A soundtrack

I was emailing someone this past weekend, and he asked about the soundtrack of my life which is such a great question, you know?

Like I'm the type of person who knows what songs I want played at my funeral (Slaughter's 'Fly to the Angels' - thanks), the song  I would have walked down the aisle to (if I had ever had an aisle to walk down that is), and the song I would have lost my virginity to (if I had been given a chance to play a record that night but that's another blog post for another day) so I always have a few dozen songs to describe myself at any given time.


Anyway, I did a soundtrack, but I'm still working on it so it's nowhere near complete, but I'm satisfied with the first third of it. Really though, I could be compiling this playlist for the rest of my life and never ever complete it.  

Part I or  "I Have a Complicated Past" or  "Growing Up Sucks"
Yesterdays - Guns N' Roses
Another Nail in My Heart - Squeeze
Drama - Erasure
Red Barchetta - RUSH
Cactus Tree - Joni Mitchell
Hard Luck Woman - KISS
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
I'm Easy - Keith Carradine
Fall On Me - REM
Life on Mars - David Bowie
Since You Been Gone - Rainbow
Epic - Faith No More
That's How People Grow Up - Morrissey
Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe
Blue Jean - David Bowie
I Am, I'm Me - Twisted Sister 

Part II  aka "The Most Hopeless Romantic In the World" 
Wasted Years - Iron Maiden 
All the Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople 
Fernando - ABBA 
Gentle On My Mind - Glen Campbell 
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World - Charlie Rich 
Walk Away Renee - The Left Banke 
Desert Moon - Dennis De Young 
Only You - Yazoo 
Poison Arrow - ABC 
When You Close Your Eyes - Night Ranger 
All This Love - DeBarge 
Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) - Diana Ross

Obviously there's no new music on the soundtrack of my life.

ETA:  Adding Part III 

Part III or "I Have No Title For This But GODDAMN I Love These Songs"
Good Morning Starshine - Hair, Original Cast Recording 
Beautiful Disaster - 311 
There is a Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths 
Save a Prayer - Duran Duran 
Bewitched - Pal Joey, Original Cast Recording 
I'll Be True to You - Oak Ridge Boys
Knock Three Times - Tony Orlando & Dawn 
Shambala - Three Dog Night 
Stone in Love - Journey 
Freedom - Wham  
Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) - The Monkees 
Strung Out - Steve Perry 
Can't Change Me -Chris Cornell 
Lover's Cross - Jim Croce 
Still Loving You - The Scorpions 

Part IV aka "I Was Carefree and Young Once" or "Drinking, Smoking and Sex'ing"
Karn Evil #9: 1st Impressions - Emerson, Lake & Palmer 
Anytime - Journey 
Feeling That Way - Journey 
Nowhere Fast - Streets of Fire Soundtrack
Don't You Want Me - The Human League
Do It Again - The Kinks
Late at Night - Buffalo Tom 
When You Were Young - The Killers
Miss California - Jack's Mannequin 
Working Girl - The Members
Ladykillers - Lush 
Up All Night - Slaughter 
Dream Police - Cheap Trick 
Black Coffee in Bed - Squeeze
Malibu - Hole 
My Back Pages - The Byrds 

ETA:  I'm stopping at Part V mostly because this could go on forever and with this last part I now have a 5-hour, 74 track playlist on Spotify that no one but me will ever listen to.  I may resume with Part VI  onward in a new post though.

Part V aka "I Go A Little Crazy Over My Boyfriends Sometimes" or "The Extremely Personal Playlist That Cannot Be Summed Up in a Pithy Title"
Tonight is What It Means To Be Young - Streets of Fire soundtrack  
Another Saturday Night - Cat Stevens 
Heart Full of Love - Les Miserables 10th Anniversary Concert Recording 
Happiness (from 'Passion) - Bernadette Peters, Sondheim Etc: Live at Carnegie Hall 
Can I Play With Madness - Iron Maiden 
Mother - Danzig 
Alive - Pearl Jam 
Pressure - Billy Joel 
Tunnel of Love - Bruce Springsteen 
So You Wanna Be A Rock & Roll Star - Tom Petty & the Heatbreakers 
Faithfully - Journey 
What It Takes - Aerosmith 

I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues - Elton John 
Pulling Mussels (From the Shell) - Squeeze 
Freedom! (90)  - George Michael 
Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band  
Being Alive - Company Original Cast Recording  

I feel like I should take a bow or something.

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