Three years ago, I did this little music meme, and I thought it would be interesting to see what’s changed with my music tastes since then. Here are the rules:
1. Open your music library (iPod, iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every stage of life, type the song that’s playing
5. When you go to a new stage, press the next button
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool…
The stage of life is in bold, followed by my 2006 answer in italics and my 2009 response in bold:
Waking Up: Instigator by Kaci Brown (Instigator): Bohemian Rhapsody, by Queen (Wayne’s World OST)
First Day at School: Dance of the Seven Veils, by Liz Phair (Exile in Guyville): The Letter, by Natalie Merchant (Tigerlily)
Falling In Love: Jumpers, by Sleater-Kinney (The Woods): This Modern Love, by Bloc Party (Silent Alarm)
Fight Song: DQ Blizzard, by MC Chris (Life’s a Bitch and I’m her Pimp): Talisman, by Air (Moon Safari)
Breaking Up: When I See You Smile, by Bad English: Comfortably Numb, by Scissor Sisters (Scissor Sisters)
Prom: Naked in the Rain, by Red Hot Chili Peppers (Blood Sugar Sex Magik): For Whom The Bell Tolls, by Metallica
Life: Fire, by Ladytron (Light & Magic): Runs in the Family, by Amanda Palmer (Who Killed Amanda Palmer)
Mental Breakdown: Saving Grace, by Tom Petty (Highway Companion): Teenagers, by Hayley Williams (Jennifer’s Body OST)
Driving: The Sweet Escape, by Gwen Stefani (The Sweet Escape): I’ve Had the Time of my Life, by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes
Flashback: NYC, by Interpol (Turn on the Bright Lights): Addicted to Love, by Robert Palmer
Wedding: Shake a Leg, AC/DC (Back in Black): Beds are Burning, by Midnight Oil (Diesel and Dust)
Birth of Child: Feathers, by Kidneythieves (Trickstereprocess): Wild Thing, by The Muppets (Kermit Unpigged)
Final Battle: Hold on to the Night, by Richard Marx: Smile Like You Mean It, by The Killers (Hot Fuss)
Death Scene: Too Much to Ask, by Avril Lavigne (Let Go): Torn, by Natalie Imbruglia
Funeral Song: Wind It Up, by Gwen Stefani (The Sweet Escape): When You’re Gone, by The Cranberries (To The Faithful Departed)
End Credit: Red Hooded Sweatshirt, by Adam Sandler (What’s Your Name): You Belong With Me, by Taylor Swift
Soothing the savage nutsack
About life
9 years ago
Twitter: MFA_Mama
says:
Wow, you make my iTunes library look positively butch.
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Twitter: MFA_Mama
, December 22nd, 2009: 1:14 AM
Okay I tried it…some of them were eerily prescient (like “Breakup” HAHAHA how’d iTunes know I…nevermind) and others were totally random. Very ink-blot…
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Twitter: Amanda234
says:
Well, you still have the musical tastes of a 13 year old girl. I like consistency.
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Twitter: VerdantDude
says:
Semi-shocked to see that you had Sleater-Kinney on there. Back in 2006, I mean.
Nicely done.
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Twitter: VerdantDude
, December 22nd, 2009: 12:59 AM
OK, here’s the weird. I know I did a similar meme a few years back as well, so I had to check it out in my archives to see what it was all about. And the title of the blog post was “Jumpers – a musical meme”. The final part of the meme was picking a song to use as the title of the post and mine was Jumpers by Sleater-Kinney. Weird.
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not as bad as i feared… this modern love is an amazing song.
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Twitter: Bellaventa
says:
You are such an angsty teenage girl.
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Major meandering music meme mentions mementos of memorable moments. Maybe.
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@avatgardener, I think I may be too old for this blog – - I don’t know most of those songs and have only sort of heard of a few of the artists. I have some listening and learning to do this next week. (I shall print your list and listen to youtube)
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Twitter: thegoddesscher
, December 22nd, 2009: 12:27 PM
@avatgardener, You aren’t too old. He has the musical tastes of a 14 year old girl. You’re doing just fine!
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You seem to have gotten moderately cooler with age.
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Twitter: missbritt
says:
This was really poignant in a lot of spots.
Also? I have no idea what half of these songs are.
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Twitter: hellohahanarf
says:
i’m feeling like i live under a rock because i don’t recognize most of those songs. fuck.
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Twitter: elizabethbarone
says:
So I’m not the only one who really liked that first Avril Lavigne album?
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I think I’m most impressed that you have some Metallica! And the Birth of Child answer made me laugh.
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I like this meme and plan to steal it posthaste.
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Twitter: poppycede
says:
I approve of this idea. I’m at my Netbook and I’m too lazy to dig through my archives right now, but it’s nice to see the growthly changes in you.
Except I think you cheated. Cuz the new answers lines up TOO well.
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Twitter: poppycede
says:
*I have a sickness, I meant new answers LINE up, not LINES up. I ain’t all street, yo.
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Twitter: ellemmes
says:
At least I don’t feel so alone in not recognizing most of those. Kermit the Frog, I knew. It’s not easy being green.
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