30 Day Song Challenge: 10

Day 10: A song that makes you fall asleep.

Bill Hicks - "Gays In The Military"

I don't really have a song that makes me fall asleep. If I'm on my own, and especially when I was growing up, I wouldn't be able to get to sleep because my mind would become full of weird and often morbid thoughts. That makes me sound like a psycho, but trust me, I'm not. Anyway, to stop me from thinking, I would usually fall asleep listening to comedy, so although it's not a song, it's something that helps me to sleep. I wouldn't say it makes me sleep though; It just helps.

30 Day Song Challenge: 9

Day 9: A song that you can dance to.

Duck Sauce - "aNYway"

I sort of already covered this with Day 3, but I didn't want to repeat myself, so chose this instead.

I LOVE this track. The first time I heard it was on my birthday in 2009 at the Youthmovies last ever gig afterparty when Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs was djing in the basement at Foals' old house in Jericho (fucking check me out name-dropping like a total wanker) and I danced so hard. On a chair. It was totally awesome. That was a great night.

30 Day Song Challenge: 8

Day 8: A song that you know all the words to.

Pulp - "Seductive Barry"

There are probably a few others, but I chose this song because a) it is one of my all time favourite songs, and b) it contains my favourite song lyric of all time:

"I will light your cigarette with a star that has fallen from the sky.

Breathe in, breathe out, I love the way you move,

don't let anyone tell you any different tonight.

You are beauty, you are class, yeah you showed it all,

but you still kept a little piece back just for me."

Gets me every time. That is just phenomenal.

Anyway, here's the song.

30 Day Song Challenge: 7

Day 7: A song that reminds you of a certain event.

Flight of the Conchords - "The Most Beautiful Girl (In The Room)"

This song reminds me of mine and Sweet G's mates Hamu & Naomi's wedding. Me and the G had a right old comedy dance to this that made our mates laugh quite a lot. It was fun. Godd wedding, that one.

30 Day Song Challenge: 6

Day 6: A song that reminds you of somewhere.
Beth Orton - 'I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine'
This song reminds me of Grenoble in France. I went there when I was 17 for a trip when I was involved with the Pegasus Theatre's youth group. We devised a piece and went to perform it in Grenoble. We spent about 8 days there. At that time I was pretty much constantly listening to either 'Kind Of Blue' by Miles Davis, or 'Trailer Park' by Beth Orton. This song was the one I kept getting stuck in my head. It was kind of stuck in my head for the whole visit. I simultaneously loved and hated that trip for various reasons, but as an experience it is something that will always stay with me. Every time I hear this song, I remember Grenoble.



(This is the least obnoxious fan video I could find for it on YouTube)

30 Day Song Challenge: 5

Day 5: A song that reminds you of someone.

"The Girl Is Mine" by Michael Jackson featuring Paul McCartney.

Reminds me of my old best friend from primary and middle school, David Savage. He had the "Thriller" album on tape and when I went round to his house, we would often act out some of the songs, specifically this song and "Thriller" itself. David would always be Michael Jackson and I was always Paul McCartney, and we would mime the song to each other pretending we were arguing over a woman.

So when you listen to this song now, imagine two boys aged between about 8 and 10 pretending to fight over a girl who doesn't exist. Awww, how cute.

P.S. For the song "Thriller" I had to be the guy who does the narration bit. As he only really appears at the end, for the bulk of the song I had to pretend to be someone who was really scared of David/Michael Jackson.

30 Day Song Challenge: 4

As I'm doing NaPoWriMo on my other blog (http://paulaskew.tumblr.com/), I'm doing this on here so this blog doesn't get ignored for a month.

Day 4: A song that makes you sad.

'Selective Memory' by Eels.

I find this song absolutely heartbreaking.

30 Day Song Challenge: 3

As I'm doing NaPoWriMo on my other blog (http://paulaskew.tumblr.com/) , I'm doing this on here.

Day 3: A song that makes you happy.

'House Of Jealous Lovers' by The Rapture.

This song never fails to put a smile on my face. I once danced so hard to this song that I gave myself a really bad asthma attack and had to sit down for about 20 minutes until I could breathe again. And that was with the use of my Ventolin. THAT is how happy this song makes me; it turns me into a health hazzard.

30 Day Song Challenge: 2

As I'm doing NaPoWriMo on my other blog (http://paulaskew.tumblr.com/) , I'm doing this on here.

Day 2: Your least favourite song.

'Stop The Cavalry' by Jona Lewie.

Every Christmas, this gets played everywhere, and I FUCKING HATE IT!! There is not one single good thing about this song. It has no redeeming feature whatsoever. I REALLY FUCKING HATE IT!!!!

30 Day Song Challenge: 1

There's a thing called the '30 Day Song Challenge' that loads of people are clogging up Facebook with. I wanted to do it when only about one or two people were doing it, but now so many people are doing it that about half of my news feed is people putting up music videos. Which is kind of annoying.

On my other blog (http://paulaskew.tumblr.com/), I'm trying to take part in NaPoWriMo, which means I probably won't be writing anything on here for the whole of April, so I thought I would do the 30 Day Song Challenge on here.

Day 1: Your Favourite Song.

'Dayvan Cowboy' by Boards Of Canada.

This is a song I never get bored of. In my mind it is perfect. I love the video for it too (even if it does cut about half a minute out of the song).