Robin Seamer blogs at Breaking More Waves.
What was the first song you ever bought?
Puff the Magic Dragon – Peter, Paul & Mary
This song was adopted by the hippy scene of the 60s and caused a moral outrage with its possible drug references. Yet to this young listener sitting at home in his parents' lounge with patterned brown wallpaper and fake leather sofas – the epitome of cool in the early 70s – it was just a sweet song about a dragon.
What song always gets you dancing?
Beat of My Drum – Nicola Roberts
The crazy, panicky beats of Beat of My Drum are guaranteed to get my limbs twitching like some sort of jerky robot. This can lead to embarrassing aisle dancing if it comes on in a supermarket.
What song takes you back to your childhood?
Monochrome – The Sundays
An evocative song about two sisters creeping downstairs "like shadows" to watch the first moon landing on TV. "They're bringing the moon right down to our sitting room, static and silence in a monochrome vision." I was only a year old when the event occurred so the song acts as a memory that I don't really have, but takes me back to my earliest moments in childhood all the same.
What is your perfect love song?
Friday I'm in Love – The Cure
The Cure are one of my favourite bands of all time. They have written many dizzyingly pretty love songs. Friday I'm in Love, while not specifically about a person, sounds about as giddy and glorious as love should feel, both musically and lyrically.
What song would you want at your funeral?
Roads – Portishead
A beautifully intense and captivating song with a hauntingly sad sound. Yes, I want people to blub massively at my funeral and this is the song to make them do it.
Time for the encore. One last song that makes you, you
New Song – Howard Jones
"I don't wanna be hip and cool, I don't wanna play by the rules. Not under the thumb of the cynical few, or laden down by the doom crew," sang the 80s synth-pop wizard. Those positive lyrics and Ho-Jo's call to challenge preconceived ideas is pretty much my life mantra.
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