The Soundtrack to Your Life (851 views)

[Dark Star]

Time to get reflective and existential.

Basically, pick, maybe 12-20 songs that reflect your life thus far; these can be songs that remind of you of a particular period in your life, an accomplishment, a loved one, relationships, etc. You don't need to go into specifics but it's a fun exercise to perhaps get to know each other a little better.

1. Watching the Wheels - John Lennon
2. Badlands - Bruce Springsteen
3. Tiny Dancer - Elton John
4. Mississippi - Bob Dylan
5. Vultures - John Mayer
6. It's My Life - Eric Burdon and the Animals
7. Runaway Train - Soul Asylum
8. Somebody to Love - Queen
9. Just Like a Pill - Pink
10. Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson
11. Wouldn't it Be Nice - The Beach Boys
12. Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac
13. I Need to be in Love - Carpenters
14. Brilliant Disguise - Bruce Springsteen
15. It Never Entered My Mind - Frank Sinatra
16. Touch of Grey - Grateful Dead
17. No Expectations - The Rolling Stones

[halloweenjack95]

Cool Thread & Idea

1. Sound & Vision - David Bowie
2. Isolation - John Lennon
3. Lover you should've come over - Jeff Buckley 
4. Dark Sweet Lady - George Harrison
5. Oh Caroline,No - The Beach Boys
6. Pictures of you - The Cure
7. So Far away - Carole King
8. Lust for Life - Iggy Pop
9. Don't let the Sun go down on me - Elton John
10. Walking in my shoes - Depeche Mode

[Vels]

An accomplishment - www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jNXRr2aINw
A loved one - www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkL3ncIscQM
Relationships - www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_H4Bq-7ubQ
A particular period in my life - www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBjQu5KhVxQ
My life - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c9W2-uGvQQ

[Baronessa]

1. The Blue Nile - "Automobile Noise"
2. Elton John - "Ballad of a Well-Known Gun"
3. Joni Mitchell - "Barangrill"
4. Scott Walker - "Big Louise"
5. Morrissey - "Billy Budd"
6. Jimi Hendrix - "Burning of the Midnight Lamp"
7. Tim Buckley - "Buzzin' Fly"
8. Bruce Springsteen - "Darkness on the Edge of Town"
9. Massive Attack - "(Exchange)"
10. The Beach Boys - "Feel Flows"
11. Bob Dylan - "Highlands"
12. Talk Talk - "I Don't Believe in You"
13. The White Stripes - "I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman"
14. R.E.M. - "Ignoreland"
15. Björk - "Isobel"
16. Melody Gardot - "It Gonna Come"
17. Kate Bush - "Kashka from Baghdad"
18. Gordon Lightfoot - "My Pony Won't Go"
19. The Beatles - "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"
20. Fiona Apple - "Periphery"
21. Mr. Bungle - "Pink Cigarette"
22. The Who - "Slip Kid"
23. Prince - "Starfish and Coffee"
24. Madonna - "Swim"
25. Dire Straits - "Telegraph Road"
26. Radiohead - "The Tourist"
27. Leonard Cohen - "Tower of Song"
28. Tom Waits - "Virginia Avenue"
29. Rush - "The Weapon"
30. Sting - "The Wild Wild Sea"

None of these songs really remind me of anything in particular or reflect on a particular event (because I find a lot of my taste was garbage pre-2012). Rather think of them as a sort of retrospective take on what my life has led up to until now -- a cumulative effect that these songs embody the essence of right now.

[unsainted]

1. "Figure .09" by Linkin Park
2. "Throne" by Bring Me the Horizon
3. "The Great Escape" by Boys Like Girls
4. "You Never Know" by Beartooth
5. "Falling Away from Me" by Korn
6. "Born" by Nevermore
7. "Oscillation Point" by Scar Symmetry
8. "hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it" by Lana Del Rey
9. "Trashed and Scattered" by Avenged Sevenfold
10. "Unsainted" by Slipknot
11. "Nihilist" by Architects
12. "My Life" by Billy Joel