Soundtrack of your life

[cookiecat]

As usual, I'm up way too late, looking at pervy, glittery tumblr stuff and thinking deep thoughts (about perversion and glitter). And music, apparently.

I'm curious about a couple of things:

First, do you have certain songs that you play every day - stuff that gets you through the day? What do you listen to?

Second, what songs sum up your life? If you want music at your funeral service, what would your play list include?

Thanks.

 

[gracie920101]

As usual, I'm up way too late, looking at pervy, glittery tumblr stuff and thinking deep thoughts (about perversion and glitter). And music, apparently.

I'm curious about a couple of things:

First, do you have certain songs that you play every day - stuff that gets you through the day? What do you listen to?

Second, what songs sum up your life? If you want music at your funeral service, what would your play list include?

Thanks.

I actually have a funeral list I started about 15 years ago and add to it once in awhile. I want happy shit played just to throw people out of their funeral face. Forever in Bluejeans, Grandma's Featherbed, and the Irish Rover's Unicorn Song, and the recently added, Uptown Funk, is on the list. Not your average funeral music.

As to the other questions, nothing special, just whatever happens to be on the rock station on the radio.

 

[Farawyn]

Subscribed.
I will post more later when I can be more thoughtful.

(Lately, I have been listening to The Who. My kids have discovered older rock. Here's a poignant version of I'm One.)


https://youtu.be/dssTMapz9UM

 

[DarkSimian]

This is my personal theme song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGKNaIXtBZQ

I want this played at me funeral:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qrDlRsARwk

And this just makes me feel good :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y4MBFDs1u8

 

[Farawyn]

This is my personal theme song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGKNaIXtBZQ

I want this played at me funeral:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qrDlRsARwk

And this just makes me feel good :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y4MBFDs1u8

... and I will sing a lullaby...

 

[DarkSimian]

... and I will sing a lullaby...

 

[Azuldrgon]

First, do you have certain songs that you play every day - stuff that gets you through the day? What do you listen to?

Cookie.

I generally am stuck listening to radio music during my eight hours at the shop. We keep it on a station that plays a cheesy mix of current music. Once I get in the car to go home, I switch to my 80's station just to relax. I do flip around some, but not much depending on mood. I definitely like listening to the 80's and 90's when I was a younger dragon though.

 

[Primalex]

I will answer the subject, not the questions of the post.

There is a soundtrack of my life, which is a collection of individual songs which are attached to specific emotional situations and/or experiences and which I therefore remember when I hear them.


Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
The first record I owned.


Culture Club - The Dream
I suspect the movie Electric Dreams shaped my future and made me become a geek and tech nerd and also a philosopher of what life means at a fairly young age. Geekiness and deep sad thoughts.


Bee Gees - Secret Love
I made a bet on a school trip with a female classmate on whether I could learn the lyrics by heart before the end of the day or not. I won the bet of course and for the years to come I used it to serenade, which was more humorous than romantic, but humour gets you quite a long way.


Alice Cooper - Poison
It is the song that played when I saw the girl, I had a secret crush on, kissing another guy.


Fragma - You are alive
The song played a lot on the radio during a hot summer back when I was a student. I associate a hot summer and cruising with the car with it. (Until I had to dump the car because I couldn't afford the repairs. You never forget your first car. *sniff*)


Brooke Fraser - Something in the water
This is a running gag song. On one vacation trip this song always played just minutes before we hit a big traffic jam - both towards the destination and on the way back. Since then it is the 'traffic jam' song, which is associated with traffic jams but also a laissez-faire mood of to not get upset about things you can't change by becoming upset about.


Teddy Pendergrass - Love T.K.O.
Slow mutual undressing and...further things.


Nine Inch Nails - Closer
Why bother undressing.


This is what I can identify off the top of my head.

 

[Bramblethorn]

As usual, I'm up way too late, looking at pervy, glittery tumblr stuff and thinking deep thoughts (about perversion and glitter). And music, apparently.

I'm curious about a couple of things:

First, do you have certain songs that you play every day - stuff that gets you through the day? What do you listen to?

Second, what songs sum up your life? If you want music at your funeral service, what would your play list include?

Thanks.

Not every single day, but I listen to Schwarzes Blut a lot, especially when I need a boost. Endurance and defiance.

Nein, eure Lieder sing ich nicht
Ich lebe immer noch, immer noch
Ich gebe immer noch, immer noch
Ich taumle weiter -
VORWÄRTS! ABWÄRTS!
In meinen Adern fließt das schwarze Blut

which is roughly:

No, I won't sing your songs
I live, even now, even now
I give, even now, even now
I stagger onwards - forwards - downwards -
In my veins flows the black blood.

OTOH, if I need to quiet myself and let go of worries etc., I'll go for something like Peter Gabriel's "Passion" soundtrack, or dark ambient like this.

If somebody was doing a soundtrack to my life it'd start with Beatles, then move through Roxette and G'n'R, NIN, Peter Gabriel, Gary Numan, Marina and the Diamonds, and then more ASP. Probably a bunch of other obsessions along the way that I'll remember immediately after posting.

 

[Farawyn]

The first album I ever bought in my own, with my own money, was Pink Floyd, The Wall.
For years I touted Comfortably Numb as my favorite song, but really, now? I can't listen to one song without wanting to hear the whole thing.
Pink Floyd has been a huge band for me.
Lots of memories. The Wall opened up my contemplation, my questioning of authority.
The melding of lyrics and music in Pink Floyd is stunning. Waters and Gilmour are Lennon and McCartney, but better. Darker.

One of the soundtracks of my life, the music of Pink Floyd.

More later.

https://youtu.be/x-xTttimcNk

 

[_Necrosomantic_]

Back when I was a kid, people still gave a shit and block parties in the neighborhood were still a thing. That's mostly where I ended up hearing a lot of the music that stuck with me.

A mish mash of genres and styles from disco to country, but there was one song that always got played after the sun had set some time ago, and things were calming down. Food was being packed up, half asleep children were being collected, teenagers that were trying to cover for the fact that they had been smoking/drinking/making out wandered back, and trash was being gathered and stuffed in overfilled trash cans ( lots and lots of clinking bottles ). Every time, like clockwork, without fail. Someone would put it on and those three opening chords would bring a slow smile to just about everyone there.

E flat major, E major, F major

https://youtu.be/pkbzzRlhFZk