My pub juke box

Georgina Wald,

public relations manager at Fuller's chooses her favourite tracks

I notice that everyone talks about how their music tastes have changed over the years and how many songs of differing genres they have on their iPod. Well, I don't have an iPod, but I do think my tastes are fairly varied. The six-CD player in the car is quite telling — last week it included two CDs of Burt Bacharach's greatest hits, the Foo Fighters, Groove Armada, Grace Jones and Kasabian. Read into that what you will.

But here is my life in music!

1. Uptown Top Ranking

Althea & Donna

It's 1978. I'm watching my two older brothers take the engine out of a mini, while my oldest brother's girlfriend (who has now been my sister in law for 24 years) has a fag. She likes this song — and as an impressionable eight-year-old, I do too. And I want to start smoking. It still sounds great today.

2. Grease

Frankie Valli

I didn't see the film until a few years after it came out, as no one would take me to the cinema. But when I did see it, I loved it and still do. Forget all the other songs, this is the one that's held its own over the years. Olivia Newton John proved to me (now an even more impressionable 11-year-old) that my sister-in-law was right and you need to smoke to get the best-looking bloke! I should have sued.

3. Christian

China Crisis

I'm now 12, have started to notice boys, and this is by far the best record for the end of disco school dance. You never hear it today - even in the top 100 slow songs of 1983! The age of innocence is nearly over and within a year my friend Milena and I have discovered that we can finally take up smoking by forging letters from her dad to get 10 JPS from the newsagent at Folkestone bus station. If only someone had invented the PASS logo then, I might never have started!

4. Stool Pigeon

Kid Creole and the Coconuts

It's 1983 and, for my 13th birthday present, oldest brother Rich takes me and Milena to see Kid Creole

at Hammersmith Odeon. It was truly amazing — they changed costumes about 16 times and this is my favourite song. It sounds dreadful now, but I'll always have a soft spot for August Darnell and I did want to be a Coconut for a while.

5. Pale Shelter

Tears for Fears

It's winter 1983. Milena and I are walking on the ice at Folkestone duck pond when, unbelievably, it starts splitting. Two minutes later we're both chest deep in the icy waters. I've never managed to find out who it was that pulled us out — but Milena's moon boots, which were on my feet, never made it. I expect they are still there, fossilised in the deep, today. She doesn't want a new pair of moon boots — so I buy her a copy of Tears for Fears' The Hurting instead. It was a great album then, and still is today, and this is my favourite track from it.

6. Relax

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

It's 1984. This isn't on Radio One, but it is on Laser 558 — broadcast from a canoe off the Isle of Thanet or something. This song really reminds me of my happy place in the South of France where it was always played at the local disco. Unfortunately, they didn't have a DJ, just a tape — so every single night it was followed by Evelyn King's Hi-Energy. I still expect to always hear one song after the other. I'm dancing, with my fag hanging out of my mouth, and I think I look cool. The fag falls from my lips, down my top and I'm almost on fire. Despite this nasty incident, I still don't manage to give up smoking for another 20 years!

7. Rhodesia

Japan

This tune falls out of chronological order, but my first real boyfriend was a big Japan fan and I still think they are the most under-rated band of the 1980s. This song is beautiful and is from the album Obscure Alternatives. It's on YouTube if you want a listen.

8. Break for Love

Raze

I loved house and spent my sixth form having tea with bouncers after school, which ensured they let you into Toffs or Tonights — the two great Folkestone clubs — as a 21-year-old on Friday and Saturday night. But this track from 1988 is my absolute favourite house track and if you've never heard it, you should do. It's audio sex!

9. You Could Be Mine

Guns n' Roses

I've finished school, completed my alcohol education and poly and got a degree. I'm living in Northolt with my brother Jem and his family and my boyfriend of the time is in Walthamstow. The quickest route involves using the chicken lane on the north circular at Bounds Green. This is on the soundtrack to Terminator 2 and with this on loud, I am the Terminator and I could knock at least a minute off the journey!

10. Let's Fall in Love

Ella Fitzgerald

I've mentioned lots of other boyfriends — and not my husband! It's June 11, 2004, I'm back in the South of France and about to marry Phil at the Campsite Restaurant. Horror of horrors — I've forgotten the CD with Here Comes the Bride on it. What am I to do? Luckily, my Dad comes to the rescue and suggests this fantastic song for my arrival. It's perfect and is, of course, the best day of my life — although had Millwall won the FA Cup two weeks earlier, it would have been a close call. Only joking Phil!