I’ve been feeling pretty nostalgic lately. I’ve been thinking about my ‘teenage’ years quite often over the last couple of weeks. I’m guessing it has something to do with missing people like Jess who’s busy pretending to study over in New Zealand, Jemma who lives all the way over in Adelaide and Melanie who’s currently gallivanting around UK/Europe. I think it could also have something to do with the fact its only now just hit me that I’m really 22 and most definitely an adult. I can’t even pretend to be a kid any more.

Anyway, there is a point to the rambling prelude, I promise! I’ve put myself together a playlist of music that defines my teenage years and reminds me of some of my most important memories from growing up. I just thought I’d share a couple of them with you. :)

• Ben Folds – There’s Always Someone Cooler Than You.
  I might just get up and dance
  Or buy some acid-wash pants
  When you don’t care then you got nothing to lose

  You could say this song was (and still is) my philosophy.

• Counting Crows – Mr. Jones
  I will paint my picture
  Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
  All of the beautiful colours are very very meaningful

  This particular song reminds me of teenage sleepovers and staying up all night.

• Everclear – Wonderful
  I just don’t understand how
  You can smile with all those tears in your eyes 

  This is the song that helped me through some of my toughest ‘emo’ teenage issues. This song was so important to me, that when me and a couple of my closest friends buried a box of treasures, my contributions included the lyrics to this song.

• The Postal Service – Such Great Heights
  That the freckles in our eyes are mirror images
  And when we kiss they’re perfectly aligned

  Mine & the boy’s ‘song’.

• Incubus – Warning
  Those left standing will make millions
  writing books on the way it should have been.

  Long nights alone, just me and my computer.

• Machine Gun Fellatio – Unsent Letters
  I’m spendin’ all my time driving round fakin clever
  With a girl who seems all right and another one who’s better
  I don’t know if I lied when I said we’re not together
  But I try to talk to you, and some how you seem gone……
  

  This song reminds me of the first boy I ever truely cared about.

• Spoon – The Way We Get By
  We go out in stormy weather
  We rarely practice discern
  We make love to some with sin
  We seek out the taciturn
  

  This song just reminds me of learning to drive and lazy summer school days.

• Cat Stevens – Father and Son
  Its not time to make a change,
  Just sit down, take it slowly.
  Youre still young, thats your fault,
  Theres so much you have to go through.

  This song reminds me of my Dad. Me and my little sister use to listen to it on repeat for hours at a time.