I'VE BEEN TAGGED!
My friend and co-worker Susan has challenged me to come up with a list of the 7 songs that are my current favourites. This is apparently called a meme (ok, I'm not new to blogging but could someone please tell me what meme stands for, if anything!). This is my first time being tagged, probably for good reason, I'm always the person on those email lists that people put as "the person least likely to respond" but here it is, just for her! I'm even going to expand it to 10, no idea why, and in order of preference with 1 being the favourite.
1. Boston--Augustana (and not just because it's named after my absolute favourite city, I really like this one!)
2. How To Save A Life--The Fray (I STILL love this song)
3. Little Wonders--Rob Thomas (I just discovered as I was downloading that this is from the new movie Meet The Robinsons)
4. Here In Your Arms--HelloGoodbye
5. U & UR Hand--Pink
6. Ordinary Miracles--Sarah McLachlan
7. Sweet Escape--Gwen Stefani
8. The Party's Not Over--Tom Cochrane
9. Love You Lately--Daniel Powter
10. Chasing Cars--Snow Patrol (this is another one I don't think I'll ever get tired of)
Well, there you have it! Ok, more than half of them are slow and mellow...what has happened...where's the good ole' dance music of the 80's??? What kind of phase is this...and do NOT say I'm just getting older!! aaaaaggghhh!! I still enjoy almost any kind of music...except for jazz or rap...oh, and classical. Maybe I'll do a top ten country list tomorrow...bet you can't wait for that! LOL!!!
Anyway, I'm now tagging Holly, Marianne and Sheri to do a list. Anyone else that happens to read...please leave a list of your favourites too!
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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9 comments:
Good list. Now I'm waiting to see your top 10 country list! I'll try to visit you today--it's been NUTS in our office!
LOL -- okay, I'll start thinking!
I'll start my list as well and put it on my new blog.
Great list Judy! I've added 4 of those songs to my ipod after reading your list!! (P.S. I'm a friend of Holly's) Have a great night!
Great list! I forgot some of those songs! Great choices! :D
Wow! Well I have struggled and stressed over my current top 5. I’m the definition of a “live in the moment” type of gal – which ultimately means my current fav is whatever I happen to be playing at the time! However I will try and condense it. This means I can’t include It’s Not Over (Daughtry), Chelsea Dagger (The Fratellis – I went to HMV in Nov to buy this because I couldn’t wait for this song to finally show up on itunes mid-March), the fabulous White Hare (Seth Lakeman) or Grace Kelly (Mika) No, I can’t include those because they were last hours Top 5. So now its:
1.Rockstar or If Everyone Cared – Nickelback (oops, is that two different songs?)
2. Weak in The Knees – Serena Ryder (new young singer from Peterborough)
3. One World, One Love - Frank Ti-Aya & Yardi Don
4. Kiss Me – Robbie Williams (oh I’d like to do more than that, Robbie!)
5. Give it to Me – Timbaland (with Nelly F and JT – I cannot stop listening to all their stuff!)
- marianne
I TOTALLY forgot to put that Serena Ryder song on my list...I LOVE that song!! I didn't realize she was Canadian, let alone from Peterborough.
Thanks for doing your list!!
Phew! I'm just glad I wasn't explicitly tagged so I can ignore this :-)
Finally...maybe something I've found before Judy????
The definition of meme, according to Wikipedia:
The term "meme" (IPA: /miːm/, rhyming with "theme". Commonly pronounced in the US as /mɛm/, rhyming with "gem"), coined in 1976[1] by the biologist Richard Dawkins, refers to a "unit of cultural information" which can propagate from one mind to another in a manner analogous to genes (i.e., the units of genetic information).
Dawkins gave as examples of memes: tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots, or of building arches. A meme, he said, propagates itself as a unit of cultural evolution and diffusion — analogous in many ways to the behavior of the gene. Often memes propagate as more-or-less integrated cooperative sets or groups, referred to as memeplexes or meme-complexes.
The idea of memes has proved a successful meme in its own right, gaining a degree of penetration into popular culture which relatively few modern scientific theories achieve.
Proponents of memes suggest that memes evolve via natural selection — in a way very similar to Charles Darwin's ideas concerning biological evolution — on the premise that variation, mutation, competition, and "inheritance" influence their replicative success. For example, while one idea may become extinct, other ideas will survive, spread, and mutate — for better or for worse — through modification.
Meme-theorists contend that memes most beneficial to their hosts will not necessarily survive; rather, those memes which replicate the most effectively spread best; which allows for the possibility that successful memes might prove detrimental to their hosts.
..Kathy St.
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