Toms View of the World

May
19
2005

Musical Baton

James posted this on his blog today. This is an update to the pass-around-the-email surveys which have been doing the rounds over the last few years. This is more a pass-it-around-the-blogs type thing, meaning its actually much more useful and interesting because you can see what everybody else has answered.

Total volume of music files on my computer is?

9.78Gb, consisting of 2671 files (or according to Winamp, enough music for me to listen continuously for 62 hours)

The last CD I bought was?

Stereophonics - Language. Sex. Violence. Other?

Song playing right now?

The list of the last three tracks is in the side bar (below the category list) - but as I type this it’s “It’s My Life” by Bon Jovi.

Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me?

There are some songs that remind me of particularly happy or sad times.

1: Friends Will Be Friends - Queen
“Friends will be friends, When you’re in need of love they give you care and attention, Friends will be friends, When you’re through with life and all hope is lost Hold out your hands cos friends will be friends right till the end” That song got me through University, and has a lot of emotion tied up in it.

2 and 3: “Have a Nice Day” - Stereophonics and “California Screaming” - The Beach Boys
Both always make me think back to a superb holiday I had in 2002 (the ECC’s California Trip).

4: “Across The Border” - ELO
The album for this (Out of the Blue)was a permanent fixture in my personal stereo when I was doing the whole “University Open Days” thing, and travelling hundreds of miles by rail visiting places to see if I wanted to spend the next 3 years of my life there. Actually very appropraite, because I went to Swansea, which from where I grew up, is in fact, “Across the Border”

5:“Music for a Found Harmonium” - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
It’s an instrumental piece, but it reminds me of a once-strong friendship that’s drifted apart. A sad story really.

Five people to whom I’m passing the baton?

As James did, I’m going to leave this here and if you take this and fill it in yourself either use a trackback linking to your blog entry or post comment below.