Life is a Soundtrack

My soundtrack to 1999 and beyond. This band reminds me of day drinking with friends in my old student union (tho this came later than that). It’s an album full of amazing tracks that I’ve never stopped listening to.

My soundtrack to a very intense 2022.

A medicine album that helped me through.

My soundtrack to 2019. For some reason I associate it with the first John Wick movie. Anyway, I just fucking love this album.

This is the soundtrack to the breakdown of my life. 2017.

It’s was an intensely painful and paradoxically beautiful time. My mind was breaking down and I was having all sorts of crazy experiences whilst desperately trying to stay out of hospital.

And this music was my solace. I played it on repeat for hours at a time. Day after day. I never did get sick of it.

It’s my favourite Radiohead album and it will always mean so much to me.

This is a soundtrack for a certain frame of mind. 2013. When this album was released I was going through some stuff and it was in heavy rotation. It’s just so beautiful, and atmospheric. For escapists and ocean lovers.

My soundtrack to a new home and a new life. 2013. I think this is my favourite QOTSA album. It’s just beautifully dark and heavy and eclectic. Just like my life back then.

Freedom. Longing. Grief. Relief. Repeat.

My soundtrack to moving to a new home and being newly single for the first time in a very long time. 2013.

One of my fave NIN albums tbh

My soundtrack to becoming a parent. ~2000s

My soundtrack to 2008/2009.

When Seldom Seen Kid came out I became an Elbow fan and delved into their back catalog. At the time, I was busy diving into photography in a really big way. And this album reminds me of wandering around Manchester City centre with my camera and people I met through Flickr.

Wipeout was the game! I played it relentlessly and it was such a rush! The music was a massive part of that: tracks from this album, and the licensed music too.

My soundtrack to the original PlayStation. 1995.

My soundtrack to 1995.

This reminds me of kicking about in Northamptonshire with my partner in crime when we were students.

Faith No More are so important to me, and this album might be my favourite. And it’s 30 years old now 🤯

This is my soundtrack to going to see my grandparents in Oxfordshire. I remember the way their house smelled (pipe tobacco) and the forests we drove through to get to them..

This album blew my young mind. And I listened relentlessly. ~1990s

My soundtrack to a new life in a new city: making new friends, and getting blasted every night. 90s. It’s trippy perfection.

This is my soundtrack to the early 90s and coming of age. Accelerator was my In with Therapy? and I became a big fan. I have many stories to tell with this band.

My soundtrack to The Lake District with my Dad in the 90s.

I remember listening to this when on walking holidays with my Dad. He had it on a double cassette and we would listen to it when we were driving around. Fond memories.

It’s a great album. I’m not particularly a Neil Young fan but I do love this album a lot.

A soundtrack of my childhood ~80s. This is one of those albums that’s about my parents as much as it’s about a time in my life. At some point they gifted me the CD, which I’m pretty sure I no longer have 😞. I wish I had kept it.

It just blew me away. A foundational piece of art in my life. And it seemed just normal that a song would last 14 minutes, tell a story, and take me on a journey.

It’s a beautiful album…

My soundtrack to holidays on the North-West coast of Scotland as a teen. ~1990s

I used to listen to this album on a little cassette player that I bought from the Grundig electronics store in Mallaig.

Already, I was a fan of Clannad from the Robin Hood TV show. And this album became a gateway to more of their work, and later in life Celtic music generally.

It still brings happy memories of sitting by the sea listening to this on my tinny headphones.