I’ve recently returned from a very enjoyable week’s holiday in a cottage in Brittany (I missed you too) and discovered an interesting note left for me on Facebook by a friend with impeccable (and eclectic) musical taste.
Apologies if you’ve already come across this little game, but although most of these FB quizzes suck (as Sarah rightly suggested) this one proved quite diverting and worth the four minutes or so it takes to complete.
If your life was a movie, what would the soundtrack be?
An intriguing premise for sure, and the rules are as follows:
- Open your library (itunes, ipod, Media Player etc)
- Put it on shuffle (very important!)
- Press play
- For every one of the ‘stages of life’ below, type the name of the song that’s playing
- When you go to the next ‘stage’, press the ‘next’ button
- Don’t lie in order to pretend you’re cool.
- Read through and be amused (or bemused) by the results
- Do the exercise again, picking the songs you would have preferred to turn up!
I’ve added the last couple of steps myself, (7) to replace the directive to pass it on to friends (in case you don’t want to!) and (8) to give you the chance to redeem yourself if the original answers turned out too embarrassing or just plain weird.
It’s your life, after all!
The movie soundtrack of my life is …..
The stages of life are listed below (in bold) together with my answers. I didn’t cheat, and got some interesting results …
Opening credits Connection – Elastica
Waking up Super-connected – Belly
First day of School Go Karts – The Bees
Falling in Love Easy Skanking – Bob Marley
Fight Song Up All Night – The Young Knives
Breaking Up Little Bear – Guillemots
Prom Why? – Tracy Chapman
Life Dolphins – Beth Orton
Mental Breakdown Look Up – Zero 7
Driving So Tonight That I Might See – Mazzy Star
Flashback I Love You – The Bees
Funeral Song Race For The Prize – The Flaming Lips
End credits
Song 1: The Fear by Travis; cross-fade into song 2: Radio Ga Ga by Frank Sidebottom
A strange mix, but not a bad soundtrack really. I was particularly impressed by the uncanny segue from the opening credits to the wake up song, and mightily pleased that the end credits finished with Frank Sidebottom’s mercurial take on Radio Ga Ga. Thank you.
How does your life sound?
What about you? Have a go and see how your soundtrack shapes up.
I’d be very interested to see your results – feel free to post as a comment below or write it on the wall of the Facebook group for this blog.
I’ll add my ‘Fantasy Soundtrack’ answers – see step 8 – in due course when I’ve had a bit more time to mull it over.
In the meantime, enjoy selecting the movie soundtrack of your life ……
Well I dusted off my creaky 3rd gen iPod (still going strong!…well not really) which is full of detritus and strange stuff you might not know about unless you’re some kind of weird internet nerd, and to be honest the results weren’t exactly rife with comedy gold but here they are anyway, unaltered I might add:
Opening credits: Don’t Have a Life – Husker Du (that can’t be a good start)
Waking up: We’re a Happy Family – The Residents
First day of School: Going to Move to Alabama – Charley Patton
Falling in Love: To Pray – Pyg
Fight Song: Satan Baby – Stick Men With Ray Guns
Breaking Up: Gangster of Love (Pts 1 & 2) – Jimmy Norman
Prom: Legavaan Satellite – The Heads
Life: Aurora Borealis – Meat Puppets
Mental Breakdown: Dicks Hate the Police – The Dicks
Driving: Nothing (Live 1983) – The Stalin
Flashback: Some of These Days I’ll be Gone (Take 2) – Charley Patton
Funeral Song: Fragment V – Masayuki Takayanagi
End credits: Planetarium – Steven Wright (er…not a song but that’s what came up).
Oh dear. Well at least you can’t accuse me of not being eclectic…
Anyway glad you had a good time in France. BTW I’ve posted something on my blog! Be amazed! http://ajf93.blogspot.com
I was given special dispensation by Gareth to exclude anything from the Now! series (which I am ashamed to say I have them all). I basically think this was because he doesn’t want that soooo uncool pop anywhere near his blog. Anyway this is what my list threw up.
Opening credits: The long and winding road, The Beatles (quite appropriate!)
Waking up: Get it, Get it, Scissor sisters
First day of School: Step on, Happy Mondays (lol)
Falling in Love: Working Class Hero, Tin Machine
Fight Song: Getcha groove on, Limp Bizkit
Breaking Up: What the world is waiting for, Stone Roses
Prom: The brainwasher, Daft Punk
Life: Dancing shoes, Arctic Monkeys
Mental Breakdown: Pump it, Black eyed peas
Driving: The importance of being idle, Oasis
Flashback: Kettle’s On, The Feeling
Funeral Song: Plastic, Portishead
End credits: Sticks and Stones, Babyshambles and Addicted, Amy Winehouse
This is fun …
Opening credits: Oh my lover, PJ Harvey
Waking up: Echoes, Pink Floyd
First day of school: We are the pigs, Suede
Falling in Love: I am sound, The Dandy Warhols
Fight Song: Use somebody, Kings of Leon
Breaking up: Work to do, The Isley Brothers
Prom: Take the long road and walk it, The Music
Life: Go with the flow, Queens of the Stone Age
Mental breakdown: There goes my gun, Pixies
Driving: Nietzche, The Dandy Warhols
Flashback: Fake Plastic Trees, Radiohead
Funeral song: Bring it on home, Led Zeppelin
End credits: Sleepflower by Manic Street Preachers, then Sympathetic Noose by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
OK here we go – from my iPod, not the full collection:
Opening credits: Empty Cans, The Streets
Waking up: Precious Things, Tori Amos
First day of school: Something True, The Cobalt Season
Falling in Love: Velvet Revolution, Tori Amos
Fight Song: Connection, Elastica
Breaking up: You Never Wash Up After Yourself, Radiohead LOL!
Prom: Like Eating Glass, Bloc Party (sounds like fun!)
Life: Now Here Is Nowhere, The Secret Machines
Mental breakdown: Cruel, Tori Amos (she’s coming up a lot!)
Driving: Amy, Mark Ronson ft Kenna
Flashback: Union City Blue, Blondie
Funeral song: Growing Up, Growing Down, The Blue Aeroplanes
End credits: Code Red by Tori (again) and Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad by Moby