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[constance]

Notes 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?

Comments

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

Get down with your hard-rockin' self! I have been in a real mood for kick-ass classic rock lately. The Led Zep and Rolling Stones numbers are great additions to that collection, and your version of the Velvet Underground song is a lot different than the one I've got.

Thank you so much for the little peek inside your head and the great music. I wish I had time to reciprocate, but I am terribly behind as it is, and I just keep replaying the five-minute intro to Sweet Jane lately as it is.

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

I don't get where this shows that you don't have good taste. Looks like a rockin' good list to me. (The ones that I know, anyway. Though my eclecticism awes my family, it clearly hasn't rippled wide enough to encompass some of the stuff you cool kids listen to.)

Can I ask for a letter if I can't Yousendit things? So little of my music collection is accessible, even to me, what with it dorkishly gathering dust in vinyl form in the basement, but I'd like to play, if only for the challenge of it all. :)

[friendly.livejournal.com]

I would like a history of all ten songs and you, and then I would like a letter to call my own. :-*

[proteinscollide.livejournal.com]

Man, if your taste is not cool, then I don't know what is.

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. =)

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

I am unable to take a letter, but I am taking your music (what I don't have). Since I approve of what I know in this list, I'm enticed by what I don't know - much more than other lists I've seen which are entirely alien to me!