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Has it ever happened to you that, when you listen to your walkman on the street or listening to the stereo at home, etc, that the song that comes on just totally describes that moment of your life? Almost as if you're inside a movie that that is the soundtrack?
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When I have my personal stereo on on the street I always pretend I'm inside a music video, it's terribly twee. Except when slipknot comes on.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

About 2 months ago I got really drunk one night at the pub and somehow smuggled a pint of beer home (which i never drunk), I left it in my room for about a week and my room smelled like a pub, it was great. Then I looked at the beer and it's gone all manky and thick and opaque. Which was when Simon and Garfunkel came on singing "Cloudy.....the sky is gray and white and cloudddyyyyyyy"

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

When I went to the States I spent a lot of time selecting a huge range of songs that I then put in a separate directory on my mp3 player - so I'd be walking around NY or on the Amtrak and be hearing all this stuff 'appropriate' in my mind to the situation. I do this with most long journeys tho.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I found the Sigur Ros "()" album to be perfect background noise to many of my day-to-day activities.
I do realise that this means my average day is boring and repetitive as fuck.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

No way dude, it's inspired and full of beautiful alien joy!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

This'll be the EastEnders soundtrack phenomenon then? Never happens to me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The other day I came home on a sunny day with the sole intention of sitting on my back porch and drinking beer and chillaxing. The world was getting hectic and ridiculous, I needed a break. While I was looking for a CD to put on, I turned on the radio, and on came CCR's "Lookin' Out My Back Door".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

whenever something dramatic happens to me something in the background somewhere always makes this drum-like noise that goes DUM DUM DUMDUMDUM-DUMDUMDUMDUM.

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― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

mmm, that centuries-long john cage thing for me then

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha, ken. There are always scarily appropriate songs playing on the jukebox in the Vic / on the radio in the caff which reflect the personal circumstances of whoever is there at the time.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

No way dude, it's inspired and full of beautiful alien joy!

I want your life but not your soundtrack.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

you are the soundtracks of my life

― stevie wonder (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

A track I never shut up about called "After Dinner" by Coba that was remixed by Plaid is basically the soundtrack to my life.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

do you always listen to it after dinner?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I always listen to Last Year by Go Sailor around the beginning of January. And sometimes I listen to Blur's "Birthday" on my birthday.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i listened to "graduation day" by the beach boys on my graduation.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a disturbing moment of identification with Soul Asylum's "Runaway Train" while walking home from work earlier this summer.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope you cleared your throat and moved on.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

for sum rason mobb deep's "right back at you" is a track i very much want in my life's soundtrack, tho it bears no relation to my life experience in any way...

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope you cleared your throat and moved on.

Thankfully, I did. It was much easier than dealing with the pa-hain.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

though it did inspire me to play "Somebody To Shove" on my radio show last week. I kept picturing Brian Krakow running through a field and crying during it.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

THAT week, not last week.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm coming up from the subway on the brooklyn side. it's friday, about 5pm, hot summer evening, and i've just gotten home from work and i'm back in my neighborhood. as i ascend to the street, i hear "turn the beat around" blasting from someone's car speakers.

don't touch the hair.

― Maneating Leopards of India (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

One More Time, came on whilst i was on the bike at the gym - just as i was about to finish - so i HAD to carry on one more time until the song is done. i was almost dead by the end.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

was having a smoke and listening to bangalter's Irreversible sdtk. in this creepy alley beside my work. seemed appropriate and i sorta ate up the sensation. though i wonder if i would've felt the same had i not seen the movie. plus it's already designed as an actual soundtrack so maybe it doesn't count.

i made a sweet tape for myself for the last time i went to london. for listening to when i was the only one up top on the bus at 4 a.m. on the way back to wherever i was staying. i like to dig it out occasionally and conjure up those feelings. and one of the tunes i had on there, "funky kingston," got played by the dj at the club that night, so i naturally felt all was right with the world.

i skimmed some sort of hip young person's guide to foreign travel and one of its "don'ts" was bringing along music for the journey. these people don't know shit about shit, i thought. it's essential!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

one of its "don'ts" was bringing along music for the journey

As in don't be a cultural imperialist? Buy/listen to the local music?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

more like turn it off and take in the sounds of the street and eavesdrop on locals and whatnot.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Me, upthread, re EastEnders

There are always scarily appropriate songs playing on the jukebox in the Vic / on the radio in the caff which reflect the personal circumstances of whoever is there at the time.

Tonight, Grunt Mitchell was pleading with Jane to run away with him. Soundtracked by the totally-unlikely-to-be-played-in-the-caff How Soon Is Now "I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does". I wuv EastEnders.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 May 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

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