All Souls Mix CD

1. Thanks for the Memories by Fall Out Boy- In this point of the memoir, the author Michael Patrick MacDonald has comeback to Southie after four years of staying away. His family is either dead or has moved away to Colorado. As he walks through Southie for the first time in four years, he starts to reminisce the good and bad times from when he was a boy growing up in Southie. He also visits a funeral of a young boy who was murdered and it makes him remember the death of his four brothers and lights four candles for each of them.

2. Welcome Back by Mase- The memoir has now switched roles. The author Michael Patrick MacDonald has gone back in time and has started telling the story of his childhood from where it has began. He begins the story of his life at Chapter 2 throughout the rest of the memoir. He has some good times in his life and bad times that are all expressed throughout the memoir.

3. Hard Knock Life by Jay-Z- Michael Patrick MacDonald and his family are living in the black projects called the Columbian Point Projects where everyone is extremely racist and being white in the neighborhood is not easy. Jay-Z represents life not being easy as well in his hit song Hard Knock Life which has a nice little chorus that mimics the theme from the hit movie Anne when she is in the foster home singing it’s a Hard Knock Life while being tortured in the foster home.

4. Good Life by Kanye West- In the following chapter, Chapter 3 to be exact, Michael Patrick MacDonald and his family now have moved to the Old Colony Housing Projects which is a lot more safe and comfortable for a white family living in Southie in the 70’s. Considering the fact that everyone who lives in the Old Colony Projects is of the white race. It’s not the best place in the world for someone to live, but for a family like Michael’s, it is Heaven.

5. Fight the Power by Public Enemy- Southie has now been turned into chaos. The whole city has gone against busing. The government of Southie has decided to bus blacks into Southie to go to the white schools and send whites to the black parts of Southie to go to blacks schools. Riots have broken out, people are being hurt, but there trying to fight the power and get their neighborhood back to normal, the way it was before busing.

6. Locked Up by Akon- Times are beginning to change into harsh situations. Michael’s oldest sibling, his brother David MacDonald has been acting mental and just not normal. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and locked up into a mental home for help and safe keeping. Michael talks about the times he and his mom visited David and how scared David was as well as how scared he was just to be in a place like that.

7. I Wish by R. Kelly- The worst thing that could have happened for Michael has happened. His oldest brother David has committed suicide by jumping off a roof right in front of their house. He couldn’t handle all the problems and voices he was hearing from his schizophrenia and just decided to end the suffering. In this song by R. Kelly, He has lost his mother and wishes she was back alive with him to help him get over his great loss, and he reminisces all the beautiful moments they spent together just as Michael Patrick MacDonald does with his lost brother David.

8. The World’s Greatest by R. Kelly- There is now some excitement in the life of the MacDonald’s. Michael Patrick MacDonald’s older brother Francis Xavier MacDonald has become more concerned for his family and wants to make it out of the projects and take his whole family with him. He becomes the best heavy weight boxer in Boston, Massachusetts and beats all the toughest opponents in the area. He is about to make it and R. Kelly talks about how he has made it through this powerful song.

9. Hey Mama by Kanye West- Francis Xavier MacDonald has almost made it, until he was caught up in something stupid like trying to rob a truck of money and being shot and killed. His was told to be the favorite child of Helen MacDonald King, the mother of Michael Patrick MacDonald and all the other children. He was known all over Boston and was close to making it out the projects until this tragedy struck. His mother is now heart broken and will always remember Frank as they called him as a hard worker and the one who truly cared for the family. Kanye West talks about how he has made it and has helped them out the harsh life in this touching song.

10. Fast Car by Tracy Chapman- Michael Patrick MacDonald’s life could not be any worse; his mother and his whole family have lost four children or siblings, and now want nothing more to get out of the ghetto. Michael’s mother now has two more little ones who are now a little older from aging throughout the book, but not old enough to have experienced all the horrible that has happened. The mother wants nothing more then for her babies to get out of Southie before something horrible haunts the family again. Tracy Chapman tells the story of her life and how she wanted to just get away by driving a fast car through the city into a new city to live a better life in this touching song.