What's Your Soundtrack?

Blind Writer · May 7, 2009

For those of you who use a soundtrack for your novel, what's on it? Here's mine for THE DUFF.

“Shot To Pieces” by Skye Sweetnam
“Everything is Alright” by Motion City Soundtrack
“Dirty Sunshine” by Lillix
“Take Me Away” by Avril Lavigne
“Push” by Matchbox 20
“I Can’t Stay Away” by The Veronicas
“Easier To Run” by Linkin Park
“Breathing” by Yellowcard
“Bruised” by Jack’s Mannequin
“Swing, Swing” by The All-American Rejects
“The Way I Loved You” by Taylor Swift
“Sleep On It” by Saving Jane

I don't have one yet for my WIPs, other than the song "Swim" by Jack's Mannequin is definitely going on the Goldfish list.

Red.Ink.Rain · May 7, 2009

My soundtrack for CoS is here on my blog. RED INK doesn't have one yet, but I think the songs "Let Go" by 3 Doors Down and "Runaway" by Thriving Ivory really fit Carter's character.

Blind Writer · May 7, 2009

Red.Ink.Rain said:
My soundtrack for CoS is here on my blog. RED INK doesn't have one yet, but I think the songs "Let Go" by 3 Doors Down and "Runaway" by Thriving Ivory really fit Carter's character.

Dang it. I can't access blogs from school to look at it. "sniff" Stupid school blockers!

peachiemkey · May 7, 2009

Whenever I hear a song on my iPod that reminds me of my current WIP, I jot it down in my phone's notes. =] I haven't put them in any order yet, but here are the songs I've amassed so far:

Returning to the Fold - The Thermals
She - Green Day
No Surprises - Radiohead
This Is Your Life - The Killers
Auf Asche - Franz Ferdinand
Odalisque - The Decemberists
Crooked Teeth - Death Cab for Cutie
Let It Rain - OK Go
Good Days Bad Days - Kaiser Chiefs
Our Trip - The Thermals
The Handshake - MGMT
The Ocean - The Bravery
Sea of Love - Cat Power, deff.

Blind Writer · May 7, 2009

Aw, I'm sad to say that I don't know most of those songs--But I know Green Day!!! Yay!!! lol

Red.Ink.Rain · May 7, 2009

*copies soundtrack so BW can see* Lol.

1. "Why So Serious" - Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard (from The Dark Knight soundtrack)
2. "Duck and Run" - 3 Doors Down (Dax's song)
3. "Everybody's Fool" - Evanescence (Serenity's song)
4. "Contact" - Falling Up
5. "Learn to Breathe" - Thousand Foot Krutch
6. "Shadow Hunter" - Lisa Gerrard (instrumental)
7. "Moondance" - Nightwish (instrumental)
8. "Hurt" - Thousand Foot Krutch
9. "Start the Revolution" - Spoken
10. "Breath" - Breaking Benjamin
11. "Beautiful Disaster" - Kelly Clarkson
12. "Crashed" - Daughtry
13. "Exhibition" - Falling Up
14. "You're the One" - Spoken
15. "Shape of Things to Come" - Audioslave
16. "I'd Come for You" - Nickelback
17. "Dance with the Devil" - Breaking Benjamin
18. "Just For" - Nickelback
19. "Southern Hospitality" - Disciple
20. "Freedom Fighter" - Creed
21. "We are Broken" - Paramore
22. "Angels on the Moon" - Thriving Ivory

Blind Writer · May 7, 2009

"hugs Red"
that's for having Paramore and Breaking Benjamin, my two fave bands, on your list. Plus, "Beautiful Disaster" and "Angels o the Moon" are, like, two of my favorite songs. Now I HAVE to read CoS. Let me know when I can buy it, 'kay?

Blind Writer · May 7, 2009

I do songs for each character, too. Bianca's s "I Don't Care" by Skye Sweetnam, Wesley's is (don't laught) "Womanizer" by Britney Spears (shut up, it fits), and Toby's is "Nice Guys Finish Last" by Green Day.

Red.Ink.Rain · May 7, 2009

Haha, it's okay - I keep WAITING for a character whose song is Womanizer. It could possibly apply to Cody, but there's so much more to him than that. For some reason whenever I write about Cody (the token boy character in angels-and-demons WIP) I listen to Suburbia by Butch Walker.

Blind Writer · May 7, 2009

I know what you mean. There's more to Wesley, too, but that song just works (and it's Bianca's ringtone when he calls,lol) but if you asked him, he'd say his theme songis "Sexyback" by Justin Timberlake. He's an arrogant SOB, I guess.

lol, my name is KODY, not CODY, but it still makes me giggle when I see the name that sounds like mine. I'll have to listen to that song when I get a chance. Never heard it.

I'm dying to put Paramore in one of my sountracks, but nothing fits perfectly--maybe "We Are Broken" for Goldfish or even "When It Rains" maybe, but IDK, and it bugs me because Paramore is my FAVORITE BAND EVER!!! lol

Red.Ink.Rain · May 7, 2009

Oh I know - I was so excited when "We Are Broken" fit into CoS. It's just a dystopian kind of song, you know? lol.

And Thriving Ivory is just awesome. The last bit of "Angels on the Moon" - "This is for one last day in the shadows/and to know a brother's love/this is for New York City angels/ and the rivers of our blood." That piece of the song hits like EVERY SINGLE PLOT POINT in CoS, lol. It was awesome.

LOL, Cody chose his own name. I don't really like the name Cody for a boy, but it just fit him.

Blind Writer · May 7, 2009

lol, I LOVE Angels on the Moon. I was working on a WIP last year (I might write it again, but since it contained vampires, I put it away until the hype dies), and it fit a character in it PERFECTLY. One of my MC's best friends gets turned into vampire, and it's all tragic, and the words "I want to sunburn to know I"m alive" and the whole "Don't tell me if I'm dying/Cuz I don't want to know/If I can't see the sun/Maybe I sould go" was great. It makes me want to write that story again. DAMN TWILIGHT!!! lol

fairy86 · May 7, 2009

1. “Crush, Crush, Crush” – Paramore
2. “All Around Me” - Flyleaf
3. “Animal I have Become” – Three Days Grace
4. “Drive” – Incubus
5. “Still in Love” – The Stills
6. “Ur So Gay” – Katy Perry
7. “Bottle it Up” – Sara Bareilles
8. “Build God, Then We’ll Talk” – Panic! At the Disco
9. “Anna Molly” – Incubus
10. “Freshmen” – The Verve Pipe
11. “Daughters” – John Mayer
12. “Bittersweet Symphony” – Oasis
13. “Everytime” – Britney Spears
14. “One Headlight" - The Wallflowers
15. "Televators" - The Mars Volta
16. “It’s Never too Late” – Three Days Grace

Blind Writer · May 7, 2009

I love every song on that list, Steph. Especially Paramore and "The Freshman". I think that one will be on my Goldfish soundtrack, actually.

fairy86 · May 7, 2009

BW, I think "The Freshman" would be perfect on the Goldfish soundtrack!
I love Paramore too! They're my mc's favorite band.

Blind Writer · May 7, 2009

"confused" Oh, did you read my summary in QLH, or...are you just guessing? lol. Maybe you just trust me cuz, yeah, it does fit now that listen to it

That's so funny! Paramore is Bianca's fave band in The Duff!! I wanted to fit one of their songs into The Duff SO BAD, but it didn't work out.

fairy86 · May 7, 2009

I read your summary in QLH

Kathleen42 · May 7, 2009

I have two soundtracks. One I listened to when writing most of the book and another I listened to for the last third.

First

"Electromenager" - Telepopmusik
"Every Little Bit" - Patty Griffin (song that best suits the book and MC as wholes)
"2 Dollar Shoes" - Rosie Thomas
"Spitting Games" - Snow Patrol
"Remembrance" - Delerium
"Bleed Like Me" - Garbage
"Nothing Else Matters" - Bif Naked
"Temptation Waits" - Garbage
"Kryptonite" - 3 Doors Dowm
"Only Happy When it Rains" - Garbage
"It's Been Awhile" - Staind
"Bad Moon Rising" - CCR
"Weapon" - Matthew Good
"Who'll Stop the Rain" - CCR
"Streets of Philadelphia" - Molly Johnson
"Violet Hill" - Coldplay

Second

"Blue" - Angie Hart
"Don't Fear the Reaper" - Blue Oyster Cult
"The Pretty Things are Going to Hell" - David Bowie
"Corpses In Their Mouths" - Ian Brown
"Personal Jesus" - Johnny Cash
"Numb" - Linkin Park
"Bonnie & Clyde" - Luna
"Stop Crying Your Heart Out" - Oasis
"Weak and Powerless" - A Perfect Circle
"Somewhere a Clock is Ticking" - Snow Patrol
"Spoonman" - Soundgarden

Sage · May 7, 2009

Love Sucks

Broken Heart - Motion City Soundtrack
Another Mystery - Dar Williams
See You Again - Miley Cyrus
Gots to Get Her - Blake Lewis
Gravity - Sara Bareilles
Learn You Inside Out - Lifehouse
Fake - Shinedown
Slow Dancing in a Burning Room - John Mayer
Let You Down - Default
Too Much Food - Jason Mraz
Extraordinary Girl - Green Day
I'm So Sick - Flyleaf
To the Moon and Back - Savage Garden
If it Kills Me - Jason Mraz
Give Myself to You - Train
The Conversation - Motion City Soundtrack
Human - Blake Lewis
Make Me Over - Lifehouse
I'm Yours - Jason Mraz
Older - Colbie Caillat
I Got U - Blake Lewis

DownLoad

Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
Vultures - John Mayer
Crashed - Daughtry
The Invisible Man - Queen
Moving Forward - Hoobastank
Kryptonite - 3 Doors Down
Strange - Vonray
My World - 3 Doors Down
Sunlight - Natalie Imbruglia
Breakdown - Daughtry
I Can't Decide - Scissor Sisters
Time After Time - Quiet Drive (cover, but waaaaay more appropriate than the original for this soundtrack)
Myself - Kara's Flowers
Pain - Three Days Grace
You Give Love a Bad Name - Blake Lewis (cover)
Life of My Own - 3 Doors Down
I Think I'm Paranoid - Garbage
Blaze of Glory - Phil Stacey (cover)
First Time - Lifehouse

AFTRLYF, including the two songs I would add today, but were not on the original

I'm No Angel - Dido
(Bigger Than my Body - John Mayer)
Dust in the Wind - Kansas
Penny Lane - Beatles (this is really just for the name, not plot, and can be skipped for bonus songs)
Meant to Live - Switchfoot
Honestly OK - Dido
Devil You Know (God is a Man) - Face to Face
Incantation - Delerium
Infidel - Five for Fighting
Stranded - Vonray
Slow Down Baby - Christina Aguilera
Temptation Waits - Garbage
Enchantment - Corinne Bailey Rae
My Imaginary - Evanescence
Born to Lead - Hoobastank
Explanation - Train
(Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult)
Politicians - Switchfoot
After All - Delerium
Stranger Inside - Shinedown
Somewhere In Between - Lifehouse
Lucky - Bif Naked

HEVNSNT

If God Made You - Five For Fighting
Love Song - Sara Bareilles
One Fine Wire - Colbie Caillat
Long Day - Matchbox 20
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Going Under - Evanescence
The Beauty of the Rain - Dar Williams
Who Followed Who? - Default
Lacerated - Shinedown
Learn To Fly - Foo Fighters
Nobody - Five for Fighting
Paradise - Vanessa Carlton
Love's Divine - Seal
More Than a Memory - Hoobastank
Haunted - Evanescence
Crying Out - Shinedown
Over You - Daughtry
Without You - Christina Aguilera

Francesaurus · May 7, 2009

playlist for Pyro:

Miss Murder - AFI
Burn - Alkaline Trio
Remembering Sunday - All Time Low
Feel Good Drag - Anberlin
Becoming the Bull - Atreyu
Parker - Automatic Loveletter
A Lifetime - Better Than Ezra
Weekend - The Birthday Massacre
The Beijing Cocktail - The Blackout
The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot - Brand New
Lover I Don't Have to Love - Bright Eyes
Chelsea Smile - Bring Me the Horizon
The Church of Hot Addiction - Cobra Starship
Stolen - Dashboard Confessional
Tell Them That She's Not Scared - Envy on the Coast
Situations - Escape the Fate
I Don't Care - Fall Out Boy
Bleed Like Me - Garbage
Bloodshot - Jack's Mannequin
Lips Like Morphine - Kill Hannah
Rooftops - Lostprophets
Chain Me Free- The Matches
Poster of a Girl - Metric
Electric Feel - MGMT
Straight to Video - Mindless Self Indulgence
Let the Flames Begin - Paramore
Do the Panic - Phantom Planet
Kill Her Off - The Ropes
I Used to Have a Heart - Say Anything
Don't Cry Out - Shiny Toy Guns
Queen of Apology - The Sounds
Cute Without the E - Taking Back Sunday
Pretty Handsome Awkward - The Used
Don't Trust Me - 3OH!3

I like long playlists.

There is no doubt that this list will get longer very quickly. I'll probably listen to my iPod for the next few hours, and add whatever seems like it would fit.

For my other WIP, which is unnamed, I just listen to the album Howl by Empires over and over and over.

Kathleen42 · May 8, 2009

Sage said:
Devil You Know (God is a Man) - Face to Face
Temptation Waits - Garbage
Lucky - Bif Naked

Nice to see that someone else likes the Buffy soundtrack(s).

Llayth · May 8, 2009

Fairy86 and Sage: I love you guys! You have Flyleaf! No-one I know has ever heard of them.

Inside The Broom Closet:
1) Away With the Faeries - Inkubus Sukkubus
2) The Bard's Song - Blind Guardian
3) Beltaine - Inkubus Sukkubus
4) Breathe Today - Flylead
5) Burning Times - Inkubus Sukkubus
6) Cassie - Flyleaf
7) Complicated - Avril Lavigne
8) In the Year 2525 - Zager and Evans
9) Land of Confusion - Disturbed
10) Minority - Green Day
11) Our Lives - The Calling
12) Pagan Born - Inkubus Sukkubus
13) Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm
14) We Are - Ana Johnsson
15) Whispers to a Scream - The Smiths

Broken Chains:

1) Baba O'Reilly - The Who
2) Bad Moon Rising - Creedance Clearwater Revival
3) California Dreamin' - The Mamas and the Papas
4) Downtown - Petula Clark
5) Make Your Own Kind of Music - The Mamas and the Papas
6) Mambo Italiano - Dean Martin
7) My Generation - The Who
8) Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams
9) Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones
10) Turn Around, Look at Me - The Vogues
11) We Can Work It Out - The Beatles

Blind Writer · May 8, 2009

I love the Buffy soundtracks too! lol

lm728 · May 8, 2009

Oh, and Blind, that gets me wondering--do you want to do a twifties soundtrack on the blog, where everyone contributes 3-4 songs?

Okay. Here's mine:

Heart of Glass- Blondie
Don't Stop Believin'--Journey
Sunday Girl- Blondie
Rock Lobster- The B-52s
Waking Up In Vegas-Katy Perry
He Said, She Said- Ashley Tisdale
I'll Follow You Into the Dark- Death Cab
You're Beautiful- James Blunt
How About Now- Daughtry
Breakaway- Kelly Clarkson
Because of You- Kelly Clarkson
You Picked Me- A Fine Frenzy
Near To You- A Fine Frenzy

Red.Ink.Rain · May 8, 2009

I LOVE Flyleaf.

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