I know a lot of people talk about how music is their life and all those other stereotypical things and I'll probably sound stereotypical myself with some of the things I'll say in this post but I reading the post made me think about the memories that I hold in my millions of iTunes and Spotify playlists. Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that I'm going to do a similar post to Vanessa but it'll probably be in a bit more detail and I might delete or edit some of the questions.
1) The main music from your childhood?
There isn't a specific song that I link to my child hood, there are quite a few that I associate with different part of my childhood.
I remember the main time I used to listen to music as a really small child were the songs that my Grandad used to play in the car when he picked me up from school - they were songs like Jackson 5 - ABC and Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl.
Once to got to an age where I chose my own music (sort of) and when I used to own my own CD player and things I remember getting the latest NOW! That's What I Call Music CD's and standing in my bedroom (both with and without my friends) listening to my favourite songs and making up a dance or using the TV remote as a microphone and I would sing my heart out. I remember that my favourite songs were: all of the Spice Girls songs, Atomic Kitten - The Tide is High, B*Witched - C'est La Vie, Sophie Ellis Bextor - Music gets the best of me and Murder on the Dance floor, Britney Spears - I love Rock 'n' Roll, Ms Dynamite - Dy-Na-Mi-Tee and Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5. There are probably more but those are the ones I still remember off the top of my head. (I will also admit that I had a party songs CD that I used to listen to specifically to listen to Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini)
I also remember one Christmas receiving a Karaoke machine from my parents and spending God knows how many hours singing on there with my sister (neither of us a born singers I must add so that you can sympathise with the suffering my parents must have experienced as a consequence of the purchase haha!) and I remember our favourite songs on there being: Rapture - iiO (I still completely love this song), Man I feel Like A Woman - Shania Twain, Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver (another one that I still listen to), Genie In a Bottle - Christina Aguilera, Livin' La Vida Loca - Ricky Martin and Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm. Again, there are loads more songs that we used to listen to/sing but those are the ones that really make me think back to being a child.
2) A song that you associate with your (first) big love?
This is a weird one because the person I consider as my 'first love' isn't the person associated with my first heartbreak. I suppose you could argue that I'm probably lying about who my first love is, but I think it's more because the person associated with my first heartbreak 'broke my heart' so much that I no longer remember any of the 'love' part so I can't associate any song with loving that person.
Anyway, the song is David Bowie - In the heat of the morning (and also the Last Shadow Puppets Cover of it - I actually prefer the cover version because it's a bit more up-beat).
There is also I song I remember was the song that reminded me of my 'first love' but it doesn't really make me think of them that much anymore - that song is This Providence - My Beautiful Rescue.
3) A song in which you still come to tears?
If I'd have written this post in my old, old blog about 6 years ago there would be a HUGE list of songs because I had a particularly emotionally difficult phase in my early teens (about age 11 - 13/14) and although thinking back to this time is still emotional, I have some to terms with the events and stuff from this time and how I felt and although the songs I listened to during that time which caused me to cry still tug at a heart string and give me lump in the back of my throat I no longer cry when I listen to them. I'm quite glad of this because it allows me to listen to the songs once in a while to allow me to remember the events that shaped my personality and the rest of my life.
These songs are: PlayRadioPlay! - Madi Don't Leave, 1st Lady - Missing You, Mariah Carey - Bye Bye, The Spill Canvas - The Tide and Postal Service - Against all Odds (Take a look at me now).
4) A song that has plagued you accompanied by lovesickness?
I don't really know what the definition of 'lovesickness' is supposed to be, whether it's supposed to be like heartbreak or being unbelievably in love with someone.
I've already mentioned the song that I associate with being in love (in question 2) so I'm going to tell you the song that I associate with heartbreak. I've already mentioned the song name in the previous question but it's PlayradioPlay! - Madi Don't Leave. I remember a boy that I particularly cared for (this is neither of the people mentioned in question 2, its somewhere between those two people) sending me lyrics to the song in an e-mail before something terrible happening which meant that I never got to speak to him again and hearing the lyrics never fail to choke me up and whenever I hear the song I always feel a little twinge of the heartbreak that I felt when it happened.
5) A song you've probably heard in your life most frequently or have to listen again and again?
I don't really like this question, it's a bit vague and I think it's a bit rubbish. So, I'm not going to answer it.
6) An instrumental song that you particularly like?
I was quite surprised that when I read Vanessa's post that she actually put a song that features in Twilight - I had to double check if it was the same song I planned to put but it isn't. The instrumental song that I particularly like is Bella's Lullaby that featured in Twilight written by Carter Burwell. If you want to listen to the instrumental, I've added a video from YouTube below.
7) Bands/artists that had a strong influence in your teen years?
I altered the question slightly to make it make a bit more sense (and probably changed the meaning of it completely) but I think this question would allow me to give a better answer.
I can probably split the answer to this question into three parts. early teens, mid teens and late teens (my music influence through out this time changed quite a bit).
Early Teens - playradioplay!, Cute Is What We Aim For, Kids in Glass Houses, The Subways,Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the disco, My Chemical Romance, Postal Service, Orson, The Spill Canvas, The Used, Taking Back Sunday, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly., This Providence, From First to Last, The Smiths The Rocket Summer and Finch.
Mid Teens - Ida Maria, Kate Nash, Mystery Jets, Madness, Say Anything, Arctic Monkeys, The Smiths, The Courteeners, Little Comets, The Dykeenies, Kids in Glass Houses, The Hoosiers, The Holloways, Doves, Jimmy Eat World, All Time Low, The Maine, Mr Big, Vampire Weekend, The Kooks, The Wombats, MGMT, Jack Penate, Black Kids, Noah and the Whale, The Libertines, The Killers, Ne-yo, The Fratellis, Jet, Kasabian, The Maccabees, Jamie T, The Cure, Empire of the Sun, Pigeon Detectives, Oasis, The Fray, Maximo Park, Lilly Allen, OK Go, Paolo Nutini, Kings of Leon and Electric Light Orchestra.
Late Teens - Arctic Monkeys, The Vaccines, Lilly Allen, Alex Winston, The Smiths, Kate Nash, Mystery Jets, Doves, Jimmy Eat World, The Strokes, Kings of Leon, Vampire Weekend, The Kooks, MGMT, Jack Penate, Noah and The Wale, Kasabian, Jet, The Maccabees, The Cure, The Beatles, The Black Keys, Oasis, OK Go, Paolo Nutini, Electric Light Orchestra, Bastille, Foals, Imagine Dragons, of Monsters and Men, The Killers, Two Door Cinema Club, Bloc Party, Katy B, Daft Punk, Kimbra, Taylor Swift, The Noisettes, Marina & The Diamonds, Mr Big, Feist, Florence & The Machine.
There are millions more songs and artists/bands that I like but those are the ones which immediately come to mind and which I like almost every song they make/release.
8) A song of you to a special event / an experience reminiscent (and what that is)?
Arctic Monkeys - Arabella, Friendly Fires - Jump in the Pool, Lily Allen - The Fear, Taylor Swift - Love Story, In the heat of the morning - Last shadow Puppets are all songs that really remind me of my current boyfriend.
Arctic Monekys - Why'd you only call me when you're high? has a particularly good memory for me just because my boyfriend and I are Arctic Monkeys fans and we had just booked tickets to go and see them for the third time when the song was released and neither of us knew they were releasing a song so when I was in the shower listening to Radio 1 and it came on I remember running out of the bathroom with shampoo on my hair grabbing a towel screaming to get my boyfriends attention so that he could listen to the song too. It sounds boring, but thinking back to it always makes me laugh.
Icona Pop - I love it particularly reminds me of this summer just gone which was particularly great.
FrankMusik - Confusion Girl and Friendly Fires - Jump in the Pool remind me of Summer 2009.
This question is quite difficult to answer. There isn't any particular songs that remind me a particular event (especially a good event).
9) A song in which you can relax the most?
Bella's Lullaby which I mentioned in question 6 and Arctic Monkeys songs from the album Suck it and See mainly.
10) A song that perfectly matches your personality?
I can't really answer this question because I don't think there really is a song that matches my personality.
11) Your current favorite song?
I haven't really got a current favourite song. Recently I've been listening to a lot of the music from my old playlists but new-er music that I particularly like at the moment are Arctic Monkeys songs from the album AM and Kings of Leon songs from the album Mechanical Bull
Also, I currently love Yes Sir, I can Boogie - Baccara which is on the Cadbury Advert and just makes me laugh so much every time I see it and it gets stuck in my head for the rest of the day and because it makes me laugh to much I've added a YouTube video of it for anyone who hasn't seen it (or anyone who loves it as much as I do and just wants to watch it).
12) Do you play an instrument?
I used to play the clarinet and then I made my mum and dad buy me a guitar for my birthday a few years ago which I never even tried to learn to play.
13) A song would you dedicate to your mother?
I'd like to be able to say a song that reminds me of the relationship between my mum and I but there isn't one, so I suppose I'd dedicate any song by The Smiths to her because she's the reason I listen to them.
14) A song from a movie scene that you would be able to play perfectly?
I honestly don't know what movie scene I think I could play perfectly.
15) A song that you listen to when you get up?
any up beat song really, my alarm song is The Black Keys - Gold on the Ceiling.
16) A song you love, but that you always skips, because it makes you stomach pain?
any of the songs that I mentioned in question 3, because although I mentioned in the question that I like to listen to them to remember how far I've come I do have to be in the right mood to be able to listen to them without them making me instantly feel sad so most of the time I do skip them.
17) One song that stands for one evening in the last summer?
Icona Pop - I love it and Vampire Weekend - Diane Young
18) A magnificent song about love that could have been written for you?
I don't know.
19) A kind of music you don't like?
Like Vanessa, I hate techno.
20) The last song that you have heard?
Say Something - A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera.
What music do you like?
xo
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