Listening: several things...

So this is an exercise from Firewolf. It just samples what I have recorded on my computer - which isn't all of my music but it's the most comprehensive collection I have in one place - at random. So... it doesn't make all that much sense, really.

I think tomorrow I'll write out the soundtrack as if I were the music editor for my life.

Here we go:

If your life were a soundtrack, what would the music be?

Here’s how it works:

1. Open your library (iTunes, winamp, media player, iPod).
2. Put it on shuffle.
3. Press play.
4. For every question, type the song that’s playing.
5. New question– press the next button.
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool.


Opening Credits
"Pushit," Tool

What is this but my reflection?
Who am I to judge and strike you down?
But you're pushing and shoving me.
You still love me and you pushit on me.

Waking Up
"Rakim," Dead Can Dance

Not a bad song to wake up to... ethereal and got quite a nice tribal beat. Lisa sings beautifully (as always) in her made up verbalizations. At the end Brendan chimes with a few short verses in English, including:

Favored signs to find hope
In the rounds of life
Favored rhymes to find hope
In the sands of life

First Day of School
"Judith (Renholder Remix)," A Perfect Circle

This is something of a more electronica version of the original, but the lyrics parse the same.

You're such an inspiration for the ways
That I'll never ever choose to be
Oh so many ways for me to show you
How the savior has abandoned you
Fuck your God
Your Lord and your Christ

Falling in Love
"La Llorona," traditional (from Frida soundtrack)

This version is sung by Lila Downs and Mariachi de Tecalitlan Juvenil. There's another version on the soundtrack, somewhat different verses but approximately the same chorus, sung by Selma Hayek.

No dejare de querrerte, llorona aunque la vida me cueste
No dejare de querrerte, llorona aunque la vida me cueste

todos me dicen "el negro," llorona, negro pero carinoso
todos me dicen "el negro," llorona, negro pero carinoso
yo soy como el chile verde, llorona, picante pero sabroso
yo soy como el chile verde, llorona, picante pero sabroso

Translation:
I will not stop loving you, llorona, even if it costs my life
I will not stop loving you, llorona, even if it costs my life

Everyone calls me "el negro," llorona, black but kind
Everyone calls me "el negro," llorona, black but kind
I'm like a green chile, llorona, spicy but flavorful
I'm like a green chile, llorona, spicy but flavorful

(N.B. "llorona" is a female who cries, in the song it's the person the singer is addressing. "Negro" is not just the color black, it's also a description for someone with a bleak temperament, and occasionally someone with quite a temper. "El negro" can mean "the black man" (race-wise) but here it means the singer is called after his personality. They're effectively personal pronouns thus I'm not going to change them.)

Breaking Up
"Forty Six & 2," Tool

I've been crawling on my belly clearing out what could've been
I've been wallowing in my own chaotic and insecure delusions.
I wanna feel the change consume me, feel the outside turning in.
I wanna feel the metamorphosis and cleansing I've endured within my shadow.

Prom
"Shelf Life," Seven Mary Three

I didn't go to prom, but never mind.

Words keep falling from my mouth
trying just to slow them
keep on spilling around
saying why do you hurt me?

Life’s Okay
"Undenied," Portisehead

Beneath your tender touch
My senses can't divide
Ohh so strong
My desire
For so bare is my heart, I can't hide
And so where does my heart, belong

Mental Breakdown
"From a Shell," Lisa Germano

This seems to fit actually quite well.

From a little shell
At the bottom of the sea
Was the Earth and the Moon
And the Sun above me
But the world fell down
With some people still around
There is love, there is love
To be found
With the Gods all gone
And the souls making sounds
In the worst way, in the worst way
In the worst way

Driving
"No Love, No Nothin'," Marlene Deitrich

No love, no nothin' until my baby comes home
no sir, no nothin', as long as baby may roam
I promised him to wait for him
till even Hades froze
I'm lonesome, Heaven knows
but what I said still goes

Flashback
"Bachelorette," Bjork

Leave me now, return tonight
Tide will show you the way
If you forget my name
You will go astray
Like a killer whale
Trapped in a bay

I don't know which part I like better, the bit at the end that's in Icelandic or this part about a killer whale. God love Bjork.

Getting Back Together
"To the Teeth," ani di franco

open fire on Hollywood
open fire on MTV
open fire on NBC and CBS and ABC
open fire on the NRA
and all the lies they told us along the way
open fire on each weapons manufacturer
while he's giving head to some Republican senator
and if I hear one more time
about a fool's right to his tools of rage
I'm gonna take all my friends
and I'm going to move to Canada
where we can die of old age

Wedding
"1000 Oceans," Tori Amos

These tears I've cried
I've cried 1000 oceans
and if it seems I'm floating
in the darkness well
I can't believe that I would keep
keep you from flying
so I will cry
1000 more
if that's what it takes
to sail you home

Birth of a Child
"Do U Fear (for Your Child)?," My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult

Just about apropos, don't you think? Especially with the creepy child singing the intro.

The crazies demanding
to shut out the daylight
Soldiers are dancing on rotting empires
TV disease is making us tired
Death struts the streets
It's high on the bile

Final Battle
"Harm of Will," Bjork

And if he has chosen the point
While she is under him
Then leave her coyly placed crouched sucking him
For it is I with
Her on knee

I definitely like the Icelandic part in this song best.

Death Scene
"Burn," Nine Inch Nails (Live at Woodstock)

Well kind of relevant. sort of. The studio version is on the Natural Born Killers soundtrack.

I am the agent
(I never was a part of you) BURN
I am corruption
(I never was a part of you) BURN
I am the angel
(I never was a part of you) BURN
Of your destruction
(I never was a part of you) BURN

Funeral Song
"The Last Ray," This Mortal Coil

A nice instrumentation, I suppose it would go well say as a casket is brought up. It's somewhat plaintive while it looks out over the horizon.

End Credits
"Serpent's Serenade," This Ascension

Would you com here
Would you come for me...
Would you come if I called
Your name?
With a slight shift
Tiny utterance
Soft, sweetest tinge of pain
Sheer as your lips clenched
Was that a sigh?
With a wish would time pass
Me right by?
Would you come for me
Would you come here...
Would you come if I called
Your name?