{"id":165,"date":"2004-10-07T02:10:28","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T09:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2004-10-08T01:39:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-08T08:39:00","slug":"soundtrack-of-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/07\/soundtrack-of-a-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Soundtrack of a Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frizzensparks.com\/archives\/000705.html\">Frizzen Sparks<\/a> brought up the idea this time &#8217;round, so we&#8217;ll bame him.<\/p>\n<p>What 15 or so songs would you put on the soundtrack of your life? Most of the responses he&#8217;s had are just the top 15 or so songs for the individual; I&#8217;ll try to put them into context of what scene they should be played in. Some of these can&#8217;t really be narrowed down to one song or even one artist, but I&#8217;ll try to be brief. (Yeah, right.)<\/p>\n<p>Read on, MacDuff<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kicking some ass: <\/strong><em>The Imperial March &#8211; Star Wars soundtrack <\/em>Like there was any other choice&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>The love scene: <\/strong><em>Nights In White Satin &#8211; The Moody Blues <\/em>and most of the rest of that album, actually&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hangin&#8217; with the gang: <\/strong><em>Lakeside Park &#8211; Rush <\/em>or <em>Have a Drink on Me &#8211; AC\/DC<\/em>, depending on the mood.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The career plotline: <\/strong><em>Working Man &#8211; Rush <\/em>Because, well, I&#8217;m a borderline workaholic. I expend more energy <em>looking<\/em> for work than several people I know while they are actually <em>working.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Driving waaay too fast: <\/strong>I have an entire CD worth of stuff for this, but primarily <em>One Love &#8211; Prodigy<\/em> with <em>Powertrip &#8211; Monster Magnet<\/em> as a close second.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The horrible relationship, just before it ends: <\/strong><em>Ball and Chain &#8211; Social Distortion <\/em>followed by <em>Hole&#8217;s Violet<\/em> when it does end.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Career, Part II: the business trip: <\/strong><em>Inside Out &#8211; Eve 6 <\/em>I spent Jan &#8211; April of 1998 in-and-out of albuquerque NM, and this song was all over the airwaves the whole time. I can&#8217;t hear the song without thinking of that town and the people I met there.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dark anger \/ borderline madness: <\/strong><em>Travels in Nihlon &#8211; XTC <\/em>This song appears for no explainable reason at the end of the Black Sea album, an hour&#8217;s worth of Brit Pop, and is one of the darkest songs I know. It has an exceptionally simple, yet driving baseline that gives me a scary rip-your-arms-off-and-beat-you-with-the-bloody-stumps kind of energy. If I&#8217;m being the quiet guy in the corner and listening to this song, hide my katana and leave, quietly.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Damn, I&#8217;m in a Good Mood!: <\/strong>80&#8217;s Pop of just about any stripe, but mostly stuff no one remembers. Lots of one-hit wonders and just about all of the <em>Cowboy Bebop<\/em> soundtracks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mischief making: <\/strong><em>Mission: Impossible Theme <\/em>for obvious reasons.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Techie-From-Hell mode: <\/strong><em>MacGuyver Theme <\/em>For when I take bits of random kit and turn it into a day-saving plot device.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The 10 minutes I spend making an ass of myself in front of a girl I just met and the sparks are flying: <\/strong><em>I Think I Love You &#8211; The Partridge Family<\/em> a couple of you have seen me do this.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Just being a goofball:<\/strong><em> If I Only Had A Brain &#8211; Wizard of Oz Soundtrack.<\/em> You&#8217;ve seen me do this, too. (You can often catch me whistling it.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feeling nostalgic for the girl that got away: <\/strong><em> One of These Days &#8211; Pink Floyd <\/em>played very, very loud. Try it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>My Funeral: <\/strong>Lots of Irish drinking songs. <em>Finnegan&#8217;s Wake<\/em> in particular.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That should do it for now. 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