Top Ten Songs I Wish Were Mine

If you’ve never been in the car and heard me singing along to the radio, I sound a bit like a deaf cat screaming for air. But a lot more nasal-ly.

It’s bad. Listening to me sing is as painful as watching me bowl. Good friends and siblings laugh when they hear it. I don’t sing in front of strangers…no need to make things awkward.

But just like any tone deaf music lover, there are a few songs I can’t help but belt out when driving to and from work.

If I had a voice, these are the top ten songs I wish had my name in the Artist column of iTunes:

1. Sweet Emotion/Aerosmith (favorite line: get up and go must have got up and went…sometimes I write this while doodling during my Monday morning work meeting)
2. Monday Morning/Fleetwood Mac (speaking of Monday mornings)
3. You’re So Vain/Carly Simon (…and as I’m singing, I picture myself on a stage in a smoky club and Warren Beatty sitting at the bar. He’s in a white suit and panama jack hat with sunglasses and I’m wearing my most classic of classic 70s outfits. my favorite line ABOUT–not from–this song is my cousins: “But isn’t it about him?”)
4. Brass Monkey/Beastie Boys (how can you not sing along to: THAT FUNKY MONKEY)
5. Steady as She Goes/Raconteurs (this song as the best line ever: You’ve had too much to think, now you need a wife.)
6. Don’t You Want Somebody to Love/Jefferson Airplane (or were they Jefferson Starship with this song? Or just Starship…all I care about is Grace Slick and how effing cool she was/is)
7. Welcome to the Jungle/Guns and Roses (I love this song, but whenever I think of GnR, the first thing I think about is a certain t-shirt I wish I had bought many, many years ago. It had the GnR logo but instead of a skeleton head in the middle it was a nun with a big nose and around the emblem the words: Nuns with Big Noses. I will always regret not spending the $9.95 for that t-shirt at Souvenir City in Gulf Shores.)
8. Rings/Cymarron (okay, this is the only song I’ve had to google the artist on, but it’s LOVELY. so cheesy, so wonderful, so 70s, and so worth downloading as soon as you’re done reading this. Here’s just a quick sample line: Baby come on in, got James Taylor on the stereo.)
9. A Little Less Conversation/Elvis (ummmm, this song is so much fun to dance to in a mini-skirt dress and go go boots, swinging your hips Anne Margaret style. At least that’s how I imagine myself while singing it.)
10. Emotional Rescue/The Stones (this one, I actually come close to sounding like Mick. He does this animated high pitch thing with his voice that I can pull off…although, I probably sound more like Karen from Will & Grace when I sing it.)

There’s my list. Happy singing to all.