Soundtrack for "The Time Traveler's Wife" (book)

songs:

• an aria from the opera "Aida"
  • good example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWXRHPvNBxs
• "Tu Tu piccolo iddio" from Madama Butterfly
• aria from "Lulu"
• It might be nice to have a lieder from Schubert, too, maybe from this set: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterreise
• "Silent Night" played by a string quartet
• Iggy Pop "The Passenger"
• Violent Femmes "Gimme the Car"
• Violent Femmes "Blister in the Sun"
• Gang of Four "I Love a Man in Uniform"
• Beatles "Girl"
• John Lennon "Imagine"
• The Cure "Lovesong"
• Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated"
• Ramones "Blitzkreig Bop"
• Talking Heads "And She Was"

artists needing to be represented:

• Patty Smith
• Sex Pistols
• The Clash
• Velvet Underground
• ...more to list here.

Other Thoughts

Another fantastic addition would be if we could find a reading of "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell. That poem runs throughout the book as part of the love theme. There are 11 versions here: http://librivox.org/to-his-coy-mistress-by-andrew-marvell/ ...one read by a male would be preferable.

There's at least one more classical song needed (some tango played by violin, but I forget the song/composer), and there are a couple of other vague ideas I have, but I'll have to wait until I get my book back from my friend and look up specific chapters.

On the punk side of things, if there are any songs by the represented artists that mention Chicago (where the book takes place), that would be a good choice.

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