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 ……
