The "Our Song" game

[Alice Macher]

While it's true that couples don't need a song (as Taylor Swift tells us), it's romantic when they do (unless it's something like "I Used to Love Her But I Had to Kill Her" by GNR). Like "At This Moment" for Alex and Ellen in Family Ties. *swoon*

So. This game is simple. Pick a P&A couple and tell us what "their song" is. It can be a canonical, already-existing couple, like Sara/Daphne or Jack/Katy-Ann; a canonical ex-couple like Stan/Brandi or Penny/Rich; or your preferred ship, be it serious like Penny/Aggie or Sara/Lucy, or cracky like Cyndi/Charlotte.

I'll start. My pick is for Agenny (big surprise there, Alice) and it's the Las' "There She Goes Again," specifically the cover version by Sixpence None the Richer.

There she goes, there she goes again
Racing through my brain
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains

There she goes, there she goes again
Pulsing through my veins
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains

[...]

There she goes again
She calls my name
Pulls my train
No one else could heal my pain
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains

<3 <3 <3 *Sigh* <3 <3 <3

[Damocles]

There she goes, there she goes again

When I was a kid I used to call that song "I'm in love with a clone". I thought it was hilarious. Sadly, no one else did.

For Agenny I want to choose some kind of Pat Benatar song, but really, lately, the song that fits them for me is Leonard Cohen's Waiting for the Miracle.

For mine though, my brain came up with more than a dozen, but I could only narrow it down to two:

Yeah, I know Fred/Daphne could never be together, but one song that really, really seems to fit their relationship is one of my very favorite songs of all time, Joe Satriani's Always With Me, Always With You.

And when I was looking through my mp3 folder just now, This song just jumped out and yelled Jack/Katy Ann: Warrant - Mr Rainmaker.

Ninja Edit: And damnit, I have to include this one too, though our dear, precious Yolanda gets her own song.

[Auspex]

While it's true that couples don't need a song (as Taylor Swift tells us), it's romantic when they do (unless it's something like "I Used to Love Her But I Had to Kill Her" by GNR). Like "At This Moment" for Alex and Ellen in Family Ties. *swoon*

So. This game is simple. Pick a P&A couple and tell us what "their song" is. It can be a canonical, already-existing couple, like Sara/Daphne or Jack/Katy-Ann; a canonical ex-couple like Stan/Brandi or Penny/Rich; or your preferred ship, be it serious like Penny/Aggie or Sara/Lucy, or cracky like Cyndi/Charlotte.

I'll start. My pick is for Agenny (big surprise there, Alice) and it's the Las' "There She Goes Again," specifically the cover version by Sixpence None the Richer.

There she goes, there she goes again
Racing through my brain
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains

There she goes, there she goes again
Pulsing through my veins
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains

[...]

There she goes again
She calls my name
Pulls my train
No one else could heal my pain
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains

<3 <3 <3 *Sigh* <3 <3 <3

Agenny --> Bless the Broken Road - Rascall Flatts

For any couple really, I just love the song --> More than a Memory - Garth Brooks
For any breakup --> Pray for You - Jaron and the Long Road to Love

[Now I am going to drop my head in shame do to my love of country ]

[TCampbell]

During the end of "This Is SO Babies," the Shortpacked breakup story I referenced here, I started hearing the strains of Coldplay's "When I Ruled The World."

[Freemage]

Brandi/Stan: What's Love Got To Do With It?, Whitney Houston
Katy-Ann/Jack: I Touch Myself, The Divinyls
Sara/Daphne (near future): Every Rose Has Its Thorn, Poison
And, because I'm a bad, bad man....
Nick/Marshall: A gender-tweaked Don't Stand So Close To Me, Sting

[Tundrabeast]

Recently, P&A romance makes me think of this song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Xtvj_JVSM

Don't ask me why, I have no idea ;{ That is one of my favourite ~nostalgiatunes though.

[Shadrach]

For Agenny: "If I Fell" by the Beatles, as covered by Evan Rachel Wood on the Across the Universe soundtrack. (The original is one of my favourite songs; I'm suggesting Wood's cover, which is lovely as well, specifically for the gender-matching.) Both Penny and Aggie have been hurt by the respective first loves of their lives, and both are, as we've just seen, still unsure about the whole "girls' love" thing. So as I see it, they're doubly-hesitant about taking that step and trusting each other. Lennon/McCartney's lyric captures that "I want to love you but I'm scared" feeling more poignantly than any other song I've heard.

It also would've been appropriate for Miharu and Makoto of Red String, before they finally got over their mutual hesitation (as Jennie Breeden put it in her parody guest strip: "I love you, but I can't, but I love you, but I can't...").

[Mr. Brightside]

I think I've already made my soundtrack pick for the moment when P&A put aside their differences, although now it seems more suited to the end of today's strip. That's the problem with that song; after a few days, it always seems more suited to someone else.

Actually, for the whole Agenny relationship, I'm going to go with Stairway.

Stan and Michelle, "Gallery Piece."
Duane and Charlotte, "Hallelujah." (Yes, that "Hallelujah.")
Rob and Lynda, "Once in a Lifetime."

[Azrael44]

Brandi/Stan: What's Love Got To Do With It?, Whitney Houston

*psst* that was Tina Turner


Lisa: Holding Out for a Hero - Bonnie Tyler

[sentora]

Agenny --> Bless the Broken Road - Rascall Flatts

For any couple really, I just love the song --> More than a Memory - Garth Brooks
For any breakup --> Pray for You - Jaron and the Long Road to Love

[Now I am going to drop my head in shame do to my love of country ]

Nah, Keep your head up, "Angels among us" and "Back to Pooh Corner" will always be favs of mine. These three have joined that
tiny list of country songs I like.

For my choices:

Jack/Katy Ann-Into the Night by Chad Kroger and Santana. Hearing it the other day made me picture Rich singing it at their
wedding reception. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAwYcX-Ym6k

Penny/Aggie- I see you by Mika http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkZJ1I1NBJs

Rich/Jack/Stan's Bromance-Burn it to the Ground by Nickelback. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8wSh_Eryv8

Stan/Brandi Coz I can by Ana Johnson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lAyTZzo96M

Lisa/Aggie Catch me if you can by Ana Johnson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHubynQaXek

Cyndi/Charlotte-I don't wanna stop by Ozzy Osborne http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgMPZ_GllHk

Michelle/Stan-They all fall down by SR-71 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM3AU6WYJ6c

Fred/Sara-Coming Clean by Hilary Duff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPnCOySQkH4

Marshall/Karen-I'm Horny by Mousse T. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGkHc11k ... re=related

A couple for Duane/Charlotte
(At Karen's party) Things I'll never say by Avril Lavigne http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqpWWMIsar8
(Before and During Cyndi/Charlotte) I want love by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_-rv2Es450
(5 Years later) Changed by You by Between the Trees. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EBbKNp-OwE

Sara/Cyndi-Furious Angels by Rob D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDi9OeJqwG4

Duane/Penny-A Little Less conversation(JunkieXL Remix) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx1_6F-nCaw

Marshall/Tharqa-Big Girl(You are beautiful) by Mika. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDSK91mUNLU

Aggie/Duane Carlos Santana ft. Seal-You Are My Kind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpIdQtA5 ... re=related

[sentora]

Duane and Charlotte, "Hallelujah." (Yes, that "Hallelujah.")

This is deliciously evil.

[Damocles]

Lisa: Holding Out for a Hero - Bonnie Tyler

Oh god, when I was a kid that was my favorite song in the world. I used to throw it in my walkman, jump on my three-wheeler ATV and tear off through the back fifty imagining that heroic things were being done.

[Azrael44]

Jack and Katy-Ann: Forever in Blue Jeans - Neil Diamond

[Papuasblya]

Rich and Penny -- Uptown Girl, Billy Joel
Stan and Michelle -- It Ain't Me Babe, Bob Dylan (him) and Tu Es Fouti, In-Grid (her)
Jack and Katy-Ann -- Big Ten Inch, Aerosmith
Penny and Aggie -- Before they do it, Uncertain Smile by The The, and after they do it, All the Things She Said, by t.a.T.U. (the English version)
Daphne and Sara -- All the Things She Said (the Russian version, aka Я сошла с ума)
Mr. and Mrs. Levac -- Squeezebox, the Who
Nick and Charisma -- Sledgehammer, Peter Gabriel
Stan and Brandi -- Fooled Around And Fell In Love, Elvin Bishop
Sara and Cyndi -- Protect Me From What I Want, Placebo
Stan and Cyndi -- Hanky Panky, Madonna
Marshall and Karen -- Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up, Frank Zappa
Duane and Charlotte -- Everyone associates (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding by Elvis Costello with them, although the two of them would both choose This Is My Song, words by Lloyd Stone, music by Jan Sibelius
Bob, Elmer and Helen -- Let's Do Something Cheap and Superficial, Burt Reynolds
Brandi and Omar -- Brown Sugar, Rolling Stones
Lisa and ? -- Praan, the Gary Schyman arrangement

[dare]

Since the Valentine's Day strip I've heard Night after Night by The Sounds playing whenever I think of our heroines.

Night after night you say you move on
tomorrow, tomorrow
Now, what's holding you back?
I don't know, I don't know

(Hello forum. Occasional lurker, avid P&A reader since oh gawds I'm old waah.)