Assignment 23: Mark O'Brien

I will start off by saying I thoroughly enjoy all types of music besides some heavy metal.  It just hurts my ears.  Because I enjoy such a wide variety of songs I will just make a playlist from songs that I associate with fond memories.

1. Red Hot Chili Peppers- Dani California
 If you have never heard this song you are doing something wrong.  The Red Hot Chili Peppers are probably my favorite band.  I have known all of the words to this song since the song came out in the Stadium Arcadium album.  I spent many hours with my brothers playing rockband when it came out.  Dani California ended up being on the game.  There is not any other time i have been more happy than singing that song on expert and getting a 100%.

2. 50 Cent- Candy Shop
  Yes, this song is very inappropriate and the entire thing is talking about things that I am not allowed to talk about on here, but a kindergartner doesn't understand the meanings.  To me they were just any old lollipops.  So I went into school after learning the entire song as a result of having older siblings who were listening.  I sang the entire song to my kindergarten teacher Mrs. Wilmuth.  She loved me and my singing/rapping brought her to tears.  Yes they were tears of laughter because a kindergarten boy was singing this song to her, but I took it that I was truly talented.

3. Ricky Martin- Lo Mejor de mi Vida Eres Tu
 Do you know Peter Kirk?  If so you will understand.  Pete plays on the golf team with me, and we spend pretty much every day during the summer playing golf.  Well one day we heard this song and decided it was the team song.  No one else on the team really knows it, but Pete and I know every word.  Classic.

4. Benny Benassi 'Cinema' (Skrillex Remix)
  I first heard this song in seventh grade.  My brothers showed it to me, and at the time dubstep music was on the rise.  No one at my school really had ever heard dubstep music, so I was the one who had the privilege of enlightening them.  At first no one liked it.  Its okay they were all squares at the time. After about a year I had the majority of my friends listening to this type of electronic music.  Even though I don't listen to the heavy dubstep such as this song much anymore I still appreciate it.  Now I like more chill progressive electronic music which my peers are skeptical about, but don't worry they will come around.  They always do.

5. Afroman- Colt 45
  This song is extremely explicit.  That being said I listened to it very often last year in english class with McKenna and Charlie sometimes while playing fireboy and watergirl (Behler didn't always condone it, but Charlie and I have a true gift for the game).   Classic.  Just tonight the entire Academy group me was connected in a bonding moment through this one of a kind song.