Stand by me | RIOT’S REDEMPTION

As I was driving to drop my son off at daycare yesterday before work I had my iPhone on shuffle and Pearl Jam’s version of Last Kiss came on, one of my all-time favourite songs. Now I Love the 1961 original By J. Frank Wilson but feel the 1999 Pearl Jam version is more passionate.

So this got me thinking about my all-time loved songs. So I sat in the car park before I took my son inside and scribed down the first Ten songs that jumped into mind. Now I love listening to music and if I really sat down with time to think I know I would come up with more like 200+ all-time favourites, but I thought I’d share this list as it was the first ten off the top of my head.

It wasn’t till I sat down to type this out I was horrified to realise that Stevie Wright’s Evie part one, two & three, AS WELL AS Deep Purple’s Sweet Child of Time were missing, two of what I would consider top top top of my list (My mother will be disappointed in me for forgetting them). But I’ll stick the rushed scribbled ten for this experiment – and I wonder what they say about me – Thoughts anyone??

Last Kiss – Pearl Jam http://youtu.be/4447lT5GQOk

Lithium – Nirvana http://youtu.be/RIQ4tkfysn8

Sinnerman – Nina Simone http://youtu.be/Bn5tiuZU4JI

Stand By Me – Ben E King http://youtu.be/Vbg7YoXiKn0

Live It Up – 360 http://youtu.be/O9ZmEA7UJX8

Nothing On My Mind – Paul Kelly http://youtu.be/IREBNzEKzFY (fighting the bull is one thing, fighting bullshit’s another, you know what I’m saying the bull shit just never seems to die)

Downbound Train – Bruce Springsteen http://youtu.be/Nc_mv46NwT4

Chain Of Fools – Aretha Franklin http://youtu.be/gGAiW5dOnKo

Holding Out For A Hero – Bonnie Tyler http://youtu.be/7f_HsjpSVaI

Follow That Dream – Elvis http://youtu.be/Am05yZehlAM

What is the Top Ten that spring (without too much thought) to your mind??

Playlist of the week. Post 66 of 365 post prompt 2014.

Today’s post asks us to write about how our week went putting together five songs that represent it.

Well I’ve decided I’d sum up an average seven day week in the life of me:

Manic Monday. Swimming Lesson. A hard day’s night. Money. Stuck in the middle with you. Family of noise. Stand by me.

MONDAY would be represented by The Bangles ‘Manic Monday’. It’s just another manic Monday. Everyone can relate, no one likes Mondays. Everyone still wishes it was Sunday ‘cause that’s our funday, when we don’t have to runday.

TUESDAY would be represented by The Eels ‘Swimming Lesson’. It’s a downer of a song and I’m only choosing it because of its title. I take my son to swimming lessons on Tuesdays.

WEDNESDAY would be represented by The Beatles ‘Hard Day’s Night’. Wednesday. Hump Day. Who doesn’t feel like they’ve been working like a dog!

THURSDAY would be represented by The Beatles ‘Money’. Thursday is payday. I want money, that’s what I want. Enough said.

FRIDAY would be represented by Stealers Wheel ‘Stuck in the Middle with You’. Because by Friday sometimes I do feel like there is clowns to the left of me jokers to the right.

SATURDAY would be represented by Adam Ant ‘Family Of Noise’. Saturday normally the three of us get to be together and go out and do something as a family. So I’m picking this song for its title, because with my son and I, we definitely are a Family of Noise.

SUNDAY would be represented by Ben E. King ‘Stand By Me’. Stand by me is one of my all-time favourite songs and it suits a loving, lazy, snuggly, family Sunday.