Last week's Sonic Youth post got me thinking about one's personal "theme music". You know, the song or songs that loop in your head as you go through your daily life, giving you inspiration, purpose and making you feel like you're living the movie of your existence.
I say this because Sonic Youth provides one of those soundtracks for me. It's a testament to how badass Kim Gordon is that it's a song performed by a girl, and I'm not even ashamed of it.
That song? "The Sprawl", the seven minute epic and second track off of "Daydream Nation".
I love the whole thing, even the long, trippy ending (which for some reason, has always brought forth the spooky image of a car in a crash flipping over and over), but really it's the grungy (sorry), dirty verses (see 1:10-2:10) to that get the lion's share of my mental energy. To wit:
And the second song needs no real explanation. So funky that it screws up your face like you smelled somethin' rotten.
"Freddie's Dead" by Curtis Mayfield
So my question to you, dear reader(s) and commenter(s) - What's your theme song?
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I have been thinking of this for days, and I think I have come up with a few varieties of theme music I have used in different situations. They are as follows:
1. Tha Shiznit -- Snoop Doggy Dogg
2. Seek and Destroy -- Metallica
3. Search and Destroy -- The Stooges
4. Run Fay Run -- Issac Hayes
5. Just a Gigolo -- David Lee Roth
6. Whatever -- Godsmack
The Merkin Man is a complex dude; one theme song can't represent his many facets.
1. Short People - Randy Newman
2. We Built this City on Rock & Roll - Starship
3. Genius - Diamondback
4. Theme to Diff'rent Strokes
5. Anything by Cisquo
I'm leaving this up a little longer...come on people - don't be shy!
Merk - the intro to "Seek and Destroy" is an inspired choice. Well done. Although, I'm going to laught at you next time I see you because that bass line that starts "Just a Gigolo" is going to pop into my head (A-bom bom bom bom bom-bom bom-bom)
D - "Genius" got me. Good call. But why that over "Ride the Monkey"?
That has been one of my main jams since I picked up the vinyl EP at K-mart when I was eleven or so. I also remember asking my mom what a "gigolo" was.
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