Marigold
Posted: January 7, 2009 Filed under: Of Mice and Men 2 CommentsIn case you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m kind of odd.
To me, songs are very linked to colors. A while ago (like 3 years) I decided to make several compilations of songs that I felt were roughly the same color. Yes, I know it sounds strange.
May I present: marigold.
1 Matchbox 20 – Shame
2 Norah Jones – Carnival Town
3 Enya – Smaointe
4 Jim Brickman – Sweet Dreams
5 Kenny Chesney – Anything But Mine
6 Foo Fighters – Aurora
7 Hans Zimmer, from Gladiator – Now We Are Free
8 Barenaked Ladies – Light Up My Room
9 Joao Gilberto – La Chica de Ipanema
10 Enya – Afer Ventus
11 The Cranberries – Dreams
12 The Bee Gees – How Deep is Your Love
13 Sting – Fields of Gold
14 The Beatles – In My Life
15 Amos Lee – Colors
16 Stroke 9 – Tail of the Sun
Obviously (ha ha ha) this is imperfect – Dreams and How Deep is Your Love are both more blue-green-teal than marigold, so they really don’t belong here at all; In My Life is totally white; Colors is hard to categorize, for obvious reasons; and Tail of the Sun is a bit more orangey-red than marigold. But I’m happy with it for now.
What have you learned about me and my taste in music from this?
Oh yes. I’m quite odd.
Jarom
Mika
hilleries 
I actually don’t think that’s all that odd. If I think about it, I can see exactly what you mean. I think ‘In My Life’ definitely qualifies as a shade of gold for me, but not quite as bright as marigold- more burnished. ‘Fields of Gold’ and ‘Tail of the Sun’ fit right in with marigold. ‘Colors’ is a bluish-mauve, I think. But ‘Dreams’ is interesting because it’s actually cotton candy, and comes in both pink and blue. Maybe sort of swirled. Certainly light and happy.
The rest of the songs I don’t think I’ve heard… oh, wait! ‘How Deep is Your Love’ was one of the songs my neurotic coworker played over and over… ick. Not a good color for that one.
That’s my view on the whole thing. I could probably organize my entire collection into colors if I thought about it. It’s fun to see you do this.
Hmm…Um….Okay…
Do you two associate numbers with colors too? I’ve heard of that before.
I just tried to match a song to a color but I can’t. Bummer.