thinking one song sums up your life: c/d

OOps. 'Family Tree', I mean.

'Family Life' being an appalling track by Sham69 as I recall, which would have other inferences altogether.

'lost my E' by harry pussy.

It's a dud, but it was probably "I Remember You" by Skid Row.

I would have to say dud.

What about Writing a Song That Attempts to Sum Up Your Life? I would have to say dud on the available evidence, which includes Chuck berry's "Bio" and Paul McCartney's "Liverpool Oratorio."

dud as in "omigod that song is my LIFE!" (see also "omigod that movie is my LIFE!")

I'm going to have to say.... fucking classic. Of course the notion of "omigod, that song SO sums up my life" is valid. The reason that just about every bleedin' person on ILM came to the board in the first place is that "adolescent notion" made overly-intellectual in some way.

yeah, i think it is adolescent thinking

it also reminds me how sleazy and self-seving so much of the music that milks that audience tendency is

Prince's "Strange Relationship" sort of really does sum up every long-term relationship I've had.

This thread sums up my life.

The Replacements -- "Unsatisfied"/"Answering Machine"/"Sixteen Blue"
Modern Lovers -- "Girlfriend"
Descendents -- "Hope"

these work from the age of adolescence up until, oh, now.

TOO DRUNK TO FUCK
I WANNA BE SEDATED
I WANNA BE YOUR DOG
MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO GEORGIA
GOODBYE YELLOWBRICK ROAD
LEAVING ON A JET PLANE

"Tired Eyes" by Neil Young.

Well, I shot four men in a cocaine deal, see. Left 'em lying there in an open field, etc etc. Long story.

"reminds me how sleazy and self-seving so much of the music that milks that audience tendency is"

Which in turn reminds me of how pedantic run-of-the-mill reductionism becomes... it depends on your POV, obviously. Radiohead could milk the adolescent "audience tendency" to relate to the music on that "ohmigod, that song is SO my life" level just as much as Cat Power, just as much as Eminem, just as much as... hell Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen.

We traffic in mockery.

Yeats.

By way of Corey Feldman, channeling the spirit of Jason Robards, through a bad script. Dream A Little Dream. 1989.

although i like it when i watch tv and somebody on one of those reality shows or dating shows hears something like the eagles' "hotel california" and spurts, "that song is MY LIFE." um, what?

i don't think people should tie themselves too closely with something that someone else put together. at least not over the age of 15 or so.

"i don't think people should tie themselves too closely with something that someone else put together."

May I appropriate that for a bumpersticker and sell it to.... um, 15 year-olds? :)