Best meme ever

[altariel]

From eldritchhobbit:

"I want to have a complete soundtrack with one song from each of my friends. Pick one song (or more if you want) you want me to associate with you, then comment. You don't have to upload it. Just give me the name and artist, and I will find it myself. It can be your favourite song in the whole world, a recent favourite or just a song that you think really identifies you."

Comments

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Without a doubt, my song would be "Unbound" by Robbie Robertson. "Nothing is forgotten/Only left behind/Wherever I am/She leads me down/Unbound - No borders/No fences/No walls." It is deeply influenced by Native American tradition and yet universal in its theme, and it's by far my favorite song. It's the best from a brilliant album, Contact from the Underworld of Red Boy.

[manna]

'Come To Me' by JC Chasez. Because euphemisms are for the *weak*.

[ladybarnard.livejournal.com]

"Bold Riley." Kate Rusby's version. I've just been liking it lately.

[kerravonsen]

I could probably think of a better one with more thought, but the first one that came to mind was "Most People I Know (Think That I'm Crazy)" by Billy Thorpe (grin).

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Gotta be "Ghost of a Chance" by Rush. It's a humanist love song! And I'm an unabashed Rush fan. :)

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

::squees to find fellow Rush fan, points at own entry::

[seemag.livejournal.com]

"Moon River" -- any version, but I listen to the Sarah Brightman one the most often. Because there is so much world to see.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

My brain refuses to consider anything but the Sisters of Mercy's "Some Kind of Stranger".

[sugoll.livejournal.com]

Damn, that's hard. I can't think of a *single* song that identifies me, or that I identify with, significantly more than any other, right now. There might be some who identify Metallica's "Enter Sandman" *with* me, but that was just a phase. :-)

Might have to mull this one a lot. Curse your sudden but inevitable thought-invoking post.

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Bessie Smith, Kitchen Man

[temeres.livejournal.com]

Eric Idle's Galaxy Song from Monty Python's Meaning of Life. A sort of tuneful version of the Total Perspective Vortex.

[hafren.livejournal.com]

"Madeira M'Dear" by Flanders & Swann. because it's funny and un-PC, but mainly funny. I have a hopeless weakness for comic songs, there's something about the combination of music, rhyme and wit that pushes most of my buttons. I love the incorrigible, Aristophanic old lecher in this, and of course it was a bit less un-PC when you saw Flanders singing it in his wheelchair and realised he couldn't chase young maidens downstairs; it was all a wistful dream.... And anyway, how can you improve on

"she made no reply,
Up her mind, and a dash for the door"?

[gaspode.livejournal.com]

Losing My Religion - REM ... Never sure why - It just strikes chords ...

[communicator.livejournal.com]

'Another Girl, Another Planet,' by The Only Ones

Space travel's in my blood
There's nothing I can do about it
Long journeys wear me out
But I can't live without it

[qatsi.livejournal.com]

Take your pick from:
Flanders and Swann - First and Second Law
Tom Lehrer - The Masochism Tango
Kit and the Widow - Glyndebourne

[fifitrix.livejournal.com]

I have a huge fondness for Robbie Williams' Let me entertain you...

but right now I am totally into Mint Royale's "Shake Me". It's even running in my head as I type. When you find it, turn up the bass and dance like nobody's watching...

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

i_smell_shite says "come to our Robbie Williams event on 24 September 2005, you can stay at ours!"

[fifitrix.livejournal.com]

God I'd love to but I'm busy that weekend. Sorry!

[aervir.livejournal.com]

It's neither my favourite song ever nor does it particularly identify me, but for some reason, Nick Cave's Gates to the Garden has just popped into my head. Gratuitous angst ahoy!

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about this, and have a lot of competing ideas (Jarriere is more focused, but I keep telling him you asked me not him), but to avoid choosing between like and like I might fall back on "Greensleeves", especially the version quoted in A Traveller in Time: Greensleeves, now farewell, adieu! God I pray to prosper thee, For I am still thy lover true, Come once again and love me. But I don't think I've ever heard a recording that I liked. I remember someone (my father? my sister?) telling me as a child that Greensleeves was originally sung more quickly than the mournful, leisurely version we tend to hear now, so I prefer it that way.

If you actually want a specific recording of a song, I'll disregard all the excellent choices J and I have been debating, and go for Robert Wyatt's "Sea Song" (on Rock Bottom), which isn't perfect (I find the chorus of girly angels at the end rather annoying) but which I feel so intensely I usually play it only once a year.
So until your blood runs to meet the next full moon, Your madness fits in nicely with my own, with my own, Your lunacy fits neatly with my own.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

*Flails* um... *tries to think of something with Actual Depth but Not Too Miserable*...*fails totally*

Er, Siouxsie's "Melt!" because it's just a load of unashamedly hedonistic purple porn, yes.

[sherlock1.livejournal.com]

It would have to be "Eye of the Tiger", by Survivor. For obvious reasons.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Still torn between Janis Ian's "At Seventeen" and Kirsty MacColl's "Us Amazonians".

But I'm going to be greedy and ask for both.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Very difficult to come down to just one favourite, but it would probably have to be "American Pie" (Don McLean's own version of course, not the Madonna one).

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

I'll go for "You can close your eyes" by James Taylor. I think it's just about the perfect guitar song – short, evocative and bittersweet – rather like the Japanese poetry I've been reading recently, I guess.

[raspberryfool.livejournal.com]

My contribution is 'Company' by The Waifs, because sometimes i can't stand it here by myself.

I'm now listening to Sam Brown's 'Stop' album, and it sounds excellent. 'It makes me wonder' is playing. Dusting off old LPs is a good thing.

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

If you want a single song, I can't do much better than "21st Century Schizoid Man" by King Crimson. Really, though, I'd like to nominate an entire album: "Clutiching at Straws" by Marillion. It has a quote for every occasion, even including the recent granting of my Decree Absolute:

It was a wedding ring
Destined to be found in a cheap hotel
Lost in a kitchen sink
Or thrown in a wishing well

But if I was a girl, you can bet it would be something by the Sugababes.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

What a lovely idea! I'd choose 'Limelight', by Rush, which I consider a sort of personal anthem. Or if you prefer something mellower, perhaps Sting's 'The Book of My Life'.

[mgkellner.livejournal.com]

Well, it took days for me to decide, a personal theme song is not a matter for a flippant answer, or the first thing that pops into one's mind. Well, after a few days, I heard just the perfect song, Chuck Berry's "Rock And Roll Music", except that I want it to be The Beatles version. For me, that is the perfect storm, the foundation stone of Rock & Roll performed by the foremost rock band.

mk