The Five Songs Meme
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omorkaFive Songs that bring back Instant Memories (ganked from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
adpaz):
1) "Ants Marching," Dave Matthews Band. More than anything else that got played on that day, this song for me is the essence of my wedding reception. Me,bibulb, bassfingers, quantumduck, teegarden, moontyger, Brother #1, AK, and everyone else dancing in my grandmother's house's side yard on the lawn.
2) "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)," George Michael and Aretha Franklin. This and the next one are connected. For reasons that I never found out and that he has probably forgotten, my father was over twenty minuted late taking me to the meeting point to carpool from my hometown to Jackson, MS for the state Odyssey of the Mind meet my seventh-grade year. When we got there, it looked like everyone had already left, and I was devastated in the way only a twelve-year-old can be. Dad gave up and went home. When we got there, there was a message on the machine (remember, this is pre-cell-phone) that they were still waiting there. We leapt back into the car and Dad drove like a maniac back to the parking lot; he always has the radio on when he drives, and it took just over the length of this song to get there.
3) "Head to Toe," Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam. Well, we won at state OM and went on to nationals, and rather than try to fly up there (it was in Michigan somewhere) we rented a charter bus. 7 seventh graders and 2 chaperones on a tour bus, essentially. I was ecstatic to be away from my parents for that long (I'd never been away from both of them at once for longer than a day before). This song was on the radio an awful lot during that whole trip, and I can still smell the bus when I hear it.
4) "Superman," REM - oh, gods, Junior Follies and the Savory Black-eyed Peas! Jon and Stu and their twin twelve-strings. They played a lot of different things over the course of our junior year at MSMS, but they played this at Junior Follies and again that spring for some other talent show. This song is Poindexter Hall and the Mariott and a little bit of the lobby of Peyton.
5) "Live and Let Die," Guns 'n' Roses. This is all the good parts of my relationship with the Jerk. Permission to be sexually insatiable for once. Having everything I thought or said questioned - competently - and being able to defend it all. Permission to explore "the weird stuff" without fear. Being able to wholly suck in the ebb and flow of a lover's energies. Gaming with the Jerk and JW and MA and the Aggie crowd, before JW fled off to Taiwan and MA let the Marines shatter him body and soul. Too bad there wasn't anything underneath it all . . .
adpaz):1) "Ants Marching," Dave Matthews Band. More than anything else that got played on that day, this song for me is the essence of my wedding reception. Me,
bibulb, bassfingers, quantumduck, teegarden, moontyger, Brother #1, AK, and everyone else dancing in my grandmother's house's side yard on the lawn.2) "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)," George Michael and Aretha Franklin. This and the next one are connected. For reasons that I never found out and that he has probably forgotten, my father was over twenty minuted late taking me to the meeting point to carpool from my hometown to Jackson, MS for the state Odyssey of the Mind meet my seventh-grade year. When we got there, it looked like everyone had already left, and I was devastated in the way only a twelve-year-old can be. Dad gave up and went home. When we got there, there was a message on the machine (remember, this is pre-cell-phone) that they were still waiting there. We leapt back into the car and Dad drove like a maniac back to the parking lot; he always has the radio on when he drives, and it took just over the length of this song to get there.
3) "Head to Toe," Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam. Well, we won at state OM and went on to nationals, and rather than try to fly up there (it was in Michigan somewhere) we rented a charter bus. 7 seventh graders and 2 chaperones on a tour bus, essentially. I was ecstatic to be away from my parents for that long (I'd never been away from both of them at once for longer than a day before). This song was on the radio an awful lot during that whole trip, and I can still smell the bus when I hear it.
4) "Superman," REM - oh, gods, Junior Follies and the Savory Black-eyed Peas! Jon and Stu and their twin twelve-strings. They played a lot of different things over the course of our junior year at MSMS, but they played this at Junior Follies and again that spring for some other talent show. This song is Poindexter Hall and the Mariott and a little bit of the lobby of Peyton.
5) "Live and Let Die," Guns 'n' Roses. This is all the good parts of my relationship with the Jerk. Permission to be sexually insatiable for once. Having everything I thought or said questioned - competently - and being able to defend it all. Permission to explore "the weird stuff" without fear. Being able to wholly suck in the ebb and flow of a lover's energies. Gaming with the Jerk and JW and MA and the Aggie crowd, before JW fled off to Taiwan and MA let the Marines shatter him body and soul. Too bad there wasn't anything underneath it all . . .
