Surely there is no key
which has no sharps and no flats? Granted, C doesn't have a flat (not counting B natural), but C# is alive and well. As for starting things from C rather than A...well, I don't really know. I do wonder if it's an artifact of wind or brass instruments (e.g., for an Eb sax / clarinet / trumpet, an A played on that is a C on other instruments) - I'm really clutching at straws.

As for songs...it depends if you mean the music itself or the sentimental attachments. Satie's 2eme Gymnopedie and Debussy's Premiere Arabesque bring a lump to my throat because we played them at my grandmother's funeral a few months ago, and again at my uncle's a month or so after that.

For the music itself, on the other hand, I find if I'm feeling angry, it's got to be Bargain by The Who (or a live version of Amazing Journey/Sparks). If I'm sad...'Til I Die by the Beach Boys or Time by Tom Waits.

Or if I'm in need of a laugh, nothing picks me up like the childish entertainment of I take a look at my enormous penis by Da Vinci's Notebook.

I would rather be a strawberry. This would at least allow for the possibility that I meant end up in a bowl in the front row of seats at a tennis match, in a perfect position to enjoy the arse of the ball girl. (Could backfire, of course, if I were not so advantageously positioned and just had to watch the fucking tennis instead.)
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 22:31, Reply)