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Friday, August 10, 2012
What Your Favorite Music Says About You
NPR has an article, You Are What You Hear: What Your Favorite Music Says About You, that I thought would be nice to play along with.
Problem is, of course, that often these things depend upon both mood, and what’s happening in my life. I’m quite sure that if I answered this last month, some of the answers would be significantly different from what I’ll come up with today.
What was the first song you ever bought?
Prince’s Purple Rain soundtrack. That one’s easy and wouldn’t change.
What song always gets you dancing?
There are many here (and several that are out now that may make this list; only time will tell): Fishbone Housework, Mighty Mighty Bosstones The Impression that I Get, Moby South Side, The Guild (Do You Wanna) Date My Avatar, The Proclaimers I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles), They Might Be Giants Birdhouse in Your Soul, Tina Turner What You Get Is What You See, Cracker Lonesome Johnny Blues, Nickel Creek The Fox.
These are songs that I turn to time and again when I need to cheer up, or cheer me up when I hear them. Which I realize is not quite the same thing.
What song takes you back to your childhood?
Pete Seeger’s Guantanamera (from his Live at Carnegie Hall recording. That whole LP, really. I think Brian & I listened to it endlessly.) AND Fat’s Waller’s Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood Mama)
What is your perfect love song?
Storybook Love from The Princess Bride
What song would you want at your funeral?
Taliesin Orchestra’s version of Fanfare for the Common Man if it can’t be that specific, than the Quaker hymn, Simple Gifts
Time for an encore. One last song that makes you, you.
Bob Mould’s Sunspots from Workbook.
August 10th, 2012 at 5:17 pm
I hate picking only one thing of anything (what does that say about me?) but I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the last one because a friend recently told me in a burst of connection that he strongly identified with Kelly Clarkson’s “Dark Side.” (In essence, that it represented him.) “What one song would I pick to represent me?” I wondered.
I still don’t have an answer, but I do know what song will represent me at my funeral and maybe that counts: The Byrds “Turn, Turn, Turn!”
August 10th, 2012 at 11:58 pm
Anne, if you get a chance, listen to Sunspots (it’s quite short). Workbook is probably my favorite album in the entire world, but Sunspots is far and away my favorite.
August 11th, 2012 at 12:04 pm
That’s a beautiful and interestingly iterative song. What about it “makes you, you” other than it being your favorite?
August 11th, 2012 at 12:13 pm
It’s the way I feel when I hear it–I just resonates.
I know it’s strange, because it doesn’t have lyrics, and it isn’t a long song, but it just makes me feel like my best me.
August 14th, 2012 at 3:29 pm
That’s really neat, actually. :)