You Are Home :: Bet you think these songs are about you

List songs you thought were about you (A.K.A. Your Theme Songs) courtesy of Music Listography : Your Life In (Play)Lists Editor’s note: So self-indulgent, but I did not write the category. I am interpreting more “theme songs” then all about me, songs that get me/that I get deeply maybe. 44 because that’s me. 1. Famous Blue Raincoat :: Leonard Cohen 2. Precious Things :: Tori Amos 3. Under the Milky Way :: The Church 4. Violet :: Hole 5. If It Makes You Happy :: Sheryl Crow 6. La Cienega Just Smiled :: Ryan Adams 7. Preaching the End of the … Continue reading You Are Home :: Bet you think these songs are about you

You Are Home :: If dreams are like movies

List your Favorite Television and Film Theme Songs courtesy of Music Listography : Your Life In (Play)Lists Editor’s note: I am going to do 25 Movie and 15 TV Theme Songs, as interpreted by me. The Movies: 1. Tiny Dancer :: Elton John (Almost Famous) 2. (Don’t You) Forget About Me :: Simple Minds (The Breakfast Club) 3. Melt With You :: Modern English (Valley Girl) 4. Falling Slowly :: Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova (Once) 5. Let Go :: Frou Frou (Garden State) 6. Slave to Love :: Bryan Ferry (9 1/2 Weeks) 7. Come What May :: Ewan McGregor … Continue reading You Are Home :: If dreams are like movies

You Are Home :: Video killed the radio star

List your favorite music videos courtesy of Music Listography : Your Life In (Play)Lists Editor’s Note :: Although I am much more of a music and album fan, I am a product of the MTV generation, and it did come around during my damn “formative years”. Also, I do love visual/cinematic with music. That said, this list could be long, so I am going to hold it at my Top 50 – there will be plenty left out. 1. Save a Prayer :: Duran Duran directed by Russell Mulcahy 2. Coffee & TV :: Blur directed by Hammer & Tongs 3. Ophelia … Continue reading You Are Home :: Video killed the radio star

You Are Home :: Musical fashion passion

List your favorite Fashion Icons in Music over the years courtesy of Music Listography : Your Life In (Play)Lists Editor’s Note: I am going to keep this at my Top 16, with musical accompaniment – in no particular order. 1. Stevie Nicks Dreams (live) :: Fleetwood Mac 2. Siouxsie Sioux Peek-a-Boo :: Siouxsie and the Banshees 3. David Bowie Life on Mars?  4. Joan Jett I Love Rock N’ Roll 5. Maria McKee If Love is a Red Dress 6. Brian Molko Every You, Every Me 7. Natalie Merchant Ophelia 8. Alison Mosshart Black Balloon :: The Kills 9. Courtney Love Doll … Continue reading You Are Home :: Musical fashion passion

You Are Home :: Cover my walls with album covers

List the Best Album Covers Ever Created courtesy of Music Listography : Your Life In (Play)Lists 1.  Rubber Soul :: The Beatles 2. Rio :: Duran Duran 3.  Heartbreaker :: Ryan Adams 4. Andy Warhol/Self-Titled :: The Velvet Underground & Nico 5.  Strange Days :: The Doors 6. Avalon :: Roxy Music 7. August and Everything After :: Counting Crows 8. Some Girls :: The Rolling Stones 9. Laid :: James 10. Our Time in Eden :: 10,000 Maniacs 11. Self-Titled :: The Libertines 12. Demon Days :: Gorillaz 13. The Sensual World :: Kate Bush 14. Bella Donna :: Stevie Nicks 15. … Continue reading You Are Home :: Cover my walls with album covers

You Are Home :: Music flickers on the screen

List the Songs for Your Music Biopics  and Documentaries courtesy of Music Listography : Your Life In (Play)Lists 1. Almost Famous 2. The Doors 3. The Coal Miner’s Daughter 4. A Star is Born 5. Backbeat 6. The Jazz Singer 7. The Commitments 8. Control 9. Walk the Line 10. Amadeus 11. Sid and Nancy 12. Purple Rain 13. 24 Hour Party People 14. Killing Bono 15. Dogs in Space 16. The Runaways 17. Sweet Dreams 18. Velvet Goldmine 19. Last Days 20. Across the Universe 21. Sound City 22. Imagine 23. The Devil and Daniel Johnston 24. Sing Blue Silver 25. … Continue reading You Are Home :: Music flickers on the screen

You Are Home :: All you need is love

List Your Favorite Film and Stage Musicals of All-Time courtesy of Music Listography : Your Life In (Play)Lists Editor’s Note: I come from a musical theater background, and have always had a thing for musical movies, that said, I will try to keep my list at 25 this week. As usual, not in particular order except just how they come to me. 1. Grease There are Worse Things I Could Do 2. Wicked For Good 3. Nine Take It All 4. Once Falling Slowly 5. West Side Story Somewhere 6. Rent Light My Candle 7. The Producers Springtime for Hitler 8. … Continue reading You Are Home :: All you need is love

You Are Home :: Once I had a love and it was a gas

List Your Favorite Female Vocalists of All-Time courtesy of Music Listography : Your Life In (Play)Lists Editor’s Note: Long list follows, you have been warned. Not necessarily in order of favorite, but just how they came to me. 1. Tori Amos Northern Lad (live) 2. Ani DiFranco Little Plastic Castles (live) 3. Aimee Mann Wise Up (live) 4. Barbra Streisand Evergreen (with Kris Kristofferson, in A Star is Born) 5. Johnette Napolitano Everybody Knows (live) :: Concrete Blonde 6. Kate Bush Wuthering Heights 7. Joni Mitchell Both Sides Now (live) 8. Maria McKee Why Wasn’t I More Grateful? (live) 9. Courtney … Continue reading You Are Home :: Once I had a love and it was a gas

You Are Home :: Sing us a song

List Your Favorite Male Vocalists of All-Time courtesy of Music Listography : Your Life In (Play)Lists Editor’s Note: Please forgive the length, but really, this was near impossible to narrow down. Also, this is not necessarily in order of favorite, but just how they came to me. 1. Leonard Cohen Hallelujah (live) 2. Ryan Adams La Cienega Just Smiled (live) 3. Elliott Smith Waltz #2 (live) 4. Bryan Ferry Slave to Love 5. Bob Dylan Tangled Up in Blue (live) 6. Pete Yorn Life on a Chain (live) 7. Billy Joel You May Be Right (live) 8. Damien Rice Rootless Tree (live) … Continue reading You Are Home :: Sing us a song