# What's on the soundtrack to your life? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 30, 2002, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752 "2002-12-30T21:27:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752/1 "2002-12-30T21:27:22Z")
This is actually something I do while I’m driving to pass the time, and I thought it might be fun for y’all. Premise: Someone in Hollywood had the bright idea that your life would make a fantastic movie. They’ve written the script, casted it with all the hottest young (or old, depending on your age) stars. You’ve whined that you’ve had no control over the film at all, and the Hollywood muckety-mucks decide to let you choose a song to correspond with each scene. What songs would you pick? Here are some suggested scenes. Feel free to add or subtract scenes to fit your own life (or dramatization thereof). And don’t worry about copyrights. That’s what the studio execs have lawyers for. 1. Romantic interlude 1a) Sex Scene 2. Car Chase (what a life you’ve led!) 3. Stirring oratory at the end of the film 4. Pensive moment while you ponder the deeper meaning of life while staring at the tide coming in 5. That moment in the film when you’re parked in front of your ex-love’s house wondering where everything went wrong, sobbing gently, and holding a single rose, just to see the cold-hearted jerk walk out with another person on their arm (Even though in real-life, you ended up in custody for stalking, the movie plays out differently). Don’t they even care? 6. Action scene (kicking ass, taking names, that sort of thing) 7. Scene in which you help the juvenile delinquent crippled orphans fix up the Orphanarium, thus teaching the kids the value of teamwork, and teaching you to believe in hope again, or some such tripe Feel free to pick anything. For example, if you’re just essentially a brain in a vat, your answer to all the above might be “Tiny Bubbles.” (Just so you know, most of my answers would be Nine Inch Nails songs (I’m a fifteen year old Goth kid trapped in a 30-year-old lawyer’s body), except my car chase song would involve banjos in some way.) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752/2 "2002-12-31T03:41:51Z")
1. _Goody Two Shoes_ - Adam Ant 1a) _Bolero_ - the jazzed up version by Stanley Jordan 2. _Running With The Devil_ - Van Halen 3. _Just Like You Said It Would Be_ - Sinead O’Connor 4. _Deep_ - Danzig 5. _All Wrong_ - God Lives Underwater 6. \*Escape (The Pina Colada Song) \* - Rupert Holmes 7. _Into The Hands Of Death_ - Rob Zombie with Alice Cooper > [@](#): > > _originally posted by a very dangerous driver_ > This is actually something I do while I’m driving to pass the time, and I thought it might be fun for y’all. Methinks you should watch the road and not post to SDMB while driving. But, I liked the OP. Was fun to think about. ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752/3 "2002-12-31T03:52:04Z")
The piano exit from _Layla_ by Derick (Eric Clapton) and the Dominoes. Would be the recuring theme and have long shots of me staring at the road I’m supposed to walk. _Mars_ by Gustov Holst. This would be any time in the film before a big event like a move, birth of a child or birthday party. _Just another day in Paradise_ by Phil Vasser would be the romantic music. I’m not into country, by my romainic other is. _Thunder Road_ and_No Surrender_ by Bruce Springsteen would be the begining and end titles. Oh man I’m in line to see this, whos with me? ---
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752/4 "2002-12-31T15:04:02Z")
I’ve decided that my Romantic Scene would also involve Banjos. ---
**Author:** ![airdisc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19adc/32.png) [@airdisc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/airdisc)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752/5 "2002-12-31T15:17:13Z")
Denis Leary - Asshole ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752/6 "2002-12-31T17:31:31Z")
I’d like to say the soundtrack to my life would be done by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts, but I’m afraid it would actually be Loony Tunes music… _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752/7 "2002-12-31T18:09:36Z")
1. Romantic interlude – “Moonglow and Theme from _Picnic_” (the two were once combined into one recording) 1a) Sex Scene – almost any Antonio Carlos Jobim bossa nova or maybe even Mancini’s “Mr. Lucky” (heh, heh) 1. Car Chase – “Donkey Seranade” from _Grand Canyon Suite_ (Any car chase scene with my having to drive would have to be comic relief.) 2. Stirring oratory at the end of the film – The main theme from _The Vikings_ 3. Pensive moment while you ponder the deeper meaning of life while staring at the tide coming in – _Londonderry Aire_ or Mancini’s “Two for the Road.” 4. parked in front of your ex-love’s house – Barber’s _Adagio for Strings_ turning into that shrieking shower scene music from _Psycho_ 5. Action scene – Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” 6. the Orphanarium, thus teaching the kids the value of teamwork – “Great Balls of Fire” (my teaching style is a little up-tempo. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752/8 "2002-12-31T19:15:23Z")
1. Romantic interlude: Blind–Talking Heads 1a) Sex Scene: not that sort of movie 2. Car Chase: Macarena/La Bamba medley 3. Stirring oratory: the wedding march, played on kazoos 4. Pensive moment: Wichita Sutra Vortex–Philip Glass 5. parked in front of your ex-love’s house: Piss Factory–Patti Smith 6. Action scene: Moonlight Sonata at double speed 7. help the orphans: something by Iggy Pop ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752/9 "2002-12-31T20:03:27Z")
A lot of theme songs: _Peter Gunn_ _Jaws_ _Perry Mason_ _Superman: The Movie_ ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752/10 "2002-12-31T22:23:54Z")
This could be fun 🙂 1. Romantic interlude _Secretly Waiting_ by Marry Me Jane 1a) Sex Scene that never materializes _No Sex_ by Limp Bizkit 1. Car Chase _The Energy_ by Audiovent 2. Stirring oratory - Dizzy Moon\* by Transister 1. Pensive moment _Tomorrow_ by SR71 2. Stalking scene _Lost Cause_ by Oleander 3. Action scene (kicking ass, taking names, that sort of thing) - You Don’t Know What It’s Like\* Econoline Crush 1. Fantasizing about murdering a clown in cold blood and stealing his floopy shoes scene - Headstrong\* by Trapt 1. Helping orphans from the goodness of my heart scene - Questions\* by Home Town Hero ( \*\* [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752/11 "2002-12-31T23:25:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elfkin477 \* > \*\*7) Fantasizing about murdering a clown in cold blood and stealing his floopy shoes scene > > - Headstrong\* by Trapt \*\* \*\* [/QUOTE] Ooh, good scene. I would personally have “Carmina Burana” by Carl Orff. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752/12 "2003-01-01T09:15:32Z")
Soundtrack…for a film to follow: 1. Romantic Interlude “As We Go Along” - The Monkees. Sweet but goofy, kind of like me when I try to be romantic. 1a) Sex Scene “Grey/Afro/This Time He Has Come” - Skip Spence. (No pun intended with the titles, you just have to hear the songs.) Or possibly “Sanctuary” by Miles Davis. 1. Car Chase “Friendly Little Finger” - Frank Zappa. Always wanted to hear this song put to a car chase. 2. Stirring Oratory “Balada Do Luoco (Ballad of the Lunatic)” - Os Mutantes. 3. Pensive Moment “The Credits: Out-takes from Terry’s Movie” - Leo Kottke. 4. In the car outside ex-love’s house “At The Crossroads” - Mott the Hoople 6)Action Scene “Blank Frank” - Brian Eno or “El Distorto De Melodica” - Everclear. 7)Uplifting orphan tripe “The Ballad of Mack the Knife” - Lotte Lenya. 1. Shocking moment of realization of a double cross or a betrayal “The Letters” - King Crimson. 2. Cheesy Hollywood ending where I get the girl and we drive off together at the end (fade out to the credits) “Thunder Island” - Jay Ferguson. 10)Alternate Ending for the DVD “M1A1” - Gorillaz. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752/13 "2003-01-02T18:00:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Siddhartha Vicious \* > I would personally have “Carmina Burana” by Carl Orff. You sure that’s on the real soundtrack and not just the trailer? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752/14 "2003-01-02T20:09:54Z")
This is hilarious. 1. Romantic interlude - _This Twilight Garden_ by the Cure 1a) Sex Scene - _Hard On For Love_ by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 1. Car Chase (what a life you’ve led!) - _No One Lives Forever_ by Oingo Boingo 2. Stirring oratory at the end of the film - _Born in Xaxax_ by Nina Hagen 3. Pensive moment while you ponder the deeper meaning of life while staring at the tide coming in - _Wait_ by Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire 4. That moment in the film when you’re parked in front of your ex-love’s house wondering where everything went wrong, sobbing gently, and holding a single rose, just to see the cold-hearted jerk walk out with another person on their arm (Even though in real-life, you ended up in custody for stalking, the movie plays out differently). Don’t they even care? - _Bad Liver & a Broken Heart_ or _The Part You Throw Away_ by Tom Waits 5. Action scene (kicking ass, taking names, that sort of thing) - _Dragula_ by Rob Zombie or _Angel With the Scabbed Wings_ by Marilyn Manson 6. Scene in which you help the juvenile delinquent crippled orphans fix up the Orphanarium, thus teaching the kids the value of teamwork, and teaching you to believe in hope again, or some such tripe - _God Bless the Child_ by Billie Holiday ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Wilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Wilder)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752/15 "2003-01-03T01:34:41Z")
1. Romantic interlude-Love Reign O’Er Me by The Who 1a) Sex Scene-Thorn In My Pride By The Black Crowes 2. Car Chase (what a life you’ve led!)-One Armed Scissor by At The Drive-In 3. Stirring oratory at the end of the film-Across The Universe by The Beatles. 4. Pensive moment while you ponder the deeper meaning of life while staring at the tide coming in-I am trying to break your heart by Wilco 5. That moment in the film when you’re parked in front of your ex-love’s house wondering where everything went wrong, sobbing gently, and holding a single rose, just to see the cold-hearted jerk walk out with another person on their arm (Even though in real-life, you ended up in custody for stalking, the movie plays out differently). Don’t they even care?-The Wretched by Nine Inch Nails or Fade by Staind 6. Action scene (kicking ass, taking names, that sort of thing)-Far Away by Sleater-Kinney 7. Scene in which you help the juvenile delinquent crippled orphans fix up the Orphanarium, thus teaching the kids the value of teamwork, and teaching you to believe in hope again, or some such tripe-Under Pressure by QUeen and David Bowie. ---
**Author:** ![scablet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@scablet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scablet)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752/16 "2003-01-03T02:10:34Z")
1] **Opening credits** : Whitehouse - A Cunt Like You 2] **First time I’m seen on screen** : Converter - Death Time 3] **Scene in which I open fire utilising decidedly badass weapons in a decidedly badass manner** : Patsy Cline - Back in Baby’s Arms 3] **Insane and vaguely violent sex scene** : Smashing Pumpkins - God 4] **Moment of truth** : Underworld - Born Slippy 5] **Denouement** : Tear Garden - You and Me and Rainbows 6] **Closing credits** : Imminent Starvation - Ire ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752/17 "2003-01-03T02:53:41Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Roadwalker \* > \*\*The piano exit from Layla by Derick (Eric Clapton) and the Dominoes. Would be the recuring theme and have long shots of me staring at the road I’m supposed to walk. > Mars by Gustov Holst. This would be any time in the film before a big event like a move, birth of a child or birthday party. > Just another day in Paradise by Phil Vasser would be the romantic music. I’m not into country, by my romainic other is. > Thunder Road and_No Surrender\* by Bruce Springsteen would be the begining and end titles. > Oh man I’m in line to see this, whos with me? \*\* One I forgot is _All Along the Watchtower_. The original by Bob dylan to describe my workplace. ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752/18 "2003-01-03T08:15:08Z")
1. Romantic Interude: _Always_ - Erasure 1a) Sex Scene: _Closer_ - Nine Inch Nails 2. Car Chase: _It Don’t Mean a Thing (If it Ain’t Got That Swing)_ - Duke Ellington 3)Stirring Oratory blahblahblah: _Ode to Joy_ 4)Pensive Moment: _Virtue_ - Ani DiFranco 1. That Moment When You’re Parked in Front of Your Ex-Love’s…: _Never There_ - Cake 2. _Thelma and Louise_-esque, Don’t Sneaky Men Just Suck, Let’s Get Back at That Cheating SOB Scene: _Angry Johnny_ - Poe 7)Scene Where I Meet My (alas, currently unknown) True Love - _At Last_ - Etta James 1. Action Scene: _Head Like a Hole_: Nine Inch Nails 2. Scene in the Hospital after my back surgery: _One_: Metallica 3. End Credits: _I Wanna be Sedated_ - The Ramones ---
**Author:** ![S.Mussberger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@S.Mussberger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/S.Mussberger)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752/19 "2003-01-03T11:06:55Z")
1. Romantic – Billie Holiday, April in Paris 1a) Sex Scene – Try a Little Tenderness, Otis Reading 2. Car Chase – Theme from Dragnet 3. Stirring oratory – Requiem, Mozart 4. Pensive moment – Beastie Boys, Bhodisvatta Wow (sp?) 5. Parked in front of your ex-love’s house, sobbing? – Johnny Cash, Solitary Man 6. Action scene – Prodigy, Fire Starter 7. Scene in which you help the juvenile delinquent. – Underground, Tom Waits, And now the theme version featuring Monster [http://www.burningheart.com/monster](http://www.burningheart.com/monster) 1. Romantic – Monster, C’mon With Me 1a) Sex Scene – Monster, Longest Dub 2. Car Chase – Monster, Pretty Superficial 3. Stirring oratory – Monster, Valley Of The Shadow Of Death 4. Pensive moment – Monster, Can’t Handle Myself 5. Parked in front of your ex-love’s house, sobbing? – Monster, Choose me again 6. Action scene – Monster, Looking For a Fight 7. Scene in which you help the juvenile delinquent. – Monster, God Knows My Name ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752/20 "2003-01-03T17:05:54Z")
1. Romantic interlude –Dissolved Girl, by Massive Attack 2. Car Chase –Save Yourslef, by Stabbing Westward 3. Stirring oratory at the end of the film –Like Spinning Plates, by Radiohead 4. Pensive moment while you ponder the deeper meaning of life while staring at the tide coming in –I Have Seen, by Zero7 5. That moment in the film when you’re parked in front of your ex-love’s house wondering where everything went wrong, sobbing gently, and holding a single rose, just to see the cold-hearted jerk walk out with another person on their arm (Even though in real-life, you ended up in custody for stalking, the movie plays out differently). Don’t they even care? –Gunning Down Romance, by Savage Garden (Stop laughing!) 6. Action scene (kicking ass, taking names, that sort of thing) –The Red, Chevelle 7. Scene in which you help the juvenile delinquent crippled orphans fix up the Orphanarium, thus teaching the kids the value of teamwork, and teaching you to believe in hope again, or some such tripe –Sing, Travis [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-the-soundtrack-to-your-life/145752.md?page=2)