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5 songs that make up the soundtrack of your life

pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
edited July 2007 in Other Music
This is a final for my class and I am having an incredibly hard time with it because I can only use 5 songs and I have to do a full presentation of them. What would your 5 songs be and why? The only songs I have decided on so far are Smells Like Teen Spirit and Bittersweet Symphony.
Alpine Valley 2000
Summerfest 2006

"Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
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  • gleemonexgleemonex Posts: 848
    1. Corduroy by PJ
    2. Peace Frog by The Doors
    3. el Scorcho by Weezer
    4. Wheat Kings by The Tragically Hip
    5. Champagne Supernova by Oasis
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  • direwolf74direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Tough question, but I'll give it a shot:

    1. The Tragically Hip- Escape is at Hand for the Travellin' Man
    2. Buffalo Tom- Taillights Fade
    3. The Weakerthans- Left & Leaving
    4. Lowest of the Low- Bleed a Little While Tonight
    5. U2- One
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    Hear My Train a' Comin' - Jimi Hendrix
    Black Eyed Dog - Nick Drake
    Our Prayer - Albert Ayler
    Animal - Pearl Jam
    Learning to Fall - me (no bigheadedness, it just is a soundtrack to my life)
  • shell bellshell bell Posts: 337
    Fuckin' Up-Pearl Jam,and or Uncle Neil's version
    School-Nirvana
    Last Goodby-Jeff Buckly
    I say Nothing-Voice of the Beehive
    Franklins Tower-Grateful Dead
    when you get confused just listen to the music play........

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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,853
    how many threads are you going to start?
    2000: Camden 1, 2003: Philly, State College, Camden 1, MSG 2, Hershey, 2004: Reading, 2005: Philly, 2006: Camden 1, 2, East Rutherford 1, 2007: Lollapalooza, 2008: Camden 1, Washington D.C., MSG 1, 2, 2009: Philly 1, 2, 3, 4, 2010: Bristol, MSG 2, 2011: PJ20 1, 2, 2012: Made In America, 2013: Brooklyn 2, Philly 2, 2014: Denver, 2015: Global Citizen Festival, 2016: Philly 2, Fenway 1, 2018: Fenway 1, 2, 2021: Sea. Hear. Now. 2022: Camden, 2024: Philly 2

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  • Alex_CoeAlex_Coe Posts: 762
    If I were you, I would just deliver a presentation on those 2 songs. You'd get more time to divide among 2 songs than among 5...

    That said, if I was in your position, I'd pick 3 or 4 songs and present those... better to present a developed speech on 3 songs than a quick flyby of 5. These are, after all, songs that define your life, aren't they? Then they deserve more than 15 seconds of limelight! :D

    :V
  • pdh1978pdh1978 Posts: 211
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    This is a final for my class and I am having an incredibly hard time with it because I can only use 5 songs and I have to do a full presentation of them. What would your 5 songs be and why? The only songs I have decided on so far are Smells Like Teen Spirit and Bittersweet Symphony.

    Um, did you have a major drug addiction then?
    If you all stop hitting refresh for just two minutes, I can buy my tickets...
  • augustwestaugustwest Posts: 739
    What's truely remarkable for me is that a certain 2cd album offers ALL of my soundtrack songs, and then some...Quadrophenia...YO!

    That cd hit my very core, and hard...it still remains as valid today, as ever.

    The Real Me
    Cut My Hair
    I'm One
    Dr. Jimmy
    The Dirty Jobs

    If Pete never did anything else after that cd I would still credit him for making the best cd ever made...a cd that meant something great to me, and has stayed great till this day....some 30 years later!
  • DOSWDOSW Posts: 2,014
    Soundgarden - Zero Chance
    Pearl Jam - I Got Id
    Neil Young - Out on the Weekend
    Radiohead - No Surprises
    Temple of the Dog - Four Walled World

    Kind of a common theme there. But those are some of the songs that really speak to me the most. If I thought about it more I could probably think of better ones.
    It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win
  • tinorangitinorangi Posts: 5
    1. Helpless - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
    2. Where Did you Sleep Last Night - Nirvana
    3. Elderly Woman Behin The counter in a small town - Pearl Jam
    4. Sittin on the Dock of The Bay - Otis Reading
    5. All in the Name of Pitty -Skunk Anansie
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  • NickyNoochNickyNooch Posts: 629
    Off the top of my head...

    Alive - Pearl Jam (I think Vedder stated it best on Vh1's Storytellers. We all know how fans turned this from a song about Eddie's childhood and converted it to something positive... "I'm still alive" used by fans as a chant of freedom)

    Scream Out - The Unseen (I'm in a punk band and lyrically, this is perfect for someone in a punk band, "playing punk keeps me sane, I don't need drugs to numb the pain, it keeps me alive, I hope it helps you")

    Fall Back Down - Rancid (great song about all the break ups of my life and a dedication to the amazing friends I have)

    Present Tense - Pearl Jam (Pretty much the way I live my life... "makes much more sense to live in the present tense". A great song to appreciate the world around you and to quote Garth from Waynes World "live in the now")

    Nothin But A Good Time - Poison (I work a corporate job and party all the time. Kinda the definitive work hard play hard song.)

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  • SathogwaSathogwa Posts: 227
    Break on Through -- the Doors
    Dive -- Nirvana
    Oceansize -- Jane's Addiction
    Chump/Longview -- Green Day
    Sublime -- Don't Push
    Sleep on horseback
    Far moon in a continuing dream
    Steam of roasting tea

    --Basho
  • eclecticeclectic Posts: 244
    Babylons Burning - The Ruts
    This Charming Man - The Smiths
    Losing My Religion - REM
    Paranoid Android - Radiohead
    Light Years - Pearl Jam
    'All the rusted signs,we ignore throughout our lives,
    Choosing the shiny ones instead'

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  • jimed14jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    direwolf74 wrote:
    2. Buffalo Tom- Taillights Fade

    Nice! (well, it's a great song ... not sure you want it as part of your soundtrack of your life)
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  • Spark28Spark28 Posts: 64
    The Day I Tried to Live - Soundgarden
    Corduroy - Pearl Jam
    Burden in My Hand - Soundgarden
    Find the River - REM
    #41 - DMB

    HM - Call Me a Dog - TOTD
  • robowskirobowski Posts: 143
    pearl jam - off he goes
    neil young - rithfw
    death cab for cutie - new year
    mad season - river of deceit
    7M3 - lucky

    the greatest 5 bands/singers around
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  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Decided on these

    Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
    The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
    The Redwalls - Thank You
    Oasis - Gas Panic
    Pearl Jam - Gone
    Alpine Valley 2000
    Summerfest 2006

    "Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
  • somebodyelsessky2020somebodyelsessky2020 Posts: 1,173
    in the light-zeppelin
    alive-pearl jam
    mr. brownstone-guns n roses
    state of love and trust-pearl jam
    monkey man-rolling stones
    Oh dear dad
    Can you see me now
    I am myself
    Like you somehow
    I'll ride the wave
    Where it takes me
    I'll hold the pain
    Release me
  • SchokiSchoki Posts: 5,072
    Truth Hits Everybody - The Police

    In Hiding - Pearl Jam

    Road Trippin - Rhcp

    Feel Good Hit Of The Summer - Qotsa

    Smile - Pearl Jam
  • MathMath Posts: 71
    I don't see how you could possibly care about my five ones but here they are.

    That's When I reach for my revolver - Mission of Burma
    Hexagone - Renaud (french singer)
    Dissident - PJ
    All along the Watchtower - played by Jimi
    The Weeping Song - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
    "Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends" - Woody ALLEN
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