100 Songs

Sprinkled in among the more serious talk of child-rearing and politics and such like that, Oakland Fats told me that he had recently made a list of his top 100 songs ever and had been getting other people to do the same. The songs don't have to be listed in order of preference and they are to include all genre and types.

So of course I had to do it and it was pretty much on my mind all day. No matter what I was doing all the songs I've ever loved kept running through my head and I kept making little notes on slips of paper everywhere and stopping in the middle of things to try and remember the title of some song whose lyrics kept playing over and over in my head. And I did not have a restful night because whenever The Dog growled in his sleep or The Spouse snuffled I would wake up and start thinking about songs.

I finished the list this morning and I'm very happy about that because now I can get on with my life.

And no, I'm not going to publish my list because if you decide to do this too then I don't want to poison the well. But if you want, email me your list and then I'll email you mine.