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inspired by the 'music for imaginary films' thread and, particularly, the "best imaginary soundtrack = yr favourite mixtape" post, here's my giant leap from 'loiterer' to 'thread-starter'(so be nice): what music would be on the soundtrack to the imaginary film of your life?

― michael w., Wednesday, 4 September 2002 12:09 (twenty-three years ago)

music by all the crap bands I was in when I were young fella.

assuming I could find the tapes in my attic or that they exist in many cases

― tigerclawskank, Wednesday, 4 September 2002 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I've always wanted "Azukiiro No Kaori" by Susuma Yokota to be played at regular intervals throughout the film. I like to think it would make me seem dreamy and mysterious. If not this, then the opening to Nonphenomenal Lineage by Granddaddy. I'd like "Centre of Gravity" by Yo La Tengo to be played as the movie closes, as this song could only be played to a happy ending.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

another sunny day 'london weekend'

― keith, Thursday, 5 September 2002 00:22 (twenty-three years ago)

opening credits:"e2 e4" manuel gottsching (dreamy)
incidental music:"obselon minos" global communication (and mysterious)
closing credits:"home entertainment" carl craig (rides off in to the sunset).

― michael w., Thursday, 5 September 2002 11:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Opening Credits-The Future of the Future-Deep Dish.

Not sure about the rest.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 5 September 2002 11:33 (twenty-three years ago)

another sunny day 'london weekend'

oh my god keith, that was going to be my answer. it still is.

if this question had been asked even a couple months ago it would have been more of a partyfunyeah list, but, in the present circumstances, it would be this album, and then also...

east river pipe - 40 miles
hood - this is what we do to sell out(s)
hood - you show no emotion at all
beanie sigel - what your life like 2
the field mice - quicksilver/below the stars

morrisey - suedehead
gnac - heliotrope
montgolfier brothers first album
piano magic - a trick of the sea (oh yes, this one VERY much!)
random number - these streets and sadness
adorable 2nd album (esp Lettergo)
the fall - winter (hostel maxi)
john cooper clarke - a distant relation

etc etc etc

i want it to be soundtracked by Bounty Killer and The House Crew and NELLY!!!!!

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 5 September 2002 18:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Thumb - Dinosaur Jr

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 5 September 2002 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed, interrupted sporadically by John Cage's "4'33"."

― J0hn Darn1elle, Thursday, 5 September 2002 22:04 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

I'm going to revive this thread and you all are going to answer it or die. I'm going to put a caveat on it: you can only pick songs released in the past 10 years.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

That would be Poe's "Hello" and tAtU, and me played by someone else, and they have a lot of problems and sadness. Because I don't.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Thursday, 20 March 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"Soundtrack for your life" They are swedish no?

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Thursday, 20 March 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like it to be the Smile album by the Beach Boys please.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 20 March 2003 01:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed, interrupted sporadically by John Cage's "4'33"."
-- J0hn Darn1elle (edito...), September 5th, 2002.

Why does your life rock so hard?

― David Allen, Thursday, 20 March 2003 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)

now i've figured out what soundtrack-song i want, only ...only i know neither the title nor the performer, honestly, because i've heard that song just once in my life - in '78, and very late at night it was too - moreover, i'm not entirely certain whether i heard it on the radio, being (more-than-)half-asleep, or did i actually merely dream that entire song...
...a female lead voice (what language?? don't ask) ...a band, plus some strings, or perhaps a whole orchestra ...filigreed tempo changes ...sorta from-sweetly-melancholy-to-mildly-cheerful mood...

the reason i remember 'hearing' this song at all was the news on the radio that i woke up to -- it was the World Cup'78 time and, against some odds, Argentina had gained the victory thanx to which they qualified from their group, and ...et!-bloody!!-cetera!!!

yep. sure thing. i want that very song. no other will do.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 20 March 2003 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"Why does your life rock so hard?" = the new theme for all future NYC FAPs.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 20 March 2003 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmn....? Polyrock

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Thursday, 20 March 2003 05:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The Moonlight Sonata would be all over my film because it is somehow inextricably connected with the first dream I can remember, and I remember it vividly -- me dancing around a lonely campfire in a permanent-midnight post-apocalyptic no man's land where I am the last surviving human! Crazy mad goosebumps or streaming tears everytime I hear it.

― Aaron A., Thursday, 20 March 2003 06:16 (twenty-two years ago)

LOTS OF MEDESKI MARTIN AND WOOD.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 20 March 2003 06:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"Popcorn"-Hot Butter
"Joy"-Apollo One Hundred
"Music Box Dancer"-Frank Mills

― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 20 March 2003 07:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Cob 20" - Happy Mondays
"Sue Egypt" - Capt. Beefheart
"Mas Que Nada" - Sergio Mendes & Brazil 66
"Broken promise" - New Order

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Thursday, 20 March 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Arthur is so OTM.

What is it about those things and growing up in the 70's. that music box dancer always makes me feel weird. i'm 31 arthur, how old are you?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 21 March 2003 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

(of course you don't have to answer if you'd prefer not to)

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 21 March 2003 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Endless blurry (not Blur-ry) noise.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 March 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed, interrupted sporadically by John Cage's "4'33"."
-- J0hn Darn1elle (edito...), September 5th, 2002.

Why does your life rock so hard?

hiiiiiiigh quality pharmaceuticals, baby

I would revise my choices according to Ally's last-ten-years-only rule as follows:

Morbid Angel, Gateways to Annihilation
Kataklysm, Epic: the Poetry of War
The Future Sound of London, Dead Cities
the entire Furniture Huschle catalogue including the brilliant Waiting for Parts album
and the first Naughty By Nature album, though that might fudge the rules by a year or so but if I can't have "Guard Yr Grill" then I'm not playing and so there

― J0hn Darnielle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 21 March 2003 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

oi, me wanna have an altenrative life-soundtrack too
(moreover, just noticed that i'd absolutely ignored 'the last 10 years' caveat)

so:
"Gamen" & "Euchari", sung by Emma Häedelin and played by Garmarna
- and yeh, they rock hard, in a spriritual sort of way ha

(a'right, the latter tune's like 800 years old b-b-but both were recorded in 1999)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 21 March 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know why, but I dreamed there was a movie of my life once and the theme song was Tim Hardin's "See Where You Are and Get Out." LOVE that song. So I guess that'd be my theme: "everybody i know well / well enough to call my friend / knows everybody makes mistakes"

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 21 March 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr. Diamond-I'm 41. Not too old to be moved by that sort of thing, I guess. I think I was probably 11 when "Hot Butter" came out.

― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 22 March 2003 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"Cob 20" - Happy Mondays
"Sue Egypt" - Capt. Beefheart
"Mas Que Nada" - Sergio Mendes & Brazil 66
"Broken promise" - New Order
-- Fabrice (fabfun...), March 20th, 2003 2:45 PM

you are the greatest person ever! no, really!!!

for me, well, i'd like it to be

dj red alert & mike slammer - in effect

but, with the way things are, i think it is more likely to be

beanie sigel - what your life like 2

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 22 March 2003 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Huh. that's the thing, I don't really remember specific instances of those songs in my life or owning the records or anything. but whenever I hear those, more than any others i experience this eerie feeling of being transported back to a kid sitting in my folks' car. I think it's just the treacly sounds and their sheer ubiquity at the time (though I was too young when "popcorn" came out, it was in all the ads etc.)

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 22 March 2003 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

hey! ally revived my first evah thread and got loads more replies than i ever did. fwiw, i'm not sure i can even answer this myself, i'll go away and have a think.

― michael wells (michael w.), Saturday, 22 March 2003 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

('m sorry -- Emma HÄRDELIN, that's the correct spelling)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 22 March 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

BOOM-TCHAK!

― Baaderonixxxorzh (Fabfunk), Friday, 15 April 2005 09:03 (twenty years ago)

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