5. The Used - Pretty Handsome Awkward
It was a few months into my first year when I went to a No Wave night and a girl I'd never met played this song. I was in a strange place and had been drifting through uni without making any real connections to anyone, but that changed as I met the girl playing this song. Eventually I got to know her and realised that she was almost as awesome as I'd hoped she would be in those first moments but the feeling that this song reminds me of is being dwarfed by the sheer ability of some people to make me feel so young.
As I first spoke to her I felt an oddly comforting version of inferiority. It was as if anything I'd done in the past could be written off as the history of a teenage boy and now an adulthood could start to occur with this new person. Of course, in time you always discover that an adulthood contains many of the same mistakes you made in your teenage years, but this song will always remind me of that vague sense of hope that comes with the first year of university and an opportunity to start everything all over again.
4. Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog - A Man's Gotta Do
One of the things I love about friendship groups is when everybody gets into something together. It can be music, films, TV or just things like in jokes and traditions. I know some people on the outside see these things as annoyances and ways to stop new people from joining in with established groups, but I don't see it like that. I think that if the people of a friendship group are letting you see their in jokes, its because they are OK with you being in on them, and you just have to take the time to get to know them all.
Anyway, there was a time in second year when it seemed like every single member of Game Soc got obsessed with Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog. It was a great time as people would randomly break out into the songs and random quotes could make people laugh. That's what I really like about those kind of in jokes, they reduce the requirement's to create happiness down to just a few words. I could have taken any song from the musical, but I choose this one because it was also my favourite song to come on shuffle at the gym as hearing Nathan Fillion singing like that is great motivation.
A final point on this one is that Gareth makes one hell of a bad-ass Dr. Horrible.
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| Gareth as Dr. Horrible, thanks to Karl Lindgren. |
3. Throwdown - Baby Got Back
Most of my memories with this song involve me being incredibly drunk. From No Wave nights to Conspiracy to parties, this song has been sung everywhere in Guildford. However, my favourite memory of it comes from the second year lake party. I was pretty drunk by this point (as anyone who saw me that night can attest to) but I do remember holding Brian in total pride to my friends from home who had turned up while he sang every word of the song. It was an odd way for a feeling to form, but now this song makes me think of how well my friends from uni mix with my friends from home and how happy that makes me.
2. Mark Aaron James - Kleptomaniac Girlfriend
There aren't many of Mark Aaron James' songs that won't remind me of uni. He played at house parties in two separate years and both nights were brilliant. This song itself will remind me of the parties we threw in Milhouse as getting a room full of people to sing along with the chorus was an awesome moment. Mark is such a nice guy as well as being the most impressive writer of lyrics I've ever heard. Having him around Guildford really added something to the atmosphere.
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| Some of the crowd of people in Milhouse watching Mark Aaron James. |
1. Say Anything - Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too
Once again, this could've been an obvious ending to the Top 5 for some people. At some point early on in final year I got pretty obsessed with the music of Say Anything. Something about the openness and honesty of their lyrics combined with Max Bemis' unique view of the world spoke to me and I couldn't help but over analyse every single song. There isn't much to analyse in this example, just pure hilarity. The song kept coming up throughout the year, from quoting it at random times, to playing it for the enjoyment of house mates as well as a "fuck you" to pretentious metal head douche bags at No Wave and singing it into a mike as an odd choice as a favourite song during a recorded interview type thing. This song will go down as a reminder of the amount of fun that was had in my final year of university thanks to the people who surrounded me.
My next post will be a second of My Favourite Post Secret of the Week providing there is one, or Some Random Thing I Think Of if there isn't
Oh yes, honourably mentions for the lines "It's just one of those days..." and "Say, EAT MY GOAL!"
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