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Feb. 28th, 2007 10:12 pmconstanceNotes about this Ten-Songs-I-Adore meme:
(1) You have no idea -- no idea, I tell you -- how hard it is for me to post lists of music without apologizing for my taste in said music. What happened to the days when I was totally sure my taste in music was completely awesome in every way? I'd like to think it's just that I got old -- but maybe it's the general total breakdown of all self-confidence I have undergone since reaching my majority? Anyway. So your taste in music's better than mine. I can accept that. After a bit of a struggle.
(2) I also had an agonizingly hard time limiting myself to just ten songs. In fact, I narrowed it down to twenty and couldn't get any farther until I realized that some of the songs I loved were no longer on my hard drive (just on my iPod, or on my external hard drive), and so I was able to winnow (don't you love that word?) the list from there. Thank goodness (a) my sloppy archiving habits are here to mask my indecisiveness, and (b) I could only work with one letter of the alphabet.
(3) My criteria for choosing the list, in case you're interested, was this: which songs, when they pop up in my player, make me STOP EVERYTHING TO LISTEN AND IF I AM ALONE SING TUNELESSLY-YET-LOUDLY ALONG? These are they. A few of they. I will tell you a little something about my history with they, if you're curious.
(4) If you want a letter of your own, you have, of course, only to say so.
Ramble On - Led Zeppelin
Red Rabbits - The Shins
Red-Eyed and Blue - Wilco
Requiem - M. Ward
Retrieval of You - The Minus Five
Revelator - Gillian Welch
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
Rock and Roll - The Velvet Underground
Rip This Joint - The Rolling Stones
Roseblood - Mazzy Star
ETA: Neil Gaiman, what is up with your blog? Why does it occasionally and randomly vomit all over mine? Couldn't you do something about that?
(1) You have no idea -- no idea, I tell you -- how hard it is for me to post lists of music without apologizing for my taste in said music. What happened to the days when I was totally sure my taste in music was completely awesome in every way? I'd like to think it's just that I got old -- but maybe it's the general total breakdown of all self-confidence I have undergone since reaching my majority? Anyway. So your taste in music's better than mine. I can accept that. After a bit of a struggle.
(2) I also had an agonizingly hard time limiting myself to just ten songs. In fact, I narrowed it down to twenty and couldn't get any farther until I realized that some of the songs I loved were no longer on my hard drive (just on my iPod, or on my external hard drive), and so I was able to winnow (don't you love that word?) the list from there. Thank goodness (a) my sloppy archiving habits are here to mask my indecisiveness, and (b) I could only work with one letter of the alphabet.
(3) My criteria for choosing the list, in case you're interested, was this: which songs, when they pop up in my player, make me STOP EVERYTHING TO LISTEN AND IF I AM ALONE SING TUNELESSLY-YET-LOUDLY ALONG? These are they. A few of they. I will tell you a little something about my history with they, if you're curious.
(4) If you want a letter of your own, you have, of course, only to say so.
Ramble On - Led Zeppelin
Red Rabbits - The Shins
Red-Eyed and Blue - Wilco
Requiem - M. Ward
Retrieval of You - The Minus Five
Revelator - Gillian Welch
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
Rock and Roll - The Velvet Underground
Rip This Joint - The Rolling Stones
Roseblood - Mazzy Star
ETA: Neil Gaiman, what is up with your blog? Why does it occasionally and randomly vomit all over mine? Couldn't you do something about that?
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Date: 2007-03-01 10:04 am (UTC)I really like this meme. I like seeing people share music that makes them stop, and I'd love to hear any stories you have attached to them. =)
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Date: 2007-03-02 12:06 am (UTC)http://tofty.livejournal.com/100045.html?thread=998093#t998093
I like seeing what people post, too! I forgot to tell you that I was especially pleased by the Radiohead song, but that I actually snagged about half of them. :)