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Artist | Track | Album (date)

Em

Hi Emily - I'll add my Top 10!

Sorry I'm rubbish with albums, and don't know many years, either - I'm lucky if I know the singer too! (apart from Queen, of course).

Ooo - it's hard to choose just 10... Here goes...

1) Queen | You're My Best Friend | A Night At The Opera (1976)
2) Queen | Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy | A Day At The Races (1976)
3) Pet Shop Boys | Always on my mind |
4) Pet Shop Boys | It's a sin | (1987)
5) Queen | White Queen (As it Began) | Queen II (1973)
6) The Kinks | Dedicated Follower of Fashion
7) Lady Gaga | Born This Way | (2011)
8) Simon and Garfunkel | Keep the Customer Satisfied | Bridge Over Troubled Water
9) Elton John | I Guess that's why they call it the Blues
10) Half Man Half Biscuit | Joy Division Oven Gloves

Oh, Emily, I always love your music related posts and threads! I wish I had the time to go back and look and see what's changed over the 12 years I've been enjoying them. I love so much music, it's hard to narrow all of my favorites down to a Top Ten, so I'll just share the first ten that came to mind of my Top 100ish.

1. “Pink Turns to Blue” - Husker Du, Zen Arcade (1984)
2. “Alex Chilton” - the Replacements , Pleased to Meet Me (1987)
3. “Local Girls” – Graham Parker, Squeezing out Sparks (1979)
4. “Mob Clash” – the Effigies, For Ever Grounded (1984)
5. “I Remember” – Naked Raygun, All Rise (1985)
6. “Stand and Deliver” – Adam and the Ants, Prince Charming (1981)
7. “Didn’t Tell the Man” – Radio Birdman, Living Eyes (1978)
8. “Teacher, Teacher” – Rockpile, Seconds of Pleasure (1980)
9. “That’s When I Reach for My Revolver” – Mission of Burma, Signals Calls and Marches EP (1981)
10. “September Girls” – Big Star, Radio City (1974)

You know I haven't even finished typing up my own ten (I keep chopping and changing and there's one song I keep remembering and then by the time I've got the page up forgotten again ) and now I have two more to add

So hugs for you both!

Sasha, don't worry I can look for dates and albums if they're not there I'd just quite like to see which decade is most popular after a while.

Psychocandy, I am contemplating putting in any second timers old list as a comparison...mine is definitely indicative of my two final years of high school, where I loved the music I was listing too, but mostly I was listening to it because my friends were and I didn't want to see like a weirdo

It is hard to make a list of your favourites, but in the end what's your favourite this week might be something you feel nostalgic and embarrassed about its naff-ness in a couple of years time.

Now to try and finish the entry before I get more submissions!

Em

Hi Em
Great idea to resurrect this.

1. Always on my Mind - Pet Shop Boys (Number 1 when I first went out with my wife.)
2. Blaze of Glory - The Alarm (The ultimate pick me up when the world is doing my head in.)
3. Freedom - Wham (Number 1 when I went in to the RAF.)
4. Give it Up - K C and the Sunshine Band (Number 1 during my last summer of freedom after A levels.)
5. Tell Her About It - Billy Joel (Memory of a time I fell for a girl who didn't feel the same!)
6. Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks (For my first kiss!)
7. Everything Louder than Everything Else - Meatloaf (Or any other track on Bat Out of Hell II.)
8. Male Stripper - Man 2 Man meets Man Parrish (The dance my best friend and best man did at our wedding is forever etched on my memory especially as he is no longer here.)
9. Bye Bye Baby - Bay City Rollers (My first guilty pleasure!)
10. When I Fall in Love - Nat King Cole (The first dance at our wedding.)

SBE

Thank you SEB.

I've been trying to think why I picked my 10...though I admit there are two or three I put in literally as filler and I need to edit them out and think of the right ones. But I wish I had lovely memories to go with each I picked, I can think of a few which I may consider such as...

Wings of a Dove by Madness and Two Princes by Spin Doctors...which are the songs my mum used to dance around with us to when we were kids, dancing us on her feet and going a little mad.

Anything from Sgt. Pepper, The White Album or Abbey Road by the Beatles, Woodface by Crowded House and New Moon Shine by James Taylor...which are the albums my parents played to us on long car rides when we went on holiday.

Hey Ya! by OutKast...released the year I was at college working on my portfolio, and I'm sure the class sang to it during a dull life drawing lesson.

Scary Mary/Just Boy by Biffy Clyro...which sound-tracked my last year at school. It was the one album the whole 6th year could agree on playing, whether you were a trendy, mosher or somewhere in between.

Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash...the anthem for the DoJ jewellers of 2008, this was basically claimed by our class as ours.

Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana...it's a cliché, but I jumped from boybands to Nirvana in 97/98 when I started high school, my friend gave me the album and my musical taste changed, really quickly.

Fairytale Lullaby by John Martyn...my mum and dad used to sing this to me and my sisters when we were tiny, and for years, I was convinced they'd made it up. I rediscovered it, discovered John Martyn and there are songs of his that make the world stop for me.

Kick Some Ass by Stroke 9...from an album given to me by a guy in high school, after he hurt me badly, because it was the band that no one else knew bar us, which had made us first talk and he knew I hadn't got yet. It took me six months or more to listen to it, but I played this song as loud as I could to spite him.

Truth is, I can't wait to have songs associated with memories like first kisses, meeting the right person and getting married.

Music is so important to memory.

Em x