in the key of S
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jinianThe following is a list of ten songs with an initial in common.
I asked![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cheesepuppet for a letter when she made a similar list; you may ask me for a letter if you want to list some songs too. Other people have just listed songs without comment, but I wrote a little about them too because I think it's more fun that way.
"She's a Star" by James. The first song I thought of, and something of a tribute to my laptop Star.
"Swan Swan H" by R.E.M. Oddly high frequency of play on radioio80s. I sing this even if there's someone else in the microscope room. (Ideally they have their heads in the sterile hood, which has a noisy fan.)
"Shoehorn With Teeth" by They Might Be Giants. Whenever I get "Blame Canada" in my head it eventually adopts the tune of this song, then lyrics creep in: "Blame Canada! 'Cause you know there's no such thing."
"Secret Nothing" by Cub. This was my song with quasi-ex N. I have no idea whether she had a song with me.
"Sleep the Clock Around" by Belle and Sebastian. Melodramatic enough to appeal to me when I'm feeling tragic, melodious and prettily phrased enough to cheer me up. (Contrast the effects of Morrissey: melodramatic enough to appeal, overblown enough to make me laugh.)
"Stand and Deliver" by Adam and the Ants. I will owegirlmod forever for the wonderful Blue Monday episode using this song, which made me grab the CD when I saw it. How did I miss this mad glam wonder during the 80s?
"Secure Yourself" by Indigo Girls. Why I went to a women's college: video of women at Bryn Mawr singing Indigo Girls songs together. (Why it was Mt. Holyoke instead: best interview ever, also music-related -- we talked about U2, but no songs that began with S, mainly "Numb.")
"Sulhassii" by Värttinä. Sure, I can sing in Finnish! Really bad Finnish. But the songs are too catchy to resist. Sometimes Japanese songs get the phonetic treatment too.
"She Bop" by Cyndi Lauper. Cyndi Lauper is far too underrated! Unlike some Lauper partisans, though, I do like Madonna pretty well.
"Silver Blue" by Roxette. The Roxette songs that got radio play never interested me especially, so my first exposure to this was on a mix sent to me by my ex-fiance (at a time when we were so romantically separated by a continent). Goosebumps. I still get them sometimes with this one. Sometimes a song just hits something in me.
And now I go to bed like a sensible person.
I asked
cheesepuppet for a letter when she made a similar list; you may ask me for a letter if you want to list some songs too. Other people have just listed songs without comment, but I wrote a little about them too because I think it's more fun that way."She's a Star" by James. The first song I thought of, and something of a tribute to my laptop Star.
"Swan Swan H" by R.E.M. Oddly high frequency of play on radioio80s. I sing this even if there's someone else in the microscope room. (Ideally they have their heads in the sterile hood, which has a noisy fan.)
"Shoehorn With Teeth" by They Might Be Giants. Whenever I get "Blame Canada" in my head it eventually adopts the tune of this song, then lyrics creep in: "Blame Canada! 'Cause you know there's no such thing."
"Secret Nothing" by Cub. This was my song with quasi-ex N. I have no idea whether she had a song with me.
"Sleep the Clock Around" by Belle and Sebastian. Melodramatic enough to appeal to me when I'm feeling tragic, melodious and prettily phrased enough to cheer me up. (Contrast the effects of Morrissey: melodramatic enough to appeal, overblown enough to make me laugh.)
"Stand and Deliver" by Adam and the Ants. I will owe
girlmod forever for the wonderful Blue Monday episode using this song, which made me grab the CD when I saw it. How did I miss this mad glam wonder during the 80s?"Secure Yourself" by Indigo Girls. Why I went to a women's college: video of women at Bryn Mawr singing Indigo Girls songs together. (Why it was Mt. Holyoke instead: best interview ever, also music-related -- we talked about U2, but no songs that began with S, mainly "Numb.")
"Sulhassii" by Värttinä. Sure, I can sing in Finnish! Really bad Finnish. But the songs are too catchy to resist. Sometimes Japanese songs get the phonetic treatment too.
"She Bop" by Cyndi Lauper. Cyndi Lauper is far too underrated! Unlike some Lauper partisans, though, I do like Madonna pretty well.
"Silver Blue" by Roxette. The Roxette songs that got radio play never interested me especially, so my first exposure to this was on a mix sent to me by my ex-fiance (at a time when we were so romantically separated by a continent). Goosebumps. I still get them sometimes with this one. Sometimes a song just hits something in me.
And now I go to bed like a sensible person.
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Date: 2006-08-31 09:18 am (UTC)For some reason I'm surprised you like Madonna. I like her too. At least, her earlier stuff. Some of the recent albums have been a bit strange.
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Date: 2006-08-31 04:29 pm (UTC)And yes, Cyndi Lauper is far too underrated!
Letter please?
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Date: 2006-09-01 05:12 am (UTC)Give me a G!
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Date: 2006-09-01 03:00 pm (UTC)G it is!
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Date: 2006-08-31 06:32 pm (UTC)Letter, please? Maybe I'll think of a song with the power to overcome the earworm force of "Shoehorn With Teeth". :)
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Date: 2006-09-01 05:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-01 05:08 am (UTC)Letter letter, who's got the letter?
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Date: 2006-09-01 05:14 am (UTC)T is for Tigers and Tapirs.
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Date: 2006-09-01 05:20 am (UTC)If I ask you difficult questions
If I make improper suggestions
Would you find that a risk to your health
Would you put me up on the bookself
With the books and the plants?
Desperate but not serious
Your kisses drive me delirious
If I were kind and adoring
How would that be?
Very boring
Mister Pressman with your penknife
Always asking about my sex life
And who with and how many times?
Desperate but not serious
Your kisses drive me delirious
All the advice seemed so unkind
If you don't stop, you will go blind!
Tell you it's none of their business
Then console you with a big kiss
On the lips and on the back of your neck
Desperate but not serious...
[it's a diffeent album, KINGS OF THE WILD FRONTIER maybe?]
http://www.xs4all.nl/~antlady/albums.htm
God, just look at those album covers, I'm really not kidding about MTV in the 80's being what completely determined the direction of my adult attractions, I had forgotten I think.
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Date: 2006-09-01 05:15 am (UTC)