QYDJ: The soundtrack

August 26th, 2008

This is one of those posts that you think up the title and the general concept and then realise that you have no idea how to actually flesh out your clever idea.

The was if I were to choose music from and inspired by the blog Quit Your Day Job what would I want on that soundtrack?   Since of course I see this site as a natural extension of myself then the soundtrack would have to be a soundtrack of me.

Knowing this I also decided to make this a volume one.   There are just too many songs in my life for just one 12 track CD!   And thus in the future there may be more instalments.

All my songs are old!?!

I like contemporary music, I really do, but then I liked plenty of music only to regret it later on, so when I tasked myself with narrowing the songs down I looked at the bigger picture, not simply what is moving me right now.

The song listings are as much of a mix up as this site , as I am.   I like all kinds of music, which is probably why I’m drawn more to compilations/soundtracks than artist albums.

So why not gather the tracks far and wide and stick them on your MP3 player and step inside my head for a little bit (just remember to pick up after yourself).

  1. Paranoid Android - Radiohead (1997)
  2. Kiss - Tom Jones with the Art of Noise (1988)
  3. Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen (1988)
  4. You Could Be Mine - Guns N’ Roses (1991)
  5. Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison (1988)
  6. Oh Yeah - Yello (1986)
  7. The Ship Song - Nick Cave and the Badseeds (1990)
  8. The Cosmic Shame - Tenacious D (1997)
  9. All You Need Is Love - The Beatles (1967)
  10. Iron Man - Black Sabbath (1971)
  11. Intergalactic - The Beastie Boys (1998)
  12. Spider-Man cartoon theme - Bob Harris (1967)

So this isn’t a meme but feel free to do it on your own site and be sure to link back!

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Five songs that have left their footprint in my life

June 6th, 2008

This is the hardest list I think I’ve tried to put together, it’s personal, ever changing and way too crowded for a list of only five.   But five songs it is.   These are probably as close as I can reasonably get to a top five and I guarantee that tomorrow morning it will be way different.

They’ve all left their mark on my life at different times for different reasons and each holds a special place because of it.

Top five songs that have left their footprint in my life

  1. The Ship Song: Nick Cave and the Badseeds - It’s simple, this is the song that my wife and I danced to at our wedding.   This is our song, it never fails to move me.   In an interview once Nick Cave spoke about selling his songs to advertise stuff and he explained why he would never do it, basically he believed that his fans had associations with the songs for various reasons and it would cheapen their connection to them if he sold them to some advertisement.   For this I respect him and am grateful.

  2. Paranoid Android: Radiohead - Probably have a similar connection to this song as it has to do with Tracey, this song was one of the first if not THE first song we discovered together.   We lived in Toowoomba in a tiny flat and managed to scrape together enough money each money for pay tv.   Here we discovered the animated series Robin and eventually discovered the band Radiohead and Paranoid Android (yes we’d both heard the brilliant Creep but it didn’t burn itself into our minds like Paranoid Android did).

  3. Kiss: Tom Jones - There has to be a Tom Jones song on this list, that’s the law, sorry that’s just the way it is.   I chose Kiss because it really stands out in my mind and sums up what I think the essence of Jones is.   I mean he’s cool but kitsch but cool at the same time.   He’s awesome and he thinks he “better dance now!”   Of course anyone who has seen him live know that he probably shouldn’t dance now.   It’s Not Unsual comes in a very very close second.

  4. Everybody Knows: Leonard Cohen - If you’ve never heard any Cohen, shame on you, go out and get the essential Leonard Cohen and allow it to change your life.   If you have any connection to any kind of art then Cohen will speak to you.   I love this song which embarrassingly enough I first encountered in the movie Pump Up The Volume.   Again a very close second would be Tower of Song.

  5. Intergalactic: The Beastie Boys - OMG the Beastie Boys are just brilliant and Intergalactic is a prime example of their brilliant work, best of all they mention Spock!   These guys are unbelievably cool and they are Trekkies, it honestly doesn’t get much better for me.   It doesn’t hurt that the music is just great too.

I can’t go into the songs that I didn’t include, there are simply too many deserving tracks and I could be here all night.   You guys throw some out there!

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