Music can create feelings, memories, emotions, remind you of someone/something or just a specific time or moment in your life. So I'm gonna start the sound track to my life!!! (In no particular order and will add to it as I go)

Wednesday 3 February 2010

Jimmy Ruffin

Song: Jimmy Ruffin ~ What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
Have always wondered what does become of the broken hearted.
Reminds me of the time I split up with my first boyfriend

Tina Turner

Song: Tina Turner ~ Nutbush City Limits
(My favourite Tina Turner song)

Wednesday 27 January 2010

Bob Marley



Album: Bob Marley & Wailers Greatest Hits
Reason: Got me through tough times at school
Memory's: Ex Boyfriend Damo & Working at Aspen Books

Song: No Women No Cry
Memory: Getting Drunk at college!! (lunch time) & Happy times

Bob Marley died from a malignant melanoma, a form of cancer, that was on his right toe. He could've avoided death with amputation, but it was against his Rastafari beliefs. The cancer spread.

"Bob Marley played his final concert at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 23, 1980. The live version of "Redemption Song" on Songs of Freedom was recorded at this show. Marley afterwards sought medical help from Munich specialist Josef Issels, but his cancer had already progressed to the terminal stage. While flying home from Germany to Jamaica for his final days, Marley became ill, and landed in Miami for immediate medical attention. He died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami, Florida on the morning of May 11, 1981 at the age of 36.

Bill Withers

Song: Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone

The Police

Song: Roxanne ~ The Police
Memory:
Antony's 21st


Beatles

Song: Hey Jude ~ Beatles
Memory: College days (makes me sound well old)

Tom Jones

Song: Sex Bomb ~ Tom Jones
Memory: My Brother. Not because I think he is (that would just be wrong) But he will know why.

Monday 25 January 2010

Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

Song: Heat Wave ~ Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Memory:
Mine and Lee's first holiday together (aged 17)

Carpenters

Song: Close to you ~ Carpenters
Memory: Will always remind me of my cousin Lena after xmas 2009 :-)

En Vouge

Song: My lovin' (your never gonna get it) ~ En Vouge
& Hold on ~ En Vouge
Memory: Reminds me of louise and when I realised we could be great friends



Tracy Chapman



Album: Fast Car
Reason's:
The time me & Lee first started going out. I can remember EVERYTHING about listening to this album for the first time.

Track List
  1. "Talking Bout a Revolution" – 2:39
  2. "Fast Car" – 4:56
  3. "Across the Lines" – 3:24
  4. "Behind the Wall" – 1:49
  5. Baby Can I Hold You" – 3:14
  6. "Mountains o' Things" – 4:39
  7. "She's Got Her Ticket" – 3:56
  8. "Why?" – 2:06
  9. "For My Lover" – 3:12
  10. "If Not Now..." – 3:01
  11. "For You" – 3:09
Song: For you ~ Tracy Chapman
Memory: Being 16, Lee being my new boyfriend. Our song. Our wedding
Feelings/emotions: Happiness & Love

Lyrics & Our Song:
For you ~ Tracy Chapman
I try to say Therere no words to say
No words to convey
This feeling inside I have for you
Deep in my heart
Save from the guards
Of intellect and reason
Leaving me at a loss
For words to express my feelings
Deep in my heart

Look at me losing control
Thinking I had a hold
But with feelings this strong
Im no longer the master
Of my emotions............

Minnie Riperton

Song: Loving you ~ Minnie Riperton
Reason: like it, as I think it discribes how everyone should feel about the one they love

Kasabian

Song: Shoot the runner ~ Kasabian
Reason: Just because!!

Kings of Leon

Song: Sex is on fire ~ Kings of Leon
Feelings/emotions: Love it, feel good tune

Basment Jaxx

Song: Good luck ~ Basment Jaxx
Feelings/emotions: Love it


Stevie Wonder

Song: Stevie Wonder ~ Lately
Lyrics:
Well, I'm a man of many wishes
Hope my premonition misses
But what I really feel my eyes won't let me hide
‘Cause they always start to cry
‘Cause this time could mean goodbye

Lately I've been staring in the mirror
Very slowly picking me apart
Trying to tell myself I have no reason
With your heart

Song: Stevie Wonder ~ You Are The Sunshine of My Life
Lyrics:
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
That's Why I'll Always Stay Around
You Are The Apple Of My Eye
Forever You'll Stay In My Heart

I Feel Like This Is The Beginning
Though I've Loved You For A Million Years
And If I Thought Our Love Was Ending
I'd Find Myself Drowning In My Own Tears

You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
That's Why I'll Always Stay Around
You Are The Apple Of My Eye
Forever You'll Stay In My Heart

You Must Have Known That I Was Lonely
Because You Came To My Rescue
And I Know That This Must Be Heaven
How Could So Much Love Be Inside Of You

Four Tops

Song: Four tops ~ I'm in a different world
Feelings/emotions: How Lee makes me feel and how he's changed my world
Lyrics:
Each time you speak my name
Or put your hand in mine
The empty life I knew
I leave it far behind
Cause you gave me the love
That I truly felt
Most of all, you made me
Believe in myself
You're more than a love to me
You're my way of life
I’ll forever cherish you
More each day & night

Ahhhhh..........


Travis

Song: Travis ~ Why does it always rain on me?
Memory: Coming back from the hospital (after having pnuemonia) with lee, in his car and it was playing on the radio
Feelings/emotions: Yep thats me!
Lyrics:
I cant sleep tonight
Everybody saying everythings alright
Still I cant close my eyes
Im seeing a tunnel at the end of all these lights
Sunny days
Where have you gone?
I get the strangest feeling you belong
Why does it always rain on me?
Is it because I lied when I was seventeen?
Why does it always rain on me?
Even when the sun is shining
I cant avoid the lightning
I cant stand myself
Im being held up by invisible men
Still life on a shelf when
I got my mind on something else.................

Katrina and the waves

Song: Katrina and the waves ~ Walking on sunshine
Memory: Aged 7 yrs, summer time
Feelings/emotions: One of my happy tunes

Macy Gray

Song: Macy Gray ~ I try
Memory: When my dad died
Feelings/emotions: Sadness
Lyrics:
I try to say goodbye and I choke
Try to walk away and I stumble
Though I try to hide it, it's clear
My world crumbles when you are not near.........................

Song Lyrics

People are so moved & inspired by song lyrics.
They can generate a lot of emotion and can make us feel and connect. They can make us laugh, cry, hate, love and all the bits in between. They can explain how we feel to others, so we don't have to struggle to find the right words.
They are used at weddings and funerals to show feeling/emotion and to remember. But it is such a personal thing, it reminds us of our past, people we know, people we've lost, turning points, specail events and changes in our life etc.
But it is amazing how the sung word can create feelings and have such an impact on us all.
I wanted to put down the song lyrics that have had an impact on me and that are personal to me for all the above reasons.
But all I can think of now is 'I'm a barbie girl, in a barbie world' :-) So will have to come back to you on this one.

I spose it then becomes the sound track to my life!!
To be continued..............................

About Me

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I'm Jane, Aged 36 (just) My family.... Lee, Aka 'my Lee': The love of my life and husband (been with Lee nearly half my life already!) Jamie: R gorgeous little man, now 8yrs old (he was 2 when I was diagnosed) My personal journey now, is to discover the new version of me. (lameO) :-)

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