Friday Five - - In harmony.

[gridlore]

stolen from lysana

1. Name one song you hate to admit you like.

"Pleasant Valley Sunday" - The Monkees

2. Name two songs that always make you cry.

"Centerfield" - John Fogerty
"Candyman - The Grateful Dead

3. Name three songs that turn you on.

I don't have any that get that immediate reaction.

4. Name four songs that always make you feel good.

"The Wheel" - The Grateful Dead
"Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)" - The Offspring
"I Wanna Be Sedated" - The Ramones
"Take Me Out To The Ballgame" - trad.

5. Name five songs you couldn't ever do without.

"Thick As A Brick" - Jethro Tull
"Terrapin Station Suite" - The Grateful Dead
"Tangled Up In Blue" - Bob Dylan
"Video Killed The Radio Star" - Buggles
"Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen

Comments

[thebitterguy]

Just out of curiosity, why tears at Centrefield? It's always seemed like such a happy song to me.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

The last verse, about the homemade bat, etc.. For some reason, these lines get me to tear up:

"Just hit the ball, and touch them all,
A moment in the sun.."
*CRACK*
"It's gone and you can tell that one goodbye."

[firecat]

Cool, I've actually heard most of them. (An unusual thing with these LJ musical memes, for me.)

Thick as a Brick, definitely!

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Out of curiostoy, which ones were the ones you didn't recognize?

[firecat]

I might have heard these, but I don't recognize them by name:

"Centerfield" - John Fogerty
"The Wheel" - The Grateful Dead

I have never heard of The Offspring.

"Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)" - The Offspring

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Centerfield is John Fogerty's tribute to baseball.. you hear it a lot right around Spring Training.

http://www.mts.net/~mloewen1/ccr/lyrics/jf1.html#7

The Wheel is a bit of fun fluff from the Grateful Dead. It was always great in concert, and so reminds me of the shows I saw way back when.

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/g/grateful-dead/20037.htm

The Offspring are neo-punks with a metal/rap edge. Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) is their 'tribute' to all the suburban white kids who so want to be black and cool.

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~harel/cgi/page/htmlit?Pretty_Fly.html

Thanks!

[firecat]

Oh, I have heard "The Wheel." Live, even. Just didn't know the name.

I will await The Offsprings spinoff song about the Big Moves hip-hop class for fat middle-aged white women, which I enjoyed tremendously.