The same as every year: Don Henley‘s Boys of Summer.
May 302011
May 292011
One of the first songs I have perfect recollection of liking: Village People‘s In the Navy. Here rendered by the Muppets, since the original video cannot be embedded.
May 282011
Vaguely guilty, ever since the eighties: Cyndi Lauper‘s She Bop. Wasn’t aware of the filthy fifteen connection until ten minutes ago, though.
May 272011
Sure, if I could play Through the Fire and Flames, no reasonable song would stand in my way.
May 262011
My utter lack of musical skills are best reflected in the only song I can play: Gubben Noak.
May 252011
The Buggles‘ lone hit Video Killed the Radio Star, the first video ever played on MTV, still gets smiling me every time. Even without the visuals.
May 242011
Orion and something completely different.
May 232011
Make it two, actually, one song during the ceremony and the other during the reception.
May 222011
Nothing beats Miles Davis‘ soul-tearing blues on days of sadness.
May 212011
I’m saving the ultimate good times song for the last day of the meme, so May 202011
Turisas has replaced NIN and AC/DC as the main lightning rod for anger.
This is the title track of their debut album, Battle Metal.
May 192011
Metallica’s Ride the Lightning is the quintessential speed metal album. This is Call of Ktulu, a misspelled instrumental that was my first conscious introduction to the weird world of H.P. Lovecraft.
May 182011
Guns n’ Roses‘ Coma, if only for the fact that its 10+ minutes length would block out some bad songs. This was my instrument of warfare back in Utah, selecting this serially in the jukebox of the Pie got plenty of dirty looks.
May 172011
Anssi Kela‘s Milla. It’s on pretty much all the time, after ten years.
May 162011
“Hate” is probably a too strong word, but I’ve grown quite disenchanted with Metallica‘s Enter Sandman. While the simple song is no longer as ubiquitous as it used to be, it no longer perks up my ears. Unless, obviously, it’s the highlight of an hour of schlagers and boybands.
May 152011
Mainly referring to the chaos-ridden situation at work, I am, indeed Comfortably Numb as Pink Floyd sings.
May 142011
Sarah McLachlan‘s ethereal staring-outta-the-window music hit me like a steamhammer.
May 132011
Mika‘s bubbly Grace Kelly touched a nerve when I first heard the song, and I’m still kinda attracted to it.
May 122011
Limp Bizkit has always rubbed me the wrong way. While the music is no more annoying than the neighboring nu-metal band’s, Fred Durst manages to be on the very top of the irritation scales.
May 112011
Placebo is the only band on whose gig I’ve fallen asleep.
May 102011
I’ve liked Alice Cooper ever since I learned to know him/her/it in the late eighties. This is one of my perennial favorites, No More Mr. Nice Guy off Billion Dollar Babies – here represented with an awesomely theatrical live video.
May 092011
May 082011
A song I know all the words to would be Metallica‘s Welcome Home (Sanitarium), the fourth song (in the traditional quasi-ballad slot) off Master of Puppets. (There’s no official video for the song, this live clip is from Cliff ‘em All).
May 072011
Finland’s first and thus far only world championship in ice hockey is definitely an event. Until the 1995 games in Stockholm the finnish team songs consisted mainly of Smoke on the Water (Blackmore / Gillan) and Mats Sundin är Homosexuell (trad.).
During the pillage of Globen we not only robbed the swedes of the gold medal, but also liberated their song. Den Glider In was inescapable in 1995, and even nowadays surfaces occasionally.
May 062011
Aerosmith‘s Sweet Emotion is one of the top songs I learned to love in my schoolyear in Utah.