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From the guys who would eventually do the flash/song/meme Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me. You know all that fate/destiny stuff that fascinates me? Well this song is an entertaining way of saying the kind of same thing, and the strange way of dramatic irony. I.e. how the bullied geek ends up a multi-millionaire witha super-model girlfriend, or how the big shots at school go...the other way. It takes a few listens to get the gist of the song, but it's an funny take on how the singer tells the tale of the jock at school who the narrator can see later in life, with the woman he's with shouting "Greg, The Stop Sign!" In how he'll get in a car crash. And that. Plus I really love the lyrics sampled above.

This was a song that I easily would've said was my favourite song of all time a few years ago...but when other songs appeared this lowered down a bit. But as a song, it also is linked to a few times in my life as well. As well as it being a reminder of late primary school years (since that's when I heard it first) it is also a song that I listen to in times of grief. It fits the whole theme of the song, which the group wrote after their mentor Eazy-E died. Listened to it a lot when my grandad died.

And if ANYONE mentions THAT FUCKING BLAZIN' SQUAD COVER I WILL DESTORY THEM.

Whilst not a song with many emotional ties, it's a song that I've been listening too all my life and has ALWAYS been there. The beat was sampled in the Puff Daddy song about Biggie Smalls (which became one of the songs which strangely soundtracked my leaving of primary school). But it's just also one of those songs that makes me feel kind of happy. Which, when you stop and think about it, is quite weird since the song is about stalking someone who's just dumped you.

Some songs are just bitchy like that.

The above youtube link is for the demo version of the song. I couldn't find the album version.

This song is pretty much my theme tune. Seriously. Some lines hint to things that may not relate to me personally, but gosh dammit the majority of the lyrics are so damn relatable. Trying to choose lyrics for the above extract was incredibly, incredibly difficult. Without getting into too much detail, there's images in the song which reflect things that I've experienced. And I got to hear this song live as well. I was right next to the right speaker stack and it was all distorted and couldn't hear anything for three days afterwards - but still enjoyed it.

Any song that comes on during my car, this is probably the one that is most likely to get me to cause a traffic accident. I can't think of any song that physically causes me to phase out into the song for it's duration. This song has a hold on me, it has been involved in several points in my life, the nature of the song and what it's about actually has a lot in common with a very important moment in my life (actually one of the worst) - which is a night with several matters of importance. But it also appears to be played during other nights out, which weren't as bad.

Different groups of people have had different experiences with me due to this song. From the afforementioned moment which is quite similar to what the song is about (though I don't think the song was out then), to the times it showed up during The Only Club In Walsall (to which a multitude of different events occurred), to it's appearance at staff events and the resultant legacies, to the moments where it's actually been around positive events. The positives do outweigh some of the negatives as despite it's subject manner reminding me of things, it has been there all the while as the years have passed - as a reminder and reflection on how much I've changed through those years. Including being pushed into a television and hitting the back of my head in Stafford to this.

There's the person I was, the person I am, and the person I hope to one day be. I'm not the person I want to be yet, as I feel there are some things that need to happen first - but I can predict that somehow this song will still be in the background, phasing me out and working it's hold over me.

It's this emotional resonance that this song has, and it's presence throughout my life post the age of 18; that means it's number 1.