Distracted at work and i've started a list that i'd like to call "songs that one should play for me if i were to have a brain injury resulting in amnesia and i needed to get my memories back."
“lonely teardrops” – Jackie Wilson. All-time favorite song.
“forever young” – alphaville. For my inner peter-pan complex.
“it’s my life” – talk talk. My breakup song. It’s best when heard at a club post-breakup. Dance it out girl.
“kiss me” – Stephen ‘tin tin’ duffy. This song just makes me happy.
“I’m on fire” – bruce springsteen. childhood and adulthood, lots of memories.
“swamp thing” – chameleons. One of those ‘mmm yeah’ heavy repeat songs.
“skankin to the beat” – fishbone. Not a big fan of fishbone but this song has always made me want to get up and dance. Especially when I was really into ska…and in shape…and in high school. Pick ‘em up. Hup hup!
“fast car” – tracy chapman. Only because it makes me smile remembering being teenagers with Weston and him in goth garb singing this song at the top of his lungs in the car, multiple times. <3
“I wanna be adored” – stone roses. There are so many good memories attached to this song.
“pictures of you” – the cure. Likewise, lots of memories. This one tugs my heart.
“sleeping single” or “paint” – roxette. this brings back days in san francisco when I lived next to the beach in the tiny apartment.
“texture” – Catherine Wheel. Sunny days and repeat (whole album actually).
“finally” – kings of tomorrow. This is one of my i'm super gay songs. It’s also a good song to listen to when I meet someone dreamy.
“daisy chain 4 satan” – thrill kill. Lots of good memories with sara b. and all I have to say about this is “habeeb in looooooooooove.” lol
“yelling in my ear” – Op Ivy. It’s punk and it’s ska – two things I loved in high school, in one band and it was good.
“killing moon” – echo & the bunnymen. Won tickets for the first (and last) time from a radio station (Live105) for a show at the Warfield. Amazing.
“getting’ in the way” – jill scott. For all those people “getting’ in the way of what I’m feeling” and this song makes me feel tough…when I’m not. Favorite lines: “I’ve been a lady up till now. Don’t know how much more I can take…I’m ‘bout to take my rings off, give me some vaseline.”
"we close our eyes" - oingo boingo. happy song puts me in a happy place.
any pet shop boys song - nostalgia-o-rama
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more to come. i need to get back to work.
2 comments:
amazing. love a lot of those songs. i swear, replace the goth guy with carrie foudy and we have the same "fast car" experiance.
yeah! that's rad. i love it. goth guy is not-goth gay man now. so it's not too far off. lol
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