Well, Mary tagged me again. But since there are so many ways to "knock my socks off," I'm making 2 lists.
List 1: Songs that knock my socks off emotionally:
- Joni Mitchell - A Case of You
- David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World (although I kinda prefer the Nirvana version)
- Regina Spektor - Samson
- Evanescence - My Immortal
- Dar Williams - Family
List 2: Songs that "make me want to jump out of my seat" knock my socks off (in other words, if I'm drinking and I hear these songs, the reaction isn't pretty):
- L'il John and the Eastside Boys - Get Low
- Usher - Yeah
- Sonique - Feel So High
- Prince - Pussy Control
- Ace of Base - The Sign
Okay, so a couple footnotes. Ace of Base was the BIGGEST thing when I was in Jr. High, and I basically learned how to dance to their CD in my jr. high gym, while all the boys stood around the walls watching us pre-teen girls try to be sexy. You don't hear this song while drinking often enough, but every once in a while, when I feel like car dancing, I pop in the CD.
Feel So High and Pussy Control were two songs that always got played together at the Brunswick Panini's when we went there after work. I was only 20 and sneaking Mikes Hard Lemonade in the bathroom and washing the x's off my hands with makeup remover. I could not sit still during these songs, even if no one else was dancing, so I regularly made a fool of myself. I still do, although I never hear them together anymore.
I tag Joanna, Steve, Jeannine, and Jessica (but you don't have to do 2 lists, unless you want to.)
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Elsewhere, (trying something different than "meanwhile") I was up til 3 packing last night, and when I went to bed, I felt like I had nothing done, but when I woke up this morning I noticed that about half of my apartment is packed. Woo hoo!
Also last night after I went to bed, I heard an agry drunken fight going on downstairs. They took it outside so I got a front row seat to how awful people can be to each other. Luckily, the guy was just hitting the picket fence outside instead of the girl he was just yelling at, but I was ready to call the cops. I miss the country. The only fights you hear out there are between the racoons over the garbage.
3 comments:
You must be the same age as me...I have similar memories of that song. However, I think it became a little too popular because I would cringe if I heard it played now.
Got a list up at my place. Thanks for the tag!
I listed my top five songs over at Deb Ager's blog comments...but you'll think I'm really old-fashioned when you read them!
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