fahye | let it roll right off your shoulders

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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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.

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