The Easy Option Music Meme...

Right now I'm not sure that I have the stamina to trawl through a 100 songs from the year I left school as nearly everyone else has recently. Just a quick glance at the 1995 list is enough to make me want to puke with embarrassment. It certainly wasn't a vintage year. In fact, it was down right tragic. So, I've decided to do an easier option music meme that I saw at Liz's place, and also over at Scrivener's...

Instructions: List five songs that you are currently digging - it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now.

1. Remember Me - The Zutons (Who Killed...The Zutons) I'm totally into The Zutons right now. If you haven't heard of them, you should definitely check them out. I don't really know who to compare them to, their style is pretty wide-ranging, but it's definitely upbeat and catchy, without being populist or kitsch. LLH and I bought their album as they were due to support REM in London in July, but they ultimately couldn't play on the date that was rescheduled as a result of the devastating London Bombings. So I haven't seen them play live yet, but I'd definitely walk over hot coals to do so. Remember Me is one of my favourite songs on the album, but I could so easily have chosen several others, not least Zuton Fever.
2. Head Over Feet - Alanis Morissette (Jagged Little Pill - Acoustic) I've always loved Jagged Little Pill, so just had to buy the recently released 10th Anniversary Commemorative Acoustic Edition. I picked Head Over Feet because it's always struck a chord with me.
3. Best of You - Foo Fighters (In Your Honor) Just. Love. The. Foo. Fighters. Just. Love. This. Song. I was so excited when the new album was released, and am peeing my pants excited about seeing them play live for the first time in December. Woo hoo! :)
4. American Idiot - Green Day (American Idiot) Green Day's Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) is my all-time second favourite song (and it had to beat off a lot of REM competition for that spot!), so I've been into Green Day for quite sometime. American Idiot (the album and the song) did not disasppoint one bit. What did disappoint was that I missed seeing them play live this summer because LLH had professional exams. Grrrr! Yet another good reason to remain an academic lawyer. ;)
5. Animal - REM (In Time - The Best of REM) How could I possibly have five songs I'm into right now without including one by REM?!! Whilst I'm not a completely besotted geeky fan who knows every single detail about each band member, I am the girl standing next to you at their concerts who knows every single word to every single song and isn't afraid to sing loudly. And, yeah, I guess I'm kinda weird because Michael Stipe is pretty much my ideal man, and damn, what I wouldn't do to have Bertis Downs' job. ;) But why Animal? Well, I have to admit it took a while for the song to grow on me, but having heard it live several times recently, it's really stuck and I've been listening to it tons since then. Who can't love a song with the lyrics 'I'm vibrating at the speed of light'?