Die Young" by Billy Joel. Junior High, rock and roll, singing and dancing in my bedroom and acting like a typical teen.
"Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohn. Walking on the treadmill. I fell in love with this song while exercising and listen to it almost every time I walk.
"I've Got My Mind Set On You" by George Harrison. No clue. Mid 80s college malaise?
"Lay Down Sally" by Eric Clapton. Again, no clue. I just like it.
"American Pie" some horrible fast speed cover. The ORIGINAL reminds me of my grandfather because he had this series of 8 tracks from Time/Life and it was on one of them and I listened to it all the time in the mid-1970s on the 8 track player he later gifted me with (and gave me the 8 tracks which I still have somewhere).
"Hotel California" by the Eagles. 1977, listening every Saturday morning to the Kasey Kasum Top 40 Countdown (and writing them down with stars by the number one song) and, sadly, loving disco music as much as music like this. It's still my favorite Eagles song.
"I Would Die For You" by Jann Arden. Always makes me think of Lynn (syzylynx) and Secrets & Lies (the Buffy/Spike sadly unfinished masterpiece) and the old days in Buffydom. She introduced me to Jann Arden.
"I Don't Like Mondays" by The Boomtown Rats. Live Aid. It's the only Bob Geldoff song I know and always reminds me of taping every second of Live Aid and, in the middle, driving my parents to the airport to see them off to Ireland with Leslie's parents, and Leslie moving in and major partying happening, and I think it was during this time I got the most drunk I've ever been.
"Uncle John's Band" by The Grateful Dead. That John Laroquette show where he managed a bus station because his daughter was a Deadhead. I have weird associations...
"Year of the Cat" by Al Stewart. 1970s again, junior high. I remember thinking it was very sexy.
"Girls Just Want To Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper. Motto of the early college years! Also, professional wrestling, which I was into again.
"Men In Tight" from the Mel Brooks movie. Mel Brooks. A redemption of Costner's Robin Hood (only saved by Alan, of course).
"Summer Loving" from Grease. Going to see the movie with Leslie like six times that summer, singing this song and the others as loud as we could in her dad's study (where the stereo was) while our moms gossiped.
"Another Brick in the Wall Part 2" by Pink Floyd. Summer Institute to Great Britain and riding on tour buses listening to Dark Side of the Moon, my introduction to Floyd, which I bought on tape in London (even though this is obviously not from that album).
"It Doesn't Matter" by Alison Krauss and Union Station. luna_k because she was the first to talk them up on LJ and get me interested. And it's quite possibly I'm hallucinating that. *g*
Okay, I'm stopping now and going to get depressed...
Put your iTunes (iPod, mp3 player) on shuffle, and post the first 25 songs you hear. Include what each song reminds you of.
Me: I skipped songs I didn't know because I have tons of music on my computer and I haven't listened to all of it. Don't ask where I get it. *g*
"The Rock Will Wear Away" by Holly Near. nursedarry. Laying on her bed, discovering feminist and lesbian music, sixteen years old and realizing I was bisexual. Good times.
"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison. Hair Bands of the 1980s, MTV when it actually played videos. Now it makes me think of Rose Wilson, but every song with word rose in it does that.
"No Need To Argue" by the Cranberries. Ireland. Her voice is pure Ireland, haunting and deep and fascinating.
"Relax" by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Again, MTV, and my obsession with all things British New Wave and, look, gay men not looking like stereotypes.
"Walking On Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves. That video! The woman walking and the goofy band guys. Such early 1980s cheese. Me in highschool.
"Minnie the Moocher" covered by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. The rockabilly, swing revival that was some of the first music that drew me out of the classic rock phase I'd been in since 1986. Also, the Blues Brothers.
"Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon. "American Werewolf in London" oddly enough. *g* I always think of that movie when I hear this song, which reminds me of a night babysitting when I watched it and got all freaked out.
"And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" covered by Joan Baez. The movie Gallipoli and a young Mel Gibson before he went all weird. Also, it makes me think of Ireland for some reason even though it's about Australia.
"Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker, Jr. OMG, favorite movie ever! Bill Murray ruled this movie. Sigourney Weaver turned out to be something more than that bitch from Alien. Ghostly blowjobs. Slime. Giant marshmallow guy. Just perfect.
"All You Need Is Love" by the Beatles. One of the sweetest songs I've ever heard. Probably reminds me of happy endings.
"Only The Good Die Young" by Billy Joel. Junior High, rock and roll, singing and dancing in my bedroom and acting like a typical teen.
"Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohn. Walking on the treadmill. I fell in love with this song while exercising and listen to it almost every time I walk.
"I've Got My Mind Set On You" by George Harrison. No clue. Mid 80s college malaise?
"Lay Down Sally" by Eric Clapton. Again, no clue. I just like it.
"American Pie" some horrible fast speed cover. The ORIGINAL reminds me of my grandfather because he had this series of 8 tracks from Time/Life and it was on one of them and I listened to it all the time in the mid-1970s on the 8 track player he later gifted me with (and gave me the 8 tracks which I still have somewhere).
"Hotel California" by the Eagles. 1977, listening every Saturday morning to the Kasey Kasum Top 40 Countdown (and writing them down with stars by the number one song) and, sadly, loving disco music as much as music like this. It's still my favorite Eagles song.
"I Would Die For You" by Jann Arden. Always makes me think of Lynn (syzylynx) and Secrets & Lies (the Buffy/Spike sadly unfinished masterpiece) and the old days in Buffydom. She introduced me to Jann Arden.
"I Don't Like Mondays" by The Boomtown Rats. Live Aid. It's the only Bob Geldoff song I know and always reminds me of taping every second of Live Aid and, in the middle, driving my parents to the airport to see them off to Ireland with Leslie's parents, and Leslie moving in and major partying happening, and I think it was during this time I got the most drunk I've ever been.
"Uncle John's Band" by The Grateful Dead. That John Laroquette show where he managed a bus station because his daughter was a Deadhead. I have weird associations...
"Year of the Cat" by Al Stewart. 1970s again, junior high. I remember thinking it was very sexy.
"Girls Just Want To Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper. Motto of the early college years! Also, professional wrestling, which I was into again.
"Men In Tight" from the Mel Brooks movie. Mel Brooks. A redemption of Costner's Robin Hood (only saved by Alan, of course).
"Summer Loving" from Grease. Going to see the movie with Leslie like six times that summer, singing this song and the others as loud as we could in her dad's study (where the stereo was) while our moms gossiped.
"Another Brick in the Wall Part 2" by Pink Floyd. Summer Institute to Great Britain and riding on tour buses listening to Dark Side of the Moon, my introduction to Floyd, which I bought on tape in London (even though this is obviously not from that album).
"It Doesn't Matter" by Alison Krauss and Union Station. luna_k because she was the first to talk them up on LJ and get me interested. And it's quite possibly I'm hallucinating that. *g*
Okay, I'm stopping now and going to get depressed...