The Soundtrack of Your Life…

Here’s a theme/project I’ve been thinking about for a couple of weeks now and I thought I would throw it out here for consideration…

“If you had to record the SOUNDTRACK OF YOUR LIFE, what would it sound like?”

This was one of those thoughts that popped into my head while sitting in traffic one Friday afternoon. Ever since then it keeps coming back to me every now and then. It’s a pretty intriguing question, but also a very expansive concept, so I decided to break it down into 3 distinct time periods and go from there:

1) High School Years
2) College Years
3) “Party Time” [post-college, pre-marriage ;-> ]

Here’s a quick list, in no paticular order, that I compiled for my “High School Years” soundtrack.

James Brown - Payback
Ohio Players - Pain, Skin Tight, Fire
Parliament - Chocolate City, P-Funk, Mothership Connection
Mandrill - Ape Is High, Git It All, Hang Loose, Fencewalk
WAR - Slippin’ Into Darkness, All Day Music
Kool & The Gang - Let The Music Take Your Mind, Funky Stuff, Hollywood Swinging, Jungle Boogie
Labelle - Lady Marmalade, Isn’t It a Shame
Rufus w/Chaka Khan - Once You Get Started, Rufusized
Marvin Gaye - What’s Goin’ On, Distant Lover, Got To Give It Up, Let’s Get It On, Sexual Healing
The O’Jays - Back Stabbers, For the Love of Money
The Staple Singers - Respect Yourself, I’ll Take You There
Blue Magic - Sideshow, Stop To Start, What’s Come Over Me, Look Me Up, Welcome to the Club
The Main Ingredient - Everybody Plays the Fool, Just Don’t Want To Be Lonely
The Spinners - Mighty Love, Then Came You, Love Don’t Love Nobody
Herbie Hancock - Chameleon
Gil Scott-Heron - The Bottle
MFSB - Love Is The Message
Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes - Bad Luck, Don’t Leave Me This Way, I Miss You
Earth, Wind & Fire - Evil, Keep Your Head To The Sky, Mighty Mighty, Devotion, Reasons
The Nite Liters/New Birth - Afro Strut, K-Jee, Got To Get A Knutt, I Can Understand It, It’s Been A Long Time
The Isley Brothers - That Lady, Summer Breeze, Fight the Power
Black Ivory - You and I
The Temprees - Dedicated To The One I Love
The Originals - Baby I’m For Real

Of course, there’s a lot more to be added to the list, and these are just songs from the high school years! This is a theme I will be returning to every so often until I can decide on a final set of selections for the playlist.

But I’m curious… What would *your* soundtrack sound like?

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