25 Songs I Can't Live Without

25 Songs I Can’t Live Without

(crossposted from Facebook)

Select the top 25 songs you cannot live without. The ones you can listen to over and over and never get tired of. They don’t have to be in any particular order. These are the songs that make you laugh, cry, or think of an old friend, etc. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If you were tagged, it’s because I’d like to see what you’d put in your list. To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 songs, tag 25 people, then click publish.

I think I could do this and them all be Rilo Kiley songs…but I won’t. But it was tough cutting out the, like, ten other RK songs I wanted to include. But I AM taking the opportunity to post my favorite RK promo shot again.

This is a combination of songs that I just love so much I put them on repeat often, songs that acted as gateway drugs to new styles and areas of music, songs that I grew up with and still love, and songs with lyrics that speak deeply to me. It’s new-centric because I’m fickle and jump from music to music quickly, and because I grew up in classical music and classic-Hollywood home so didn’t get exposure to many of the greats of the ’60s-’80s until the last year or two, so I even though I’m sure that artists like Bob Dylan and Hendrix and others will be on a list like this for me five or ten years from now, I don’t feel comfortable putting them on there now. Explanations of why individual songs appear available upon request. ;)