| Fire and Rain |
James Taylor |
This song reminds me of growing up. My parents didn't listen to music very often there are not many songs that remind me of childhood, but this song is one of the few. |
| On and On |
The Longpigs |
I listened to this track incessantly when on family skiing holidays in my early teens. I used to have it on my personal stereo when skiing, if I play it now it I can vividly picture leaning against a drag lift and watching the mountains floating past. |
| Weak |
Skunk Anansie |
This is the purple hair stage of my middle teens and going dancing to a sweaty club called Kiss, normally wearing too much eyeliner and trying to look angry. |
| The Bends |
Radiohead |
Why? Mud, Glastonbury, hanging out with friends, more mud, Wellington boots! |
| Speak to me, someone |
Gene |
This is my ex-boyfriend and my sixth form years. A member of his family played the guitar for Gene and we listened to them all the time. I particularly love this song and as I have not really listened to it since, it evokes many happy memories. |
| I love you baby |
Lauren Hill |
This Lauren Hill cover version was the sound track to my ski season, although I have no idea how it came about. There were very few nights out when we did not all end up singing this song at the tops of our voices. |
| You make it easy |
Air |
In my first year of university, Mat made me a tape that included this song. This was before we were 'together', I recall wandering around the Sussex campus in a dream with this in my ears. It will always remind me of him. |
| Thank you for loving me |
Sinead O'Connor |
This is a painful song but I think it's what we all feel and what we have all gone through 'thank you for breaking my heart. |
| Taking about a revolution |
Tracy Chapman |
This may be an unoriginal choice but if I hear this song, I am sitting on a bus looking out the window, as we climb the Cameroon highlands in Malaysia. |
| Insomnia |
Faithless |
Many nights were spent in 10 Lincoln Street with this song on full volume and a bottle of wine open on the table as we got ready to go out. |
| Boy With the Bubble Gun |
Tom McRae |
Still relatively unknown, Mat and I latched onto Tom McRae after he supported Dido in at a small gig before she was famous. We went to see him at the Komedia in Brighton, I fell of my stool due to drunkenness and he stopped playing and everyone looked at me. I have seen him a number of times since and I think his songs are amazing. This is my second year at University. |
| Long December |
Counting Crows |
They had to be in their somewhere. The Counting Crows live in New York CD was the only CD I had with me when I spent a month in Barcelona doing my TEFL course. This song reminds me of sitting on the metro on my way to college. |
| Rattle Snakes |
Tori Amos |
This is my third year when my whole house went Tori Amos mad over night. I am incapable of listening to a whole CD and sent my housemates crazy by having this song on repeat. |
| Don't know why |
Nora Jones |
I discovered Nora when she played live in Hong Kong, and since then it has reminded me of the first few months I spent there, this time of my life was quite lonely, living on my own in a tower block, but I still associate this song with good times. I found her very relaxing in times of trouble. |
| Am I standing still? |
Jewel |
A good girlie track, after I moved out of the tower block and into an apartment in Hong Kong with a girlfriend, this song was always our getting ready to go out track. Getting ready was often the best part of the night. |
| Hotel Paper |
Michelle Branch |
Four months in Bali with only one CD! |
| Crazy |
Beyonce Knowles |
I have to apologise for including this track, but it has to be in the list. This is the local sweat pit in Kuta, Bali, and dancing until dawn, and this is the Coyote Ugly style bar in Hong Kong and dancing on the bar until we fell off. |
| Bubble toes |
Jack Johnson |
I was introduced to Jack in Bali, but only bought the CD when I moved to Oxford, this is a CD of the moment (Bushfire Fairytales) and will be for sometime. Dave - I think you would like him, he makes surf films too! |
