Journaling on estrip is easy and free. sign up here

Scott's Journal

scott
My Podcast Link

04/05/2006 11:52 #33909

Soundtrack for the moment
Category: music
If you're at all like me, then there is a constant, revolving soundtrack playing in your head. I've been researching this over the past 10 years of my life. Now, my research isn't the least bit scientific. Most of it was done while getting hammered at bars. However, for sociological data, drunks at bars tend to be honest.

Now, add in that I'm a music nerd, and that influences the circles I run in, and my data might be entirely shite.

Still, this is my weblog, so I don't have to prove anything to anyone.... read on if you like subjective ramblings by elitist music nerds...

My non-scientific finding show that most people have some form of "mental soundtrack" that chronicles their current mode. Songs get stuck in our heads, or we gravitate toward certain artists at certain times in our lives.

This might be a universal human trait, or it might be the byproduct of having seen too many John Hughs films at an early age. Regardless of howit happened, it's here to stay.

Now, the next issue I have is the fact that I am a bit of a music nerd. thus, I feel you and your soundtrack shoul not suck. Far too many people end up with crappy life-soundtracks. I'm going to change that with this blog. I intend to post some fine, less-likely choices for your soundtrack.

Listen to my suggestions and your soundtrack will become better and better...

Thankfully, the RIAA hasn't found a way to collect royalties on my mental state, so I can freely choose whatever artist and song I want to play in the constant tape loop of my mind.


So, here's the first song to improve your soundtrack:

Mood/scene = Upbeat, cool, walkin down the street in the springtime...
Song: Emma Blowgun's Last Stand
Artist: Beulah
Album: When your Heartstrings Break
description: Very hip, low-fi sound. Got a nice horn line to make you feel all confident...


I will continue to add soundtrack suggestions to this page as they come to me... Please feel free to post your own. My greatest fear in life is anyone honestly believing that an Aviril Lavine song could be part of their life's soundtrack. That's like saying McDonald's is your "home cookin'".


scott - 04/06/06 09:03
I truly miss Morphine. One of the top 10 "lost them too soon" deaths in 20th century music.

"Yes" remains a staple in my head. Possibly the all-around smoothest record ever made.
twisted - 04/06/06 00:01
Morphine! Whoa, that takes me back to my early days in Boston. And reminds me -- I probably should have digitized my "Treat Her Right" vinyl before I sold it. Damn! I knew I was going to regret that.
zobar - 04/05/06 20:43
I bought a Beulah album ['The Coast Is Never Clear'] when I lived in NYC and read the Village Voice weekly. I was making more money than I could spend, so I'd go through their calendar listings, buy an album if a band sounded good, with plans to go to their show. I didn't go to the Beulah show, but I still listen to the album every once in a while when I need something different. Gotta love the dulcimer rock.

My current soundtrack is split between all my old Morphine CDs and a motown compilation I bought off iTunes.

- Z
joshua - 04/05/06 18:43
Interesting, I'll check out Beulah. "Hip" isn't exactly a selling point for me, though - there is alot of "hip" music out there that is absolute garbage. I tend to like music with horn lines in it though, so this sounds like a potential winner.