Okay, I know we've had some threads about favourite music in the past, but I thought this might be fun... What I want to know is: what song(s) best encapsulate your identity? If you had to pick one or two songs that would be the theme songs for your life at the moment, what would they be? And... this is the fun part... From what you know about the other Pixies' members, is there any song that you think could be a theme song for them? Or is there a song that would be a perfect theme song for the whole group of us?
For example:
My theme song for today would have to be Ani Difranco's song "Pixie" (hmmm, isn't that nicely ironic, considering where I'm posting this?)... Here's an excerpt:
"I’m a pixie / I’m a paper doll / I’m a cartoon / I’m a chipper, cheerful free-for-all / And I light up a room / I’m the Colour-me-happy Girl / Miss Live-and-let-live / And when they’re out for blood / I always give // ... // Maybe you don’t like your job / Maybe you didn’t get enough sleep / Well nobody likes their job / Nobody got enough sleep / Maybe you just had the worst day of your life / You know there’s no escape, there’s no excuse / So just suck up, suck up, and be nice / Be nice (6x) ..."
As for the theme song for another member, earlier today I had a sudden and inexplicable urge to get out my Alanis Morissette albums and came across the song "(I'm a) Bitch" --- and immediately thought of our dear Lilith. (In the best possible way, of course!)
"I'm a bitch, I'm a lover / I'm a child, I'm a mother / I'm a sinner, I'm a saint / I do not feel ashamed / I'm your hell, I'm your dream / I'm nothing in between / You know you wouldn't want it any other way // I'm a bitch, I'm a tease / I'm a goddess on my knees / When you hurt, when you suffer / I'm your angel undercover / I've been numbed, I'm revived / Can't say I'm not alive / You know I wouldn't want it any other way."
To give another example, whenever I hear the songs "Ponerte en Cuatro" or "El Disco Anal" by the Venezuelan acid jazz-slash-dance group Los Amigos Invisibles, I think of our very own Ass Man Extraordinaire, Aquaman... I won't post the lyrics for those songs because they're all in Spanish, but the rather inexplicable music videos are on the band's site at
http://www.amigosinvisibles.com/newsound.html. (I should point out that the lyrics are actually quite sweet and have relatively little to do with the steamy titles --- it's mainly the titles of the songs that make me think of Aqua...) In fact, most of the band's titles --- such as "Sexy", "Porno Song", and "Masturbation Session" --- would make great Pixies' theme songs!
A couple of final examples: One for Leigh, thinking back to her strip poker thread, would be Tom Jones' "You Can Leave Your Hat On"... A song for the whole Pixies' gang might be "Sex Machine" by James Brown.
So c'mon, everyone, tell me: when you're listening to the radio, what song captures you? And what song conjures up the fondest memories of this site and the people on it?
--- sweetstuff
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