Your personal disc....

Yet another school year decends upon La Casa Del Fulghum. My daughter brought home a rather unique ( and pretty cool I thought) assignment her first week back in the hallowed halls.

She was to put together a CD with 10 songs describing her personality. In the process of helping her out she asked me to do one for me... I said OK.. that'd be cool.. so here's mine.. with a brief explanation as to why each song is there.. It's actually rather revealing..

1) I Love the Night: Blue Oyster Cult.

I do like the night, guess I'm a night person. as the song itself says "The day is OK, and the sun can be fun, but I live to see those rays slip away."

2) Wild West End: Dire Straits.

I have spent a good deal of my life as an itnerrant musician in the "art districts" of wherever I was living.. North Rush St. in Chicago, Beal Street in Memphis.....this song always hit home with me.

3) I'm Tore Down: Eric Clapton.

OK.. mentally I'm a trainwreck.. I've been in and out of therapy for years..

4) Comfortably Numb: Pink Floyd.

I know all to well the feeling Rog and Dave are describing.. Anybody else on antidepressants???

5) Coming Back to Life: Pink Floyd.

I have fought my way back to "normalcy" more than once...from depression/anxiety disorder. it's not a fun trip

6) Silent Lucidity: Queensryche.

Part and parcel with the last 3 songs.. I can identify all too closely.

7) Headwires: The Foo Fighters.

Just another mental case song.....

8) La Villa Strangiato: Rush.

The title says it all.. I have lead a very strange life.

9) Won't Get Fooled Again: The Who.

I (as many of us) have had people and situations get the better of me. This song to me is a song of hope, strength and redemption.

10) Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers: ZZ Top.

After all is said and done, I'm still just that.. 44 going on 21...

Hey Stratters.. grab me another Coors..



Post your own list if you have a mind to ..

oh man this'll take ages

Wheel: John Mayer

perfectly describes my life from about the age of 8 to the age of 16

The Crowd: Cat Empire

Describes the way I feel about my favourite city in the world (that I've seen so far that is), Melbourne

Corner of the earth: Jamiroquai

Describes the way I feel about my general surroundings, the lake at my uni for example where i just like to sit with my friends sometimes on a nice day

Dancehall Girl: Salmonella Dub

I'm prolly not the best dancer in the world or anything of the sort, but I do like dancing and the first time I heard this song, I couldn't stop dancing and it's just a wicked song

Twentysomething: Jamie Cullum

A wicked song about the stage of life that I'm right now, and it's a jazz song, doesn't get any better than that

Java Jive: Manhattan Transfer

"I love coffee, I love tea, I love the Java Jive and it loves me" need I say more?

You sound like Louis Burdett: The Whitlams

Although all my friends are not **** ups as the song states, it still describes really well the relationships I have with my friends

Laugh in their faces: The Whitlams

One of those songs that represents my attitude to life

Waiting: Liam Gerner

another song about the stage in life that I'm in right now

I'm sure there's heaps more.. I just can't think of any others right now

cheers

Stormy Monday-Allman Brothers Band- yeah-that’s me!

I talk to the wind- King Crimson- Sometimes I do, or feel that I might as well (particularly where my kids are concerned)

Fat Old Sun-Pink Floyd-this has nothing to do with my increasing waistline (I’ve started back to the gym!) I’m nice and peaceful most of the time

My pink half of the drainpipe-Bonzo dog doo dah band- always was a square peg in a round hole, and always wanted to be different anyway…

Brainstorm- Hawkwind-yup, plenty of brainstorms..but they seemed like such good ideas at the time!

So What-Miles Davis-had to learn over the years to say ‘f**k it…so what’

They’re coming to take me away-Napoleon xiv- like Dave, I’m another one who has experienced therapy and recovery (this describes how I am at the moment)…..

Bodhisattva-Steely Dan—a Buddha in the making…no but I try to follow the principles

The original mixed up kid-Mott the Hoople-word for word the early part of my life!

Coast to Coast-Ducks Deluxe- I may be a miserable ‘git’ but I do love to hit the dance floor. I get great pleasure from strutting my stuff!

1. Nine Inch Nails - The Way Out is Through
"Underneath it all, we feel so small. The heavens fall, but still we crawl. All I've undergone, I will keep on."
The title of the song completely sums up my own personal philosophy: mental endurance at all costs, as well as belief in the triumph of tenacity. I can take whatever you can throw at me!

2. Radiohead - Cuttooth
"Run until your lungs are sore, until you find an open door. I build you up to pull you down, tie you to the stake and watch you drown. A little bit of knowledge will destroy you. I'll find another skin to wear."
With the last song as my mantra, I go on battling through life, sometimes at the expense of those whom I love. But you have to just continue running, don't look back. They can't hit a moving target, so keep changing your outlook.

3. Gary Numan - We Are Glass
"We are cold, we're not supposed to cry. But it's all just a thought, so here am I."
Some vague stuff here about my identity (it's fragile, like glass, get it?) and how I relate to whatever pocket of society I happen to be dealing with. Particularly matters of love and sex. Musing on what other people think and do... and incredulity at what we're capable of (good and bad).

4. The Police - Invisible Sun
"I don't want to spend my time in hell, looking at the walls of a prison cell. I don't ever want to play the part of a statistic on a government chart."
Not just for the literal meaning, because half of my family is from Northern Ireland and this song was written directly about the situation there, but also about refusing to be crushed under the boot of tyranny. About rising above oppression and giving a big fat middle finger to figures of authourity when they deserve it.

5. Paul Simon - Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall
"It’s no matter if you’re born to play the king or pawn, for the line is thinly drawn ’tween joy and sorrow. And so my fantasy becomes reality, and I must be what I must be and face tomorrow."
If you start out life with relative middle-class comfort, that immediately screws up your perception of what's real and what's fake. You can easily slip into complacency and end up lower than you ever thought you could go. That's something you've just got to deal with. Take life at face value.

6. Barenaked Ladies - Break Your Heart
"I couldn't tell you I was happy you were gone. So I lied and said that I missed you when we were apart. I couldn't tell you, so I had to lead you on. But I didn't mean to break your heart."
The whole song very accurately and precisely describes what I felt about my first really serious relationship with a woman. God, did that ever hurt. Anyone who thinks these guys are just a joke band should go through a breakup and then listen to this song, it's a doozy.

7. Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
"Look out kid, it's somethin' you did. God knows when, but you're doin' it again. You better duck down the alley way, lookin' for a new friend. The man in the coon-skin cap in the pig-pen wants eleven dollar bills... you only got ten."
What the hell is wrong with these people? How do they expect me to please them? They want this, they want the exact opposite... sometimes the most frustrating thing for me is just figuring out other people.

8. George Harrison - Not Guilty
"I am not trying to be smart, I only want what I can get. I'm really sorry for your aging head, but like you heard me said, not guilty."
Don't pin that sick shit on me. I'm not your scapegoat. It's probably more your fault than mine. But I'm a very contrary, contradictory person too. So it might just be nobody's fault but mine.

9. Led Zeppelin - Nobody's Fault But Mine
"Gotta monkey on my back, gotta m-m-m-m-monkey on my back back back back... gonna change my ways tonight, it's nobody's fault but mine."
I'm my own toughest critic and my own harshest observer. I can be such a stupid prick, or so says my guilt-ridden conscience. Self-absorbed, lazy and mean... or so I think even when people tell me otherwise.

10. Roger Waters - Every Stranger's Eyes
"In award-winning photographs of life-rafts in the China seas, in transit camps, under arc lamps, on unloading ramps, in faces blurred by rubber stamps, I recognize... myself, in every stranger's eyes."
Some hopeful camaraderie in the comforting glow of other human beings. Faith in our ability to pull through, and that spark of life that unites us all.

I think that's enough soul-bearing for one evening.

man.. these are so beautifully revealing.. I'd actually like to say thanks to you guys for sharing them

also.. I'd like to add Miss Sarajevo by U2 and Luciano Pavaroti to that list.. only because I know EXACTLY what they are singing about

"Is there a time for keeping your distance
A time to turn your eyes away
Is there a time for keeping your head down
For getting on with your day


Is there a time for kohl and lipstick
A time for cutting hair
Is there a time for high street shopping
To find the right dress to wear.........

Is there a time to run for cover
A time for kiss and tell
Is there a time for different colours
Different names you find it hard to spell


Is there a time for first communion
A time for East 17
Is there a time to turn to Mecca
Is there time to be a beauty queen......

Is there a time for tying ribbons
A time for Christmas trees
Is there a time for laying tables
And the night is set to freeze"

1. Comfortably Numb: Pink Floyd

My first 6 days of college I was sober for a total of 8 hours. (not counting sleep)

2. Soul to Squeeze: Red Hot Chilli Peppers

"Where I go, I just don't know. I've got to gotta gotta take it slow."

3. Bohemian Raphsody: Queen

"I just killed a man." Just kidding. Actually, it just always makes me analize my life when I hear it. I dunno....

4. Peacefull Easy Feeling: Eagles

I've been feeling damned good for a while now.

5. Homeward Bound: Simon and Garfunkel

"All my words come back to me, in shades of mediocrity."

6. Ramble On: Led Zeppelin

Just listen to the chorus... That's me.

7. Things Have Changed: Bob Dylan

That song got me through high school

8. Brain Damage/Eclipse: Pink Floyd

"The lunatic is in my head."

9. Creep: Radiohead

That's me.

10. Jumping Jack Flash: Rolling Stones

I needed some stones on this cd, and nobody knows what this song is about.

four replies.. what sissies.. afraid it'd reveal too much?


cheers

I'm just too lazy.

Not given to introspection.

Can't be arsed.

this sort of thread deals with...thinking...and knowledge of ones self and inner being. i cant type that much.