29 January 2014 (Wednesday)

Today 7 students came to talk music. The theme for the day was "Which song have you heard the most times in the past week?"

No one had had any musical adventures to tell about the previous week :-(

The first song chosen was "Anywhere Is" (video, lyrics, song info) by Enya (info). The student who chose it said she has been revisiting old music she used to like and came across this song. Previously she didn't listen to the lyrics, but now she does and like them.

The next song was "Same Direction" (video, lyrics, song info) by Hoobastank (info). Similarly to the previous choice, the student who chose this song had gone back to an album where he has always liked another song better and re-discovered "Same Direction".

My notes say we also watched "My Turn" (video, lyrics, song info) by Hoobastank but I can't remember why... was it that another student knew this song by the band?

Next I asked one of the new students to chose a song so we could learn a little about her taste in music. She likes classical music and chose "Canon In D" (video, song info).

The next song was "Landslide" (video, lyrics, song info) by Dixie Chicks (info). The student who chose it had heard it on Glee (info) the first time. She prefers this version of the song over the original by Fleetwood Mac (video).

After this a student chose "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" (video, lyrics, song info) from the musical Rock Of Ages (info). The student said she likes this song because roses are beautiful but have thorns that can hurt you. She has been listening to this song lately because last week she thought of the Rock Of Ages musical and she likes this song from it.

The next song choice was inspired by the classical piano piece from a couple of selections ago: "Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness" (video, song info) by Smashing Pumpkins (info). 

The next choice was "Hitohira No Hanabira" (video, lyrics, song info) by Stereopony (info). I can't remember the explanation for why this song was chosen, sorry!

The next song was "Generate Generate" (video, lyrics, song info) by Johnny Marr (info) because, well, the student who chose it listens to Johnny Marr *all the time* these days!

The last song of the day was "Emotion" (video, lyrics, song info) by Destiny's Child (info). One of the students in the class correctly recognized this song as originally by the Bee Gees (video).


With that our time was over. I don't have a theme chosen for the next class -- let's see what songs the students choose to share!