rewind.

fat-bottomed girls -queen
rain-soaked clouds and dreary skies, with a dash of sickly-ness & boredom

so. im at office, bored out of my wits .. and im fiddling with my spanking new, shiny black, steamy looking compaq notebook. i've gone on an absolute (wireless) downloading rampage and i've already attained a whopping 19 full albums (including classics like velvet underground's self-entitled album, joy division's substance and kinks' ultimate collection, "evergreen favorites" like the beatles' sgt. pepper album, queen's greatest hits and (shhhh..) blink 182's take off your pants and jacket, new indie/alternrock superstars like bloc party's a weekend in the city, the libertines' self-titled LP, hot chip's the warning and the BRILLIANT album by the streets -the hardest way to make an easy living)... in two afternoons!

that's what i call efficiency.

:)

so in my hazy downloading stupor, i started thinking about those songs.

those songs that get stuck in your head for days on end, those songs that boast being the 'most-played' on your iPod/iTunes, those songs that are both wonderfully good and horribly bad and either way, you can't get enough of. at least for a time.

well, ive had quite a few of those songs in recent years and since they're all so important to me and they all mark a point in my life, i thought id muse about them for a while.

...my 'those songs' (in no particular order)
1) joy division's 'love will tear us apart'
a truly beeeautiful song that was stuck in my head for months and months. i must admit i'm still horribly infatuated with that song. the semi-techie, alterno rhythm and sound, the haunting lyrics and the jolting history of the band itself. what a sort.
2) morrissey's 'there's a light that never goes out'
again, an amazing amazing song. a real classic. with a catchy tune and clever lyrics that make you smile wickedly every time.
3) kinks' 'rosie wont you please come home'
after a while, this song gets a bit old.. but it's a real gem, nonetheless. his lilting voice is just.. gorgeous.
4) hot hot heat's 'talk to me, dance with me'
oh my. when this song first came out, i was absolutely bonkers about it. i used to dance to it, sleep to it, drive to it. it was THE song for ages. infectious and bouncy, this is the perfect song for anyone on speed. the bees knees. but not for the faint-hearted.
5) panic at the disco's 'i write sins, not tragedies'
(see number 4) i love this song and despite the fact that i overplayed it, friends overplayed it, MTV overplayed it and radio overplayed it, ill still sing along happily to it everytime.
6) the killers' 'mr brightside'
a modern day classic. few can say they dislike this song and why should they? definitely a soon-to-be karaoke mainstay.
7) queen's 'killer queen'
i used to replay the song over and over again just to hear the lines: "she keeps moet and chandon in her pretty cabinet. let them eat cake, she said, just like marie antoinette." i mean, how cool is that.
8) sum 41's 'fat lip', eminem's 'slim shady', blink 182's 'dammit', mario's 'let me love you', phantom of the opera's 'phantom of the opera', britney spears' 'slave 4 u', and several several other embarrassing/uncool favorites by boybands, chicks who can't sing, etc.
well. we all have our dirty little secrets.
9) guns and roses' don't you cry
my gawd. what a sobby song. but it's brilliant and it's accompanied me through many tearful nights and shower singing sessions.
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10) nickelbacks' how you remind me
goodness. how could i possibly forget. it was sec 3 or 4, we were walking to bio class and jess, ping and i were falling over ourselves singing that bloody song at the top of our lungs while puifun the prefect gave us ghastly looks. its a bloody catchy song and i always sing it at karaoke.
11) coldplay's yellow
crikes. definitely one of the 'songs of the century'. any song that wails 'for you i'd bleed myself dry' is a song worth remembering.
12) kaiser chief's i predict a riot
this song will always remind me of india, for some funny reason. a raucous, hella-good-time song. i love it. WATCHING THE PEOPLE GET LAAAARRY man.