100 Songs To Save Your Life

I got this from Manuel Quezon III’s blog, but it actually originated from Big Baddie’s blog. The general idea is to create a playlist that you would want your future child to listen to. ONE HUNDRED looks like a big number, but trust me, it’s not easy to limit the list to just 100 songs. My first draft reached 174 and I only listed one song per artist. And it’s harder to choose one song for each artist, especially my favorite ones! The songs I chose aren’t exactly the artists’ best, in my opinion, nor my super favorites. These are the songs that played some significance in my life.



Dear future spawn,

At this point, I still have not met your future dad (or maybe I have but I don’t know it yet!). I don’t have a clue whether he’s going to be rich, gorgeous, intelligent and tall. I wish he would be. But most of all, I wish that there’s really a future dad for me to meet and mate with so that I can actually produce a spawn. Don’t you wish that, too, little yet-to-exist one?

ANYWAY. If there’s anything that I can share with you now, it won’t be riches nor strikingly good looks. It certainly won’t be HEIGHT (for your own sake, pray that future dad has oustanding height genes!). What I can share with you is my passion for three things: music, books and movies.

Let’s talk about music first. Music is like a best friend. It will always be there for you no matter what. There’s music to celebrate your milestones and triumphs, there’s music when you feel down and blue, there’s music when you fall in love, there’s music when your heart gets broken, there’s music to get you through nights when you want to hide out from the world. Music breaks down walls. Music puts into words the thoughts that you can never say.

I’m sharing with you 100 songs that saved my life. Actually, there are more than 100 songs that saved, and has continued saving, my life. For now, these will do. Someday, I will sit down with you and tell you the stories and memories I associate with each song. And I hope someday you would love music the way I do and find those songs to save your life.

Love, your future mom (IF and WHEN that moment comes!)

100 SONGS
001. 5ive, Until The Time Is Through
002. 98 Degrees, The Hardest Thing
003. Ace Of Base, The Sign
004. Adam Sandler, Grow Old With You
005. Aerosmith, Cryin'
006. Alamid, Your Love
007. Alanis Morissette, That I Would Be Good
008. Aqua, Turn Back Time
009. Arashi, Sakura Sake
010. Arkarna, So Little Time

011. Ash, Lost In You
012. Band Aid, Do They Know It's Christmas?
013. Beach Boys, Wouldn't It Be Nice?
014. The Beatles, I Will
015. Bic Runga, Sway
016. Bon Jovi, Always
017. Boyzone, And I
018. China Crisis, Wishful Thinking
019. Crowded House, Don't Dream I'ts Over
020. The Cure, Boys Don't Cry

021. Danny Wilson, Mary's Prayer
022. Dave Matthews Band, Crash Into Me
023. David Pomeranz, King And Queen Of Hearts
024. Dead Or Alive, You Spin Me Right Around
025. Depeche Mode, A Question Of Lust
026. Dishwalla, Angels Or Devils
027. Divinyls, I Touch Myself
028. Elliott Yamin, Moody's Mood For Love
029. Eraserheads, With A Smile
030. Fat Larry's Band, Zoom

031. Foo Fighters, Walking After You
032. The Foundations, Build Me Up Buttercup
033. Fra Lippo Lippi, Stitches And Burns
034. Francis Magalona, Kaleidoscope World
035. Franz Ferdinand, Take Me Out
036. From Autumn To Ashes, Short Stories With Tragic Endings
037. Gin Blossoms, Till I Hear It From You
038. Goo Goo Dolls, Name
039. Green Day, She
040. Hanson, Mmmbop

041. Harem Scarem, Something To Say
042. Heart, These Dreams
043. Hirai Ken, Canvas
044. Hoobastank, The Reason
045. Imogen Heap, Goodnight And Go
046. Introvoys, Kailanman
047. Jars Of Clay, Fly
048. Jason Mraz, I'm Yours
049. Jeff Buckley, Last Goodbye
050. Keane, Somewhere Only We Know

051. The Killers, Mr. Brightside
052. Live, Selling The Drama
053. Maroon 5, She Will Be Loved
054. Matchbox 20, Unwell
055. Metallica, The Unforgiven
056. Michael Jackson, Smooth Criminal
057. Mr. Big, Wild World
058. Muse, Can't Take My Eyes Off You
059. Nelly, Dilemma
060. New Radicals, You Get What You Give

061. Nickel Creek, This Side
062. Nirvana, Lithium
063. Noel Cabangon, Kanlungan
064. Oasis, Wonderwall
065. The Other Two, Selfish
066. Our Lady Peace, Clumsy
067. Parokya Ni Edgar, Silvertoes
068. Paul McCartney, This Never Happened Before
069. Pearl Jam, Black
070. Peter Cetera, Glory Of Love

071. Phil Collins, Groovy Kind Of Love
072. Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
073. Radiohead, Karma Police
074. Rivermaya, 214
075. Rob Thomas, Smooth
076. Sandwich, Butterfly Carnival
077. Siakol, Lakas Tama
078. Sisqo, Incomplete
079. Smashing Pumpkins, 1979
080. Snow Patrol, Run

081. Sponge Cola, Dragonfly
082. Stonefree, Listen
083. Sublime, Santeria
084. Sugar Hiccup, Five Years
085. Survivor, Eye Of The Tiger
086. Tears For Fears, Mad World
087. Third Eye Blind, Deep Inside Of You
088. Toad The Wet Sprocket, All I Want
089. True Faith, Hi
090. Two Minds Crack, Upside Down

091. U2, Pride (In The Name Of Love)
092. Ugly Kid Joe, Cats In The Cradle
093. Urbandub, First Of Summer
094. Vertical Horizon, Everything You Want
095. Verve Pipe, The Freshmen
096. The Verve, Bittersweet Symphony
097. VST and Company, Ikaw Lang Ang Aking Mahal
098. Weezer, Buddy Holly
099. Wilson Philips, You're In Love
100. The Wonders, That Thing You Do


P.S.
After this, you should check out the other songs of the artists I bolded.

Shuffle, Schmuffle

Do I still have to explain the mechanics?! Questions. Music Player. Shuffle. Answer. Oh, you know the drill.


- If you reached the top of Mount Everest, you would shout:
“Clumsy” - Our Lady Peace (Brilliant! The clumsy has conquered the highest peak in the world!)

I’ll be waving my hand, watching you drown, watching you scream quiet or loud…

- The next time you stand up in front of a group of people, you'll say:
“You Get What You Give” – New Radicals (Don’t let go, you got the music in you!)

This whole damn world can fall apart, you’ll be ok follow your heart, you’re in harm’s way I’m right behind, now say you’re mine…

- Your favorite thing to say when drunk is:
“One Step Closer” – Linkin Park (Ha! Shut up while I’m talking to you!)

All these words they make no sense, I found bliss in ignorance, the less you hear the less you’ll say, you’ll find out anyway…

- Your message to the world:
“Tea and Sympathy” – Jars Of Clay

Fare thee well, trade in all our words for tea and sympathy, wonder why we tried for things that could never be…

- When you think of your best friend you think:
“Lonely No More” – Rob Thomas

Now it seems to me that you know just what to say…

- Your deepest secret:
“Come Around” – Rhett Miller (Ouch?!)

Am I gonna be lonely for the rest of my life?

- Your innermost desire:
“Enter Sandman” - Metallica

I tuck you in, warm within, keep you free from sin, 'til the sandman he comes…

- Your oldest memory makes you think:
“Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?” – Culture Club

Give me time to realize my crime… (Wala lang, hindi ko marelate yung song sa category eh!)

- Somewhere in your wedding vows, you should have included:
“About A Girl” – Nirvana (I Do!)

I’m standing in your line, I do hope you have the time…

- On your deathbed, you'll whisper:
“Upside Down” – Two Minds Crack

Baby you don’t understand, our love lies lost but you’re still holding my hand…

- Your friends say behind your back:
“You’re A God” – Vertical Horizon (I know! Hahaha!)

But I’ve been unable to put you down, I’m still learning things I ought to know by now…

- You say behind your friends' back:
“Where Did You Sleep Last Night” – Nirvana (Because my friends sleep around?!)

My girl, my girl, don’t lie to me, tell me where did you sleep last night…

- Your opinion of Blogging:
“Mad World” – Tears For Fears (It’s truly a mad, mad cyber world out there)

I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad, the dreams in which I’m dying are the best I ever had...

- When you wake up in the morning, you mutter:
“Name” – Goo Goo Dolls

You grew up way too fast and now there’s nothing to believe, and re-runs all become our history…

- If you found yourself lost on a desert island, you'd yell:
“Trouble” - Shampoo

Oh oh! We’re in trouble!

- Right now, your feelings are:
“Crash Into Me” – Dave Matthews Band (I’m in stalker mode!)

Lost for you, I’m so lost for you, you come crash into me…

- What's your excuse for reposting this music survey?:
“Beat It” – Michael Jackson (Beat It! I want to post this and there’s nothing you can do about it!)

You wanna be tough, better do what you can, so beat it, but you wanna be bad...

- Your life's soundtrack:
“Perfect” – Smashing Pumpkins (Just perfect!)

Perfect, you know this has to be, we always were so free, we promised that we'd be perfect...

- The day you fell in love was the day that:
“You Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” – Hall and Oates (Syeteks! The day I fell in love was the day he fell out of love?!)

You never close your eyes anymore when i kiss your lips...

- You Scream During Sex:
“Lithium” - Nirvana (Yeah, yeah, yeah!)

I'm so horny, but that's okay, my will is good, yeah, yeah, yeah! I like it - I'm not gonna crack!

- Your farewell message to the readers of this music survey:
“One Way Or Another” - Blondie (one way or another, I know you'll be answering a meme of this sort, too!)

One way or another, I'm gonna win ya, I'm gonna getcha, getcha, getcha, getcha!

Booorred...

The iTunes survey from Chase:

Total number of tracks in itunes: 915

Sort by song title
First song: 10 Days Late – Third Eye Blind
Last song: Zero – Smashing Pumpkins

Sort by time
Shortest track: Ganjazz – Eraserheads (0:41)
Longest song: Comfortably Numb (9:42)

Sort by artist
First: Tootsie Roll – 2 Live Crew
Last: Tao Po – The Youth

Sort by album
First: Champagne Supernova - Oasis [(What’s The Story) Morning Glory]
Last: Push – Matchbox 20 [Yourself Or Someone Like You]

Ten most played songs
Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
Deep Inside of You – Third Eye Blind
Mr. Brightside – The Killers
Sugar Sugar – Archies
Makes Me Wonder – Maroon 5
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You – Muse
Each Time – E-17
A Question of Lust – Depeche Mode
So Far Away – Staind
Lost In You – Ash

First five songs that come up on party shuffle
You’ll Never Stop Me From Loving You – Sonia
Hanging By A Moment – Lifehouse
Walking After You – Foo Fighters
Over My Head – The Fray
I Will – The Beatles

Number of search returns for:
Sex: 4
Love: 54
You: 148
Death: 0
Hate: 4
Wish: 6

sHuffle iT aGain!

We all know how this works, right? If not: give the title of the song, and the artist. If you give just the title, I'll consider it guessed. If you give just the artist, it's still open. (and yep, these songs were shuffled from my iPod.)

1. Well, I ain’t no stupid fighter, I go for flower power, I’ve been running every race just to save my face Shake Yer Head - Eraserheads
2. I don’t care about what they say anyway, I don’t care about that
3. I know where you hide, alone in your car, know all of the things that make you who you are, I know that goodbye means nothing at all, comes back and begs me to catch her every time she falls She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
4. I’m on my knees, pretty pretty please kill me, I want to die, put a bullet in my head Somebody Kill Me - Adam Sandler
5. Where I can run just as fast as I can, to the middle of nowhere, to the middle of my frustrated fears Just Like A Pill - Pink
6. I tried to find you but you went so far away, I was praying that fate would bring you back to me
7. Still don’t know what I was waiting for, and my time is running wild Changes - David Bowie
8. Easy to forget what you’ve learned, waiting for the thrill to return, feeling your desire burn, as you’re drawn to the flame
9. An angel’s smile is what you sell, you promised me heaven, then put me through hell
10. At aalis, magbabalik, at uuliting sabihin na mahalin ka’t sambitin, kahit muling masaktan
11. Is there a line that I could write? Sad enough to make you cry. All the lines you wrote to me were lies
12. Jealousy, turning saints into the seas, swimming through sick lullabies, choking on your alibis
13. Can’t let you see what you mean to me, when my hands are tied and my heart’s not free, we’re not meant to be The Hardest Thing - 98 Degrees
14. Trying to make ends meet, you’re a slave to money then you die
15. I wish I was like you, easily amused
16. I bought a ticket to the end of the rainbow, I watched the stars crashed in the sea, if I could ask God just one question – why aren’t you here with me tonight? Someday We'll Know - New Radicals
17. I’m dressed all in blue and I’m remembering you, and the dress you wore when you broke my heart Come Around - Rhett Miller
18. Hello, how have you been? Who’ve you been seeing these past few weekends? I know it’s not me, I know that it’s you I want to be with
19. Love me, like me, come ahead and fight me, please me, tease me, go ahead and leave me I Think I'm Paranoid - Garbage
20. And I’m saying a prayer for the desperate hearts tonight Amazing - Aerosmith
21. And I take it just a little bit, I hold my breath and count to ten, I’ve been waiting for a chance to let you in
22. You howl and listen, listen and wait for the echoes of angels who won’t return Everything You Want - Vertical Horizon
23. Till now, I always got by on my own, I never really cared until I met you, and now it chills me to the bone Alone - Heart
24. Tonight I’m tangled in my blankets of clouds, dreaming aloud, things just won’t do without you, matter of fact Walking After You - Foo Fighters
25. I don’t know your face no more, or feel your touch that I adore We Might As Well Be Strangers - Keane

(feel free to leave a comment for your answers!)

My Valentine's Song

LOST IN YOU - Ash

Lying wide awake under strange skies
Wanting to call you but it is late at night
And you’re far away but you are always on my mind

I feel like I’m on fire, nothing I can do
I’m troubled with doubt, though I know it is not true
And it’s times like these when I’m dying to speak to you
I’m dying to get through
I’m dying to speak to you, dying to get through
I’m dying to speak to you

Staring at the wall, I sink inside
I think about it all, I get caught up in my life
I can’t think straight, because it’s tearing up my mind

I feel like I’m on fire, nothing I can do
I’m troubled with doubt, though I know it is not true
And it’s times like these when I’m dying to speak to you
Dying to get through
Dying to get through

The more that I think how I need you
The more that I think, the more it seems true
And now it means more than I ever meant it to
Ever meant it to

Lying wide awake under strange skies
Wanting to call you but it is late at night
And you’re far away but you are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind

iWant

So much!

iBeg. iSteal. iDie. To have an iPhone with me tonight!

iHeart. iLove!

[iStupid!]

Top 5 On Friday - Week 99

Top 5 long songs (songs over 5 minutes)

The problem is that I don’t have access to my iTunes playlist right now so I’m not entirely sure how long these songs are. But I’m going by gut-feel and list songs I like that I feel qualifies as long:

• Wish You Were Here/Pink Floyd - so, so you think you can tell, heaven from hell?

• Master of Puppets/Metallica - master of puppets I'm pulling your strings, twisting your minds and smashing your dreams...

• Short Stories With Tragic Endings/From Autumn To Ashes - did you ever look, did you ever see that one person, and the subtle way that they do these things and it hurts so much?

• Jesus of Suburbia/Green Day - but there's nothing wrong with me, this is how I'm supposed to be, in a Land of Make Believe, that don't believe in me...

• Crush/Dave Matthews Band - could tomorrow be so wondrous as you there sleeping? let's go drive 'til morning comes, and watch the sunrise and fill our souls up, drink some wine 'til we get drunk...

So I realize that, except for the last song, the songs my list are kind of on the not-a-happy-song territory!

first and last

survey again!

The idea is to order your iTunes or other music player alphabetically by song title, and then list the first and last song and artist for each number and letter.

.....	FIRST	LAST
0	none	none
1	10 Days Late – Third Eye Blind	1979 – Smashing Pumpkins
2	214 – Rivermaya	214 – Rivermaya
3	none	none
4	4 AM – Our Lady Peace	4 AM – Our Lady Peace
5	none	none
6	none	none
7	none	none
8	none	none
9	99 Luftballoons – Nena	99 Luftballoons - Nena
A	A Groovy Kind Of Love – Phil Collins	Awit ng Kabataan – Rivermaya
B	Baby One More Time – Marty Casey	Butterscotch – Eraserheads
C	Call Me – Blondie	Crying - Aerosmith
D	Daliri – Kjwan	Dyslexic Heart – Paul Westerberg
E	Easy – Faith No More	Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor
F	Fade To Black – Metallica	Full Circle – Collective Soul
G	Gangsta’s Paradise – Coolio	Grow Old With You – Adam Sandler
H	Halaga – Parokya Ni Edgar	Huwag Na Lang Kaya – Truefaith
I	I – 6 Cycle Mind	It’s My Life – Bon Jovi
J	Jaded – Aerosmith	Just Like A Pill – Pink
K	Kailan – Eraserheads	Kryptonite – 3 Doors Down
L	Lady Picture Show – Stone Temple Pilots	Lunes – Sponge Cola
M	Mad World – Tears For Fears	My Stupid Mouth – John Mayer
N	Nahuhulog – Sandwich	November Rain – Guns n Roses
O	OK Na – Milk and Money	Overdrive – Eraserheads
P	Panahon Na Naman – Rivermaya	Push – Matchbox 20
Q	none	none
R	Rock DJ – Robbie Williams	Runaway Train – Soul Asylum
S	Sa Wakas – Eraserheads	Sweet Jane – Velvet Underground
T	Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand	Two Trick Pony – Sandwich
U	Una – Sponge Cola	Uptown Girl – Westlife
V	Vasoline – Stone Temple Pilots	Vulnerable - Roxette
W	Wag Na Wag – Kitchie Nadal	Worlds Apart – Jars of Clay
X	none	none
Y	Yellow Ledbetter – Pearl Jam	You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling – The Righteous Brothers
Z	Zero – Smashing Pumpkins	Zoom – Fat Larry’s Band