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Monday, February 23, 2004

ANOTHER meme... can you tell there's nothing funny going on in my life right now?

This one I nicked from KiwiRia.

What song....
Reminds you of an ex-lover:
I don't have ex-lovers, just ex-boyfriends. ;-) (can't really call them "lovers" when you're a teenager, can you?). Anyway. It's all so long ago that the songs just bring to mind the general time period, and not necessarily the person, but "Love Bites" by Def Leppard is probably pretty close to this.

Reminds you of your best friend:
Anything from "Phantom of the Opera", since we just watched that together.

Makes you cry:
There was a cheezy country song a few years ago called "Don't Laugh At Me" that made me cry when I heard it. THERE's an embarrassing confession. Sometimes really good classical music will bring tears to my eyes. And the "All I Ask of You" reprise that the Phantom sings, up in the angel, is just heartbreaking. I know there are other songs that fit this category that I just can't think of off the top of my head.

Makes you laugh:
"Another Postcard" -- BNL

Reminds you of the one you want:
(or the one I have, in this case). oh, tons of songs, for different reasons. The "Mission Impossible" theme, lol. A lot of 80's music. A lot of old country music. That "Breakfast at Tiffany's" song. A lot of Alanis Morissette songs. Mavericks -- especially "Oh What A Thrill". Evanescence. So many.

You wish you wrote:
hmm, good question. Maybe "My Immortal"?

You never want to hear again:
"Stacy's Mom." Gag.

You want to get married to:
I already did get married, and we used some corny-sounding Christian music with good lyrics, and the traditional wedding marches, and Canon in D on piano and violin.

Makes you want to mosh:
I don't think anything could make me want to mosh.

You used to hate but now love:
"Bitch" by Meredith Brooks

You like to wake up to:
something perky. But our clock radio is tuned to talk radio, so I don't generally get to do that. Back when I used to have to get up at 5 am and go to work, the alarm would go at 4:45, and then at 5 am Chuck Smith's program came on, and it used this one praise song as "bumper music". I always hated that song, even out of that context, because to my brain it meant it was time to actually get out of bed and get moving.

You like out of your parents record collection:
"Mon Pays Bleu" and a host of other Roger Whittaker songs.

You love that you wouldn't know about if it wasn't for a friend:
oh, lots of songs. It was mostly friends (and my husband) who got me out of Only Classical mode ten years ago or so.

Makes you think of someone who died:
Corny as it will sound, "The Heart Will Go On" reminds me of my daughter, because it was on the radio ALL THE TIME at the time that she lived and died.

You sing in the shower:
Mostly Broadway stuff, I guess. "If I Were A Rich Man" seems to figure heavily here.

You sing when you're alone:
Anything. Everything.

You love the video more than the tune:
I haven't watched more than five music videos in the past ten years. Sorry.

Reminds you of your first crush:
Again, that "Love Bites" song

Makes you think of being alone:
I don't know of any in this category.

Makes you want to go out:
I'm such a fogey and a homebody that I don't "go out" in the sense of this question. But there are several songs that make me dance around the living room, does that count? Lots of Ace of Base will make me do that, and 80's music also. REM's "Stand".

Reminds you of summer:
"There Goes My Heart" -- the Mavericks. One summer while they were working on their derby cars, my husband and his friend had the Mavericks playing almost all the time. So anytime I hear that song I smell summer.

Makes you happy:
Again, "Stand" by REM. This song has a long history of making me happy.

Makes you feel guilty for liking it:
I can't think of any that I feel guilty about liking. There are several I don't play while the kids are in the car, though. :)