Ken tagged me with this meme about a decade ago - and I'm just getting to it now. Busy busy Sheila. Busy busy bee.
Four songs that you could listen to over and over:
Fields of Joy - Lenny Kravitz
Oh Darling - The Beatles
Til We Reach that Day - Ragtime soundtrack
Luck in my Eyes - kd lang
Four songs that drive you up the friggin' wall:
We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel (love the Joel, hate that song)
We Are the World - No. You are NOT the world. You are Americans. There's a difference.
That big song by Enya kind of drives me crazy. My massage therapist sometimes plays it during a session and I make him change it because it kinda makes me mad.
Oh - and Drips - by Eminem. Track 9 on The Eminem Show. Were it not for Track 9, that would be a perfect album. I know there are those who disagree with me, and who love Drips - but I'm standing strong on this one.
Four songs that you're embarrassed (or should be) to admit you like:
Well, I'm all about the guilty pleasures in life so I have little to no embarrassment about any of my tastes - and don't think I SHOULD be embarrassed by any of them - but let's pretend:
You Drive Me Crazy - Britney Spears - great pop song. But again, I'm not embarrassed to like it, because I think it's a great pop song/.
Any and all KC and the Sunshine Band songs
I adore Ashlee Simpson's "La La" even though it is ridiculous and I can't stand her and everything she represents, with her new nose, and her creepy dad. Still "La La" is a great song.
I love Madonna. Now there's something that is not popular to admit today. But I don't give a crap. Love her music. All of it.
Four best driving songs:
Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Lithium - Nirvana
I obviously like it loud and almost brain-dissolvingly harsh when I drive. None of this melancholy reflective James Taylor stuff. I love James Taylor - but NOT for driving. He's more of a - as i take a long walk on a cloudy day - he'll be on the iPod. But driving? By myself? No.
Four songs that make you cry:
Errol Flynn - Amanda McBroom
The Man that Got Away - Judy Garland
Watershed - Indigo Girls
Washing of the Water - Peter Gabriel
Four best risquι songs:
Risque to me means suggestive - rather than explicit. So:
Happiness is a warm gun - the Beatles
Galway Bay - the Clancy Brothers (hahahaha but it's true - best song.)
Freudian Love Song - Pat McCurdy (lyrics here)
Oh Jean - The Proclaimers
Four best kid songs:
John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith (his name is my name too!!)
Actually - Holiday, by Green Day - and I say that because Cashel loves it and we sing it together rousingly
99 bottles of beer on the wall
Little red caboose (chug chug chug)
If you want to list your own answers in the comments - go right ahead!!!
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Posted by: amelie at August 31, 2006 9:37 AMI'll bite on the driving songs:
"Reeling in the Years," Steely Dan
"Runnin' Down a Dream," Tom Petty
"Complete Control," The Clash
"Sheena is a Punk Rocker," The Ramones
Over the years, I've given this more thought than is probably healthy...
Posted by: Jeff at August 31, 2006 10:11 AMIm a head-bobber when it comes to car driving - "Cars" by Gary Numan
I posted my list at my blog...
Mine, too. Like yours, though. I'm making a list of all the driving songs, there are some great ones - and of course everyone had to leave tons of them off their lists. Really tough to cut that to only four...
Posted by: Nightfly at August 31, 2006 11:51 AMOver and over:
My Doorbell-The White Stripes
Cannonball-the Breeders
Taxman-The Beatles
Every Breath You Take-The Police, cause it never resolves
Drive me crazy:
For What It's Worth-is that Buffalo Springfield?
When a Man Loves a Woman-Michael Bolton
Man in the Mirror-Michael Jackson
My Heart Will Go On-Celine Dion
Embarrassed:
Luka-Suzanne Vega
Lucky Star-Madonna
Head Over Heels-Go Go's
Stayin Together-Debbie Gibson...holy crap, did I type that?
Driving:
The Walk-Eurythmics
Tom Sawyer-Rush
Panama-Van Halen
The Distance-Cake
Cry:
Ironbound-Suzanne Vega
Favorite Mistake-Sheryl Crow
Missing-Everything but the Girl
Slow Like Honey-Fiona Apple
Risque':
Lady Marmalade
Give it Away-Red Hot Chili Peppers
Little Red Corvette-Prince
Bachelorette-Bjork
Kid songs:
Muffin Man!
Name game (Eric, Eric, Bo-beric, banana-fana...)
Sesame Street Theme
Little Birdie-from the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special
Which Enya song makes you mad? I don't like any of her music - except Only Time. I have to be careful about playing it though, or listen to it only on my ipod, because Sean loathes it. He says it reminds him of 9/11 because there were a bunch of cheesy tributes places against that song.
Posted by: RTG at August 31, 2006 2:34 PMYou know, I liked Band Aid and "Do They Know It's Christmas?". When "We Are the World" came out, I immediately christened it Band Wagon.
Can't come up with four of each, but I can come up with a few:
Songs that drive me crazy:
"Had a Bad Day"
Songs that make me cry: (and no, I am not a SNAG)
"Ashokan Farewell" (with or without the Sullivan Ballou letter)
Song I probably should be embarrassed to admit I like...but somehow am not:
"As Good As I Once Was" Toby Keith
Songs I can listen to over and over:
"Sometime to Return" Soul Asylum
"Cartoon" Soul Asylum
Risque songs:
"Bourbon In Your Eyes" Devil Doll
Driving songs:
"People Who Died" Jim Carroll
"Flipside" The Breeders
Kids' songs:
"The Itsy Bitsy Spider"
"Yankee Doodle"
"I Am Not Your Broom" They Might Be Giants
"Joy to the World" Three Dog Night
I won't speak for Sheila, but the Enya song that hurts my head is Orinoco Flow (sail away, sail away, sail away - but she never does).
What's really staggering is that you, Sheila, of all people, didn't put any Prince in your list! I'm gobsmacked.
Posted by: Nightfly at August 31, 2006 2:58 PMI thought of putting "cream" under risque songs - but then figured that that was not at all risque, and flat out pornographic.
One of my favorite songs, though.
Posted by: red at August 31, 2006 3:01 PMIs there more than one famous Enya song? Sorry - I am not up on Enya and can only take it in small doses. It's ... the only Enya song I know. I actually liked it the first time I heard it, 5 million years ago, but I'm kinda over it now - and definitely don't want it on during my massage.
Oh - and my friend Allison had a very intersting encounter with Enya's brother - who lives in the Wicklow Mountains south of Dublin - apparently he is very bitter. LIke bitterness has poisoned his soul. I was busy drinking scotch with my Irishman - so I missed the Enya's-Brother moment.
Posted by: red at August 31, 2006 3:03 PMEric - I swear to God --- Go-Go's were already on my list!
Over and over:
Be My Lover Alice Cooper
I Wish I Was In New Orleans Tom Waits
Hey Girl O.A.R.
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen
Up the Friggin Wall
Who Let The Dogs Out
Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin
Mr. Roboto Styx
She Blinded Me With Science Thomas Dolby
Embarrassed That I Like
Head over Heels Go-Gos
Lovebeat DeFranco Family
Place in the Sun Pablo Cruise
Follow Me Uncle Kracker
Driving Songs:
Thunder Road Bruce Springsteen
Running on Empty Jackson Browne
Hey You BTO
Little Bit of Soul Music Explosion
Songs that make you cry:
Where were you when the world stop turning? Alan Jackson
Kite U2
Do I Ever Cross Your Mind Ray Charles/Norah Jones
Crying Roy Orbison/kd lang
Risque Songs
88 Lines about 44 Women The Nails
Talk Dirty in Hawaiian John Prine
Whole Lotta Love Led Zeppelin
Wild Side Lou Reed
Kid Songs
- all the ones my Dad would make up as he went along using my name and my sisters name
- Fox Went Out On A Chilly Night Berle Ives
Four Kid's Songs:
1) Mahna Mahna - from Sesame Street
2) Christmas Time Is Here - Vince Guaraldi Trio (sad music from Charlie Brown, maybe not strictly kid's music.)
3) I dunno, something from this movie. (I made a tape of that movie for a driving soundtrack.)
4!!) onetwothreeFOUR-five-sixseveneightnine-ten-eleventwelve! - Sesame Street again
Ken, thanks for mentioning the Ashokan Farewell.
That song is so beautiful and haunting.
Over and Over:
Traveling Light (Live) - Widespread Panic
The Fa Fa Song - Guster
White Room - Cream
Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes