do you tend to listen to the same songs over and over again?

looking back, there are songs i associate with times and sentimental memories - by virtue of having been excessively played - way back to the embarassing teeny-bopper days.

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in reverse chronological order

currently
now at last - feist what makes winter lonely... now at last i know
hide and seek - imogen heap crop circles in the carpet sinking feeling
marching bands of manhattan - death cab for cutie if I could open my arms and span the length of the isle of Manhattan

sept-dec 2005 [in paris]
such great heights - iron and wine everything looks perfect from far away... come down now they'll say
magic hour - the fruit bats and little stars are cars at turnpike gates
all i ask of you - phantom of the opera say you'll share with me one love one lifetime, say the words and i will follow you

summer 2005 [at school]
new slang - the shins i was happier then with no mind set
here i dreamt i was an architect - the decemberists i built this balustrade to keep you home, to keep you safe

jan-april 2005 [in new york]
piazza new york catcher - belle and sebastian life outside the diamond is a wrench
lovefool - the cardigans romeo and juliet soundtrack mama tells me i shouldn't bother that i ought just stick to another

sept-dec 2004 [at school]
beauty queen - tori amos you showed me the meadow and milkwood and silkwood and you would if i would but you never will
moon river - watched too many audrey hepburn movies two drifters off to see the world there's such a lot of world to see
someday we'll know - switchfoot/mandy moore someday we'll know why samson loved delilah, one day i'll go dancing on the moon

summer 2004
only hope - switchfoot/mandy moore sing to me the song of the stars, of your galaxies dancing and laughing and laughing again
a world without you - emma bunton
i hate everything about you - three days grace


summer 2003 (after high school graduation)
time of your life - green day so take the photographs and still frames in your mind
to where you are - josh groban are you gently sleeping here inside my dream
love letter to myself - faye wong
melodies of life - and who'll the echoes of stories never told

OAC (2002- 2003)
the road to mandalay - robbie williams everything i touched was golden everything thing i loved got broken on the road to mandalay
god put a smile on your face - coldplay don't ever say you're on your way down when god gave you style and gave you grace


gr. 12 summer 2002
you belong to me - jason wade fly the ocean in a silver plane see the jungle when it's wet with rain just remember til you're home again you belong to me

gr. 12 (2001-2002)
sleepwalker - wallflowers let me in let me drown or learn how to swim just don't leave me at the window
wherever you will go - the calling when i'm gone you'll need love to light the shadows on your face

gr. 11 summer 2001
something like you - nsync but just like grains of sand love slipped through my fingers
american pie? - madonna /don maclean - and in the streets the children screamed, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed.

gr. 11 2000-2001
oxygen - spice girls you're the breath that i take you're the smile on my face
i don't know you anymore - savage garden we can go sit on your back porch talk about anything it doesn't matter, i'll be courageous if you can pretend that you've forgiven me

gr. 10 summer 2000
for you i will - monica if there is a mountain to move i will move that mountain for you
everything i do i do it for you - brandy look into your eyes you will see what you mean to me

gr. 10 1999-2000
i turn to you - christina aguilera for the arms to be my shelter through all the rain for truth that will never change
kiss me - sixpence none the richer Swing, swing, swing the spinning step you wear those shoes and I will wear that dress

gr. 9 98-99
i'm sensitive - jewel but maybe if we are surrounded by beauty someday we will become what we see
pigeons and crumbs - natalie imbruglia where did it go the bluebird i should follow
left of the middle - natalie imbruglia chasing the same lines over the old ground