Soundtracks

I love a good soundtrack, I really do.
However, there is one soundtrack that I don't like.

I work a lot, over thirty hours per week. Due to some form that I don't remember signing, I can't talk about where I work here, or can't slander it. However, if you don't know where it is...I think we're fine. I'll give you a hint: it's the first store to put groceries and a department store together. I learned that in my training.

Though I'm not going to talk about the store or the people, I'm going to talk about the soundtrack. Some of it is pretty terrible. Like, really terrible. There was one song that played throughout the summer that was, essentially, one word repeated over and over. "Summertime, summertime, summertime, summertime..." was repeated, I swear, once every half an hour. It hurts me to remember it.

However, some good things have been heard on the soundtrack, including possibly half, if not all, of the soundtrack from The Wedding Singer. I hate to say it, but some of the things have broadened my musical horizons.
I think one of the songs that I love hearing the most is this one-"Friday I'm in Love." For some reason, this song always makes me happy. It's a love song, yes, but in a weird way. He has a lovely way of saying things and it helps get me through those long shifts.



The above song makes me think of what I can remember of the nineties. The nineties was, for the most part, a pretty good era for music. I love the reference to the movie. Again, a very happy song.

I've heard some good Roy Orbison on the soundtrack, Sheena Easton's "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" and even more recent things like Owl City and Fergie ("Big Girls Don't Cry"). However, I'm fairly convinced that third shift gets to pick their soundtrack somehow. If you want to hear a more alternative rock/soundtrack (and are nocturnal), third shift is when you should shop.


I have heard Shinedown, Stone Temple Pilots, and have been told Muse plays on the soundtrack on those rare days when I have to be to work before the sun comes up, which, by the way, I think should be a crime.

My analysis of the playlist from my work was only brought about by how, in a way, I wish my life had a soundtrack, and in a way, it does. We're able to identify with certain songs more than others because it's an experience we can relate to, and thus, that song means something to us, becoming part of our own personal soundtrack. Every song that has meaning to us has become part of our lives, and, if our lives were movies, would have a certain scene they would be played with. In my opinion, anyway. However, our lives aren't movies. Which is good, because mine would be a very boring one.

The other reason I analyzed the soundtrack is simply because...I'm stuck listening to it every day and wanted to share it with everyone. I only shared the good parts, though. Consider yourself lucky that there is no video for "Summertime."

Or the five million orange juice commercials, advertised by Tom Selleck. No Tom, Halloween is not a good time for orange juice, sorry.