I’ve mentioned elsewhere how my friend Dan listened to punk all through college. I wasn’t particularly fond of most of it, but I picked up through osmosis and I have the same kind of appreciation for it as I do other types of music I don’t typically listen to. It is generally not my cup…

I listen to Sirius XM radio’s 80s on 8 station fairly constantly these days. I love that it has MTVs original VJs as the DJs and the music of course is my equivalent of an earlier generation’s 50s music: it is the music that I grew up with. I was listening to it one day…

This is a tough one. First, the directions are a little tricky: not a song that you hate, but a song from a band that you hate. Second, I’m having a hard time thinking of a band that I really hate. The problem is that I generally only listen to music (and therefore bands) that…

Having a favorite band is like having a favorite song, it doesn’t seem to work as well when you are older than, say, 15. Two bands come to mind, Def Leppard (through the Hysteria album) and R.E.M. I’ve never seen the former in concert but I’ve seen the latter twice. However, when I think about…

I am one of those people who can’t really listen to something and fall asleep. Ideally, I would have a perfectly silent background, or perhaps, the wind rustling or some rain trickling. White noise I don’t like, but natural sounds like wind and rain I don’t mind. So it is rare that I am listening…

I can dance to just about any song if your definition of “dance” is as liberal as mine is: movements of the body roughly in synch with the music–or not. But since I am trying to treat this challenge with the spirit that was intended then the song that comes to mind as one that…

Memories are weird things. Back in junior high school and high school, I often wondered why I could hear a song once and know all the words at once; but I couldn’t do the same reading a book. Obviously it had something to do with music’s affect on memory on the brain. Therefore, most songs…

This one is an easy one, for me anyway. It was the spring of 1989 and the event in question was the 2-week long strike of the Los Angeles Unified School District. For two weeks, we’d meet up at school, check in, and then rather than spend the entire day in the school library while…

For whatever reason, I associate many songs with very specific places and events. I hear the song and it can sometimes seems as if I am back at the point in time in my memory. What is even freakier is that sometimes it will feel like the particular place or event happened yesterday; I can…

Generally, songs remind me of specific places that I’ve been, or very specific times in my life, so thinking of a song that reminds me of someone was a little tricky. However, after giving it some thought, one song filtered to the top of the list above the others: Just the Way You Are by…

This is an odd one. There are several songs that make me sad for different reasons and in thinking through them, I tried to pick one that made me sad for nostalgic reasons as opposed to dark ones. The song that immediately came to mind was: Lost for Words by Pink Floyd This is certainly…

Finally! An easy and straight-forward category that I don’t have to put much thought into because I know the answer without thinking about it. A song that always makes me happy is: The Main Street Electrical Parade I have some friends who will think this is a good choice, and others who will think I’ve…