From Melanie.
Rules: list 5-10 songs that have affected your life. Pass it on to five other people.
- We Didn’t Start the Fire, by Billy Joel. I was born in ’75. Your culture is not my fault.
- The Gambler, by Kenny Roger. Useful life advice, in country music form.
- Hoof and Horn, the song – not the chant – as recorded by Ian Corrigan on ‘Once Around the Wheel’. Death and sex. It’s all about death and sex.
- Music of the Night, from The Phantom of the Opera. Our song.
- Leaving on a Jet Plane, as performed by Peter, Paul and Mary. I listened to this almost daily from the age of 11 until I was 17. Dreaming of escape kept me alive. Dreaming of love gave me hope. And planes are just cool.
I’ll tag: Kis-Knit, AnotherPurl, and whoever reads this post. I’d tag Melanie, but, well, that would be circular.
Knit-Write 
When the Joel song came out, those of us working the reference desk at the library were ready to drive to Cold Spring Harbor (about 3 miles from where I live…) and scream at him! Every teacher in the district assigned the song to every student to look up every blasted word… I don’t think I can ever listen to that song without that tension!