My Life in 15 songs

I like to keep in touch with what's going on back home in NZ, and the world, through http://www.stuff.co.nz/.  They say you have never really fully assimilated into a new environment until you no longer refer to news from the 'old land'.  Guess I'm still in the assimilating process and yet to be completed! 

Anyway, the above mentioned site has a number of very good blogs on it, one of which is "Blog On The Tracks", http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/blogs/blog-on-the-tracks, which is a music blog that in its time has discussed such bands/musicians as Queen, Neil Young, Prince, Midnight Oil, U2 unfavourably!) so is right up my alley.

The latest offering is a wonderful little exercise in summing up your life in 15 songs with the job split into 5 sections of 3 songs each.  Read the blog for further details but basically the criteria is:
3 songs from the first 3 or 4 albums you owned.
3 songs from your college days
3 songs from your early working life
3 songs gained/introduced from someone else, ie their influence
3 songs from favourites over the last 3 years (by far the hardest criteria!)

For a real music buff like me this was a difficult job becasue the choices were so huge, but I managed to come up with a final list, which is:

3 songs from early album:  

Dreadlock Holiday (10CC)

Children of the World (Bee Gees)

Little Girl (Mink Deville)

3 songs from High School: 

Fool in the Rain (Led Zeppelin)

Mary of the Fourth Form (Boomtown Rats )

’39 (Queen)

3 songs from early work days:

Lady Cab Driver (Prince)

And She Was (Talking Heads)

Hurt so Good (John Mellancamp)

3 songs from last 3 years:

Hey Soul Sister (Train)

Empire State of Mind (Jay-Z)

California Girls (Katy Perry)

3 songs from others:

Bittersweet (Big Head Todd & the Monsters)

Dance with Life; the brilliant light (Bryan ferry)

She Moves in her Own Way (The Kooks)

And there it is, my life in 15 songs... 

Add a comment with your selections, I'd be interested to read what others are!