Hey This was Months Ago (your life's soundtrack W/O) Jan 19 '05    Write an essay on this topic. Tweet Popular Products in Music The Dirtchamber Sessions, Vol. 1 by The Prodigy From $11 Jersey Boys [Original Broadway Cast Recording] by Original Broadway Cast From $8 The Bottom Line This write off was a lot of fun, and it was a while ago - but the subjects were all relevant. Wow Am I late, in fact I’m guessing I missed it completely Um this is an entry into a write off from last August. I am not really trying to horn in on the write off, I just saw this on one of the people who commented on my last piece and as songs started washing across my mind, I couldn’t resist. The real fun of this is if you think in terms of having themes as you move along. Often while I am experiencing life I hear songs playing in my mind that somehow seem to capture the moment. Opening Credits: Lilia – Wayne Shorter – From the Native Dancer album, one of the eerier songs from Wayne’s solo work. The keyboard part at the beginning is vintage Herbie Hancock and somehow it is the perfect song to roll for opening credits. Waking Up: I’m Only Sleeping – The Beatles – John Lennon’s lament to having to wake up ever. I hate waking up, and especially so if I have been puzzled the night before. Average Day: Tuesday Forever Afternoon – Moody Blues – The Moody’s somehow perfectly captured the general miasma, the ether, the smoky distant horizon of an average day. The Trees call to you, their song is strange but you know you aren’t supposed to just be sitting there, huh. First Date: Everlong – Foo Fighters – Finding love that you have thought was perhaps unrequited is a delightful find. Grohl and his mates have laid it on thick with the look back, and the cry of today’s internet reconnection….”hello, I’ve waited here for you…..everlong.” Falling In Love: You’re My Best Friend – Queen – A song that quite simply captures a love from another decade, and that love that is my best friend. Love Scene: As – Stevie Wonder – How can you not want to pipe this into your bedroom? Fight Scene: Tonight – Elton John – And if there is the one song that describes dealing with not having to end up in the bed fighting, the fight raging on, no end in site. Have you ever reached the point when you would say absolutely anything to be able to roll over, close your eyes and stop? Breaking Up: No More Tears – Ozzy Osbourne – Sometimes you just have to shut up and enjoy the Ozzy. Anytime you are dealing with a breakup it has to be Ozzy or Dio or Metallica or one of those bands that lets you get in the mode of “leave me alone hellbeeotch.” Getting Back Together: Optimistic – Radiohead – Strange, sonic offering from Kid-A and once you have heard this song you can’t help but wonder at the irony of it. Once you have broken up once, then the cat is out of the bag – and you can be optimistic and do the best you can, but that is about all you can really do. Feeling Sexy: Not Tonight – Lil’ Kim – Now here is some porno for the ears, dirty girl flat singing about sex, nothing more, nothing less. I once had a girl surprised that I wasn’t turned on by Tupac or Marvin Gaye or Barry White or somebody – and I said, um, well they are dudes. The voice of a dude just is not sexy to me..I like the voice of a girl. A close second had to be Nasty Girl by Vanity 6. Secret Love: Badman’s Song – Tears For Fears – This song is about reflection, it’s about turns in the music and turns in our lives. It was the theme that ran through my head during the naughty nineties. Life’s OK: And You And I – Yes – One of the true and pure themes from my childhood, synthesizers and descending lines of endless musical glory. It was always one of the gentle strains of comfort that kept me alive during the seventies. Mental Breakdown: Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd – I would play this while drinking quarts of beer and eating chocolate bars on the way home from a job in a dark place, to a scorpion infested apartment in the worst little town in Texas history. If I could drink two of those quarts before I got home, it hurt a whole lot less, somehow Floyd was always there to help me remember to drink. Driving: You Can Look It Up – T-Bone Burnett – The master of strange art rock and themes, this is from the Talking Animals album, which certainly pre-dates Brother Where Art Thou? This is a flying road song, the rhythm keeps your heart beating and the pedal to the metal. Walking Alone In The Rain: My Favorite Things – John Coltrane – The cause for the very deepest introspection is Trane’s take on this tune. The soprano lines fly backward and forward and the melody is a complex fire, far removed from the original. It is the ultimate alone in the rain song. Christmas Time: Silver and Gold – Burl Ives – Yeah it’s from Rudolph, nuff said! Learning A Lesson: Me and My Big Ideas – Tears For Fears – Roland’s masterpiece from Raul and the Kings of Spain. A moody song with a lot of soulful help from Oleta Adams. “Well they love you when you’re weak but they hate to see this winning streak, it’s the thing they call control there’s a deep frustration in their soul.” Deep Thought:Overkill – Collin Hay – The acoustic version from the TV show Scrubs, it is one of the lovelier songs that has come along. Collin is singing about Ghosts appearing and fading away, with those melancholy chords. It makes you think. Flashback: September – Earth, Wind & Fire – One of my favorite songs from the seventies, leads straight back to the dances in the multi-purpose room at Mossyrock after a big football game on a Friday night in the fall of seventy something. And it makes me smile. Partying:Party – Boston – And here we have the song that takes me back to the trucks, beer and campfires where the parties took place in Mossyrock. Listen for the rhythmic clapping in every one of these Boston songs, it is the party clap. Happy Dance:Birdland – Weather Report – Joe Zawinul’s masterpiece captures the happy feet of decades ago. Just wander down the stairs of Birdland and you can hear Bird playing it, Cannonball saying it or Trane making it happen. One of the jollier sounding songs ever written. Regretting: Hard Time Killing Floor Blues – Chris Thomas King – From the creek scene in Oh Brother Where Art Thou, King sings about the very saddest of times. This is one I put on when I am feeling full of regret, and can remember that regret can span centuries. Long Night Alone: Black Days – Soundgarden – One of the darkest, bitterest songs ever. “I fell on Black Days, How could I know That this would be my fate?” Saying Goodbye: It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday – Boyz 2 Men – The harmonies and the video that capture the essence of saying goodbye. So get a bottle and pour it out on the grave of your lost loved one, or that person heading away. It might not be a funeral song in your neighborhood, but it is in mine. Death Scene:Deacon Blues – Steely Dan – The Dan has captured the real essence of part with this world. This was the song that meant death had no sting, that it was okay to live the life of a Kamikaze. “Learn to work the saxophone I’ll play just what I feel Drink Scotch Whiskey all night long And die behind the wheel They got a name for the winners in the world I want a name when I lose They call Alabama the Crimson Tide Call me Deacon Blues.” Closing Credits:Somewhere Over The Rainbow – Bruddah Iz – And as it has begun to capture the imagination of every Hollywood director this side of David Newman, Bruddah Iz with his closing musical statement to the world. It is a lovely notion having this playing during the rolling of the credits. Finally, an end to this list Yeah, so I missed it by months and months, but I wrote it anyway. Here is a list of the other participants, and their stuff is just delightful…..check it out. poeticone16 SixerMan Jev04again treeseed insomniac1587 speeddemon531 JiggyJay grandpa_riot helenekhoffman flamepillar skbreese factotum Ulfson. archer347

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