Pick 5
My two older kids went to the beach with their dad this week. Each packed some tunes for the ride (musicals and Tickle Tunes for the 8 year-old and teenage music for the tweener). I told my almost-13 year-old that I wanted to download a few of my favorite oldies for her i-pod before she left. We searched together on I-tunes (where Sarah Jane had $5.00 in her account to spend) and I clicked around the 80’s music, listening to 30-second snippets from my past. Famefamefamefamefamefamefame … what’s your name; what’s your name? L-O-L-A Lola. P-P-People try to put us down. Talkin’ ’bout my g-generation. Etc. It was a tough choice. What would you pick if you only had 5 songs ($.99 each) to show your children a slice of your musical life? (fyi, the Beatles don’t do I-tunes).
Here were my picks:
Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan (he’s was rapping when rapping wasn’t cool)
Love Shack - The B-52’s (best dancing song, ever)
We Got the Beat - The Go-Go’s (I had to include an all-girl band)
Werewolves of London (ah-ooooooh!) - Warren Zevon
and, lastly, The Stones - I tried to talk her into a ballad (Wild Horses) but she over-rode me with - of course - Satisfaction.
Your turn.
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Several years ago, I put together 10 songs to pump me up for races. A few just weren’t right, but some work great. I think I have a few years on you, so we’re at different times, but here are 5 from me:
Radar Love - Golden Earring
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
25 or 6 to Four - Chicago
I’m sticking on the others.
Comment by Scooter — 3/27/2006 @ 5:54 pm
1)Flock of Seagulls- I Ran (So far away)
2)The Cars- You Might Think
3)Beach Boys- Good Vibrations
4)Tears for Fears- Everybody Wants to Rule the World
5)ELO- Livin Thing
Comment by Tha Saint — 3/28/2006 @ 11:21 am
Funny, when the 80s are considered Oldies. I guess if for me the 50s are oldies, then for your kids they would be in the same realm as music from Ancient Greece.
Comment by George — 3/29/2006 @ 4:03 pm
Limiting it to five is tough. But for a slice of my musical life, I can be comfortable with the following five, ordered chronologically based on the time they were part of my personal soundtrack, running from high school onward:
1) New Order, Bizarre Love Triangle
2) The Cure, Disintegration
3) Bob Mould, See a Little Light
4) Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Bittersweet (the original version from Midnight Radio)
5) Whiskeytown, Not Home Anymore
Comment by Steve — 3/30/2006 @ 11:49 am