Song meme

[rikibeth]

Someone gives you a letter, and you pick 5-10 songs that start with that letter and maybe say a few words about them.

eternaleponine gave me F.

1. "Fashion," David Bowie

Bowie was one of my first major music obsessions and celebrity crushes, and there qill always be a place in my heart for his work. I am not objective about it. I can't be. So this song came first. It was this or "Fame," and "Fashion" is more fun to dance to.

2. "Fatally Yours," Alkaline Trio

Gloomy lyrics and killer pop hooks anchored by powerful bass lines. What more could you ask for from a band?

3. "Friday I'm In Love," the Cure

I always think of this song as bouncy and cheerful, uncharacteristically so for the Cure. It was kit_kindred who pointed out how dark the lyrics could be, if looked at a certain way -- "I don't care if Monday's black, Tuesday, Wednesday, heart attack..." A classic.

4. "Fall On Me," R.E.M.

"Buy the sky and sell the sky and lift your arms up to the sky..." There's such a quality of yearning in the melody, too. One of my favorite R.E.M. songs ever.

5. "Flood II," Sisters of Mercy

Okay, it's something of a filler track on "Floodland." Nevertheless, I find the repetition of "sackcloth and ashes and ashes and ashes" very effective.

6. "Friend of the Devil," the Grateful Dead

*grin* How's that for musical whiplash? Saw my first Dead show on July 4th, 1987 -- Dylan and the Dead at Foxboro, back before it was Gillette Stadium. Probably heard Luke Hunsburger play it outside Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square a lot more times than I ever heard the Dead do it.

7. "For You," Bruce Springsteen

From his first album, "Greetings From Asbury Park," when he still wanted to be Bob Dylan. I might like this song even better than "Spirits in the Night." "And your strength is devastating in the face of all these odds / Remember how I kept you waiting when it was my turn to be the god?"

8. "Favorite Son," Green Day

Couldn't let the list go by without a Green Day song. This one's a "rare-or-unreleased" track that leads off the "Rock Against Bush Vol. 2" compilation from Fat Wreck Chords.

And that's where I stop.

Comment if you want a letter.

Comments

[tragic-tea.livejournal.com]

Letter please!

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

What else could I give you but P?

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

I'll take a letter.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

W.

[cluegirl.livejournal.com]

*Raises hand and asks for a letter.*

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

N.

[hey-disco-joe.livejournal.com]

5. "Flood II," Sisters of Mercy

Filler track my arse! That, and "Driven Like The Snow", are the best fucking tracks on Floodland.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Nuh-uh! "1959!"

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Oh, and did you want a better letter than Q? If so, let's see what you do with H.

[pentane.livejournal.com]

You have to be in the right mood for 1959.

[suburbfabulous.livejournal.com]

Torch.

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

Ooh, interesting - I always like hearing about other people's musical tastes.

I'll take a letter!

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

S.

[chocorua.livejournal.com]

I saw the "Dylan and the Dead" tour, but at Great Woods. Foxboro was a different tour, just the Dead. I remember they sold me a seat up high, almost behind the stage, that really sucked.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Maybe these were different years? Dylan and the Dead most certainly came to Foxboro in 1987.

I had nosebleed seats for that too, right hand side, view pretty much completely obstructed by the speaker stacks. Had a good time anyway, but had a much better time at subsequent Foxboro dates when I had tickets on the field.

[suburbfabulous.livejournal.com]

Downriver, downstreeeeeam...
Gimme letter?

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Your letter is G.

[suburbfabulous.livejournal.com]

But of course!
See my journal.

[nmsunbear.livejournal.com]

Hi! I found you through the_red_shoes and would like to friend you, if you don't mind. Also, I would dearly love a letter. :)

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Of course, and welcome! Your letter is J.