The Soundtrack to a Life

The Soundtrack to a Life is an autobiographical music interview podcast hosted by Christopher Munroe, in which he and a guest review and discuss at length the albums that have had an emotional impact on us.

New episodes the first and fifteenth of the month...

  • Episodes

Episode 067: The Lexicon of Love

August 01, 2020 by Christopher Munroe in Podcast, Music, Interview
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August 01, 2020 /Christopher Munroe
'80s, new wave, new romantic, podcast, music, interview, Dan
Podcast, Music, Interview
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Episode 063: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

May 01, 2020 by Christopher Munroe in Podcast, Music, Interview
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May 01, 2020 /Christopher Munroe
music, interview, podcast, Olav, Smashing Pumpkins, Grunge, 90s
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Episode 061: Introducing Happiness

April 01, 2020 by Christopher Munroe in Podcast, Music, Interview
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April 01, 2020 /Christopher Munroe
music, 90s, cancon, mike, power pop
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Episode 057: Let Love In

February 03, 2020 by Christopher Munroe in Podcast, Music, Interview
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Episode Notes:

Nick Cave - Let Love In

Nick Cave on Wikipedia

Nick Cave on TVTropes

Peaky Blinders, which frankly everyone needs to see

Where the Wild Roses Grow, with Kylie

Leonard Cohen: Is he Goth?

And the Ass Saw the Angel, by Nick Cave

Mute Records

February 03, 2020 /Christopher Munroe
music, interview, podcast, Nick Cave, 90s, Goth
Podcast, Music, Interview
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Episode 044: Believe

July 15, 2019 by Christopher Munroe in Podcast, Music, Interview
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Episode Notes:

Disturbed - Believe

Disturbed on Wikipedia

Disturbed, playing live

Disturbed, doing a cover

Disturbed, doing a different cover

Nobody should let me sing Def Leppard

The Periodic Table of Metal Bands

Disturbed’s Tattoo-Friendly Mascot

Avenged Sevenfold, live

The Calgary Drop-in Centre

July 15, 2019 /Christopher Munroe
music, podcast, nu-metal, metal, Chelsea
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Episode 043: Lost Together

July 01, 2019 by Christopher Munroe in Podcast, Music, Interview
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Episode Notes:

Blue Rodeo - Lost Together

Blue Rodeo, on Wikipedia

The Dixie Chicks, hating the government

Five Days in July, which I’ll also be doing an episode on some day

Bryan Adams, Sting and Rod Stewart, doing a lozenge commercial

Barenaked Ladies, getting Ketchup and KD thrown at them

Chelsea’s favourite BNL song

The Blue Rodeo show Chelsea and I saw

Flaming Lips are also fun live!

Blue Rodeo, doing a Christmas album

July 01, 2019 /Christopher Munroe
chelsea, country, cancon, blue rodeo, music, podcast, 90s
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Episode 042: Bentley Rhythm Ace

June 15, 2019 by Christopher Munroe in Podcast, Music, Interview
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Episode Notes:

Bentley Rhythm Ace’s Debut

Bentley on Wikipedia

Pop Will Eat Itself, who for the record are also super dope!

Travis, making amazing chillout music

The new Prodigy record, for the record, is fantastic

Bentley, playing live

Mercury Machine, who are fantastic

Aqua, in 1997, not crafting an album

Peter Hook’s book about his time with Joy Division

S2 Unlimited, doing a full song

Crystal Method, who come to my town every year

The Britpop Banter Podcast

Britpop Banter on Twitter

June 15, 2019 /Christopher Munroe
music, big beat, Kev, Dance Music, Electronic
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Episode 041: Fully Completely

June 01, 2019 by Christopher Munroe in Podcast, Music, Interview
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Episode Notes:

The Tragically Hip - Fully Completely

The Tragically Hip on Wikipedia

The Britpop Banter Podcast

The Britpop Banter Podcast on Twitter

The Hip, hitting #1 with Ahead by a Century

The Watch that Ends the Night, by Hugh MacLennan

Pidgeon Camera’s Story

The FLQ Crisis, if you were wondering

Bill Barilko’s story, if you were wondering

The last Tragically Hip show

The last Gord Downie album

June 01, 2019 /Christopher Munroe
music, cancon, the tragically hip, canada, interview
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Episode 040: Uneasy Listening Music, Vol. 1

May 15, 2019 by Christopher Munroe in Podcast, Music, Interview
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Episode Notes:

HIM - Uneasy Listening Music, Vol. 1

HIM on Wikipedia

HIM doing Wicked Game, by Chris Issac

Chris Issac’s sitcom

A Selection of HIM tattoos

Go read A Clockwork Orange, if you haven’t lately

My early 20s breakup jam

Tori Amos makes pretty good breakup music

Leave Britney Alone Guy, the hero the internet needs

May 15, 2019 /Christopher Munroe
music, Sarah, Interview, HIM, Emo, Goth
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Episode 039: The Clash

May 01, 2019 by Christopher Munroe in Podcast, Music, Interview
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Episode Notes:

The Clash - The Clash

The Clash on Wikipedia

The Clash on TVTropes

Paris Hilton’s reggae single

How on earth was Pink Floyd Radio Music?

The Mister Miracle run everyone on my comics Twitter is talking about

Genius, by Mark Bernardin

Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros

May 01, 2019 /Christopher Munroe
Sarah, Punk Rock, The Clash, music, interview, podcast
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Episode 037: Odelay

April 01, 2019 by Christopher Munroe in Podcast, Music, Interview
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Episode Notes:

Beck - Odelay

Beck on Wikipedia

Beck on TVTropes

Elvis Costello, being VERY wordy in a song

Bobby McFerren Live

That one Kesha song about being a woman

That one Post Malone song from Into the Spiderverse

Bikini Kill, because Riot Grrrl bands are dope

Iceland’s Eurovision song from this year

Rolling Stone’s greatest albums of the ‘90s

Kanye and Paul McCartney, together at last

The Andy Band on Bandcamp

April 01, 2019 /Christopher Munroe
Beck, Liv, 90s, music, Indie, Alternative, Interview, Podcast
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Episode 036: Permutations

March 15, 2019 by Christopher Munroe in Podcast, Music, Interview
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Episode Notes:

Amon Tobin - Permutations

Amon Tobin on Wikipedia

For real though, listen to Paul’s Boutique

The Grey Album, by Danger Mouse, The Beatles, and Jay-Z

Look, the Beatles mostly made children’s music. Deal with it

The Fall, who also use repetition effectively

March 15, 2019 /Christopher Munroe
music, Interview, podcast, Electronic
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Episode 034: Photophore

February 15, 2019 by Christopher Munroe in Podcast, Music, Interview
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Episode Notes:

Photophore

Photophore on Soundcloud

Every Band needs a Bez

24 Hour Party People

Peter Hook’s book about running the Hacienda into the ground

Electronic, who are pretty good

Prince wailing on a guitar and then tossing it effortlessly into the crowd, looking cool as fuck

I am a sucker for Kurt Vonnegut, any time, anywhere

The best thing about Ghostbusters 2

If Tricky comes to your town, go see!

February 15, 2019 /Christopher Munroe
Calgary, music, Dance Music, podcast, Electronic
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Episode 033: Charmer

February 01, 2019 by Christopher Munroe in Podcast, Music, Interview
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Episode Notes:

Getting on Speaker’s Corner to record a music Video

CJSW

Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers

Just, by Radiohead

I’ll say it again, go to Sled Island

Zuckerbaby, on the radio for a hot minute

Bob Geldof, singing about Gun Violence

Bob Geldof, singing about famine

Lemon, by U2, which has aged weird

Anne Murray, being defiantly unhip

February 01, 2019 /Christopher Munroe
music, podcast, Red Autumn Fall, Calgary, 90s
Podcast, Music, Interview
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Episode 030: This Album Does Not Exist

December 15, 2018 by Christopher Munroe in Music, Podcast, Interview
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Episode Notes:

Dreamers - This Album Does Not Exist

Dreamers on Wikipedia

Dreamers on Instagram

Girls Rock Camp Calgary

The song that made Liv ask: Does Avril Lavigne suck now?

The Janelle Monae record is pretty good this year

The Chris and the Queens record is pretty good this year

Dreamers, covering Zombie

Science Cake!

The Stranger, by Camus

Afternoon Tea Party on Instagram

December 15, 2018 /Christopher Munroe
music, Interview, Podcast, indie, Dreamers
Music, Podcast, Interview
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