Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 20: Your Favorite Breakup Song

This one wasn't so hard as the previous...

Day 20: Your Favorite Breakup Song

Well folks, it's Garbage again, with the song Can't Cry These Tears off their 2001 album Beautiful Garbage.
I know, I know, I'm a Garbage-obsessed freak.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 19: Your Favorite Love Song

Love songs kinda suck.

Day 19: Your Favorite Love Song

I'm a sucker for love songs with a maudlin side.  We're talking lost love with the hope of a return.  It was a hard choice, but I picked Last Kiss.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 18: An Instrumental Song You Like

So many great instrumentals...

Day 18: An Instrumental Song You Like

I've always been partial to the guitar piece Classical Gas.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 17: The Last Song in Your MP3 Folder

 This is a song I don't listen to nearly enough.

Day 17: The Last Song in Your MP3 Folder

I got this song via Spinner's Free MP3 of the Day, and I rather like it, though it's not my topper or anything.  The Pains of Being Pure at Heart has the sort of band name I love, and this song, Young Adult Friction, is just fantastic.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 16: The First Song in Your MP3 Folder

This one took some juggling since my songs are sequestered into sub-folders...

Day 16: The First Song in Your MP3 Folder

I shifted all of my songs temporarily into a single MP3 set folder, and the first one was...#1 Crush, by Garbage.  Many of you have probably heard the Nellee Hooper remix that featured on the soundtrack to Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet, but this is the version that was a B-side to one of Garbage's first singles, Vow.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 15: A Song You Liked in High School

Hard to narrow this one down.

Day 15: A Song You Liked in High School

Technically, the song Pink, by Aerosmith, came out a couple of years before I was in high school.  Still, by the time high school rolled around, the song was still getting some play on radio stations I listened to, and it caught me up for some reason.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 14: A Song From the Year You Were Born

 I'm gonna go with an easy one that EVERYONE remembers...

Day 14: A Song From the Year You Were Born

Possibly one of the best-known songs from 1985 is that multi-celeb charity hit We Are the World.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 13: A Song You Sing in the Shower

We'll just pretend that this applies to me; as if I would sing in the shower.

Day 13: A Song You Sing in the Shower

 A while back, The Simpsons did yet another episode about Marge and Homer's dating days.  This one was bumped up from the 70s/80s to the early 90s, of course, since the show itself has since progressed (with no aging of characters, this being a cartoon).  The Homer of this ep became a Grunge singer and, with his band Sadgasm performed a little song called Margerine.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 12: A Song That Makes You Want to Have Sex

I was nearly stopped dead by this one, as sex is something that I no longer do at this point in my life, nor do I plan to do it at any time in the future.  (PS: Today's my birthday.  Just so you know.)

Day 12: A Song That Makes You Want to Have Sex

I'm going with a song that used to make me want to have sex.  That song, ladies and gents and sundry, is Queer, by Garbage.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 11: A Song That Reminds You of Your Mother

Ah, finally, something about the parent I liked better and loved more!

Day 11: A Song That Reminds You of Your Mother.

The reason this song makes me think of Mum is because it comes from what I think of as "her era" and, when she was young, like in high school, Mum looked a little like Brenda Lee, the most famous singer of the number.