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Jentleness
07-11-2011, 02:59 AM
When I think about some of the trials I had to deal with when raising my step children who had major drug issues, issues that inevitably affected my marriage and my home in negative ways, the song "Do Something" by the Eagles comes to mind. When I hear that song I always feel accomplished because I could have left, taken my daughter and wiped my hands of the situation, but I didn't and because I didn't I was able to help get them past that crap and into adulthood where they are doing fairly well on their own :hello:

It's a sad truth that no music plays in the background while events play out in the foreground of real life, but if there was, what song do you think should have been playing during the last major event in your life?

LunarWeaver
07-11-2011, 03:08 AM
Duel of the Fates by John Williams for everything.

Shorty
07-11-2011, 05:06 AM
Arcade Fire - Windowsill for my parents' divorce.
Johnathan Rice - We're All Stuck Out In The Desert for moving to Arizona.
fun. - The Gambler for meeting and spending a month with Pontus.

I Took the Red Pill
07-11-2011, 08:55 PM
Pink Floyd - Speak to Me/Breathe

relevant to every conceivable emotion

Madame Adequate
07-11-2011, 10:12 PM
Everything I do (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMc13A8LqaA)

Rebellious Eagle
07-12-2011, 02:34 AM
In My Head by Richy Nix is my theme song. Shit happens, but I'll just hold my head up high and move on.

Greatermaximus
07-12-2011, 06:06 AM
The sound of a black hole makes a B note of some kind. Since we're being sucked into one and/or might run into one in millions of years, think about that.

Pheesh
07-12-2011, 06:10 AM
Sit Tight by Carina Round Is the song that expresses my life best I think, depressing as that is.

G13
07-12-2011, 06:51 AM
You Are The One ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFSmvZRLZWU) for when I feel like passing the time with a montage.

Fireflies (Light Messengers) ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txjpgi9blOc) after a breakup or when I'm just feelin' down.

This is for when I'm hitchhiking. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0w1W5RGx9Q)

AngelWings8
07-12-2011, 07:29 AM
Back in college I think I would've said: Zero 7 - In the Waiting Line (also seen in Garden State: YouTube - ‪Garden State Movie - Drug Party Scene‬‏ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuR8FAxsW98))

When I heard YUI's song "Again", I totally fell in love with it and the lyrics (can't find the original music video so here's a live one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqVNfqNS8dQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqVNfqNS8dQ%29:) ) Some lines of (translated) lyrics I like are:

I thought I was running after something carried over from my dreams,
Yet I'm stumbling into people on this narrow, winding road.

It's not like I want to go back to the way things were back then,
I'm just searching for the sky I've lost.

Sins don't end with tears,
You have to carry the pain forever.
who am I waiting for in this maze with no exit in sight?
a blank notebook.
make me want to release my feelings more and more
What do I want to escape from?
... is it reality?

makes me want to scream that we live on do u hear me? i cant play it safe no more ... I've got nowhere to go home to.
There's still so much in life to remove this feeling.
(I'm on the way)
I even welcome this pain
for the things I miss

I have to apologize for this. Ah, I'm sorry.
I can't say it well. I'm just causing worry.

Everything that I embraced that day. Everything that I will embrace tomorrow
I will not arrange them in any order.
I hope you understand. I closed my eyes
but I could still see things I do not want to see.

How do I open the next door? I'm thinking.
I can't take back this story that has begun.

Loony BoB
07-12-2011, 11:06 AM
No matter what I'm doing, be it something really impressive or even something as small as thinking about what to type into this post, I can rest assured that with the Jurassic Park main theme, all things appear great.

Chris
07-12-2011, 12:53 PM
No matter what I'm doing, be it something really impressive or even something as small as thinking about what to type into this post, I can rest assured that with the Jurassic Park main theme, all things appear great.
My thoughts exactly! Must be the theme song of my entire life, or the very least, the song playing quietly in the background at all times.

NorthernChaosGod
07-12-2011, 10:27 PM
All day, er'ry day. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_M_LAMaf0w&fmt=18)

demondude
07-12-2011, 10:55 PM
I'm sad in that I associate every major time in my life with a song, either because it played during or was stuck in my head at the time ... and then write it down in a list later for the purposes of nostalgia. :riiight:

smurfing love my list.

NorthernChaosGod
07-12-2011, 11:18 PM
Post your list! I demand it.

demondude
07-13-2011, 12:00 AM
The whole thing is private property but we're talking Bob Marley's 'Jamming' for the first time I got drunk, Ize of The World by The Strokes for my 18th, Mr 10% by Dive Dive for a wedding I recently attended etc etc. The more interesting stuff will require bribery/coercion.

NorthernChaosGod
07-13-2011, 01:12 AM
If you don't post more, I'm sending you a picture of my balls.

demondude
07-13-2011, 01:32 AM
That sounds pretty horrifying. What would you like to know?

NorthernChaosGod
07-13-2011, 02:41 AM
How long is your list?

And what song is for when you lost your virginity?

Jentleness
07-13-2011, 02:42 AM
I'm sad in that I associate every major time in my life with a song, either because it played during or was stuck in my head at the time ... and then write it down in a list later for the purposes of nostalgia. :riiight:

smurfing love my list.

Listing these songs is the very purpose of this thread. It's so that others might better understand you if they listen to a song that expresses your feelings. Also, please post it ASAP so that I do not have to be forced to see a posted pic of Julian's balls! :hello:

Shorty
07-13-2011, 02:45 AM
How long is your list?

And what song is for when you lost your virginity?

It's not applicable, because everyone knows all EoFF members are virgins.

NorthernChaosGod
07-13-2011, 02:45 AM
You know you'd love to see 'em, but I'd send it to him only. Not posting my balls and getting banned.

sharkythesharkdogg
07-13-2011, 03:08 AM
Not posting my balls and getting banned.

Wait....NOT posting a pic of your balls gets you banned around here?!?! Ugh, fine but this is the last time and I'm not putting make-up on them again! I'll get back to you with the picture.

Haha_YouAint
07-13-2011, 03:21 AM
Back in college I think I would've said: Zero 7 - In the Waiting Line (also seen in Garden State: YouTube - ‪Garden State Movie - Drug Party Scene‬‏ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuR8FAxsW98))

When I heard YUI's song "Again", I totally fell in love with it and the lyrics (can't find the original music video so here's a live one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqVNfqNS8dQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqVNfqNS8dQ%29:) ) Some lines of (translated) lyrics I like are:

I thought I was running after something carried over from my dreams,
Yet I'm stumbling into people on this narrow, winding road.

It's not like I want to go back to the way things were back then,
I'm just searching for the sky I've lost.

Sins don't end with tears,
You have to carry the pain forever.
who am I waiting for in this maze with no exit in sight?
a blank notebook.
make me want to release my feelings more and more
What do I want to escape from?
... is it reality?

makes me want to scream that we live on do u hear me? i cant play it safe no more ... I've got nowhere to go home to.
There's still so much in life to remove this feeling.
(I'm on the way)
I even welcome this pain
for the things I miss

I have to apologize for this. Ah, I'm sorry.
I can't say it well. I'm just causing worry.

Everything that I embraced that day. Everything that I will embrace tomorrow
I will not arrange them in any order.
I hope you understand. I closed my eyes
but I could still see things I do not want to see.

How do I open the next door? I'm thinking.
I can't take back this story that has begun.


YUI is the shyt. Rolling Star is my favorite by her but I really love the guitar riffs in Again.

I know one song that kept replaying in my head in the last event that completely changed my life, Gotta Move by Barbra Streisand. I'm not even a big fan of hers, but the lyrics in that song are so friggin true. The way she sings it is in tune with all my frustration.

Jentleness
07-13-2011, 04:17 AM
Not posting my balls and getting banned.

Wait....NOT posting a pic of your balls gets you banned around here?!?! Ugh, fine but this is the last time and I'm not putting make-up on them again! I'll get back to you with the picture.
While you're at it, get back to me with the theme song to go with pic! :hello:

Pheesh
07-13-2011, 06:16 AM
I have a few songs ready in case I ever do see Julian's balls...

G13
07-13-2011, 10:39 AM
If you don't post more, I'm sending you a picture of my balls.

With each utterance it's getting to be less of a threat, and more of a desperate plea for attention. :greenie:

demondude
07-13-2011, 10:57 AM
How long is your list?

And what song is for when you lost your virginity?

You are strange and perverse. It's a page and a half and there was no music at the time, but for some reason I associate "just" by radiohead with it because I had listened to it not long before.

NorthernChaosGod
07-14-2011, 10:00 PM
If you don't post more, I'm sending you a picture of my balls.

With each utterance it's getting to be less of a threat, and more of a desperate plea for attention. :greenie:
Some people actually don't want to see the genitalia of another man, homo. :)


I have a few songs ready in case I ever do see Julian's balls...
Which would be?



How long is your list?

And what song is for when you lost your virginity?

You are strange and perverse. It's a page and a half and there was no music at the time, but for some reason I associate "just" by radiohead with it because I had listened to it not long before.
Good to know.

demondude
07-14-2011, 10:03 PM
Now I want you to tell me your five biggest insecurities so I can exploit them.

NorthernChaosGod
07-14-2011, 10:17 PM
I didn't realize we were trading information here. And no.

demondude
07-14-2011, 10:18 PM
Well then I'm posting a picture of my grandmother's balls to your house. Ta.

NorthernChaosGod
07-14-2011, 10:36 PM
Whatever you think is appropriate.

Madame Adequate
07-15-2011, 02:20 AM
If you don't post more, I'm sending you a picture of my balls.

With each utterance it's getting to be less of a threat, and more of a desperate plea for attention. :greenie:
Some people actually don't want to see the genitalia of another man, homo. :)

And you are not among said people, Julian.

Pheesh
07-15-2011, 06:36 AM
I have a few songs ready in case I ever do see Julian's balls...
Which would be?

:) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg)

NorthernChaosGod
07-15-2011, 07:16 PM
If you don't post more, I'm sending you a picture of my balls.

With each utterance it's getting to be less of a threat, and more of a desperate plea for attention. :greenie:
Some people actually don't want to see the genitalia of another man, homo. :)

And you are not among said people, Julian.

Never said I was, sweet cheeks.

Jentleness
07-16-2011, 03:27 AM
Can we get back on topic now, please! :kaoupset:

sharkythesharkdogg
07-16-2011, 04:01 AM
A random selection of songs that I never grow tired of. So since they're always in my head, they're my theme songs I suppose.

My Bitter End - Becoming Misfortune (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiMRlj5RSLc)
Lyrics
As we bow and plow right through their needs...

and in finding the reason it failed is cause i wasn't there
and lowering consciousness taking in guilt because i wasn't there

its final
the swarming life of infamy
never gave up
when there gone
they'll be done

and in finding the reason it failed is cause i wasn't there
and lowering consciousness taking in guilt all because i wasn't there
its final
final
you will never see another quite as final as purity bows.

taunt

this is a question of strength
could you protect what is left
of love
of love
this is a question of strength and not of love

buried all
and tried to build it from the ground
than we failed
than we failed
where were you
when than we failed
than we failed again.

this blood is yet our own.

this is a question of strength
could you protect what is left to love.

Oasis - Listen Up (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gEhozcwzsU&feature=fvwrel)
Lyrics Listen up
What's the time said today
I'm gonna speak my mind
Take me up
To the top of the world
I wanna see my crime

Day by day
There's a man in a suit
Who's gonna make you pay
For the thoughts
That you think and the words
They won't let you say

One fine day
Gonna leave you all behind
It wouldn't be so bad
If I had more time

Sailing down a river alone
I've been trying to find
My way back home
But I don't believe in magic
Life is automatic But I don't mind being on my own
No, I don't mind being on my own

[Repeat from top]

Sailing down a river alone
I've been trying to find
My way back home
But I don't believe in magic
Life is automatic
But I don't mind being on my own
I said that I don't mind
Being on my own
No, I don't mind being on my own
I said I don't mind being on my own

Oceano - A Mandatory Sacrifice (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FKLKlATmf4)
Lyrics Your kind has been aborted.
This world abandoned left desolate,
Depleted of all its resources.
There's no recovery from this.

Yet there are survivors scarce
Who hide amongst the ruins where
A crucial decision must be made;
To die of starvation or take ones life and feed upon their flesh.

The sky won't expose any answers,
So stop searching there.
You cannot escape reality's trials
With a simple prayer.

For such a complicated sin fear not of punishment.
Find enjoyment in their pain and incisions made.
You're not a heathen for thinking this if God can allow these situations.
With no response or a single sign sent from the heavens,
Is God deaf, or maybe dead?
Is God deaf? God is not deaf, just non-existent.

Allow your last ounce of faith to diminish.
Let the hunger consume your thoughts.
For all the years spent on your knees
Finally stand to think without looking above.
Finally you stand to think without looking above.
Desperate times call for desperate actions.
So murder, consume, and repeat for survival in a devastated world of exile.

This is a mandatory sacrifice.

Insomnium - The Gale/Mortal Share
Lyrics In their lofty chambers dwell
The sacred and divine
Resting in seraphic bliss
The timeless and sublime

Far above the mortal sphere
Dreaming without a care
Far above the weeping world
Sleeping amidst the light of stars

Too far away to hear our calls
Too far away to care at all

On the burnished thrones they sit
Might in their blazing eyes
Vault of heaven at their feet
Undying flames inside

Never shall decay or death
Touch on the blithe souls
Sorrowless the days of gods
Amidst the everblooming groves

But where do we lay our heads to rest?
Where do we shelter when the night falls?

For the part of man
Is to take the sombre path
Stumble in the dark
Stray amidst the dust and ash

Like forgotten ghosts
Drifting in the driving wind
Dashing towards the void
Whirling blindly through the night

Like water flung from the highest cliff
We fall,
lunge,
swirl,
dissolve,
and fade away
Down into the unknown

Floggin' Molly - Black Friday Rule (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP-UwvGclDI)
Lyrics I want to believe in myself once again
So I dream of a man whose hopes never end
To kiss with a girl who's as lovely as you
I'd give you my heart, if you gave me the truth

And for every tear that is lost from an eye
I'd dig me a well where no man could destroy
I want to believe in a freedom that's bold
But all I remember is the freedom of old

Well I lost me a wife, so I found me a plane
Flew all the way to California
This mess in my head is a mess getting out
Ya drink too much coffee, I drink too much stout

But after a while, when my mouth's not so dry
I'll dance up a storm, sure life's looking fine
But as darkness falls, I return to my bed
Don't ask me more questions, don't smurf with my head

I've been down in this world, down and almost broken
Like thousands of people, left standing in their shoes
I've been down in this world, down and almost broken
As thousands they grieve, as the Black Friday rule

The buildings they shake but my heart it beats still
Oh mother of Jesus, I feel pretty ill
I want to go home where my feet both feel safe
But there ain't no jobs in the old free state

So I must remain in my new adopted land
I'm doing the best, Hell I'm doin' all I can
So next time you see me, don't ask for my name
For I am the King and sure long may I reign

I've been down in this world, down and almost broken
Like thousands of people, left standing in their shoes
I've been down in this world, down and almost broken
As thousands they grieve, as the Black Friday rule

I've been down in this world, down and almost broken
Like thousands of people, left standing in their shoes
I've been down in this world, down and almost broken
As thousands they grieve, as the Black Friday rule

Galneryus - In the Cage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3bzCSjpzSk)
Lyrics
The light is passing by
I raise my hands
The unknown voice is calling me now
In the softly light, i'm looking back

Please find me out
Give me your smile
The unknown voice is calling me now
In the softly light, i'm looking back

Oh, you're the only one
I want to feel you again
I keep the prayer to you
There is a lonely place inside of me

Incredible future is so near me
I want to take it for me
Now i know why you don't treat me
I don't want to be a fool
Memory of you is in the cage
I want to break it away
I can find the exit now
The day to rescue you is so near

Watch that little pigeon
Flying through the sky
I don't know the place of the nest
It may be too meaningful our life

Oh, we are in the gloom
But i don't want to give up
I keep the prayer to you
There is a lonely place inside of me

Incredible future is so near me
I want to take it for me
Now i know why you don't treat me
I don't want to be a fool
Memory of you is in the cage
I want to break it away
I can find the exit now
The day to rescue you is so near

Remember the promises
Your smile makes me so high

Incredible future is so near me
I want to take it for me
Now i know why you don't treat me
I don't want to be a fool

Incredible future is so near me
I want to take it for me
Now i know why you don't treat me
I don't want to be a fool
Memory of you is in the cage
I want to break it away
I can find the exit now
The day to rescue you is so near

A good rainy day song.
Katatonia - Onward Into Battle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfrijAWtBSc)
Lyrics In the still eclipse
Every light is a heartbeat
In the spring
Where I watch
The sudden change

I find this so hard

Onward into the battle
Time is growing so dark around me
I, shallow one
I burn us out
Day by idle day

Days at the sea
My words are incomplete
In the blind spot
Where I saw you
On the 4th at night

I find this so hard

Onward into the battle
Time is growing so dark around me
I, shallow one
I burn us out
Day by idle day



Instrumental songs are my favorite.

Receptor - Run Run Run (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJD3yXQCU8c)

Bulb (Misha Mansoor/Periphery) - Jetpack was Yes! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25PcMV2hvpY)

Animals As Leaders - On Impulse (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gkVSEjVrcw)