In2theknight
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"My Way" from Frank Sinatra.
"...I find it all so amusing. To think I did all that, and may I say, not in a shy way. Oh no, oh no not me. I did it myyyyyyyy waaaaaaaay."
Why the question? Because I'm curious. And tired of health care, economy, wars, Jon & Kate, gun control debates, tunnel/elevated/surface options, "does that runner have lady bits or a man-rig", etc.
pigeonmom
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"does that runner have lady bits or a man-rig"
FTW
lol!
Lindsey
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"Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves. It's not really my life's theme song (my favorite tunes are kinda sad and slow) but I force myself to sing it and dance to it when I'm bummin. Woo!
Jungle Boogie-Kool and the Gang. Cause its a jungle out there and I gotta boogie? LOL First song to come to my mind and I love it!
"Feelin' Good" from The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd" (broadway show)
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good
JoB shows both her sappy side and her age..
i grew up on musicals.. what can i say :)
Somewhere
Barbra Streisand
Someday, somewhere
Well find a new way of living
Will find a way of forgiving
Somewhere...
Theres a place for us
Somewhere a place for us
Peace and quiet and open air
Wait for us
Somewhere
"It's My Life," Bon Jovi. On so many levels.
charlabob
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, Warren Zevon -- who's now dead, so he knows. My guess? He ain't sleeping :-) Seriously, this song is my theme song.
Traci,
You made me think of the other part of my life.
Bon Jovi-Livin on a Prayer! That should work for most of us!
My partner thinks I'm pretty strange putting out Jungle Boogie, but thats the first song that came to mind?
On that note, even if you all think this thing out also add the first tune to pop to mind!
In2theknight
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Lowmanbeach, it think it's funny how your life theme song has a line from mine. "...like Frankie said, I did it my way..."
pigeonmom
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Galileo by The Indigo Girls
Galileo's head was on the block
His crime was looking up the truth
And as the bombshells of my daily fears explode
I try to trace them to my youth
And then you had to bring up reincarnation
Over a couple of beers the other night
So now I'm serving time for mistakes
Made by another in another lifetime
How long till my soul gets it right
Can any human being ever reach the highest light
I call on the resting soul of Galileo
King of night vision, king of insight
Don't know if it's my only theme song, but continuing with the Bon Jovi :) - singing along, loudly, to "Have a Nice Day" always makes me feel better..."When the world gets in my face, I say, *bump, bump* have a nice day!"
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Sometimes it has to be "have a nice day, arsehole" but still makes me feel better!
"All the Money or the Simple Life Honey" by The Dandy Warhols. Independence through simplicity, I'm not always there though I strive to be. This song inspires me.
"Going Underground" by The Jam. Don't let the tyranny of the masses get you down. This song comforts me.
I prefer "My Way" through the jaded lens of Sid Vicious.
Irukandji
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Back in Judy's Jungle by Brian Eno sums it up for me, though if I got to choose an entire soundtrack I think I'd choose The Insider.
JenV
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not so much a "theme song" - but every time I feel like shite I crank up "Come on Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners and it makes me feel better.
Tori Amos- "Upside Down"
I've found the secret to life
I've found the secret to life:
I'm okay when everything is not okay...
waterworld
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Are we limited to one theme song? I guess I'd have to go with U2 "City of Blinding Lights":
The more you see the less you know
The less you find out as you go
I knew much more then than I do now
Jiggers
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Here's mines....
I drink alone, yeah, with nobody else.
I drink alone, yeah, with nobody else.
Yeah, you know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.
Now, every morning, just before breakfast,
I don't want no coffee or tea.
Just me and my good buddy Weiser.
That's all I ever need.
Cause I drink alone, yeah, with nobody else.
I drink alone, yeah, with nobody else.
Yeah, you know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.
Now, the other night I lay sleeping,
And I woke from a terrible dream.
So I called up my pal, Jack Daniels,
And his partner Jimmy Beam.
And we drank alone, yeah, with nobody else.
We drank alone, yeah, with nobody else.
Yeah, you know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.
Well, the other night I got invited to a party,
But I stayed home instead.
Just me and my pal Johnny Walker,
And his brothers Black and Red.
And we drank alone, yeah, with nobody else.
We drank alone, yeah, with nobody else.
Yeah, you know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.
Well, my whole family done give up on me,
And it makes me feel so bad.
The only one who'll hang out with me
Is my dear old Granddad.
And we drink alone, yeah, with nobody else.
We drink alone, yeah, with nobody else.
Yeah, you know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself
Janis Joplin - "Oh Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz"
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
When you live in Seattle, how can it not be "Here comes the Sun"?
bsmomma
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"3 Little Birds" Bob Marley I just LOVE that song, always in my head and sang it to my baby. :) Worrying isn't going to change anything.
angelescrest
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"What I Got"--Sublime.
Family yodeling fave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmAxuIBSlEE
ToddinWestwood
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I adore the fact that you can find almost anything on YouTube, as evidenced here. Even if it's just courtesy of some kind soul who put an old 45 on a turntable and shot video/audio of it playing.
My old theme, before I heard the Bon Jovi song on an airplane in 2000 during an almost-as-exciting time in my life (flying back and forth to Sunnyvale same-day for meetings while working for Disney Internet Group), was Steve Winwood's "While You See a Chance," also quite inspirational:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS513FRfbwE
angelescrest
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Lowman Beach, I couldn't agree more. What a beautiful song. Our second-place (definitely inter-generational)song is Traffic's "Dear Mr. Fantasy"--Stevie Winwood again and so moving, though it makes no sense. Sometimes life's like that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_nwbTeIN4Y
Great songs but left scratching my head on Todd's #2 and #3 choice's about his life. Met and spent some time with the Ramones in 1979, still not sure what they were talkin about, sniffin glue or something like that.(not kidding)
A tune gets me thinkin about my life and takin some time to slow it down is LeAnne Womack's-I Hope You Dance.
Love Steve Winwood, his first hit tune was Gimme Some Lovin, only 17yrs old with the Spencer Davis Group. Good topic Into the night, Benny Mardones.
There are some great choices here (don't know about "I Drink Alone", but I don't judge others. :-) I have a few good choices but I have to go with my favorite, "Mind Drive" by Yes.
ToddinWestwood
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Doh! I miss read and thought it was like a theme song as of right now, walking around kind of thing.
The Ramones are one of my all time favs, So is Man or Astroman. I mean, hey whats not to love about a surf band from outer space?
Not a mis-read, merely a different perspective. :-) I like the Beach Boys and Metallica for different moods.
i like that many of my favorite songs have shown up on this list... different songs speak to us at different times of life..
bsmomma
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Another fave and it was my theme song while I was pregnant and still sing parts of it to my daughter on long sleepless nights..... "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" Beastie Boys. Her name's Brooklyn. :o) The last few months of my pregnancy, I BLASTED that song in my car as I went a little faster over all the train tracks. When I sing it to Brooklyn now, I change the words to No Sleep For Brooklyn!
villagegreen
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"Where is My Mind?" by The Pixies.
With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah!
Your head will collapse if there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Way out in the water
See it swimmin
Jiggers
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If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that Id like to do
Is to save every day
Till eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you
If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
Id save every day like a treasure and then,
Again, I would spend them with you
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
Ive looked around enough to know
That youre the one I want to go
Through time with
If I had a box just for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty
Except for the memory
Of how they were answered by you
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
Ive looked around enough to know
That youre the one I want to go
Through time with
Jigger,
Great tune from Jim Croce. Life cut to short like many other great artists.
Being a outdoor person, always had spot for John Denver, yet the enjoy the hard rockers, punk bands, and many of the rappers.
Leroniusmonkfish
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Warren Zevon - "Keep Me In Your Heart..."
Shadows are falling and I'm running out of breath
Keep me in your heart for awhile
If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less
Keep me in your heart for awhile
When you get up in the morning and you see that crazy sun
Keep me in your heart for awhile
There's a train leaving nightly called “when all is said and done”
Keep me in your heart for awhile
WSMom
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I've been checking this topic since it started, trying to imagine my "theme" song, nothing was coming to mind until this morning. Looking out at the Olympic's with the sun shining and the air cool and clean, my heart starting singing "O what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day. I've got a wonderful feeling, everythings going my way." It really annoys my kids when I sing it out loud on the way to school, "please don't sing mom." Probably doesn't help that I don't know the rest of the words to the song :)!
our lives turn out to be inner musicals after all:)
ellenater
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God so many! I think my absolute favorite is: "Lovely Day" by Bill Withers. It's a very beautiful love/funk song with a nice bit of melancholy that accurately reflects my all of it. :)
GREAT to rollerskate to, also. Any song you can rollerskate to has my vote.
Also, "Sir Duke" by Stevie Wonder and Pixies "Vamos" or, "Where is my Mind?". Also Nirvana's "Sliver".
angelescrest
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WSMom,
Ray Charles does a version of that song that brings tears. I get the same reaction from my kids.
Not only are some of these songs about your lives but some have been life changers.
Great story WS mom. Seeing Sir Duke reminded me of a great album, Songs in the Key of Life-Stevie Wonder.
BTW,
Marty Reamer, time to play Take this Job and Shove it, Johnny Paycheck for the clowns at Entercom. You are a great air talent and I'm pretty sure a fellow KGRG grad!
Thanks for posting this! It's been food for thought. I've settled on "Three Wooden Crosses" by Randy Travis for the chorus that says "It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you, it's what you leave behind you when you go."
dufus
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This is the song that never ends
It just goes on and on my friends
Some people started singing it
Not knowing what it was
And they'll continue singing it
Forever just because
This is the song that never ends
It just goes on and on my friends
Some people started singing it
Not knowing what it was
And they'll continue singing it
Forever just because
This is the song that never ends...
I think you get it, right?
CountingCoup
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"From the Morning" ~ Nick Drake
A day once dawned, and it was beautiful
A day once dawned from the ground
Then the night she fell
And the air was beautiful
The night she fell all around.
So look see the days
The endless coloured ways
And go play the game that you learnt
From the morning.
And now we rise
And we are everywhere
And now we rise from the ground
And see she flies
And she is everywhere
See she flies all around
So look see the sights
The endless summer nights
And go play the game that you learnt
From the morning.
In my Heavy Metal Daze it was Anvil's "Free As The Wind".
Although before and after it was Rush's "You Don't Get Something For Nothing".
I don't know about you but I have theme songs for many of the big moments in my life. Especially the times I was dumped by the fairer sex.
There is nothing fair about either sex when they are dumping you
but a good theme song does help:)
for days when i just can't seem to get going
it's 40 below and i dont give a ...
got a heater in my truck and i'm off to the rodeo
always makes me smile
miws
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Ah yes JoB! the Rodeo Song!
I'd actually thought about posting that title here, soon after this thread was started!;-)
Mike
In2theknight
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A close 2nd place life theme song for me is "Everything Is Borrowed" from The Streets.
I came to this world with nothing,
and I'll leave with nothing but love.
Everything else is just borrowed.
'It's Hip To Be Snipped' by unknown F3 artist.
"I Can Feel It Comin' In The Air Tonight"... Phil Collins. It fits the existentialist side of me.
Great post! Being one that avoids dwelling in the past and tries not to be stuck there, my life theme song is constantly changing and moving forward. I'm always looking for a new one. Being on the verge of becoming a West Seattle Crusty, it's easy to be stuck in the past.
My current life theme song is (past ones below it in descending order):
Kids - MGMT
The Fixer - Pearl Jam "yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah"
I'm Not Alone - Calvin Harris
When Love Takes Over - David Guetta (feat Kelly Rowland)
The Reeling - Passion Pit
Shut Up and Let Me Go - Ting Tings
The Fear - Lily Allen
Human - The Killers (Arman Van Buuren)
And there's 53 more years off songs below . . . .
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