# The soundtrack of your life **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 22, 2024, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598 "2024-09-22T22:33:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598/1 "2024-09-22T22:33:26Z")
Today’s grocery trip required two stops; we get most of our stuff at Aldi to save money, but a few things need to come from Fresh Thyme, which is just down the street from our local Aldi. Sitting in the left turn lane as I left Aldi, far too late to get anywhere else, I realized that I needed to turn right, and the left turn was going to force me on to the highway and into a four mile detour. Resigned to my fate, my Spotify playlist’s coffee for this moment sleepy filter into my consciousness: “You Can Go Your Own Way” by Fleetwood Mac. Anyone else have any strangely appropriate musical moments? ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598/2 "2024-09-22T22:42:50Z")
When mrs. dirtball and I were ready to take our newborn youngest home from the hospital, I started the car, the radio came on, and the public radio station was playing Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World.” ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598/3 "2024-09-22T22:57:25Z")
First song ever played in my new Saturn: Welcome to the Machine ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598/4 "2024-09-23T02:12:38Z")
Pinks song Fuckin’ Perfect. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598/5 "2024-09-23T02:17:28Z")
In 2011, I was caught up in a very large layoff at the ad agency where I worked (we had lost our biggest client, and cut a ton of jobs as a result). The night before the actual day of the layoff, my boss told me that agency management was still finalizing the list of who was going to be let go, but that it was likely that I’d be on the list. I came into the office that morning, turned on my computer, and turned on the radio at my desk, which was usually tuned to a classic-rock station. A few minutes after 9 a.m., as Peter Gabriel’s “Solsbury Hill” played, an HR person came to my office door, and said, “We need to see you” – at that moment, the song lyric was, “You can keep my things, they’ve come to take me home.” After a brief meeting with my boss, and the HR person, to go over terms of the layoff and severance, I was escorted out of the office; the HR person said, “we’ll pack up the contents of your office, and have them shipped to you.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598/6 "2024-09-23T02:19:34Z")
Back in the 1980s my mother was dying of cancer in the hospital One evening I drove home from a visit the song One More Night by Phil Collins was playing. I just wanted one more night with her. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598/7 "2024-09-23T02:39:20Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > Resigned to my fate, my Spotify playlist’s coffee for this moment sleepy filter into my consciousness: Well, that was a mess. “my Spotify playlist’s choice for this moment slowly filtered into my consciousness” ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598/8 "2024-09-23T02:55:01Z")
I’m pretty sure I’ve posted this before: the first time I took a stack of client checks to the bank for my new job (c. 2017), the bank’s sound system was playing Steve Miller’s “Take the Money and Run”. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598/9 "2024-09-23T03:01:59Z")
Oh that is really a meaningful story. I’ll bet a lot of people have had something like that. If I could have my parents back I’d give everything I have, just let me have my pets and whatever I was wearing. And if God was willing to make that bargain I’d give the clothes up too. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598/10 "2024-09-23T03:05:50Z")
I had an old Beagle. Betsy the obese. She was obviously dying. Took her to the vet. He came out and said: “I’m sorry Ms. Beck but Betsy had succumbed…Platitude, Platitude, etc…” That’s all I heard. The muzak in the office was playing some country song and the lyric was “I’ll find another girl…” Sappy, sweet love song, I assume. Don’t even know the song. Kinda made me hysterically say, " I’ll never find another Betsy". Tears and sobbing, whole 9 yards. My daughter scooted me outta there. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598/11 "2024-09-23T04:37:38Z")
The vet didn’t allow you to be present while examining Betsy? That sounds just wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598/12 "2024-09-23T04:47:16Z")
My son was back there. (He was carrying her). I would’ve been and was going, I got stopped by a vet tech about something. She died pretty quickly after we got in. I waited too long to take her. She was very old with a bad heart. She perked up for a couple days. It often happens, I hear. I was hoping it was a good sign. Alas, she had other plans. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598/13 "2024-09-23T05:00:09Z")
I really want to believe that we get to know beloved pets again after we are passed. So far there are five cats and two dogs waiting, and I have a seventeen year old cat and a twelve year old dog now. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598/14 "2024-09-23T05:01:22Z")
I was driving to a funeral for a friend and “Funeral For a Friend” was on the classic rock station. Blew my damn mind. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598/15 "2024-09-23T13:48:53Z")
One time I walked into a Walgreen’s, and “I Want a New Drug” was playing. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598/16 "2024-09-23T14:33:58Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I really want to believe that we get to know beloved pets again after we are passed… As a Christian, and Assistant (to the) Minister, I’d just like to say “Fuck, yes!” A loving god wants maximum pets with us for all eternity. And, to be honest, wouldn’t you choose them over some of the people in your life? . Back on topic, David Crosby’s first album was on in my first car as I slid into the back of another car in a storm: _And it’s hard enough to gain…_ _Any Traction In The Rain…_ ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598/17 "2024-09-23T14:46:40Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I really want to believe that we get to know beloved pets again after we are passed. Can you promise me our cats will get along with each other? ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598/18 "2024-09-23T15:17:35Z")
A few years back I sold our family van. We’d had it for about 20 years, and it was starting to develop some mechanical issues, but I was still said to see it go, as we’d had a lot of adventures in it. Anyway, the last song I heard on the radio while driving it to the buyer’s house to hand it over was Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing.” ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598/19 "2024-09-23T15:26:30Z")
I was driving home after visiting a severely disabled relative in a group home. I slipped in a CD and turned it up, and it was Lady Gaga: ‘Born This Way’. He had indeed been born that way. And not in a good way. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598/20 "2024-09-23T15:26:34Z")
Shortly after my mom died, the first morning I was back at my own home and in my own bed, I woke up to a song on the radio that I had never heard or even _heard of_. It was _Call and Answer_ by Barenaked Ladies. The chorus: _And if you call, I will answer_ _And if you fall, I’ll pick you up_ _And if you court this disaster, I’ll point you home_ I’ve never heard it on the radio since. Also, I thought it was Depeche Mode. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598.md?page=2)