A meme, with a twist.
Stolen from Nina! If you're tagged, Facebook folks, that means I'm interested in your answers. Please tag me in your response so I can read them!
Music and memory are tied together. Everybody hears songs that remind them of certain times, or situations, or memories. Put your playlist on shuffle, listen to the songs...and without skipping put what the first 20 songs remind you of!! Ready? GO!
Song 1: The Smiths - "You've Got Everything Now" This song reminds me of Nina, because we spend most of our time making fun of Morrissey. Also because of the line, "I've never had a job because I don't want one", which is pretty much true of the both of us. Even though I've had jobs. But I still didn't want them. Work is a four letter word, Moz.
Song 2: Gogol Bordello - "God-Like" This reminds me of my 20th birthday party when Zach brought me my first GB CD and Amber taught everyone to hoop properly, even though this song would be horrible to hoop to.
Song 3: The Smiths - "Miserable Lie" Okay, if you don't like the Smiths, you had better quit it now. I have 5885 songs on my iTunes, and 332 of them are The Smiths. That's like, 17%. Except this song doesn't really remind me anything except that 90% of the time, I have no idea what Moz is talking about, but god, I love the man. I'd like to see HIS underwear... XD
Song 4: Current 93 - "Moonlight, Or Other Dreams..." Oh, okay, this again reminds me of Nina, and how the first time she played this band (man) for me, I had no idea whether or not this man was trying to be serious or funny. I still don't know for sure.
Song 5: Eiffel 65 - "Too Much of Heaven" This is where my love of techno sort of started. Well, that and video games. This song reminds me of my friend Linz and I. We loved these guys, and we could come up with kill dance routines and write killer fan fiction to these songs. Excusably, I was 13.
Song 6: Simple Plan - "Meet You There" Oh, like this shit isn't still on your iTunes. This reminds me of how much I used to like Simple Plan...until I realized that they weren't joking. This is actually a pretty okay song, though. ...SHUT UP SO WHAT IF I STILL KINDA LIKE SIMPLE PLAN.
Song 7: The Clarks - "Rain" This song makes me cry like a silly boy. It's from The Clark's first CD, which I didn't even OWN on CD. I had it on a fucking TAPE. This was mine and my dad's thing, and it reminds me of going to concerts with him and drunkenly talking about music and my first cigarette and now I kind of want to cry. +sniff+ It also kind of reminds me of the really kind of sappy email my dad wrote to me when I decided to go to college about how proud he was of me, and how he kind of cried when Chris asked him to marry me, and how he told me it was okay if I didn't think college was my thing, and thank you very much, iTunes, now I'm fucking crying.
Song 8: Dead Can Dance - "The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove" This song reminds me of my good friend William the Bloody and the ridiculous number of ridiculous CDs I've won from his ridiculous site. :)
Song 9: Queens of the Stone-Age - "No One Knows" That's pretty appropriate. I don't know what this song reminds me of, except that I kick ass at Guitar Hero. Oh, and that these bass grooves are awesome.
Song 10: The Clarks - "This Old House is Burning Down Tonight" SHUT UP I LOVE THE CLARKS AND THE SMITHS AND THIS IS WHERE I LEARNED SARCASM. XD
Song 11: The Smiths - "Handsome Devil" Look, I told you this would happen. This song makes me want to put on something naughty and dance.
Song 12: Nitin Sawhney - "Koyal" This song is so beautiful. It reminds me of hosting my radio show, because I used to play this song constantly, because I think everyone should listen to more Hindi-language Indian low-fi. It was nice, that show, but I wouldn't do it again.
Song 13: Tom Waits - "The Briar and the Rose" He is so drunk. He has to be. This song reminds me that I have whiskey in my freezer, and also, that you can smoke two packs a day and have an amazing voice. Here I go. I'm kidding, I only drink when I watch hockey to make me extra aggressive. :p
Song 14: Enya - "A Day without Rain" This reminds me of when I still lived with my dad. We used to have all of those music channels on the satellite TV, and I would always put on the new-age channel and have it play me to sleep when I was sad or lonely, and I think I learned about 200 Enya songs by osmosis (technically diffusion, since osmosis only refers to water, which also might work, because this song is about rain, or maybe not; it's the lack thereof). I am also not ashamed that I know 200+ Enya songs. This is probably one of favorites. It's currently putting my neurotic cat to sleep.
Song 15: No Doubt - "Comforting Lie" Let's play how many songs does Melissa have with the words "rain" or "lie" in them. Everything No Doubt reminds me of Colleen, who rocks my socks, that crazy bitch. We owned RHS drama class, all four years. No one will ever out-awesome us.
Song 16: Franz Ferdinand - "Take Me Out" This reminds me that no one knows what this song is actually about (IT IS NOT ABOUT A BLIND DATE IT IS ABOUT SNIPERS). It also reminds me of Sabryna and all of the days we would sit around listening to "Michael", giggling at the lyrics before we practically wore out the CD. Then we moved to Coldplay and REM. And now I listen to the Smiths. Gee, I wonder how that happened.
Song 17: The Who - "My Generation" "People try to shut us d-d-down / just 'cause our music gets around/Old folks act like total noobs / get off our net; you block the tubes/Why don't you all just d-d-disconnect / and don't try an' grok our d-d-dialect/I'm not tryin' to cause a big s-s-sensation / I'm just bloggin' bout my generation". With thanks to XKCD.
Song 18: The Smiths - "The Queen is Dead" Oh, Jesus Christ, Morrissey, how much attention do you need. That's what this song reminds me of. How much of an attention whore Stephen Patrick Morrissey is. Also that I have an uncle named Stephen and a brother called Patrick, therefore, my first born son shall be called Morrissey.
Song 19: Eva Cassidy - "Time after Time" Wow, this song reminds me of memories. (Which is a GNR lyric...) But I don't mean that as a pun, it reminds me of remembering, of second semester freshman year and gallons of tears and buckets and laughs and a whole lot of emotional trauma that probably saved me a lot of grief later in life. Thank you iTunes. More crying. Especially after tonight. :\
Song 20: Guns n' Roses - "Nightrain" This song reminds me that I have some heroin in the... oh, wait, never mind. Nah, it reminds me of long fucking drives and screaming all of the lyrics of Appetite for Destruction with Chris like we knew what we were talking about. Also, that my mom and dad used to put that album on for me when I was a baby as a lullaby, and by the time Sweet Child o' Mine finished, I was totally zonked out. Oh. That explains a lot. It also explains why I smoke my cigarettes with style. :)
~*~
WELP THAT'S IT. It's your turn. If you can beat my count of Smiths songs without cheating, I will give you a cookie. And a Kleenex, because you'll probably need it. You know. For tears. Yeah. Exactly. Tears. Morrissey isn't a sexy bastard at all. Tears.
...Also, let's play how many of these songs are from the 80s/early 90s. Actually, here's an easier game. Let's play how many of these songs are new.
Music and memory are tied together. Everybody hears songs that remind them of certain times, or situations, or memories. Put your playlist on shuffle, listen to the songs...and without skipping put what the first 20 songs remind you of!! Ready? GO!
Song 1: The Smiths - "You've Got Everything Now" This song reminds me of Nina, because we spend most of our time making fun of Morrissey. Also because of the line, "I've never had a job because I don't want one", which is pretty much true of the both of us. Even though I've had jobs. But I still didn't want them. Work is a four letter word, Moz.
Song 2: Gogol Bordello - "God-Like" This reminds me of my 20th birthday party when Zach brought me my first GB CD and Amber taught everyone to hoop properly, even though this song would be horrible to hoop to.
Song 3: The Smiths - "Miserable Lie" Okay, if you don't like the Smiths, you had better quit it now. I have 5885 songs on my iTunes, and 332 of them are The Smiths. That's like, 17%. Except this song doesn't really remind me anything except that 90% of the time, I have no idea what Moz is talking about, but god, I love the man. I'd like to see HIS underwear... XD
Song 4: Current 93 - "Moonlight, Or Other Dreams..." Oh, okay, this again reminds me of Nina, and how the first time she played this band (man) for me, I had no idea whether or not this man was trying to be serious or funny. I still don't know for sure.
Song 5: Eiffel 65 - "Too Much of Heaven" This is where my love of techno sort of started. Well, that and video games. This song reminds me of my friend Linz and I. We loved these guys, and we could come up with kill dance routines and write killer fan fiction to these songs. Excusably, I was 13.
Song 6: Simple Plan - "Meet You There" Oh, like this shit isn't still on your iTunes. This reminds me of how much I used to like Simple Plan...until I realized that they weren't joking. This is actually a pretty okay song, though. ...SHUT UP SO WHAT IF I STILL KINDA LIKE SIMPLE PLAN.
Song 7: The Clarks - "Rain" This song makes me cry like a silly boy. It's from The Clark's first CD, which I didn't even OWN on CD. I had it on a fucking TAPE. This was mine and my dad's thing, and it reminds me of going to concerts with him and drunkenly talking about music and my first cigarette and now I kind of want to cry. +sniff+ It also kind of reminds me of the really kind of sappy email my dad wrote to me when I decided to go to college about how proud he was of me, and how he kind of cried when Chris asked him to marry me, and how he told me it was okay if I didn't think college was my thing, and thank you very much, iTunes, now I'm fucking crying.
Song 8: Dead Can Dance - "The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove" This song reminds me of my good friend William the Bloody and the ridiculous number of ridiculous CDs I've won from his ridiculous site. :)
Song 9: Queens of the Stone-Age - "No One Knows" That's pretty appropriate. I don't know what this song reminds me of, except that I kick ass at Guitar Hero. Oh, and that these bass grooves are awesome.
Song 10: The Clarks - "This Old House is Burning Down Tonight" SHUT UP I LOVE THE CLARKS AND THE SMITHS AND THIS IS WHERE I LEARNED SARCASM. XD
Song 11: The Smiths - "Handsome Devil" Look, I told you this would happen. This song makes me want to put on something naughty and dance.
Song 12: Nitin Sawhney - "Koyal" This song is so beautiful. It reminds me of hosting my radio show, because I used to play this song constantly, because I think everyone should listen to more Hindi-language Indian low-fi. It was nice, that show, but I wouldn't do it again.
Song 13: Tom Waits - "The Briar and the Rose" He is so drunk. He has to be. This song reminds me that I have whiskey in my freezer, and also, that you can smoke two packs a day and have an amazing voice. Here I go. I'm kidding, I only drink when I watch hockey to make me extra aggressive. :p
Song 14: Enya - "A Day without Rain" This reminds me of when I still lived with my dad. We used to have all of those music channels on the satellite TV, and I would always put on the new-age channel and have it play me to sleep when I was sad or lonely, and I think I learned about 200 Enya songs by osmosis (technically diffusion, since osmosis only refers to water, which also might work, because this song is about rain, or maybe not; it's the lack thereof). I am also not ashamed that I know 200+ Enya songs. This is probably one of favorites. It's currently putting my neurotic cat to sleep.
Song 15: No Doubt - "Comforting Lie" Let's play how many songs does Melissa have with the words "rain" or "lie" in them. Everything No Doubt reminds me of Colleen, who rocks my socks, that crazy bitch. We owned RHS drama class, all four years. No one will ever out-awesome us.
Song 16: Franz Ferdinand - "Take Me Out" This reminds me that no one knows what this song is actually about (IT IS NOT ABOUT A BLIND DATE IT IS ABOUT SNIPERS). It also reminds me of Sabryna and all of the days we would sit around listening to "Michael", giggling at the lyrics before we practically wore out the CD. Then we moved to Coldplay and REM. And now I listen to the Smiths. Gee, I wonder how that happened.
Song 17: The Who - "My Generation" "People try to shut us d-d-down / just 'cause our music gets around/Old folks act like total noobs / get off our net; you block the tubes/Why don't you all just d-d-disconnect / and don't try an' grok our d-d-dialect/I'm not tryin' to cause a big s-s-sensation / I'm just bloggin' bout my generation". With thanks to XKCD.
Song 18: The Smiths - "The Queen is Dead" Oh, Jesus Christ, Morrissey, how much attention do you need. That's what this song reminds me of. How much of an attention whore Stephen Patrick Morrissey is. Also that I have an uncle named Stephen and a brother called Patrick, therefore, my first born son shall be called Morrissey.
Song 19: Eva Cassidy - "Time after Time" Wow, this song reminds me of memories. (Which is a GNR lyric...) But I don't mean that as a pun, it reminds me of remembering, of second semester freshman year and gallons of tears and buckets and laughs and a whole lot of emotional trauma that probably saved me a lot of grief later in life. Thank you iTunes. More crying. Especially after tonight. :\
Song 20: Guns n' Roses - "Nightrain" This song reminds me that I have some heroin in the... oh, wait, never mind. Nah, it reminds me of long fucking drives and screaming all of the lyrics of Appetite for Destruction with Chris like we knew what we were talking about. Also, that my mom and dad used to put that album on for me when I was a baby as a lullaby, and by the time Sweet Child o' Mine finished, I was totally zonked out. Oh. That explains a lot. It also explains why I smoke my cigarettes with style. :)
~*~
WELP THAT'S IT. It's your turn. If you can beat my count of Smiths songs without cheating, I will give you a cookie. And a Kleenex, because you'll probably need it. You know. For tears. Yeah. Exactly. Tears. Morrissey isn't a sexy bastard at all. Tears.
...Also, let's play how many of these songs are from the 80s/early 90s. Actually, here's an easier game. Let's play how many of these songs are new.