The soundtrack to my life

I said I would explain the concept I mentioned in an earlier post - 'the soundtrack to my life'.
It is slightly different to the soundtrack of my life - which is more self explanatory.

The soundtrack to my life is the songs/poems/prose that spring to mind as people speak, or act, or as events occur. For example today my daughters were discussing the love life of a friend and commented that she had thought she had it all. Cue Whitney Houston's 'Didn't we almost have it all' to begin running through my head (okay, yes and a quick vocal burst); writing that bought to mind a line from a poem 'suddenly everyone burst out singing' (Everyone Sang by Sigfried Sassoon- I had to look it up because it was just a line).
You see how it works.

A classic that occurs while walking though certain areas of anywhere: Pulp's Common People.

I want to live like common people,
I want to do whatever common people do,
I want to sleep with common people,
I want to sleep with common people,
like you."

Well what else could I do -
I said "I'll see what I can do."
I took her to a supermarket,
I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere,
so it started there.
...



Rent a flat above a shop,
cut your hair and get a job.
Smoke some fags and play some pool,
pretend you never went to school.
But still you'll never get it right,
cos when you're laid in bed at night,
watching roaches climb the wall,
if you call your Dad he could stop it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM

Which for me always leads to Educating Rita - Willy Russell... and round and round it goes...  

In a similar way when I was in Stratford upon Avon with my sisters recently, my eldest sister introduced the concept of 'songs I love but would be happy never to hear again'. I was horrified! I love songs and music, I don't want to relegate any, but when I thought about it I began to consider which songs might be able to appear...