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March 01, 2007 at 08:44 am

I’ve been tagged: The Perfect Song

Zach Lind has tagged me to come up with a list of perfect songs for five specific genres. Here are the rules as laid out by the originator, Mark Oestreicher:

1. scan through your itunes or cd library. refamiliarize yourself with the nooks and crannies of your musical options.
2. identify five categories — genres, if you will — of music. these should be as obscure and finely-articulated as you’d like. feel free to use modifiers liberally.
3. nominate — select, really — a “perfect song” for each category. include a link for each song to something (the amazon page for the CD, or the artist’s website, or whatever). you may find it easier, as i did, to find “perfect songs”, and craft categories or genres around them.

1. ideally, some of the songs will be nominally obscure, or, at least, not completely mainstream and overplayed. no need to tell us all about songs we all know!

I’ve added a few descriptors to my choices, so hopefully, the choices will make a little sense. Also, my entire music collection will never make it to iTunes — it would just take too much time. So, these choices are based on what is there at the moment.

The list…

1. The perfect relationships are great, everyone makes me happy, and so does life, so let’s all sing and be happy together song: “Such Great Heights” by The Postal Service (Ben Gibbard’s lyrics and music make me happy even when he is singing about something depressing, but this one is a happy one and it makes me even happier when I hear it)
2. The perfect relationships suck, everybody sucks, and so does life, but I’m not going to stand for it song: “Animal” by Front 242 (written and sung by Kristin Kowalski who lends a cool twist to an always surprising band)
3. The perfect make you feel young and like it’s summer again song: “Get Off” by Bad Religion
4. The perfect why didn’t I stick to my convictions and just become an activist hippy song: “Break Down the Walls” by Youth of Today (proving that brevity can be more powerful than you might imagine)

1. The perfect realize that music can only be God’s creation song(s): The entire “The Mission (Original Soundtrack)” by Ennio Morricone (sorry, I couldn’t pick just one from this incredible soundtrack by the most awe inspiring composer)

And, to move this tagging process along, I’ll choose two wonderful newly engaged friends that I don’t talk to often enough: Mary Begemann and Jarod McBride.

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