Countdown meme: Day 5

[dreamflower]

Day 1 - Ten random facts about yourself
Day 2 - Nine things you do everyday
Day 3 - Eight things that annoy you
Day 4 - Seven fears/phobias
Day 5 - Six songs that you’re addicted to
Day 6 - Five things you can’t live without
Day 7 - Four memories you won’t forget
Day 8 - Three words you can’t go a day without
Day 9 - Two things you wish you could do
Day 10 - One person you can trust

6 songs:

Picking out certain songs is hard because I like so many, so I'm going to refer back to my first post and my random fact about earworms. I figure if a song is stuck in my head, that's sort of like addictive. Now not all the songs stuck there are ones I like. Some of them are commercial jingles or songs I really dislike. But in recent weeks each of these has been stuck in my head more than once, and I don't mind at all because I like them. So that's what I'm going to list.

1. Billy Boyd's The Last Goodbye. I cannot get enough of it, and listen to it over and over, so of course it stays in my mind. It breaks my heart in a good way. It mainly replays in my head at night when I am trying to go to sleep--just about every night since I saw the last movie.

2. Into the West from ROTK is a very close second. I randomly came across it again at YouTube while looking for something different, and couldn't resist clicking. So it stayed in my head for a few days.

3. Great is Thy Faithfulness--stuck in my head after singing it in church. It's one of my very favorite hymns, and it was the school hymn where I went to college. I really like this version; I love "one person doing all the parts" a capella anyway.

4. Be Still My Soul--also stayed in my head after church one Sunday. And this version of it is gorgeous.

5. The Water is Wide--a folk song. The Grey Havens scene always puts me in mind of this song, and oddly enough, so does listening to my Silmarillion audiobook for some reason. This is my favorite rendition.

6. Happy--because of frequent exposure, because often that's why I get an earworm. I hear someone using that song for one reason or another nearly every day it seems, and unlike most overexposed songs, I haven't gotten tired of it yet. I suppose because, really, it's so...happy! 8^D (Though it's not to say if it keeps up, I may get tired of it yet.)

There were several recent earworms that did NOT make the cut: The theme song from "Wyatt Earp" (the old TV series); "Party Go On" (Party City commercial), "Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz" (old Pepto-Bismol commercial) and some songs that I liked at first, but overexposure has made me tired of them, like "Roar" and "Let it Go".

Comments

[shirebound]

The theme song from "Wyatt Earp"

*huge grin*

"The Last Goodbye" is a perfect song. I'm confused and very sad that it didn't get an Oscar nomination.

[dreamflower]

It's a travesty! That song should have been nominated.

(The DH loves the Western channel, so it's often on in the background of whatever I'm doing. Some of those old Westerns had such hokey them songs! Paladin was another that had a really weird song, and so did Bat Masterson.)

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

Beautiful choices. I dearly love The Water is Wide.

[dreamflower]

Me too. It directly inspired one of my fics, "Neither Have I Wings to Fly".

[ysilme]

I feel like letting some friends down because I still don't like "The Last Goodbye" much.. it's a good song, well interpreted, and I like Billy Boyd as an actor as well as a singer very much. This just doesn't click with me.
But so yes to Into the West! :D

I didn't know "Great is Thy Faithfulness" before, it's lovely, and so well done in this clip!

[dreamflower]

These things happen--nothing can click with *everyone*! But I think the song has a lot to commend it. I love how well it fits into Tolkien's own work--some of the phrasing parallels his phrasing in poems from the book, without actually copying them.

"Great is They Faithfulness" is a beautiful hymn, and one I never tire of. It's based on Lamentations 3:22-23.

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

While I love The Last Goodbye and Into the West, I can't listen to them. Too heartbreaking. Especially Into the West. I am more into the happy music like your Happy! ;D

I'm not religious at all, but Be Still My Soul is beautiful. I do love boy's choirs!

[dreamflower]

Yes, I know you say sad songs really affect you!

I really do like upbeat cheerful songs!

Libera is such a marvelous choir--they sound like angels.

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about "Let it Go". It is everywhere and everyone does a version of it sooner or later. It was fun at first and now, maybe they should just "Let it Go" for a while. There were other lovely songs in that film.

[dreamflower]

As a song, I liked "Let It Go" at first...but, yeah...it got old really quick. Same with "Roar", which was obviously written to become a stadium anthem. It's going to be one of those songs like "We Will Rock You", that they play at every sporting event for the next twenty years.

But I haven't got tired of "Happy" yet, so maybe it will hold up to all the repeats.