I sincerely hope that this hasn't been done before... And if it has, pardon the repetition. But I was watching a commercial the other day and the first thing it said was "The soundtrack of your life". And then I started thinking about the songs that made up my childhood, adolescence, and newfound semi-adulthood.

So, I put out to you, what would be on the CD of your life? It could only be one song, it could be an entire track list. But the end result will give us an insight as to who you were, who you are, and who you'll turn out to be.

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Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist.

Play "Bad Day" by Fuel in a continuous loop for 20 years and you'll have my life. It may also help to watch a little girl being born at the start of this sequence and follow her around until she's 20, to give the full effect.

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Mediocrity at its most average.

Thanks, kitty. I was just trying to think of what the lamest thing ever is.

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Batman created by Bob Kane

Life, The Universe, and Umfumdisi:

01. Born At The Right Time--PAUL SIMON.
Nice mood-setting piece.

02. Lola--THE KINKS.
When I was younger, I had long, blonde hair. Strangers would come up and say, "Oh what a cute little girl." I would yell, "I'm a boy!" and kick them in the shin.

03. Linus & Lucy--VINCE GUARALDI TRIO.
I was quite enamored of the Peanuts gang. The Peanuts gang dances around to this "theme song" a lot--most notably in "A Charlie Brown Christmas" when they're rehearsing for the play.

04. Popcorn--HOT BUTTER.
I almost put this on my most recent Swap Disc. It's an instrumental (early Electronica). I had one teacher who would play this 45rpm single whenever she left the room.

05. Brown Eyed Girl--VAN MORRISON.
For the neighbor girl with brown hair, too. We were best friends when I was eight. I used to think this song and THE WHO's "Magic Bus" were by The Rolling Stones.

06. Hang On Sloopy--THE MCCOYS.
This and the next four songs were part of my Mom's collection of 45s from when she was growing up. I played them incessantly.

07. Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)--JOHN FRED AND HIS PLAYBOY BAND.
I'm surprised this hasn't shown up on a Tarantino soundtrack.

08. (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone--THE MONKEES.
I'm pretty sure this was the B-side of "Last Train To Clarksdale." I liked this one better.

09. Baby, You're A Rich Man/Hello Goodbye--The Beatles.
I'd make this one long track because I always listened to these back-to-back.

10. Give A Little Bit--SUPERTRAMP.
I never liked going to bed, so Mom and Dad would play albums for me to fall asleep by. I didn't care much for SUPERTRAMP, so I'd usually drift off after this first track from "Even In The Quietest Moments."

11. Sugar Mountain/I Am A Child/Comes A Time/After The Gold Rush--NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE.
I'd always listen to this suite before falling asleep because I wanted to hear Neil say, "When I get big, I'm gonna get me an electric guitar!"

12. Strutter--KISS.
Yes, a sleepy-time classic from the Knights (or Kings) In Satan's Service.

13. Highway Song--BLACKFOOT.
By now, my Dad's albums were becoming my spins of choice. BLACKFOOT was the first band I saw live in concert. Dad put me on his shoulders for this song and I sang every word. The guys in the band pointed at me, and I was hooked.

14. Gimme Three Steps--LYNYRD SKYNYRD.
More Southern Rock--woo-hoo!

15. Mr. Roboto--STYX.
I'm pretty sure this was the first 45 I ever bought. Cut to me doing a robot dance in the bedroom.

16. Delirious--PRINCE.
Now I'm dancing around in my underwear listening to Casey Casem's American Top 40!

Crap, I think I'm out of room on this CD.

Disc Two:

01. Hungry Like The Wolf--DURAN DURAN.
My best friend and I bought guitars because we wanted to be Pop/Rock Stars like Simon, Andy, John, Nick, and Roger (no, I didn't have to look that up).

02. Eruption--VAN HALEN.
Hey, I'd just bought a guitar. I wanted to be Eddie. After hearing "5150," I started going back and buying older VAN HALEN tapes. Thus starteth the "collection" of music.

03. King Of Rock--RUN-D.M.C.
Rap comes to the small town. Yes, we heard of them before "Walk This Way." Best rap duo EVER!

04. One--METALLICA.
Yes, owning a guitar changed my appreciation for the instrument. In quick succession, my favorite artists/bands went from PRINCE to DURAN DURAN to VAN HALEN to METALLICA.

05. Mr. Brownstone--GUNS N ROSES.
I had the long hair and the rock T-shirts. I went to about 20 concerts during high school. One teacher made me put tape over part of my BON JOVI shirt because the back of it read, "WE CAME, WE SAW, WE KICKED YOUR ASS!"

06. Black--PEARL JAM.
Most people forget that "Ten" actually came out shortly before NIRVANA's "Nevermind." It took longer for PEARL JAM to catch on, though.

07. Jesus Christ Pose--SOUNDGARDEN.
Totally blew me away when I first heard it--much like ALICE IN CHAIN's Man In The Box. Awesome videos, too.

08. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)--JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE.
Now that I had reached a wall waiting for new music, I went back and rediscovered the classics. I was also being influenced by my college roommates and my gig as a DJ for UT's alternative radio station.

09. The Crunge--LED ZEPPELIN.
I told you I was going back...

10. Concrete Jungle--BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS.
...and exploring alternate forms.

11. Bitches Brew--MILES DAVIS.
I think I read about this album in a book of the "500 best albums" or something like that. I knew it was Jazz, and I knew it was electrified. I almost wasn't ready for it, but "Bitches Brew" really opened my ears.

12. Freddie Freeloader--MILES DAVIS.
Totally different Jazz than "Brew," but just as compelling. I began exploring the ocean of Jazz using Miles as my springboard.

13. Excursions--A TRIBE CALLED QUEST.
Can't forget my rap jams. It didn't hurt that they sampled Jazz riffs. Q-Tip is a poet.

14. Lucky--RADIOHEAD.
As my tastes expanded, I became more demanding of the quality of my music. Most Rock bands didn't do much for me and my favorites often disappointed me. Then I bought "OK Computer" on a whim. Rock revived.

15. Nuages--KING CRIMSON.
Okay, I had to sneak in some CRIMSON. This is a good ending track, anyway.

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So that's my life in music so far. I'm just as likely to listen to JOHN COLTRANE as I am JOHNNY CASH or JOHNNY GREENWOOD these days. I'm older, so the hot new Pop and Rock doesn't sound fresh to me anymore. I complain that people don't write songs anymore. I make Swap CDs full of my favorites hoping to influence other ears just in case they've never heard of...whomever.

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Chicken Feather Bed Bugs Bunny Hop Sing Out Side Street Walker Texas Ranger Cookie Dough Boy Wonder Years

EVERYTHING YOU NEVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT UNKNOWNERIC (AND COULDN'T BE ARSED TO ASK)

1. Ricky Nelson - LONESOME TOWN
I was named after Ricky Nelson. My parents are among his biggest fans. I saw him live 3 times before his untimely death. And this is my favorite song of his.

2. Beach Boys - FUN FUN FUN
The first band I ever got into (as a 3 year old) was the Beach Boys. I picked this one in particular because as a 3-5 year old, I thought they were singing "until daddy takes the teaboard away" and I used to look at this wooden board my grandma used to put her tea on and think, "I don't think that's much fun. Why are they singing about it?" I was kind of a cute kid, I'm not sure what happened. ;)

3. Journey - SEPARATE WAYS
The very first 45 I ever bought. I'm not necessarily proud of it, but hey...

4. O.M.D. - TESLA GIRLS
Most people became interested in "alternative" music in the 80s by discovering a hip, underground band like R.E.M. or Game Theory or Husker Du. Not me. My gateway into the underworld was O.M.D. That's probably why I have such fucked up musical taste.

5. The Smiths - UNLOVEABLE
My grammar school anthem. Of course, if I had heard of it at the time, Another Sunny Day's "You Should All Be Murdered" would've been my grammar school anthem, but...

6. Black Flag - RISE ABOVE
My angrier grammar school anthem. A friend of mine's older brother had "Damaged" so the Flag was my first exposure to punk rock.

7. Chris Isaak - HEART SHAPED WORLD
When I was 15, my parents and I moved about 10 miles away from where all my friends were and then my grandfather died a few days after that. I used to just sit there for hours and listen to this tape on repeat because it was so melancholy and soothing. I can't hear it now without thinking of the late fall of 1990.

8. Ned's Atomic Dustbin - LESS THAN USEFUL
My high school anthem.

9. R.E.M. - TRY NOT TO BREATHE
Automatic For The People is probably the reason I'm typing this today and not six feet under. My senior year of high school was a trying time and Automatic got me through it.

10. Jefferson Airplane - WHITE RABBIT
No other reason than this was the very first song my first band learned to play. So I can't hear it without thinking of sitting in Rich's basement, trying to teach myself how to play bass on the fly and playing this song and the Go Gos "Our Lips are Sealed."

11. Weezer - WHY BOTHER
I kinda skipped a long, dark period in college that I don't want to think much about, and let's pick up at the beginning of my senior year in college. This song sums up my feelings at the time.

12. Ben Folds Five - JACKSON CANNERY
I spent a year after college "finding myself" in the guise of "finding a job." I worked many crappy jobs in various warehouses (warehousi?), retail establishments, etc. This song always reminds me of that "lost year."

13. The Beatles - I'M SO TIRED
Where I'm at right now. ;)

There are large portions of my life I couldn't sum up in song.

I also may do an "Eric's Mostly Miserable Love Life" mix for you later. ;)

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I has a flavor!

Save it for the next CD swap, umfum!

[list=1][*]Downtown -- PETULA CLARK. First song I remember hearing on the radio. (Get used to the old fart music, because for a good share of my life, new fart music hadn't been invented.)

[*]Little Child -- THE BEATLES. My cousin was a budding hippie. He had Beatles albums

[*]Monkees Theme -- THE MONKEES. Along with Batman and Laugh-In, my first prime-time viewing.

[*]Medley: Get Back -- THE BEATLES / One -- THREE DOG NIGHT / Crystal Blue Persuasion -- TOMMY JAMES AND THE SHONDELLS / In the Year 2525 -- ZAGER AND EVANS / Get Together -- THE YOUNGBLOODS / Honky Tonk Women -- THE ROLLING STONES. Summer of '69 and my first immersion to top-40 radio.

[*]Joy to the World -- THREE DOG NIGHT. That song is still ubiquitous.

[*]American Pie -- DON MCLEAN. And this one.

[*]Alone Again Naturally -- GILBERT O'SULLIVAN. And right around the time that came out, I was diving deep into social dark ages.

[*]Wasted Words -- ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND / Layla -- DEREK AND THE DOMINOS. Off to a new school and on the rides there, my first introduction to "cool" music.

[*]Side 1 of Abbey Road -- THE BEATLES / Side 2 of Led Zeppelin II -- LED ZEPPELIN. Oh yeah, at that school there was a stereo in the art room, and this was what was playing on it most of the time.

[*]Funeral For a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding -- ELTON JOHN. From the first album I bought.

[*]My Bologna -- WEIRD AL YANKOVIC. An anachronism in the soundtrack, but about this time I started penning my first musical parodies.

[*]Convoy -- CW McCall. A slighter anachronism. A summer camping trip from Maine to Tennessee in which the vans communicated by CBs (right before the craze) ...

[*]Side 2 of Abbey Road -- THE BEATLES. ...and this was often on the tape deck, thus closing that circle.

[*]Lucky Number -- LENE LOVICH. I programmed the weekly lottery for my Algebra class. And often won.

[*]Bohemian Rhapsody -- QUEEN. More omnipresent background music.

[*]Bertha/Good Lovin' -- THE GRATEFUL DEAD. First songs at first rock concert.

[*]Undercover Angel -- ALAN O'DAY / The Other One -- THE GRATEFUL DEAD. Summer of '77. A few days of which I may have spent not under the influence of something or other...

[*]Panama Red -- NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE. As I said... culminating at a festival where the New Riders opened for me and 150,000 others.

[*]Paradise by the Dashboard Light -- MEAT LOAF / Baker Street -- GERRY RAFFERTY. Cruisin' US 1 on hot summer nights.

[*]Louie Louie -- THE KINGSMEN. ... And off to college.

[*]WOLD -- HARRY CHAPIN. ... with a DJ gig ...

[*]Comfortably Numb -- PINK FLOYD. And all the other amenities.

[*]Keep on Loving You -- REO SPEEDWAGON. Spring Break and driving to Florida without parental supervision.

[*]Pink Houses -- JOHN COUGAR MELLONCAMP. Off to the Midwest for a few years.

[*]It's All About the Pentiums -- WEIRD AL YANKOVIC. And discovering Usenet, email, etc. in its primitive forms.

[*]The Gambler -- KENNY ROGERS. And playing cards, albeit not poker.

[*]On the Run -- PINK FLOYD / Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head -- BJ THOMAS. My bout with mono -- as comical as the music suggests.

[*]If I Only Had a Brain -- RAY BOLGER. Moving into Artificial Intelligence.

[*]The Load Out-- JACKSON BROWNE. Moving back to the East Coast, albeit Washington.

[*]Death Don't Have No Mercy -- THE GRATEFUL DEAD. Utterly blown away at the Hampton show.

[*]Dominique -- THE SINGING NUN. Comical first date with future wife ...

[*]Hey Jude -- THE BEATLES / Looks Like Rain -- BOB WEIR. And memorable first concerts together.

[*]Homeward Bound -- SIMON AND GARFUNKEL. And cohabitating.

[*]Bad Case of Loving You -- ROBERT PALMER. Graduation and marriage.

[*]On the Road Again -- WILLIE NELSON. For any chintzy travel scene.

[*]Wet Dream -- KIP ADOTTA. Oh yeah. Something about making a pun or two online.

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ken.kaufman@gmail.com

Okay, this one is going to be fun and quite liberating for me and I hope you get a laugh out of it too, cause it's...

THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF ERIC'S MOSTLY MISERABLE LOVE LIFE, VOL. 1

1. The Moody Blues - IN YOUR WILDEST DREAMS (for Amy Odell): Okay, cheesy as all hell, I know, but Amy was my first love, when I was 10, and this song used to make me think about her and wonder if she was ever thinking about me too.

2. Morrissey - I DON'T MIND IF YOU FORGET ME (for Lisa Tabone): In retrospect, she was a nasty little snot who enjoyed humiliating me and I'm not sure why I let her do so for so long (especially since she showed no interest in me as a boyfriend). I didn't mind if she forgot me and I'm sure she has.

3. Razorcuts - SORRY TO EMBARRASS YOU (for Laura Struzyk): Lisa part two in so many ways. Admittedly, I was a lovestruck little puppy who probably deserved being picked on, but... Today, I'm not sure how I thought that relationship would work as we had NOTHING in common.

4. The Replacements - SADLY BEAUTIFUL (for Deanna Kwiatkowski): Deanna never liked me much, but I thought she had a very melancholy beauty to her that was attractive. Anyway, the crush didn't last long and I haven't seen her in over 10 years, but I still occasionally think about her.

5. Teenage Fanclub - WHAT YOU DO TO ME (for Meghan Barrett): I chose this one because it's simplicity echoes the fact that I didn't know why I liked her so much, I just did. It didn't help that she thought I was the geekiest boy she knew and wouldn't dream of dating me...

6. Buzzcocks - EVER FALLEN IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE WHO SHOULDN'T HAVE? (for Jessica Collins): I fell in crush with the lead singer of the band I was in. It was an awkward situation, especially since we probably wouldn't have made a good couple. I got over it.

7. Elvis Costello - I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY NOW (for Carrie Hughes): Yeah, there was a lot of vitriol when she dumped me on Valentine's Day for a guy she met on the internet, but I'm much better now. Really! :)

8. Sloan - BELLS ON (for Val Pimento): We came together as friends due to our mutual love of Sloan, and by the time I got the guts to tell her I had a crush on her, she was with someone else. And I do wonder if I had a funeral, would she even care?

9. Harper Lee - THE THOUGHT OF YOU AND HIM (for Kerra Toepfer): Kerra was my tragic, never-meant-to-be dream girl. She was madly in love with her boyfriend (now husband) and never saw me as more than a friend. I'm not even sure she ever knew I was bonkers over her. Oh well.

10. Paul Westerberg - BORN FOR ME (for my beautiful wife, Sarah): And in the end, I finally find someone who loves me and who I love. Yay hooray! :)

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I has a flavor!

Yay!

PS: The Buzzcocks, Elvis Costello, and Morrissey were all kickass choices!

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"No obscene images." I guess I'll just have to settle for saying cocksucker a lot.

The History so far...

1 -The A-Team Theme Song - This was probably the first song I hummed.

2 - Batlestar Galactica theme (The original version, not the angst-pathos buffed from SCI-FI) - it was catchy, and the series owned.

3 - Europe (The Final Countdown) - The first song to put me in direct contact with unbelieavable amounts of cheesiness, hair spray and glam rock, at the seet age of 6. No wonder i've got isssues.

4 - Dire Straits (Money for Nothing)- Damn the video clip for this song is one of the all time great.

5 - Manowar (Blow your speakers)- Second. Catchiest. Song. Ever.when you're 10, 4 guys dressed in leather saying to blow the speakers with rock n' roll is pretty wild.

6 - U2 (The Joshua Tree) - This album made me aware of some of the stuff that went on around the world.

7 - Pink Floyd (The Wall)- Catchiest.Song.Ever. When you're 11 or 12 hearing someone say "Hei, teacher, leave the kids alone" ranks really high.

8 - Iron Maiden (Fear of the Dark) Been a fan since.

9 - Ac Dc (thunderstruck) - The feeling i leave in other people after they meet me =P

10 - Manowar (Metal Warriors) - Dammit. Cheese to no end. This was the song that made me a metalhead for life.

11 to 22- Wasp (The Crimson Idol) - This was probably THE album of my teenage days. Most of the story resembles much of my own, and it really got me into playing guitar and writting songs, wich is one of the most satisfying and important things in my life.
It also marked the passage between "ow! this song sounds awsome" to "Dear god almighty!This song really makes me think!"

23 - Sting (Shape of my heart)- Isnt teen love sweet? and incredibly masoquist?

24 to 35 - Moonspell (Wolheart) - Best Gothic/Black Metal album of all time.Back in 94 no one had ever done anything like this.It kind of started (or brought into the spotlight) all the black metal/gothic movement where i lived.Also the album cover was my first Tattoo.

36 - Rodrigo - (Concerto de Arajuanjez) - Pretty much got me into liking classical music. Played the addagio at my guitar graduation class at 16.

37 - Warcraft Music - I played this game more hours than i have probably slept in my life. The Orc theme nr 4 is a masterpiece.

38 - Metallica (Low Mans Lyric) - It pretty much said it all about my life at that moment.

39 - Savatage (Handfull of Rain) - It pretty much said it all about my life at that moment too.

40 to 63 - Blind Guardian (nightfall in middle Earth) - a Tolkien nerd wet dream. Symphonic Metal meets
"The Silmarillion". It got me into making the Tatto of the inscription of the ring, about a year before the movies went into pre-production

64 - Testament - (D.N.R.) Holy fucking shit! Single handedly brought me out of the worst depression in my life.

65 - Eric Clapton (Cociane)- Clapton is indeed God. Also, he writes the best "To get her in the mood" songs.

66 - Liam Amber (Freebird, a Lynyrd Skynard cover) - This song is the most depressing one. The opening line of the song, wich goes "If i leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me..." was kinda of prophetic.

67 - Liquid Tension Experiment (3 minute warning) gave me a new purpose in life. To play that song exactly like Petrucci (the song clocks above 28 minutes, by the way)

68 - Brainstorm (Shivaa's Tears) - made me get into eastern culture, Siddharta, and eventualy Taoism.

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There was once a man who said:"nothing is true!". Although later it was found out that he was lying.

You guys picked some great songs. At least two of the songs kaufman picked also appear on my list.

1.) I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder. The very first song I ever remember hearing, and no matter how cliche it is, it's still one of his best.

2.) For the Longest Time - Billy Joel. My dad loves Billy Joel. I thought he had no taste. I was right, but this song must be a hiccup in the logic circuitry.

3.) Thriller - Michael Jackson. I snuck this away from my mom and played it on my Teddy Ruxpin and Casey the Robot. Watching their mouths move to Michael Jackson was hysterical.

4.) Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? - Boy George and the Culture Club. I grew up in the eighties. So sue me.

5.) Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac. After school, for some reason I would be watching VH1 with my mom, and Rosie O'Donnell was a VJ. She was always fat, and back then she was even funny.

6.) 16 Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford. I really started taking the world in about the time I heard this song.

7.) Good Old Days - Weird Al Yankovic. I discovered this and realized that not only was there a word for what I liked to do to popular songs, but there was someone who was good at it! This song is an Al original, though, and funny as hell.

8.) Real Muthaphuckkin G's - Eazy E. First rap song I heard, only one I liked for a long, long time.

9.) Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2. Found this song while searching through a bunch of stuff on Ireland and its conflicts.

10.) Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel. The best thing about this song was that it made me remember a hysterical show of the same name, starring David Rasche as Sledgehammer. Anyone else remember it? Too short-lived.

11.) Seeds of Love/Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears. When Seeds of Love came out, it made me check the rest of their stuff out. Who DOESN'T like Tears for Fears?

12.) Smells Like Nirvana/Smells Like Teen Spirit - Weird Al Yankovic/Nirvana, respectively. These were on the first albums I EVER bought myself, and I played them both nonstop for my entire freshman year in high school.

13.) Black - Pearl Jam. I still think it's a beautiful song, and it's the song that lead me to a lot of great, great music.

14.) Would? - Alice in Chains. Nice and angsty, just how I liked it then.

15.) anything Nine Inch Nails. I discovered Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, and NIN one right after the other, smacking me square in the face with...

-end of first CD-

16.) War Pigs - Black Sabbath. Somewhere along they way they broke up and Ozzy made a lot of good songs, but everyone can remember where they were when they first noticed Black Sabbath.

17.) Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin. I had no idea this was the apex of rock and roll until I heard it.

18.) Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix. I was beginning to listen to a lot of music I had once dismissed as old crap.

19.) Prison Sex - Tool. Sober hooked me, Prison Sex cemented it. (doesn't it always?)

20.) the Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel. These two were magic together, and their music was pure, pure poetry. The best music I have ever heard.

21.) Blitzkrieg Bop - the Ramones. Who knew an ugly, ugly dude with a crappy, crappy voice would front a band with such kick-ass music?

22.) Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty. Song like these are what makes music beautiful. I can't see how anyone can be stable listening to nothing but metal without songs like these to balance them out.

23.) Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers. If no one has checked out ol' Bill Withers, you really fucking should. Another balance song.

24.) Why I'm Here - Oleander. These guys did nothing else worth listening to, but this song is a really, really good song.

25.) anything by Rage Against the Machine. In the opposite end of that balance spectrum, these guys can light a fire under anyone's ass.

26.) Barrel of a Gun - Depeche Mode. I used to get told by my metalhead friends that anyone who liked Depeche Mode couldn't possibly be a metalhead. I guess in their book I was never a metalhead.

27.) One - Metallica. Unfortunately, I really gave Metallica a chance only to learn within months that their new album not only sucked, but sounded nothing like them.

28.) anything from Aenima - Tool. I hated this album until I listened to it all the way through three times. I was hooked forever.

29.) The End is the Beginning is the End/The Beginning is the End is the Beginning - Smash Pumpkins. Two different versions of the same song, both fucking awesome.

30.) Mad World -Tears For Fears/Gary Jules. The original was awesome, by Tears for Fears, but Gary Jules did something to it that made it absolutely amazing. In the Gary Jules version, you can catch it on the Donnie Darko soundtrack.

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

its hard to find songs that would explain my life,so im gonna put the records that would be in my soundtrack

1)korn- Follow the leader- before i got into punk or anything else, i listened to rap metal just like everyone else, and i was like 11, so i did just dream about sex all day

2)Anti-Flag- die for your government-when i was like 12 or something, i discovered Anti-Flag, and i listened to nothing but this record for like a year, just call me close minded

3)Dead Kennedys- -Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables- a couple of big hardcore punks from my school told me to listen to this record when i was in 8th grade (they were seniors), so obviously i had to, out of intimidation, and long story short DK remains my favorite band to date

4)The Who- Who's Next-This record just plain rocks

5)Green Day- Dookie- Seriously, what band was more cool to listen to than green day in the 90's?

6)Sublime -40 oz. to Freedom- Brad Nowell was really a genius, and the tracks on this record show it. they arent as professional as the ones on their self titled album, and they are still better.

7)Punk-O-Rama 3 and 4- Where else could little poseur me turn to find the best in punk rock??? but seriously alot of the bands on those two records i still listen to today.

8)NOFX- so long and thanks for all the shoes- I never listened to NOFX before i started my band, and the other guitar player was in love with them, and slowly NOFX grew on me, too!

9)HIM- Razorblade Romance- This record has calmed me throughout so many high school heartbreaks

10) the Sex Pistols- Nevermind the Bollocks...- How more punk can you get??

And finally..
(note: this is just a single)

the Circle Jerks- Live Fast, Die Young- id sit in listen to this song when my parents pissed me off, because rebellion was apparently the big thing, thanks MTV

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Charlie Drake's My Boomerang Won't Come Back on repeat.

What, your response to the thread?

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Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist.

Mine would probably just all blend in different phases...

Start out with Elvis (I lived with my gramma and my gramma LOVES Elvis).

Mesh into... well, any retarded kids show (ie: Sesame Street and Carebears)

Then probably Beach Boys, Alannah Myles, Sweet (my parents were so cool... cruising in my step-dad's 79 [?] Dodge Challenger listening to Beach Boys on a craptacular stereo... ahhhh).

Then (next I can remember) would be Ace of Base.

Then the ever wonderful girl <3's pop stage. I'm talking Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, Hanson...

Tied in with Econoline Crush, Pearl Jam, Marcy Playground, The Verve, The Verve Pipe (two different bands!!), Placebo

And less than a year later it was NIN, Nirvana, Tea Party, etc.

Then... ugh... The Moffatts. (Canadian alternative to Hanson for those who don't know).

Then hit punk phase. Or Pop-punk. Or emo. Whatever you want to call it. We're talking Blink 182, Sum 41, mixed with Greenday, Everclear.

Keep that phase going, but add in country, classical, jazz, swing, classic rock, and every other genre you can think of and you got where I am now.

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Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist.

I would have an orchestra playing Bernard Herrmann orchestrations like the scores from Vertigo and Psycho and to a lesser extent, The Day the Earth Stood Still. They would follow me around everywhere I went playing the soundtrack to my life. And it would all be conducted by Hunter S. Thompson. He can also narrate since I sound like him anyway.

What, your response to the thread?

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Batman created by Bob Kane

I'm to lazy to do one of these... but there was one time I bought a Supertramp best of album, and when I first listened to it, for whatever reason it reminded me of my childhood. I think it was because when I was really young, my parents must have played them a lot. It was quite a nice experience... and it made me feel for once that I was getting older.

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Poop.

This reminds me of the "Viewer Mail" episode of FAMILY GUY wherein Peter made a wish for his own theme music. It followed him wherever he went, adjusted to his moods/actions, and annoyed the crap out of everyone else.

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Chicken Feather Bed Bugs Bunny Hop Sing Out Side Street Walker Texas Ranger Cookie Dough Boy Wonder Years

this pretty well describes my life in its full range of emotions. i've even got a movement from birth to death in here, too, complete with spiritual doubt and redemption, i might add. pretty sexy.

"Carmina Burana"
"Ode to Joy" from the Raising Arizona soundrack
"I Dream of Jesus" Dead Milkmen
"Chicken Cow" Wesley Willis
"Gabba Gabba Hey" Ramones
"Bouquet for a Siren" Sebadoh
"Lose Yourself" Eminem
"Encore" DJ Danger Mouse
"A Day in the Life" Beatles
"Space Odyssey" David Bowie
"Pink Moon" Nick Drake
"Hurt" Johnny Cash
"Buenas Tardes" Ween
"My My Hey Hey" Neil Young
"Cello Song" Nick Drake
"Miss Misery" Elliot Smith
"Something I Can Never Have" NIN
"Come Undone" Duran Duran
"Clubbed to Death" Rob D
"Kashmire" Led Zeppelin
"Ride of the Valkyries" Wagner
Beethoven's 9th, 4th movement
"Die Eier Von Satan" Tool
"The King of Carrot Flowers" Neutral Milk Hotel

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i want to piss on you

*Sigh*

Since we've had the "Punk History Lesson" chat several times, I will spare you this once. Trust me, that is Pop-punk/Alternative.

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"No obscene images." I guess I'll just have to settle for saying cocksucker a lot.

Well, I guess I'll chime in.

1. Old rock like Creedence Clearwater. That'll do.

2. Garth Brooks (Go easy on me, I was like, 6.)

3. MC Hammer (Ninja Turtles in yo face!) About 10 here

4. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (I'm remembering the songs I liked finally) 12 or so here.

5. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spiri. 13-15

6. NoFX - Can't remember any song specifically...

7. Iced Earth - Reaping Stone. Finally breaking away from punk and mallcoer bands at 18.

8. Beethoven - A more calm, mellow time of life where I listened to melodic metal, as well as a bit of classical and some Johnny cash. This was at 19.

9. Blind Guardian - Nightfall. I really got into Blind Guardian at 20, and have never stopped liking the band.

10. Dimmu Borgir - Progenies of the Great Apocalypse. Well, I'm 21 now, and things are suddently extra hectic lately, so I feel some insanely fast music with some soothing parts once in a while fits well.

Who knows what's next?

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

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"I Dream of Jesus" Dead Milkmen

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Oh man! DX just reminded me, Bohemian Rhapsody would have to be on mine. When me and my sister were little, we used to play the song and she would "conduct" it, and I would play air drums. It was good fun. I believe it was because of Wayne's World that we did this.

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Poop.

i know. that makes it tough to listen to them, because i always think of them as the happiest people on the planet. that's why they're so fun. to think of one of them committing suicide kind of kills the mood. so, i keep skipping the dead milkmen songs on my winamp, despite being raised on them like they were milk or something. now the milk tastes funny. it's got poison in it.

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i want to piss on you

My life hasn't been very long. :/

DISK ONE

1. Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance

I credit this song for being the very first one I ever heard.

2. Soundgarden - Let Me Drown

One day when I was about 5 or so, I saw this thing on Nova about these crazy undersea fishies that glowed in the dark. You know, angler fishies and whatnot. I wanted to see those fishies more than anything else in the world. So I jumped off a boat about 10 miles from shore. Fortunately, my dad saved me. I learned an impotant lesson that day: PBS totally sucks.

3. Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

In middle school, I heard this song on the radio. I was all "OMG OMG MUST OWN!" You know. I was a sheep. I worked my ass off and finally earned enough money for the 20 dollar CD, only to find 18 tracks of pure shit and 1 okay track (clint eastwood) which wasn't even that good anyway. I learned an important lesson that day: Don't be retarded when buying CDs.

4. Oingo Boingo - Weird Science

When I was a little kid, Bill Nye the Science Guy was my favorite TV show. And how could he not be? He was totally awesome! With his dorky bow tie and his endearing smile, how could anyone not love him? ACtually, my science teacher I have now totally sucks, so I credit everything I know about science to that one amazing man. Here's to you, Bill.

5. Weird Al Yankovic - Polkamon

Like any foolish follower sheep child, I used to be totally obsessed with Pokemon. It's hip! It's groovy! Collect them all! Damn, I was a sucker. I now have about 5 big binders full of old, unused cards taking up space in my closet. Also, about 20 tapes of the TV show packed away in a box somewhere. but most importantly, this is the thing that got me into anime, the coolest thing ever. Fast forward 5 years from finally saying "Pokemon is lame". I'm watching an episode of Trigun on Cartoon Network. It is awesome. I probably would have never seen it if not for those loveable pocket monsters. So in short, thanks Pokemon, for making me into a total geek.

6. The Cure - Lovesong

This song is mainly here for irony. You know, kind of a: "Tee hee! There's a song about love! And it's for areallystupidguy's life! AHAHAHAHAHA!" Everyone hates me. No one understands me.

7. Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal

Nearing the end of sixth grade, I threatened to kill this annoying prick in my class. Due to my pleas for pity, the school thankfully covered it up instead of making me go to prison. Thanks school, for not ruining my life.

8. Love Santa - Organ Grinder

Very recently, Me and my friends started up a band called Love Santa. We are totally awesome. We recently released a full-length CD titled The Frog with the Golden Leg, which sold like hotcakes. You shall be seeing this name in lights one of these days! :/

9. Nirvana - Come as you Are

All through my middle school years, I was obsessed with aliens. Aliens kicked butt. They were the egg for my omelette. They were just totally radical. Rock on, aliens. Rock on.

10. Beach Boys - Surfin' USA

Up until I was 7 years old, I lived on the east coast beach in Florida. Yeah, corny surfer beach house and everything. But I was awesome. I was the best surfer of all time. Everyone said I had talent. But then my fucktard parents moved me up to stupid fucktarded Montana, where I totally lost all my skill. You suck, mom and dad.

11. Ween - Waving My Dick in the Wind

This song has nothing to do with my life, but it's totally awesome.

12. The Rolling Stones - Get off my Cloud

This is my mom's favorite song in the whole world. She's been singing it my entire life, and as far as I know, a great deal of her life as well. It's now permanently affixed onto my brain, but it's so totally awesome that I don't care.

13. Taco - Puttin' on the Ritz

All throughout middle school, me and my friends had a dumb little in-joke circulating around. This in-joke...was Taco. Not the singer, the food. We wrote Taco on everything we could find. Some conversations we would just say 'Taco taco taco' to each other. Tacos were the coolest thing in the whole world. TACO TACO TACO TACO!

DISK TWO

1. Amazing Transparent Man - Ocean is a Fuck of a Long Way to Swim

This is the only good band to arise in the past 7 years.

2. The Offspring - Pretty Fly for a White Guy

It dominated the airwaves! It filled the nation with joy! It was fucking awesome! It was...totally overplayed. This song introduced me to the gross commercialism and mainstreamness of the music industry, and told me that I had STOP it!

3. The Spiderman Theme from the 60s

I used to have a copy of the first Amazing Spiderman. I sold it to some guy for about 40 bucks. After I made the transaction, I looked it up on the internet to see how much of a deal I got. Surprise! The thing I sold him wasn't the first Amazing Spiderman (worth about $25,000) but a cheap advertising 40th edition whatever (worth about 14 cents). SCROE!

4. The Backstreet Boys - Backstreet's Back

This is the most annoying and stupid song on earth. Hate it. It is the source of a quality stupid in-joke though, so it deserves some recognition.

5. Kenny Chesney - She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy

This song represents the total hatred I have for Montana, it's inhabitants, the wild west, country music, and everything about it.

6. Project Pat - Bitch Smackin' Killa

Because rap totally sucks. Rap is the dumbest, most idiotic thing of all time. Even worse than the mitten on the Arby's commercials. I hate the stupid gangsta people I see in the halls at school. I hate the idiots who refer to this "Reciting Poetry to a Repetitive Beat" as music. I hate the state the world is in now. And most of all, I hate rap.

The rest of the album is made up of a strange, guttral choking noise. This part represents my future. Which is sure to be full of throat infections.

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It's grime time.