[Hulk01]

and jackettree got me thinking:

At least a decade ago, I asked my Facebook friends to identify their 20 favorite songs.

Surely, I thought, Satisfaction and Like A Rolling Stone would earn several mentions.  I mean, those are great songs, near or at the top of Rolling Stone magazine's regularly updated "500 Best Songs of All Time."

My request produced a list of 140 songs. 

Only one appeared on more than one list: Al Green's Let's Stay Together.

Which I had heard once or twice, and forgotten.

When I look at my list--coincidentally, only a copy songs shy of 140--I realize that context really matters.  If I was in a down period--first quarter of college, first quarter of law school,  whatever triggered a down--then the music of that period suffers in my memory.  

Context--timing specifically-- really matters.

In the first year of my cancer, the songs that touched me were mostly sentimental stories told by female artists. Now, four years later and more than a year past my supposed expiration. the music that affects me is bigger, celebratory, and by mostly  male artists.

I could not walk back then, for almost year,  So, naturally, the music I favored was not American Bandstand--"it's got a good beat and you can dance to it."  Now. it's celebratory.  

As I am.   

So now, just for fun, my current Favorite All Time Top 7:

The Whole Of The Moon, The Waterboys
Los Angeles, The Midnight
Beat It, Michael Jackson
Light On, Maggie Rogers
Happy New Year, Let's Eat Grandma
Just Another Girl, The Killers
So You Wanna Be A Rock and Roll Star, The Byrds


FWIW, my best to you all, and--but of course--Go Cardinal.

[Hulk01]

and jackettree got me thinking:

At least a decade ago, I asked my Facebook friends to identify their 20 favorite songs.

Surely, I thought, Satisfaction and Like A Rolling Stone would earn several mentions.  I mean, those are great songs, near or at the top of Rolling Stone magazine's regularly updated "500 Best Songs of All Time."

My request produced a list of 140 songs. 

Only one appeared on more than one list: Al Green's Let's Stay Together.

Which I had heard once or twice, and forgotten.

When I look at my list--coincidentally, only a copy songs shy of 140--I realize that context really matters.  If I was in a down period--first quarter of college, first quarter of law school,  whatever triggered a down--then the music of that period suffers in my memory.  

Context--timing specifically-- really matters.

In the first year of my cancer, the songs that touched me were mostly sentimental stories told by female artists. Now, four years later and more than a year past my supposed expiration. the music that affects me is bigger, celebratory, and by mostly  male artists.

I could not walk back then, for almost year,  So, naturally, the music I favored was not American Bandstand--"it's got a good beat and you can dance to it."  Now. it's celebratory.  

As I am.   

So now, just for fun, my current Favorite All Time Top 7:

The Whole Of The Moon, The Waterboys
Los Angeles, The Midnight
Beat It, Michael Jackson
Light On, Maggie Rogers
Happy New Year, Let's Eat Grandma
Just Another Girl, The Killers
So You Wanna Be A Rock and Roll Star, The Byrds


FWIW, my best to you all, and--but of course--Go Cardinal.