all five horizons

One of the best gigs I have been to was the Green Day concert at Milton Keynes bowl in June 2005 (how was it nearly 3 years ago? God, that’s scary). This is a band that really knows how to work the crowd, play some rocking music and also inspire young (and not so young) kids all at the same time. I challenge you to find me one person of the 65,000 there that did not get blown away. And if you do find them, give them a slap from me. The weather was perfect - hot and sunny - and the beer was flowing. We had our good friends around us. The gig itself was a perfect mix of all the old favourites, the new (at the time) American Idiot album and a couple of kooky covers thrown in for good measure. They got some kids up on the stage to jam with them (I choose to believe these weren’t plants!). We bought the live album and everytime I listen to that, I get goosebumps.

I have just bought a few songs that put me in the best mood! They are 100% uncool but if you spend too much time worrying about that sort of thing then you will be sorry when you are 90 and you realise you have never danced around your bedroom to Taylor Dayne. What a sad day that will be.

So anyway, if I buy single songs these days it is usually because I have heard them on an advert, in a film or TV show and only occasionally if I heard it on the radio. This morning, I had a terrible journey into work but it was ok because I was bopping in my car to Rihanna’s Don’t Stop the Music and the deliciously 80s sounding Fascination by Alphabeat: two songs which I am sure go very much against the rock-ethic but then, see above. ITunes is completely deadly for this sort of thing because 79p seems such a little number to own a song that makes you sing and smile and happy. Fiest’s 1234, the ukulele version of Somewhere Over The Rainbow (which I am well aware is intensely irritating to many) and New Soul by Yael Naïm all make me happy too. Yesterday, I got caught singing at the top of my lungs to the Buffy musical soundtrack only the car next to me didn’t know that. All they knew is that I was really into what I was singing.

If Your Life Were a Movie…What Would the Soundtrack Be?? Thanks to Spiral Skies, this is mine.

First, here’s how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that’s playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool…because you’re not!
7. Stick the soundtrack on your mp3 player and listen away during the day.

I am quite worried about how this will reveal just how much of a dork I am. I do have some very cool music in my ipod but for Pearl Jam’s ying there is Britney Spears’s yang. Without much further ado:

Opening Credits: Faith - George Michael

Waking Up: All Apologies - Nirvana (live)

First Day at School: Naive - The Kooks

Falling in Love: Are We Waiting - Green Day (live)

Fight Song: The Show Must Go On - Queen

Breaking Up: Little Green - Joni Mitchell

Prom/Dance/Ball: Good Life - Kanye West

Life’s OK: Come On Over - Institute

Mental Breakdown: God Bless the Child - Billie Holiday (I would so need Billie Holiday if I were to have a mental breakdown!)

Flashback: Hard to Concentrate - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Getting Back Together: Rape Me - Nirvana (unfortunate!)

Birth of Child: Funeral Song - Rasmus (what a shame this didn’t come up for the last song)

Wedding: Macy’s Day Parade - Green Day

Final Battle: Ta-Gana/Saturday Night from 10 Things I Hate About You soundtrack

Funeral Song: Cry me a River - Justin Timberlake (I shit you not!)

End Credits: Anything but Ordinary - Avril Lavigne (how apt)

So, not as embarrassing as it could be. Did I dodged the Fame bullet, at least. What about your soundtrack?