What's your soundtrack?

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If your life had a soundtrack. what would be on it?



For example, my childhood would easily have the Sesame Street theme song. About adolescence it would change to Fleetwood Mac or Tom Petty but then all too quickly become Hagar (Can't Drive 55 comes to mind) with a rather jarring mix into Depeche Mode (am I dating myself here?). College ends with Wild Thing but that doesn't last too long and ends up with Kate Bush. Now? The music in the background is a definite mix of Nat King Cole and Harry Connick Jr.

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  • Reply 1 of 19
    bungebunge Posts: 7,329member
    Beatles -> Pink Floyd -> Butthole Surfers -> An unending array of music spanning a multitude of genres and hundreds of paychecks.
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  • Reply 2 of 19
    staggerstagger Posts: 35member
    My teen years would be a lot of Zeppelin, Floyd, and Doors, because all of them are a blur with the occasional several hours of lost memory, and lots of women, drugs, and fighting.



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  • Reply 3 of 19
    John Williams, Thomas Newman, and James Horner (film score composers)
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    edgar varese
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  • Reply 5 of 19
    pscatespscates Posts: 5,847member
    I think about that sometimes. I see a situation (involving someone else, people I know or, perhaps, even myself) and say to myself "if this was a movie, here's what song I'd cue up right now".







    Lots of good "achy" songs, full of longing and horsecrap.



    "Allison Road" by the Gin Blossoms ranks up there. As does "Into the Mystic" by Van Morrison.



    And both Lyle Lovett and Steve Earle seem to have TONS of songs that would act as good "background music" to certain life's moments (usually involving loss, regret, bittersweet feelings of "woulda/coulda/shoulda").



    On a happier note, my own life has been puncuated by brilliant moments of Beatles, Steve Miller and AC/DC, coming along at just the right time and place to forever tag them as "moments".







    You know, it's times like this that I realize - like a sledgehammer hitting me in the nose - how much music plays a role in our lives. All of the cool - and not so cool - moments in my life seem to have a musical trigger or recall to them. Perhaps something I was listening to at the moment said event went down, or in the case of a song written with such plain-spoken insight and clarity that it nails EXACTLY what a doofus like me was feeling at that exact moment. Songs like that, I treasure and place them on a sort of "untouchable" pedestal in my head, where they are always set aside and ready to be played or listened to at whatever time I feel I need to.



    Who needs therapy? I've got iTunes and a long, varied playlist of artists and genres at the click of a button, ready to make me smile or make the hurt go away.



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  • Reply 6 of 19
    pscatespscates Posts: 5,847member
    I think I write better when I've been drinking.



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  • Reply 7 of 19
    splinemodelsplinemodel Posts: 7,311member
    Charles Ives. Just pick 80 minutes and toss it on a CD.
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  • Reply 8 of 19
    I really reflect back on the summers of 95 and 96 (my 11th and 12th years) as THE defining period of my adolescence in terms of music. The soundtrack of that time includes:



    Black Crowes

    Blues Traveler

    Bush

    Collective Soul

    The Cranberries

    Dave Matthews Band

    Deep Blue Something

    Dishwalla

    GIN BLOSSOMS!

    Goo Goo Dolls

    Green Day

    Hootie and the Blowfish

    Lenny Kravitz

    Live

    Oasis

    Spin Doctors

    Stone Temple Pilots



    Listening to songs like Interstate Love Song, Till I Hear It From You, Shine, Name, and Follow You Down brings me right back every time.
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  • Reply 9 of 19
    brussellbrussell Posts: 9,812member
    [quote]Originally posted by Splinemodel:

    <strong>Charles Ives. Just pick 80 minutes and toss it on a CD.</strong><hr></blockquote> :eek: Wow, that's a new one.



    I'd like to think my soundtrack is something like Bach's St. Matthew Passion. In reality, it's probably closer to The Knack.
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  • Reply 10 of 19
    splinemodelsplinemodel Posts: 7,311member
    [quote]Originally posted by BRussell:

    <strong> :eek: Wow, that's a new one.



    I'd like to think my soundtrack is something like Bach's St. Matthew Passion. In reality, it's probably closer to The Knack.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I'm not saying it's my favorite music, but in all truth I think it best summarizes my life to date.
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  • Reply 11 of 19
    logan calelogan cale Posts: 1,281member
    Joel McLeeny.
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  • Reply 12 of 19
    Stairway to Heaven --&gt; The End --&gt; A Horse with no Name --&gt; Shitlist --&gt; The Shame Of Life --&gt; The Day The Niggaz Took Over --&gt; Morning Bell (Radiohead) --&gt; and the complete cd Massice Attack - 100th Window.
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  • Reply 13 of 19
    thegeldingthegelding Posts: 3,230member
    sonny's burning...the birthday party



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  • Reply 14 of 19
    currently:



    ursula 1000's 'all systems are go go' - it's kind of... an undescribable mix of a lot of influences that comes out a little quirky, but inexplicably cool.



    just like somebody i know.
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  • Reply 15 of 19
    finboyfinboy Posts: 383member
    Beatles, Pink Floyd, Styx, Def Lepard, Billy Joel (old stuff), Randy Newman, Iron Maiden, BNL, soundtrack music from John Williams & Randy Newman



    I listen to damn near everything, but I couldn't live without these.



    If I had to pick one piece of music to listen to/work by forever, it would be Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (Ode to Joy).
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  • Reply 16 of 19
    This is (part of) the soundtrack of my life:



    <a href="http://www.magle.dk/audio/magle-the_hope_part1.mp3"; target="_blank">http://www.magle.dk/audio/magle-the_hope_part1.mp3</a>;



    literally



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  • Reply 17 of 19
    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
    Upon further reflection. Without a doubt: "She's The One" - Beta Band



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  • Reply 18 of 19
    ring the bells - james



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    ibeniibeni Posts: 54member
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