High Five

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List 5 songs you like that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

sarcaustick's choice was 'F', so in no particular order:

• The Cure - Friday I'm in Love
  Some people consider this single to be one of The Cure's weakest ones, but I still like it and never get bored of hearing it. The album 'Wish', where it comes from, reminds me of being 18 in Hong Kong, falling in love with my best friend (who adored The Cure), wearing baggy T-shirts with Robert Smith's face (I still have one of them, which I use as a pyjama top), having long hair and just generally being a clueless teenager.
  
• Belly - Feed the Tree
  I immediately fell in love with this song when I first heard it on Hong Kong's MTV channel. This is another track that reminds me of being in high school, sunny afternoons when we'd go to Repulse Bay Beach or Stanley Market after class, listening to my walkman on the bus ride home, watching the merchant ships circling Hong Kong island from my bedroom window. Belly were everything I wanted from America that didn't involve grunge. The song still sounds great today.
  
• Gene - For the Dead
  Gene were one of my favourite bands from the Britpop period. They ticked all the Morrissey-influence boxes, but they were mellower, less bitter than Le Moz. I wrote some dodgy poetry for a high school creative class based on one of their songs. I showed it to my girlfriend and her best friend and they claimed I was a great poet. Now I know they were just humoring me. When I moved to Montreal to attend university, they played a gig that was virtually empty. We sat at a table right by the stage and it felt as if the band were playing just for us. The drummer stared at me the whole night and gave me the creeps.
  
• Visage - Fade to Grey
  During my first year of university, I became friends with a group of Canadians who weren't too keen on Britpop. They preferred the B-52's, The Violent Femmes, Beastie Boys, and other music that had never floated past my orbit before. One weekend night, we discovered a club called Lezards, on Rue Saint-Denis, that played only new wave and old-style punk. The clientele were mostly older folk in 80s fashion, strung out on drugs, or queer alternative kids. It was heaven. I lost interest on Britpop and fell head-over-heels in love with the bleepy side of the 80s.
  
• The Sugababes - Freak Like Me
  During my first years in London, I listened to the radio a lot. I didn't know many people, and because Kevin worked at a comic book shop during the weekends, I'd sit in our kitchen logged into Livejournal, wasting my time on LJdrama.org until he came home from work. I remember hearing this song for the first time on Xfm and being completely blown away by its pop knowingness and perfection.