I Like to Sing …

… but when I do, sirens fill the air and I get cited for noise pollution.

Heh.

"Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. — Robert G. Ingersoll.

Songs affect us — though some may not wish to admit it. Songs can cause us to laugh, to cry, to reminiscence an event we may have experienced, or an experience inside of ourselves.

When I listen to music, I play whatever the mood is I am feeling. Certain bands and singers seem to hit just the right emotion at the right time. However, when I've got the radio going, it's always a pleasant surprise to hear a song that is rarely heard, and so much is brought back to memory. Of course, sometimes the memories stirred aren't pleasant; some are haunting, terse, melancholic …

Here are really, just a few songs that have hit me at one time or another, or hold some special meaning to me. I have many more to add, and I will, as time moves on.

  Basket Case
  Be Good to Yourself
  Beds Are Burning
  Black Velvet
  Bohemian Rhapsody
  Born To Be Wild
  Breath (2 AM)
  Brown Eyed Girl
  Carry On Wayward Son
  Close My Eyes Forever
  Dock Of The Bay
  Dominique
  Don't Stop Believin'
  Dust In The Wind
  Everybody Hurts
  Flight Of Icarus
  Freewill
  Girls Just Want To Have Fun
  Go Your Own Way
  Goodbye To Romance
  Harden My Heart
  Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah
  Here I Go Again
  Higher
  I Alone
  I Will Survive
  I'm Stone In Love With You
  Imagine
  Ironic
  Killing Me Softly With His Song
  Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)
  Leather And Lace
  Lightning Crashes
  Lola
  Love Hurts
  Magic Man
  Me and You and a Dog Named Boo
  Mellow Yellow
  Moonshadow
  More Than A Feeling
  Once You Love Somebody
  One of Us
  Only Women Bleed
  People Got to Be Free
  People Are Strange
  Pleasant Valley Sunday
  Pop Muzik
  Precious Time
  Promises in the Dark
  River of Deceit
  Run to the Hills
  Running
  San Ber'dino
  She Talks To Angels
  The Silent Man
  Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
  Teach Your Children
  The Living Years
  The Times They Are A Changin'
  These Dreams
  They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-haaa
  To Sir With Love
  Time After Time
  Try A Little Tenderness
  (Up On) Cherry Blossom Road
  Valley Girl
  Voices
  Walk Like an Egyptian
  Werewolves Of London
  What is this Life For?
  Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
  Why Don't We Get Drunk (And Screw)
  Xanadu
  You Keep Me Hangin' On