The soundtrack of my life

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Last night we had a great home group at our place and then when everyone left Steve told me about a thread on one of his music forums about “songs that give you shivers”. You know the ones - the ones that are so good or so meaningful or so clever or all three that you get that great cold shiver down your back. He told me his list, and it had some on it that I wouldn’t have chosen (Primus, anyone?) but we did have some similarities. We got all excited about it and I dragged out my records to find my favourite on-scratchy-vinyl version of Peter Gabriel’s Here Comes the Flood. Then he played one of his favourites, Sting singing Burn for You live, which is just sublime. Then he got his guitar and sang Still Fighting It by Ben Folds, which is a favourite of both of ours. It was so cool, and reminded me of the early days when we were going out, as we listened to a lot more music together then than we do now. So

Anchor Me - The Muttonbirds
Book of Love - Peter Gabriel
Brick - Ben Folds Five
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
Bursting Through - Bic Runga
Come Down in Time - Sting
Dominion Road - The Muttonbirds
Fields of Gold - Sting
Fix you - Coldplay
Forty Mile Town - Eric Johnson
Goldilocks - Kings X
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Here Comes the Flood - Peter Gabriel
Home Again - Shihad
Hounds of Winter - Sting
In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins
Lovetown - Peter Gabriel
Lilli Marlene - Vera Lynn
Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
Mrs Potter’s Lullaby - Counting Crows
My Sweet Carolina - Ryan Adams
Nightswimming - REM
Pacifier - Shihad
Silent in the Morning - Phish
Sky Blue - Peter Gabriel
Someone - The Rembrandts
Spoon - Dave Matthews Band with Alanis Morrissette
Still Fighting It - Ben Folds
Sunshower - Chris Cornell
Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
The Burning Down - Kings X
The Cross - Prince
The Luckiest - Ben Folds Five
The Space Between - Dave Matthews Band
True Companion - Marc Cohn
Unlisted - Coldplay
Washing of the Water - Peter Gabriel
Waste - Phish
White Cliffs of Dover - Vera Lynn
Who Loves you More - Plankeye

And yes, there’s lots of Peter Gabriel. Because he’s a genius.