25 Songs, 25 Days – Day 8

Summer 1998.  First love.  A child’s first love.

Day 8: A song that reminds you of your “first love”
Aerosmith – I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing

25 Songs, 25 Days – Day 7

C’mon, there was one song that was EVERYWHERE this summer.  And I still really enjoy it, actually.

Day 7: A song that reminds you of the past summer
Gotye – Somebody That I Used to Know

And, the best of the Gotye memes from the same time:

25 Songs, 25 Days – Day 6

Wow.  These are getting harder.  A song that reminds you of a best friend.  That assumes you have best friends.  Or a best friend.  I can’t say that I’ve had a best friend in about seven years.  I am a chronic friend-dropper.  I don’t mean to, but usually my depression will make me fade away for a while, they get tired of trying to draw me out and eventually stop trying.  Once I’m back on my feet, my depression or my personality or my introversion or my whatever don’t allow me to really reach out again.  I have friends from college that I miss tremendously that I haven’t tried to reconnect with.  My most recent bestie was enough like me that we kinda understood each other and each other’s behavior, so we were pretty forgiving and able to pick things up where they’d left off.  Then I moved 600 miles away from her and that link was stretched too thin.  We visit every couple of years, but it’s not like it used to be.  How could it be?
Regardless of all that, she loves her some Dimebag.

Day 6: A song that reminds you of a best friend
Pantera – Walk

25 Songs, 25 Days – Day 5

I know, I know, I’m late.  No huge surprise to any of you that know me.  And if you don’t know me, I’ll tell you:  It’s no huge surprise.

Anyway, onto songs that get stuck in our heads.  I mean, I could use any number of songs.  Call Me Maybe is always especially sticky.  Lana Del Rey stays with me whenever I see the couple commercials that are using her songs.  Crushcrushcrush channels my teen angst and latches on pretty often.  About a year and a half ago, Keane’s Spiraling was firmly planted in my brain for months.  If you know children’s songs, I find Mr. Sun to be very tenacious.  Six or eight months ago it was Young the Giant and Foster the People.  I don’t think I can say that one song comes back over and over as time goes on, at least I can’ t think of one right now that does.

But the song that sticks with me lately is one that find myself emotionally connected to.  If you follow me on Plurk, I’ve spammed you with it over the last couple months.  It speaks strongly enough to me that I end up with tears in my eyes every time I hear it.

Day 5: A song that is often stuck in your head
ZZ Ward – Last Love Song

We were never the marrying type, oh no,
We won’t buy dishes or stained glass lights, oh no,
For a table we’ll never sit at,
In the house that we won’t ever get,

I won’t wake up and pick out your tie, oh no,
You won’t come home and kiss me at night, oh no,
We won’t lie in this king bed for two,
Say goodbye to us saying “I dos,”

No more white picket fences,
No more lace veils or vows,
No more “You’re the only one” ’cause that’s all done with now,
This is the last love song I’ll ever write for you,
This is the last love song I’ll ever write for you,

Take these roses and this Jameson, oh no,
Find a subway that I can sit in, oh no,
Buy a one-way out of this city,
Everything that I need, got it with me,

No more white picket fences,
No more lace veils or vows,
No more “You’re the only one” ’cause that’s all done with now,
This is the last love song I’ll ever write for you,
This is the last love song I’ll ever write for you,

All these notes and all these words,
Are all that’s left in me,
Bend these pages, count my woes,
One last song to set me free,

No more white picket fences,
No more lace veils or vows,
No more “You’re the only one” ’cause that’s all done with now,
This is the last love song I’ll ever write for you,
This is the last love song I’ll ever write for you,
This is the last love song I’ll ever write for you,
This is the last love song I’ll ever write for you, oh.

25 Songs, 25 Days – Day 4

This one has been a little harder for me than the last few days.  I’ve managed to procrastinate long enough that the day is mostly over.  Part of the difficulty is that I don’t have a music catalog that I can scroll through and look for a song that sticks out for each particular prompt.  I don’t use iTunes, I don’t have an iPod.  So I have to think of songs off the top of my head.

But here’s the thing about me:  I don’t really get wound up.  I don’t really get that sort of angry or stressed or heightened that I need to be calmed down from.  That’s one of the things about me that make it really difficult to be me.  I don’t get that stressed or angry, but I also don’t get that excited or happy.  Anyway, I went ahead and chose a song that I listen to pretty often that I do find calming.

Day 4 – A song that calms you down
The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio

 

25 Songs, 25 Days – Day 3

Day 3: A song that reminds you of your parents

For my amazing, yet tone-deaf mother, who used to sing this to me as a newborn in the NICU.
Roberta Flack – The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

And for my loving, misunderstood father, who never knew this song was always about him.
Mike and the Mechanics – In the Living Years

25 Songs, 25 Days – Day 2

And, since I’m behind by a day…

Day 2: A song that reminds you of your most recent ex

Sivan Shavit – Flying Ticket
This one doesn’t need any explanation for those of you that know him or knew us as a couple.