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It's a beautiful day here in the sunny Northern Rivers region, and I am sitting inside sneezing sullenly all over my laptop in the hope that I can finish this stupid EBM assignment before my immune system completely gives out.

It's also a beautiful day to be in Sydney for Supanova, I'm sure. SIGH.

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Ooh, a question for you all: are there any songs that spark particular emotions in you because of their use in TV shows or movies? I can only think of a couple of examples off the top of my head: Michelle Branch's 'Goodbye To You' (heartbreaking) and Dire Straits' 'Brothers in Arms' (bittersweetamazing) because of their use in Buffy and West Wing respectively, and I rewatched Meet the Robinsons last night (IT GETS BETTER EVERY TIME I WATCH IT. MAGICALLY. BEST ANIMATED FILM TO EVER EXIST Y/N?) and thus have Rob Thomas' 'Little Wonders' on repeat as the ultimate inspirational work-hard-and-follow-your-dreams song.

(I would show you the Little Wonders scene but it's epically spoilery for the film and if you haven't seen Meet the Robinsons (I am not judging.

ryokophoenix had to talk about it nonstop for months before I watched it. but you SHOULD WATCH IT.) then you really, really don't want to be spoilered.)

Tell me your songs with media-generated emotional associations! Bonus points for YouTube evidence.

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There are so many! Unsurprisingly, a lot of Sarah McLachlan, as she was a staple in the old WB days aka the formative days of my adolescence. "Fear" always makes me think of the pilot episode of Roswell and gives me this feeling of, idk, strange wonderment. And "Full of Grace" for the S2 finale of Buffy and the heartbreak contained therein.

More recently, when I hear "Cut" by Plumb I always want to go back and watch this scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp9zH4d9JNE) from The Vampire Diaries. I associate it a lot with that scene and that feeling of first love.

Oh, that's a lovely song! I can't dl anything because I'm using my hosts' wireless, but I will try to remember to hit you up for it when I'm back in Sydney.

I'm sure there are many but in my cold-medicine-addled brain, Hometown Glory by Adele being played in 2x09 of Skins seems to stand out. Here's a link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL5jDqj6eB8) but it may be hard to appreciate if you're not familiar with the character-arc (and sort of spoilery if you haven't seen the show and ever plan to). Gorgeous song though.

I've only seen the first two seasons/series of Skins but I find they generally handle the music bit very well :)

I first heard "Devil's Playground" early on in season two of Life and it has kind of echoed in my ears ever since, because Life is about a wrongly accused LAPD detective who is now out of jail and bent on finding out who actually committed and also set him up for the murders of his BFF and his family.

There were camera tricks. And shots of Los Angeles. The only song that is more about LA to me now is "Sin City" by the Flying Burrito Brothers, and that song does not have the side benefit of having Damien Lewis attached to it, and Gram Rabbit (named in part for Gram Parsons due to "Sin City", it turns out) does more for my mental conception of LA as Bizarro World. Way more.

Also, the theme song from Justified is absolutely perfect as they use it in the show, but as a rap song, it's not great. But I bear it a lot of love for the way it is ~*thematically appropriate*~ with the first-season narrative, and I will stop here or risk going on and on and on about the show's obsession with systems and structure and how it's really about the importance of striving for synthesis in all systems and how patriarchy hurts especially women but definitely everybody which was totally not the question you were asking. :D?

Sorry, but every time Life gets mentioned I have to complain about how much I miss it. So: I REALLY MISS LIFE.

More, I think, than any other show. Which sounds impossible, considering some of the other show's I've loved, but is true.

"Storybook Love." Which, okay, was written (kind of) for the movie, but whatever. Perfect love story + childhood memories + Willy DeVille's crazy voice . . . It always makes me cry happy tears.

Also, "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" was on a lot of R/S fanmixes back when HP was going on, so 75% of my emotional reaction to that song stems from its relationship to the pairing.

Staunton Lick (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsBk_yYUD7o) is my incontrovertible happy ending song, for Spaced. Every time I hear it I smile helplessly and feel like everything's going to be okay, for a little while at least. :D

Lemon Jelly are good at that, though; Nice Weather For Ducks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8yx4k4tzqE) is likewise happeaceful.

Oh, DO I EVER. Well, I pretty much get 95% of my music from movies/TV, so almost all my music is meaningful to me because of the associations more than anything else :P

First let me get this out of the way: seconded on 'Goodbye to You' ;_____; aughhh. Another Buffy one that I actually have a cool story about is the Sundays version of Wild Horses (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58GvCslX4LA) - the song that Buffy and Angel dance to at her prom. Being the nerds that we are, me and my friend ended our prom night slow dancing around my living room to this song. So I get like, both fictional and real-life nostalgia when I listen to it :P

Here are some of my big ones (ignore all the random music videos on youtube):

- Glosoli (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlCIPJv45c0) is a gorgeous song on its own, but it definitely took on this extra mysterious and magical quality after it was used on Heroes (back in glorious season 1 when it was still awesome of course.)

- Swans (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsx7G-pTrPM) is from Grey's Anatomy. I think I actually saw the episode it was used in (I never really watched that show) and it made the moment pretty powerful... but funnily enough, I love this song because in my mind it has become the ultimate Naruto/Sasuke song XD ohhh my mind.

- How I Met Your Mother has an awesome soundtrack, and their finales are usually especially songtastic.* Two of the songs/moments that stuck with me the most were Prophets (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRqWWR8b4Wg) and Radiohead's Nice Dream (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDLkaISa-B8).

- After I marathoned Battlestar Galactica, I listened to Bear McCreary's version of 'All Along the Watchtower' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka_sHy9cVH0) on repeat for like a week xD it just made everything feel SO. EPIC. Granted, this might be kind of an obvious one since it was not only arranged for the show but was an actual plot point. But that's why the effect is so intense... listening to it kinda feels like blurring the line between the show and reality xD

I've also found that theme songs of shows I love are pretty much my happy drug - I theorize that this is because you become conditioned to expect the next hour or so of your life to be AWESOME after you hear them. Probably the winner in this category is Veronica Mars' we used to be friends. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4iUibbj-7w) (This is also why I can't help but love so many cheesy-as-hell anime opening/ending songs :P at least... that's my excuse.)

YEAH. CUTTING MYSELF OFF. My soundtrack playlist has 1,572 songs... and that's not counting the shows/movie series that I have so much music from that they warranted separate playlists of their own.

*basically if someone came to me with an empty iPod and asked for good music, I would just give them the complete fan-compiled soundtracks of How I Met Your Mother, Buffy, Veronica Mars, and True Blood. DONE.

Oh my god, those fan-compiled soundtracks sound like the best thing in the WORLD. How can I bribe you to mail me a data DVD stuffed full of them? I once downloaded a fan-compiled Bones soundtrack and it was just. Amazing. So much wonderful music!

um, you could bribe me by linking me to that Bones one :O hahah. I can totally upload them for you! Or at least the best of ;) it is true that it would take some huge data CD to send you the Buffy one, for example. The Buffy one was a torrent of every song that was ever on Buffy or Angel - some of them that just get referenced in the dialogue, not even played - organized by episode. It took me like a full week to download it xD I don't even have half the songs on my computer right now because I was just too overwhelmed to go through them once I actually had them all. I HAVE AN ADDICTION

I can't remember where I got it, actually, maybe somewhere in the bowels of the

206_bones memories? I'm okay for Buffy music, I have quite a fair bit of it, but the other shows sound great. (And I can't really download large files, so I'd prefer something in the mail!)

Can do! if you email me your mailing address (my email is just my username @gmail) I can send you a CD sometime this summer ;) oh - do you have a mac? I ask because even though it shouldn't matter, sometimes weird things happen with compatibility :/ sigh. computers.

I remain inordinately fond of the No Doubt song "Hella Good" because of its use in the second season of "Alias"-- which I am very sad I can't find a good YouTube clip for, as it was basically the most badass thing ever.

Also: this entire Avatar FST (http://gallo-de-pelea.livejournal.com/92769.html), or why I cannot listen to the Peter Gabriel song "Sky Blue" without tearing up.

oh my gosh thank you for linking to that FST! I clicked on it and was like "PLEASE LET THIS BE THE AVATAR I'M THINKING OF - YESSSS"

Heh, when I posted my comment I spent a few seconds looking at it and thinking that I probably should've added that whole helpful "Last Airbender" bit!

I LOVE that FST so much-- I hope you enjoy it too!

Friday Night Lights, "Devil Town" (Tony Lucca) and "I Made a Resolution" (Sea Wolf). I don't remember if you continued with FNL. But the "I Made a Resolution" scene was so catastrophically perfect I've never recovered.

OH HEY YOU'RE ALIVE

I never continued past S1, no.

"DEVIL TOWN" GOOD CALL.

Oh, "All This Time" from FNL too.

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