jon_chaisson | Alphabet Music Meme, via qahawthorne

1) If you'd like to play along, reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2) You then list (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 (or 6 or 7) songs that start with that letter (feel free to explain why you chose the songs).
3) Then, as I'm doing here, you'll post the list to your journal with the instructions.

qahawthorne gave me 'R', so...

Elvis Costello, "Radio Radio"
Of course I had to grab this one! The namesake of my RTS series from 2005, and pretty much one of my theme songs. ;)

Air, "Remember"
Their album Moon Safari is still one of my favorites of the 90's. Extremely retro yet so cool in so many ways.

Pink Floyd, "Run Like Hell"
Probably my favorite track from The Wall. One of the original songs that inspired a scene in my Infamous War Novel.

The Beatles, "Rain"
This is such an odd song of theirs, considering the time frame (mid-1966), just before they released Revolver, but indicative of their growing out of the simple pop love songs they were so used to writing and heading towards experimentation. Ringo states this is one of his favorites in terms of his drumming.

Sting, "Russians"
I love songs that evoke a certain emotion, even more when they evoke not just a mood but a time. In this case I don't mean this song evokes the Cold War of the 80s, more like this song evokes a cold winter evening, at least to me. I'm not a big Sting fan, but I've always liked this track.

Tribe, "Rescue Me"
Oh man. Tribe was the BEST Boston band of the early 90s for me. I highly suggest them to anyone. And of course every guy in Boston (including me) thought singer Janet LaValley was dead hot and had a damn sexy voice. It's a pity they never got huge. On the plus side, though...three of its members became part of a Cambridge-based software company and helped develop one of the most popular video games out there today.