in the key of S
Aug. 30th, 2006 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
