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Pretty much on a similar line as the most beautiful song thread... but a slight difference in my mind.
Basically, I have a number of songs I can listen to which relates to things that have happened in my life and will mean so much to me that I often find myself stopping midway through what I am doing and reminiscing... sometimes even flashbacking. Some of the songs bring back happy memories, others quite nasty and upsetting ones... yet I will never not fully hear it out.
Examples:
Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloon: Reminds me of a time yeeears ago when Pickers and I broke up and I was having a really rough time in my life and ended up running away and sitting on a beach, balling my eyes out under the stars not having a clue what to do with myself. I love the song though!! I think it's fab, but everytime I hear it, my heart kinda does a twingey thing!
Cornershop - Brimful of Asha: Reminds me of the times I used to get together with my friends and we'd dance and sing our hearts out on the beach without a care in the world!
I'm presuming everyone has songs like these no?! :) I love hearing peoples stories on radio 1 their songs they relate them to!
About 90% of the songs I have on my PC remind me of various things. :)
Ranging from Song 2 - Blur reminding me of when I was younger and me and a group of friends decided to randomly start singing it in the middle of the cul de sac we used to be in all the time. Even used a wall as drums :p
And songs that remind me of exes, both good and bad times ;)
Roll with it - Oasis - when i was 16, in a field after GCSE drinking cider.
wonderwall - College math lesson
The Drugs don't work - uni first year
Ally McBeal Soundtrack - 3rd year in uni
Basically, I have a number of songs I can listen to which relates to things that have happened in my life and will mean so much to me that I often find myself stopping midway through what I am doing and reminiscing... sometimes even flashbacking.
Hehe, 'flashbacking'.
I'm just reading Peter Kay's autobiography and he has a whole section on this - I'm amazed at how much detail he can go into though, he really has a deep connection with music.
For me I'd have to say -
Fun Lovin' Criminals - Fun Lovin' Criminal - Reminds me of my first festival, V98, and stomping around with my mates changing the words so they were extremely rude. Ironically, and stupidly, I missed seeing them to go and watch All Saints in the dance tent.
Bon Jovi - Always - This was released around the same time as my hamster died. Naturally, I don't like it very much.
ATB - 9pm (Till I Come) - Do do do-do doooo! First year of uni. In fact, I made a compilation of tunes at the end of the year to give to everyone on my corridor. I found it the other day and there are some absolute classics on it. All of them remind me of the first year of university.
Sure I'll think of loads more.
Kell_ee001
26-10-2006, 16:59
About 90% of the songs I have on my PC remind me of various things. :)
Same here.
From Gangsters Paradise by Coolio, which was played at my mates funeral when I was 15 yrs old (still makes me choke up and it was 10 years ago now) to Nothing Else Matters by Metallica when I went to see them with my ex (makes me feel all warm and fizzy inside, remembering how special I had felt).
Or even some really cheesy pop songs which remind me of my best mate that I left behind down south when we'd listen to and sing along to anything that was upbeat :embarassed:
copycat!!
mine are more songs that i seem to associate with. i cant think of a particular reason for it, but they just make me stop what i'm doing and go all pensive and whatnot.
A Perfect Circle - Orestes - i was lucky enough to see them on the Thirteenth Step tour, and they played this. i must have quite a connection with it, because i inexplicably started crying right in front of everyone. random!
Nine Inch Nails - La Mer/The Great Below - these are just 2 songs that i can always come back to, and they make me think about my mid-teens and remind me of what it was like to not have a job, and need money and whatnot.
The Ataris - I.O.U One Galaxy - just a great song...i love the amount of raw emotion in such a short song. it's off an album i always used to get caned and listen to with mates. quite a random one to listen to with your friends though!
A Perfect Circle - Orestes - i was lucky enough to see them on the Thirteenth Step tour, and they played this. i must have quite a connection with it, because i inexplicably started crying right in front of everyone. random!
The mood was ruined a bit for me by people moshing to it. I can understand doing it to Judith, but Orestes?!
not a soul was moving when i saw them. it was eerie. everyone just stood still and observed. it was probably the most magnificent musical moment of my life
Dymetrie
27-10-2006, 00:38
Most of the time I listen to music when on the move and as such, considering my music tastes haven't changed much for a long time, most of what I listen to reminds me of something.
Unfortunately these are usually times when I have been happy and being reminded of them upsets me, but I'm getting better. I actually hate how powerful music can have such an affect on me and find it worrying that even the most obscure of tracks can bring me to tears, this is why when I'm in a bad mood I have to be careful what I listen to.
Treefrog
27-10-2006, 03:06
The Clash - Stay Free reminds me of the superb times I had with my best mate at that time and all the fun we had. It was our song
The Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams reminds me of rattling around Manifold and Dovedale in the summer of '85 in my mate's old grey van, windows down and singing this at full volume. The fact that neither of us could carry a tune in a bucket was a bonus! ;D
The Dambusters Theme because it's what Stiff little Fingers come on stage to, and every gig of theirs I've been to has been intense.
Stan_Lite
27-10-2006, 03:47
[b]The Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Aaww dude.
Reminds me of nights in the disco, trying my damnest to get off with a certain young lady - never did happen :( .....
.... But I had a hell of a lot of fun trying :D
Stan :)
goldilocks
27-10-2006, 10:54
Dave Matthews Band - The Space Between
I was in Aspen, looking after 2 toddlers, I missed my family like crazy, I was the loneliest I have ever been, in the most beautiful place I had ever been - and this song was it's soundtrack.
Though now, strangely enough, I love the song, I have some fantastic memories of those 6 weeks and I can look back and see how all of the problems I faced have shaped the person I am today.
The Space Between
The tears we cry
It's the laughter that keeps us coming back for more
semi-pro waster
27-10-2006, 15:36
I was having a think and was struggling then suddenly it hit me every song that reminds me of something is either cheesy and/or crap with one exception.
Euro-pop like Infernal - From Paris to Berlin, September - Satellites or Madonna - Hung Up will always remind me of Finland and partying away there in the nightclubs.
Culture Beat - Mr Vain reminds me of being about 9-10 years old and going swimming with mates.
Stone Roses - Fools Gold and Sally Cinnamon remind me of a couple of mates while I was in Finland also as both were huge fans.
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing reminds me of my Canadian mate Harry and long games of pool.
Culture Beat - Mr Vain reminds me of being about 9-10 years old and going swimming with mates.
That instantly brings back memories of a family holiday in Wales!
My parents have a video of me doing that on a karaoke machine we were bought for christmas one year :embarassed:
;D
Wonder how much bribery it would take? :evil:
semi-pro waster
27-10-2006, 16:41
;D
Wonder how much bribery it would take? :evil:
For Daz to do it again or to get the video off his parents? I reckon the second one is a given as soon as you mention you'd like a copy, parents exist to embarrass their kids, I know I'm going to enjoy it when I have bairns ;)
;D
Well I think I've just guaranteed I'll never get to meet his parents or find out where he lives :D
Kiss Me - Sixpence Non The Richer
It was release in the states when I was there and played nonstop. It always reminds me of being there.
I have a few:
Crowded House - Distant Sun. One of the songs I sang when I was in a band in my younger days. Made my weekend when Belmit played it at the OMGWTFBBQ this year :)
REM - E Bow the letter. This song was my 'song of the moment' through a certain patch of my life, just after I started college. It wasn't a happy time, and hearing this song can knock me to the ground.
No Doubt - Its My Life. This song was in the charts just after Phil and I got together.
ATB - 9p Til I come. Just reminds me of happy times.
Kiss Me - Sixpence Non The Richer
It was release in the states when I was there and played nonstop. It always reminds me of being there.
Awww Kiss Me reminds me of when I was working at the royal marines as a chef! That along with the "Hey........... what's wrong with yoooooou" song - was forever being chanted at me across the galley!
:)
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