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Songs with memories
Shaztastic:
lol sooooo many songs remind me of people, things, times in my life and just general feelings like the album O by damien rice reminds me of when i was at university and my flatmate was crazy about another flatmate and i remember all the times sitting around listening to this album and talking about everything. We're best friends now and it's probably cos of that time spent talking.
i probably have a song that reminds me of everyone of my friends and family forever young by bob dylan reminds me of my mum cos we used to listen to him when driving all the time and she once told me this is exactly what she wants for all of us ( her kids)
any nirvana song/whole grunger era reminds me of being a kid and dancing around listening to them with my older brother and other siblings
Thrillho:
'I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)' by The Proclaimers... makes me remember a very special man called Dave, who passed away last summer. I miss him greatly, and as such can't really listen to that song any more.
'Bittersweet Symphony' reminds me of my second girlfriend, and that whole album reminds me of losing my virginity to her.
The whole Parklife album by Blur, I Should Coco by Supergrass, Seal's first album, the Eurythmics' Greatest Hits, and Steve Miller's Greatest Hits all remind me of family holidays, cause we only had them on cassette tape in the car so we'd play them on endless loop.
'Love Letter' reminds me fo my current girlfriend... it's a song that used to make me cry anyway, but does all the more now. 'Far From Me,' the first two verses remind me of her, the second two verses remind me of a former friend of mine.
Blood On The Tracks by Bob Dylan, particularly 'Tangled Up In Blue,' plus the White Album by The Beatles remind me of the summer after I finished my GCSEs.
Weezer's 'Buddy Holly' makes me think of my childhood.
Cicero:
So many to name, I wouldn't know where to begin. Anything Andre Nickatina will undoubtedly remind me of my times spent at Harpoon Mansion this past Fall Semester. Anything Lil Wayne and Birdman will remind me of my friend Kameron, just because he is about that M.O.B. Anything Coldplay will remind me of my ex-girlfriend I had for four and a half years, because we shared so many moments together over their songs. As far as my life goes, I don't know. Be Quiet and Drive from the Deftones reminds me about the long cruises through the prairies of the Dakotas when I was in high school. I connect a lot of memories with Radiohead stuff too, just because they've been an inspiration to musically -- but meh. Great idea for a thread!
Christophe:
My girlfriend had to leave college about two weeks after we started dating for a rather serious surgery. Being that I didn't want to listen to anything too upsetting or depressing, that meant no Elliott Smith, who was at the time my favorite songwriter. So for about a month or so I listened to Ozma's The Doubble Donkey Disk extensively, a collection of Weezeresque power-pop that did much to cheer me up. (The surgery went well and we've been dating for about more than two years now).
When I usually associate music with time periods, it's usually for long periods of time, like how I listened to a bunch of Dismemberment Plan and Jawbox in summer 2007. However, I have had whoper some specific songs linked to specific moments. Before school let out last spring, I was up all night working on my creative writing portfolio due to drinking two and a half cups of coffee. Johnny C had posted a link to Chuggo's AHHHH C'MON FUCK A GUY on the PRF, and when I watched it, I immediately proceeded to watch it a million times over that night. Caffeine does weird things to a person. I don't know if my portfolio really took all night to work on, or if the constant Chuggo solely prevented me from getting some fucking sleep that night.
As I mentioned in the Songs That Make You Cry thread, all my friends and I listened to In The Aeroplane Over The Sea way too much. Like you couldn't walk through the classroom we hung out in without hearing one of us jack off to Neutral Milk Hotel. Anyway, in high school I was pining over this lady who was a really rad person who listened to rad music and did rad things but also had a rad boyfriend. I was the assistant director for the spring comedy, and every night that my dad would drive me home from the show, I would listen to ITAOTS on the way home, and usually by the time we got off the freeway, Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2 would come on and I would think about wanting that which I could not have. I would go to bed all miserable and wish I could be with her, because for the life of me I could not fathom anyone else to date, nevertheless fall for. That happened after we went out to my Senior Ball, the night after which I was spending the night at my friends' place and I put on Blur's No Distance Left To Run, which is now inextricably tied to that moment of feeling crappy over falling in love with someone I shouldn't have.
Christophe: A Life Told Through Other People's Songs.
Kyros:
I feel like I have this with almost every song, so here are just a few examples.
Stars and Sons - Broken Social Scene: Every time I hear this song I think about when my Dad was in the hospital for some pretty serious heart surgery. It was right after my brother in law put his old 12 CD changer in my car, and I think I listened to this song in almost every trip to and from the Hospital.
Timorous Me - Ted Leo/Rx: Aside from being one of my favorite Ted Leo songs, this one always makes me think of when I saw them play in McCarren park a couple of summers ago, and they played this song. It was the hottest day of the year and some asshole threw a banana peel at Ted Leo. He proceeded to pick up the rancid, half melted peel and throw it back into the crowd and it landed directly on my friend's hand.
Nice to Know You - Incubus: I used to be WAY into Incubus back in High School, and I was listening to this on a plane ride back from Cancun with 10 of my other family members 4 or 5 summers ago. That plane very nearly came down, and one of my most vivid memories of the near-death experience was holding on to my seat for dear life while this song blasted from my old Ipod Mini.
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