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You Are the Music, Parte the Firste
I am running late for Tiff's latest CD Swap, but I thought I would post the beginnings here, with a question for all of you! The theme of this swap was:
Have you ever watched a movie or a TV show and though, "wow, this music is really great!" Or, more commonly, "this music is so distracting! Why are they playing Nickelback, I think my ears are bleeding! I could’ve totally done a better job."Well here’s your chance. And you even get to pick the movie.
The way many of us interpreted this was "Put a whole bunch of songs together, then write a story about them." My story is still in my head and not down on paper computer yet, but I thought I would share my tracklist with you. I may have to take out a few songs to fit the story (not sure yet because I haven't written it yet) but I don't think I'll add anything. Mp3s will be... somewhere... when I put the story up. I'll let you know when I post the story.
- Two Lovers (Mint Royale Remix) - The Twang (link is to the original, not the remix)
- Colours - Donovan
- Shirin - Jens Lekman
- A Summer Song - Chad & Jeremy
- Halfway up the Hindu Kush - Katie Melua
- Goodbye Mr A - The Hoosiers
- The Rainbow Connection - Sarah McLachlan
- The Happening - The Supremes
- Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys
- Over And Over (ft.Tim McGraw) - Nelly
- Stronger - 30 Seconds to Mars
- Love Today - Mika
- This is not a pipe - Bob Nanna
- Grace Kelly - Mika
- Are You Out There? - Dar Williams
- Shambala - Three Dog Night
- There Is A Mountain - Donovan
- What Is Life - George Harrison
I'd be interested to know if you built your own story in your head based on these songs, and how different it is from mine. Probably quite different!
If you want to read other people's "movies", click here for the list of participants!
srah - Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 11:33 AM
Tags: cd swap, movies, music
Comments (9)
Aunt Pam - February 2, 2008 - 6:31 PM - ℓ
Love it! I've been building a soundtrack of my life for eons now. Even have a soundtrack to be played at my funeral. I find this to be a highly therapeutic activity!
Nice tracklist!!!
I definitely wrote a "movie" based on my own life, so the story was already there. And the music? That was already there too. Heh. Despite this, it was hard as hell to write. Seriously.