song meme

[fannishliss]

 a song meme grabbed from deirdre_c -- type the word into your itunes and list the first thing that comes up.  :)
I can't do this sort of meme by the rules.  By the time I got to the bottom of this meme, I had a new playlist with 118 songs in it.  :D  Here is a brief selection.  
 


happy:  Happy Face by The Toadies.  I adore them. 

love:  when I typed in love 493 songs came up!!  no surprise. 
shortest: "the Day that Love Came to Play" (9 seconds) by They Might Be Giants.   
longest: Let's Call it Love by Sleater-Kinney (11 min). 
Favorite Beatles song with Love in the title: And I love her. 
Most inspiring performance: Careless Love by Odetta. 

hate:  Love/Hate Heartbreak, by Halestorm (only four songs in my library have the word "hate" which is kind of nice)

light:  This Little Light of Mine, by Odetta
In the Light, by Led Zeppelin
Into the Light, by my band from 1991

dark:  Darkness, by Disturbed

good: out of 78 songs that came up for good, my faves are :
Good Day, by Dresden Dolls;
and Damaged Goods, by the Gang of Four.  
Runners up are You're No Good, by Linda Ronstadt,
and Fight the Good Fight, by Triumph.  

bad:  Bad Moon Rising, by Rasputina.
Special notice also goes to Angelo Badalamenti, composer for the Twin Peaks Soundtrack, one of my top favorite albums of all time.  

smile:  Make Me Smile, by Steve Harley, on the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack
cry:  The Crying Game, by Boy George

girl: the winners for this category include:
How Can I Sing Like A Girl? by They Might be Giants
Are You Gonna Be My Girl, by Jet
Girl Anachronism, by the Dresden Dolls
Another Girl's Paradise, by Tori Amos
and China Girl, by David Bowie

boy: Wonderboy, by Tenacious D
Boys of Summer, by Don Henley
I wanna be a cowboy, by Boys Don't Cry
Coin-Operated Boy, by the Dresden Dolls  (I'm on a big Amanda Palmer kick right now)
20th Century Boy, by Placebo

sad:  Sad but True, by Metallica
lost:  Lost in a Crowd, by Rusted Root
night:  Need you Tonight, by INXS
runner up: Through the Long Night, by Billy Joel

day:  A Good Day (Morning Song) by Priscilla Ahn
runners up: Someday you will be loved, by Death Cab for Cutie
and Sunday Morning, Yellow Sky, by the October Project

wolf:  Wolf Like Me, by Lera Lynn
runner up: SheWolf Love Game (mashup)

robot:  Mr. Roboto by Styx  (domo! domo!) 
I have to say I am shocked that I have only one song with Robot.  I do have Janelle Monae's Archandroid!

dance:  Dance or Die, by Janelle Monáe Feat. Saul Williams
runners up: Dancefloor, by Kylie Minogue
Let's Dance, by David Bowie
Private Dancer, by Tina Turner

time:  How Many More Times, by Led Zeppelin
 In My Time of Dying, by Josh White // Led Zeppelin // Beth and April Stevens
Time after Time, by Cyndi Lauper // John Barrowman // Strictly Ballroom Soundtrack

life:  In My Life, by Johnny Cash
Life in Mono, by Mono
Life During Wartime, and Once in a Lifetime, by Talking Heads
Kiss of Life by Peter Gabriel, and Kiss of Life by Sade
Bring Me To Life, by Evanescence

death: O Death, by Ralph Stanley, and on my new album of Ballads, coming soon to Bandcamp.  :)

Comments

[monicawoe.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh you've got some excellent 80s tracks in there : D
<3

What kind of band were you in back in '91?

I was in an industrial band back in 96, hee.

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

I love the 80s. so much great music. :)

The band I was in was Heavy Metal. We did Ozzy and that sort of thing. We had a whole bunch of original songs and I finally got around to transferring the six songs of our demo into a digital format, so now they are in my itunes. :)

I love big, apocalyptic Heavy Metal, and that's what we kind of did.

I wish I could be in a band again!!

But I have been back in the studio, this time recording Unaccompanied Ballads. I'm going to be putting up an album on Bandcamp! Next step is getting some originals together to record. Woohoo!!

[monicawoe.livejournal.com]

SWEET!!

Have fun making tunes : )

[silverlunarstar.livejournal.com]

So many good songs! Gonna have to check out a few I haven't heard!

This is a fun meme to do! Hee.