This is one of those things that makes its way around the internet, and lots of people get amusing responses. What you do is put your music library on shuffle, and then let it randomly determine what song matches each of the following situations. No skipping allowed. My answers are always a bit wonky because I have so much classical music in my library, but that makes it fun.
1. Opening Credits:
My Lord, Great Neptune (weird)
2. Waking Up:
A Whole New World (it works!)
3. First Day At School:
Ave Maria
4. Falling In Love:
Yriekay (PDQ Bach's arrangement of Kyrie, in Pig Latinized Greek: this, I hope, does not fit...)
5. Fight Song:
What Child is This? (I hope I'm defending one, not fighting one!)
6. Breaking Up:
Veni sanctus spritus
7. Prom:
Largo, from a Vivaldi concerto (I suppose prom would have been slow if I'd gone?)
8. Life:
I Don't Want to Go to Toronto (doesn't fit, because I actually do)
9. Mental Breakdown:
Once Upon a Dream (I suppose I didn't see the dream come true and had a breakdown?)
10. Driving:
Een Vrouelic Wesen (I guess I sing along to Old Dutch when driving...)
11. Flashback:
Octopus' Garden (I do remember that!)
12. Getting back together:
There is a garden in her face (sounds awkward)
13. Wedding:
Картинку с выставки: "Баба Яга," "Богатырские ворота" (which is actually a really angry sounding piece, to me)
14. Birth of Child:
Recitative: Thou fair inhabitant (strangely fits...)
15. Final Battle:
Think for Yourself
16. Funeral Song:
Allegro (so my funeral's more cheerful than my prom... got it.)
17. Ending Credits:
Wir wandelten durch Feuergluten (love the Magic Flute. Babelfish informs me that this means "We changed by fire glows." Sure...)
Feel free to post your life's soundtrack in the comments.

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This was a hoot! (Keep in mind that I use my iPod mostly for listening to lectures. Many of the selections, esp. #10, were quite amusing and apt.)
1.Opening credits:
Dreaming Philosophers and Crazy Musicians (lecture from "The Enlightenment")
2. Waking up:
Lift Thine Eyes (St. Paul Choristers)
3. First day at school:
Bizet, Les Pecheurs De Perles, Dans Cet Asile Sacre
4. Falling in love:
Eine Kliene Nachtmusik
5. Fight song:
Huygens: Avertisti faciem
6. Breaking up:
Elizabeth Was So Much Caught By What Passed (Pride and Prejudice audiobook)
7. Prom:
Making the Myth: How the Romans Recorded their Mythology (lecture)
8. Life:
All Rise and Sing Hallellujah! Handel's Messiah (lecture)
9. Mental breakdown:
My Bonnie Lass She Smelleth (PDQ Bach)
10. Driving:
Going Forward By Looking Back (Brahms's Variation And Fugue On a Theme By Handel) (lecture)
11. Flashback:
The Case of The Runaway Soloist (Bach's Brandenberg Concerto No. 5) (lecture)
12. Getting back together:
The Scientific Origins of the Enlightenment (lecture)
13. Wedding:
The Meaning of the 'Romantic Hero' (lecture from European Thought and Culture in the 19th Century)
14. Birth of child:
Pie Jesu (St. Paul's Choristers)
15. Final battle:
Best Friends, Worst Enemies, The Teen Years; Mutual Monsters (lecture by Deborah Tannen)
16. Funeral song:
Do You Believe in Magic? [How did this recording get on my computer?]
17. Ending credits:
For the Beauty of the Earth (St. Paul Choristers)
Ok so I just did it, and most of the songs are obscure techno that no one's ever heard of so I won't post it. But the highlights:
Falling in love was a Webern string quartet piece. Kind of matches the awkwardness.
The title of my prom song is "Optimistic."
The title of my life song is "Action reaction." Can't describe life any better than that.
My final battle song is Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Just... weird.
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