Music Minute: An Assignment

Hi y'all! I hope you are enjoying your summer. I hope for everyone's sake you are not out getting sunburned or accidentally bleaching your hair orange or running the lawn mower over your mom's nice flower beds or scratching up Dad's car. :)

This time for Music Minute, I have an assignment for y'all. I know it's summer, so I promise this won't take long — but hopefully you'll enjoy it.

Back in the day, my friends and I used to have a lot of conversations about our 'desert island' music. (I seriously hope people still do this.) The question was something like: If you were stranded on a desert island, possibly for the rest of your life, what music would you want to have with you? Whatever the person listed said a lot about their interests and what was important to them. Sometimes we'd limit it to ten songs, or ten albums.

What I want you to do today is write up a list of YOUR top-10 all-time desert-island songs. You can do your 10 all-time best, 10 that you love right now, 10 from each of the last 3 years, or if you're feeling really ambitious, make your list as long as you'd like. They can be worship songs, classical music, pop music, rock-and-roll, secular music, a song your mom used to sing to you when you were little, or anything else that moves you.

But—and that's the key—each song has to be an important one to you. Was it playing on one of the best days of your life? Does it make you happy every time you hear it? Is it a certain type of music that you just plain love?

Someday you'll think back, and high school will be a complete blur. You'll remember very little (I promise). So take a few minutes to write out your personal soundtrack. Put a date on it and stash it somewhere you'll remember it, like a yearbook or a keepsake box. When your musical tastes change a little, make a new list. Someday, you can read your list again. You might laugh at what you liked, or your might discover an album you used to love and put it on like a comfy old sweater. It will take you back.

You can post your list in the comments section or on our Facebook page. We promise not to laugh—or at least not laugh very much. :o) Make a list of the music you care about, and share it with us if you like.