Which song do you listen to when...
you feel like 2000?
Greenday - Time Of Our Lives
Played at every monumental celebration during the final year of high school. This includes sentimental slide shows at graduation, final song at senior prom, etc.
you try to stay up for more than 24 hours?
The Knife - Heartbeats
Lively enough, but I can slowly rock back and forth to it when I'm twenty hours in.
you come home from the club?
jj - Let Them
This would be a great song if I had fallen in the club, or started a fight.
you take a bubble bath?
Tom Waits - Alice
This song is so beautiful and still and repeat worthy.
you sit by a camp fire?
Ellen McIlwaine - Can't Find My Way Home (Steve Winwood cover)
A song I have wanted to cover for a while.
you prepare a candle light dinner?
Jeff Buckley - Everybody Here Wants You
you go to a club?
Lee Fields - Ladies
Few songs make me go 'crazy', like this one. This is as «club» as I get. Best part: «I bet your man is pleased right down to his knees».
you run naked through a cornfield?
The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??
you prepare for an important date?
Jamie Lidell - When I Come Back Around
you want to disturb your neighbours?
Ben Folds Five - Song For The Dumped
Whatever and Ever Amen gets me singing and dancing, like I've never sung and danced before.
you drive a car late at night?
Cousteau - Last Good Day Of The Year
This song reminds me of my first car, and driving around with an old friend that introduced me to this band.
you drive into the country?
Jim Sullivan - Highways
This guy made one record in 1969 and then disappeared in the desert.
you eat a pizza?
Nick Zubeck - Cherry Sunshine
Just a feel good, summery eating pizza kind of song by a super talented Canadian songwriter.
you are love sick?
Blonde Redhead - My Impure Hair
«It's what you did that belongs to everyone».
you make love?
Bernice - Pacemaker
This song could easily get my clothes off.
you sit in a plane?
The Radio Dept. - Heaven's on Fire
In reality, heaven being on fire while on a plane would be terrifying. But...
you rob a bank?
Good Friday - Why?
This song is bad ass. And the guitar gives me robbing momentum.
you smuggle diamonds?
Genesis - Just A Job To Do
And after I smuggled all the diamonds, I'd persuade Phil Collins to marry me (a fantasy I had when I was eight years old).
you have to spend a night in a spooky hotel?
Greg Foat Group - Time Piece 1 (Harpsichord Bugalu)
Every spooky hotel needs some psychedelic harpsichord.
you stay in bed?
Kurt Vile - Peeping Tomboy
«I don't want to work but I don't want to sit around all day frowning».
you sit in the subway?
Bibio - Wake Up!
Some happy thoughts to help me wake up.
you wake up?
Elbow - Jesus Is A Rochdale Girl
Saved it onto my iPhone. That rhodes riff throughout is the best welcoming back into reality.
you walk in the rain?
Sharon Van Etten - Give Out
I actually walked in the rain a few weeks ago and had this on repeat.
you are window shopping?
Queen - I Want It All
I'll go the Sally Ann instead.