The soundtrack of your life

[hexagon_sun]

So with all this talk of the Arctic Monkeys being the sound of a generation, post the significant songs here that have soundtracked your own life. For me...

Depeche Mode - New Life
The Jam - Going Underground
Madness - Our House
The sound of growing up in Basildon in the late 70s/early 80s

Love - Alone Again/Or
Pink Floyd - See Emily Play
Black Sabbath - After Forever
The Doors - Riders on the Storm
Going out to work and discovering 'real' music for the first time

Manic Street Preachers - Faster
Supergrass - Caught by the Fuzz
Blur - For Tomorrow
Care free dole-days of the mid-90s

Morcheeba - Tape Loop
DJ Shadow - Stem
Lamb - Gorecki
The Beta Band - Dry the Rain
Daft Punk - Around the World
Meeting my wife, buying our first flat together


Tony Christie - (Is this the way to) Amarillo
Number 1 when my daughter was born - so despite all the above, the most incredible period of my life will forever be associated with a novelty record by a has-been crooner that had a comedy video featuring a fat northerner!!!

 

[Firestorm]

14-16
Gudby T Jane Slade
Tiger Feet Mud
Ballroom Blitz Sweet

16-18
Im Not in Love 10cc
Far Far Away Slade
Hotel California Eagles

18 and at Uni
Anarchy in The UK
Peaches - Stranglers

19-22
Absolutely anything by The Undertones, Clash, Jam, etc etc recorded or live

24-41
Sod all hardly listened to anything, The Wife did not share my musical tastes !

41-42 Wife left, I bought almost everything recorded between 77 and 81 available on CD !!!

44
Walk for ever by my side - The Alarm
No better than this - The Alarm
Parisienne walkways Gary Moore / Phil Lynott

Played at my Wedding......

 

[DTS]

Not got quite an extensive list buy growing up I think I listended to Nas's " The World is Yours" 7 million times.

It was from his debut album Illmatic and the words just seemed to ring so true to me. Made me the man I am today.....If thats a good thing.....

 

[EastStandBlue]

Illmatic is still one of my favourite albums... His recent tracks are all poor though

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Spencer Davis Group (Gimme Some Lovin) - playing as my daughter was born.

I'll try & think of some more!!!

 

[C C Csiders]

Quote[/b] (hexagon_sun @ Feb. 01 2006,13:41)]Love - Alone Again/Or

One of the GREAT songs.

early-mid teens:
Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
Hanging Around - The Stranglers

late teens:
Let Me Go - Heaven 17
Thank You - The Pale Fountains
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye - Soft Cell
Temptation - New Order

(add comments about sounding gay, at your leisure)

late teens/early 20's:
Pretty much everything by The Smiths

Now just turned 40! still like all the above and much much more.

To keep the birthing theme going, my first child was born to Brimful of Asha, Cornershop; somemthing by The Lighthouse Family and (appropriately) Lucky Man by The Verve. My second child was born to Johann Pachebel's Canon in D Major.

 

[SUFCFARAWAY]

ok. this is going to make people run!

Birthday

Careless Whisper - George Michael

School Days

Park Life - Blur
Champagne Supernova - Oasis
Spaceman - Babylon Zoo

Leaving School/College

Logical Song - Scooter

 

[C C Csiders]

Quote[/b] (SUFCFARAWAY @ Feb. 01 2006,15:43)]Careless Whisper - George Michael
Spaceman - Babylon Zoo
Logical Song - Scooter

I can't but help admire your balls to come on here and openly admit that.

 

[SUFCFARAWAY]

Quote[/b] (C C Csiders @ Feb. 01 2006,16:00)]

Quote[/b] (SUFCFARAWAY @ Feb. 01 2006,15:43)]Careless Whisper - George Michael
Spaceman - Babylon Zoo
Logical Song - Scooter

I can't but help admire your balls to come on here and openly admit that.

Its like therapy. the first step is admiting I have a problem.

 

[canveyshrimper]

up to 18 - anything by The Stones, Beatles, Kinks, Who & Cream, but in particular.
Generation - The Who
Lola - Kinks
Revolution - The Beatles
White Room - Cream
Comin' Home - 10 Years After

Up to 30 - Anything by The Clash, The Jam and The Stranglers, other favourites.
Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
The End - The Doors
Mandolin Wind - Rod Stewart
Child of the Universe - Barclay James Harvest
Honourable mentions for Led Zep, Purple, Sabbath & Uriah Heep & Floyd.

Up to now, in general Franz Ferdinand, Oasis, Velvet Revolver and thanks to SZ Arctic Monkeys.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Blimey... there's a good'un.  I've gone for (randomly) 11 in each period...

Pre-teen & Early teenage years - Heavily into pop and MPB!
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Palco - Gilberto Gil
Brasil - Gal Costa
Festa do Interior - Gal Costa
Der Kommisar - Falco
I Won't Let You Down - Phd
Down Under - Men At Work
Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
The Riddle - Nic Kershaw
Sweet Dreams - Human League
Pump up the Volume - M/A/R/R/S

15-19... Matt discovers rock, Goth... then Dance and Classical
Tower of Strength - The Mission
Lucretia My Reflection - The Sisters of Mercy
A Forest - The Cure
Back in Black - AC/DC
Head on the Door - The Cure
She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
Blue Monday - New Order
Harcore Uproar - Together
It's a Fine Day - Opus III
Ebeneezer Goode - The Shamen
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor - Rachmaninov

19-25 - Travelling and the Student days
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Far More Blues
I've been thinking about you - Londonbeat (it's a long story!)
Englishman in New York - Sting
Shape of My Heart - Sting
We're Too Young To Die - Jamiroquai
Venus As a Boy - Björk
Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
Definitely Maybe - Oasis
Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis
Jóga - Björk
O Sacrum Convivum - Francisco Guerrero

25 until the present - whatever has grabbed my fancy...
The 29/8 Steps - Outside
Remembrance - Outside
Tudo Que Você Podia Ser - Milton Nascimento
I Wish - Stevie Wonder
I've Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra
Pajaros de Barro - Manolo Garcia
Miss Dy-na-mi-tee - Miss Dynamite
You Got the Style - Athlete
What if - Coldplay
Semblanzas de un Rio - David Peña Dorantes
Gloria, Messe Cum Jubilo - Maurice Duruflé

 

[shrimperman]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Feb. 01 2006,18:12)]Blimey... there's a good'un.  I've gone for (randomly) 11 in each period...

Pre-teen & Early teenage years - Heavily into pop and MPB!
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Palco - Gilberto Gil
Brasil - Gal Costa
Festa do Interior - Gal Costa
Der Kommisar - Falco
I Won't Let You Down - Phd
Down Under - Men At Work
Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
The Riddle - Nic Kershaw
Sweet Dreams - Human League
Pump up the Volume - M/A/R/R/S

15-19... Matt discovers rock, Goth... then Dance and Classical
Tower of Strength - The Mission
Lucretia My Reflection - The Sisters of Mercy
A Forest - The Cure
Back in Black - AC/DC
Head on the Door - The Cure
She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
Blue Monday - New Order
Harcore Uproar - Together
It's a Fine Day - Opus III
Ebeneezer Goode - The Shamen
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor - Rachmaninov

19-25 - Travelling and the Student days
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Far More Blues
I've been thinking about you - Londonbeat (it's a long story!)
Englishman in New York - Sting
Shape of My Heart - Sting
We're Too Young To Die - Jamiroquai
Venus As a Boy - Björk
Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
Definitely Maybe - Oasis
Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis
Jóga - Björk
O Sacrum Convivum - Francisco Guerrero

25 until the present - whatever has grabbed my fancy...
The 29/8 Steps - Outside
Remembrance - Outside
Tudo Que Você Podia Ser - Milton Nascimento
I Wish - Stevie Wonder
I've Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra
Pajaros de Barro - Manolo Garcia
Miss Dy-na-mi-tee - Miss Dynamite
You Got the Style - Athlete
What if - Coldplay
Semblanzas de un Rio - David Peña Dorantes
Gloria, Messe Cum Jubilo - Maurice Duruflé

how do you remember such random facts/bands/pretty much anything you've ever been educated/told/listened to?!?!

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (shrimperman @ Feb. 01 2006,18:54)]how do you remember such random facts/bands/pretty much anything you've ever been educated/told/listened to?!?!  

Crumbs... that's probably only 1% of the albums that I've ever owned and listened to, or the music that I've sung or played!

Some of those tracks are connected to happy, sad or important memories in my life, and will therefore remain indelibly on my mind until (I hope) my dying day. Other tracks are more representative of an era - especially the ones when I was a Goth - and yet now seem as if they belong to another life. Yet I still recall how important they felt to me at that time... it was a watershed in my life.

As for how I remember it... I dunno. My brain is a bit like a sponge for facts, music, sounds, smells, emotions etc... I guess that's how I remember it!

 

[Xàbia Shrimper]

Double CD of a real mix-&-match i.e. my life:

Non-Stop Dancing - The Jam
Too Much Too Young - Specials
London Calling - The Clash
One Slip - Pink Floyd
King - UB40
She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
Art School - The Jam
Ain't That A Kick In The Head? - Dean Martin
Rat Race - Specials
Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
Female of the Species - Space
One in Ten - UB40
Waterfront - Simple Minds
Burning Sky - The Jam
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Juice Head Blues - Jools Holland
Night Boat to Cairo - Madness
Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds
Private Hell - The Jam
Breathe - Prodigy
One Way - Levellers
Changes - Black Sabbath
Clocks - Coldplay
Going Underground - The Jam
Sing - Travis
A Town Called Malice - The Jam
Funeral Pyre - The Jam
Wonderwall - Oasis
Full Throttle - Prodigy
Living on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
La Camisa Negra - Juanes
Learning To Fly - Pink Floyd
World in Motion - England / New Order

WS
Jávea

 

[Ron Manager]

First ever record I remember owning was a handed down 7 inch single - Get Back - The Beatles. I can still remember the record label, with the full green apple on one side and the half apple on the other. I will also never forget the look and smell (strangely I know) of the (also handed down) old mono record player I used to play it on. This is one of my earliest memories.

I also remember the first album I bought with my own money - Queen - Greatest Hits and the first concert I ever went to was at around 11 when for a Christmas present I went with my Dad and Uncle to see The Police tour Synchronicity at Wembley Arena.

Then the first band that was all mine (not influenced by Dad), Madness and the album Absolutely.

Then late school years and into college and discovering The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses which of course led on to the whole baggy thing and particularly Happy Mondays - Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches. Then along came Nirvana - Nevermind and I went from baggy to grunge for a while.

The next big thing to hit was Oasis - Definitely Maybe and then the whole Brit-Pop era, particularly Blur - Parklife and Pulp - Different Class. By then I was a commited indie-kid and bought CDs in vast numbers, many bands stand out but Kenickie - At The Club evokes a certain time whenever I play it (which is regularly as it's a great slice of guitar pop).

I think that it's hard now to say which of the more current stuff will class as a soundtrack as I think it's only with hindsight that you look back and realise what really brings those memories flooding back whenever it's played. This is also only a very small cross section of the music that could fit into this category.

I know however that two songs will always live with me as they will always be linked to two specific events, Fire In My Heart - Super Furry Animals which was the first dance at my wedding and (again) Amarillo - Tony Christie as it was just omni-present when my daughter was born last year.

 

[Ulysses]

Ron - Talking of wedding's we've decided to have Primal Scream - Moving on up when exiting the ceremony this august(my choice!)

Soundtrack of my life (74-now)

0-7 Muppets Album
8-11 Queen Greatest Hits
11-13 Gloria Estefan
14-15 No idea lost, can't remember think the old man didn't give me pocket money for two years, something about burning down the garage
16-19 Carter USM, Stone Roses, Inspirals, Happy Mondays, Pink Floyd, More Queen!
20-22 University years Portishead -Dummy, Massive Attack, Julian Cope, Bowie, Velvet Underground,
22-27 Everything new old, borrowed stolen!
28-32 Ipod, MP3s its got a little confusing now.

Today (as its more relevant)

Architecture in Helsinki, High On Fire, Fleeing new york (check them out!!!!!!!), Bloc Party, Wolfmother, The Who (baba o'reilly) and some gwen stefani (in the car)

 

[West Country Shrimper]

My songs are very random.

0-9 The East London Years
A-ha, Clash, Seal, Erasure, Duran Duran, Madness, Adam and the Ants, Spandau Ballet, Human League, Beats International, Haircut 100 and Nick Kershaw.

10-20 The School/College Years
Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Bon Jovi, Savage Garden, Boyzone, Take That, Incubus, Green Day, Linkin Park, Queens of the Stone Age, Rammstein, Less than Jake and Feeder.

21+ The Uni Years
Michael Buble, Coldplay, Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, InMe, Funeral for a Friend and Franz Ferdinand.

That worries me now when I think about what I used to listen to.... There's many more I could name, but I wouldnt want to embarrass myself.

 

[perth shrimper]

I like Xabias 'greatest Life hits style' CD, here's mine in ascending order

There's no stopping us - Ollie and Jerry
I feel for you  - Chaka Khan
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Love & Pride - King
19 - Paul Hardcastle
Can't wait another minute - 5 star ( sorry !! )
Sign your name - Terence Trent Darby
In my Darkest hour - Megadeth
Operation Mindcrime - Queensryche
Thankyou - Led Zeppelin
Your time is gonna come - Led Zeppelin
Cult of Personality - Living Color
Close to you - Maxi Priest
LFO - lfo
Always on the Run - Lenny Kravitz
Nothing to Hide - Spirit
Autumn Gold - Andy Irvine
I've been the One - Little Feat
Warm self sacrifice - Emmit Rhodes
Bitches Brew -  Miles Davis
Change ( makes you wanna hustle ) - Donald Byrd
Prince of Peace - Pharoah Sanders
Losing your mind - Chris Robinson
Hope there's someone - Anthony and the Jonsons.

 

[DTS]

Quote[/b] (EastStandBlue @ Feb. 01 2006,14:02)]Illmatic is still one of my favourite albums... His recent tracks are all poor though

Agreed...

I remember buying Illmatic on tape and not coming out my room for a week. Got most of his stuff on my IPOD from the album.

World is yours is the nuts - Also loved Half time and It aint hard to tell......

Up there with Roni Sizes debut album as my favouite ever.

 

[palexander]

Nice topic - my soundtrack would be...

The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon
Altern8 - Everybody in the place
Moby - Go!
2Unlimited - Get Ready for this
OPP - OPP
Guns n Roses - Get in The Ring (terrible song, but the first 'metal' song I listened too!)
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters (helped me through some sh!t times!)
Mother Love Bone - Crown of Thorns (Reminds me of MTV Headbangers Ball)
Pearl Jam - Even Flow
Nirvana - 'Teen Spirit
Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline
Smashing Pumpkins - Today
Chilli Peppers - Deep Kick
Bon Jovi - Livin on a Prayer
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Faith No More - Midlife Crisis
Stereophonics - A Thousand Tree's
Hootie and the Blowfish - Only wanna be with you
Soundgarden - Fell on Black Days
Audioslave - Cochise
Nine Inch Nails - All the Love in the World

Hmmm... most of those have memories (good and bad!)...