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Song 28, Colour Haze – Tempel.

I’ve been putting this one off for a while now, because quite frankly I don’t know if any music makes me feel particularly guilty. I suppose the intention in this task is to see if there’s any music that causes a memory recall for something bad you did. But I’m struggling to think of one. I suppose there’s the old chestnuts of songs that ‘belonged’ to a particular relationship or another, one where you perhaps acted badly, and have some remorse about. But as I believe every single one of the ladies who have crossed my path over the course of my life will testify, I am fundamentally the greatest living human being, and have nothing in my past love lives to feel guilty about. *ahem*

I’m kind of counting on none of them reading that last part, obviously. But still, the point holds, there’s no particular piece of music that can suddenly produce a wave of guilt over my past behaviour. I have a certain moments of remorse, or regret, but none of them have a soundtrack that I can particularly pinpoint. So I’m back to scratching my head. I was watching the X Factor (yes, yes, I know, bad me) over the weekend and they were doing songs that were ‘guilty’ choices, but this just seemed to mean 80’s pop music. I don’t really like 80’s pop music either, so no ground there. And besides, we’ve already had a ‘guilty pleasure’ song.

This is all rather exhausting. I’m sitting here trying to go through every single this I have guilt about in my life and seeing if it has a song attached to it, and none of them do. But then I’ve thought about them and felt a bit guilty in that way that raking over past regrets will make you feel. To top it all off I have work that I should be doing, coursework for my uni course, and a novel to write. So now I feel guilty about not doing any of that.

Hang on a second.

Writing this blog post is making me feel guilty, and I’m listening to music right now, so…yeah, ok, it’s a cop out. Not so much a song that makes me feel guilty as a ‘song I’m listening to right now while feeling guilty.’ That’ll do. You all understand that this is the ultimate cop out and just a way of putting up a cool video I found on YouTube and you’re not going to judge me, right? Excellent. Well in that case please be upstanding for the wonderful Colour Haze. This is a video I found of the band playing at what has to be the ultimate stoner rock venue, and makes me damn jealous for not being there.

Two to go.