Soundtrack of My Life

This page contains a reverse chronological list of music that had an impact on my life. I can't listen to these songs without thinking of a particular time, and most especially without thinking of the person I spent it with or who was important to me. Of course, this list is far from complete. This list also does not represent a list of songs I like - some of these songs are quite painful to listen to now, but all of them were important.

I linked a few YouTube videos to the songs where the logo appears. I do not condone intellectual piracy, and if the copyright holder or YouTube would like me to remove the links, I will do so immediately.

PS: The idea of the "soundtrack of my life" was shamelessly stolen from my good friend mikel's homepage (see links).

• 2007
  • Fiction Plane - It's A Lie
    • I wish I could tell you I'm a better guy, that love is all around and only real men cry.
      But all I want to do is jump your bones and slam dance all night to the music of your moans
  • The Who - You Better You Bet
    • When I said I love you, you said you better
      You better you better you bet
  • Moby - Extreme Ways
    • I would always stand in line for this
      It's always good in life for this
  • Mike Oldfield - Amarok
    • Thesis defense soundtrack ;-)
  • Mike Oldfield - Innocent
  • Roxette - (Do You Get) Excited?
  • Fountains of Wayne - Supercollider
    • Out of the blackness / Into the great big sky
      Supercollider / Shooting inside your mind
  • The Pretenders - I'll Stand By You
    • When the night falls on you, you don't know what to do
      Nothing you confess could make me love you les
  • David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
    • Ashes to ashes, funk to funky, we all know... Mama said to get things done / You better don't mess with Major Tom
  • New Order - I Told You So
    • If it ain't the job and it ain't the place
      But I must stay for your pretty face
      It's a bad reaction I can't fix
      You caught me with those feline tricks
      And I told you so, it's a crazy world
      For a mixed up guy and a no good girl
  • Sting - Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me)
    • Lay my head on the surgeon's table
      Take my fingerprints if you are able
      Pick my brains, pick my pcckets
      Steal my eyeballs and come back for the sockets
      Run every kind of test from A to Z
      You'll still know nothing 'bout me
  • David Bowie - Space Oddity
    • I'm stepping through the door
      And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
      And the stars look very different today
  • Peter Schilling - Major Tom
  • Chris de Burgh - High on Emotion
    • Here we go again, we are moving from a spark to a flame
• 2006
  • Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
    • And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
      And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking, and racing to come up behind you again.
      The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
  • Pink Floyd - Animals
  • Pink Floyd - The Wall
    • For the first time, I think I really got it..
  • Roxette - Dressed for Success
  • Roxette - Dangerous
  • Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done to Deserve This?
  • Rio Reiser - Koenig von Deutschland
  • Kettcar - Balkon gegenueber
  • Paso Doble - Computerliebe
  • Muenchner Freiheit - Ohne Dich
  • Heinz-Rudolf Kunze - Dein ist mein ganzes Herz
    • A German phase, I guess.
  • R. E. M. - Country Feedback (Live at Atlanta)
    • We've been through fake-a-breakdown, self hurt, plastics, collections. Self help, self pain, EST, psychics, fuck all...
  • Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground - Perfect Day
  • Such perfect days, I'm glad I spent them with you. I guess I'm going to reap what I sow.
  • Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers
  • Well I hope you don't see me in my ragged company. You know I could never be alone.
  • The La's - There She Goes
    • There she goes again, racing through my brain, and I just can't contain the feeling that remains.
  • Depeche Mode - Policy of Truth / Sweetest Perfection / Clean
    • I don't claim to know where my holiness goes, I just know that I like what is starting to show
• 2005
  • Peter Gabriel - Mercy Street
    • I'm looking for Mercy Street too.
  • Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
    • I love how plainly it states inevitability: When I want to run away / I drive off in my car / But whichever way I go / I come back to the place you are.
  • New Order - Turn
    • Though I've never met her, and probably never will, I like her a lot. I feel slightly pathetic.
  • Pink Floyd - Division Bell
  • The Stranglers - Golden Brown
    • Never a frown.
  • Massive Attack - Teardrop
  • Death in Vegas - Scorpio Rising
  • New Order - True Faith
    • I have a feeling that if we do enough of it we'll be okay.
  • Lynard Skynard - Sweet Home Alabama
  • John Denver - Country Roads (West Virginia)
    • These songs remind me of the cruise I went on this spring break. Sometimes, the DJ in the club played music I enjoyed.
  • Pink Floyd - Animals
    • Listened to this album at the office very often.
  • Oasis - Songbird
    
• 2004
  • U2 - Beautiful Day
    • General spirit lifter in the morning.
  • Herbert Grönemeyer - Der Weg
    • Thinking of my mom. She likes this song.
  • Sting - I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying
    • We knew it would be over soon, but it was still sad.
  • Coldplay - Parachutes
    • Spent lots of time listening together.
  • Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
    • Without knowing if I even wanted it, I met another wonderful woman. She told me she had danced to this song in the OR one day.
  • Mike Oldfield - Earth Moving
    • Again, I drown myself in work. Quite successfully.
  • Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale
  • Janis Joplin - Piece Of My Heart
  • Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
    • Listening to a lot of LaunchCast. I love my station!
  • Genesis - Misunderstanding
  • Genesis - Since I Lost You
    • It's over before it really began. I'm very confused.
  • Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
    • The choir reminds me of her.
  • Billy Joel - Only The Good Die Young
  • Billy Joel - For the Longest Time
    • At one of the darkest times of my life, I meet a girl. It probably wasn't meant to be, but it was beautiful.
• 2003
  • Liz Phair - Why Can't I?
  • Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb
  • Rolling Stones - Beast of Burden
  • Pink Floyd - The Wall
    • Really discovering Pink Floyd was almost a religious experience.
  • The Who
    
• 2002
  • Carly Simon - The Spy Who Loved Me
  • Frank Sinatra - I Get a Kick out of You
  • The Eagles - Take It to the Limit
  • AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
    • I love American thighs. Fantastic summer!
  • U2 - One
    • I'm an April fool. My mother tells me my last girlfriend got engaged. I believe it and thrown into an emotional rollercoaster ride.
• 2001
  • Faithless - Woozy
    • Woozy very often. I almost cut two of my fingers off in my drunken stupor. I still have the scar.
  • The Evolution Control Committee - Rocked by Rape
    • The first song my roommate put on after 9/11.
  • Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
    • American woman... yuck.
  • Terri Nunn - Diane
    
• 2000
  • Jewel - You Were Meant for Me
  • Jewel - Down So Long
  • Amanda Marshall - Wishful Thinking
  • Amanda Marshall - Dark Horse
  • Eurythmics - 17 Again
    • This song brings up memories of working on Chaotic Arts' RTS game "Incident".
  • Annie Lennox - Dont Let It Bring You Down
  • Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
    • Civil service becomes bearable. I'm actually having a good time.
• 1999
  • Lene Marlin - Playing My Game
    • I remember studying for the SAT while listening to this album.
  • Chicago - Hard to Say I'm Sorry
  • Phil Collins - Against All Odds
    • Can't forget her.
• 1998
  • Kate Yanai - Summer Dreaming
    • Lots of partying and alcohol to forget.
  • R. E. M. - E-Bow The Letter
  • R. E. M. - Nightswimming
  • Celine Dion - If That's What It Takes
  • Herbert Grönemeyer - Flugzeuge im Bauch
    • Love turns sour.
• 1997
  • Depeche Mode - The Bottom Line
  • Sting - Fields Of Gold
  • deeFredrix - And So I Will Wait for You
    • In love again, this time happily.
  • Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
    • I have the strange association of listening to this song and reading Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities".
• 1996
  • Madonna - Like a Prayer
    • The song I listened to the most during the early time in Missouri.
  • Vanessa Williams - Save the Best for Last
    • I'm saying goodbye to Germany before my high school exchange year.
  • Mike Oldfield - Amarok
    • To dull the pain, I launched myself into work and created my first ever "programming hell". I also injured my tongue badly while eating potato chips.
  • Madonna - Rain
    • Of course, nothing it didn't end well.
  • Madonna - Crazy for You
    • I was in love again, for the first time in a while. Somehow this point in time signifies the beginning of a new age for me.