Five Songs to Mentally Prepare you for Raisin

Maybe you’re feeling excited, apprehensive, or just plain terrified. Never fear! The Stand is offering you their top five songs to mentally prepare for the funniest/strangest weekend of your St. Andrews experience.

1. Receipt – Lil Wayne

Parental expectations can sometimes feel overwhelming. You want to return their affection, and earn their respect, but sometimes it feels like they’re asking too much of you. Particularly when they’re asking you to schlep a four-seater sofa (and its Latin tag) halfway across town. At times like this, you need emotional support and guidance. At times like this, you need Lil Wayne.

“I gotta hold on, hold on to my receipt to redeem your love, that’s exactly what I need”.

Using your academic family as a means to seduce people is, of course, frowned upon. But if you do, Wayne’s got the chat-up lines.

“Guess what? My daughter want another sister or a brother and you lookin’ like a mother”.

Lil Wayne offers some calming words of wisdom

2. Nightrain – Guns n Roses

Guaranteed to pep you up in 30 seconds or less. Fun fact: the song is a tribute to the popular intoxicating beverage Night Train Express (essentially California’s answer to Buckfast).

3. Roxanne – The Police

If you don’t know the drinking game yet, you will soon. Far better to start practicing now.

4. Mysterious Bruises – Art Brut

“I don’t know how I’ve managed to do this but I woke up this morning covered in bruises”. And from there, things only get worse for Art Brut’s Eddie Argos, as – too tired to sing – he mumbles above the woozy guitars. It’s the hangover to end all hangovers, with a gloriously cheesy shout-along chorus:

“I can’t remember anything I’ve done. I fought the floor, and the floor won”.

“Huh? I’m just resting my eyes, I swear…”

5. My Alcoholic Friends – The Dresden Dolls

Of course, inexplicable contusions aren’t the worst thing that could happen. You might find yourself waking up in bed with your flatmate. Or with a Media Studies student. In Aberdeen. If you do, take comfort from the words of Amanda Palmer:

“I’m trying hard / Not to be ashamed / Not to know the name of who is waking up beside me / Or the date, the season or the city / But at least the ceiling’s very pretty…”

Enjoy your raisin weekend everyone!