Affecting Music meme
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mtfierce's (Thbbbt! A fair cop, though. :) )
List a song, group, or album that:
reminds you of an ex-lover/interest:
The Cyrkle, "Red Rubber Ball"
reminds you of an ex-friend:
Cat Stevens's "Peace Train." Justin Tremaine Wilson, I remember us sitting on your bed, you wiggle/dancing and clapping along to this with great campiness... Awesome. Justin Wilson would be another one of the few people I've lost touch with (along with Vanessa Kelley) who I'd like to find again... One of the few sane people in the Arapahoe High School theater program. He went off to college, St. Olaf's in Minnesota, a year before me, last I was able to track after college he had a part in "The Mikado..."
makes you cry:
Used to be David Bowie's "Space Oddity". But I am now inured to the sorrow of freezing to death alone in a way that will probably sink the space program.
makes you laugh:
I generally need to be surprised by a new song to laugh at it, but the closest is probably from the Sweeney Todd soundtrack, "A Little Priest". "I mean, with the price of meat what it is, when you get it... if you get it..." "Hunh!" "...Good, you've got it..." Hee. Oo! Or Tom Lehrer's "The MLF Lullaby"! "We know our buddies won't give us the finger..."
makes you smile:
Oh, many, many. To pick one, New Order's "True Faith" almost invariably results in a "Hell yeah!" and a turning up of the volume.
sums up your teenage years:
Oh, they were pretty bland, I assure you. Thinking about what I was listening to then... How about Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters"?
you want to get married to:
Not something I've ever spent brain cycles on.cochese and nakedvillainy had "When I'm 64" by the Beatles, and that was quite sweet.
you like to go to sleep to:
Who goes to sleep listening to music? I mean, alarm clocks have "sleep" functions, so obviously someone must, but... Closest I've come is when my brain introduced me to the Beatles's "Your Mother Should Know" by playing it for about 10 minutes on repeat when I was asleep one night. Either I'd heard snatches without knowing the day before, or I'm psychic. I vote the second.
you like to wake up to:
I prefer to wake up to the known-quantity beeps of my alarm clocks. Or nothing at all. In the morning en route to work, when I listen to anything, I generally prefer songs I know, but that could be anything on the classic rock stations or the modern stations.
you like out of your parents' record collection:
Dad had Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant." Now that's some great stuff. Mom, very strange, has no stored music at all so far as I know. Her favorite band is the Stones, though, and they're not bad. "Honky Tonk Woman" is the song I'd point people to if they were like, "What is this 'rock' I've heard so much about?"
you love that you wouldn't know about if it wasn't for a friend:
I think I can thankaiyume for the Barenaked Ladies.
makes you think of sex:
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Give it Away". Duh. However, it also makes me think of the Flaming Moe's Simpsons episode, where Moe suggests they change the lyrics to "what I want, is I want to hug and kiss you," and the Chili Peppers guy meets the suggestion with honest enthusiasm, "That way everyone can enjoy our music!"
makes you think of being alone:
Simon and Garfunkel, "I Am A Rock". Again with the duh.
you are embarrassed to admit you like:
Everything I like is by definition good stuff that you should like too. However, some of you may be embarassed for me that I like Muppets songs like "Pukka Pukka Pukka Pukka Squeetily Boink."
perks you up:
Ozomatli, "Ya Viene El Sol"
you love to sing:
Elvis, "Are You Lonesome Tonight". Elvis songs are just fun. He's got the campy voice to do.
you love to drive to:
Ozomatli's album "Street Signs". It has a tai chi ability to take any frustration at lateness or irritation at slowness and bend it with its bright beats into enjoyment of the music.
is your newest obsession:
I don't tend to obsess over anything. As close as it comes is, "Man, I really need to buy 'Let it Be'. It's about time I absorbed another Beatles album, and I've got a hankering to hear 'I Me Mine.' If I'm ever by a record store and I remember..."
mtfierce's (Thbbbt! A fair cop, though. :) )List a song, group, or album that:
reminds you of an ex-lover/interest:
The Cyrkle, "Red Rubber Ball"
reminds you of an ex-friend:
Cat Stevens's "Peace Train." Justin Tremaine Wilson, I remember us sitting on your bed, you wiggle/dancing and clapping along to this with great campiness... Awesome. Justin Wilson would be another one of the few people I've lost touch with (along with Vanessa Kelley) who I'd like to find again... One of the few sane people in the Arapahoe High School theater program. He went off to college, St. Olaf's in Minnesota, a year before me, last I was able to track after college he had a part in "The Mikado..."
makes you cry:
Used to be David Bowie's "Space Oddity". But I am now inured to the sorrow of freezing to death alone in a way that will probably sink the space program.
makes you laugh:
I generally need to be surprised by a new song to laugh at it, but the closest is probably from the Sweeney Todd soundtrack, "A Little Priest". "I mean, with the price of meat what it is, when you get it... if you get it..." "Hunh!" "...Good, you've got it..." Hee. Oo! Or Tom Lehrer's "The MLF Lullaby"! "We know our buddies won't give us the finger..."
makes you smile:
Oh, many, many. To pick one, New Order's "True Faith" almost invariably results in a "Hell yeah!" and a turning up of the volume.
sums up your teenage years:
Oh, they were pretty bland, I assure you. Thinking about what I was listening to then... How about Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters"?
you want to get married to:
Not something I've ever spent brain cycles on.
cochese and nakedvillainy had "When I'm 64" by the Beatles, and that was quite sweet.you like to go to sleep to:
Who goes to sleep listening to music? I mean, alarm clocks have "sleep" functions, so obviously someone must, but... Closest I've come is when my brain introduced me to the Beatles's "Your Mother Should Know" by playing it for about 10 minutes on repeat when I was asleep one night. Either I'd heard snatches without knowing the day before, or I'm psychic. I vote the second.
you like to wake up to:
I prefer to wake up to the known-quantity beeps of my alarm clocks. Or nothing at all. In the morning en route to work, when I listen to anything, I generally prefer songs I know, but that could be anything on the classic rock stations or the modern stations.
you like out of your parents' record collection:
Dad had Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant." Now that's some great stuff. Mom, very strange, has no stored music at all so far as I know. Her favorite band is the Stones, though, and they're not bad. "Honky Tonk Woman" is the song I'd point people to if they were like, "What is this 'rock' I've heard so much about?"
you love that you wouldn't know about if it wasn't for a friend:
I think I can thank
aiyume for the Barenaked Ladies.makes you think of sex:
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Give it Away". Duh. However, it also makes me think of the Flaming Moe's Simpsons episode, where Moe suggests they change the lyrics to "what I want, is I want to hug and kiss you," and the Chili Peppers guy meets the suggestion with honest enthusiasm, "That way everyone can enjoy our music!"
makes you think of being alone:
Simon and Garfunkel, "I Am A Rock". Again with the duh.
you are embarrassed to admit you like:
Everything I like is by definition good stuff that you should like too. However, some of you may be embarassed for me that I like Muppets songs like "Pukka Pukka Pukka Pukka Squeetily Boink."
perks you up:
Ozomatli, "Ya Viene El Sol"
you love to sing:
Elvis, "Are You Lonesome Tonight". Elvis songs are just fun. He's got the campy voice to do.
you love to drive to:
Ozomatli's album "Street Signs". It has a tai chi ability to take any frustration at lateness or irritation at slowness and bend it with its bright beats into enjoyment of the music.
is your newest obsession:
I don't tend to obsess over anything. As close as it comes is, "Man, I really need to buy 'Let it Be'. It's about time I absorbed another Beatles album, and I've got a hankering to hear 'I Me Mine.' If I'm ever by a record store and I remember..."