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100 songs

Other people have done it... So here we go. This might tell you something about me (apart from the fact that I like making lists). I dunno.

1. Songs That Make You Happy:

"The Wonderful thing about Tiggers"
Louis Armstrong "What a Wonderful World"
Pete Seeger "I'm gonna mail myself to you"
Knutsen & Ludvigsen "Juba Juba"
Bob Dylan "Quinn The Eskimo"

2. Songs That Make You sad/wistful:

Whitney Houston "One moment in time"
"God Help the Outcasts" (from the Hunchback of Notre Dame Disney movie)
Bjørn Eidsvåg "Skyfri Himmel"
The Hollies "He Ain't Heavy, He's my Brother"
"A little fall of rain" (from Les Miserables)
(well, they all bring tears to my eyes, anyway)

3. Songs That Remind you of Love:

Alison Krauss "When you say nothing at all"
Bjørn Eidsvåg "Tålt"
Sonny & Cher "I Got You Babe"
Alanis Morissette "You owe me nothing in return"
Shania Twain "Don't even think about it"

4. Songs that Remind you of you:

Sting "Englishman in New York"
Di Derre "Kråka på taket"
Meredith Brooks "Bitch"
Fairground Attraction "The Moon is Mine"
Bonnie Raitt "The road's my middle name"

5. Songs that make you ponder life now:

Bon Jovi "Just older"
Alanis Morissette "All I really want"
Lars Lillo Stenberg "Oslo"
Fairground Attraction "Find my Love"
Sting "Russians"

6. Songs that provoke remembrances of time lost:

Wham "Wake me up before you go-go"
Lillebjørn Nilsen "Fin frokost"
"Syng høyt, kamerater"
Meatloaf "Two out of three ain't bad"
Prefab Sprout "I Remember That"

7. Songs you like but are ashamed to admit:

Pointless category, I'm not ashamed to admit I like songs if I do, although sometimes I probably should be. So...

Alternative no 7. Bands/Performers you don't like though people keep telling you you ought to:
Tori Amos
Oasis
Kent
Coldplay
Pink Floyd

8. Songs you like and are not ashamed to admit, though you should be:

Michael Bolton "You wouldn't know love" (and a few other songs from the same album)
Hanne Krogh "Ta meg til havet" (Very cheesy. In fact, the whole album is cheesy, and I like the whole thing. Sigh.)
Hear'Say "Pure and Simple"
S Club 7 "Reach for the Stars"
Johnny Logan "Hold me now" (and too many other Eurovision songs to consider me quite sane, really)

9. Songs for dancing:

The Weather Girls "It's Raining Men"
Chubby Checker "The Twist"
Van Morrison & The Chieftains "Mary's Wedding"
Lillebjørn Nilsen "Tanta til Beate"
rather a lot of bagpipe music which I can't put a name to at all

10. Songs to keep up your spirits at work:

Dolly Parton "Working Nine to Five"
Alanis Morissette "I see right through you"
John Lennon "I'm So Tired"
Ole Paus "Hvordan i helvete fikk du denne jobben?"
Fairground Attraction "Comedy Waltz"

11. Songs to Be Played at Your Wedding:

Eddie Reader "The Right Place"
The Monkees "I'm a Believer" (if Shrek could have it at his wedding, then why shouldn't I?)
Traveling Wilburys "Handle me with care"
Nat King Cole "Let There Be Love"
Prefab Sprout "All the world loves lovers"

12. Songs to be played at your funeral:

Monty Python "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"
Macy Gray "I can't wait to meetchu"
Einar Skjæraasen (lyrics) "Danse mi vise"
Bjørn Eidsvåg "Songen"
Ole Paus "Nærmere deg, min Gud"

13. Songs to be played really loudly:

Pulp "Mis-shapes"
Bee Gees "You Win Again"
U2 "Helter Skelter"
Erik Bye "Skumværsvalsen"
Nancy Sinatra "These boots are made for walking"

14. Songs to help you sleep:

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong "Summertime"
Lou Reed "Perfect Day" (alternatively the BBC collaboration version)
Paul Simon "St. Judy's Comet"
Hothouse Flowers "Easier in the Morning"
Helge Nilsen & Rune Larsen "Godnattsang for voksne"

15. Songs that contend for quintessential song of the 80s:

Bananarama "I Heard a Rumour" (hard to chose which song here, but that's a good one)
USA for Africa "We Are The World"
Pet Shop Boys "What have I done to deserve this"
The Cure "Lovecats"
Cyndi Lauper "Girls just Wanna have fun"

16. Songs that contend for best rock song ever:

Bon Jovi "Living on a Prayer"
The Beatles "Come Together"
Melissa Etheridge "Somebody Bring me some Water"
Icehouse "crazy"
Prefab Sprout "The King of Rock and Roll"

17. Songs everybody needs to hear if they haven't:

Arlo Guthrie "Alice's Restaurant"
Prefab Sprout "King of Rock and Roll"
Voice of the Beehive "I Say Nothing"
Ole Paus "Jeg er ikke redd mer" (and quite a few more...)
"Noen drager er høye som hus" from a record called Ridder Jonatann og dragen Plaque

18. Songs you never need to hear again for the rest of your life:

Anything by Enrique Iglesias
The "English Rose" version of Candle in the Wind
The Beatles "Let it Be"
Bobby Vinton "Blue Velvet"
Pretty much anything by Lenny Kravitz
...and I wouldn't exactly be devastated if all "boybands" suddenly disappeared off the face of the planet.

19. Songs you never get tired of:

(most of the songs from previous categories, except, obviously, number 18, rightly belong here too)
Don McLean "American Pie"
Billy Joel "The Piano Man"
Ulf Lundell "Öppna Landskap"
"Amazing Grace" (any well-sung version)
Di Derre "Vampyren"

20. Songs most recently added to the iPod:

I WANT AN IPOD! I NEED AN IPOD! SOMEBODY GET ME AN IPOD, PLEASE!