when you were young you made a list of things you missed when you got older

Lack of actual content continues, I'm afraid, so there is a meme instead!

1 Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter. Or ask for one, whatever.
2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

From mrsquizzical, who gave me the letter T:

Voxtrot - This Is Not My Bloody War

A B-side, I think. I love how quiet and piano-y it is, but with the constant refrain of This is not my bloody war. There are no lyrics on the Internet, and I'm horrible at deciphering lyrics, so.

Cute Is What We Aim For - Time

One of the songs I actually like from the entire album, which I downloaded in a fit of must get all FBR music now!. Sort of quiet, but with waves of swelling emotion... this is me being bad at describing, like, music.

The roads are wrapped around your waist
They lead me place to place
I take trips from hip to hip
In fact I’ve made a career out of it
I’ve always thought the left was your strongest side
But when it comes to you, now I can’t decide
It’s only a matter of time

Pretty & Nice - Tora Tora Tora

Oh god, this song. So exuberant and loud! It's a bit 1940s Hollywood war movie, but obviously critical of it too. Does this make sense? I suspect not.

The Japanese are singing tora, tora, tora
But I don't understand the seaweed and the sand
The girls are singing let's go on a trip
The boys are dropping bombs across the sea

The Blow - True Affection

I like this! So careful and balanced, and contains bonus finger-snapping.

I was out of your league....
and you were twenty thousand underneath the sea
Waving affections
You were out of my league
at a distance that I didn't want to see
Down to the bottom

Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy

I really like the guitar in this one - it's all fuzzy neutrality and sort of folksy.

Two-headed boy
All floating in glass
The sun it has passed
Now it's blacker than black
I can hear as you tap on your jar

BONUS! I just realised what an awesome song One Day, Robots Will Cry is! I am that slow, ahaha. Probably everyone already has it, but JUST IN CASE:

Cobra Starship - One Day, Robots Will Cry

When you were young you kept a list
Of the things you'd miss as you got older
I've known you in every life I've lived
Yeah, I'm still a kid
Even though I'm colder

GAAAAAAAAAABE. ♥

It was hard narrowing down five songs. Also, I'm really bad at describing music.

I'm feeling much cheerfuller today, though, so thank you, everyone who cheered me up. I bought two pairs of socks today, and one pair were ridiculous and stripey-ish! \o/