Shiur'im Sha'rim

It seems the thing to do here is to slightly invert the post that has gone before, qua 'Being a soulless scientismist, I am less aware of music. Consequently, I've decided to take Pete's concept in a bit of a different direction.' and 'I was going to hop on the waggon train and do my own songs of the year, but there was a slight problem...' And as I am of the opinion that I read far too much academic writing to have any time for originality, it would seem appropriate to do the same, so I intend to list a few milestone songs: you know, tracks that signify musical moments, significant eras, wotnot.
Pre-University (because everything now can be divided into pre-University, before real life began and university - there not being a post-uni era as yet) Fool on the Hill, by the Beatles. Yeah, it's hard being the only literate resident of your council estate... My parents were of the appropriate generation, and on the right side of the mods-rocker divide to furnish my brother and I with a childhood soundtrack that consisted largely of Beatles LP's. So, when it came to the '90's, I'm proud to say that I eschewed the saccharine pop of preference amongst my peers and chose a healthy diet of Brit-pop. And now, there's nothing like Blur, Pulp... not Coldplay.... to evoke memories of fun and sunny Britishness, when Labour had just come into power and it was the era of the working man. How things change. Early university years, Morrissey, hence Nathan's designation in the 'No F in 'Acebook Group', which I can't link to...stinky. Miserable, poetic and ever so slightly militant vegetarian. These days I go for big sounds, be it of the obvious big band Jools Holland variety, good indie-pop (Feeling, Kooks, Rundown - a lesser known band from the mean streets of Brum - all the way back to the Strokes, the Clash, the Jam and Madness) or the 1812 overture. The era of the pod-cast has increasingly pigeon holed my music listening into that what I listen to when I need to make life feel alive and jumpy, as opposed to filling empty sound, as was my wont. Sorry guys, the allure of 'ask the priest.com' and 'Jewish podcast weekly' is just too strong. I also listen to an enormous amount of Israeli music, partly to keep my Hebrew ticking over, but also to support those great musicians who are trying to break down barriers in Israeli society, Idan Raichel being one that you might have heard of.
As for a soundtrack to Canada, last term it was 'Float on' by Modest Mouse: a really great 'go on, go to school, things will be better once you don't live with a weirdo' track. Now however, I'm sitting in my new living room, watching the snow fall, to the effect of instant prettiness - maybe the track for this semester is something by Teddy Thompson.

And you know that every female who read Little Women at an impressionable age has a secret desire to meet a guy called 'Teddy.'