Part A: If you were to make a CD with 20 songs or less as the soundtrack of your life, based on what's going on in your life now, what songs would be on it?

Part B: If you were to make a CD with 20 songs or less as the soundtrack of your life based on your whole life, what songs would be on it?

For moi:

Part A -
1. Linkin Park "Faint"
2. 20 Minute Loop "Everybody Out"
3. 50 Cent "In Da Club" (for fun)
4. Bad Religion "Anesthesia"
5. Piebald "The Stalker" (for fun also)
6. Papa Roach "Time And Time Again"
7. Orgy "Blue Monday (New Order cover)"
8. Tracy Bonham "Mother Mother"
9. Linkin Park "Carousel (demo version)"
10. Evanescence "Going Under"
11. Third Eye Blind "How's It Gonna Be"
12. The Divorce "Redcoats"
13. REM "Everybody Hurts"
14. The Blood Brothers "Ambulance vs Ambulance"
15. Weezer "Why Bother"
16. Sum41 "Hell Song"
17. Evanescence "Tourniquet"
18. Ok Go "1000 Miles Per Hour"
19. The Ataris "Angry Nerd Rock"
20. FeableWeiner "Moron, Less Off"

Part B:
1. J Geils Band "Love Stinks"
2. Incubus "Pardon Me"
3. Saves The Day "This Is Not An Exit"
4. Oasis "Wonderwall"
5. KoRn "Freak On A Leash"
6. Lagwagon "Kids In America"  (cover of Kim Wilde)
7. Hot Hot Heat "Bandages"
8. American Hi-Fi "Another Perfect Day"
9. Weezer "Say It Ain't So"
10. Ben Folds Five "Brick"
11. Grey Daze "Drag"
12. Save Ferris "Build Me Up Buttercup" (cover)
13. B-52s "Love Shack" (for fun)
14. Garth Brooks "Friends In Low Places" (for fun)
15. "I Say A Little Prayer" (for fun)
16. Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here"
17. Radiohead "Creep"
18. Jimmy Eat World "The Middle"
19. Red Hot Chili Peppers "Under The Bridge"
20. Linkin Park "My December"

*Edited to put the name of the right band for a song and to change a few songs.*

I'll do lists of ten :)  Those are smaller soundtracks, sure, but they convey the movie's feel very well (kind of like the Stand By Me soundtrack).

Rice Cube Now:

1.  Glory Days -- Bruce Springsteen
2.  Everybody Wants To Rule the World -- Tears For Fears
3.  Eye of the Tiger -- Survivor
4.  The Greatest American Hero Theme Song
5.  Cherry Bomb -- John Mellencamp
6.  The Sweetest Thing -- U2
7.  Getting Better -- Beatles
8.  Octopus' Garden -- Beatles
9.  Stand By Me -- Ben E. King
10. What a Wonderful World -- Louis Armstrong

Not in that order ;)

Sorry Junior, now that I think about it, the soundtrack's been pretty much the same my entire life :)  I guess I'm just a generally happy nostalgic guy...sorry to shortchange you :-/

I'm only going to do Part A for right now. I'll get to Part B later.

Part A:
1. Have You Ever -Brandy
2. Right Here Waiting -Richard Marx
3. Numb -Linkin Park
4. Dust In the Wind -Kansas
5. Bother -Stone Sour
6. Angel -Amanda Perez
7. Loser -3 Doors Down
8. Foolish -Ashanti
9. Easier To Run -Linkin Park
10. My December -Linkin Park
11. Prayer -Disturbed
12. Thoughtless -KoRn
13. Cry -Godley & Creme
14. Something In My Heart -Michel'le
15. Fell On Black Days -Soundgarden
16. Foolish Heart -Steve Perry
17. Free Falling -Tom Petty
18. Your Woman -White Town
19. Going Under -Evanescence
20. Sick of Life -Godsmack

Let's just do disc one for now, seeing as it alone took me about a half hour.  The events of my life, for the last month or so.  People are welcome to try and interpret it.

1.  Phantom Planet - "Lonely Day"
2.  The Box Tops - "The Letter"
3.  Gin Blossoms - "Hey Jealousy"
4.  Tal Bachman - "She's So High"
5.  Everly Brothers - "Until I Kissed You"
6.  Matthew Sweet - "Girlfriend"
7.  Herman's Hermits - "I'm Into Something Good"
8.  Suicide Machines - "New Girl"
9.  Third Eye Blind - "Never Let You Go"
10.  Foo Fighters - "See You"
11.  Sixpence None the Richer - "Kiss Me"
12.  The Temptations - "My Girl"
13.  The Romantics - "What I Like About You"
14.  Eagle-Eye Cherry - "Save Tonight"
15.  Peter Paul and Mary - "Leavin' on a Jet Plane"
16.  The Cure - "Just Like Heaven"
17.  Carole King - "So Far Away"
18.  Wyclef Jean f/Refugee Allstars - "Gone 'Til November"
19.  The Happenings - See You in September
20.  Flying Burrito Brothers - "Six Days on the Road"

These pretty much some up how 2003 has started out for me...

1.Pantera - This Love
2.Patience - GnR
3.Trees Lounge - Hayden
4.Nutshell - Alice In Chains
5.Too Late:Frozen - Type O Negative
6.Be Quiet And Drive - Deftones
7.Sober - Tool
8.The Freshmen - The Verve Pipe
9.The Bitter End - Placebo
10.Lovely Day - Bill Withers
11.Abra Moore - Trip On Love
12.Coffee And TV - Blur
13.Gimme Some Money - Spinal Tap
14.Weezer - Jaimie
15.What I Got - Sublime
16.Surrounded - Chantal Kreviazuk
17.London Rain - Heather Nova
18.Easy - Faith No More
19.Take A Picture - Filter
20.Where Is My Mind - Pixies

I'm going to go ahead and break the rules 8) I'll make two CDs. The total will be 26 songs and they can be construed as now and my yesterdays...


Disc one:

1. "Agent Orange" by Depeche Mode
2. "Beautiful Girl" by INXS
3. "Come Before Christ And Murder Love" by Death In June
4. "The Damned Don't Cry" by Visage
5. "Equal Ways" by Clan Of Xymox
6. "Fade Into You" by Mazzy Star
7. "Ghosts" by Japan
8. "Hunting High And Low" by A-Ha
9. "In A Manner Of Speaking" by Tuxedomoon
10. "Just Another High" by Roxy Music
11. "The Killing Moon" by Echo And The Bunnymen
12. "Life In Mono" by Mono
13. "The Man Who Sold The World" by David Bowie

Disc Two

1. "No Surprises" by Radiohead
2. "Only You" by Yazoo
3. "Pale Shelter" by Tears For Fears
4. "Quarantine" by Rialto
5. "Reap The Wild Wind" by Ultravox
6. "A Strange Day" by The Cure
7. "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" by The Smiths
8. "Unprofessional" by Kent
9. "Vicious Streak" by NewOrder
10. "Wicked Game (Instrumental)" by Chris Isaak
11. One Minute Silence by VNV Nation
12. "You Must Love Me" by Madonna
13. "Zamba" by Bryan Ferry

I think I'm only going to do 10 each:

Part A:

"New Life" - Depeche Mode
"Blue Monday" - New Order
"Walking Away" - Information Society
"What Is Love?" - Howard Jones
"One More Time" - The Cure
"It's Over Now" - Cause and Effect
"What About Me" - Moving Pictures
"It's Not Right, But It's Okay" (Thunderpuss Mix) - Whitney Houston
"In The End" - Linkin Park
"Here's Where The Story Ends" - The Sundays

Part B:
"Just Can't Get Enough" - Depeche Mode
"Against All Odds" - Phil Collins
"When Doves Cry" - Prince & The Revolution
"Getting Away With It" - Electronic
"Space Age Love Song" - A Flock of Seagulls
"Next Is the E (I Feel It)" - Moby
"Movin' On Up" - M People
"Looking At You" - Sunscreem
"God Is A DJ" - Faithless
"Bring Back My Happiness" - Moby

This was hard but I'll do ten that basically sums up my life in a nutshell right now....... ::)  (In no particular order)


1.  "Long Gone Day" - Mad Season

2.  "Wasting My Time" - Default

3.  "I Could Not Ask For More" - Edwin McCain

4.  "Suspicious Minds" - Elvis

5.  "Fragile" - Sting

6.  "Paranoia" - Harvey Danger

7.  "I Wish You Were Here" - Incubus

8.  "Love Don't Cost a Thing" - J. Lo

9.  "Baby I'm Amazed" - Paul McCartney

10. "Walk" - Pantera

I will do today's just for now

My life now:

1. David Gray - This Years Love
2. The Smiths - Panic
3. Idlewild - American English
4. I Miss You - Incubus
5. James - Tomorrow
6. En Vogue - Whatever
7. Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger
8. Your Making Me High - Toni Braxton
9. Room 5 - Make Love
10. REM - Strange Currencies
11. Berlin - Pleasure Victim
12. Go Go's - Beneath the Blue Sky
13. Dion and the Belmonts - Why Must I Be a Teenager In Love?
14. Bluetones - Mudslide (Well, a metaphorical one :])
15. Aurora - Dreaming
16. Shed Seven - On Standby
17. Lifehouse - Simon
18. Travis - Coming Around

(By reading these you may be thinking I have a messed up love life! Honestly, they're about different people in my life :])