Here's some musical meme fun, yoinked from Porcini Chronicles. And I don't think I can describe it better than she did: the seven songs I would pick if I could only listen to seven songs for the rest of my life, which, yeah, like someone is going to impose that... Of course, I'm chronically unable to narrow things down -- this is the closest I could get. I couldn't really wrap my brain around the only songs for rest of life concept. So I went instead with songs that I've happily played over and over and over again, and not just over the years but at the same time.
set one
"here we go" :: Stakka Bo
"thank you for sending me an angel" :: Talking Heads
"fly me to the moon" :: Frank Sinatra
"mera pia ghar ayaa" (Bally Sagoo remix) :: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
"the devil in me" :: John Wesley Harding
"constant craving" :: k.d. lang
"the love cats" :: the Cure
set two
"v-thirteen" :: Big Audio Dynamite
"la réalité" :: Amadou & Mariam
"if i should fall from grace with god" :: Pogues
"water no get enemy" :: Fela
"they can't take that away from me" :: Fred Astaire
"anarchy in the UK" :: Sex Pistols
"goodnight, baby" :: the Butterflys
set three
"woke up this morning" :: A3
"singin' in the rain" :: Gene Kelly
"sensoria" :: Cabaret Voltaire
"king of rock" :: Run DMC
"your life" :: Konk
"my kingdom" :: Echo & the Bunnymen
"my favorite things" :: John Coltrane
I'm amazed that even through bending the rules and interpretations, *you* could provide a list of just twenty-one songs.
By coincidence, I was driving down the road today, enjoying disc II of Ani DiFranco's "Living in Clip" and wondering, "what CD would I want if I could only have one on my desert island?"
It's unlikely but possible that maybe 10-15 years ago I might have been able to come up with 1 desert island disc. Altho it probably would've changed from day to day to day. But between XDU and iTunes I think completely in terms of songs and not albums -- I don't there's any one album that I'd want to be stuck with even for a vacation, let alone a desertion.
Things I missed from the 7 song challenge that need to be in a fourth set: "the high road" by the Feelies, either "dazzle", "dear prudence", "spellbound" or "oh baby" by Siouxsie and the Banshees, "im nin'alu" by Ofra Haza, "rahaye rahaye" by Safri Boys, "five minutes" by Mainframe, "everything i've got" by Blossom Dearie