I was recently tagged for this meme by two expat bloggers in Thailand, Ange from Thai me Kangaroo down sport… and Vanalli from The Lost Boy. It was a really difficult meme for me to do, and took quite a bit of thought, but here are my answers based on what I am feeling right at this moment (my music tastes change depending on my mood, so yeah…).
5 – You’re going on a long journey, what five albums MUST you take with you? Albums that you need to listen to regularly.
Green Day – American Idiot
Johnny Cash – American IV: The Man Comes Around
Ben Folds Five – Whatever & Ever Amen
Pearl Jam – Riot Act
Usher – Confessions
4 – What four albums/songs do you most associate with a journey or travel experience? You know, the ones you listen to that instantly transport you back to a place and time.
Herbert Groenemeyer – Mensch — this song always reminds me of first moving to Germany
Sportfreunde Stiller – ’54, ’74, ’90, 2006 and Hermes House Band – Three Lions — it’s not really a journey or travel experience, but whenever I hear these songs, I am instantly transported back to the World Cup in Germany last year. That was a great time.
Peter Gabriel – In Your Eyes — Also nothing to do with travel, but this always brings me back to high school sock hops – Billy Idol’s Mony Mony, REM’s End of the World as we know it, and Violent Femmes’s Blister in the Sun too.
INXS – Kick — Makes me think of random school field trips. I think it was one of the few cassettes I had when I was younger, so it was the soundtrack for a lot of trips. Falco 3 was another of those few cassettes!
3 – Your three favorite songs of all time? (I agree with Ange – so NOT easy!)
REM – Leaving New York
Ben Fold’s Five – Brick
Pearl Jam – In My Tree
2 – Two feel good songs, the ones that are guaranteed to lift the blues and put a smile on your face.
U2 – Beautiful Day
Sublime – Santeria — yeah, it’s a little violent, but it’s such an upbeat tune
1 – Absolute, overall, undoubtedly the best album of all time, in your opinion. (Really difficult to just pick one)
Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
So who do I tag? Hmmm, let’s try to get an eclectic group together. I’ll tag: Grafs of Grafs Headfirst, Red Squirrel of Angry Linguist’s Journal, and Rita of Rita’s Kleine Welt. Okay, they’re all women, not THAT eclectic. So sue me!
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it’s done.
you have some great choices there.
@rita: You do as well!
Meme received and being processed. Yes, I believe we have different tastes in music, but I like everything when it comes down to it.
Leaving New York – that is a great song! That song takes me back to a painful overnight bus trip from London to Glasgow where I listened to that CD non stop for 12 or so hours!
Ben Folds Five – I haven’t thought about them in forever but I love that cd. I’m going to have to dig mine out to listen to it in the car now
And I used to have the Green Day one too, even saw them in concert in college. That seems like a long time ago!
@grafs: I’m looking forward to seeing your answers!
@ange: 12 hours, wow! The CD as a whole is really good though. One of my favs.
@andrea: You must mean their CD Dookie, cause American Idiot just came out. Dookie was big when I was in high school. I can’t believe how long ago that was!
Ohhh, lots of BF and Pearl Jam… I so approve!
It was a great concert. We also saw Pearl Jam last year. So far they’re the only two concerts we’ve been to since moving to Germany, but both were well worth it!
@Eurotrippen: I saw Pearl Jam in NC during the Binaural tour. They were awesome. Too bad I couldn’t get tickets to the concert in München.