‘After I had my cat stolen, I would listen to Funkadelic and cry and cry’: Jennifer Herrema’s honest playlist

The first song I fell in love with

Van Halen’s Runnin’ With the Devil. I was five or six and I went to visit my cousin Tommy who was much older. He was on a hockey team and we went to see them practise before the game and they had Runnin’ With the Devil on really loud. I was like: “Wait, what’s this?!”The song I do at karaokeYou Shook Me All Night Long by AC/DC. Me and Brian Johnson – my voice has that thing, you know?The song I inexplicably know every lyric to

I still remember the full 12-inch version of the Sugarhill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight – I did it this morning! That’s a record my dad got me. He loved dancing to it.The song I can no longer listen to

Meet on the Ledge by Fairport Convention. Partly because of the tragedy of Sandy Denny. But also because I listened to it over and over at a really depressing time.The song that changed my life

When I first heard Lou Reed’s Satellite of Love on the radio it sounded so different and weird to me. It really imprinted on me.The best song to play at a partyLet It Whip by Dazz Band. The way it starts, it sounds just like the way a party starts.The song that gets me up in the morning