It’s interesting how much the songs in my Zune say about me. Most of them have been added one by one, each with a complete story behind it. Recently I randomized the songs on my Zune and took the top 20. These are the basic stories (without all the explanation of feelings and emotions behind them).

Green=Normal | Ornage=Really good song | Blue=Really good song and personal kinda | Purple = Personal kinda

1. The Memory of Trees – Eh, it’s a song by Enya, my mom’s favorite composer and the music’s actually not that bad, I have sheet music for this. No story behind this one.
2. Water Voices (Help you sleep) – Just a bunch of water sounds, I don’t really like it all that much. Calming but again no story (random must hate me xD). Also by Enya
3. The Demon and the Banshee - A Newgrounds song I liked, most Newgrounds songs especially have stories behind them and were all added one by one as I find songs I really like. Lots of piano, nice moving tune, but this one has no particular story either.
4. Humanity – This title spoke volumes to me when I first saw it and still does. The composer, Justin R. Durban, I think has the best songs on my mp3. They’re interesting, when you first listen to them, there’s so few notes and it’s so quiet, it’s like “ho hum” but they kinda grow on you and when you listen to them more you discover new things. Even the ones that have seemingly no notes at all I find myself really liking. His songs have all the details of movie music, and that makes sense because many of them are written for movies. I used the piano part of this song in our Romania PhotoStory at school. Edgen, his website, also has the most amazing layout, I’ve ever seen, apparently he’s very gifted in many ways and you should definitely go visit it (:
5. Primavera – Spring, who doesn’t love it? Nothing particular about this song except it’s by Ludovido Einaudi, who I’ll talk about below.
6. Lux Aeterna – Um, where to start? I guess I can’t really explain everything behind this song, I’ll sum it up in two words. Justin Wenske. He first played it at the summer band party and told me the name when I asked and I actually remembered the spelling all the way home so I could get the piano music. After that, everything else about this song is basically memories. Good ones that I’d like to keep.
7. Nuvole Bianche – Hunter actually found the composer Ludovico Einaudi for me during the summer when I was transitioning into high school, kinda in an attempt to show me he could find music I liked. This particular song he commented on saying he really liked it.
8. Shining Smile – Yiruma, the first composer I really liked and found sheet music for and went on Limewire and found all his songs. His songs were the first songs on my first mp3 player. No particular story for this song.
9. Lazy Days – Enya, one of the songs that I can actually understand the lyrics of
10. Time Forgets – See above on Yiruma, nothing new here.
11. Solitude – Nice song, David Nevue’s a good piano player. Nothing else to say.
12. Do you – This was one of the first 7 or so songs that I had on my first mp3 player. I pretty much listened to it thousands of times then (I really listened to the same 7 songs over and over for a really long time). Alex Ortega has this on his [Ipod?] xD. I have sheet music to this too.
13. Where Eagles Soar – Found this song while looking for Jennifer Thomas songs. No story, next!
14. Change of Heart – Hm, Jim Brickman song, I like his piano playing and songs with lyrics. I don’t like that many songs with lyrics so that’s saying something. Nothing particular about this song.
15. Sundial Dreams – Found this song while looking for the Forrest Gump song (which I can play on piano xD), isn’t it interesting what I find when I’m not looking for them?
16. Il Fiume – Result of many Ludovido songs being added.
17. Congratulations Everyone – Matt sent it to me once and it ended up on my Zune (very efficient file gatherer thingy they have xD) It’s short and happy so I kept it there, defies all laws of the songs I listen to though so it stands out. Go torrent it if you want to hear the mp3. I can’t find it on the web right now.
18. Giorni Dispari – My favorite Ludovido Einaudi song. I played this at my last recital. Surprised everyone probably who was expecting me to burst out in another classical piece. Kinda symbolic of me changing and not playing harder songs but playing nonclassical songs… well and with emotion? Something like that
19. Moonlit Techno – Milkman_dan’s only techno song, I’m sad more of his songs didn’t come out on the random 20. He is my favorite Newgrounds composer, has a good singing voice and puts emotion into his songs. His songs tell me their story and also aren’t all… professional? Just by the way they’re put together, which only makes them better. His songs are great.
20. Home – Another David Nevue song=soothing piano.