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10 April 2006

It's all about you, babe. If someone were to write a song about you, what song would you want it to be modeled after?→[More:] Mine's Kate by Ben Folds Five.

post by: YouCanCallMeAl at: 20:35 | 21 comments

Wrong - Archers of Loaf. Seems to say everything that needs to be said.

posted by black8 10 April | 20:39

Straightjacket Fits - If I were you. It's appropriately creepy.

posted by gaspode 10 April | 20:43

Minstrel in the Gallery? Might be. Dunno.

posted by Wolfdog 10 April | 20:48

Maybe Liz Phair's Flower

posted by nomis 10 April | 20:51

Big Ten Inch Record by Aerosmith.

posted by Triode 10 April | 20:52

Maybe Indigo Girls' Virginia Woolf. The narcissist in me likes the idea of someone seeing value in my life long after I'm gone. I'm sure there are better choices than that, but that's what popped into my head.

posted by amro 10 April | 21:06

Nina Simone - (Why) The King of Love Is Dead

posted by shmegegge 10 April | 21:20

Uh, just to clarify, I wouldn't be gone the same way Virginia Woolf went. I plan to live to a ripe old age.

posted by amro 10 April | 21:23

Get the rocks out your pocket, amro!!

posted by jrossi4r 10 April | 21:28

SHUT UP, YouCanCallMeAl, I was gonna say "Kate" by Ben Folds Five, too.

Oh wait, my name IS Kate, so that song is about me. Never mind.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 10 April | 21:45

Dazed and Confused.

posted by dg 10 April | 21:46

I've got my own song, it's just kinda depressing.

posted by YouCanCallMeAl 10 April | 22:04

al, don't forget this one. Everytime I hear it I think of a friend from high school who used to very loudly sing it whenever he saw me.

posted by amro 10 April | 22:16

"Pure" - The Lightning Seeds.

posted by sisterhavana 10 April | 22:17

Dear Catastrophe Waitress, by Belle and Sebastian. It makes me giggle.

My grade school teachers used to sing this to me.

posted by halonine 10 April | 22:50

One Big Holiday - My Morning Jacket

Ocean Size - Jane's Addiction

Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols

More Than This - Roxy Music

Lincoln Duncan - Paul Simon

and anything by Shpongle.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 10 April | 23:23

Till the end of the world, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. From the same named Wenders' movie (lyrics).

Who will take my dreams away, Marianne Faithfull, music by Angelo Badalamenti. From the movie The City of Lost Children (lyrics).

posted by carmina 10 April | 23:54

Ring of Fire.

Thunder Road (the original by Robert Mitchum.)

posted by warbaby 11 April | 00:09

YouCanCallMeAl, I'm confused. I thought this was your song.

posted by essexjan 11 April | 01:20

V. F. W. - Dead Milkmen

posted by AlexReynolds 11 April | 03:18

Lincoln Duncan

I love that song so much I named my first guitar after it.

I guess for my answer, I'd have to say "In My Life".

posted by Miko 11 April | 08:46

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