The Soundtrack of Your Life...

[Artemesia]

My life has a soundtrack. There are certain songs that fit different moods as well as songs that bring back memories of events, people, times in my life....

Is it just me?

Fer instance...

When I hear "Roam" by the B-52s, I think of a certain road trip to Dallas with my friends J. and K. We were on our way to Irish Fest. We also learned that if you want to eat in Dallas - bring cash - no one will take a check. Except for Olive Garden.

When I hear Billy Joel - I think of R.


ok, your turn...

 

[Carla39]

Charlotte area

Hi,,I am a bi married ladie from the Charlotte area looking to meet others,,,write me if interested!!

 

[Arden]

~Grins~

I'm a regular crazy lady from the coffee house here...
LOL....


Most recent soundtracks of my life would be"
"O Brother Where Art Thou"
"Braveheart" (Scotch Irish stuff of my soul)
Van Morrison & the Chieftains (More Irish )

See ya tomorrow, I hope!

 

[naughtygirl]

(um Carla....i think you would have better luck in the Personals section!)

Great idea for a thread Arte....ok this is going to be hard..but I'll start some and then come back and add more as I think of them...

*the song "Flake" by Jack Johnson...is current, its about letting go of a relationship.

*any song by Melissa Etheridge off her first album reminds me of cruising around the summer after I graduated high school, in my girlfriend's Denise's boat of a car, windows down, stereo blasting. Fun, carefree times...college ahead of me, beginning of freedom from my parents.

*when I hear "Perfect Blue Buildings" I am reminded of my ex K. who used to play it over and over again while he was high. Not so good times.

*when I hear "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys I am reminded of the time that Kyle, Mick, Kumar, Jason, Laura and I were sitting on the floor in our summer house...the boys watching, as Laura did my hair, and me and Mick singing that song at the top of our lungs, trying to "out do" each other. Those were some good times.

*Lenny Kravitz will always remind me of hanging out with my college friends in my townhouse room, smoking pot, and laughing with each other.

*the song "Jump" by Van Halen reminds me of rollerskating as a kid with my friends and how they would tease me cause I hated that song soooo much.

*the song "Sister Hazel" by Journey (???) will always remind me of the book Salem's Lot...because I swear everytime I picked up the book to read it and turned on the radio, that song would be playing and it creeped me out!

*the song "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" by Green Day was playing on my CD player when my train left NYC...I wasnt leaving under the best conditions, was quite sad to be leaving NYC behind...and as it played and my train pulled away from the station they started a mickey mouse cartoon on the tv...and i remember thinking how surreal it all was.....this same song was playing on the radio when I drove home from work this past week. It was my last day at that job. How ironic.

damn, I thought of more than I thought I would easily.

 

[whspr]

My soundtrack tonight would be

"Everywhere"....and he will know it's cuz of him...I think of this song...

soft kisses,
whspr

 

[Artemesia]

Hey there Arden, whspr, NG - thanks for posting!

the whole album "1984" by Van Halen reminds me of a summer job I had in college - I delivered eyeglass orders to local optometrists - the album had just come out that spring - and "Panama", "Jump", "Hot for Teacher" were always playing. It was perfect driving music! I learned how to drive a stick that summer, too.

My roller skating songs? The roller rink didn't have a big selection - "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini", "The Locomotion" version by Grand Funk Railroad, and "The Joker" by Stever Miller are what I remember most.

 

[omahaman2]

good morning,beautiful is a song running through my mind now, thinking of whats going to be my life after october 9th.
Darn,its a country song, but it sure expresses my feelingsof how Iknow Ill feel once my new roomie moves in thanks to LIT

 

[whspr]

I have a song that is exactly how I feel for the last few days...

"I Miss My Friend"....country...but I do so miss meop...and this just makes me think about him.....

soft kisses,
whspr

 

[Batch]

Book of Dreams....I think..Steve Miller BAnd.Christmas..the year it came out.......an actual record.played that thing over an over again..Big Jet Liner.......I have it all memorized....that was along time ago....long long time ago...

The EAgles.....Hotel California..just released and wow......was me..in high school....
The Long Run......................high
school songs..long hot evenings
Fleetwood Mac..Rumours......I was sick as a dog in junior high and my sister comes home from work with the album.puts it on the turntable...and life was so much better...........all those songs mean more that I am older...need to get that on CD


Van Halen's First Album..smoking a joint with my cousin...junior high and cranking his father's very expensive sound system as high as it would go.........I saw them in concert in 1978.with Boston....Black Sabbath and SAmmy Hagar.....Boston
.I was so fucking stoned......went with my big sister she took good care of me....I was the one who got to smuggle the hash in....I still feel it in my shoe.........

Doobie Brothers.What A Fool Believes
...i hear it...and in high school........somewhere back in long ago.a sentimental fool .........

Steely Dan Aja
.high school band room........had a crush on one of th esaxhone players oh he was nice looking.....

Anything by KISS..god I hated them....I remember walking home and coming round the corner to our house and hearing the sounds of KISS....coming from my house.my sister and her boyfriend and his friend............the fucking music was so damn loud.......I pitched fit....kicked them out of the house and my sister was so pissed a t me.....lie I cared about her friends.it was Dad I was worried about..he would have skinned her alive for doing that to his stereo

Steven MacDonald's version of Scotland the Brave.....keeps me calm


Sting
When We Dance......hard time in my life with that one....

Neil Young

Harvest Moon..........dancing in our living room....when we were still deeply in love.

Bob Marley and the Wailers....being wooed with Reggae love songs..by my husband........
Christmas Songs.....feeling safe and feeling the Magic of Christmas.still....I have lost it or forgotten how to feel that magic these last four years ...........

Sound track to Star Wars..got that record for myself....irritated my family when I played it....

Billy Holiday.......her last record..........my Mom had given me three CD's one Christmas..maybe tow years ago...and .......I totally understand the different ages of her......young,fresh..middle time and the old....beat up close to dying woman....

 

[HomerPindar]

~Grins~

I'm a regular crazy lady from the coffee house here...
LOL....


Most recent soundtracks of my life would be"
"O Brother Where Art Thou"
"Braveheart" (Scotch Irish stuff of my soul)
Van Morrison & the Chieftains (More Irish )

See ya tomorrow, I hope!

Hey, Arden, mind if I hang out in your soundtrack for a bit...?


HomerPindar

 

[Batch]

going back to work....sitting in the dark, in the bitter cold....with my CD player plugged into the cassette player of our old battered Jeep, waiting for the assistant Manager to show so that I could get inside tothe grease smell and the ..yuck...
listenig to Smashing Pumpkins..Adore....over and over again
Everclear.same time period......coming home from that fucking hell hole of a job..walking.limping..into my house.....stripping clothes off and turning the cd to as high as it would go to sit in the shower to cleanse the filth from my hair and skin........I hate Burger King......

Goo Goo Dolls...same thing..Collective Soul......what a shitty time in my life


The Doors....my parents would not let us listen to pop music in the 60's so I had to wait till high school to discover who Jimi Hendricks was and who the Doors were.....another world.totally another way of thinking...instead we listened to the Carpenters.....oh dear god....and John Denver and Burt Bacharch........

 

[Artemesia]

The Doors....my parents would not let us listen to pop music in the 60's so I had to wait till high school to discover who Jimi Hendricks was and who the Doors were.....another world.totally another way of thinking...instead we listened to the Carpenters.....oh dear god....and John Denver and Burt Bacharch........

omigosh Batch....

my older sister is 10 years older than me - she listened, our whole household listened, to John Denver in the 70s. And I remember looking through her record collection - Carpenters, Neil Diamond, Three Dog Night, Kingston Trio, the Beatles....

And Burt Bacharach reminds me of my mom, sitting at the kitchen table while she cooked, an early 70s frame of mind... (Shhhh, I still like Burt Bacharach - don't tell anyone.)

The Eagles "Hotel California" - that was one of the first albums I bought for myself. That and the soundtrack to the movie "FM" - I guess I need to get both of those on CD now. I spilled Dr. Pepper on Hotel California while it was playing on my record player. Guess I was sitting too close!

 

[Artemesia]

Hey, Arden, mind if I hang out in your soundtrack for a bit...?


HomerPindar

I hear ya!

Fall is Renfest weather..

And time to dig out all my bagpipe music - I love the Scottish Rogues - they're from Houston - and they really get me going!

 

[Batch]

omigosh Batch....

my older sister is 10 years older than me - she listened, our whole household listened, to John Denver in the 70s. And I remember looking through her record collection - Carpenters, Neil Diamond, Three Dog Night, Kingston Trio, the Beatles....

And Burt Bacharach reminds me of my mom, sitting at the kitchen table while she cooked, an early 70s frame of mind... (Shhhh, I still like Burt Bacharach - don't tell anyone.)

The Eagles "Hotel California" - that was one of the first albums I bought for myself. That and the soundtrack to the movie "FM" - I guess I need to get both of those on CD now. I spilled Dr. Pepper on Hotel California while it was playing on my record player. Guess I was sitting too close!

Arte I like you so much more now.....
this was a great idea for a thread

Rain drops keep falling on my head...
Memory...
Christmas....early 70's my mom has gotten my sister and I out of bed to listen to our new....very own record player....and what we heard was Karen Carpenter singing...a little 45....
and later my sister and i listening to Simon and
garfunkel's .Bridge over
troubled
water........oh wow.magic.
My mom was so excited to be giving us a record player of our own.....it had orange and black stripes on it and when the music played the front lit up in greens and red and blue...little lights beind this like diamond paned peice of plastic..it was so damn cool.....we were sitting on the floor in front of the Christmas tree no lights but the the Christmas trees lights....in our bath robes..kneeling and sitting on the floor.....it was magic

 

[sprucett_78]

UK Soundtrack

An interesting thread, sometimes wonder if those thoughts passed through other peoples minds now I know i am not alone.

A rough time for me heard Bob Dylans Its all over Now Baby Blue being played after I lost a love in my life....

I here Semisonic Secret Smile when I think about the man in my life...

Does anyone ever wonder what songs people associate with them, I would love to be thought of as a Train Drops of Jupiter or a Toploader Achilees Heel, or is that a selfish wish?

I dont know, also makes me wonder if my being in th UK means that the songs I lsten to for my life are heard by ppl on other shores? Let me know...

nite for now hugns sweet melodies....spruce

 

[Mysticcal]

What an awesome thread idea.

First one that comes to mind, Open Arms......was my first real love, and it ended abruptly and quickly, but can't hear that song without remembering the feeling of his lips on mine, his hands caressing me gently........oooooo, can get lightheaded just thinking about it.

Mysti

 

[Artemesia]

Re: UK Soundtrack

Does anyone ever wonder what songs people associate with them, I would love to be thought of as a Train Drops of Jupiter or a Toploader Achilees Heel, or is that a selfish wish?

I dont know, also makes me wonder if my being in th UK means that the songs I lsten to for my life are heard by ppl on other shores? Let me know...

nite for now hugns sweet melodies....spruce

See, now that's a good question, too. I'm going to have to ask my friends what songs they associate with ME! And what songs I would like them to link to me, too.

I think we do hear some of the same songs - regardless of what shore - what we will differ on are local bands. I know Drops of Jupiter, not sure about Achilles Heel. Dylan - of course!

 

[Artemesia]

Arte I like you so much more now.....

BATCH! you mean you weren't sure before?

I agree about the magic of Christmas - I have been known to sit in the dark with just the tree on....

Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head.... I had a music box that played that... came out about the time of Butch and Sundance.

This sounds odd, but I can't listen to Human League "Dare" or the Clash "Combat Rock" without thinking about Christmas. Both of those albums were given to me by my friend Sheila in high school. I still remember shutting myself in my room to play those over and over and over...

And, welcome Mysticcal - that same friend Sheila was a complete nut over Journey! I don't hear Journey without thinking of her!

 

[Mysticcal]

My roller skating songs? The roller rink didn't have a big selection - "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini", "The Locomotion" version by Grand Funk Railroad, and "The Joker" by Stever Miller are what I remember most.

OMG what memories......roller skating was the activity when I was in early teens. Hokey Pokey, Locomotion....and of course Journey LOL what was that song by J. Geils Band.....can hear it in my head.

Mysti

 

[Artemesia]

OMG what memories......roller skating was the activity when I was in early teens. Hokey Pokey, Locomotion....and of course Journey LOL what was that song by J. Geils Band.....can hear it in my head.

Mysti

Angel is a Centerfold? (na na, na na na na my angel is a centerfold...) That's a high school song for me if there ever was one, lol.

Freeze Frame?

 

[Mysticcal]

Angel is a Centerfold? (na na, na na na na my angel is a centerfold...) That's a high school song for me if there ever was one, lol.

Freeze Frame?

Angel.....that's it exactly, Freeze Frame too..........definitely high school....omg and remember the start of MTV......wow, dizzy with memories now lol

 

[Artemesia]

Angel.....that's it exactly, Freeze Frame too..........definitely high school....omg and remember the start of MTV......wow, dizzy with memories now lol

LOL... I know... MTV... "I want my MTV!"

 

[Batch]

BATCH! you mean you weren't sure before?

I agree about the magic of Christmas - I have been known to sit in the dark with just the tree on....

Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head.... I had a music box that played that... came out about the time of Butch and Sundance.

This sounds odd, but I can't listen to Human League "Dare" or the Clash "Combat Rock" without thinking about Christmas. Both of those albums were given to me by my friend Sheila in high school. I still remember shutting myself in my room to play those over and over and over...

And, welcome Mysticcal - that same friend Sheila was a complete nut over Journey! I don't hear Journey without thinking of her!

ARTE!! Like how could I not like YOU?

You cool baby

I remember MTV when it was MTV not stupid show tv.......and weird ass songs tv

 

[Mysticcal]

I usually end up feeling I am just too old for MTV now LOL

More songs.......or music anyway.

Freshman year of college, REM, U2 (The Joshua Tree album), Midnight Oil, Bed's are burning.....cuddling up with my best male friend while we debated whether to sleep together or not ROFLMAO we fell asleep debating it and never did, but it was sweet.

Mysti

 

[Artemesia]

When I was 13 or so, and my sister was living at home, she and I would spend Sunday mornings driving around town, cruising the different neighborhoods and making comments about the different houses...

which ones we thought were cute, rich looking, great lawn, beautiful flowers....

she had put a cassette player in her little Chevy Luv truck...

one of the only tapes she had was the Beatles "Abbey Road"

whenever I hear "Octopus's Garden" or "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" I think of Sunday's with my sister...