Open Mind Surgery

10:52am: A song meme.
Name a song which...

1. Reminds you of an ex-lover: Smoke - Ben Folds Five
2. Reminds you of an ex-friend: English choral music (several people from choirs around the country who I've lost touch with)
3. Reminds you of your childhood: TV theme tunes! Thundercats especially.
4. Makes you cry: several. No Distance Left to Run - Blur; The Prettiest Star - David Bowie; Sorrow - David Bowie
5. Makes you laugh: Anything with cheesy key changes
6. Makes you wanna dance: Most things by Abba. Okay, sometimes I am a stereotype...
7. Reminds you of the one you love: Waiting in Vain - Bob Marley and the Wailers (can you tell I'm single and pessimistic? oops, there goes the resolution.)
8. Makes you very, very sleepy: Barber - Adagio for Strings (William Orbit remix)
9. You wish you wrote: The Certainty of Chance - Divine Comedy
10. You wish had been written for you: I don't have a big enough ego to think of one for that...
11. Fills you with complete joy: Three Little Birds - Bob Marley
12. You never want to hear again: Anything by Junior Senior, DJ Sasha, (in fact by DJ *anybody*), Gina G, Boyzone, Westlife, The Spice Girls, Britney Spears, the cast of any children's TV programme, Aqua...
13. You want to get married to: maybe something I wrote myself, with lyrics by my partner... that would seem appropriate.
14. You want played at your funeral: Even After All - Finley Quaye
15. Makes you want to mosh: Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana; Song 2 - Blur; One By One - Foo Fighters
16. Sums up your teenage years: Charmless Man - Blur
17. You used to hate but now love: I don't think anything falls into that category.
18. You like to wake up to: Perseverance - Terrorvision
19. You like out of your parent's record collection: My parents' record collection? er.. you what? they do have a record collection, but our record-player broke when I was two and has never been fixed. I remember none of what it played.
20. Your parents like out of your collection: Regis Regum Rectissimi - Chris Hutchings (Temple Church Choir). But then, they would.
21. You love that you wouldn't know about if it wasn't for a friend: Ben Folds Five
22. Makes you think of someone who died: Ding Dong Merrily on High (my friend Michael Chibbett made a fantastic arrangement of it a few years before he died from AIDS.)
23. You love the video more than the tune: I never really watch music videos.
24. Reminds you of your first crush: Dancing Queen - Abba
25. You love which is from one of your favorite movies: Roxanne - The Police (name the movie, go on...)
26. Has your favourite instrumental bit: Narcolepsy - Ben Folds Five (note: I changed this one, it was originally "which makes you think of the moon." Weird eh?)
27. Makes you think of sex: Turn Your Lights Down Low - Bob Marley
28. Makes you think of being alone: Aladdin Sane - David Bowie
29. You love to hear at clubs: depends on the club. See moshing list and dancing.
30. Makes you think deeply: I listen to music to relax, not for depth (although I'll often think deeply about what's going on in the music, just not the lyrics.)

It is a lovely day. I shall go outside, possibly to the park again.