The Soundtrack Of My Life

If life were one long movie and I were the star, this would be the music of my life.

You come up with a similar list for yours, and share.

Opening Credits: The Language of Love -- Dan Fogelberg

Waking Up Scene: Dawn on the Moscow River -- Mussorgsky

Car Driving Scene: Green Onions -- Booker T. & the MGs.

High School Flashback Scene: Dies Irae from the Requiem -- Verdi (I didn't have a particularly good time in high school.)

High School Love/Crush Scene: Slow movement of the Emperor Concerto -- Beethoven.

Nostalgic Scene: September Song -- Kurt Weill

Bitter, Angry Scene: Hit Me With Your Best Shot -- Pat Benatar

Break-up Scene: Answer Me, My Love -- Nat King Cole

Regret Scene: The Shadow of Your Smile -- Tony Bennett

Nightclub/Bar Scene: Let's Cool One--Thelonius Monk, segue'ing into Jeru -- Miles Davis

Fight/Action Scene: Street Fighting Man -- The Rolling Stones

Lawn Mowing Scene: Opening of The Plow That Broke The Plains -- Virgil Thomson

Sad, breakdown scene: Sunflower -- Mason Williams. (Now there's an obscurity!)

Death Scene: Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin -- Wagner

Funeral Scene: The Lone Pilgrim, as sung by Bob Dylan

Mellow/Pot-smoking/Drunk scene: Sleepwalk -- Santo and Johnny

Dreaming About Someone Scene: If You Are But A Dream -- Frank Sinatra (and she knows who she is.)

Seeing your significant other Scene: As Time Goes By from Casablanca.

Sex Scene: Chicago Transit Authority's cover of Steve Winwood's I'm A Man. (The lyric isn't much, but I always thought that the savage, pounding beat of this track, underscored by the bass and the drums, would the perfect accompaniment for a vigorous sex scene, you know, the kind with sweat flying every which way.)

Contemplation Scene: Adagio for Strings -- Samuel Barber

Chase Scene: Last movement of Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5

Happy Love Scene: You Make Me Feel So Young - Frank Sinatra

Happy Friend Scene: Stompin' at the Savoy-- Glenn Miller

Closing Credits: Slow movement of Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor. (Yes, I know this runs over the closing credits of Amadeus; that's where I got the idea! Hey, if it's good enough for Milos Forman...)