What's your soundtrack?
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.
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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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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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.
<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.
<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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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.
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).
<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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