# Six Songs of You **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 10, 2012, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041 "2012-08-10T02:48:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041/21 "2012-08-11T15:51:01Z")
1.What was the first song you ever bought? Woodstock by Matthew’s Southern Comfort. My older brother had said it would be a big hit, and it was. #1. 1. What song always gets you dancing? It Mek by Desmond Decker 2. What song takes you back to your childhood? Me and You and a Dog Named Boo by Lobo 3. What is your perfect love song? Vision by Peter Hammill 4. What song would you want at your funeral? Terrapin Station by the Dead 5. What song makes you, you? A Place to Survive by VDGG ---
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041/22 "2012-08-11T16:31:03Z")
1.What was the first song you ever bought? Believe it or not, I think the first CD I ever bought was Meatloaf’s Bat out of Hell. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4MFxcFofkY) 1. What song always gets you dancing? Vampire Weekend’s cover of Fleetwood Mac’s Everywhere [Vampire Weekend - Everywhere (Cover) - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcYT8TzUarI) 2. What song takes you back to your childhood? Huh, I’ve got nothing for this one. Maybe I’m a replicant. 3. What is your perfect love song? Ball and Chain by Sublime [Sublime - 5446 That's My Number / Ball And Chain - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7322l_JC8Y4) 4. What song would you want at your funeral? Princes of the Universe, from the soundtrack to Highlander, by Queen. [Queen - Princes Of The Universe (Official Video) - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEJ8lpCQbyw) 5. What song makes you, you? There’s no one song that does that for me. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041/23 "2012-08-11T18:02:18Z")
1.What was the first song you ever bought? **_Detroit Rock City_ by KISS** (I still have this 45) 1. What song always gets you dancing? **_Phenomenon_ by LL Cool J** 2. What song takes you back to your childhood? **_Hotel California_ by The Eagles** 3. What is your perfect love song? **_I Only Want To Be With You_ by Barry White** 4. What song would you want at your funeral? **_Louie, Louie_ by The Kingsmen** (it’s in my will that this song gets played) 5. What song makes you, you? **_Ace of Spades_ by Motörhead** ---
**Author:** ![Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speak_to_me_Maddie)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041/24 "2012-08-11T20:25:47Z")
1.What was the first song you ever bought? **In the Mood - Glenn Miller Orchestra (1939)** 1. What song always gets you dancing? **Ma Na Ma Na – Various (but mainly The Muppets) (1968)** 2. What song takes you back to your childhood? **Star of Bethlehem – John Williams (1990)** 3. What is your perfect love song? **Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini— Sergei Rachmaninoff (1934)** 4. What song would you want at your funeral? **Requiem—Bob Chilcott (2010)** 5. What song makes you, you? **Call to the Remembrance –Richard Farrant (16th Century)** ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041/25 "2012-08-11T21:19:39Z")
**1.What was the first song you ever bought?** [“Pass the Dutchie”](http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=Tn-bBrYQDUU) by Musical Youth. **2. What song always gets you dancing?** [“Got To Get You Into My Life”](http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=A3SWNhguzRA) (Earth, Wind & Fire version) **3. What song takes you back to your childhood?** “Darlin’ Nikki” by Prince. No joke. I seriously can remember listening to this tape in the car with my mom and trying to sing along, not understanding the song at all and thinking that “Nikki started to _cry_.” I was close. 😉 **4. What is your perfect love song?** [“Always and Forever”](http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=L0teBcXVDp4) by Heatwave. **5. What song would you want at your funeral?** [“Goodbye Cruel World”](http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=FD-R7KsE3-Y) by Pink Floyd. Short, accurate and to the point. **6. What song makes you, you?** [“Atomic Dog”](http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=szkmivRWegU) by George Clinton. ETA: Those links are to YouTube’s mobile site, so I’m not sure if they’ll work on a normal browser. My apologies if they’re screwed up. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041/26 "2012-08-11T21:19:40Z")
**1.What was the first song you ever bought?** I think my first record was “Thriller” and I bought it because of “[Billie Jean](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_XLOBDo_Y).” I still think that’s one of the greatest pop songs ever, so I have good taste. **2. What song always gets you dancing?** The Scissor Sisters’s and “[I Don’t Feel Like Dancing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H5I6y1Qvz0).” **3. What song takes you back to your childhood?** “[Feed the Birds](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHrRxQVUFN4)” from Mary Poppins was my first thought. But when it comes to something that was played on the radio, BJ Thomas’s “[Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym_mJokfTQg).” The organist at Dodger Stadium was playing it the other day and boy, was I taken back to being a kid. **4. What is your perfect love song?** “[Nothing Compares 2U](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUiTQvT0W_0)” by Sinead O’Connor. I think it’s because the lyrics are understated and feel very real to me. Runner up is “[Something in the Way She Moves](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoevtZiVR4k)” by James Taylor. **5. What song would you want at your funeral?** “[April Come She Will](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO9Ild2cvdg)” by Simon and Garfunkel. **6. What song makes you, you?** “[Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDgYN5qeG4Y)” by Flatt and Scruggs. I thought I’d pick something that reflects growing up hillbilly. Or maybe “[Un Di Felice, Eterea](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5QHoksdErk)” which reflects my passion for opera. Or, you know, any one of a thousand songs. Oh, I know. “[We Are All Connected](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk)” by Symphony of Science. It captures my world view perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041/27 "2012-08-11T23:43:11Z")
1.What was the first song you ever bought? Hungry like The Wolf 1. What song always gets you dancing? Heart of Glass 2. What song takes you back to your childhood? Only The Good Die Young 3. What is your perfect love song? Kiss Me Baby 4. What song would you want at your funeral? In My Hour of Darkness 5. What song makes you, you? You Can’t Always Get What You Want ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041/28 "2012-08-12T05:07:14Z")
1.What was the first song you ever bought? - It was an album. Ace of Base. _The Sign_. 1. What song always gets you dancing? - Toss-up between “Devil’s Dance Floor” by Flogging Molly and “Start Wearing Purple” by Gogol Bordello. 2. What song takes you back to your childhood? “Ride My Seesaw” by The Moody Blues. My mom listened to their best of album all the time. 3. What is your perfect love song? - “You Are the Everything,” R.E.M. 4. What song would you want at your funeral? - “Growing Old is Getting Old” by Silversun Pickups. 5. What song makes you, you? Depends on what you’re asking. Describes me? “Panic Switch,” also by Silversun Pickups. Influenced me the most? “American Jesus” by Bad Religion, which is the song that introduced me to punk. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041/29 "2012-08-12T05:22:09Z")
1.What was the first song you ever bought? Having been born in the Internet Age I haven’t bought any CD or album and don’t use Itunes either-just YouTube. 1. What song always gets you dancing? Nothing makes me dance as noted above. 2. What song takes you back to your childhood? “In the Good Old Summertime” (courtesy of Arthur) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUM3XXHFDQ4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUM3XXHFDQ4) 3. What is your perfect love song? “Hannelore” largely because it has a name somewhat resembling my crush [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og0ESnuZ94A](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og0ESnuZ94A) 4. What song would you want at your funeral? Mozart’s Requiem [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8vJ\_lMxQI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8vJ_lMxQI) 5. What song makes you, you? Not sure about this… ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041/30 "2012-08-12T11:29:15Z")
1.What was the first song you ever bought? An album - [Meet The Beatles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_The_Beatles!) (Dad took us to the record store with the stated goal that from then on we would go once a month and all pick an album to buy. Dad bought a Lefty Frizzell LP, Mom chose an Andy Williams LP, my brother got the soundtrack to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and I got Meet The Beatles. That actually was the first and last time we went to the record store.) 1. What song always gets you dancing?\* Not that I would ever dance in front of anyone else because I’d look like a demented fool, but if I’m alone, I dance around to lots of songs that aren’t considered “dance” songs, such as Hector Zazou (RIP) featuring Anneli Drecker (from Bel Canto) and Gerard Depardieu - [“I’ll Strangle You”](http://youtu.be/Ydul9Cx9wl0). It’s not a fast song but I simply can’t stay still when it’s playing. 2. What song takes you back to your childhood? Napoleon XIV’s [“They’re Coming To Take Me Away Ha Ha”](http://youtu.be/Ftrw7HLdNqw) 3. What is your perfect love song? The Pogues - [“Fairytale of New York”](http://youtu.be/HwHyuraau4Q) 4. What song would you want at your funeral? Peter Gabriel w Kate Bush - [“Don’t Give Up”](http://youtu.be/VjEq-r2agqc) (more because it’s two of my favorite singers together than to make any statement via the lyrics. There’s not as much Kate in “Games Without Frontiers,” but that would be alright too.) 5. What song makes you, you? HTR - [“For We Believe”](http://youtu.be/rXlx4gBK0CE) - or West India Company - [“Bengalis From Outer Space”](http://youtu.be/gbxt3DAGiYA) or Bel Canto’s [“Spiderdust”](http://youtu.be/97KFcezkyQc) or Catherine Lara’s [“Aral”](http://youtu.be/6oiEi3GAxSA) or Komeda’s [“Our Hospitality”](http://youtu.be/1n5Cz_12hEI) or Danielle Dax’s entire Dark Adapted Eye album, but especially [“Where The Flies Are”](http://youtu.be/rKqdcSxAYlA) or tons of Siouxsie & the Banshees songs but especially [“Spellbound”](http://youtu.be/9otg_Cm50RE) Sinead O’Connor’s [“Fire On Babylon”](http://youtu.be/qSDctCO_8JQ) or Nina Hagen’s [“Zarah”](http://youtu.be/5r5MBBRRn1Y) or [“Born In Xixax”](http://youtu.be/sZPpY_67NTc) ore really, practically every song on nunsexmonkrock. among others. Yes, I would dance to very weird things. ---
**Author:** ![phxjcc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phxjcc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phxjcc)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041/31 "2012-08-12T13:34:28Z")
1.What was the first song you ever bought? See You In September, The Happenings, 1966 1. What song always gets you dancing? In the Mood, Glenn Miller, 1941 version 2. What song takes you back to your childhood? It’s My Party (and I’ll Cry if I Want To)–was 12 years old and heard it in an honest to goodness malt shop in OK on Rte 66 while driving cross country; real Dobie Gillis type stuff. 3. What is your perfect love song? The Way You Look Tonight, Sinatra, Columbia Recording 4. What song would you want at your funeral? Beethoven’s Ode To Joy (Vocal) From Symphony No. 9 In D Minor, Op. 125, finale presto. 5. What song makes you, you? Begin the Beguine, from Broadway Melody of 1940 with Fred and Ellie dancing ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041/32 "2012-08-12T14:37:10Z")
1. First song ever bought - Oh, that would be an album, “Meet the Beatles”! 2. Song that gets me dancing - their name is legion, but today I might narrow it down to “Love Shack” by the B-52s. 3. Song that takes me back to childhood - early Elvis!..no, wait, I spent a summer on a relative’s farm in Quebec, there was a neighbor girl who came over to keep me company, and though we spoke different languages, we enjoyed sitting out in the truck in the evening listening to rock n’ roll on the radio - “My Boyfriend’s Back”, lol, forgot who that was, 'hey la, hey la, my boyfriend’s back". 4. Perfect love song - “Stand By Me” by Ben E. King. Moves me to tears even today. 5. Song to be played at my funeral - for no logical reason, I have a fantasy of a big weeping crowd parting as my coffin is carried down a path to the grave, accompanied by bagpipers, and the actual song they will play as they plant me is “Mull of Kintyre” by Paul McC. 6. What song makes me, me? …gotta think… ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041/33 "2012-08-12T15:08:13Z")
1. Song that makes me, me - “The Mummers Dance” by Loreena McKennitt. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041/34 "2012-08-13T05:17:59Z")
1. She Loves You/I Want to Hold Your Hand. 2. Basically most of them. **I love this song!** 3. Anything from South Pacific. Ours was sort of a “performance” family and most of our albums were soundtracks. 4. Amborosia’s That’s How Much. 5. John Lennon—There Are Places I Remember. Or Todd Rundgren’s Last Ride. 6. Eric Clapton—If I Could Change the World. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041/35 "2012-08-13T05:26:00Z")
1._What was the first song you ever bought?_ Queen’s "Another One Bites The Dust. on 45. 😛 1. _What song always gets you dancing?_ Van Halen’s “Jump”. Long story. 2. _What song takes you back to your childhood?_ Jim McClean’s “American Pie”; used to sing it with my brothers; we must have been 4-5 years old, had NO idea what it was about. We just liked it a lot. 3. \*What is your perfect love song? \* No clue, hrm. “Hallelujah” probably, hehe. 4. _What song would you want at your funeral?_ There’s a few I really like, but I can’t think of them now. 5. \*What song makes you, you? \* Ditto. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041/36 "2012-08-13T05:32:28Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > \ > > 1. I’ve thought about this way more than I should. My usual answer is “Solsbury Hill” by Peter Gabriel… All said, Monty Python’s “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” would probably be most appropriate. Yeah, that’s usually my go-to as well, and people would certainly expect the Eric Idle one. 🙂 But…pet adoption? Pfft! You’ve been watching too many SPCA ads, sir/ma’am! ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041/37 "2012-08-13T05:32:40Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > 1.What was the first song you ever bought? > **_Detroit Rock City_ by KISS** (I still have this 45) > > 1. What song always gets you dancing? > **_Phenomenon_ by LL Cool J** > > 2. What song takes you back to your childhood? > **_Hotel California_ by The Eagles** > > 3. What is your perfect love song? > **_I Only Want To Be With You_ by Barry White** > > 4. What song would you want at your funeral? > **_Louie, Louie_ by The Kingsmen** (it’s in my will that this song gets played) > > 5. What song makes you, you? > **_Ace of Spades_ by Motörhead** 1. You going to have the music passed out? So I’ll _finally_ know what the words are? (I know what I **think** it says but…) ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041/38 "2012-08-13T18:15:03Z")
I still don’t have a ‘perfect love song’, pfft. I’ll stick with Hallelujah. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041/39 "2012-08-13T18:50:53Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > But…pet adoption? Pfft! You’ve been watching too many SPCA ads, sir/ma’am! I have an adopted pet. If you have a problem with that, my sincere condolences. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041/40 "2012-08-13T20:18:58Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > 1. You going to have the music passed out? So I’ll _finally_ know what the words are? (I know what I **think** it says but…) Cecil printed the lyrics [over 25 years ago](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/281/what-are-the-real-lyrics-to-louie-louie). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-songs-of-you/631041.md?page=3)