February 27, 2014

NPR 6 Songs
You need to do the above assignment. What is your life story in six songs?

If you are stuck, then you can answer the following questions to help guide you. I need the reasons for these as well. The reasons need to be posted to the blog by the beginning of class on Thursday.

You can either make another grooveshark playlist OR embed the songs in your post. I'm posting an example below. I've only answered the first question. You need to answer ALL of them.

1. What was the first song you ever bought (downloaded, whatever)?
2. What song gets you dancing (or maybe pumped up/thinking about dancing)?
3.  What song takes you back to your childhood?
4. What is the perfect love song?
5. What song would you want at your funeral? (I know that it's morbid.)
6. What song makes you "you"?

When I was a kid you didn't buy songs. Well, I guess you did, but they were called singles and were like five bucks. You could get cassette singles of top ten music, but that's not the kind of music I listened to. I loved classic rock, and though my taste eventually became more eclectic,  it was the only kind of music worth listening to. It makes complete sense that the first album I purchased was Led Zeppelin's runes album (Led Zeppelin IV). I hated "Stairway to Heaven" but the rest of the album was and still is amazing. My favorite song on the album (at the time) was Black Dog. While this doesn't hold true for me anymore, it's at least a little bizarre that this was my favorite song at the age of 11. This is a time when boy band music was just building toward it's eventual pinnacle (thank god) at the end of the late nineties.