M is for Music

Music has always been such an important part of my life, don't get me wrong I have absolutely zero musical talent.  My kids don't even like it when I sing them lullabies.  I think my love from music started somewhere around the Grade One talent show, I remember it like it was yesterday.  Myself and a group of friends did a lip singing and dancing routine to Surfin' Safari by The Beach Boys.

I remember what most of the groups did that did songs that day preformed even though I can not recall the names of most of my classmates or more than a vague description of what they looked like.  Tina Turner's What Love Got to Do With It?  (Not my favorite of her songs I prefer Private Dancer) and of course my favorite Beach Boys song Kokomo.  That resonates clearly for me as it was done by a group lead by the little boy I had a crush on.  *sigh*  He was quite dreamy (for a six year old) and we had quite the little friendship until another girl told him I was part mermaid (I mean seriously?  I can't even swim)

Moving right along, we'll fast track to my teenage years.  I was never really into the "boy bands" that most girls went gaga for.  Maybe it was too much time spent with my parents, but I started high school listening to Jethro Tull, Bob Dylan, The Mamas and the Papas, Steely Dan etc.  In fact I think it is safe to say that to this day the best concert I have been to was Jethro Tull.

It was however in the hallways of high school, at the hands of a boy with a guitar (playing the opening chords to Enter Sandman by Metallica that my music tastes began to 'widen':

Now, I find new music to love everywhere.  When I make I new friend on Facebook, the first thing I do is check out what music they listen to.  Here a song in a movie or TV show, I Google it.  You find the most awesome and random this way.  A great example of this is local Toronto band My Darkest Days (if you haven't heard of them check them out now)

So, I could go on about this forever but I have to go so...what's your favorite music?