My sister LeAndrea once did an enrichment night about the soundtrack of your life. We were talking about it again a couple months ago and then for some reason the last few days I've been thinking about it again. The soundtrack of your life is, of course, all the songs that remind you of special times or things in your life. Mine would be filled with a lot of songs, maybe even a two disc set. My dad has always liked music and we've always gone on family road trips. So my first memories of music are from driving along the highway listening to "American Pie", "Wildfire", or anything by John Denver, especially "Leaving on a Jet Plane". Then of course you have the 80's and it's hard to narrow it down but I'll just name a few. We used to have to do all our chores on Saturday and always listened to Casey Casem's Weekly Top 40. I remember running to tell my brothers "We Are the World is number one again!" Also, "Cherish" by Madonna, "All Cried Out"by I don't know who and "I Think We're alone Now"by Tiffany are some 80's favs. And "Blame it on the Rain" by Milli Vanilli and "Pump Up the Jam" always reminds me of the skating rink. Since I had two older brothers and an older sister, my music was largely influenced by them. So I blame on them, or attribute to them, that the early 90's were filled with Depeche Mode and the Cure. Just kidding, I still like that music, especially the Cure. Then some High School favs. were all the Beastie Boys, "Two Princes" by the Spin Doctors, "Hey Jealousy"by the Gin Blossoms, any Dave Matthews or Sarah McLachlan song, and "Ironic" by Alanis Morisette, although that song bugs me now. College highlights are "Two Turntables and a Microphone" by Beck, "What I Got" by Sublime, "Mo Money Mo Problems" Puff Daddy, "Dammit" Blink 182 and too many others to mention. Songs that remind me of J.Paul are "Chances Are" (this is really a country song and even though neither of us are country fans, this became "our song"). Also "For Me This is Heaven" by Jimmy Eat World, "Tell Her This" by Del Amitri and "This Years Love" by David Gray.
Those are the ones off the top of my head. I really would like to make myself a disc of this. I think it would be cool to have. (Carolyn, you can remind me to do it periodically). So I hope this got you to thinkin', "What would be on the soundtrack of my life?"
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Oh man, that all brought back memories. And one would have to have a good memory to put together a "soundtrack of my life". This is something I certainly don't have and you certainly do have. But I can remember to remind you to do things... "Mar, don't forget to put together your soundtrack in hardcopy form"!
I can't believe you didn't include Erasure.
There were tons of college songs, weren't there. One that I always relate to my time with you is "Pour some sugar on me". We rarely missed Butt Rock night on the SUU radio station. I seriously question how we stayed amused with how we spent our time.
i'm with le...i think for the first twelve years of my life, if dad was driving, erasure was playing.
don't be surprised if i post something really similar to this post.
Yeah, after I wrote this post I've been thinking of other things I should have added and Erasure was one and I also would have to add "Woody's Roundup" and "When Somebody Loves Me" because those are Amzie's songs. And okay, Jenn, I would also add "Pour Some Sugar on Me". I must confess, Jenn, that I was also thinking about another particular Prince song that I could never really put on "The Soundtrack". ha ha ha. If anybody else thinks of any others, let me know.
oh and also any song off the "Some Kind of Wonderful soundtrack" would need to be included.
I love that Del Amitri Song. Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam sings "all cried out". That was my favorite song in the 7th grade. I would have A LOT of Bon Jovi. Jeremy makes fun of me for it, but I don't care. ;-)
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