Ginger Pixie Jams: The Ultimate Pixie Jam

Ginger Pixie Jams: The Ultimate Pixie Jam: Alexandra's A - Z Songbook.     An insight into the Ginger Pixie's Jam...  I created a music challenge to test my knowledge, see how I got on and maybe even have a go at the tag yourself!

The Ultimate Pixie Jam

Alexandra's  A - Z Songbook

An insight into the Ginger Pixie's Jam... 

I want to try something a bit different as I've never seen this on a blog post before and I thought it would be fun to give myself a musical challenge, seeing as music is one of my biggest passions!

 The task is to compose an alphabetical songbook relating to song title to test my knowledge of music and to see what different genres and artists I end up with at the end. I know this sounds easy but to make the task more of a challenge I have come up with some rules in order to give myself a score out of 52 at the end:

 The goal is to write a song title relating to the letter and including the artist without looking anything up! If I can't think of the artist then I must pick a different song and I can not use the same artist again. At the end, I will give myself a score with one point for both the title and artist. If some letters are impossible to complete then I will leave them blank and will not receive a point for each which may affect my final score. At the end I will give a general overview of which letters were the hardest and for the ones I have left blank I will then allow anyone reading this to leave a comment in the description below suggesting what I could put. 

Let's get on with the challenge...

   A: All The Small Things -  Blink 182

   B: Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival

   C: Californiacation - Red Hot Chilli Peppers 

   D: Dance The Night Away - The Mavericks

   E: Every Time We Say Goodbye - Ella Fitzgerald

   F: Forever Autumn - Justin Haywood (The Moody Blues)

   G: Gracias A La Vida - Joan Baez

   H: Hotel California - The Eagles

   I: I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby - Alison Krauss & The Union Station

  J: Justice & Mercy - Flyleaf

  K: Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer

  L: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles

  M: Mambo Italiano - Rosemary Clooney

  N: Nightmare - Avenged Sevenfold

  O: Orinoco Flow - Enya

  P: Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix

  Q: Que Sera Sera - Doris Day

  R: Riders On The Storm - The Doors

  S: Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits

  T: Tourniquet - Evanescence

  U: Uptown Girl - Billy Joel

  V: Vincent - Don McLean

  W: Walk On By - Dionne Warwick

  X: 

  Y: Yours Is No Disgrace - Yes

  Z: Zombie - The Cranberries

So, that was my A-Z Songbook challenge, leaving me with a total of 50/52. Not bad! I always knew that 'X' would be the problem letter, so I invite anyone who reads this to come up with a song title and artist for 'X' and post it in the comments section! Overall, this challenge has done what I hoped it would do and shown me that I have quite a wide-ranging taste when it comes to music and I don't like to limit myself to one genre, after all, variety is the spice of life and all that jazz! Excuse the pun!

"I hope this blog has been a bit different and I challenge anyone reading this to put themselves to the test and take my 'A-Z Songbook' tag and maybe you will surprise yourself with your musical knowledge. I would love to hear from anyone who completes the tag!"

Ginger Pixie love 

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"But what are you going to do with that degree...?"

I attempt to answer the question that Classic's students dread...

"But what are you going to do with that degree...?"

As a Classics student in my final year of university this is a frequently asked question that I receive more and more regularly on the run up to final exams and graduation. I don't know if it is out of genuine curiosity or more so a question subtly masked with disdain that is aimed to extract a more "worthy" response. For me, this question is automatically met with an internal eye-roll, while I smile and try to come up with a valid justification for why I chose my degree and politely inform them that "No, Classics is ancient history and literature not music!"  

I'm going to put out a small disclaimer at this junction. I do not wish to generalise what may be the case for every Classics student because I understand that this may not be so, but these opinions are from my personal experience and from what I have been told from some other Classics students as well. 

In fact from my understanding, this question is not only limited to Classics but to other Humanities students as well. I find it hard to fathom why in this day and age, where the majority of us have the choice of numerous disciplines to choose from and endless possibilities ahead of us that this question can make those who have studied English or Classics or History inadequate to those who may have studied Economics or Sciences. 

And I'm here to say that this, should not be the case. As a 3rd year student, I voluntarily made the decision to go to university and expand my knowledge on a subject that's quite frankly, awesome, as well as take in as much life experience along the way as possible. And I would like to think I'm not alone in thinking that? I'm sure many of you would agree that as Classics or Humanities students over our 3 year degree we have worked just as hard on multiple topics, done just as many presentations and had just as many essays or dissertation deadlines as anyone else. So there is no need to feel inadequate or disheartened with our choice and there are just as many career avenues for us to go down because we have proven that we can research and work independently on an array of topics, speak our minds in presentations, produce work to specific deadlines and to a degree standard and turn up to lectures on time with horrendous hangovers! My point being, that ultimately your discipline doesn't define your career because your degree has proven that you have had the self-control to master all these basic skills that will be relevant in any industry.

So with that being said, I feel I should say, Good luck to every student graduating this Summer, I'm sure you'll go far! And if anyone ever asks you that question again, your response should be;

 "J.K. Rowling did Classics and look where she is now!"  

And for the Classics nerds like me, I shall leave you with the ever-lasting wit of Monty Python! 'What have the Romans ever done for us?'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9foi342LXQE

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