The Guardian is doing a thing called The Six Songs of Me. The six songs are:
1.What was the first song you ever bought?
What song always gets you dancing?
What song takes you back to your childhood?
What is your perfect love song?
What song would you want at your funeral?
What song makes you, you?
I’m still working on mine, especially the last one. In the meantime, I’m interested in hearing yours.
“I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)” by Hall and Oates
“Rock Lobster” by The B-52’s
“The Three Stooges Alphabet Song”, because my mom used to sing it to me
“The Very Thought of You”
“All Things Must Pass” by George Harrison
“Song for My Father”, because it was the first tune I suggested to my band that we should cover that they agreed to.
If albums count, it would be KISS* Alive!*. I was 10 at the time, and did not know any better.
Puff the Magic Dragon-Peter, Paul, and Mary.
Free Bird-Lynyrd Skynyrd
1.The Cars - Let’s Go
The Smiths - Ask
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
The Divine Comedy - Perfect Lovesong
The Divine Comedy - Tonight We Fly
Husker Du - Celebrated Summer
Technically it was a cassette tape. “Appetite for Destruction” by GNR. I bought it for “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Paradise City,” though.
I don’t dance, but if I did it would probably be “Low” by Flo Rida or something similar.
“Karma Chameleon” by Culture Club
“Love Boat Captain” by Pearl Jam
“If I Ever Leave This World Alive” by Flogging Molly
“Dig” by Incubus
1.What was the first song you ever bought?
It was an album actually: A Night at the Opera - Queen
What song always gets you dancing?
I hate dancing.
What song takes you back to your childhood?
I Want to Hold Your Hand
What is your perfect love song?
Make it With You - Bread
What song would you want at your funeral?
I don’t want a funeral.
What song makes you, you?
Don’t know. Too obscure to answer.
I always have a hard time with surveys.
1.What was the first song you ever bought? - “Big Bad John” by Jimmy Dean
What song always gets you dancing? - “Double Shot of My Baby’s Love” by the Swingin’ Medallions
What song takes you back to your childhood? “Columbus Stockade Blues” No idea who it was performed by. On the flip side of the 45 we had in our house was “Steel Guitar Rag.” I would rock out to both those tunes when I was 4 or 5 years old.
What is your perfect love song? - “Darling Be Home Soon” by the Lovin’ Spoonful
What song would you want at your funeral? - “Keep Me in Your Heart” by Warren Zevon
What song makes you, you? “Highway 61 Revisited” by Bob Dylan
1.What was the first song you ever bought? “Since You’ve Been Gone” by the Outfield. Not a bad song, but not the best.
What song always gets you dancing? Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” The gradual speed and excitement building up and it’s hard not to for me.
What song takes you back to your childhood? “Sunrise, Sunset” from Fiddler on the Roof. My mom would play the Kimball spinet we had in the living room and wail out the lyrics.
What is your perfect love song? Roky Erickson’s “I Had to Tell You” The chorus is simply the most romantic notion of love I can think of:
What song would you want at your funeral? “Angelika Suspended” by Palm Fabric Orchestra/Poi Dog Pondering (Not the best video, but the song gets me as something so peaceful)
What song makes you, you?
Indigo Girls’ "Closer to Fine"While the lyrics are ‘meh’ to me, the song was an accomplishment for me when I got all the chords down on the guitar.
1.What was the first song you ever bought? “Catch Me If You Can,” The Dave Clark Five
What song always gets you dancing? The B52s’ "Rock Lobster."
What song takes you back to your childhood? **“Downtown.”
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What is your perfect love song? Joe Cocker’s "You Are So Beautiful."
What song would you want at your funeral? Alice Cooper’s "School’s Out."
What song makes you, you? No single song could be [del]blamed[/del] responsible for that.
1.What was the first song you ever bought? - 1983, Cum On Feel The Noize by Quiet Riot, on a 45 RPM record. I’m not proud of this.
2. What song always gets you dancing? - (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty, KC and the Sunshine Band. Again, I’m not proud of this.
3. What song takes you back to your childhood? - Any of a number of kids’ songs sung to me by my mother, mostly in Chinese. Assuming this refers to a song on the radio, though, I guess it’s the disco version of the Theme To Star Wars that was (a) a big radio hit (b) when I was a wee kid really into Star Wars.
** 4. What is your perfect love song?** - I’ll go with, off the top of my head, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Roberta Flack; or, So In Love (the Cole Porter classic) as done by k.d. lang.
** 5. What song would you want at your funeral?** - Never gave any thought to this before. Maybe I’m Free, by The Who? 
(“And I’m waiting for you, to follow me…”, “How can we follow?”) It’d be my kind of black humor from beyond the grave.
6. What song makes you, you? - This would be a different answer at different times in my life. Being 41 years old, I find myself thinking back a lot to a song that came up on my iPhone shuffle last week: The Real Life by John Mellencamp.
“Another One Bites the Dust,” Queen
“Safety Dance,” Men Without Hats
“I’m Going to Go Back There Someday,” The Great Gonzo
“He’s Funny That Way,” Billie Holiday
I’ve thought about this way more than I should. My usual answer is “Solsbury Hill” by Peter Gabriel, but as time has gone by, I honestly think this is a better song for a pet adoption service than for a memorial service. “Let It Be” would be a good one, though I’m not a huge Beatles fan. I’d like to have led the kind of live that would earn The Pogues’ “Sickbed of Cuchulainn,” but I haven’t. All said, Monty Python’s “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” would probably be most appropriate.
“Thunder Road,” Bruce Springsteen
1.What was the first song you ever bought? The first album? Like A Virgin, by Madonna. I still have it.
2. What song always gets you dancing? Nothing gets me dancing.
3. What song takes you back to your childhood? Superstar, by The Carpenters, plus all their other songs.
4. What is your perfect love song? Amanda, by Boston
5. What song would you want at your funeral? I have already requested “Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead”. Instrumental slow-tempo version, please, I want the realization to break gradually.
6. What song makes you, you? This is a ridiculous question, of course. But a song I like is Revelations, by Iron Maiden.
That was hard! I want to go back and change some of my answers now (or add new questions. You know what song I never burn out on? Lola, by the Kinks.)
1.What was the first song you ever bought?
It was either a three album set by Kiss (I don’t remember the name) or Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen). I don’t remember.
What song always gets you dancing?
Feel Like A Woman (Shania Twain)
What song takes you back to your childhood?
Anything from Fiddler on the Roof (we used to play the soundtrack a lot)
What is your perfect love song?
God Gave Me You (Blake Shelton)
What song would you want at your funeral?
Shine (Collective Soul)
What song makes you, you?
Panhandlin’ Prince (Ugly Kid Joe)
That’s funny. 
My first music purchase was two singles: “I’m A Believer” by the Monkees and “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron” by the Royal Guardsmen.
There is no song that always gets me dancing, and way too many to list that make me want to dance… I can’t think of any one that stands out from a list of dozens and dozens.
Again, there are a whole lot of songs that take me back to childhood, but I guess I would start with certain songs that were on old Christmas albums… like “The Carol of the Shepherds” from Joy to the World by Ivan Dittmars.
Perfect love song: Probably Dylan’s “Love Minus Zero/No Limit”, although Van Morrison’s “Crazy Love” is way up there too.
At my funeral: Probably “Ripple” by the Dead.
I don’t exactly know what it means to say a song makes me me. The song that expresses me the most is one I wrote earlier this year called “Hole Torn in the Sky”.
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1.What was the first song you ever bought?
The first record I ever bought with my own money was the .45 single “Live and Let Die” by Paul McCartney and Wings.
2. What song always gets you dancing?
I’ve never liked dancing. I’ve learned to do it semi-competently, just to please the women in my life, but I have NEVER had the slightest desire to dance. I’d never do it if it weren’t so important to women.
3. What song takes you back to your childhood?
Almost anything by John Denver- I associate him with happy family get-togethers, where everyone would sing his songs. “Back Home Again” stands out.
4. What is your perfect love song?
“Here, There and Everywhere” by the Beatles
5. What song would you want at your funeral?
Some old Clancy Brothers song about death… “Rosin the Bow” or “Isn’t It Grand, Boys,” something like that. But I’m a devoted Catholic, and there’s no way the pastor would allow that at church! Friends and family would have to sing it before or afterward.
I have absolutely no idea what this means. But my current favorite song is probably “Dancing With the Moonlit Knight” by Genesis.
1.What was the first song you ever bought?
Here’s Where the Story Ends, The Sundays
2. What song always gets you dancing?
Blue Water, Fields of the Nephilim
3. What song takes you back to your childhood?
Rock Your Baby, George McCrae
4. What is your perfect love song?
Love Song, The Cure
5. What song would you want at your funeral?
Goddamn The Sun, The Swans
6. What song makes you, you?
Atmosphere, Joy Division
Woo Hoo by the Rock-A-Teens (never thought i would hear it in a commercial.)
Roadrunner by Bo Diddley
Would You Like To Swing On A Star by Jimminy Cricket
I’d Rather Go Blind by Etta James
The Last Mile of the Way by Sam Cooke & the Soul Stirrers
Caruso by Lucio Dalla
Are you talking about Jiminy Cricket from the Disney movie Pinocchio? Cause he’s famous for singing “When You Wish Upon a Star,” which is a different song.