Memory Tapes: Here’s To Nature And Fate And All That Good Stuff, Baby

Memory Tapes is the part of the show where you, the enthuastic, amazing listener, tells us of a time of times that were important in their lives and share the soundtrack. And on this Valentine's Day, what better tape to have then one about falling in love and creating a famiy. And remember, we always want your memories and tracklists to lauren.6music@bbc.co.uk. Here's Robin Priday's tape:

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I had a weird dream about going into a cafe and going up to the counter to see what I’d like to eat. On offer under the glass countertop were two plates: sausage and spaghetti in the shape of David Byrne’s face, the other of David Bowie’s. They looked amazing, to the point where Bowie had one blue and one brown eye.

I’ve been having loads of crazy dreams lately, which isn’t surprising I suppose, as I’m due to have a baby in July…. no.3. Three is the lucky number, apparently!

With this in mind, I’ve based my memory tape on the time when I was expecting our first child, having been ‘trying’ for so many years to start a family of our own and wondering whether we’d ever have kids.

I made this playlist in spring 2009 to play while I was in labour, not having a clue that the last thing I’d be interested in doing was hearing some ‘greatest hits’ while on gas and air!

No one is more surprised than me and my other half that we are now, five years, later, expecting a third little person into our lives. Well maybe a few doctors.

Here’s To Nature And Fate And All That Good Stuff, Baby

A few songs from the film ‘Juno’ – our four year old is named Juno... and it was filmed in Canada, where I’m from.

1. All I want is you – Barry Louis Polisar

2. My rollercoaster – Kimya Dawson [on Juno soundtrack]

3. Anyone elase but you – the moldy peaches

Juno’s middle name is Clementine, and this piece of music is from the scene in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind where they have all this hope and anticipation… kind of like wondering what a new baby will bring…

4. Bookstore – Jon Brion – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind soundtrack

I really like Bill Callahan (my little boy is called Marvin Callahan). This song is ridiculously sad but also full of life, and it leaves you wondering who’s really free. And some Marv, in deference…

5. River Guard – Smog

6. Got to give it up, part 1 – Marvin Gaye

It’s about a waiting room… and I was pregnant…

7. Waiting room – Fugazi

Another sad one, but everytime I hear the opening lines ‘When I’m at the pearly gates, this’ll be on my videotape’, I start to well up and think about the time when I met my kids for the first time. And I think of the film ‘Afterlife’ [Japanese], which is about dead people not being able to go to the afterlife until they’ve compiled a short film of the best moment of their life, which they get to take with them.

8. Videotape – Radiohead

I listened to this a lot – the lyrics are beautiful.

9. Lakes of Canada – Innocence Mission

I love this man, so there’s many of his songs on my playlist, but here’s one of my faves – it means a lot to me and my other half and for anyone trying to stay creative in life, it is just so true… ‘I’m just a little dot in a great big pot’… etc.

10. Don’t let the record label take you out to lunch – Jeffrey Lewis

Water and swimming – and night-time just makes it even better.

11. Nightswimming – REM

Reminds me of moving from Canada to London – from a small town to a metropolis, in the late 90s. And the loop takes me back to being about 17.

12. Pop a Cap in Yo Ass – Ben Watt, feat. Estelle

Just greatness…

13. Roybgiv – Boards of Canada

I love the film Rushmore, I love Cat Stevens and I love this.

14. Here comes by baby – Cat Stevens

You played this not long back and I went ‘arrgh!’, but I can’t not put it in here.

15. Don’t think twice, it’s all rright – Bob Dylan

I sang on this, in my living room, with a cold but my voice still would have been a bit rubbish – it’s what they wanted. It’s my good friend’s band and when he was just starting out many years ago, I had to pretend to be in his band (along with my dog and his girlfriend) for some photos for a Jockey Slut interview (and this year I met the guy who did the interview and got to tell him it was all a big sham! – small world)…

16. Hold your terror close – The Go Team!

I’m 40 – many folk in this bracket probably hold a certain affection for this one. Nillson might be a middle name for no.3.

17. Me and my arrow – Harry Nillson

I do really like the Nico version of this song, but this one tops it. The lyrics are fantastic and I think Jackson Browne was really young when he wrote them, which is hard to believe. I got to work on a tiny independent (everyone working for free) short film in Jackson Browne’s grandpa’s house in LA once. It was magical.

18. These days – Kathryn Williams

Bonnie Prince Billy is just lovely.

19. Bed is for sleeping – Matt Sweeney and Bonnie Prince Billy – Superwolf

I did have a dream about David Byrne’s spaghetti head… and this takes me back to all sorts of lovely memories – too many to list!

20. This must be the place (naïve melody) – Talking Heads

Juno was born on Sunday morning.

21. Sunday morning – Velvet Underground

Built to spill always remind me of my first real ‘date’ with my other half, who was my flatmate in a houseshare. He borrowed our landlady’s car to get from Brixton to Streatham and we saw the film ‘Road Trip’, which cemented our relationship, as we both ashamedly loved it. This song wasn’t actually on the soundtrack, but it’s about a car, and I think the band was on the soundtrack.

22. Car – Built to Spill

Back to spaghetti faces… and this song was given to me as part of a memory tape in 1995.

23. Five years – David Bowie

Partner said not to make this too ‘womb-y’, so… it’s the suede / denim secret police!

24. California uber alles – Dead Kennedys

Here’s the rest – I’m out of words!

25. Smells like teen spirit – Patti Smith

26. U-Mass – Pixies

27. Ex.Con – Smog [if River Guard is too morose]

28. Saturday – Sparklehorse [you are the car, you are the hospital…]

29. One Great City! – the Weakerthans [this is exactly what it’s like to be Canadian]

30. Because the night – Patti Smith

31. Almost anything from ‘Have one on me’ from Joanna Newsom or Sufjan Stevens"