is this music?

Riding the train home from work (sent home early because of a lingering, horrible-sounding cold), I made a startling realisation: the males I find most interesting are music-centric. I know. This is shocking.

When I hear certain songs, I'm immediately thrown back into the male-related situations of the time. EMF, Pop Will Eat Itself, Stone Roses... highschool boyfriend. The Cure, Blur, Curve, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Smiths, The Breeders... these remind me of the guy who was an asshole the year we were together. King Apparatus, another. Twee entirely covered by one person. Any twee song I hear I think of him, as well as the Pixies, Atari Teenage Riot, Le Mans, and DC punk. If a guy friend doesn't like music it's harder to have conversations for long because I've got nothing much else to talk about. It's my fallback.

Case in point: the last guy I dated didn't seem particularly into any music I would ever listen to (new country... seriously) and I grew to resent him because we had nothing to talk about (and he was a bit of an asshat). Now, however, well after things ended, he wants to go to shows with me. I find this hilarious. And I'm dubious.

(You get cred with me if you know who sang the title song.)