Facebook 30 Day Song Challenge - Days 21 to 30

day 21 - a song you listen to when you're happy -This is an absolute favourite Sophie-Ellis Bextor - Me & My Imagination and I think on reflection it probably should have been 'song about me'. I think my jaw just fell on the desk...

Also rans: Hearing the opening bars as these songs come on the radio/stereo/iPod make me smile Five - Keep On Moving ; Shanice - I Love Your Smile ; New Radicals - You Get What You Give ; Toad the Wet Sprocket - Walk On The Ocean ; Felt - Primitive Painters ; Guns n' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine ; Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama ; Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta ; The Sundays - My Finest Hour ; Warpaint - Billie Holiday ; Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno ; Aztec Camera - Oblivious ; Big Dish - Prospect Street amongst others....



day 22 - a song you listen to when you're sad - I first really listened to this properly when I was trapped in the car with it driving home for Christmas a few years ago. I got lost in the pitch dark trying to get from Calke Abbey via Swarkestone Bridge to the M1 and totally missing the A50. On my own on unfamiliar roads it sounded extra melancholic The Pale Fountains - Unless

Also rans : Altered Images - Don't Talk To Me About Love ; China Crisis - Wishful Thinking ; Warpiant - Undertow ;



day 23 - a song you want to play at your wedding - With a past that includes 2 questions, 1 sea urchin and no rings I don't exactly see this happening any time soon. The track I've always thought I would like doesn't have exactly the most apropriate lyrics for a wedding either. Then again what would you expect from someone who's been in a relationship where this was the 'Our Tune'. So, largely for the tune - Orange Juice - In A Nutshell

Also rans : Probably a more suitable tune might be this and a friend suggested that this one would be good too. Can't say I disagree with that at all and he clearly has taste.



day 24 - a song that you want to play at your funeral - Unfortunately, I've had to think about funerals a lot in the last four years and I've spent literally hours going through the Wesley Music Lists looking to see if we could have the tracks we wanted. So, it's been on my mind. I'm pretty much sure I want to be carried in to Ian Brown - F.E.A.R. but when they let everyone out I'll be expecting audience participation to this. I haven't decided what I'm having in the middle of the service yet, for the 'reflective' bit, but I wasn't thinking sombre ....

Also rans : Keane are a bit of an acquired taste for some but they do have the odd apropriate track, so A Bad Dream

day 25 - a song that makes you laugh -I saw this bunch at Coventry's Godiva Festival. Their equipment broke down, but they just carried on regardless and sang louder Milk Kan - Bling, Bling Baby

Also rans : This used to amuse me no end when it came on American Forces Radio in Downtown Frankfurt during '92/93 Meryn Cadell -The Sweater Song.



day 26 - a song that you can play on an instrument - It's been a long time since I played any instrument, but amongst other tunes one of my Mum's cousins wives (keep up at the back) taught me to play this song on the piano Johnny Cash - CampTown Races


day 27 - a song you wish you could play - This is from one of the many bands I love that never stayed the distance (The Climb, The Cherry Boys...). Clearly I love a bit of piano - Morning Runner - Frayed Edges



day 28 - a song that makes you feel guilty - This song was just about everywhere from the time of my Mum's death in March 2006 and through the events following that. I think it's meaning to me is probably too painful and personal to air in full here The Feeling - Sewn



day 29 - a song from your childhood - Another section where there could be loads but I've gone for Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat which reminds me of dancing with my Mum at my Uncle Derek's wedding. I eventually fell over and hurt my nose so had to sit it out for a while with my Nanny Rhoda who was very deaf. You had to crawl up onto her lap and speak into the box pinned on her chest.

Also rans: Harpers Bizarre - 59th Bridge Street Song ; New Christy Minstrels - Three Wheels On My Wagon ; Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons ; Des O'Connor - One Two Three O'Leary ; Keith West - Excerpt From A Teenage Opera ; The Seekers - Morningtown Ride ; Roger Miller - England Swings ; Tom Jones - Green, Green Grass Of Home ; Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes ; Robert Knight - Love On A Mountain Top ; Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore ; The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset ; The Move - Fire Brigade ; Manfred Mann - My Name Is Jack (Paul Jones does Bill Nighy); The Hollies - Carrie-Ann ; Freddie & The Dreamers - You Were Made for Me ; Dana - All Kinds of Everything (and I can still remember the Class May Day dance) .... How much more time have we got ??? I could be here a while ....


day 30 - your favourite song at this time last year - Certainly nothing by the Cowell-styled 'Nation's Sweetheart". Radio-play-wise it was this Eliza Doolittle - Skinny Genes. Check out the light switch.

Also rans : Owl City - Fireflies ; Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind