6 Songs Meme

[qos]

I have 1,310 tracks on my iPod, and dancingchaplain tagged me to choose six favorites?

Okay. . .

1. Defying Gravity - sung by Idina Minzel in Wicked, my theme song
2. A Piece of Sky - Barbara Streisand, from Yentl, which used to be my theme song
3. Tonight is What it Means to Be Young - from guilty-pleasure movie Streets of Fire
4. Indestructible - The Four Tops
5. Let the River Run - performed by Michael Ball
6. I am Woman - Helen Reddy

Others: Stars, as performed by Philip Quast on the Dream Cast recording of Les Miz; California Dreamin, Come Sail Away by Styx (the first song I played on a jukebox), Joan of Arc (Jennifer Warnes' recording of the Leonard Cohen song), This is Your Life (The Call), a dozen or so songs by the Carpenters which I have been singing along with since early childhood, Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head, Dela (by Johnny Clegg and Savuka), Corner of the Sky from Pippin. . . more music from Wicked, Yentl, Pippin, Les Miz, Godspell, Moulin Rouge. . . And a lot of instrumental music, especially soundtracks. . .

Tagging:

chipchat
bookchick
jaynefury
savagedaughter
_storyteller_
urbanbard

Comments

[bookchick.livejournal.com]

I did this. I despise you. Honestly. To make me search through mounds of CDs without cases, trying to remember names of songs I haven't listened to in months, because the only stuff I listen to now is stuff that can be danced to by a 22 month-old. To remind me that I actually used to listen to music beyond Sesame Street and Arabesque. To suggest that I pay attention to what I put in the CD player. To make me desire an iPod for its ease and glory.

You are evil.

Time to dust off the Bowie collection and dig out the Peter Murphy and Stan Getz cds.

[qos.livejournal.com]

No, no. . . Not "evil". . . WICKED!

[chipchat.livejournal.com]

From Styx to Streisand - there's an eclectic range. And where did that love of musicals come from? (Not a thing wrong with that, just curious)

[qos.livejournal.com]

I was raised on musicals, starting with The Sound of Music and The Wizard of Oz, and then Singing in the Rain, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Man of LaMancha, Jesus Christ Superstar, and etc. I love the drama of the music from musicals.

I actually feel that Styx to Streisand isn't much of a stretch. I started listening to the radio in 1977, and my musical tastes have been hopelessly skewed in the direction of late 1970's pop and rock.