Music meme. Show. Tired.
1) If you'd like to play along, reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2) You then list (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 (or 6 or 7) songs that start with that letter (feel free to explain why you chose the songs).
3) Then, as I'm doing here, you'll post the list to your journal with the instructions.
Got the letter 'c' from dreamer-98. :)
Want to hear the music? Go here.
Changes by David Bowie - Why? Because everything this man does speaks to me and causes me to grin and I'd give away my lesbian-only card just to follow him around. He doesn't have to love me back, it's all cool. I just want to love his voice and music until the day I die.
Cheerleader by Grizzly Bear - I forever connect this song to a story I wrote, one about youth and growing up and falling in love and fucking up good things. And this song is sweetly bitter, wonderfully broken and is as delicate as hands slowly reaching out to be held.
Can't You Hear Me Knockin' by The Rolling Stones - Straight-ahead rock song, with supreme guitar riffs that are dirty and raw. The vocals are not the point, which is rare for a Stones song (in my opinion, 'coz you usually cannot ignore Mick's voice too much), they are the accompaniment this time around and it works so well.
Cheated Hearts by Yeah Yeah Yeahs - You must sing this out loud. You must remember how it feels to have your heart broken. You must drive down a highway, wind hitting your face, and scream. You don't have to be sixteen. You don't have to give up on love. You don't have to fix it all right now. Just listen. Just rock out.
Check the Technique by Gangstarr - I wore this cassette tape out as a little twelve/thirteen year old girl, putting it in my Walkman before I would walk down to meet the school bus. And I would memorize the lyrics, so I could 'flow' along as fast as Guru (R.I.P.). Classic rap still makes me happy.
Cherish the Day by Sade - When I want to believe in how well the heart can love and how easy it can be to feel affection for another person, it is this song that I hear. Buried somewhere in my soul, that's where this pleasure resides and is all too eager to be given away.
Closet Astrologer by The Ruby Suns - Something about this song is so damn romantic, even if you never associate it with a person at all. In love with nature or in love with running down a street or in love with laughter. I don't know how to explain it. I feel like a new door opens every time I listen to this.
Cloudbusting by Kate Bush - My all-time favorite Kate Bush song, beating out the familiarity of 'Running Up That Hill' and still better than the wonderful sadness that is 'Army Dreamers'. I love the violins and the march-march-march of the beat. I love her voice and how it drags one minute and how it soars the next. I love how she is telling a true story, painting it in layers and sweeping you up into it.
Cold Pizza For Breakfast by Christine Lavin - It was the first song I heard on WNCW and it is the song that made me think WNCW was something awesome. But aside from this turn of events, the song itself is funny and clever and oh so simply true.
Cold pizza is one of best breakfast choices ever and you know it.
Come As You Are by Nirvana - 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' had not sold me on Nirvana, oddly enough, but this song captured me. That repeating deep-twang riff, as if you are stuck underwater and all turned around, it is special because nothing ever quite sounded like it. After Kurt Cobain died, I would listen to this and it took on a new meaning, took on a new level of quiet desperation. Was that always there? Or did I just need to find a reason for such things as suicide? Maybe both.
Coyote by Joni Mitchell - I drove my ex-girlfriend crazy with this song...and this artist in general. But Joni Mitchell's Hejira is an amazing album and this is a great track in every way - lyrically, she is so tight and perfect, and the music is rambling like a southwest highway. She is a master of making love a metaphor and still more real than anything else. [Sidenote - the version that Mixpod has is live and with The Band, so it is a bit different than the original.]
Crucify by Tori Amos - You've been here. You've been here and you know what it feels like, to judge yourself, to rip yourself up and tear yourself down. This was the mantra in my youth, all my insecurities that I would beat up and then lock away, a whipping boy underneath my skin that I didn't know how to let go of or how to love. Even now, when I hear this song, there are things I recall and wounds I can still touch. How one person could vocalize this so beautifully just blows my mind to this day.
The Cutter by Echo & the Bunnymen - Do I need a more valid reason to choose this song beyond the fact that it is a prime cut of 80's New Wave goodness? Nope, didn't think so.
Yea. I went overboard. ;)
/ / /
The show was good. The compliment I got was stunning, to say the least.
Not sure how I made it home, because my head was lolling around the whole time. Slept until almost three, but the overwhelming heat in my bedroom woke me up.
Great time out yesterday with Justin & Travis. Had a Red Stripe and some sweet potato fries... and some garlic knots... and some really tasty chicken wings in an arrabiata sauce. We went the finger-food route.
Will be meeting the boys on the 25th in Asheville for dinner, drinks and - finally - club dancing. YES.
Saw Bri for the first time in years. Went surprisingly well.
So glad I have tomorrow off. Might go for a hike around Price Lake with my mother.
Oh! Saw a deer and two foxes. It was pretty awesome. :D
2) You then list (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 (or 6 or 7) songs that start with that letter (feel free to explain why you chose the songs).
3) Then, as I'm doing here, you'll post the list to your journal with the instructions.
Got the letter 'c' from dreamer-98. :)
Want to hear the music? Go here.
Changes by David Bowie - Why? Because everything this man does speaks to me and causes me to grin and I'd give away my lesbian-only card just to follow him around. He doesn't have to love me back, it's all cool. I just want to love his voice and music until the day I die.
Cheerleader by Grizzly Bear - I forever connect this song to a story I wrote, one about youth and growing up and falling in love and fucking up good things. And this song is sweetly bitter, wonderfully broken and is as delicate as hands slowly reaching out to be held.
Can't You Hear Me Knockin' by The Rolling Stones - Straight-ahead rock song, with supreme guitar riffs that are dirty and raw. The vocals are not the point, which is rare for a Stones song (in my opinion, 'coz you usually cannot ignore Mick's voice too much), they are the accompaniment this time around and it works so well.
Cheated Hearts by Yeah Yeah Yeahs - You must sing this out loud. You must remember how it feels to have your heart broken. You must drive down a highway, wind hitting your face, and scream. You don't have to be sixteen. You don't have to give up on love. You don't have to fix it all right now. Just listen. Just rock out.
Check the Technique by Gangstarr - I wore this cassette tape out as a little twelve/thirteen year old girl, putting it in my Walkman before I would walk down to meet the school bus. And I would memorize the lyrics, so I could 'flow' along as fast as Guru (R.I.P.). Classic rap still makes me happy.
Cherish the Day by Sade - When I want to believe in how well the heart can love and how easy it can be to feel affection for another person, it is this song that I hear. Buried somewhere in my soul, that's where this pleasure resides and is all too eager to be given away.
Closet Astrologer by The Ruby Suns - Something about this song is so damn romantic, even if you never associate it with a person at all. In love with nature or in love with running down a street or in love with laughter. I don't know how to explain it. I feel like a new door opens every time I listen to this.
Cloudbusting by Kate Bush - My all-time favorite Kate Bush song, beating out the familiarity of 'Running Up That Hill' and still better than the wonderful sadness that is 'Army Dreamers'. I love the violins and the march-march-march of the beat. I love her voice and how it drags one minute and how it soars the next. I love how she is telling a true story, painting it in layers and sweeping you up into it.
Cold Pizza For Breakfast by Christine Lavin - It was the first song I heard on WNCW and it is the song that made me think WNCW was something awesome. But aside from this turn of events, the song itself is funny and clever and oh so simply true.
Cold pizza is one of best breakfast choices ever and you know it.
Come As You Are by Nirvana - 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' had not sold me on Nirvana, oddly enough, but this song captured me. That repeating deep-twang riff, as if you are stuck underwater and all turned around, it is special because nothing ever quite sounded like it. After Kurt Cobain died, I would listen to this and it took on a new meaning, took on a new level of quiet desperation. Was that always there? Or did I just need to find a reason for such things as suicide? Maybe both.
Coyote by Joni Mitchell - I drove my ex-girlfriend crazy with this song...and this artist in general. But Joni Mitchell's Hejira is an amazing album and this is a great track in every way - lyrically, she is so tight and perfect, and the music is rambling like a southwest highway. She is a master of making love a metaphor and still more real than anything else. [Sidenote - the version that Mixpod has is live and with The Band, so it is a bit different than the original.]
Crucify by Tori Amos - You've been here. You've been here and you know what it feels like, to judge yourself, to rip yourself up and tear yourself down. This was the mantra in my youth, all my insecurities that I would beat up and then lock away, a whipping boy underneath my skin that I didn't know how to let go of or how to love. Even now, when I hear this song, there are things I recall and wounds I can still touch. How one person could vocalize this so beautifully just blows my mind to this day.
The Cutter by Echo & the Bunnymen - Do I need a more valid reason to choose this song beyond the fact that it is a prime cut of 80's New Wave goodness? Nope, didn't think so.
Yea. I went overboard. ;)
/ / /
The show was good. The compliment I got was stunning, to say the least.
Not sure how I made it home, because my head was lolling around the whole time. Slept until almost three, but the overwhelming heat in my bedroom woke me up.
Great time out yesterday with Justin & Travis. Had a Red Stripe and some sweet potato fries... and some garlic knots... and some really tasty chicken wings in an arrabiata sauce. We went the finger-food route.
Will be meeting the boys on the 25th in Asheville for dinner, drinks and - finally - club dancing. YES.
Saw Bri for the first time in years. Went surprisingly well.
So glad I have tomorrow off. Might go for a hike around Price Lake with my mother.
Oh! Saw a deer and two foxes. It was pretty awesome. :D