Personal soundtrack moments...

[Data Holmes]

Does anyone else do this, have a mental soundtrack playing when they do specific things.

I do this all the time, but when I mentioned it at work the other day, my coworkers were of the opinion that it was an oddity. Do any of you do this, and if so what is the piece of music your brain goes to?

As for me, I have many but the one that started the conversation at work was that I sometimes will run Michael Bule's Feeling Good in my head when I'm wondering around the store when I'm doing the entertainment specialist job, basically the movie nerd who wanders the store to answer any and all movie related questions, and to assist in both finding and making movie selections.

I was in a particular good mod, and was running the song on loop in my head. Apparently I had a smug look on my face and I was "swaggering" around the store.

 

[TrickyDickie]

I do that all the time. Kenny Loggins' 'Danger Zone' from the Top Gun soundtrack and 'Road of The Gypsy' from the Iron Eagle soundtrack run through my head when I am out driving on the highway. Don't need to play tapes.

The first time I rode on a rollercoaster, the theme from 'Airwolf' was playing in my head....

 

[Lindley]

Sometimes when I'm walking from one place to another and it's taking longer than I'd like, the Star Control 2 hyperspace music starts up in my head.

 

[XwarlokX]

I've always got my personal soundtrack with me. I don't need no stinkin' MP3 player when the tunes are cranking out in my head at 11.

But here lately I've been stuck on a couple songs, bouncing between Metallica's Battery song, and Skillets Whispers in the Dark, with a little Genesis/Phil Colins thrown in for good measure!

 

[Vulcan Princess]

I have a really embarrassing personal soundtrack moment. Several years ago, I was in training to be a missionary. I had just left the infirmary and I was headed to class. As I was walking, I heard hymns playing. I wondered aloud to those around me when a PA system had been installed. Everyone was giving me strange looks. It took me the entire five minute walk to class to realize that somehow the walkman in my backpack had gotten bumped to the play position and was the source of the music I heard.

 

[Rii]

Not a song, but often when I'm swimming breaststroke I'll find myself mentally echoing a line from God Emperor at some point: "I am a great winged fish in the depths."

 

[TheBrew]

I have a really embarrassing personal soundtrack moment. Several years ago, I was in training to be a missionary. I had just left the infirmary and I was headed to class. As I was walking, I heard hymns playing. I wondered aloud to those around me when a PA system had been installed. Everyone was giving me strange looks. It took me the entire five minute walk to class to realize that somehow the walkman in my backpack had gotten bumped to the play position and was the source of the music I heard.

I had a similar situation happen to me. I was at the gym with my MiniDisc player (remember those?) and I was talking to some friends when the Star Wars theme started to come out over the speakers.

I kept on asking my friends "Can you hear that? It's Star Wars! I swear!" over and over again. They were giving me silly looks until I realized it was my MD player.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I often get the Indiana Jones theme or the James Bond theme playing in my head. And whenever I walk through an automatic door, I get the theme from Get Smart.

I have a really embarrassing personal soundtrack moment. Several years ago, I was in training to be a missionary. I had just left the infirmary and I was headed to class. As I was walking, I heard hymns playing. I wondered aloud to those around me when a PA system had been installed. Everyone was giving me strange looks. It took me the entire five minute walk to class to realize that somehow the walkman in my backpack had gotten bumped to the play position and was the source of the music I heard.

That reminds me of a scene from an ancient and short-lived TV show called No Soap, Radio, which nobody but me remembers. The scene was of a bunch of nuns walking in a line, with boom boxes up on their shoulders, listening to "Hallelujah, hallelujah."

 

[JonathonWally]

I have porn music in my head almost 24/7

 

[SVD]

mostly tunes that I've downloaded form this artist and this net label when I'm in the groove getting stuff done.

Lately, though, this silly number:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnfdLFhn2o[/yt]

 

[Emher]

Well I've had this [yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqv5wxKDSIo[/yt] in my head for a few days now, I guess it counts.

 

[MetalPants]

Yeah, I've got lots of music in my head. At work, a couple that I think about a lot are "Beautiful Light" by Slow Down Tallahassee, and "A Daisy Chain for Satan" by My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult.

Specifically lyrics from these songs-"I'm surrounded by parasites" and from MLWTTKK, "I need a drink, I need a drink now, I've got to rid my stinking brain"

Yeah, I'm not exactly the happiest guy at work.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

I have a really embarrassing personal soundtrack moment. Several years ago, I was in training to be a missionary. I had just left the infirmary and I was headed to class. As I was walking, I heard hymns playing. I wondered aloud to those around me when a PA system had been installed. Everyone was giving me strange looks. It took me the entire five minute walk to class to realize that somehow the walkman in my backpack had gotten bumped to the play position and was the source of the music I heard.

Great story!!!!!

I have porn music in my head almost 24/7

Boom chicka bow bow!


*sigh* I'm such a nerd. Usually i have some Star Trek theme going through my head. Really.

 

[Balrog]

I usually have the Millinium Falcon flying through the asteriod field from ESB in my head when weaving through traffic.

 

[SPCTRE]

Sometimes when I'm walking from one place to another and it's taking longer than I'd like, the Star Control 2 hyperspace music starts up in my head.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

And whenever I walk through an automatic door, I get the theme from Get Smart.

Man, we really did grow up on the same TV shows.

I only get Get Smart when there is more than one automatic door - sometimes when there are two - always when there are three - especially if they are in fairly quick succession (most often happens in hospitals).

Me? - I always have a Bruce Springsteen song on hand in my head (tonight I found myself humming "Waitin' on a Sunny Day" in the grocery store). If there is one singer/songwriter who most represents my life in the sense that I have a lot of memories attached to his music, it is Bruce Springsteen. I have very particular memories attached to at least a couple dozen (probably more) of his songs. And some of them don't even fit with the actual song. Whenever I listen to Jungleland, for example (a song that is very much about urban themes), I think about my drive down the Alcan Highway in 1986 - specifically, a particular 'shapshot" I have in my head of the Yukon. Lucky Town conjures memories of studying accounting in the Boise State University library when I was in college. Man's Job reminds me of sitting on the bullet train from Kyoto to Tokyo, watching the scenery whiz by. In fact, the only song of his that reminds me of an actual Springsteen concert is Born in the USA....and that, only because of that big-ass flag they had behind the band on that tour.

Yeah...a lot of music comes and goes...but The Boss really created what could be called The Soundtrack of My Life.

Except for my running music. Springsteen isn't good running music. Queen has provided the soundtrack for most of my running over the years (with Pearl Jam providing backup), to the point where I actually associate Queen with running.

 

[sidious618]

Whenever I enter a room I like to imagine "Rock You Like a Hurricane" by The Scorpions is playing

 

[PKTrekGirl]

Several months ago, in a thread on the topic of leaving the bathroom door open when one 'goes' (when no one else is home), someone posted that when they go to take a dump, they open all the windows and play Ride of the Valkyries at top volume.

This was MONTHS ago, and I STILL can't get that one out of my head. I try very hard to get back to the helicopters in Apocalypse Now...but that piece of music might be permanently ruined by a mental picture of some TrekBBS poster taking a dump.

To the poster who posted that: THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

 

[RJDiogenes]

And whenever I walk through an automatic door, I get the theme from Get Smart.

Man, we really did grow up on the same TV shows.

I only get Get Smart when there is more than one automatic door - sometimes when there are two - always when there are three - especially if they are in fairly quick succession (most often happens in hospitals).

Exactly. I worked at Boston Medical Center for fourteen years, so it used to happen all the time.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

And whenever I walk through an automatic door, I get the theme from Get Smart.

Man, we really did grow up on the same TV shows.

I only get Get Smart when there is more than one automatic door - sometimes when there are two - always when there are three - especially if they are in fairly quick succession (most often happens in hospitals).

Exactly. I worked at Boston Medical Center for fourteen years, so it used to happen all the time.

Ah yes! I forgot about the fact that you worked in a hospital. Yeah...that would certainly do it for me. Get Smart must have been an almost permanent soundtrack.