‘Unchained Melody makes me want to live what I love Swayze’: Gary Jarman’s playlist | Music

The first song I liked
You’re the Only One in Flying Pickets – at least according to my mom, who says (my twin brother and friend) Ryan and I sing along to Top of the Pops Christmas. We now use it as our go-to soundtrack and it makes my mom very emotional.

The first single I bought
Somewhere in My Heart is an Aztec Camera, from Boots in Wakefield in 1988, heard at a disco on holiday at Pontins in Morecambe.

The song I make at karaoke
Tarzan Boy by Baltimora has had a second life after appearing in Stranger Things, but I’ve been doing this since it was so obscure. The best part is when you get to the collar and the voice just goes “Oo-oh”, screen after screen.

I know every word of this song
Ryan and I used to listen to “Size Isn’t Everything” by the Bee Gees religiously on cassette when it came out, so the words “For Whom the Bell Tolls” have been stuck in my brain since 1993.

The perfect song to play at a party
Bastards of Young by the Replacements, because it’s fun and raw but has more meaning than some dumb, throwaway thing.

I can’t listen to that song anymore
As a teenager I binged on Martika’s Toy Soldiers until I couldn’t listen to them anymore.

A song I secretly love, but tell everyone I hate it
The Power of Love by Jennifer Rush has everything I love about it: it’s overproduced and it’s too emotional. But God, I can’t help but love it.

The best song to have sex with
Considering how much I love Patrick Swayze and Ghost, I think I’d like to have my thoughts on Swayze in Unchained Melody and the Righteous Brothers. Better than Gary’s Got a Boner by the Replacements.

The song that changed my life
My friend’s older brother made me a mix tape with all this heavy stuff – Sepultura, Pantera, Cannibal Corpse – but there was something about In Bloom by Nirvana that I could relate to. Nirvana continued to change my life.

A song that makes me cry
I don’t mind admitting that many songs make me cry. Two nights ago, I was listening to Beachwood Sparks’ cover of Sade’s By Your Side and I cried a little because it’s so beautiful.

The song that wakes me up in the morning
A good old fashioned boy lover by the Queen seems like a good way to start the day.

The song I would like to be played at my funeral
Be Here Now by George Harrison, because it’s not that amazing. I don’t want to confuse people with Gary’s Got a Boner by the Replacements.

The Cribs travel to the UK this monthstarting from Leeds, July 11.