My dad recently told me about the “Sound-track to your life.” Basically, what you are supposed to do is go to your music library and hit shuffle, then the first 18 songs that play are supposed to correspond to 18 different “stages” of your life if they made a movie about your life and played that music during that scene. He posted an update to his blog about it earlier this week and has been telling me to try it out since then. Personally, I think he might of wanted to think twice about posting an update that shows people that he has Sarah McLachlan , Shania Twain, and Mary J Blige on his playlists, but that’s just me. While it is of course coincidental at best, it is neat how some of the songs match up pretty well with the stage of life that they are supposed to. I decided to give it a try:
The soundtrack to sean curran’s life, as decided by the shuffle feature on my Ipod Nano.
1.opening credits: The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living, by The Streets
2.Waking up: Blue Orchid, by The White Stripes
3. First Day Of School: Space Rock, by Weezer, off of Maladroit
4. Falling in Love: Different Names for the Same Thing, Death Cab for Cutie
5.Fight song: Wind it up, Gwen Stefani
6. Breaking Up: Cruisin Together by Gweneth Paltrow and Huey Lewis (from the movie Duets’ soundtrack)
7. Prom: Golden Slumbers, a cover of the beatles song performed by Ben Folds
8. Life: 1000 beats per minute, by Beck
9.Mental Breakdown: Last Nite, the Strokes
10.Driving: Do You Want to Ride, Jay Z
11. Getting Back Together: Andy you’re a Star, The Killers
12.Wedding: The Ketchup Song, by Las Ketchup
13.Child's Birth: New Slang, The Shins
14. Lifetime success: All the things I’ve done, The Killers
15. Lifetime Tragedy: What Dreams Are Made Of – Hilary Duff
16. Death scene: Pressed in a Book, The Shins
17. Funeral: It Was Supposed to be so Easy, The Streets
18.End Credits: Fit but you know it, The Streets
I found it interesting that it starts and ends with The Streets, which is good for the circular effect. The titles of The Streets songs also are seemingly appropriate. Blue Orchid was a good fit for kicking off the movie. I think any movie fight scene with ‘Wind it up’ in the background would be a hit with just about any audience. Do you Want to Ride by Jay Z as a driving song somewhat fits, but more in title then actual content. Sara especially appreciated that The Ketchup Song would be the background for a wedding. I think the Ipod mixed up Lifetime Success and Tragedy as What Dreams Are Made Of would have been better for Success while All The Things I’ve Done could go either way.
I was a bit worried because I share the computer with Sara and she has some terrible music like “Dreams do come true” by Dessere on our shared itunes, but none of it managed to sneak on except for the song from the duets soundtrack, and I’ll even admit that I like that.
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I encourage everyone else to try this experiment and share the results on the lets-krong message board
My Dad’s list, originally seen on his website http://saratogairish.blogspot.com
1.opening credits: “I Will Remember You” Sarah McLachlan
2.Waking up: “Since You’ve Been Gone” Kelly Clarkson
3. First Day Of School: “Rock on Rockall” Wolfe Tones
4. Falling in Love: “The Umbreilla Song” The McKrells
5.Fight song: “Life Will Go On” Chris Isaak
6. Breaking Up:”The Body of an American” The Pogues
7. Prom: “You’re Still the One” Shania Twain
8. Life: “Last Letter Home” Dropkick Murphys
9.Mental Breakdown: “Take Me Anywhere” The McKrells
10.Driving: “Space Cowboy” Homer Simpson
11. Getting Back Together: “America, You’re not the World” Christy Moore
12.Wedding: “My Little Lady” Seven Nations
13. Child's Birth:”Be Without You” Mary J. Blige
14. Lifetime success: “Angel” Alison Brown
15. Lifetime Tragedy: “Streets of New York” Wolfe Tones
16. Death scene: “Irish Bagpipes”
17. Funeral: “Days Like This” Van Morrison
18.End Credits: “Breakaway” Kelly Clarkson