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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