Music memeage
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veronica_richI think I've done one music meme per year that I've been on LJ, roughly. I see a lot, but I'm not always in the mood to spin my computer-music-thingy (that, and my music is mostly old and nerdy and out of date compared to the young, hip, edgy youth on my list). Of course, what really bums me about these is I'm often forced to pass up some of my favorite songs, like "Boat on the River" "Win in the End," and "Losing My Religion."
So, stolen from everyone:
1. Have your music library ready.
2. Choose one song from your music library whose title starts with the first letter (or number) of your LJ name.
3. Repeat this process with each successive letter (or number) in your LJ name until you run out of letters (or numbers).
4. Post up your results.
5. BONUS POINTS: Upload your mix. (Not doing it; if you want one of these, let me know.)
Venus - Bananarama
English Girls - Ryan Adams
Renegade - Styx
One Night In Bangkok - Murray Head (Anthony Stewart Head's brother)
Numb - Linkin Park (with or without Jay-Z)
If Looks Could Kill - Heart
Caramel - Suzanne Vega
A Sorta Fairytale - Tori Amos
Raksat al Habhaab - Emad Sayyah
I Keep Forgetting - Michael McDonald
Constant Craving - k.d. lang
Holding Out For A Hero - Bonnie Tyler (Yes. Shut UP.)
And, just as a bonus, I've recounted my most memorable association with each song:
"Venus" - Yes, the Bananarama version. I just like it better. I LOVE the drums; we had a girl in high school who could do that drum solo in band like it warn't no thang, as the kids like to say.
"English Girls" - I don't know the song well outside of the movie "Elizabethtown" but I still like it. It puts me in mind of the movie each time I hear it, and that's not a bad thing.
"Renegade" - For me, this song will always be associated with "The A-Team." I remember when I found out a movie was supposedly being made adapting the 80s TV show to the new century - I always thought this would be the perfect opening-credits song. (I even had part of what it would look like worked out in my head, complete with the names of the three original surviving actors making cameo appearances - their names, of course, would flash across the screen during the drum-a-capella around the 3:00 mark.)
"One Night In Bangkok" - I remember when this hit the charts back in the 80s. I was a teenager used to the decade's popular music, and I LOVED this song. It was so different from everything else on the charts at that point - and frankly, there haven't been many with this sound since. More than that, I love the content and lyrics - it has the reek of a *smart* person's song - "So you'd better go back to your bars, and temples - your massage parlors ..."
"Numb" - I've heard this since it came out and always liked the beat and some of the words. But it took DMC and AWE to really make me like it for a character (and yes, I do associate a lot of songs with fictional characters I've liked). I think some of these lyrics are coming closer to the surface for Will Turner the longer the story of POTC stretched on - at least the Will in my head. *G*
"If Looks Could Kill" - I didn't hear this when it first came out; I didn't discover it until a Heart's "Greatest Hits" CD I bought in the 90s. Back when I used to enjoy writing female characters, this was sort of the song I held in my head for most of them.
"Caramel" - A movie you never heard much about was "The Truth About Cats and Dogs," with the wonderfully unlikely duo of Uma Thurman and Janeane Garofolo, a female spin on "Cyrano." (Best line: "She's a dumb bitch? We must be related! I'm a dumb bitch, too!") This plays in the scene where the guy offers superskinny model Uma a plate of dessert and she demurs, then accepts a bite, and ends up wolfing down everything as he feeds it to her. Quite a sensual song, and it's come in useful for writing more than one story.
"A Sorta Fairytale" - With this song, it's less the actual lyrics than the overall *feeling* this song evokes: not lost opportunities, per se ... more like something ruined not because a path wasn't taken, but because it was taken and trod upon and abused so badly that it had to be abandoned.
"Raksat al Habhaab" - This is some Indian bellydancing music used in the soundtrack for "The Calcium Kid," one of the cleverest small movies nobody knows about.
"I Keep Forgetting" - I remember this song from my childhood, when it first came out. I just always liked the sound of it; it wasn't until I got older that I understood the lyrics, and I've found it's worked for things I've written and liked to watch and read in the past.
"Constant Craving" - This song is one of those few that feels like it's literally beneath your skin making you itchy. Maybe it's the lyrics about "skin." For me, I think it's more about how it engenders the sensation of WANNA TOUCH.
"Holding Out For A Hero" - I was a freshman in college in 1991 when a lit professor brought this song up one day. We spent several minutes dissecting and discussing it, and her assessment has always stuck with me: No matter how independent women are, no matter how much they really *do* want to be single and take care of themselves - and are quite happy doing so - there's always a part somewhere inside that wants to occasionally be swept off by a heroic sort. I would amend that to add "male or female."
So, stolen from everyone:
1. Have your music library ready.
2. Choose one song from your music library whose title starts with the first letter (or number) of your LJ name.
3. Repeat this process with each successive letter (or number) in your LJ name until you run out of letters (or numbers).
4. Post up your results.
5. BONUS POINTS: Upload your mix. (Not doing it; if you want one of these, let me know.)
Venus - Bananarama
English Girls - Ryan Adams
Renegade - Styx
One Night In Bangkok - Murray Head (Anthony Stewart Head's brother)
Numb - Linkin Park (with or without Jay-Z)
If Looks Could Kill - Heart
Caramel - Suzanne Vega
A Sorta Fairytale - Tori Amos
Raksat al Habhaab - Emad Sayyah
I Keep Forgetting - Michael McDonald
Constant Craving - k.d. lang
Holding Out For A Hero - Bonnie Tyler (Yes. Shut UP.)
And, just as a bonus, I've recounted my most memorable association with each song:
"Venus" - Yes, the Bananarama version. I just like it better. I LOVE the drums; we had a girl in high school who could do that drum solo in band like it warn't no thang, as the kids like to say.
"English Girls" - I don't know the song well outside of the movie "Elizabethtown" but I still like it. It puts me in mind of the movie each time I hear it, and that's not a bad thing.
"Renegade" - For me, this song will always be associated with "The A-Team." I remember when I found out a movie was supposedly being made adapting the 80s TV show to the new century - I always thought this would be the perfect opening-credits song. (I even had part of what it would look like worked out in my head, complete with the names of the three original surviving actors making cameo appearances - their names, of course, would flash across the screen during the drum-a-capella around the 3:00 mark.)
"One Night In Bangkok" - I remember when this hit the charts back in the 80s. I was a teenager used to the decade's popular music, and I LOVED this song. It was so different from everything else on the charts at that point - and frankly, there haven't been many with this sound since. More than that, I love the content and lyrics - it has the reek of a *smart* person's song - "So you'd better go back to your bars, and temples - your massage parlors ..."
"Numb" - I've heard this since it came out and always liked the beat and some of the words. But it took DMC and AWE to really make me like it for a character (and yes, I do associate a lot of songs with fictional characters I've liked). I think some of these lyrics are coming closer to the surface for Will Turner the longer the story of POTC stretched on - at least the Will in my head. *G*
"If Looks Could Kill" - I didn't hear this when it first came out; I didn't discover it until a Heart's "Greatest Hits" CD I bought in the 90s. Back when I used to enjoy writing female characters, this was sort of the song I held in my head for most of them.
"Caramel" - A movie you never heard much about was "The Truth About Cats and Dogs," with the wonderfully unlikely duo of Uma Thurman and Janeane Garofolo, a female spin on "Cyrano." (Best line: "She's a dumb bitch? We must be related! I'm a dumb bitch, too!") This plays in the scene where the guy offers superskinny model Uma a plate of dessert and she demurs, then accepts a bite, and ends up wolfing down everything as he feeds it to her. Quite a sensual song, and it's come in useful for writing more than one story.
"A Sorta Fairytale" - With this song, it's less the actual lyrics than the overall *feeling* this song evokes: not lost opportunities, per se ... more like something ruined not because a path wasn't taken, but because it was taken and trod upon and abused so badly that it had to be abandoned.
"Raksat al Habhaab" - This is some Indian bellydancing music used in the soundtrack for "The Calcium Kid," one of the cleverest small movies nobody knows about.
"I Keep Forgetting" - I remember this song from my childhood, when it first came out. I just always liked the sound of it; it wasn't until I got older that I understood the lyrics, and I've found it's worked for things I've written and liked to watch and read in the past.
"Constant Craving" - This song is one of those few that feels like it's literally beneath your skin making you itchy. Maybe it's the lyrics about "skin." For me, I think it's more about how it engenders the sensation of WANNA TOUCH.
"Holding Out For A Hero" - I was a freshman in college in 1991 when a lit professor brought this song up one day. We spent several minutes dissecting and discussing it, and her assessment has always stuck with me: No matter how independent women are, no matter how much they really *do* want to be single and take care of themselves - and are quite happy doing so - there's always a part somewhere inside that wants to occasionally be swept off by a heroic sort. I would amend that to add "male or female."
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Date: 2007-08-31 02:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-31 06:00 am (UTC)One Night In Bangkok - Murray Head (Anthony Stewart Head's brother)
I SO loved this song back in the 80s. If Chess ever comes to Asheville, I'd have to see it.
A Sorta Fairytale - Tori Amos
This one has such a freaky video. (And I first heard it watching VH1 - so I'll forever see those freaky images when I hear it.)
Constant Craving - k.d. lang
Unfortunately, one of my first experiences of this song was K. D. Lang's SNL appearance. So, though I love the song, it still makes me cringe.
Holding Out For A Hero - Bonnie Tyler (Yes. Shut UP.)
I have Footloose on vinyl. Have I mentioned that I'm a geek? :-p
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Date: 2007-08-31 08:25 am (UTC)I've only recently been able to enjoy k.d. Lang. She's from my area and when I was younger, our noon time 'Flintstones' fix was often followed by bizarre videos of k.d. Lang dressed as a punk square-dancing reject and singing about 'Wonder Bread'. She then got popular, and I was unable to repress the memory.
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Date: 2007-08-31 02:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-31 05:02 pm (UTC)I see your Bonnie Tyler, and I raise you by Pat Benetar XD
*steals your meme for later*